African-American Research Library and Cultural Center Special Collections

Charles Mills Photograph Album Collection
Collection of blues, popular and jazz albums dating from the mid 1950's to the early 1990's.     

Daniel M. Johnson Collection 
More than 5,000 materials based on the efforts of artists, educators, business leaders, musicians, doctors and authors who have written on African, African-American and Caribbean history and race relations.  

Dorothy Porter Wesley Collections        
History, art, women's studies, references, bibliographical aids and other materials related to Africa, Brazil and the Caribbean.

Frederic Gomes Cassidy Collection            
An extensive assortment of books on the life and culture of Jamaica and the Caribbean.

Hewitt Haitian Art Collections
John H. and Vivian D. Hewitt donation of exquisite Haitian paintings, sculptures and various artifacts.

Jack Abramowitz Collections
This collection focuses on African-American southern history, slavery, reconstruction, and other topics.

Kitty Oliver Oral Histories Collections on Race and Change
Contains manuscripts and recordings on race relations in Broward County and Okeechobee, Florida.

Microform Collections
Bethune-Cookman College Collection, 1922-1955
Black Abolitionist Papers
Blacks in the U.S Armed Forces: Basic Documents, 1639-1973
Black Journals, Complete Collections, Series 1 and 2
Centers of the Southern Struggle: FBI Files on Selma, Memphis, Montgomery, Albany 
  and St. Augustine
Earl Conard/Harriet Tubman Collection
FBI Files on W.E.B. DuBois
Langston Hughes Collection                                       
Papers of Carter G. Woodson and the Association for the study of Negro Life and
History, 1915 - 1950
Paul Robeson Collection
Race, Slavery, and Free Black Petitions in Southern Legislatures, 1777-1867   
State Slavery Statutes
Universal Negro Improvement Association Records, 1921-1986

Sixto Campano Sheet Music Collection 
Contains approximately 1,000 pieces of sheet music documenting the history of African-Americans in drama and the theater.

Alex Haley Collection    
Includes eight unfinished manuscripts by the author and various materials regarding Roots and personal ephemera.

Available Collections in the Future: 

Fisk University Collection
Includes personal interviews and first hand accounts of slave life through slave narratives.

Library of the Spoken Word
5,000 recording of lectures, interviews and conferences covering subjects to Caribbean culture. 
                                                            
Reverend Maurice Dawkins Collection
Personal ephemera of a prominent civil rights activist. 
 
Roach Collection
Personal papers and awards from the estate of Margaret and Cato Roach, two local pioneer educators.

Sara and Cyrus Pettis Collection
Personal ephemera of the Pettis Family.

Slides of the Sistrunk Collection
Slides of the original Black Community of Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

Stereoscopic Cards and Viewer
Turn of the century stereoscopic cards documenting images of African-American people.   

For more information, please call 954-625-2819.