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

A black and white photograph of Nannie Helen Burroughs, a young Black woman, shown seated from the waist up, wearing a dark hat with a white feather and a white blouse

“How the Sisters Are Hindered from Helping”

1900

Read Nannie Helen Burroughs’s address casting light on the importance of women organizing in Black institutions.

Primary Source

The interior of the Dexter Avenue Memorial Baptist church, with light streaming in through multicolored stained-glass windows.

Young Black adults less Protestant than their elders

2021

Compare generational statistics of religious affiliation among Black Americans.

Secondary Source

Photograph shows a procession of African Americans, with two women in the foreground, carrying signs for equal rights, integrated schools, decent housing, and an end to bias.

The March on Washington: A Virtual Tour

with Clayborne Carson

Join the director of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute at Stanford University for a virtual tour of the 1963 March on Washington.

Video

Scan of a black and white photograph of a mix of Black men, women, and children and a few white men and women, some carrying American flags, walking through a town.

The Civil Rights Movement

by Taylor Branch

Read an essay taking a bird's-eye view of the Civil Rights Movement.

Essay

Two Black men stand talking on either side of a large sign reading "National Headquarters/March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom/Wed. Aug. 28".

The Civil Rights Movement: Major Events and Legacies

by James T. Patterson

Read an overview of the landmark moments of the Civil Rights Movement in the twentieth century.

Essay

Photograph of large sculpture of Martin Luther King Jr. carved out of stone.

A Place in History: Historical Perspective on Martin Luther King Jr. Day

by James Oliver Horton

Read about the historical context for the formation of the modern civil rights movement and leadership.

Essay

A group of five Black men and women hold hands and sing with a white man and woman inside a church.

Different Perspectives on the Civil Rights Movement

by Anthony J. Badger

Read about the different ways historians have challenged the dominant narrative of the Civil Rights movement since the 1960s.

Essay

Jackie Robinson

with Jason Butler, Taína Quiñones, and Sandra Trenholm

Explore a comic book about Jackie Robinson’s rookie year and letters written by Richard Nixon and Robert Kennedy to Jackie Robinson about the Civil Rights Movement.