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Black History Month 2022: Black Health and Wellness @ Pitt

Black Health and Wellness as the 2022 Black History Month theme

Primary Sources Documenting Black Families

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These materials are housed in the Archives & Special Collections Department at the University of Pittsburgh. Collections on this tab do not contain completely digitized content, but can be accessed by contacting us here!

 

The materials listed below are housed in the ULS Library System's PittCat A-Z Databases

Primary Sources are...

  • Original materials that provide direct evidence or first-hand testimony of a participant or eyewitness of an event or topic.
  • Primary sources can be contemporary sources created at the time when the event occurred (e.g., letters and newspaper articles) or later (such as, memoirs and oral history interviews).
  • Primary sources may be published or unpublished.  Unpublished sources are unique materials (e.g., family papers) often referred to as archives and manuscripts.
  • What constitutes a primary source varies by discipline. How the researcher uses the source generally determines whether it is a primary source or not.
 
This information adapted from Finding Primary Sources @ Pitt