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Microfilm
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African-American:
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| Title |
Description |
Call
Number |
Separate
Records Available? |
| Africans
in the New World, 1493-1834 |
This project serves as an introduction
to the history of Africans in the Americas, from
the first direct shipment of slaves across the Atlantic
in 1518, to the last known shipment to Cuba in 1864.
It presents a variety of perspectives, including
those of slave merchants, plantation owners, merchants,
ship's captain's, slaves and abolitionists. The
project encompasses the African experience in both
North and South America, from Argentina and Brazil,
to Canada and the USA. The Caribbean is also very
well represented.
Digital
guide. |
MICFILM 4370 |
No |
| American
Negro Historical Society collection, 1790-1905 |
Founded in 1897, the American
Negro Historical Society collected and preserved
relevant materials from a myriad of organizations
and individuals. The collection includes letters,
minutes, reports, papers, newspaper clippings, financial
records, and portraits of prominent black leaders;
along with miscellaneous printed materials. Guide
available. |
MICFILM 3403 |
No |
| Annuals
/ Journals of Black Baptist (National) Conventions
in America |
This collection inculdes the annual
reports of several African-American Baptist conventions,
dating from 1842-1974 |
MICFILM 4071 |
No |
| The
Arthur A. Schomburg papers |
The Arthur A. Schomburg Papers
(1874-1938) reflect his activities as researcher,
writer, collector, and curator. The collection consists
of correspondence, published and unpublished writings,
articles about Schomburg and the Negro Collection
at the 135th Street Branch, subject and reference
files, and material relating to his many speaking
engagements and activities in the community and
on behalf of the collection. The bulk of the papers
date from 1932 to his death in 1938. The material
from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries consists
of transcriptions of historical documents and newspaper
articles. Digital
guide. |
MICFILM 4026 |
No |
| The
Bayard Rustin papers |
An influential civil rights leader,
Rustin (1912-1987) was skilled at planning protest
demonstrations and showed great acumen as a social
and political analyst. His role as behind-the-scenes
adviser to both A. Philip Randolph and Dr. Martin
Luther King Jr. allowed him to help shape the course
of the modern civil rights struggle for several
decades. The Bayard Rustin Papers enables researchers
and scholars of American race relations to assess
Rustin’s remarkable career during the nearly half-century
that he spent in the civil rights movement. Guide
available. |
MICFILM 4024 |
No |
| Black
workers in the era of the great migration, 1916-1929 |
The First World War, known as
the Era of the Great Migration to students of the
African-American experience, saw a dramatic black
migration from the rural South to urban centers
in the industrialized North. Although many factors
were involved, the acute labor shortage that plagued
basic industries encouraged thousands of black families
to make this transition "from plantation to
ghetto." In doing so, they transformed the
traditionally southern issue of race relations into
a national issue. Digital
guide. |
MICFILM 4295 |
No |
| The
Claude A. Barnett papers |
The founder of the Associated
Negro Press (1919), this collection contains Barnett’s
records of the ANP through his leadership of over
four decades. Totaling nearly 100,000 pages, it
contains a wide range of new perspectives on black
history, politics, and culture. Guide available. |
MICFILM 3385 |
No |
| Federal
surveillance of Afro-Americans, 1917-1925: the First
World War, the Red Scare, and the Garvey Movement |
At the center of this collection
are the enormous surveillance files of the Department
of Justice’s Bureau of Investigation under directors
A. Bruce Bielaski, William J. Flynn, William J.
Burns, and their young and able assistant, J.
Edgar Hoover. From all of the bureau case files
covering black groups, periodicals, and individuals
between 1917 and 1922, every relevant file concerning
black political (as distinct from commonly criminal)
activities has been included in this collection.
Digital
guide.
|
MICFILM 1602 |
No |
| The
Freedman's Savings and Trust Company: letters received
by commissioners, 1870-1914 |
Reproduces the records of the
Freedman's Savings and Trust Company, a savings
bank chartered by Congress in early 1865 for the
benefit of ex-slaves. In an effort to protect the
interests of depositors and their heirs in the event
of a depositor's death, the bank collected a substantial
amount of detailed information about each depositor
and his or her family. While most of the surviving
records relate to the bank and its collapse, they
are still a useful source for genealogical data
concerning African American families for the period
following the Civil War. Guide available. |
MICFILM 4344 |
No |
| Mary
McLeod Bethune papers: the Bethune-Cookman College
collection, 1922-1955 |
This collection contains the administrative
records of Mary McLeod Bethune as president of Bethune-Cookman
College. Although Bethune founded the college as
an elementary school in 1904 and served as its resident
head until the late 1930s, the earliest records
in the collection date from 1923. The bulk of the
collection begins in the early 1930s, although there
are substantial materials from the 1920s. More material
covering the 1920s is deposited in the archive of
the Mary McLeod Bethune Foundation at Bethune-Cookman
College, Daytona Beach, Florida. The very earliest
records documenting the Daytona Normal and Industrial
Institute are found among the archive of the General
Education Board at the Rockefeller Archives, Pocantico
Hills, New York. The Bethune-Cookman College collection
is divided into four archival series: General Correspondence,
Special Correspondence, Subject Files, and Financial
Records. Digital
guide.
