Bancroft Library - African American Collections

Historic nineteenth-century sheet music written by or about African Americans

The Bancroft Library's Oral History Center's interviews with African Americans prominent in the history of California. Select "African American Faculty and Senior Staff" from the drop-down menu.

Audio and video streaming of lectures, interviews and speeches given at UC Berkeley. You can hear poetry readings by Ishmael Reed and Ted Joans and see interviews with Malcolm X and James Baldwin, and many others.

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There are a variety of African American photograph and manuscript collections listed on the Online Archive of California.

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