African American

The collections of The Newark Public Library are rich in materials by, for, and about African Americans. You may wish to peruse these Internet sites in addition to searching the library's catalog Clavis for print and audiovisual resources.

Black History Month 2010:  The History of Black Economic Empowerment   "The need for economic development has been a central element of black life...In 1910, a group of dedicated reformers, black and white, gathered to create an organization to address the needs of African Americans as they migrated to the cities of the United States.  The organization that they created a century ago became what we all know as the National Urban League. For a century, they have struggled to open the doors of opportunity for successive generations, engaging the challenges of each age. ASALH celebrates the centennial of the National Urban League by exploring racial uplift and black economic development in the twentieth century."

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