African American studies

Specialists

Blogs

Students Speak Out! A new exhibit on Stanford student publications | June 14, 2017

KZSU Project South exhibit features streaming audio and transcripts of 1965 civil rights campaign | May 23, 2017

Piston's Salute, Fisk, and Stanford | June 18, 2015

Project South collection featured on NPR website, sparks crowd-sourcing experiment | March 24, 2015

Social Justice at Stanford: Selections from the University Archives | September 30, 2014

Topic guides

African-American history

African-American students at Stanford University

Children's books by or about African Americans

Notable collections

KZSU Project South Interviews

Transcripts and audio recordings of interviews with Civil Rights workers in the South recorded by Stanford students during the summer of 1965.
Caricatures of Black Americans : sheet music, 1861-1947

White perceptions of African American as portrayed in the cover illustrations of sheet music.
African-American related sheet music, and sheet music written by African Americans, 1851-1974

Sheet music depicting African Americans, or written by African American composers.
Bob Fitch photography archive

The Bob Fitch photography archive is the complete archive of activist photographer Bob Fitch of Watsonville, California.