Primary Sources about African Americans on Microfilm

African American Baptists

• African-American Baptist annual reports, 1865-1990. Illinois. 1 reel. History, Philosophy & Newspaper Call Number: FILM 286.08996073 Af833

American Civil Liberties Union Archives, 1950-1990.

• Civil Rights, 1943-1979 (bulk 1958-1970).   17 reels.  History, Philosophy & Newspaper Stacks FILM 323.0973 Am35a

American Missionary Association Archives. 

• [Barbados, Bermuda, Brazil, China, Dominican Republic, Egypt, France, Gambia, Germany, Greece, Guiana (British), Guinea (Spanish), Haiti, and India]. 1 reel. History, Philosophy & Newspaper Call Number: FILM 266.023 AM35A2.
• Jamaica. 6 reels. History, Philosophy & Newspaper Call Number: FILM 972.9204 AM3A
• Illinois. 15 reels. Illinois Hist Survey Cage FILM 291. 7209773 Am3a
• [Liberia, Marquesas Islands Mission, Netherlands, Panama]. 1 reel. History, Philosophy & Newspaper Call Number: FILM 266.023 AM35A

American Missionary Association Manuscripts, Louisiana .  3 reels.  History, Philosophy & Newspaper FILM 277.63 AM3A

Anti-slavery Collection, 18th-19th Centuries: from the Library of the Society of Friends (London).   25 reels. History, Philosophy & Newspaper FILM 326.4 SO1A

The Arthur A. Schomburg Papers. 12 reels. History, Philosophy & Newspaper FILM 973.910924SCH64S

Association of Southern Women for the Prevention of Lynching papers, 1930- 1942 .  8 reels.  History, Philosophy & Newspaper FILM 305.896073 AS78A

The Bayard Rustin Papers . 22 reels. FILM 323.1196073 R928B

Black Abolitionist Papers, 1830-1865 . 17 reels. History, Philosophy & Newspaper FILM 973.0496073 B561

Black Academy of Arts and Letters Records, 1968-1980. 10 reels. History, Philosophy & Newspaper FILM 700.896073 B561B

Black Biographical Dictionaries, 1790-1950. 1070 microfiche. Main Ref. MFICHE 973.0496 B5613

The Black Culture Collection (Atlanta University). 652 reels. History, Philosophy & Newspaper FILM 305.896 B5613 .  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 Literature, 1827-1940. 198 microfiche. History, Philosophy & Newspaper  Call Number: MFICHE 810.8 B5612.

Black Panther Documents (Dr. Huey P. Newton Microfilm Collection). 66 reels. History, Philosophy & Newspaper FILM 322.420973B561b. Includes brief checklist on 1st reel.

The Black Power Movement.

• Part 1: Amiri Baraka from Black Arts to Black Radicalism. 9 reels.  History, Philosophy & Newspaper FILM 323.1196073 B561
• Part 2: The Papers of Robert F. Williams. 26 reels. 
• Part 3: Papers of the Revolutionary Action Movement, 1963-1996. 17 reels.
• Part 4: The League of Revolutionary Black Workers, 1965-1976. 3 reels.

Black Workers in the Era of the Great Migration, 1916-1929 . 25 reels. History, Philosophy & Newspaper FILM 331.6396073 B561

Blacks in the Railroad Industry Collection, 1946-1954. 1 reel. History, Philosophy & Newspaper 331.6396073 B5672

British West Indies: Economic and Commercial Conditions in the Eastern Caribbean (Trinidad and Tobago, Barbados, Bermuda, British Guiana, the Leeward and Windward Islands). 14 microfiche sheets. MFICHE 330.9729 B777

The Carter G. Woodson Collection of Negro Papers and Related Documents. 10 reels. History, Philosophy & Newspaper FILM 973.0496073 W898c

Civil Rights During the Kennedy Administration . History, Philosophy & Newspaper FILM 323.40973 C4992

• Pt. 1: The White House Central Files and Staff Files and the President's Office Files. 19 reels.
• Part 2: The Papers of Burke Marshall, Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights. 28 reels.

Claude A. Barnett Papers. Part 3: Subject Files on Black Americans, 1918-1967.

