Creator:
unknown
Inclusive Dates:
1950- 1960
Abstract:
Photographs of various African American
musicians, singers and performers from the 1950s and 1960s.
Type of Material:
Photographs.
Subject:
Entertainers.
Musicians.
Singers.
African Americans
Music
African American musicians.
African American singers.
Blues musicians.
Jazz musicians.
Creator:
Van Vechten, Carl, 1880-1964
Inclusive Dates:
1925- 1945
Abstract:
Programs and other printed material relating to musical, theatrical and dance performances as well as political events, collected by American writer and photographer Carl Van Vechten.
Type of Material:
Broadsides (notices)
Invitations.
Announcements.
Theater programs.
Subject:
United States -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.
Entertainers.
African Americans
Dance and theatre
Popular culture
Radio, television, film
African Americans -- Music.
African Americans -- Politics and government.
African Americans -- Social conditions -- To 1964.
African Americans in the performing arts.
African Americans -- History -- 1877-1964.
African American dance.
Performing Arts -- United States.
Dance -- United States.
Musical theater -- United States.
Creator:
Bontemps, Arna, 1902-1973.
Inclusive Dates:
1927- 1968
Abstract:
Correspondence, manuscript plays, stories, songs, speeches, and book manuscripts and galley proofs.
Type of Material:
Correspondence.
Galley proofs.
Manuscripts for publication.
Scripts (documents)
Songs (document genre)
Speeches (documents)
Subject:
United States -- Civilization -- African American influences.
United States -- Race relations.
Authors.
Librarians.
Playwrights.
Poets.
Radicalism
Literature -- Children's
Literature -- American Fiction
Literature -- American Poetry
African Americans
African-American arts.
African American dramatists.
African American librarians.
African American intellectuals.
African American novelists.
African American poets.
African American Seventh-Day Adventists.
African Americans -- Biography.
African Americans -- Intellectual life.
African Americans -- Music.
African Americans in the performing arts.
American literature -- African American authors.
Authors, American -- 20th century.
Children's literature -- Authorship.
Harlem Renaissance -- Archival resources.
Creator:
Bank of the United States (1816-1836)
Inclusive Dates:
1827- 1827
Abstract:
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.
Type of Material:
Bills of sale.
Subject:
Slaveholders.
African Americans
Enslaved persons.
Slave bills of sale.
Slaveholders -- United States.
Slavery -- South Carolina.
Slavery -- United States -- History.
Creator:
Inclusive Dates:
1968- 1972
Abstract:
Photographs of an unknown black serviceman during the Vietnam War.
Type of Material:
Photographs.
Subject:
Vietnam.
Soldiers.
African Americans
Military history
Photography
Politics, government and public administration
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- African Americans.
African-American soldiers.
Vernacular photography.
United States. Air Force.
Creator:
Washington, Booker T., 1856-1915.
Inclusive Dates:
1896- 1912
Abstract:
Papers of the African-American
educator.
Type of Material:
Letters (correspondence)
Subject:
Educators.
African Americans
African Americans.
Educators -- United States.
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Collection Title:
Creator:
Hooker, Isabella Beecher, 1822-1907
Inclusive Dates:
1896- 1896
Abstract:
Printed pamphlet with souvenir teaspoon
Type of Material:
Pamphlets.
Commemorative spoons.
Subject:
Activism and social reform
African Americans
Women Authors
Creator:
Allen, Charles
Inclusive Dates:
1945- 1945
Abstract:
Comic strips, etching, and sketches by New York City cartoonist Charles Allen.
Type of Material:
Comic strips.
Cartoons (humorous images)
Sketches.
Etchings (prints)
Subject:
Cartoonists.
African American cartoonists.
Cartoonists -- United States -- Comic books, strips, etc.
Art -- Cartoonists
Popular culture
African Americans
Creator:
Remond, Charles Lenox, 1810-1873.
Inclusive Dates:
1859- 1859
Abstract:
Letter from Remond to David Barnet, regarding an unspecified petition
Type of Material:
Correspondence.
Subject:
Social reformers.
African Americans
Activism and social reform
Slavery, abolition, and emancipation.
Creator:
Congress of Racial Equality. Syracuse Chapter.
Inclusive Dates:
1963- 1965
Abstract:
Newsletters, publications, and mailings from the Syracuse Chapter.
Type of Material:
Newsletters.
Subject:
African Americans
Radicalism
Civil rights movements, New York (State), Syracuse.
