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

View a depiction of Black migration during Reconstruction.

Read the sermon Martin Luther King, Jr., delivered after his visit to an independent Ghana.

See an example of breakdancing in performance at the Paris summer games.

View a photograph from a key convergence of artists and models amid the Black is Beautiful movement.

Explore Hughes' "I, Too" poem, its connection to Walt Whitman, and its role in affirming Black identity in America.

Read about musician Muddy Waters, the blues, and the historical exhibits at the Delta Blues Museum in Clarksdale, Mississippi.

Read about Robert Johnson and the rise and evolution of blues music.

AP African American Studies Resource Library