Black Arts Movement

This collection has diverse contents related to progressive artistic creations by African Americans. The contents primarily include poetry and speeches and/or interviews with Black artists, musicians and authors.

Black Liberation - General

Black Liberation Movement People

This collection is comprised of sub-collections containing audio (often rare) and paper materials focused on influential people and major figures in the Black Liberation Movement.

Subcollections

Angela Davis

Assata Shakur

Bayard Rustin

Chokwe Lumumba

Eldridge Cleaver

Dhoruba Bin Wahad

Donald Cox

Fred Hampton

Vicki Garvin

Geronimo Ji-Jaga (Pratt)

Huey Newton

Kwame Ture

Malcolm X

Martin Luther King Jr.

Paul Robeson

Popeye Jackson

Mabel and Robert F. Williams

Safiya Bukhari

Dessie Woods

Bill Epton

Black Liberation Movement Publications

This collection is comprised of position papers, monographs, newspapers and other publications from or about the Black Liberation Movement. Includes The Student Voice, The Movement Newspaper, Crossroads, Soulbook and assorted writings.

Subcollections

Crossroad

The Movement Newspaper

Soulbook

The Student Voice

Various Black Liberation Movement Publications

Black Power/Black Nation

This collection contains materials related to Black Power and the concept of a Black Nation within the United States. This collection has materials from a wide variety of authors and organizations.

Civil Rights/Black Liberation Movements Organizations

This collection contains materials on organizations involved in the Civil Right and Black Liberation Movements including SNCC, the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense and the Black Liberation Army.

Subcollections

African People's Socialist Party (APSP)

Afrikan Peoples Party

Black Liberation Army

Black Panther Party for Self-Defense

Congress of Racial Equality (CORE)

League of Revolutionary Black Workers

Lowndes County Freedom Organization

MOVE Organization

Non-Violent Action Committee

Revolutionary Action Movement RAM

Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)

Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)

New Afrikan Independence Movement

The New Afrikan Independence Movement (NAIM) was founded in 1968. There have been many formations that also adopted the RNA’s principles around developing a New Afrikan national identity and striving to build the New Afrikan nation-state.

Subcollections

National Committee to Defend New Afrikan Freedom Fighters

New Afrika: General

New Afrikan Peoples Organization

New Afrikan Prisoners Organization

Republic of New Afrika

The Black Scholar

Founded in the San Francisco Bay Area in 1969 by Robert Chrisman and Nathan Hare, THE BLACK SCHOLAR (TBS) is the first journal of Black studies and research.

Voices from the South

This collection is comprised of materials from the African-American Civil Rights Movement from 1955-1968. This collection features materials pertaining to Freedom Schools, The Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party and the Selma to Montgomery March.

Urban Rebellions

This collection contains materials pertaining to the numerous rebellions that erupted in urban centers across America in the mid and late 1960s.