Library Guides: Celebrating Naomi Anderson: African American History

African American Archives

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.
Atlanta University Center Archives

Includes the archives of Clark Atlanta University, Interdenominational Theological Center, Morehouse College and Spelman College.
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
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).
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.
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.
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.
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.
Digital Smith

James B. Duke Memorial Library, Johnson C. Smith University, Charlotte, NC
Gordon Parks Foundation
HBCU Library Alliance Digital Collection

Collections of primary resources from member libraries of the Historically Black College and University Library Alliance.
Hiphop Archive and Research Institute, Harvard University
James Weldon Johnson Memorial Collection of African American Arts and Letters

In the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library of Yale University Library.
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.
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.
Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change Archive
Massachusetts Historical Society, Collections on African American history.
Moorland Spingarn Research Center Publications, Howard University, Washington, DC
National Archives: Access to Archival Databases

Records cover civilian and military functions and have many genealogical, social, political, and economic research uses.
National Archives for Black Women's History

Mary McLeod Bethune Council House National Historic Site.
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.
Rhode Island Black Heritage Society

Historical material relating to the history of the Blacks in Rhode Island.
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York Public Library

Manuscripts, Archives, and Rare Books Division Finding Aids.
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.
Tuskegee University Archives Repository

Books, manuscripts, periodicals and newspapers, ephemera, photographic images, disc and tape recordings, and other archival items.
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.

The 1919 Race Riots

Megan Geigner, Ph.D., Northwestern University
Anti-Slavery Movement in Chicago and Illinois

Cristen Chapman, 2015 Newberry Teacher Fellow
Chicago and the Great Migration, 1915–1950

Hana Layson with Kenneth Warren
Jazz, Chicago, and the Great Migration

Dr. Karl E. H. Seigfried
Lifting as We Climb: African American Women’s Clubs in Progressive Era Chicago

Linda Becker
Lincoln, the North, and the Question of Emancipation

Hana Layson with Kate Masur, Northwestern University
Mark Twain, Huckleberry Finn, and Race in Postbellum America

Alexandra Lindgren-Gibson with Lawrence Howe
Olaudah Equiano and the Eighteenth-Century Debate over Africa and the Slave Trade

Hana Layson with Valentina Tikoff
Race, Respectability, and Resilience: African Americans in the Midwest

Cathleen Martin
Slavery, Civil War, and the "New Birth of Freedom"

Rachel Rooney with Thomas Holt
Struggle for Civil Rights in the Urban North

Rachel Bohlmann with Kevin Boyle

Celebrating Naomi Anderson

African American Archives

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.

Includes the archives of Clark Atlanta University, Interdenominational Theological Center, Morehouse College and Spelman College.

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

Manuscript and photographic repository that collects, preserves and disseminates the history and culture of Black South Florida (1896 - present).

Manuscripts and artifacts (photographs, correspondence, oral histories, and rare books) covering Missouri, Kansas, Iowa, Oklahoma, and the Midwest at large.

Records of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York Public Library. Covers the global experience of people of African descent.

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.

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.

James B. Duke Memorial Library, Johnson C. Smith University, Charlotte, NC

Collections of primary resources from member libraries of the Historically Black College and University Library Alliance.

In the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library of Yale University Library.

A’Lelia Bundles, Madam C. J. Walker’s great-great-granddaughter and biographer, leads the largest privately owned collection of Walker material.

Includes diaries, account books, letter books, ships’ logs, indentures, bills of sale, personal papers, and records of institutions.

Records cover civilian and military functions and have many genealogical, social, political, and economic research uses.

Mary McLeod Bethune Council House National Historic Site.

Collaboration between Payne and Princeton Theological Seminary digitizing historical archives and contributing them to the Theological Commons.

Historical material relating to the history of the Blacks in Rhode Island.

Manuscripts, Archives, and Rare Books Division Finding Aids.

Over 25,000 movie posters, lobby cards, and photographs, from over thirty-four countries, that chronicle the historic journey of the Black film industry.

Books, manuscripts, periodicals and newspapers, ephemera, photographic images, disc and tape recordings, and other archival items.

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.

Library of Congress digital collection.

From the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Duke University

Emory University's Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library, Atlanta, GA

From the Historical Society of the Episcopal Church and the Bishop Payne Library at Virginia Theological Seminary.

Missouri's African American History

University of Michigan

University of Louisville

Research strategies for frequently used records relating to African American genealogy in the National Archives.

Indiana University

University of Detroit Mercy's collection of over 800 speeches by antebellum Blacks and approximately 1,000 editorials from the period

Indiana University, Bloomington

Rodney Freeman's collective of experiences and journeys.

University of Chicago Library Special Collections Research Center.

University of Mississippi Libraries

McCain Library & Archives, the University of Southern Mississippi.

Confederate Quartermaster Dept.'s payrolls for slave labor.

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.

Florida State University

Materials relating to the Maryland Jesuits, Georgetown University, and slavery.

Special Collections and University Archives: W.E.B. Du Bois Library: University of Massachusetts Amherst

Southern Illinois University Edwardsville at Lovejoy Library.

Cooperative of National History Day, National Archives & Records Admin, and USA Freedom Corps.

Newberry Collections

Educational resources designed for teachers and students featuring primary sources from the Newberry’s holdings, contextual essays, and discussion questions.

Megan Geigner, Ph.D., Northwestern University

Cristen Chapman, 2015 Newberry Teacher Fellow

Hana Layson with Kenneth Warren

Dr. Karl E. H. Seigfried

Linda Becker

Hana Layson with Kate Masur, Northwestern University

Alexandra Lindgren-Gibson with Lawrence Howe

Hana Layson with Valentina Tikoff

Cathleen Martin

Rachel Rooney with Thomas Holt

Rachel Bohlmann with Kevin Boyle