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African-American History Including the Bernice Johnson Reagon Collection
Microform Bibliographies
Personal Papers
Papers of the NAACP
Haiti

Literature and Music
FBI Files
Miscellaneous Records

Personal Papers
The papers of Frederick Douglass
Author/Contributor: Douglass, Frederick, 1817?-1895. Mathisen, David E.
Series: The Bernice Johnson Reagon Collection.
Notes: 34 microfilm reels.
Summary: "...Collection consists...of those papers which were in the Douglass' library at the time of his death in 1895. They relate principally to his career during and after the Civil War." Includes index and register by David E. Mathisen.
Call # Mic 363
Finding Aid: Printed guide in Media Services Dept. under call# Mic363.


The papers of Mary Church Terrell
Author/Contributor: Terrell, Mary Church, 1863-1954.
Series: The Bernice Johnson Reagon Collection.
Notes: 34 microfilm reels.
Summary: Microfilm of the Mary Church Terrell collection at the Library of Congress, consisting of approximately 13,000 items in 51 containers. Afro-American leader, author, lecturer, and educator who graduated from Oberlin College. Includes correspondence, diaries, printed material, speeches and other writings chiefly 1886-1954. Also MSS of her autobiography, Colored woman in a white world.
Call # Mic 361
Finding Aid: Guide to microfilm edition filmed at the beginning of reel 1.


The papers of Robert H. Terrell
Author/Contributor: Terrell, Robert H. (Robert Heberton), 1857-1925.
Series: The Bernice Johnson Reagon Collection.
Notes: 4 microfilm reels. Collection of ms. and printed materials in the Library of Congress.
Call # Mic 362
Finding Aid: Contents listed at the beginning of reel 1.


The Paul L. Dunbar papers
Author/Contributor: Dunbar, Paul Laurence, 1872-1906; Fuller, Sara S.; Ohio Historical Society.
Series: The Bernice Johnson Reagon Collection.
Notes: 9 microfilm reels. Microfilm of ms. collection in the Ohio Historical Society, of related material loaned to it for the microfilm, and of photocopies of other related material.
Call # Mic 373
Finding Aid: Printed guide available in Media Services Dept. under call# Mic373. Guide title: The Paul Laurence Dunbar collection : an inventory to the microfilm edition / Sara S. Fuller.


The Paul Robeson collection
Author/Contributors: Robeson, Paul, 1898-1976; Werning, David H., 1963- ; Robeson, Eslanda Goode, 1896-1965; Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.
Series: The Bernice Johnson Reagon Collection
Notes: 9 microfilm reels. Accompanied by printed reel guide compiled by David H. Werning. Summary: Includes general works on Robeson's life and career, correspondence of Paul Robeson and of his wife Essie Robeson, documents on his passport case, and materials on organizations in which he was active.
Call # Mic 364
Finding Aid: Printed guide available in Media Services Dept. under call# Mic 364.


Alexander Crummell collection
Author/Contributor: Crummell, Alexander, 1819-1898; Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.
Series: The Bernice Johnson Reagon Collection.
Notes: 10 microfilm reels. Published in cooperation with the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division, the New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox, and Tilden Foundations. Contents: Series I. Letters -- Series II. Sermons, miscellany.
Call # Mic 366


The Langston Hughes Collection.
Author/Contributors: Schomburg Collection of Negro Literature and History.
Series: The Bernice Johnson Reagon Series
Notes: 4 microfilm reels. Varying Form of Title: "Hughes, Langston : material from the vertical files of the Schomburg Collection, [1926-1967]" Collection includes biographical material, research notes, manuscripts, galley proofs.
Call # Mic 379
Finding Aid: Includes guide (26 leaves) at beginning of each reel.


Earl Conrad/Harriet Tubman collection
Author/Contributors: Conrad, Earl; Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.
Series: The Bernice Johnson Reagon Collection
Notes: 2 microfilm reels Consists of the papers collected by Earl Conrad in writing his biography of Harriet Tubman which were given to the Schomburg Center.
Call # Mic 380


Papers of the NAACP
Papers of the NAACP. Part 20, White resistance and reprisals, 1956-1965.
Author/Contributors: National Association for the Advancement of Colored People; Bracey, John H.; Meier, August, 1923- ; Boehm, Randolph.
Series: The Bernice Johnson Reagon Collection
Notes: 15 microfilm reels : ill.
Call # Mic 376
Finding Aid: Printed guide available in Media Services Dept. under call# Mic376.