• Series I: Race Relations, 1923-1965. 8 reels.  FILM 071.7311 C573i
• Series K: Claude A. Barnett, personal and financial, 1920-1967. 3 reels. FILM 071.7311 C573k

Cointelpro: the Counter-Intelligence Program of the FBI.   Black Nationalist Hate Groups. Reels 21-24. History, Philosophy & Newspaper FILM 364.13 C666

The Collected Correspondence of Lydia Maria Child, 1817-1880 . 97 microfiches.  History, Philosophy & Newspaper  MFICHE 322.440924 C436H

Commission on Interracial Cooperation Papers, 1919-1944. 55 reels. History, Philosophy & Newspaper FILM 305.896073 C7372C

Communist Infiltration of the SCLC: FBI Investigation File. 9 reels. History, Philosophy & Newspaper FILM 323.1196073 C737

Congress of Racial Equality Papers, 1941-1967.  49 microfilm reels.   History, Philosophy & Newspaper FILM 323.40607 3 C81P

Congress of Racial Equality Papers Addendum, 1944-1968. 25 reels. History, Philosophy & Newspaper FILM 323.40607 3 C81PADDEN

Countee Cullen Papers, 1921-1969. 7 reels. History, Philosophy & Newspaper FILM 818 C89

The East St. Louis Race Riot of 1917 . 8 reels. History, Philosophy & Newspaper FILM 977.389 R836e

Fannie Lou Hamer, 1917-1977: Papers, 1966-1978. 17 reels. History, Philosophy & Newspaper Call Number: FILM 323.1196073 H178F

FBI file, A. Philip Randolph. 1 reel. History, Philosophy & Newspaper FILM 323.1196073 R159U

FBI File on Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. 8 reels. History, Philosophy & Newspaper FILM B. P8822f

FBI File on Elijah Muhammad . 3 reels. History, Philosophy & Newspaper  FILM 297.87092 M892f

FBI file on the Atlanta Child Murders, 1980-1982. 3 reels. History, Philosophy & Newspaper FILM 364.152309758 UN3F

FBI File on the Black Panther Party, North Carolina. 2 reels. History, Philosophy & Newspaper FILM 322.420973 F299

FBI File, Highlander Folk School. 1 reel. History, Philosophy & Newspaper FILM 374.9768 Fb 299

FBI File on Malcolm X.   10 reels. History, Philosophy & Newspaper FILM B. L7784fb

FBI File, MIBURN (Mississippi Burning): the Investigation of the Murders of Michael Henry. 1 reel.  History, Philosophy & Newspaper FILM 364.1509762 F299

FBI File on the Moorish Science Temple of America. 3 reels.  History, Philosophy & Newspaper FILM 297.870973 F299

FBI File on the Murder of Lemuel Penn . 5 reels.  History, Philosophy & Newspaper FILM 364.1523 F299

FBI File on the Muslim Mosque Inc. 3 reels History, Philosophy & Newspaper FILM 306.69787 F299

FBI File, N.A.A.C.P. 4 reels. History, Philosophy & Newspaper FILM 323.1196073 F299

FBI File on National Negro Congress. 2 reels. History, Philosophy & Newspaper FILM 322.40973 F299

FBI File on the Organization of African-American Unity. 1 reel. History, Philosophy & Newspaper 305.8096073 Fb299

FBI File on Paul Robeson . 2 reels. History, Philosophy & Newspaper FILM 780.923 R54U

FBI File on Rev. Jesse Jackson. 1 reel.  History, Philosophy & Newspaper FILM B.J136 U

FBI File on Roy Wilkins. 1 reel. History, Philosophy & Newspaper  FILM 305.896073 W658U

FBI File on the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), [1964-1973]. 2 reels. History, Philosophy & Newspaper Microfilm 323.1196073 UN3F

FBI File on Thurgood Marshall. 1 reel. History, Philosophy & Newspaper FILM 347.732634 F299

FBI File on W.E.B. Du Bois. 1 reel. History, Philosophy & Newspaper FILM B. D8162f

