These Library items and helpful Internet sites provide assistance in researching African Americans. These Internet sites are not connected with the Oak Park Public Library. More assistance in finding reference resources is available at the Information Services Desk on the Third Floor of the Main Library.

African-American History Online explores over 500 years of African American history, including the Harlem Renaissance, civil rights, affirmative action, Black Nationalism, Africa, sports, and more. Also available for use at the Oak Park Public Library.

African American Song offers 50,000 tracks documenting the history of African American music. Includes jazz, blues, gospel, and other forms of African American musical expression. Identify the music and performances you want to hear, then click to listen through speakers or headphones.

General Information
Encyclopedia of African American Society REF 305.896 ENC
Encyclopedia of African-American Religions REF 299.6 ENC
Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African Experience REF 960
Black Firsts REF 973.0496 BLA
African Americans at War: An Encyclopedia REF 355.0092 SUT
Financial Aid for African Americans REF 378.3 FIN
Historical Statistics of Black America REF 973.0496 HIS

Biography
African Americans in Sports REF 796.0922 AFR
African American Firsts in Science and Technology REF 509.22 WEB
African American Architects REF 720.92 AFR
African American Women Scientists & Inventors REF 920.075 SUL
Contemporary Black Biography REF 973.0496 CON
Current Biography REF 920 CUR
Dictionary of American Negro Biography REF 973.04 DIC
Who's Who Among African Americans REF 973 WHO
African Americans in Science, Math & Invention REF 973 AFR
The Black 100: A Ranking of the Most Influential African-Americans Past and Present REF 973.0496 SAL

History
Encyclopedia of African-American Civil Rights REF 323.1196 GRE
The Historical Encyclopedia of World Slavery REF 306.362 HIS
Encyclopedia of Civil Right in America REF 323.1196
The African American Encyclopedia REF 973.0496
Historical and Cultural Atlas of African Americans REF 973.0496 ASA
The African-American Almanac REF 973.0496
American Decades: Primary Sources 1900-1999 REF 973.9 AME
African American Slave Narratives REF 973.0496 AFR

Directories
National Directory of Minority-Owned Business Firms REF 338.6422
African American Historic Places 973.049 (non Reference)
African-American Business Leaders & Entrepreneurs REF 920 AFR

Literature and Art
African Americans in the Visual Arts REF 920 AFR
Modern Black Writers REF 809.889 MOD
A History of African-American Artists: From 1972-present REF 704.039 BEA
African-American Writers REF 920 AFR

Genealogy and Local History
Chicago, Illinois 917.731
Black Chicago's First Century REF 977.311

There are many other sources available at the Oak Park Public Library. Use the call numbers above as guides to locate books in the non-reference/circulating collection.

African American themed periodicals:
Black Enterprise
Black Issues
Book Review Essence
Ebony
Jet

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