Several thousand items ranging from historical documents and rare visual materials to contemporary photo-journalism, relating to the entirety of African American history from the 16th century to the present; selected in the course of developing the NYPL website "African American Migration Experience."
The reception of the " Ah-Haussoo-Noh-Beh," or " Queens Mouths." (1851) Digital ID: 1167946
This digital compilation was developed in support of the NYPL website, "The African American Migration Experience," a sweeping 500-year historical narrative from the transatlantic slave trade to the Western migration, the colonization movement, the Great Migration, and the contemporary immigration of Caribbeans, Haitians, and sub-Saharan Africans.
NYPL. "In Motion: The African-American Migration Experience."(2005) <http://www.inmotionaame.org>