Federal Surveillance of Afro-Americans (1917-1925): The First World War, the Red Scare, and the Garvey Movement. 25 reels. History, Philosophy & Newspaper FILM 323.1196073 F317

Federal Writers' Project. Slave Narratives.   17 microfiche. History, Philosophy & Newspaper MFICHE 326.973 F31S

Fredi Washington Papers .  2 reels. History, Philosophy & Newspaper 792.0924 W277W

The General Education Board Archives: Series 1: Appropriations; Subseries 1: Early Southern Program . (Filmed at the Rockefeller Archive Center). 159 reels.  History, Philosophy & Newspaper FILM 370.975 G286G

George A. Myers Papers, 1890-1929 . 8 reels. History, Philosophy & Newspaper FILM 973.9092 M992M

The George Washington Carver Papers in the Tuskegee Institute .  67 microfilm reels.   History, Philosophy & Newspaper FILM B.C3315 C1G

Gwendolyn Bennett Papers, 1916-1981. 2 reels. History, Philosophy & Newspaper FILM 811 B4395YB

Heartman Manuscript at Xavier University Library, New Orleans: manuscripts on slavery, 1751-1876.  20 microfiche.  History, Philosophy & Newspaper MFICHE 973.713 H351h

The Horace Mann Bond Papers . History, Philosophy & Newspaper FILM 370.92 B64

• Part 1: Bond Family Papers, 1892-1971, and General Correspondence, 1926-1972. 9 reels.
• Part 2: Subject Files, 1926-1971. 36 reels.
• Part 3: Institutional Files, 1919-1972. 38 reels.
• Part 4: Research Files, 1910-1971, and Writings, 1926-1972. 15 reels.

Hugh Smythe Papers, [1942-1963]. 6 reels. History, Philosophy & Newspaper FILM 305.896073SM98H

The Ivy Leaf, 1921-1998. (Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority) 14 reels.  Archives Student Life 371.8505 AKA

Langston Hughes material from the vertical files of the Schomburg Collection, 1926-1967. 4 microfilm reels. History, Philosophy & Newspaper FILM 811.H8741Y1

Malcolm X: FBI Surveillance File. 2 reels. History, Philosophy & Newspaper FILM B.L7784 M

Manuscript material used in preparation of Gunnar Myrdal's An American Dilemma, first published in 1944.  13 reels. History, Philosophy & Newspaper FILM 325.26 M99A1

Marcus Garvey: FBI Investigation File. 1 reel. History, Philosophy & Newspaper  FILM B.G2442 U

Martin Luther King, Jr. FBI Assassination File. 25 reels.  History, Philosophy & Newspaper FILM B.K53 M

Mary McLeod Bethune Papers, 1923-1942. Dillard University (New Orleans, La.). Amistad Research Center.  1 reel.  History, Philosophy & Newspaper FILM B.B542 D1979

Mary McLeod Bethune Papers. History, Philosophy & Newspaper FILM B.B542 D197 9

• The Bethune-Cookman College Collection, 1922-1955. 13 reels.
• The Bethune Foundation Collection.
  • Part 2: Correspondence Files, 1914-1955. 16 reels.
  • Part 3: Subject Files, 1939-1955. 21 reels.

Microfilm Edition of the Detroit Urban League Papers, 1916-1950 , at the University of Michigan. 35 reels. History, Philosophy & Newspaper FILM 305.8960774 D484M

Microfilm Publications of the Pennsylvania Abolition Society at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania . 32 microfilm reels.  History, Philosophy & Newspaper FILM 326.060748 P38M

National Emigration Convention of Colored People (1854: Cleveland, Ohio).  Proceedings of the National Emigration Convention of Colored People: held at Cleveland, Ohio, on Thursday, Friday and Saturday, the 24th, 25th and 26th of August, 1854. 1 microfilm reel.  History, Philosophy & Newspaper FILM 973.0496073 N213p 

Negro Labor Committee Record Group, 1925-1969 . 17 reels. History, Philosophy & Newspaper 331.6396073 N312n 

Oberlin College Library.  Microcard Collection: Anti-slavery Propaganda in the Oberlin College Library, Nov. 1968.   

