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

Learn more about nonviolent tactics and campaigns during the Civil Rights Movement.

Read Banneker’s letter analyzing the science of eclipses.

Read Banneker’s derivation of the seventeen-year cycle of the cicada, one of the first scientists to make this observation.

Learn more about the Combahee River Collective and other groups and individuals involved in shaping Black feminism in the twentieth century.

Learn more about how those in the Black Freedom struggle came together across the African continent and diaspora in the 1930s through the 1970s.

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

AP African American Studies Resource Library