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Boston Planning and Development Agency (formerly Boston Redevelopment Agency) has community information and data. Use the All Neighborhoods dropdown to find your community

 "Imagine All the People" is a series of publications about Boston communities, such as 
                                               Haitians in Boston

                                               Dominicans in Boston

includes     digital materials on African Americans

Crispus Attucks Online Museum   includes information about the Crispus Attucks Monument

Not scholarly, but Boston Magazine articles are available online with in-depth look at local issues and personalities.

Don’t F*ck with Linda
Henry Louis Gates Jr.: Head Negro In Charge

Remembering the Boston Busing Crisis, Four Decades Later

The Road to Perdition

What does "perdition" mean? Look it up on the Merriam-Webster Dictionary

Google Cultural Institute -- Black History and Culture
A treasure trove of online black history and culture, including

Changes over time: Library of Congress Subject Headings for African Americans

includes

Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers'  Poject, 1936 to 1938.

Civil Rights History Project

Rosa Parks Papers
 

Collection of over 100 interviews with African Americans who migrated to Newark, New Jersey between 1910 and 1970. Videos are included with interviews. From the Sample stories page.

An online reference source to African American history.

Primary source set dp.la  on busing and school desegreation in Boston.

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Check the Library Story about this project and link to additional resources

                        includes the Boston Public Library Anti-Slavery Collection

contains the finding aid for the W. Arthur Garrity, Jr. chambers papers on the Boston Schools Desegregation Case, 1972-1997

University of Southern Mississippi. Special Collections. Student Printz front page 
NOTE: enlarge the image and select With Frazier to see the missing lead article!


includes  Animation of Freedom's Ring: King's "I Have a Dream" Speech
 

Use the The Digital Vault on Docs Teach to create exhibits or lessons from the resources in the Digital Vaults. 

A History of American Protest Music