• Printed Guide.   History, Philosophy & Newspaper 016.3264 L89M
• Slavery Pamphlets series:
  • Slavery and the internal slave trade in the United States of America. 4 micro-opaques. History, Philosophy & Newspaper 326.973 W45S1970
  • Report of the Committee of the Society for the Mitigation and Gradual Abolition of Slavery Throughout the British Dominions. 6 microfiche.  History, Philosophy & Newspaper 326.06 SO
  • Christian Investigator, Feb. 1843 - Aug. 1848.  9 cards. History, Philosophy & Newspaper 205 CHT
  • The Monthly Offering. vol. 1: 1840-1841. 3 cards.  Illinois Historical Survey FILM 326.05 MO

The Papers of A. Philip Randolph.  35 reels. History, Philosophy & Newspaper. Call Number: FILM 323.1196073 R159pa

Papers of Charles Sumner. 85 reels. Lincoln Room.  Call Number: FILM B.S956 SU (Influential anti-slavery and civil rights campaigner)

The Papers of Frederick Douglass.  34 reels.  History, Philosophy & Newspaper FILM Q.B.D737D1P

Papers of the Congress of Racial Equality, 1941-1967. 49 reels. History, Philosophy & Newspaper FILM 323.406073 C81P

Papers of the NAACP. History, Philosophy & Newspaper FILM 305.896073 N21P22

Part 1: Meetings of the Board of Directors, Records of Annual Conferences, Major Speeches, and Special Reports, 1909-1950. 28 reels.

• Supplement to Part 1: Minutes of the Board of Directors, Secretary's Reports, Records of Annual Conventions, and Annual Business Meetings, 1961-1965. 9 reels.

Part 2: Personal Correspondence of Selected NAACP Officials, 1919-1939. 20 reels.

Part 3: The Campaign for Educational Equity, 1913-1965.

• Series A: Legal Department and Central Office Records, 1913-1940. 24 reels.
• Series B: Legal Department and Central Office Records, 1940-1950. 19 reels.
• Series C: Legal Department and Central Office Records, 1951-1955. 23 reels.
• Series D: General Office Files, 1956-1965. 13 reels.

Part 4: The Voting Rights Campaign, 1916-1950. 13 reels.

• Supplement to Part 4: Voting Rights, General Office Files, 1956-1965. 6 reels.

Part 5: The Campaign against Residential Segregation, General Office Files, 1956-1965. 16 reels.

Part 7: The Anti-Lynching Campaign, 1912-1955.

• Series A: Anti-Lynching Investigative Files, 1912-1953. 30 reels. History, Philosophy & Newspaper Call Number: FILM 305.896073 N21p7a.
• Series B: Anti-Lynching Legislative and Publicity Files, 1916-1955. 35 reels. History, Philosophy & Newspaper. Call Number: FILM 305.896073 N21p7b.
• Series A: Legal Department and Central Office Records, 1910-1939. 17 reels. History, Philosophy & Newspaper. (on order)
• Series B: Legal Department and Central Office Records, 1940-1955. 32 reels. History, Philosophy & Newspaper (on order)

Part 9: Discrimination in the U.S. Armed Forces, 1918-1955.

• Series B: Armed Forces' Legal Files, 1940-1950. 30 reels.
• Series C: The Veteran's Affairs Committee, 1940-1950. 12 reels.

Part 10: Peonage, Labor, and the New Deal, 1913-1939. 23 reels.

Part 12: Selected Branch Files, 1913-1939. History, Philosophy & Newspaper Stacks FILM 305.896073 N21P12A

• Series A: The South. 20 reels.
• Series B: The Northeast. 7 reels.
• Series C: The Midwest. 27 reels.
• Series D: The West. 7 reels.

Part 13: The NAACP and Labor, 1940-1955

• Series A: Subject Files on Labor Conditions and Employment Discrimination, 1940-1955. 21 reels. History, Philosophy & Newspaper FILM 305.896073 N21p13a
• Series B: Cooperation with Organized Labor, 1940-1955. 25 reels. History, Philosophy & Newspaper. History, Philosophy & Newspaper FILM 305.896073 N21p13b
• Series C: Legal Department Files on Labor, 1940-1955
  12 reels. History, Philosophy & Newspaper FILM 305.896073 N21p13c

Part 16: Board of Directors Correspondence and Committee Materials, 1919-1955.

