美国黑史研究的开放资源

Introducing the Black Freedom Struggle website, a selection of primary source documents for teaching and learning about the pursuit of civil rights

By Courtney Suciu

在Proquest，我们相信知识和信任的信息导致进步和变革。

That’s why in June, amid international protests against racial injustice, ProQuestannouncedits commitment to a program that would provide a selection of resources related to civil rights that would be openly available and free of charge to the community.

The result of that promise is the黑自由斗争网站.

Spanning 2,000 primary source documents related to African American history, from the movement to abolish slavery to the contemporary era, this collection is openly available to anyone interested in U.S. Black history, and the ways the past is reflected in current events. Visitors to the website will discover unique documents such as historical newspaper articles, pamphlets, and correspondence from six time periods in American history:

• Slavery and the Abolitionist Movement (1790-1860)
• 内战与重建时代（1861-1877）
• 种族隔离时代从1878年大萧条(1878-1932)
• The New Deal and World War II (1933-1945)
• 民权和黑人动权（1946-1975）
• 当代时代（1976-2000s）

在课堂和公众

与来自黑人历史学者和顾问的投入开发，本系列的意图是支持各种学生，从中学到大学，以及独立的研究人员和任何兴趣更多地学习关于持续的黑人自由的人斗争。该网站提供各种可靠，易于发现的材料，可用于家庭作业，个人查询，研究论文和国家历史日类型 - 专注于美国在美国历史上的非洲裔美国历史。

教育工作者可以在课堂上使用这个主要来源材料来教授特定主题或人，例如弗雷德里克·迪尔格拉斯或非废物运动。教师也可以使用这些材料来推出学生使用主要来源，并帮助开始研究人员发展基本的批判性思维和信息文学技能。

Teaching resources can be found in the About section of the website to support instructors with suggestions for how to use content in the classroom. Sample homework assignments and an explanation of primary sources can be found in this section as well, to help students understand how to effectively use this content in their work.

What people are saying

教师和图书馆员正在回应这个网站的兴奋，并告诉我们它将支持他们的学生和顾客的方式。这是我们所听到的样本：

“Primary sources are essential to teaching and learning African American history because they make it possible to center the experiences and perspectives of African Americans. ProQuest’s Black Freedom Struggle website provides a rich array of source material on African American efforts to secure civil and human rights – from slavery to the present – allowing students to pursue exciting avenues of inquiry and enabling teachers to teach African American history accurately and effectively. It’s an incredible collection, one I’m eager to use in classroom instruction and for students to mine for research projects.”
-Dr. Hasan Kwame Jeffries, Associate Professor of History at the Ohio State University.

“我一直在帮助学生多年来拥有他们的国家历史日项目。许多学生选择以奴隶制，民权，黑历史和非洲裔美国男女的主题为中心的项目。帮助中学和高中学生的最大障碍之一是帮助他们为他们的项目找到优质的主要来源。拥有一个网站，使他们在他们学习的特定时间内能够轻松找到这些来源将使他们的项目帮助他们更有效。“
-俄亥俄州韦斯特维尔公共图书馆的尼娜托马斯，经理，历史中心和博物馆

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