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Microform sets by Subject: Black Studies

Bayard Rustin

Mary McLeod Bethune

Peonage system

Selected microform sets on Black Studies

Abolition and Emancipation

African American Dissertations  Consult guide for complete listing.

Africans in the New World 1493-1834: from the John Carter Brown Library at Brown University

Anti-slavery collection, 18th to 19th centuries: from the Library of the Society of Friends (London) 

Bayard Rustin papers.

Black abolitionist papers, 1830-1865.

Black power movement Part 1, Amiri Baraka from Black arts to Black radicalism

Butler plantation papers : the papers of Pierce Butler (1744-1822) and successors from the Historical Society Pennsylvania.

Federal surveillance of Afro-Americans (1917-1925) : the First World War, the Red scare, and the Garvey movement.

The Gale-Morant papers, 1731-1925.

George P. Johnson Collection on microfilm  See online finding aid

Gumby collection of the American negro, pt. 3: Scrapbooks

Mary McLeod Bethune papers : the Bethune-Cookman College collection, 1922-1955.

Papers, 1817-1902. (Maryland State Colonization Society)

Papers of A. Philip Randolph.

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

Papers of the Congress of Racial Equality, 1941-1967  

Papers of the Congress of Racial Equality, Addendum 1944-1968

Papers of the NAACP.     see also

Paul L. Dunbar papers : at the Ohio Historical Society.

The Peonage files of the U.S. Department of Justice, 1901-1945.

Population schedules of the seventh census of the United States, 1850. Georgia slave schedules.

Problems of the American Negro.

Programs, ideologies, tactics & achievements of Negro betterment & interracial organizations: a research memorandum / prepared by Ralph J. Bunche.

Records of the National Association of Colored Women's Clubs, 1895-1992.

Records of the National Negro Business League.

Records relating to the suppression of the African slave trade and to negro colonization, 1854-1872.

Slavery in ante-bellum Southern industries. Series B, Selections from the Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

Slavery source materials and critical literature

Slavery source materials : books and pamphlets written before the Civil War, by and about the Negro and about slavery and anti-slavery.

The Tuskegee Institute news clippings file 

U.S. Customs Service records, port of New Orleans, LA, Inward slave manifests, 1807-1860.
U.S. Customs Service records, port of New Orleans, LA, Outward slave manifests, 1812-1860.