Sources for researching the history of African Americans in New Jersey. This guide highlights materials available from the New Jersey State Library's collections and is not intended to represent all information sources for this topic.
Over 15,000 nonfiction eBooks are available in our eBooks on EBSCOhost collection. Most may be downloaded to your computer, or eReaders compatible with Adobe Digital Editions. Reference books also populate this collection including:
A collection of over 95 reference books covering business, education, the environment, history, medicine, religion, science and social science. The titles can be searched individually or all at once.
A reference source on the history of African Americans from pre-colonial times to the present. Includes memoirs, letters, family histories, newspapers, oral histories, and city directories, providing historical evidence to help understand and interpret past events.
This new resource provides comprehensive coverage of the many events that define the framework of African American history, including social, cultural, and political movements, and the struggles to gain freedom, equality and civil rights.
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The African American Years by 
Great Events from History: African American History by 
