In addition to housing original archival and printed collections, the Amistad Research Center also holds over 15,000 reels of microfilm containing periodicals, dissertations and theses, and manuscript collections from other repositories. In addition, a select number of archival collections housed at the Amistad Research Center have been microfilmed as an aid to researchers.
The periodicals, dissertations, and theses can be located in the online catalog. Microfilm editions of Amistad's archival holdings are noted in the online finding aid database. The following is a list of microfilm editions of manuscripts from other repositories housed at the Center.
ADAMS, FRANK PAPERS, 1957-1979
1 microfilm reel
Papers of the North Carolina author and community organizer include correspondence, drafts of material on civil rights leader James A. Dombrowski and the Highlander Center, and the author's subject files on social activism in the 1960s and 1970s.
ALEXANDER DEFENSE COMMITTEE RECORDS, 1971
3 microfilm reels
This international organization formed to protest Apartheid and to support Dr. Neville Alexander and other South African political prisoners. Records include correspondence, speeches, writings, newsletters, clippings and promotional material of organization's chapters in the United States, Canada, and throughout Europe.
BAER, DOUGLAS PAPERS, 1964
1 microfilm reel
Baer was a civil rights worker who taught in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. His papers include correspondence, school registration and teaching materials, student essays, and collected newsletters.
BARBEE, LLOYD A. PAPERS, 1933-1982
3 microfilm reels
The papers of the civil rights activist, lawyer, and Wisconsin State legislator Lloyd Barbee include materials and collected publications documenting his efforts to secure open housing and school desegregation.
BASCOM, FLAVEL COLLECTION, 1881-1891
1 microfilm reel
Bascom was a Congregational minister, member of the "Yale Band" westward dispatch of missionaries, and Corresponding Secretary of the Illinois Home Missionary Association. The collection includes a handwritten autobiography.
BELFRAGE, SALLY PAPERS, 1962-1966
2 microfilm reels
The papers of Sally Belfrage, an author and SNCC member who participated in the Mississippi Freedom Summer, include a draft of her book Freedom Summer with an index, her diary and notes, voter registration information, and an extensive file of reports of progress and of harassment in SNCC activities. Also included is a transcript of the 1966 radio program "This Little Light," from WBAI in New York.
BELL, MURPHY W. PAPERS, 1958-1966
4 microfilm reels
The papers of Murphy W. Bell, a Baton Rouge, Louisiana, lawyer who represented the NAACP and CORE in legal cases statewide, consist of correspondence, legal files, collected clippings, and photographs.
BOWIE, HARRY J. PAPERS, 1964-1967
1 microfilm reel
The papers of New Jersey minister Harry J. Bowie, who worked on the National Council of Churches Delta Ministry Project in McComb, Mississippi, contain correspondence, legal documents, and collected publications. Subjects covered include the Freedom Schools, Head Start, the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, and regional ministry.
CHICAGO MAYOR'S COMMITTEE ON RACE RELATIONS RECORDS, ca. 1918-1919
2 microfilm reels
The Mayor's Committee on Race Relations was appointed following the 1919 race riot in Chicago, Illinois. Microfilmed documents include correspondence, minutes, reports, and press clippings.
CHILD DEVELOPMENT GROUP OF MISSISSIPPI RECORDS, 1965-1967
14 microfilm reels
Records of a Mississippi organization that developed Head Start classes for African American children in the state. The records contain mostly field records, including correspondence, reports, questionnaires, and enrollment data. Also included are minutes, financial records, press releases, and collected newspaper clippings.
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY ORAL HISTORY COLLECTION, 1952-1960
36 microfische
The Amistad Research Center holds only a portion of the overall collection, which is a collection of oral history interview transcripts from significant political and cultural leaders in the twentieth century. Individuals represented include Will W. Alexander, Roger Nash Baldwin, W.E.B. Du Bois, George Schuyler, J. Waites Waring, and Roy Wilkins.
