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African American history microforms

This is an index of the library's African American history microfilms and microfiche. For location info, see using microforms.

Guides are usually on top of the cabinet above their respective microforms unless stated otherwise.

Abolition & Emancipation
Micro- film 7694 (parts 1-3) and guides

  • Pt. 1: Papers of Thomas Clarkson, William Lloyd Garrison, Zachary Macaulay, Harriet Martineau, Harriet Beecher Stowe, & William Wilberforce from the Huntington Library
  • Pt. 2 & 3: Slavery collections from the Merseyside Maritime Museum, Liverpool
  • Pt. 4: The Granville Sharp papers from Gloucestershire Record Office

Afro-American History Series
Micro- fiche 1401

  • v. 1: Black thought in early America
  • v. 2: Slave narratives
  • v. 3: The black intellectual
  • v. 4: Pioneer drama and poetry
  • v. 5: Convention pamphlets
  • v. 6: Black voices, nineteenth century
  • v. 7-8: Slave narratives
  • v. 9-10: Miscellaneous writings

Black Culture Collection from Atlanta University
Micro- film 7318
Guide: GN645 .B42 1972, Main Reference

  • Reels 1-182: African section
  • Reels 183-599: United States section
  • Reels 600-633: South America and West Indies section
  • Reels 634-652: Slavery in history section

Black Journal Series (microfiche)

  • The African Observer (1827-1828): Micro- fiche 1890
  • Alexander's Magazine (1905-1909): Micro- fiche 1880
  • American Anti-Slavery Reporter (1834): Micro- fiche 1874
  • American Jubilee (1854-1855): Micro- fiche 1864
  • The Anti-Slavery Examiner (1836-1845): Micro- fiche 1894
  • The Anti-Slavery Record (1835-1837): Micro- fiche 1881
  • Anti-Slavery Tracts (1855-1856, 1860-1862): Micro- fiche 1878
  • The Brown American (1936-1945): Micro- fiche 1882
  • Color Line: A Monthly Round-Up Of Facts Of Negro American Progress And Of The Growth Of American Democracy (1946-1947): Micro- fiche 1875
  • Colored American Magazine (1900-1909): Micro- fiche 1865
  • Competitor (1920-1921): Micro- fiche 1883
  • The Crisis: A Record Of The Darker Races (1910-1940): Micro- fiche 1886
  • Douglass' Monthly (1859-1863): Micro- fiche 1891
  • Education (Negro Needs Society, 1935-1936): Micro- fiche 1892
  • Fire!! (1926): Micro- fiche 1876
  • Harlem Quarterly (1949-1950): Micro- fiche 1866
  • Messenger (1917-1928): Micro- fiche 1867
  • National Negro Health News (1933-1950): Micro- fiche 1884
  • The National Negro Voice (1941): Micro- fiche 1868
  • Negro Music Journal (1902-1903): Micro- fiche 1869
  • The Negro Quarterly (1942-1943): Micro- fiche 1877
  • Negro Story (1944-1946): Micro- fiche 1870
  • New Challenge (1934-1937): Micro- fiche 1871
  • The Non-Slaveholder (1846-1850, 1853-1854): Micro- fiche 1872
  • Quarterly Review Of Higher Education Among Negroes (1933-1960): Micro- fiche 1887
  • Race (1935-1936): Micro- fiche 1879
  • Race Relations (1943-1948): Micro- fiche 1888
  • Radical Abolitionist (1855-1858): Micro- fiche 1873
  • Slavery In America (1836-1837): Micro- fiche 1885
  • Southern Frontier (1940-1945): Micro- fiche 1889
  • The Voice Of The Negro (1904-1907): Micro- fiche 1893

Black Journal Series (microfilm)

  • African (1937-1948): Micro- film 7552
  • Annual Report And Proceedings of the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society (1833-1856): Micro- film 7555
  • Annual Report Of The American Anti-Slavery Society (1834-1860): Micro- film 7565
  • Annual Report Of The American Colonization Society (1818-1910): Micro- film 7556
  • The Freedman (1864-1869): Micro- film 7567
  • The Freedman's Advocate (1864-1865): Micro- film 7561
  • The Freedman's Journal (1865-1866): Micro- film 7554
  • Half Century (1916-1925): Micro- film 7568
  • National Anti-Slavery Standard (1840-1870): Micro- film 7850
  • National Era (1847-1860): Micro- film 7566
  • The National Freedman: A Monthly Journal Of The National Freedman's Relief Association (1865-1866): Micro- film 7562
  • National Principia (1859-1866): Micro- film 7560
  • The Negro Educational Review (1950-1965): Micro- film 7557
  • The Negro Farmer And Messenger (1914-1917): Micro- film 7558
  • Phelps-Stokes Fellowship Studies (Bulletin of the University of Georgia, 1913-1951): Micro- film 7564
  • Publications of the University of Virginia: Phelps-Stokes Fellowship papers (1915-1950): Micro- film 7559
  • Report Of Anniversary (Ohio Anti-slavery Society, 1836-1839): Micro- film 7563
  • Service (Tuskegee Institute, Tuskegee, AL, 1936-1954): Micro- film 7553
  • The Tuskegee Messenger (1924-1936): Micro- film 7551

