Program from Coltrane's funeral service.

Photographs of an unknown black serviceman during the Vietnam War.

Two booklets related to the "Stolen Lives" police brutality project.

Allen, Charles

Comic strips, etching, and sketches by New York City cartoonist Charles Allen.

Armstrong, Robb.

Collection contains original artwork for Armstrong's syndicated cartoon strip Jump Start. Armstrong is one of very few Black syndicated cartoonists in the United States.

Bank of the United States (1816-1836)

Bill in the amount of $1,136 for the transfer of five enslaved persons, three male and 2 female, to Edward R. Pinckney. Signed by Joseph Johnson, president of the bank's office in Charleston, South Carolina.

Baraka, Amiri, 1934-2014.

Papers of the African-American author, music critic, novelist, playwright, poet, and social activist. Baraka was also editor of Yugen, a literary magazine, and co-editor, with Diane Di Prima, of The floating bear. Correspondence (1958-1965); Baraka's typescript and published writings, including articles, book manuscripts, book and music reviews, essays, playscripts, and poems; and Yugen records, including manuscripts and page proofs. Yugen manuscripts include those of John Ashbery, Paul Blackburn, Robin Blaser, Bruce Boyd, William Burroughs, Paul Carroll, Gregory Corso, Robert Creeley, Edward Dahlberg, Diane Di Prima, Edward Dorn, Larry Eigner, Allen Ginsberg, Barbara Guest, Stephen Jonas, Jack Kerouac, Kenneth Koch, Philip Lamantia, Ron Loewinsohn, Walter Lowenfels, Michael McClure, Edward Marshall, David Meltzer, Frank O'Hara, Charles Olson, Joel Oppenheimer, Stuart Perkoff, Gary Snyder, Gilbert Sorrentino, George Stanley, Philip Whalen, John Wieners, and William Carlos Williams.

Benjamin, Eliab C.

Diary of Eliab C. Benjamin of Rushford, New York, possibly minister or deacon. He was evidently much involved with the First Baptist Church of Rushford.

Bontemps, Arna, 1902-1973.

Correspondence, manuscript plays, stories, songs, speeches, and book manuscripts and galley proofs.

Braithwaite, William Stanley, 1878-1962.

Papers of the African-American poet, author, critic. Correspondence, and manuscripts by Braithwaite and others. Notable correspondents include Arna Bontemps, Louis Bromfield, Sterling Brown, Marie Bullock, Witter Bynner, Cass Canfield, Bliss Carman, Bennet Cerf, Katherine Chapin, James Cozzens, Countee Cullen, Gustav Davidson, W.E.B. DuBois, Kimball Flaccus, Robert Frost, Claire and Nina Gerbaulet, Louis Ginsberg, Hermann Hagedorn, Leigh Hanes, Robert Hillyer, John Holmes, Langston Hughes, Georgia Johnson, MacKinlay Kantor, Joseph Joel Keith, Florence Lennon, Benjamin Mays, David McCord, Marianne Moore, Maurice Peloubet, Bliss Perry, Minerva Perry, Helen Channing Pollock, Ruby Altizer Roberts, Paul Robeson, Angelo Schmuller, Lulu Schultz, George S. Schuyler, Delmore Schwartz, Eli Siegel, Jules Siegel, Noble Sissle, Chard Powers Smith, Vladimir Sokoloff, Arthur Spingarn, Jesse Stuart, A.M. Sullivan, May Swenson, Ridgely Torrence, Carl Van Vechten, George Sylvester Viereck, Harold Vinal, Booker T. Washington, Robert C. Weaver, John Hall Wheelock, Margaret Widdemer, William Carlos Williams, and Roscoe Wright.

Brown, Eleanor.

Modeling portfolio with black-and-white photographs of young Black woman model.

Bullins, Ed

Typscripts of various plays, published and unpublished.

Coltrane, John, 1926-1967

5 oversize volumes of transcriptions of performances by the African American jazz saxophonist and composer. Transcribed by Andrew White, a Washington, D.C. musician.

Congress of Racial Equality. Syracuse Chapter.

Newsletters, publications, and mailings from the Syracuse Chapter.

Fax, Elton C.

Outgoing letter and booklet about the African American artist.

Fisher, W. W., fl. 1846.

Letter from Reverend W. W. Fisher of Palmyra, New York, to E. B. Walsworth, giving details of a brutal attack on a local mixed-race couple by one Schuyler Parshall and several accomplices.

Foundation for Change (New York, N.Y.)

Printed material from the New York City-based non-profit Foundation for Change, which advocated for and educated about ways to counter poverty and racism in the New York City area.

Graham, Peter S.

Photographs, one clipping and business card of civil rights activist Bayard Rustin; a few items of correspondence from Graham.

Graham, Peter S.

Printed material, clippings, souvenirs, etc. related to African-American singer and civil rights activist Paul Robeson.

Hooker, Isabella Beecher, 1822-1907

Printed pamphlet with souvenir teaspoon