COMMITTEE TO COMBAT RACIAL INJUSTICE RECORDS, 1957-1965
1 microfilm reel
These records are of a group formed in 1958 to defend two young African American boys, jailed for kissing a white girl. Files include correspondence, legal documents, financial records, and collected publications. Prominent correspondents include Roy Wilkins and sociologist C. Wright Mills.
CONGRESS OF RACIAL EQUALITY RECORDS, 1941-1967
49 microfilm reels
A civil rights organization that pioneered the use of non-violent protest strategies in the 1940s, CORE spread nationally by the 1960s and organized "Freedom Rides" to challenge segregated accommodation. The organization gradually moved toward militancy in later part of the 1960s. The records principally consist of correspondence from 1959 to 1964.
CONGRESS OF RACIAL EQUALITY, MISSISSIPPI, FOURTH CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT RECORDS, 1961-1966
5 microfilm reels
The records include correspondence, reports, and other records mainly concerned with voter registration, as well as records of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party and the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee.
CUFFEE, PAUL COLLECTION, 1742-1963
2 microfilm reels
Shipping tycoon and abolitionist Paul Cuffee was the first American to repatriate Africans to Africa. This collection includes correspondence, ships' logs, and material about the American Colonization Society.
DuBOIS, W. E. B. COLLECTION, 1887-1965
89 microfilm reels
William Edward Burghardt DuBois was one of the most prominent African Americans of the twentieth century. The microfilm edition of the W. E. B. DuBois Papers at the University of Massachusetts reflects the private thoughts and public achievements of this leader. The collection primarily consists of correspondence, speeches, photographs, and other items pertaining to DuBois’ lengthy and varied career as a scholar. Correspondents include the most prominent figures of his day, including Andrew Carnegie, Booker T. Washington, Roy Wilkins, Martin Luther King Jr., Margaret Mead, Albert Einstein, and others.
DUNBAR, PAUL LAURENCE PAPERS, 1873-1936
9 microfilm reels
This microfilm edition of the Paul Laurence Dunbar Papers at the Ohio Historical Society contains correspondence to Dunbar and his mother Matilda Dunbar, along with letters written by Dunbar to James N. Matthews; manuscripts of Dunbar's prose, poetry, and lyrics; notebooks; financial and legal records; newspaper clippings, recital schedules, biographical material, and scrapbooks. Correspondents include members of the Dunbar Family, publisher Edward H. Dodd, friend and benefactor Dr. Henry A. Tobey, authors James Whitcomb Riley and William Dean Howells, and friend and teacher Rebekah Baldwin. Also included are letters, miscellanea, diaries and scrapbooks of Dunbar's wife, Alice Dunbar Nelson.
FEINGOLD, MIRIAM COLLECTION, 1960-1967
1 microfilm reel
The collection consists of microfilmed papers of civil rights activist Miriam Feingold, which describe demonstrations, experiences of incarceration, and racial climates of Mississippi and Louisiana. Correspondence (including several letters written on toilet paper by imprisoned civil rights activists in Plaquemine, Louisiana), reports, speeches, notebooks, voter registration material and collected leaflets are included.
GARVEY, MARCUS COLLECTION, 1921-1940
1 microfilm reel
Principally about the Black Star Line mail fraud case and activities of the Universal Negro Improvement Association in major U.S. cities, the collection includes memoranda, correspondence, interrogatories, field reports, financial records and collected print items.
GOODLET, CARLTON B. PAPERS, 1942-1967
3 microfilm reels
Correspondence, speeches and collected items about the civil rights and international pacifist efforts of the San Francisco physician, publisher of the Sun-Reporter, and San Francisco NAACP head.
GREEN STREET BAPTIST CHURCH, LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY, RECORDS, 1844-1964
2 microfilm reels
Minutes, correspondence, lists, photographs of one of Louisville, Kentucky's oldest African American congregations.