Black Workers in the Era of the Great Migration, 1916-1929
Micro- film 7367

Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands. (United States) Records of the Assistant Commissioner for the State of:

  • Alabama (1865-1870): Micro- film 4608
  • Arkansas (1865-1870): Micro- film 6245
  • Georgia (1865-1870): Micro- film 4612
  • Mississippi (1865-1969): Micro- film 4610
  • South Carolina: Micro- film 4611
  • Tennessee (selected records from the field office): Micro- film 4609

Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865-1871. Records Of The Education Division
Micro- film 4908

Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865-1870. Records Of The Education for the State of Alabama
Micro- film 4614

Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865-1870. Records Of The Education for the State of Georgia
Micro- film 4613

Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands. Registers and letters received by the Commissioner of the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands, 1865-1872
Micro- film 3532

Centers of the Southern Struggle: FBI files on Selma, Memphis, Montgomery, Albany, and St. Augustine
Micro- film 7368

Communist Infiltration of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and J. Edgar Hoover's Official and Confidential File on Martin Luther King, Jr.: F.B.I. Investigation Files
Micro- film 7433 (reels 1-9 03430 8729)

FBI File on the Black Panther Party, North Carolina
Micro- film 7432

  • Reel 1: 03430 8737
  • Reel 2: 03430 8745

Guide: 03430 8752

FBI File on the Reverend Jesse Jackson
Micro- film 7237

FBI File on the NNC [National Negro Congress]
Micro- film 7245

Federal Surveillance of Afro-Americans, 1917-1925: the First World War, the Red Scare, and the Garvey Movement
Micro- film 7366

The Horace Mann Bond Papers
Micro- film 7437
Guide: 03430 8935, 03430 8943

  • Pt. 1: Bond family papers (1892-1971) and general correspondence (1926-1972)
  • Pt. 2: Subject files (1926-1971)
  • Pt. 3: Institutional files (1919-1972)
  • Pt. 4: Research files (1910-1971) and writings (1926-1972)

Marcus Garvey: FBI investigation file
Micro- film 7434
Guide: 03430 8711

Martin Luther King, Jr. FBI Assassination File
Micro- film 7085

Malcolm X, FBI Surveillance File, 1925-1965
Micro- film 7084

Negro Newspapers for the American Council of Learned Societies
Micro- film 4621

Papers, 1921-1969. [Countee Cullen]
Micro- film 4157

Papers of Carter G. Woodson and the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History, 1915-1950
Micro- film 7661 r

Papers of Mary McLeod Bethune
Micro- film 4158

Papers of the NAACP

  • Pt. 1: 1901-1950, Meetings of the Board of Directors, Records of Annual Conferences, Major Speeches, and Special Reports; Micro- film 7357​
    • Supplement 1 (1951-1955): Micro- film 7358
    • Supplement 2 (1956-1960): Micro- film 7359
  • Pt. 7: 1912-1955, The Anti-lynching Campaign; Micro- film 7360
    • Series A: Anti-lynching investigative files (1912-1953); Micro- film 7360
    • Series B: Anti-lynching legislative and publicity files (1916-1955); Micro- film 7361
  • Pt. 8: 1910-1955, Discrimination in the Criminal Justice System; Micro- film 7362
    • Series A: Legal department and central office records (1910-1939); Micro- film 7362
    • Series B: Legal department and central office records (1940-1955); Micro- film 7363

Slavery in Ante-Bellum Southern Industries

  • Series A: Selections from the Duke University Library, ca. 1775-ca. 1865, private papers & industry; Micro- film 7364
  • Series B: Selections from the Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, social & economic conditions; Micro- film 7365
  • Series C: Selections from the Virginia Historical Society, mining & smelting; Micro- film 7482
  • Series D: Selections from the University of Virginia Library, mining & smelting; Micro- film 7713