Papers of the NAACP. Part 21, Relations with the modern civil rights movement, 1956-1965
Author/Contributors: National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Bracey, John H.; Meier, August, 1923-; Boehm, Randolph.
Series: The Bernice Johnson Reagon Collection.
Notes: 22 microfilm reels.
Call # Mic 375
Finding Aid: Printed guide available in Media Services Dept. under call# 375.


Haiti
Eugene Maximilien Haitian collection
Author/Contributors: Maximilien, Eugene; Schomburg Collection of Negro Literature and History.
Series: The Bernice Johnson Reagon Collection.
Notes: 240 vols.on 40 microfilm reels. Primarily covers 1847-1933.
Summary: A collection of official documents and correspondence that cover Haitian diplomatic history from 1847 to 1933, collected by Eugene Maximilien, an attorney in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, former consul general of Haiti in Miami, delegate to the United Nations, and ambassador-at-large with Haiti's Department of Foreign Relations.
Call # Mic 372
Finding Aid: Printed guide available in Media Services Dept. under call# Mic372.


West Indian (Haiti) collection
Author/Contributors: Schomburg Collection of Negro Literature and History
Series: The Bernice Johnson Reagon Collection.
Notes: 1 microfilm reel. Primarily covers 1716-1817 and 1857.
Summary: Contains military and governmental manuscripts, chiefly in French, relating to the history of Haiti.
Call # Mic 371
Finding Aid: Printed guide available in Media Services Dept. under call# Mic372, p. 11-14.


Miscellaneous Records
Records of ante-bellum southern plantations from the Revolution through the Civil War. Series K. Selections from the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation Library, the Shirley Plantation Collection, 1650-1888. / general editor, Kenneth M. Stampp ; guide compiled by Martin Schipper.
Author/Contributors: Stampp, Kenneth M. (Kenneth Milton); Schipper, Martin Paul; Colonial Williamsburg Foundation. Library.
Series: The Bernice Johnson Reagon Collection.
Notes: 26 microfilm reels. Varying form of title: "Shirley plantation collection, 1650-1888."
Summary: Includes the correspondence, diaries and other writings of slaveholders, business papers of plantations, and art work.
Call # Mic 365
Finding Aid: Printed guide available in Media Services Dept. under call# Mic365


The slave trade, 1858-1892: British Foreign Office collection 541, confidential print series.
Author/Contributors: Great Britain. Foreign Office.
Series: The Bernice Johnson Reagon Collection
Notes: 50 v. on 10 microfilm reels. Varying form of title: "Correspondence with the British commissioners at Sierra Leone, Havana, the Cape of Good Hope, Loanda, and New York."
Summary: Microfilm reproduction of the 50 volumes issued 1859-1886 with title: Correspondence with the British commissioners at Sierra Leone, Havana, the Cape of Good Hope, Loanda, and New York : and reports from British Vice-Admiralty Courts, and from British Naval officers, relating to the slave trade.
Call # Mic 374
Finding Aid: Printed guide available in Media Services Dept. under call# Mic374.


Slavery source materials.
Author/Contributors: Barber, Carroll G.; NCR Corporation; Amistad Research Center; Fisk University. Library.
Series: The Bernice Johnson Reagon Collection.
Notes: 441 titles on 954 fiche. Selected from the Negro Collection of the Fisk University Library by the staff of the Amistad Research Center; annotated by Carroll G. Barber. Title on shipping list: Slavery statutes shipping list.
Summary: Books and pamphlets (441 titles) written before the Civil War by and about Afro-Americans, slavery and anti-slavery.
Call # MFiche 86
Finding Aid: Printed shipping list available in Media Services Dept. under call# MFiche86.