GUMBY, L.S. ALEXANDER COLLECTION, 1800-1960
22 microfilm reels
This microfilm edition of the L.S. Alexander Gumby Collection of Negroiana housed at Columbia University contains correspondence, personal papers, and newspaper clippings documenting various phases of African American life. The collected correspondence is mainly by Countee Cullen, Frederick Douglass, Alexandre Dumas (fils), William Lloyd Garrison, Abraham Lincoln, Claude McKay, William Pickens, Albert A. Smith, and Booker T. Washington. Most of the items are mounted in 161 scrapbooks or groups of folio leaves. The clippings are from both general and specialized newspapers and magazines ranging in dates from 1850 to 1960. However, the majority of the materials range between 1910 and 1950. Whole volumes of scrapbooks are devoted to major figures, such as Joe Louis, Booker T. Washington, Paul Robeson, and Josephine Baker. Gumby was a book collector who ran a salon in Harlem. He started his scrapbook collection in 1901 at the age of sixteen.
HIGHLANDER RESEARCH AND EDUCATION CENTER MICROFILM COLLECTION, 1917-1978
50 microfilm reels
This is a microfilm collection of the Highlander Research and Education Center (formerly known as the Highlander Folk School) founded in 1932 near Monteagle, Tennessee. Materials cover its labor and civil rights activities and Appalachian poverty programs, and chronicle its harassment by government agencies. Files include correspondence, minutes, reports, financial records, play scripts, song books, clippings and other publications.
HOLDEN, ANNA PAPERS, 1946-1977
1 microfilm reel
Microfilmed papers of sociologist and civil rights worker Anna Holden, who aided the Washington, DC, chapter of CORE, contain correspondence, interviews, and other research materials, including desegregation studies from various states, financial records, and collected publications.
JOHNSON, CHARLES SPURGEON PAPERS, 1866-1965
80 microfilm reels
Charles Spurgeon Johnson was Research Director of the National Urban League, Chairman of the Fisk University Social Science Department, founder and Director of the United Church Board of Homeland Ministries Race Relations Department, and President of Fisk University. This microfilm collection includes correspondence, writings, minutes, collected printed items.
JULIUS ROSENWALD FUND ARCHIVES, 1910-1948
76 microfilm reels
The Fund was chartered in 1917. During its early years, it was administered closely by its founder, Julius Rosenwald. It concentrated on equalization of opportunities among various groups in the United States, both black and white, and its first programs included building of schools in the rural South. Later, the program was expanded to cover other educational institutions, health facilities, and social centers. The microfilm represents only selections from the originals held by Fisk University, principally those parts of the collection related to programs for African Americans, especially American Missionary Association schools. Files show the Fund's support of the merger of Straight University, which was founded by the Association, and New Orleans University to form Dillard University, where Rosenwald's son-in-law, Edgar B. Stern, served on the first board of directors. The collection contains 1,381 letters to or from him (1928-1948, n.d.). Among other members of the Rosenwald family represented: Marion Rosenwald Ascoli, Adele Rosenwald Levy, Julius Rosenwald, Lessing and William Rosenwald, and Edith Rosenwald Stern. The Center holds an additional 2.8 linear feet of hard-copy originals. The originals at Fisk not microfilmed by the Center contain further data about programs on behalf of Jews.
LANGSTON, JOHN MERCER PAPERS, 1846-1930
2 microfilm reels
Antebellum free African American attorney John Mercer Langston was the first African American in the United States to be elected to public office. He served as an officer in various capacities of Howard University during Reconstruction, U.S. Minister to Haiti, President of Virginia Normal and Collegiate Institute, and was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives. The collection includes correspondence, speeches, writings, legal documents, financial records, photographs, and collected printed items.
MALCOLM X (MALCOLM LITTLE) COLLECTION, 1953-1971
2 microfilm reels
Two microfilm reels of FBI surveillance files of Malcolm X, consisting mostly of field reports and some correspondence.
MEIER-RUDWICK COLLECTION OF CONGRESS OF RACIAL EQUALITY RECORDS, 1943-1969
5 microfilm reels
This microfilm collection consists of research material collected by historians August Meier and Elliott Rudwick. It includes correspondence, organizational minutes, reports, financial records, and other documents related to the national CORE office and chapters in Seattle and California.