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MICFILM 4287 |
No |
| Mary
McLeod Bethune papers: the Bethune Foundation collection |
The Bethune Foundation Collection
of Mary McLeod Bethune Papers is a deposit originally
spread over 32 file drawers and a large storage
cabinet. The collection is divided into four parts:
Part 1, Writings, Diaries, Scrapbooks, Biographical
Materials, and Files on the National Youth Administration
and Women's Organizations, 1918-1955; Part 2, Correspondence
Files, 1914-1955; Part 3, Subject Files, and Part
4, President's Records of Bethune-Cookman College
and the Mary McLeod Bethune Foundation. The bulk
of the materials in Parts 1 through 3 cover Bethune's
career during the last twenty years of her life,
1935-1955. The oldest materials in the collection
can be found in Part 4, in the section relating
to Bethune-Cookman College administration, while
several of the series in Part 1 shed light on Bethune's
early career as well as on her childhood, family,
and education. |
MICFILM 3423 |
No |
| Papers,
1901-1940, Clarence Cameron White |
A classical musician drawing on
African roots, White's collection includes correspondence,
financial records, clippings, speeches and manuscript
music (including scores for White's award-winning
opera Ouanga!, Cocomacaque). Guide on order. |
MICFILM 3705 |
No |
| Papers
of Carter G. Woodson and the Association for the
Study of Negro Life and History, 1915-1950
|
Known as the "Father of Negro
History," Woodson received a Ph.D. from Harvard
and spent his career bringing to light the wealth
of the Negro past. The collection comprises Woodson’s
papers, the records of the Association for the Study
of Negro Life and History, and the records of Associated
Publishers. Guide available. Digital
guide. |
MICFILM 4023 |
No |
| The
Papers of W.E.B. Du Bois |
As one of the earliest and most
influential spokesmen for African-American liberation,
W.E.B. DuBois pioneered many of the strategies and
programs of the American civil rights movement.
This unique microfilm collection of DuBois's papers
documents the private thoughts and public achievements
of this radical leader for students of African-American
studies, American history, and political science.
Guide available. |
MICFILM 3188 |
No |
| The
Paul Robeson collection |
The Paul Robeson Collection (1926-1956)
documents Robeson's artistic and political career
from 1949 to 1956. Divided into four series--General,
Professional, Passport case, and Organizations--the
collection consists mainly of correspondence, manuscripts,
and printed matter, and represents for the most
part office files of the United Freedom Fund, established
in 1952. Manuscripts by Robeson include typed letters,
handwritten drafts of letters, speeches, and articles.
Guide
available. Digital
guide. |
MICFILM 4022 |
No |
| Records
of the National Negro Business League |
Part 1 of these records contains
the NNBL’s verbatim Annual Conference Proceedings,
1900–1919, the basic testament of the organization’s
ideology, growth, and activities. Part 2: Correspondence
and Business Records, 1900–1923 contains private
correspondence between headquarters and black newspaper
publishers, entrepreneurs, scholars, insurance company
executives, and other business and professional
people. Guide
available. |
MICFILM 3304 |
No |
| Records
of the Tuskegee Airmen |
Records of the Army Air Forces
includes consolidated mission and narrative mission
reports, daily operations reports, and statistical
summaries; War Department General and Security-Classified
Correspondence Files on race, inspections, airfields,
training, particularly in re to public opposition
to units in certain communities, racial discrimination
incidents, investigative and accident reports, pilot
inspections and training reports citing irregularities
and deficiencies, and a conference at Tuskegee in
which African American college presidents discuss
aviation education in schools and colleges; and
project files on airfield construction, inspections,
personnel assignments, civilian training, and housing.
Guide available. |
MICFILM 4363 |
No |
| The
Tuskegee Institute news clippings file |
Covering the years 1899
to 1966, these clippings were compiled from more
than 300 major American national dailies, leading
American south-eastern dailies, African-American
newspapers, magazines, religious and social publications,
and non-US newspapers. They cover a variety of topics:
civil rights, discrimination, economic conditions,
lynchings, race relations, riots, sports, health,
politics, and other subjects. The overwhelming majority
of the items in the collection date from 1910 to
1966. In addition to mounted clippings, the microfilm
set also includes some unmounted clippings, reports,
and letters. Guide
available. |
MICFILM 3398 |
No |
| Universal
Negro Improvement Association records 1921-1986 |
Correspondence, reports, conference
proceedings, speeches, minute and ledger books,
membership certificates, and much more relating
to the Universal Negro Improvement Association.
Founded by Marcus Garvey in 1914 as a philanthropic
and fraternal ogranization to promote pan-Africanism,
the UNIA developed into a radical political group
that advocated repatriation to Africa, among other
things. The major portion of this collection dates
from the period 1940-1950. Guide available. |
MICFILM 4025 |
No |
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