The Bancroft Library has a numerous materials centering African Americans in California. This collection consists of major published source materials, manuscripts, photographs and assorted ephemera that documents a variety of areas, but fall chiefly in the humanities, social sciences, law, botany, and health sciences. The Bancroft Library’s African American Writers Collection contains thousands of books, manuscripts, correspondence, photographs, and other rare works by African American authors. Materials range in date from the 1790’s to the present.The Library places particular emphasis on works produced by Black people in the American West and serves as the repository for several local African American organizations such as the NAACP West Coast Region, the Records of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, and the Black Scholar Journal.
Seeking El Dorado African Americans in California by 
African American Women Confront the West, 1600-2000 by 
Blacks in Gold Rush California by 
Black California by 
American Babylon: Race and the Struggle for Postwar Oakland by 
Abiding Courage: African American Migrant Women and the East Bay Community by 
Progressive Dystopia: Abolition, Antiblackness, and Schooling in San Francisco by 
Bound for Freedom: Black Los Angeles in Jim Crow America by 
L. A. Rebellion: Creating a New Black Cinema by 
South of Pico: African American Artists in Los Angeles in the 1960s and 1970s by 
Fire This Time: The Watts Uprising And The 1960s by 