MILWAUKEE CITIZENS FOR EQUAL OPPORTUNITY RECORDS, 1960-1966
1 microfilm reel
One reel of microfilm containing records of this Milwaukee civil rights organization, originally formed to aid Southern activists, but increasingly focused on local civil rights concerns. The collection includes correspondence, minutes and newsletters.
MISSIONARY SOCIETY OF CONNECTICUT PAPERS, 1759-1948
20 microfilm reels
This microfilm collection contains records of the Missionary Society of Connecticut, which promoted Christian home missions on the American frontier. It was active in New England and as far west as California. The society turned over its revenues in 1881 to the American Home Missionary Society. Documents include correspondence, minutes, reports, sermons, and printed items, including Connecticut Evangelical Magazine, of the Congregational home mission's body.
MISSISSIPPI FREEDOM DEMOCRATIC PARTY, LAUDERDALE COUNTY, MISSISSIPPI, RECORDS, 1964-1966
3 microfilm reels
Documents generated by a chapter of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party relating to voter registration projects in Meridian, Mississippi, and surrounding areas. Topics include the Freedom Registration Project, the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, the Meridian Community Center, boycotts, and incidents of intimidation, including the disappearance and deaths of Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman and James Chaney. Formats include correspondence, memoranda, reports, affidavits, minutes, telephone logs and other documents.
MURRAY, DANIEL ALEXANDER PAYNE PAPERS, 1881-1966
27 microfilm reels
Daniel Murray was employed with the Library of Congress. The microfilm reels contain documents pertaining to his work Historical Biographical Encyclopedia and the Colored Race, including correspondence, biographies, clippings, photographs, articles, bibliographies, and other documents mostly ranging 1893-1925.
NATIONAL NEGRO CONGRESS COLLECTION, 1936-1952
2 microfilm reels
The National Negro Congress organized in 1935 with A. Phillip Randolph as president in an effort to build a national constituency to address economic issues facing African Americans. The first meeting of the Congress was held in Chicago in February 1936. It disbanded in 1947 due to Cold War suppression. The collection consists of field reports, correspondence, and other documents related to the surveillance of the National Negro Congress.
NEW ENGLAND EMIGRANT AID COMPANY PAPERS, 1854-1909
9 microfilm reels
This microfilm collection contains mostly correspondence of a group to promote settlement of Kansas as a free state and by Northerners to Florida after Civil War. It also includes lists, minutes, legal documents, real estate and other financial records, and reports, as well as writings of Edward Everett Hale.
NEW ORLEANS UNIVERSITY CATALOG COLLECTION, 1874-1935
2 microfilm reels
This microfilm collection contains catalogs from New Orleans University from 1874-1928 and 1934-1935.
RACE RELATIONS INFORMATION CENTER ARCHIVES, ca. 1954-1975
42.4 linear feet
Formerly the Southern Education Reporting Service, the Race Relations Information Center disseminated objective information about school desegregation and eventually expanded to include all aspects of human relations. Document types include correspondence, minutes, press releases, photographs, financial records, and other collected items. The collection also includes 355 reels of microfilm released as Facts on Film.
REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA V. BAKKE ARCHIVES, 1976-1978
1.6 linear feet, 37 microfilm reels
The records of this U.S. Supreme Court case, which required the University of California to defend its Affirmative Action programs, include 132 amicus curae briefs.
ROBESON, PAUL FILES, 1941-1978
2 microfilm reels
This microfilm collection documents FBI surveillance files of performer and social activist Paul Robeson from 1941 to 1978. The files include correspondence, field reports, press clippings, and information about the revocation of Robeson's passport.
ROCKEFELLER ARCHIVES, 1902-1960
12 microfilm reels
This microfilm collection contains correspondence, reports, and other materials about American Missionary Association colleges and the Advisory Committee on Southern Education.
