The African American Department is on the first floor of the Enoch Pratt Central Library Annex, past the computer lab and Special Collections.
The collection includes more than 45,000 circulating and non-circulating volumes of fiction and nonfiction; microforms and CD-ROMs; and an extensive selection of reference works.
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African American Marylanders
Digital Collection
Ephemera Collection
Microfilm Collection
Photograph Collection
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This multimedia exhibit chronicles jazz life in Baltimore during the early 1900s through the 1940s and beyond, a time when Baltimore was one of the most dynamic entertainment centers in America. The exhibit examines the social, cultural, and political heritage of jazz-age Baltimore and highlights the personalities of the time.
Maps help to illustrate the African American experience in Maryland.
The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database offers researchers, students and the general public a chance to rediscover the reality of one of the largest movements of people in the history of the world.
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If you’d like to read reviews of books by African American authors, use booklists, lists of award winning or popular and current books you can do just that on websites listed here.
And, you’ll find information about online (and face-to-face) book discussion groups, discussion boards, and social networking sites that focus on books by African American authors. You’ll be able to express yourself and interact with other people who share your interests in fiction by African American authors.