• Series A: 1919-1939. 8 reels.
• Series B, 1940-1955. 24 reels.
• Supplement to Part 16, Board of Directors Files, 1956-1965. 12 reels.
• Supplement to Part 16, Board of Directors File, 1966-1970. 9 reels.

Part 21: NAACP Relations with the Modern Civil Rights Movement. 22 reels.

Part 22: Legal Department Case Files, 1956-1965. 27 reels.

Part 26: Selected Branch Files, 1940-1955.

• Series C: The Midwest. 13 reels.

Part 27: Selected Branch Files, 1956-1965.

• Series C: The Midwest. 15 reels.

The Papers of W.E.B. Du Bois, 1803 (1877-1963) 1979. 89 reels. History, Philosophy & Newspaper FILM B.D8162 D2

Paul Laurence Dunbar Papers at the Ohio Historical Society, Columbus. 9 reels.  History, Philosophy & Newspaper FILM 811 D91Yd 

Race, Slavery, and Free Blacks.   History, Philosophy & Newspaper Stacks FILM 306.3620975 R114

• Series I: Petitions to Southern Legislatures, 1777-1867. 23 reels.

Racial Groups in Brazil. Princeton University, Latin American Pamphlet Collection. 2 reels. Reel 1: the Black Press; Reel 2: Blacks in Brazil. FILM 981.00496 R115

Records of Southern Plantations from Emancipation to the Great Migration. History, Philosophy & Newspaper Stacks FILM 975. 041 R245a2

• Series A, selections from the Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library,
  Duke University,
  • Part 1, Alabama and South Carolina plantations. 23 reels
  • Part 2, North Carolina and Virginia plantations. 26 reels
  • Part 3, Georgia and Florida plantations. 24 reels

Records of the Ante-Bellum Southern Plantations from the Revolution through the Civil War. History, Philosophy & Newspaper FILM 975.03 R245H

• Series B: Selections from the South Carolina Historical Society. 10 reels.
• Series E: Selections from the University of Virginia Library.
  • Part 1: Virginia Plantations. 39 reels.
  • Part 2: Virginia Plantations. 26 reels.
• Series F: Selections from the Duke University Library.
  • Part 2. South Carolina and Georgia. 16 reels.
  • Part 4. North Carolina and Virginia Plantations.  25 reels.
  • Part 5. William Patterson Smith Collection.  20 reels.
• Series H:  Selections from the Howard-tilton Library, Tulane University, and the Louisiana State Museum Archives.  30 microfilm reels. History, Philosophy & Newspaper FILM 975.03 R245H
• Series I: Selections from Lousiana State University. History, Philosophy & Newspaper Stacks FILM 306.3490976 R245i
  • Part 1:  Louisiana Sugar Plantations.  15 reels.
  • Part 2:  Louisiana and Miscellaneous Southern Cotton Plantations.  24 reels.
  • Part 3:  The Natchez Area.  18 reels.

Records of the Education Division of the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865-1871. History, Philosophy & Newspaper Stacks FILM 371.82996073 R245

Records of the National Association of Colored Women's Clubs, 1895-1992. History, Philosophy & Newspaper FILM 369.396073 R245

• Part 1: Minutes of National Conventions, Publications, and President's Office Correspondence. 26 reels.
• Part 2: President's Office Files, 1958-1968. 15 reels.

Records of the National Negro Business League. History, Philosophy & Newspaper FILM 338.642206 N2132R

• Part 1: Annual Conference Proceedings and Organizational Records, 1900-1919. 3 reels.
• Part 2: Correspondence and Business Records, 1900-1923. 11 reels.

Records of the Office of the Secretary of the Interior Relating to the Suppression of the African Slave Trade and to Negro Colonization, 1854-1872. 10 reels. History, Philosophy & Newspaper FILM 380. 1440973 R245

Records of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, 1954-1970. History, Philosophy & Newspaper Stacks FILM 323.1196073 R245

• Part 1: Records of the President's Office. 21 reels.
• Part 2: Records of the Executive Director and Treasurer. 22 reels.