ROSENWALD, JULIUS PAPERS, CA. 1856-1964
53 microfilm reels
The papers are of longtime president and chairman of the board of Sears, Roebuck & Company, Julius Rosenwald, who became one of the major philanthropists of his day. By the time of his death his gifts were estimated to have reached about seventy million dollars. The papers combine microfilm from the University of Chicago and the American Jewish Archives in Cincinnati. The University of Chicago film includes a subject index. The accessions also include family-related manuscripts. The Center also holds one oversize box of original materials. Most items predate the establishment of the Julius Rosenwald Fund.
RUSTIN, BAYARD PAPERS, 1941-1981
23 microfilm reels
The collection consists of correspondence, reports, press clippings, and lists generated and collected by Rustin, who was a civil rights activist and staff officer with the Congress of Racial Equality and the A. Philip Randolph Foundation.
SHAKER COMMUNITY, SOUTH UNION, KENTUCKY, RECORDS, 1805-1922
3 microfilm reels
This microfilm collection contains journals reflecting activities of the church members, as well as an autobiography of John Rankin, Sr., one of the leaders of the church.
SIMMONS BIBLE COLLEGE, LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY, RECORDS, 1869-1908
3 microfilm reels
This collection traces the evolution of Kentucky Normal and Theological Institute, an institution for white students, into Simmons Bible College for American Americans. It includes catalogs, minutes, and other printed items.
SOUTHERN CIVIL RIGHTS LITIGATION RECORDS, 1961-1972
170 microfilm reels
This voluminous microfilm collection, with elaborately indexed records of major civil rights cases, was compiled from holdings of the Legal Defense Fund of the NAACP, the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, the Lawyers Constitution Defense Committee, and individual attorneys. The original documents are housed at Tougaloo College.
SOUTHERN COURIER RECORDS, 1965-1967
3 microfilm reels
The Southern Courier was a Montgomery, Alabama, news weekly published by civil rights workers that served Mississippi and Alabama. Office files include correspondence, financial records and records of circulation. Other collected material contains data on civil rights organizations in those states.
SOUTHERN TENANT FARMERS UNION RECORDS, 1924-1973
65 microfilm reels.
Founded in 1934, the Southern Tenant Farmers Union was active among Arkansas Socialists, California farmers, a meatcutter's union, rice mill workers, and fishermen in Louisiana. The records, the originals of which are at the Southern Historical Collection at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, document the organization's activities and history.
STRAIGHT UNIVERSITY CATALOGS COLLECTION, 1870-1934
1 microfilm reel
This microfilm collection consists of catalogs from Straight University in New Orleans for the years 1870-1934.
STUDENT NONVIOLENT COORDINATING COMMITTEE PAPERS, 1959-1972
73 microfilm reels
The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) was created on the campus of Shaw University by North Carolina A & T University students after they were refused service from the Woolworth lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina. The purpose of the organization was to fight oppression, organize sit-ins and protests, and support African American leaders.
TALLANT, ROBERT PAPERS, 1909-1957
9 microfilm reels
Robert Tallant was a folklorist and historian who worked on the Louisiana Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration. The papers consist of letters, photographs, typescripts (with manuscript corrections) of his novels, short stories, articles, and non-fiction works, scrapbooks of reviews and other material related to his works, radio scripts, plot outlines, research materials, sketches, prints, and clippings. Some carbons and galley and page proofs are also included, as well as portions of the manuscript of Gumbo Ya-Ya. Also included are transcripts of interviews with African Americans of various professions and a selection of songs. Topics of interest include New Orleans voodoo practice, Mardi Gras, murder cases, spiritualism and spiritualist churches, and Marie Laveau.
VOORHEES COLLEGE ARCHIVES, 1894-1991
13 microfilm reels
Microfilmed records of Voorhees College in Demark, South Carolina, include documents of the administration, student records, photographs and other collected items.
WESLEY METHODIST CHURCH, NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA, RECORDS, 1864-1951
4 microfilm reels
This microfilm collection contains journals of records of a historically African American congregation.
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