About the African American Studies Collection

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Collection Description
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Collection Description

Berkeley's African American Collections are concentrated in the humanities and social sciences which are housed in the Gardner (Main) Stacks of the Doe Library. More specialized materials can be found in over 20 subject specialty libraries on campus, including those the Moffitt, Education-Psychology, Environmental Design, Public Health, Social Welfare, Music, and Law Libraries. In addition, the Bancroft Library’s holdings include manuscripts, photographs, and fine first editions. The Collections are very strong in microfilm editions of important research materials, including the personal papers of prominent African Americans and other records, particularly those of organizations, such as the NAACP and CORE. For these holdings please see African American Microform Collections in the UC Berkeley Library - A Bibliography.

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Other Libraries and Special Collections

African American History and Culture - Smithsonian Institution
A list of digital resources at the National Museum of American History

African American Studies at Northwestern University

African Diaspora - Columbia University.

African Diaspora - Latin American Resources - University of Texas, Austin.
This site provides essential coverage for Caribbean resources.

Auburn Avenue Research Library - Atlanta Public Library
A special library of the Atlanta-Fulton County Library System. It is the first library of its kind in the southeast offering specialized reference and archival collections for the study and research of African cultures. The library is a public facility with non-circulating collections, services and programs free and open to the general public.

Martin Luther King Jr. (MLK) Center for Nonviolent Social Change in Atlanta
This is the official MLK historical site.

Martin Luther King , Jr. Papers Project - Stanford.
The King Papers Project's principal mission is to publish a definitive fourteen-volume edition of King's most significant correspondence, sermons, speeches, published writings, and unpublished manuscripts.

Moorland-Springarn Research Center - Howard University
Collections include more than 175,000 bound volumes and tens of thousands of journals, periodicals, and newspapers; more than 17,000 feet of manuscript and archival collections; nearly 1000 audio tapes; hundreds of artifacts; 100,000 prints, photographs, maps, and other graphic items.

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture is a national research library devoted to collecting, preserving and providing access to resources documenting the experiences of peoples of African descent throughout the world.

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