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African American Studies: Personal Papers

Manuscripts

Carter Godwin Woodson correspondence with Charles H. Wesley, 1925-1950.

Consists, primarily, of a life-long series of correspondence between Carter Godwin Woodson, founder of the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History, and Charles H. Wesley, African-American historian and college president.

Microfilm Collections

A. Philip Randolph Papers

ReCap Microfilm 11722           Printed guide (Film B) E185.97.R27

 

Alexander Crummell Collection

ReCap Microfilm 11828           Printed guide na

 

Alexander Pierre Tureaud Papers (1901-1972)

ReCap Microfilm 12003           Printed guide (FilmB) F375.T88A4 2001

 

Arthur A. Schomburg Papers (1874-1938)

ReCap Microfilm 06953           Printed guide (FilmB) E184.6.S365

 

Arthur B. Spingarn Papers

ReCap Microfilm 11888           Guide contents list located on Reel 1

 

Bayard Rustin Papers 

ReCap Microfilm 11662           Printed guide (Film B) E185.97.R93 B392

 

Carter G. Woodson and the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History, 1915-1950, Papers

ReCap Microfilm 11590           Printed guide (FilmB) E175.5.W65A3

 

Charlotte Eugenia Hawkins Brown Papers (1883-1961)

ReCap Microfilm11986            Printed guide (FilmB) LA2317.B598 A3 1999

 

Claude A. Barnett Papers

ReCap Microfilm 02648           Printed guide (FilmB) PN4841.A73 M44

 

Countee Cullin Papers (1921-1969)

ReCap Microfilm 11820           Printed guide (FilmB) Z8204.55.xB6

 

Daniel Alexander Payne Murray Papers

ReCap Microfilm 09021           Printed guide (FilmB) Z1361.N39W76

 

Fannie Lou Hamer Papers, 1966-1978

ReCap Microfilm 11839           Printed guide: none

 

Frederick Douglass Papers (1817-1895)

Microfilm 1083.309      Printed guide: none

 

George A. Myers Papers (1859-1930)

ReCap Microfilm 09177           Printed guide (FilmB) E748.M93

 

Horace Mann Bond Papers, Parts 1-4

ReCap Microfilm 11591           Printed guide (FilmB) E185.97.B65A3

 

John and Lugenia Burns Hope Papers

ReCap Microfilm 05653           Printed guide (FilmB) Z6616.H67H67

 

Lugenia Burns Hope and John Hope Papers

ReCap Microfilm 05653           Printed guide (FilmB) Z6616.H67H67

 

Mary Church Terrell Papers

ReCap Microfilm 11885           Printed guide: none

 

Mary McLeod Bethune Papers: The Bethune-Cookman College Collection, 1922-1955

ReCap Microfilm 10234           Printed guide (FilmB) E185.97.B34 A3

 

Paul L. Dunbar Papers (1872-1906)

ReCap Microfilm 09609           Printed guide (FilmB) PS1557.P385

 

Paul Robeson Collection

ReCap Microfilm 06952           Printed guide (FilmB) E185.97.R63A35

 

Robert H. Terrell Papers

ReCap Microfilm 11868           Guide contents listed at the beginning of reel 1

 

W.E.B. Du Bois Papers (1868-1963)

ReCap Microfilm 04494           Printed guide (FilmB) Z6616.D8 M35

 

W.E.B. Du Bois Papers at Fisk University

ReCap Microfilm 11721           Printed guide: none

 

William H. Hastie Papers.  Part 2. Civil Rights, Organizational, and Private Activities

ReCap Microfilm 11824           Printed guide (FilmB) KF373.H38A25

Microform Services

Printed guides to accompany microfilm are housed in Microform Services on A-floor.

Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr.

The printed collection of King papers can be found in the Firestone stacks and in the African American Studies reading room at E185.97.K5 A2 1992.

A limited but growing set of searchable online documents is available at https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/king-papers/search