Archival Research

​Databases

• BlackPast.org

• History.com

• HistoryLink.org

• National Park Service (NPS), "African America  Heritage Sites"

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Mountain States (CO, ID, MT, UT, WY)

• #ArchivesBlackEducation, Fort Collins Museum of Discovery

• African American Heritage Resources Project, Montana Historical Society

• Century of Black Mormons (Digital Project), J. Willard Marriott Library, The University of Utah 

• Black American West Museum and Heritage Center, Denver, Colorado

• Black History is Colorado History, Colorado Virtual Library, Colorado State Library

• The History Colorado Center - see Lincoln Hills resort

• Idaho Black History Museum

• Idaho State Historical Society

• Lincoln Hills Cares, Denver, Colorado - history, environmental education, and programming

• River Street Neighborhood Research, Boise, Idaho

• Sema Hadithi African American Heritage and Culture Foundation

• Stiles African American Heritage Center, Denver, Colorado

• Wyoming's Black Past. WYOHistory.Org

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Great Plains States (KS, NB, ND, SD)

• Brown v. Board of Education, National Historical Park, Tacoma, Kansas

• Fort Larned National Historic Site, Kansas, "10th Cavalry at Fort Larned"

• Fort Scott National Historic Site, Kansas

• Great Plains Black History Museum, Omaha, Nebraska

• Homestead National Monument of America, Kansas

• Idaho Black History Museum, Boise, Idaho

• Kansas African-American Museum, Wichita, Kansas

• Kansas Memory Digital Archives

• Malcolm X Memorial Foundation, Omaha

• Malcolm X House Site, Omaha

• Negro Leagues Baseball Museum, Kansas City, Missouri

• Nicodemus Historical Society & Museum, Kansas

• Nicodemus National Historical Site, NPS

• South Dakota African American Musuem, Sioux Falls, SD​

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Southwest States (AZ, NV, NM, OK, TX)

• African American Museum, Dallas, Texas

• African American Pioneers of Nevada County, California

• ​African Americans, Bullock Museum, Austin

• Black Cowboy Museum, Rosenberg, Texas

• Brazos Valley African American Museum, Bryan, Texas

• Buffalo Soldiers National Museum, Houston, Texas

• Calaboose African American History Museum, San Marcos, Texas

• George Washington Carver Museum and Cultural Center, Austin, Texas

• Greenwood Rising, Black Wall St. History Center, Tulsa, Oklahoma

• Houston Museum of African American Culture, Houston, Texas

• Jacob Fontaine Religious Museum, Austin, Texas

• University Museum/Texas Southern University, Houston, Texas​

• The Witte Museum, San Antonio, Texas – see Black Cowboy exhibit

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Pacific States (AL, CA, HI, OR, WA)

• African American Firefighter Museum, Los Angeles, California

• African American Multicultural Museum, Scottsdale, Arizona

• African American Museum and Library at Oakland, California

• African Museum Casa del Rey Moro Museum, San Diego, California

• Alice Ball Bust, Hamilton Library Annex, 1st Floor, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa

• Anchorage Museum, "Black Lives in Alaska: Journey, Justice, Joy"

• Buffalo Soldiers Museum, Tacoma

• California African American Museum, Los Angeles, California

• California National Historic Trail (*Report for creation of new trail: Shirley Ann Wilson Moore, National Park Service, National Trails Intermountain Region, "Sweet Freedom's Plains: African Americans on the Overland Trails 1841-1869")

• Colonel Allensworth State Historic Park, California

• Destination Crenshaw, Los Angeles, California

• Fort Vancouver, Oregon/Washington, "Buffalo Soldiers of Vancouver Barracks"

• Dora Nelson African American Art History Museum, Perris, California

• George Washington Carver Museum, Phoenix, Arizona

• Historic Belmar Park exhibit, Santa Monica, California - historic Black community near Bruce's Beach, a former African-American beach resort at Manhattan Beach in Los Angeles County, California

• Mayme A. Clayton Library and Museum, Culver City, California

• Museum of African American Art Los Angeles, California

• Museum of History and Industry (MOHAI), Seattle

• Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD), San Francisco, California

• Northwest African American Museum, Seattle, Washington

• Oakland Museum of California (OMCA)

• Obama Hawaiian Africana Museum

• Oran Z's Black Facts and Wax Museum, Los Angeles, California

• Oregon Black Pioneers, Portland, Oregon

• Oregon Historical Society Museum, Portland, Oregon

• Pittock Mansion – past exhibits included "Black in Oregon, 1840-1870" and "Vanport" ​​

• Port Chicago Naval Magazine National Memorial, near Martinez/Oakland, California

• Presidio of San Francisco, California, "The Buffalo Soldiers"

• Rosie the Riveter WWII Home Front National Historical Park. “Double Victory Movement Exhibition and Archive” 

• San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park, "African American History"

• Sequoia & Kings Canyon National Parks – home to Charles Young and the Buffalo Soldiers

• The "Victory Salute" statue at San José State University

• Watts Towers of Simon Rodia State Historic Park

• Yosemite National Park, "Buffalo Soldiers," California

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Western Region & National

• Africans on the North American Frontier, 1501-1848: Links

• Lewis & Clark National Historic Trail  –  features York, an enslaved man who experienced usual freedom when he served as explorer in the Corps of Discovery.

• National Museum of African American History & Culture (NMAAHC), Washington DC

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