Resources for Students
Africana Studies Film Series
For African American history month, faculty members present films from Africa and the African Diaspora for viewing and discussion
Libraries, Special Collections, and Archives
Located on the Tulane campus, the Amistad Research Center, www.amistadresearchcenter.org/ ,houses original documents and other resources for research on America's ethnic history, the African Diaspora, the ethnic diversity of the United States, human relations, and civil rights.
The New Orleans Museum of Art, www.noma.org, has permanent and temporary collections in the arts of Africa, the Americas, Asia, Europe, Louisiana, and Oceania as well as decorative arts, contemporary arts, photography, and other areas. The African Collection is one of the best in the country. Admission is free for Loyola University New Orleans students, faculty, and staff.
The Historic New Orleans Collection, www.hnoc.org, an archive and museum, is located in the French Quarter. It hosts a wealth of information about the Gulf South area and New Orleans including colonial Louisiana, the Louisiana Purchase, Civil War, plantation development, urban development, jazz, architecture, and Mardi Gras.
The Louisiana Museum of African American History, www.neworleansmuseums.com/multiculturalmuseums/afamhistory.html, is located in the Treme neighborhood and it has artifacts, collectibles and historical documents referencing African and African American family, military, school, church and cemetery records, slave and plantation history, wars and much more.
The New Orleans Public Library City Archives and Special Collection, http://nutrias.org/~nopl/spec/speclist.htm, contain the city’s municipal records from 1769 to the present including the Civil War. Court records, maps, photographs, non-archival materials, rare books, genealogy and carnival collections can all be found here.
The primary focus of the Dillard University Archives and Special Collections, http://books.dillard.edu/Archives/Index.htm, focuses on Southern African American history and culture.
Loyola University Special Collections and Archives, http://library.loyno.edu/speccoll/index.htm,includes the Cornet Collection on the art of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Southern University Center for African and African-American Studies, (504)286-5296, is a collection that focuses on Africa and the African-American experience, along with an African art collection.
Tulane University Hogan Archive of New Orleans Jazz, http://www.tulane.edu/~lmiller/JazzHome.html, has material relating to jazz music including oral histories, photographs, and records.
Tulane University Manuscripts Department, www.tulane.edu/~lmiller/ManuscriptsHome.html, has documents from the founding of the city to the present including colonial Louisiana, the Civil War, Louisiana politics, Southern literature, and Carnival.
Xavier University Archives and Special Collections, http://www.xula.edu/library/archives.html, focuses on African American history, the history of the U.S. South and the Gulf-Caribbean region as well as Catholicism in the U.S.
