Reference Librarian Manager and University Archivist
Joseph Coates
He/Him
African American Archives
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Amistad Research Center, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA
Repository for American Missionary Association holdings: papers of artists, educators, authors, business leaders, clergy, lawyers, factory workers, farmers and musicians documenting modern Civil Rights Movement.
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Atlanta University Center Archives
Includes the archives of Clark Atlanta University, Interdenominational Theological Center, Morehouse College and Spelman College.
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Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture
Operates as a small museum, a national historic site with a listing on the National Register of Historic Sites, and a cultural center. College of Charleston
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Black Archives, History & Research Foundation of South Florida, Inc.
Manuscript and photographic repository that collects, preserves and disseminates the history and culture of Black South Florida (1896 - present).
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Black Archives of Mid-America, Kansas City, MO
Manuscripts and artifacts (photographs, correspondence, oral histories, and rare books) covering Missouri, Kansas, Iowa, Oklahoma, and the Midwest at large.
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Black Studies on Disc
Records of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York Public Library. Covers the global experience of people of African descent.
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Camille Billops and James V. Hatch Archives, Emory University
Visual and performing arts: books, periodicals, posters, pamphlets; interviews with writers, artists, poets and cultural figures; Karamu Theatre (Cleveland, OH) records; scripts of Black authored plays; and Paul Robeson materials.
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David C. Driskell Papers
At the David C. Driskell Center for the Study of the Visual Arts and Culture of African Americans and the African Diaspora at the University of Maryland, College Park.
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Digital Smith
James B. Duke Memorial Library, Johnson C. Smith University, Charlotte, NC
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Gordon Parks Foundation
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HBCU Library Alliance Digital Collection
Collections of primary resources from member libraries of the Historically Black College and University Library Alliance.
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Hiphop Archive and Research Institute, Harvard University
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James Weldon Johnson Memorial Collection of African American Arts and Letters
In the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library of Yale University Library.
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Madam Walker/A'Lelia Walker Family Archives
A’Lelia Bundles, Madam C. J. Walker’s great-great-granddaughter and biographer, leads the largest privately owned collection of Walker material.
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Manuscript Collections Relating to Slavery, New York Historical Society
Includes diaries, account books, letter books, ships’ logs, indentures, bills of sale, personal papers, and records of institutions.
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Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change Archive
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Massachusetts Historical Society, Collections on African American history.
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Moorland Spingarn Research Center Publications, Howard University, Washington, DC
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National Archives: Access to Archival Databases
Records cover civilian and military functions and have many genealogical, social, political, and economic research uses.
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National Archives for Black Women's History
Mary McLeod Bethune Council House National Historic Site.
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Payne Theological Seminary and A.M.E. Church Archive
Collaboration between Payne and Princeton Theological Seminary digitizing historical archives and contributing them to the Theological Commons.
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Rhode Island Black Heritage Society
Historical material relating to the history of the Blacks in Rhode Island.
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Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York Public Library
Manuscripts, Archives, and Rare Books Division Finding Aids.
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Separate Cinema
Over 25,000 movie posters, lobby cards, and photographs, from over thirty-four countries, that chronicle the historic journey of the Black film industry.
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Tuskegee University Archives Repository
Books, manuscripts, periodicals and newspapers, ephemera, photographic images, disc and tape recordings, and other archival items.
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Xavier University Archives & Special Collections, New Orleans, LA
Holdings on the history of Xavier University, African American history & culture, Roman Catholicism in the U.S., and the Gulf Caribbean region & Southern U.S.
Other Collections
Library of Congress resource guide for the study of Black history and culture.
African-American Mosaic
Library of Congress digital collection.
African-American Odyssey: A Quest for Full Citizenship
From the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Duke University
African-American Women: Online Archival Collections
Emory University's Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library, Atlanta, GA
African American collections
From the Historical Society of the Episcopal Church and the Bishop Payne Library at Virginia Theological Seminary.
African American Episcopal Historical Collection
Missouri's African American History
African American Missouri History
University of Michigan
African American Music Collection
University of Louisville
African American Oral History Collection
Research strategies for frequently used records relating to African American genealogy in the National Archives.
African American Reference Reports
Indiana University
Archives of African American Music and Culture
University of Detroit Mercy's collection of over 800 speeches by antebellum Blacks and approximately 1,000 editorials from the period
Black Abolitionist Archive
Indiana University, Bloomington
Black Film Center/Archive
Rodney Freeman's collective of experiences and journeys.
Black Male Archives
University of Chicago Library Special Collections Research Center.
Chicago Jazz Archive
University of Mississippi Libraries
Civil Rights Archive
McCain Library & Archives, the University of Southern Mississippi.
Civil Rights in Mississippi Digital Archive
Confederate Quartermaster Dept.'s payrolls for slave labor.
Confederate Slave Rolls, 1874 - 1899
Database of information about slaves, slaveholders, and free people of color, from petitions to southern legislatures and country courts filed 1775-1867 in fifteen slaveholding states in the U.S. and the District of Columbia.
Digital Library on American Slavery
Florida State University
Emmett Till Archives
Materials relating to the Maryland Jesuits, Georgetown University, and slavery.
Georgetown Slavery Archive
Special Collections and University Archives: W.E.B. Du Bois Library: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Horace Mann Bond Papers, 1830-1999
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville at Lovejoy Library.
National Ragtime and Jazz Archive
Cooperative of National History Day, National Archives & Records Admin, and USA Freedom Corps.
Our Documents
Newberry Collections
Educational resources designed for teachers and students featuring primary sources from the Newberry’s holdings, contextual essays, and discussion questions.
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The 1919 Race Riots
Megan Geigner, Ph.D., Northwestern University
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Anti-Slavery Movement in Chicago and Illinois
Cristen Chapman, 2015 Newberry Teacher Fellow
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Chicago and the Great Migration, 1915–1950
Hana Layson with Kenneth Warren
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Jazz, Chicago, and the Great Migration
Dr. Karl E. H. Seigfried
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Lincoln, the North, and the Question of Emancipation
Hana Layson with Kate Masur, Northwestern University
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Mark Twain, Huckleberry Finn, and Race in Postbellum America
Alexandra Lindgren-Gibson with Lawrence Howe
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Olaudah Equiano and the Eighteenth-Century Debate over Africa and the Slave Trade
Hana Layson with Valentina Tikoff
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Slavery, Civil War, and the "New Birth of Freedom"
Rachel Rooney with Thomas Holt
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Struggle for Civil Rights in the Urban North
Rachel Bohlmann with Kevin Boyle