Blacks in the United States Armed Forces: basic documents.
Author/Contributors: MacGregor, Morris J., 1931- ; Nalty, Bernard C. (editors)
Series: The Bernice Johnson Reagon Collection.
Notes: 5 microfilm reels. Includes bibliographical references.
Contents: v. 1. A time of slavery.--v. 2. Civil War and emancipation.--v. 3. Freedom and Jim Crow, 1865-1917.--v. 4. Segregation entrenched, 1917-1940.--v. 5. Black soldiers in World War II.--v. 6. Blacks in the World War II Naval establishment.--v. 7. Planning for the postwar, employment of Black personnel.--v. 8. Segregation under siege.--v. 9. The Fahy Committee.--v. 10. The Fahy Committee.--v. 11. The Fahy Committee.--v. 12. Integration.--v. 13. Equal treatment and opportunity, the McNamara doctrine.
Call # Mic 369
Finding Aid: Printed guide available in Media Services Dept. under call# Mic369.


Records of the central division (New York), 1918-1959.
Author/Contributors: Universal Negro Improvement Association; Schomburg Collection of Negro Literature and History.
Series: The Bernice Johnson Reagon Collection.
Notes: 6 microfilm reels.
Contents: Series A. Early records.--Series B. New York Division.--Series C-F. Central Division.-Series G. Scrapbook (clippings on the Italo-Ethiopian crisis, 1934-1935).--Series H. Affiliate organization files.--Series I. Miscellaneous (photographs, songs, greeting cards, etc.)
Call # Mic 368
Finding Aid: Printed guide available in Media Services Dept. under call# Mic368.


List of free Black heads of families in the first census of the United States, 1790.
Author/Contributors: Ham, Debra Newman, 1948- ;United States. National Archives and Records Service.
Notes: Notes: 1 microfiche. Includes bibliographical references (p. 41). Washington, D.C. :SUPTDOCS/GPO, 1996.
Call # MFiche 87


List of Black servicemen compiled from the War Department collection of Revolutionary War records.
Author/Contributors: Ham, Debra Newman, 1948- ; United States. National Archives and Records Service.
Notes: 1 microfiche. Includes bibliographical references (p. 29). Washington, D.C. : SUPTDOCS/GPO, 1996.
Call # MFiche 88


Literature and Music
Black newspapers, sample issues, 1846-1966.
Author/Contributors: Schomburg Collection of Negro Literature and History.
Series: The Bernice Johnson Reagon Collection.
Notes: 4 microfilm reels. "The New York Public Library, Schomburg Collection of Negro Literature and History."
Summary: Selections from 150 Afro-American and black newspapers in the Schomberg Collection are arranged alphabetically by name of the newspaper. There are a few selections from 19th century newspapers, but most are from the 20th century and many are from U.S. newspapers.
Call # Mic 370
Finding Aid: Printed guide available in Media Services Dept. under call# Mic368


Black literature, 1827-1940.
Author/Contributors: Gates, Henry Louis; Chadwyck-Healey, Inc.
Series:  
Notes: 993 fiche. (Units 1-3). Title on eye-readable header: Black literature, 1827-1940.
Contents pt. 1. Black fiction, 1827-1940 (Fiche 1-198). -- pt.2-3. Essays, poetry, book reviews and literary notices (Fiche 199-592). -- pt.4. (Fiche 593- 793).
Call # MFiche 72
Finding Aid: Accompanied by index: Black literature, 1827-1940 : CD Rom (CMP22) Author/title index / edited by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.: Ref PS508.N3B43; Guide: Units 1-3 (30 Fiche in notebook). Available in Media Services Dept. under call# MFiche72.


Dwight's journal of music
Author/Contributors: Dwight, John Sullivan, 1813-1893.
Notes: 163 microfiche. v.1 (1852)-v.41 (1881) Issued in binder, with finding aid. "A paper of art and literature." Editor: John S. Dwight.
Call # MFiche 85
Finding Aid: Printed guide accompanies fiche in binder, available in Media Services Dept. under call# MFiche85.


Jazz, Blues, Soul, and Rock : Contemporary Music Journals
Author/Contributors:  
Series: The Bernice Johnson Reagon Collection.
Notes: 36 microfilm reels. Varying forms of title: "Other Titles: Jazz, soul, blues, and rock: contemporary music journals," "New musical express & predecessors, 1946-1971," "Blues & soul, 1966-1986."
Contents: Part 1: The New musical express & predecessors, 1946-1971, reels 1-20--Part 2: Blues & soul, 1966-1986, reels 1-16.
Call # Mic 390

FBI Files
FBI file on the Organization of African-American Unity (OAAU)
Author/Contributors: United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation; Scholarly
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