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1.
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:
Enslaved persons.
Slave bills of sale.
Slaveholders -- United States.
Slavery -- South Carolina.
Slavery -- United States -- History.
Subject Strengths:
African Americans
2.
Creator:
unknown
Inclusive Dates:
1941-1968
Abstract:
A collection of candid family photographs, most from the Georges, reflecting African-American life in the mid-twentieth century. The collection includes family members, friends, and colleagues spanning several states including Texas, Georgia, Illinois, California, New York, New Jersey, Delaware, Tennessee, and Kansas
Type of Material:
Photographs.
Postcards.
Subject:
African Americans -- Photographs.
Japanese Americans– Photographs.
Graduation (School)
Vietnam War, 1961-1975.
Subject Strengths:
African Americans
3.
Collection Title:
Creator:
unknown
Inclusive Dates:
1790-1795
Abstract:
Record of sales of enslaved persons in Cacheu, for shipment to Brazil on the ship Nossa Senhore de Belton; lists individuals engaged in the sale/purchase, and names of the enslaved persons.
Type of Material:
Business records
Subject:
Slave trade -- Africa, West.
Subject Strengths:
African Americans
4.
Creator:
Washington, Booker T., 1856-1915.
Inclusive Dates:
1896-1912
Abstract:
Papers of the African-American educator.
Type of Material:
Letters (correspondence)
Subject:
African Americans.
Educators -- United States.
Subject Strengths:
African Americans
5.
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:
African American musicians.
African American singers.
Blues musicians.
Jazz musicians.
Subject Strengths:
African Americans
Music
6.
Collection Title:
Creator:
Armstrong, Robb.
Inclusive Dates:
1989-2023
Abstract:
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.
Type of Material:
Cartoons (humorous images)
Comic strips.
Subject:
African American cartoonists.
African Americans -- Comic books, strips, etc.
American wit and humor, Pictorial.
Caricatures and cartoons -- United States.
Cartoonists -- United States.
Comic books, strips, etc. -- United States.
Subject Strengths:
Art -- Cartoonists
African Americans
7.
Creator:
Braithwaite, William Stanley, 1878-1962.
Inclusive Dates:
1916-1962
Abstract:
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.
Type of Material:
Correspondence.
Manuscripts for publication.
Subject:
African American poets.
African Americans -- Biography.
American literature -- 20th century.
American literature -- African American authors.
American poetry -- 20th century.
American poetry -- African American authors.
Authors, American.
Poets, American -- 20th century.
Subject Strengths:
African Americans
Literature -- American Poetry
8.
Collection Title:
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 American models.
Fashion.
Fashion photography.
Feminine beauty (Aesthetics) -- United States.
Popular culture -- United States.
Women, Black.
Subject Strengths:
African Americans
Photography
9.
Creator:
Coltrane, John, 1926-1967
Inclusive Dates:
1973-1973
Abstract:
5 oversize volumes of transcriptions of performances by the African American jazz saxophonist and composer. Transcribed by Andrew White, a Washington, D.C. musician.
Type of Material:
Photocopies.
Transcripts.
Subject:
Saxophone music (Jazz)
Saxophone music, Arranged
Subject Strengths:
Music
African Americans
10.
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:
Civil rights movements, New York (State), Syracuse.
Civil rights movements, Societies, etc.
Subject Strengths:
African Americans
Radicalism
11.
Collection Title:
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:
African-Americans -- Photographs.
Portrait photographers -- United States.
Subject Strengths:
African Americans
Photography
12.
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:
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.
Subject Strengths:
Activism and social reform
African Americans
13.
Collection Title:
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 American evangelists.
African Americans -- Religion.
Religion -- United States -- 20th century.
Subject Strengths:
African Americans
Religion and philosophy
14.
Collection Title:
Creator:
Fisher, W. W., fl. 1846.
Inclusive Dates:
1846-1846
Abstract:
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.
Type of Material:
Correspondence.
Subject:
Hate crimes -- New York (State)
Interracial marriage -- New York (State)
Subject Strengths:
African Americans
New York State
15.
Creator:
unknown
Inclusive Dates:
1846-1846
Abstract:
Day-by-day accounts of the trial of William Freeman, accused of multiple murders in Upstate New York, one of the first American trials to employ the insanity defense. Freeman was prosecuted by John Van Buren, son of President Martin Van Buren, and defended by William Seward, later Secretary of State to President Abraham Lincoln.
Type of Material:
Newspapers.
Subject:
Insanity (Law) -- History -- 19th century.
Newspaper court reporting -- United States.
Trials (Murder) -- New York (State) -- Auburn.
Subject Strengths:
African Americans
New York State
16.
Creator:
Graham, Peter S.
Inclusive Dates:
1960-2002
Abstract:
Photographs, one clipping and business card of civil rights activist Bayard Rustin; a few items of correspondence from Graham.
Type of Material:
Clippings (information artifacts)
Correspondence.
Photographs.
Subject:
African Americans -- Civil rights -- 20th century.
Civil rights movements -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Civil rights workers -- United States.
Subject Strengths:
African Americans
Activism and social reform
17.
Collection Title:
Creator:
Imes, William Lloyd, 1889-1986.
Inclusive Dates:
1881-1980
Abstract:
Papers of the African-American clergyman. Correspondence, writings (including sermons by Imes and his father Benjamin A. Imes), memorabilia (including numerous small scrapbooks), and subject files.
Type of Material:
Clippings (information artifacts)
Correspondence.
Reviews (documents)
Lecture notes.
Manuscripts for publication.
Newsletters.
Scrapbooks.
Sermons.
Subject:
African American clergy.
African American Presbyterians.
African Americans -- Biography.
Presbyterians -- United States.
Sermons, American.
Subject Strengths:
Church and clergy
African Americans
18.
Creator:
Jubilee Singers
Inclusive Dates:
1940-1940
Abstract:
Program for vocal concert by the Jubilee Singers of Fisk University, Nashville, Tennessee
Type of Material:
Programs (documents)
Subject:
African American singers.
African Americans -- Music.
Choirs (Music) -- Tennessee -- Nashville.
Fisk University -- Choral organizations.
Subject Strengths:
Music
African Americans
19.
Collection Title:
Creator:
King, Willis J.
Inclusive Dates:
1922-1965
Abstract:
Papers of the American clergyman, author (b. 1886). King was elected bishop of the Methodist Church in Liberia. Collection includes correspondence, incoming and outgoing (1949-1965); manuscript articles (1961-1965) and speeches (1952-1962); photographs and printed material related to the Methodist Church.
Type of Material:
Articles.
Correspondence.
Photographs.
Subject:
African American clergy.
African American Methodists.
African Americans -- Biography.
Clergy as authors.
Methodists -- United States.
Subject Strengths:
African Americans
Church and clergy
20.
Creator:
unknown
Inclusive Dates:
1964-1964
Abstract:
Program booklet and photographs from a fashion show featuring Black women
Type of Material:
Photographs.
Programs (documents)
Subject:
Fashion shows.
Feminine beauty (Aesthetics) -- United States.
Women, Black.
Subject Strengths:
African Americans
Photography
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