African American Communities

As Barbara Ehrenreich and others have often noted, the Civil Rights movement was more than the iconic leaders we regularly commemorate such as Martin Luther King, Rosa Parks and Malcolm X. The movement, like those that preceded it, was an assembly of communities standing up and rejecting second class citizenship, asserting their cultural output, and leaving a trail of documents, words and ephemeral material for future historians and others to interpret.

African American Communities, a collaboration between Adam Matthew (AM) Digital and several notable library and archive collections in the USA, assembles this trail into a comprehensive yet accessible...