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

Learn more about how the Underground Railroad operated and how the term for this means of escape from bondage emerged.

Explore the pervasive nature of slavery in Brazil and the path to abolition.

Learn more about the impact of the National Urban League over its more than 100-year history.

Learn more about the long history of celebrating emancipation, from January 1, to August 1, to Juneteenth.

Explore W. E. B. Du Bois’s relationship with and advocacy for the anticolonial movement.

AP African American Studies Resource Library