LibGuides: Black History Month: Library resources

BHM events in the library

The Ybor Campus Library is please to participate in Black History Month festivities on campus. We have three events for Feb 2025:

February 1-28, 2025, Ybor Library Black History Month Exhibit and LibGuide. After viewing the exhibit students can put their name for a drawing to win a prize.
Feb 24, 2025, 11:00AM-12:15PM - The History of African American Labor in Tampa featuring Dr. Evan Bennett.
February 26, 2025, 11:00AM-12:15PM – Make Your Passion Your Business: Black Entrepreneurship featuring Ersula K. Odom in the Ybor Library.

Books in the library

Come see the book display in the library and put you name in for a prize drawing through Black History Month (drawing will take place on 2/27 in YSSB 307/308 at 2pm).

Below are some selections from the display. You can search our Library Discovery Search catalog for more.

Streaming Video (HCC ID required)

Freedom Riders interviews (American Experience, WGBH)

Research Databases

American History in Video (Alexander Street Press)
History from the colonial period through the 21st Century in documentaries, newsreels, public affairs videos, and archival footage. Funded by FLVC group license. Find a tutorial.
Black Freedom Struggle (ProQuest)

Primary source collections: American Periodicals, Black Abolitionist Papers, ProQuest History Vault, ProQuest Congressional, Supreme Court Insight, and Alexander Street’s Black Thought and Culture. Free resource. Find a tutorial.
Black Life in America (Newsbank)

Primary source collection focusing on African American history, culture, and daily life. Funded by FLVC for FCS. Find a tutorial.
History Vault: Slavery (ProQuest)
Digitized collection of primary source materials documenting the international and domestic traffic in slaves in Britain’s New World colonies and the U.S. Funding source: Statewide allocation. Find a tutorial.
Sources in U.S. History Online: Civil War (Gale)
A collection of Civil War-era personal narratives, essays, sermons, political speeches, and other primary sources. A subset of Gale Primary Sources. Funding source: State Library of Florida. Tutorial provided.
U.S. History (Gale in Context)
Content from periodicals, reference works, and primary source documents relating to U.S. history, organized into a portal for easy research. Funding source: FLVC group license. Find a tutorial.

More online history resources are available in Databases A-Z