Civil rights movements, Societies, etc.
Creator:
Indiana University, Bloomington. -- Department of
Afro-American Studies.
Inclusive Dates:
1972- 1972
Abstract:
A series of lectures on the history,
current issues, and future of Black political activism in the United States
Type of Material:
Audiotapes.
Sound recordings.
Subject:
United States -- Race relations.
Activism and social reform
African Americans
Politics, government and public administration
African Americans -- Politics and government.
African Americans -- Civil rights.
Civil rights movements -- 20th century.
Black power -- United States.
Political conventions.
Creator:
unknown
Inclusive Dates:
1865- 1865
Abstract:
Photograph album containing portrait photographs of African American residents of Detroit
Type of Material:
Albumen prints.
Photograph albums.
Photographs.
Subject:
Detroit (Mich.) -- History -- 19th century.
African Americans
Photography
African-Americans -- Photographs.
Portrait photographers -- United States.
Creator:
Bullins, Ed
Inclusive Dates:
1970- 1970
Abstract:
Typscripts of various plays, published and unpublished.
Type of Material:
Scripts (documents)
Subject:
How do you do.
Dialect determinism.
It has no choice.
A minor scene.
The corner.
The Gentleman caller.
The helper.
The man who dug fish.
Miss Marie.
The game of Adam and Eve.
The theme is blackness.
Dramatists.
African Americans
Dance and theatre
Radicalism
Literature -- American Fiction
African American dramatists.
American literature -- African American authors.
Black Arts Movement -- United States.
One-act plays -- American.
Radicalism in literature.
Revolutionary literature -- American.
Creator:
Brown, Eleanor.
Inclusive Dates:
1973- 1973
Abstract:
Modeling portfolio with black-and-white photographs of young Black woman model.
Type of Material:
Photographs.
Subject:
African Americans
Photography
African American models.
Fashion.
Fashion photography.
Feminine beauty (Aesthetics) -- United States.
Popular culture -- United States.
Women, Black.
Creator:
Benjamin, Eliab C.
Inclusive Dates:
1855- 1862
Abstract:
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.
Type of Material:
Diaries.
Photographs.
Tintypes (prints)
Subject:
Rushford (N.Y.) -- History.
Activism and social reform
African Americans
New York State
African Americans.
Farmers -- New York (State) -- History.
Fugitive slaves -- United States.
Creator:
Fax, Elton C.
Inclusive Dates:
1969- 1969
Abstract:
Outgoing letter and booklet about the African American artist.
Type of Material:
Brochures.
Letters (correspondence)
Subject:
Artists.
Authors.
Art -- Illustrators
Literature -- American Fiction
African Americans
African American artists.
African American authors.
African American teachers.
United States -- Race relations.
Creator:
Neal, Ernest E.
Inclusive Dates:
1956- 1967
Abstract:
Reports relating to the Philippines.
Type of Material:
Speeches (documents)
Reports.
Subject:
Philippines -- Politics and government.
Philippines -- Rural conditions.
African Americans
Politics, government and public administration
Community development -- Philippines.
Economic development -- Philippines.
Rural development -- Philippines.
Creator:
unknown
Inclusive Dates:
1841- 1841
Abstract:
Short essay by unknown author, comparing Africans in their native country, Africans in the United States, and Native Americans.
Type of Material:
Essays.
Subject:
United States -- Race relations.
Activism and social reform
African Americans
African Americans -- Attitudes.
African Americans -- Civil rights -- History -- 19th century.
Slavery -- United States -- History.
Indians of North America -- Attitudes.
Indians of North America -- Civil rights -- History -- 19th century.
Indigenous peoples -- Africa -- Attitudes.
Creator:
unknown
Inclusive Dates:
1930- 1930
Abstract:
Two photographs of the African-American spiritual leader, one with his wife.
Type of Material:
Photographs.
Subject:
African Americans
Religion and philosophy
African American evangelists.
African Americans -- Religion.
Religion -- United States -- 20th century.
Creator:
Foundation for Change (New York, N.Y.)
Inclusive Dates:
1969- 1969
Abstract:
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.
Type of Material:
Brochures.
Reading lists.
Reprints.
Subject:
New York (N.Y.) -- Economic conditions.
New York (N.Y.) -- Social conditions.
Activism and social reform
African Americans
New York State
Anti-racism.
Economic assistance, Domestic -- United States.
Poor -- United States.
Poverty -- New York (State)
Racism.