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Black Freedom Struggle in the 20th Century: Organizational Records and Personal Papers, Part 1

Online access to the following previously-microfilmed archival collections:

  1. Bayard Rustin Papers
  2. Mary McLeod Bethune Papers: The Bethune Foundation Collection, Part 1: Writings, Diaries, Scrapbooks, Biographical Materials, and Files on the National Youth Administration and Women’s Organizations, 1918-1955
  3. Mary McLeod Bethune Papers: The Bethune Foundation Collection, Part 2: Correspondence Files, 1914-1955
  4. Mary McLeod Bethune Papers: The Bethune Foundation Collection, Part 3: Subject Files, 1939-1955
  5. Mary McLeod Bethune Papers: The Bethune Foundation Collection, Part 4: Administration of Bethune-Cookman College and the Mary McLeod Bethune Foundation, 1915-1955
  6. Mary McLeod Bethune Papers: The Bethune Foundation Collection, Supplement to Part 4: Administration of Bethune-Cookman College, 1924-1946
  7. Mary McLeod Bethune Papers: The Bethune-Cookman College Collection, 1922-1955
  8. Papers of A. Philip Randolph
  9. Records of the American Committee on Africa, Part 1: ACOA Executive Committee Minutes and National Office Memoranda, 1952-1975
  10. Records of the American Committee on Africa, Part 2: Correspondence and Subject Files on South Africa, 1952-1985
  11. Records of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, Series A, Holdings of the Chicago Historical Society, Part 1: Records of the BSCP, 1925-1969
  12. Records of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, Series A, Holdings of the Chicago Historical Society, Part 2: Records of the Ladies Auxiliary of the BSCP, 1931-1968
  13. Records of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, Series A, Holdings of the Chicago Historical Society, Part 3: Records of the BSCP Relations with the Pullman Company, 1925-1968
  14. Records of the National Association of Colored Women’s Clubs, 1895-1992, Part 1: Minutes of National Conventions, Publications, and President’s Office Correspondence
  15. Records of the National Association of Colored Women’s Clubs, 1895-1992, Part 2: President’s Office Files, 1958-1968
  16. Records of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, 1954-1970, Part 1: Records of the President’s Office
  17. Records of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, 1954-1970, Part 2: Records of the Executive Director and Treasurer
  18. Records of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, 1954-1970, Part 3: Records of the Public Relations Department
  19. Records of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, 1954-1970, Part 4: Records of the Program Department
  20. The Black Power Movement: Papers of the Revolutionary Action Movement, 1962-1996
  21. The Black Power Movement: The League of Revolutionary Black Workers, 1965-1976
  22. The Claude A. Barnett Papers: The Associated Negro Press, 1918-1967, Part 1: Associated Negro Press News Releases, 1928-1964, Series A: 1928-1944
  23. The Claude A. Barnett Papers: The Associated Negro Press, 1918-1967, Part 1: Associated Negro Press News Releases, 1928-1964, Series B: 1945-1955
  24. The Claude A. Barnett Papers: The Associated Negro Press, 1918-1967, Part 1: Associated Negro Press News Releases, 1928-1964, Series C: 1956-1964
  25. The Claude A. Barnett Papers: The Associated Negro Press, 1918-1967, Part 2: Associated Negro Press Organizational Files, 1920-1966
  26. The Claude A. Barnett Papers: The Associated Negro Press, 1918-1967, Part 3: Subject Files on Black Americans, 1918-1967, Series A, Agriculture, 1923-1966
  27. The Claude A. Barnett Papers: The Associated Negro Press, 1918-1967, Part 3: Subject Files on Black Americans, 1918-1967, Series B: Colleges and Universities, 1918-1966
  28. The Claude A. Barnett Papers: The Associated Negro Press, 1918-1967, Part 3: Subject Files on Black Americans, 1918-1967, Series C: Economic Conditions, 1918-1966
  29. The Claude A. Barnett Papers: The Associated Negro Press, 1918-1967, Part 3: Subject Files on Black Americans, 1918-1967, Series D: Entertainers, Artists, and Authors, 1928-1965
  30. The Claude A. Barnett Papers: The Associated Negro Press, 1918-1967, Part 3: Subject Files on Black Americans, 1918-1967, Series E: Medicine, 1927-1965
  31. The Claude A. Barnett Papers: The Associated Negro Press, 1918-1967, Part 3: Subject Files on Black Americans, 1918-1967, Series F: Military, 1925-1965
  32. The Claude A. Barnett Papers: The Associated Negro Press, 1918-1967, Part 3: Subject Files on Black Americans, 1918-1967, Series G: Philanthropic and Social Organizations, 1925-1966
  33. The Claude A. Barnett Papers: The Associated Negro Press, 1918-1967, Part 3: Subject Files on Black Americans, 1918-1967, Series H: Politics and Law, 1920-1966
  34. The Claude A. Barnett Papers: The Associated Negro Press, 1918-1967, Part 3: Subject Files on Black Americans, 1918-1967, Series I: Race Relations, 1923-1965
  35. The Claude A. Barnett Papers: The Associated Negro Press, 1918-1967, Part 3: Subject Files on Black Americans, 1918-1967, Series J: Religion, 1924-1966
  36. The Claude A. Barnett Papers: The Associated Negro Press, 1918-1967, Part 3: Subject Files on Black Americans, 1918-1967, Series K: Claude A. Barnett, Personal and Financial, 1920-1967.

These collections comprise a mixture of manuscript documents, typescript documents, printed documents, and graphical material like photographs and drawings. When using this collection, bear in mind that while the collection interface provides full-text searching capability, not all of the documents in the collection (e.g. manuscript material and images) can actually be keyword searched. Subject indexes are searchable but not browsable.