AP African American Studies Resource Archive | Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History

View this work of African American quilting.

Read Frederick Douglass’s recollection of plantation life in Maryland from his second autobiography.

Read a translation of some of Haiti’s founding principles as an independent nation.

Explore responses to questions of Black identity and nomenclature in the famed abolitionist newspaper.

Read the founding manifesto of The Colored American newspaper.

Hear from King during his visit to Ghana, in conversation with actress, musician, and journalist Etta Moten Barnett.

AP African American Studies Resource Library