Credo is an excellent resource that provides overviews of topics in African American Literature, including biographical information about authors.
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JSTOR is a not-for-profit organization that creates and maintains an archive of important scholarly journals. JSTOR features older articles, some of which were written in the 19th century, though it does feature some recent articles. It is a great source for journal articles about literature.
Literary Reference Center Plus is the definitive literary database covering all genres and timeframes. It includes thousands of full-text poems, short stories, synopses, critical essays, literary journals, reference books and author biographies.
This resource features expertly selected open primary source documents. Visitors will find historical newspaper articles, pamphlets, diaries, correspondence and more from specific time periods in U.S. history marked by the opposition African Americans have faced on the road to freedom.