Library Events

"Club Harlem Exhibit Grand Opening"  Monday February 1, 6pm.
The exhibit "A Pictorial of Club Harlem and the Way We Were" will be on display in the Main Library meeting room all of February.

"Words, Beats, and Life"  Wednesday, February 10 and 17 at 6:30 pm
Atlantic City Weekly's Raymond Tyler will direct this hip hop writing workshop.  Tyler will bring in old school and current hip hop music, magazines and graffiti examples.  He will also discuss hip hop's impact.

"African American Comic Book Characters" Wednesdays in February 3:30 pm
Joe Del Beato will lead these comic book drawing lessons every Wednesday for youth ages 8 to 16.  The group will draw African American characters that have been featured in comics, cartoons and graphic novels.

African American History in Atlantic City

Many great African American performers and entertainers, sports professionals, and business professionals spent time in Atlantic City. Research guide to African American History in AC. View this resource in PDF form.

Library Resources

African American History Resources at the Library
The Atlantic City Free Public Library features an extensive collection of resources that provides information about African-American history, accomplishments, issues, pivotal figures and more. This guide is a list of just some of the great resources that are available to you at the library and online.

African American Studies
Explore Oxford African American Studies Center and the African American Studies Reference Books to search for articles, images and more about African American History. Use it from home with an Atlantic City Free Public Library card.

Biography
Check out Biography Collection Complete, Biography Resource Center and the Biography Reference Books online to get biographical information on famous African Americans throughout history. Use it from home with an Atlantic City Free Public Library card.

African American Authors
Looking for an African American author to read?  Here is a list of some of the African American authors you will find on the shelves of the Atlantic City Free Public Library.

Resources on the Web

Sites

Black Past.org is an online reference center makes available a wealth of materials on African American history in one central location on the Internet. Find articles, speeches, links to other black history resources.

Black History Hotlist

InfoPlease Black History Month To observe Black History Month, this Information Please site features articles on black history and biographies of notable African Americans in politics, history, entertainment, arts, and sports. It also provides information and links on colleges, statistics on population and earnings, a Civil Rights timeline, and literature.

Celebrating Black History on the Web

BlackRefer . Directory of hard -to- find websites for the black community

Library of Congress African American History month

African American World on PBS

African Americans in New Jersey A history of blacks in New Jersey from the colonial period through the 1980s. Originally published by the New Jersey Historical Commission in 1989, and published on the Web by the New Jersey State Library.

African American Heritage Museum of Southern New Jersey

Columbia University African Studies Considering biographies of famous and unsung heroes, these pages point users to excellent information about noted activists, philosophers, scientists, and writers.

African American Inventions and Inventors

The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database: Voyages

Watch Martin Luther King Jr's "I Have a Dream" speech

History Channel's Black History month

Black Voices

African Recipes These recipes from All Recipes.com are organized by region in Africa.

Blogs

Jessica's African-American History Blog

Black Voices Bookshelf