Rhodes House Library, Oxford, Anti-Slavery Collection, 1795-1880.   59 reels.  History, Philosophy & Newspaper FILM 326.973 An8rh

Robert Goodloe Harper Family Papers: Ms. 431 in the Maryland Historical Society. 5 reels. History, Philosophy & Newspaper Call Number: 328.73 H23RINDEX

A Selection of Titles from the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture : series II.   50 reels.  History, Philosophy & Newspaper FILM 305.896 SCH64S. Includes Reels 1-11: Africa, the matrix; Reels 12-13: Anthropology and racial characteristics; Reels 14-24: Blacks in the U.S.; Reels 25-32: The creative spirit; Reels 33-35: Religion and the church; Reels 36-39: Slavery and the slave trade; Reels 40-49: The south Atlantic and the Caribbean; and Reel 50: A miscellany.

Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves. 17 vols. in 33 mounted photos.  History, Philosophy & Newspaper  MFICHE 326.973 F31S

Slavery Source Materials: Books and Pamphlets Written Before the Civil War by and about the Negro and about Slavery and Anti-Slavery.   441 microfiche. History, Philosophy & Newspaper MFICHE 326.973 SL164

Southern Education Reporting Service. Facts on Film. 40+ reels. History, Philosophy & Newspaper  FILM 371.94 So88p

• Facts on Film. 175 reels. History, Philosophy & Newspaper FILM 371.94 So88pSUP.1
• Index to Facts on Film. 10 reels. History, Philosophy & Newspaper FILM 371.94 So88pSUP.2

Spider Trickster Tales from Jamaica : the Anansi Folk Tales Collection. 14 microfilm reels. History, Philosophy & Newspaper FILM 398.2097292 Sp42

State Free Negro Capitation Tax Books, Charleston, South Carolina, ca. 1811-1860. 2 reels. History, Philosophy & Newspaper FILM 975.791500496 St29

State Secession Debates, 1859-1862. 19 reels. Lincoln Room. Call Number: FILM 973.713 St29 (A central issue was slavery)

State Slavery Statutes. 354 microfiche. Law Stacks MFICHE KF4545.S5 A1271989

New Orleans University Catalogs (1870-1934).  3 reels.  History, Philosophy & Newspaper FILM 378.763 St81s) [Straight University and New Orleans Unversity merged to become Dillard University in 1930.]

Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee Papers, 1959-1972. 72 reels. History, Philosophy & Newspaper FILM 323.1196073 ST94S

Students for a Democratic Society Papers.   41 microfilm reels. History, Philosophy & Newspaper FILM 323.1196073 ST94S (Includes material on the Black Panthers)

Transcripts of the Malcolm X Assassination Trial. 1993. 3 reels. History, Philosophy & Newspaper FILM B. L7784h

Tuskegee Institute News Clippings File. 252 reels. History, Philosophy & Newspaper FILM 305.896073 T87T

United Negro College Fund Archives, 1944-1980 .   3525 microfiches. History, Philosophy & Newspaper  MFICHE 378.306073 UN3U

Universal Negro Improvement Association Records, 1921-1986. 16 reels. History, Philosophy & Newspaper FILM 305. 896073 Un3u

U.S. Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands. Records of the Assistant Commissioner for the State of South Carolina, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865-1870. Microfilm reels 33-41.  History, Philosophy & Newspaper FILM 975.6041 UN 3R

U.S. Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands. Records of the Education Division, 1865-1871. 1 reel. FILM 371.82996073 R245

U.S. Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands. Records of the Field Offices of the Freedmen's Branch, Office of the Adjutant General, 1872-1878.  58 microfilm reels.  History, Philosophy & Newspaper FILM 973.82 Un31r

U.S. Military Intelligence Reports: Surveillance of Radicals in the United States, 1917-1941.   34 microfilm reels. History, Philosophy & Newspaper FILM 322.420973 US1

Women's Movement in Cuba, 1898-1958: the Stoner Collection on Cuban Feminism.   13 reels. History, Philosophy & Newspaper 305.42097291 W842