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

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

Learn how Black women such as Maria W. Stewart and Sojourner Truth organized for their communities.

Read a short story that would grow into Gwendolyn Brooks’s novel Maud Martha (1953).

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.

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