African American Resources for Minnesota

United States Minnesota  African-American Resources for Minnesota

Archives and Libraries

 * Minnesota State Archives
 * Minnesota State Archives and Libraries
 * MNSU Collections Minnesota State University


 * Taylor, David Vassar African Americans in Minnesota Call Number 977.6 F2td includes index.


 * Taylor, David Vassar Blacks in Minnesota: a preliminary guide to historical sourcesCall Number 977.6 A1 includes index.

History
Uncertain lives : African Americans and their first 150 years in the Red Wing, Minnesota area by Frederick L. Johnson Call number 977.614/R1F2 Includes bibliographical references and index.

Newspapers
Newspaper Webindex: The Louisiana Newspaper Project

Online Communities
Forgotten People: Cane River's Creoles of Color A Facebook page providing resources about a community in Natchitoches (northwestern Lousiana) founded during colonial days by a Creole family.

Online Resources

 * Louisiana Death Records 1911-1956
 * Louisiana Free Slave Records,1719-1820. Dr. Gwendolyn Midlo Hall. [Database on line] Afro-Louisiana History and Genealogy, 1719-1820.
 * Historic Pathways. Elizabeth Shown Mills. (An online archives of many peer-reviewed articles and papers relating to Louisiana's Creole history, particular Cane River and the Red River Valley.)
 * Louisiana Lineage Legacies
 * Louisiana National Register of Historic Places (Excellent resource with photos and history)
 * Bossier Parish Cemeteries (Find A Grave)
 * Louisiana Digital Archives
 * Freedmen 's Bureau for 1865-1868 in Caddo and Bossier Parishes
 * Louisiana History and Genealogy
 * Louisiana African American Griots
 * Louisiana Archives (USGenWeb)
 * Marriage Records (Caddo &amp; Bossier Parishes)
 * Plantation Records(Caddo &amp; Bossier Parishes)
 * Louisiana Slavery
 * Afro-Louisiana History and Genealogy 1719-1830 - This website provides a searchable database for African-Americans from the Louisiana area.

Oral History
The T. Harry Williams Center for Oral History

Reconstruction
Reconstruction in Louisiana after 1868 Milledge L. Bonham, Jr. The Mississippi Valley Historical Review Vol. 5, No. 3 (Dec., 1918) (pp. 366-368) Page Count: 3

Slavery and Freedom

 * Records Relating to Slavery, Free People of Color, and Freedmen New Orleans Public Library's Louisiana Division &amp; City Archives
 * Bossier Parish, Louisiana 1860 Slaveholder and 1870 African-Americans
 * Index to Slave Emancipation Petitions, 1814-1843 Louisiana. Parish Court (Orleans Parish)