Another notable resource from Alexander Street , this site connects students and scholars with nonfiction works by leading African Americans. The materials, currently 619 sources by 246 authors, document “the development of African American thought from its beginning to the present” and support research in the humanities and social sciences. The site is guided by editorial advisers Sharon Harley ( Univ. of Maryland ), Russell Adams (Howard Univ.) and Clayborn Carson ( Stanford Univ. ), and was last updated in November 2004. At completion, the site will contain about 100,000 pages of books, articles, interviews, speeches, and letters. Sources include familiar works (Autobiography of Malcolm X and W.E.B. DuBois’s The Souls of Black Folks) in their entirety, as well as fugitive and previously unpublished materials. Ease of navigation and wealth of primary sources are this resource’s major strengths.  Tables of contents allow users to browse documents by multiple facets, including author and source name, years, personal and historical events, subjects (geographical locations, organizations and institutions, persons) and broad and narrow topics (economics, religion, equality, interracial marriage, travel). Find and Search features help experienced researchers locate sources and individual documents and generous hypertext links between documents help users see relationships between people and events.  The Help section is visible and thorough. A special Showcase feature currently includes images of select issues of the Black Panther Party newspaper. Users less familiar with these African American leaders would benefit from photographs and information about authors that includes their historical significance. 

Summing Up: Highly recommended. General and academic collections. – D.C. Wright, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign