African American Collections
Stanford University boasts the most African American Collections in Project STAND.
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Stanford University has the largest African American physical collection.
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University of Michigan has the largest digital collection.
Most collections (Ohio)
State with the most institutions reporting African American collections.
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UNC Chapel Hill has the second largest African American collection.
Stanford University
Institution reporting the most African American Collections.
A-Z Collections
Below is an alphabetized list of African American collections featured by our participating institutions. It is updated periodically, however please visit the institutional pages for more information about our partners.
Springfield College has contributed three collections for Project STAND, including Springfield College of the Office of the President Records.
African American Collections: A-C
Legend:
View Online – Collection is digitized and accessible online, in full or in part.
About the Collection – Collection inventory/finding aid is available online.
Contact Institution – Collection may be unprocessed or does not have an inventory/finding aid available online.
1970 Student Demonstrations, 1970-1979
The Ohio State University
Dream Deferred: The University of Virginia and Equal Opportunity, 1967-1970
University of Virginia
Academics for Affirmative Action and Social Justice Records, 1997-2000
University of Michigan- Bentley Historical Library
Activist Student Organizations, 1965-1972
University of Virginia
Ad-Hoc Committee to Student Strike of 1970
University of Virginia
African-American and African Studies Dept. Records, 1960-1979
The Ohio State University
Afro-American Society Records, 1968-1998
Case Western Reserve University Archives
Allen Building Takeover Collection, 1969-2002
Duke University Archives
Alternative Press Collection, 1960’s-2010’s
University of Connecticut
Anti-Racism Protests/Activism Materials, 1960-1969, 2000-present
Denison University
Anti-War Material and Student Protest Tapes from Chancellorsville, 1969
University of Virginia
Archiving Student Activism at Princeton (ASAP) Collection, 2014-2016
Princeton University
Atlanta Student Movement Collection, 1960-2000
Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library
Austin McCoy Papers, 2000-present
University of Michigan
Barbara Cook Papers, 1964-1977
Purdue University
Being Black at Illinois Records, 2014
University of Illinois
#BBUM (Being Black at the University of Michigan) Twitter Archive, 2013-2015
University of Michigan- Bentley Historical Library
Black70, 1970
Stanford University Archives
Black Action Movement(I, II, and III), 1970-1987
University of Michigan Bentley Historical Library
Black Action Society Files, 1968-1998
University of Pittsburgh
Black Community Services Center Records, 1973-1988
Stanford University
Black Cultural Center Media Collection, 1980’s
Purdue University
Black Gold (student newspaper), 1972-1973
University of Rhode Island
BLack Student Alliance Records, 1969-2018
Duke University Archives
Black Student Alliance Records, 1980-2013
University of Virginia
Black Student Association Publications, 1967-1974
University of Illinois
Black Student Movement Records, 1970’s-2000’s
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Black Student Union, 1969-present
University of Michigan
Black Student Union, 1970-1972
University of Toledo
Black Student Union Records, 1971-2015
University of California- Irvine
Black Students for Revolution Records, 2015-present
University of Illinois
Black Students Union, 1970-2010
Center for Archival Collections, Bowling Green State University
Bolinga Black Cultural Resources Center Records, 1970’s-1990’s
Wright State University
Brage Golding Presidential Papers, 1966-1972
Wright State University
Brilliant Corners (student publication), 1970-1971Â
Stanford University Archives
Buchtelite Student Newspapers, 1889-present
University of Akron
Campus Activism Collection, 1962-1992
Connecticut College
Campus Environment Team Records, 1990-1994
Arizona State University
Campus Unrest Collection, 1964-1990
University of Cincinnati
Case Western Reserve University Ahmed Evans Protest Records, 1969-1978
Case Western Reserve University
African American Collections: C-M
Legend:
View Online – Collection is digitized and is accessible, in full or in part.
About the Collection – Collection inventory/finding aid is available online.
Contact Institution – Collection may be unprocessed or does not have an inventory/finding aid available online.
Co -Contact Institution- Collection is at the Institution but lacks an inventory list/is not processed
Case Western Reserve University President’s Office- Robert W. Morse Records, 1955-1970
Case Western Reserve University
Chicago Circle Focus, 1968
University of Illinois-Chicago
Chronology of Campus Protests, circa 1972
University of Illinois
Civil Rights Protest, 1960-1969
Denison University
Collection of Leroy Keyes Press Photos, 1967-1969
Purdue University
Committee of Inquiry Records, 1966-1974
The Ohio State University
Common Sense- Charlottesville Activist Coalition, 1981
University of Virginia
Confederate Monument Protest Materials, 2017-2018
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Cornell A. Bell Papers, 1933-2009
Purdue University
Cross Cultural Center Records, 1972-2015
University of California-Irvine
Demonstration Photographs, 1968-1971
The Ohio State University
Department of Afro-American and African Studies Records, 1966-2010
University of Michigan- Bentley Historical Library
Disorientation Guide, 1996-2001
Stanford University Archives
Duke Vigil Collection, 1968-1988
Duke University Archives
Edward and Shirley Crosby papers (unprocessed), 1960’s-1970’s
Kent State University
Eggshell Press Records, 1966-1968
Indiana University Archives)
Forrest Hall Protest Collection, 1930-present
Middle Tennessee State University Albert Gore Research Center
For What It’s Worth, 1972
Stanford University Archives
Grapevine, 1973-1988
Stanford University Archives
The Guardian, 1965-present
Wright State University
Guide to the University of California-Irvine Dramatic Transformations Records, 2012-2015
University of California-Irvine
Harold Enarson Items, 1940’s-2002
The Ohio State University
Indiana University Students for a Democratic Society Newsletters, 1965-1966
Indiana University Archives
Jay Cassidy Photograph Collection, 1967-1970
University of Michigan- Bentley Historical Library
Jessica Curtin Collection, 1997-2007
University of Michigan- Bentley Historical Library
John W. Jackson Manuscript Collection, 1949-1980
Jackson State University Margaret Walker Center
Joseph A. Labadie Collection, 1850-present
University of Michigan- Harlan Hatcher Graduate Library
Joseph Kadane Papers, 1964-1966
Stanford University Archives
Kassandra Agee Chandler Papers, 1978-1980
Purdue University
Kent State University Black United Students records, 1968-present
Kent State University
KZSU Project South Interviews, 1965
Stanford University Archives
Lafayette Tolliver papers and photographs, 1967-1971
Kent State University
Madison Foster Papers, 1969-1970
University of Michigan- Bentley Historical Library
Margaret Walker Personal Papers, 1929-1998
Jackson State University Margaret Walker Center
Mary Ann Smith Wilson-Ruby Doris Smith Robinson Collection on Student Activism, 1948-2008
Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library
Mary Church Terrell Papers, 1884-1953
Oberlin College Archives)
May 4 Collection (Kent State Shootings), 1950-present
Kent State University
Melvin G. Holli Papers, 1967-1998
University of Illinois-Chicago
Milton E. Wilson, Jr., papers, 1965-1944
Kent State University
Mississippi Freedom Summer Digital Collection, 1960-2017
Miami University
African American Collections: N-S
Legend:
View Online – Collection is digitized and accessible online, in full or in part.
About the Collection – Collection inventory/finding aid is available online.
Contact Institution – Collection may be unprocessed or does not have an inventory/finding aid available online.
Naomi Markee Harward Papers, 1929-1989
Arizona State University
NAACP- University of Michigan Chapter, 1968-1989/ 2017-2019
University of Michigan
National Council of Negro Women, Inc., 2008-2014
Center for Archival Collections- Bowling Green State University
Novice Fawcett Papers, 1930-1987
The Ohio State University
Oberlin and Civil Rights, 1950’s-1980’s
Oberlin College Archives
Occupy Purdue Movement Records, 2017
Purdue University
Office of Communications & Marketing Photograph Collection, 1966-present
Wright State University
Office of Student Affairs, 1951-2001
The University of Toledo
Office of the President-Asa Knowles Papers, 1947-1958
The University of Toledo
Office of the President- Subject Files, 1954-2014
The University of Toledo
Opie Evans Papers
Opie Evans Papers, 1965 (The University of Akron)
Oral Histories
Oral Histories, 1960-1979 (The Ohio State University)
Orangeburg Massacre Collection, 1968-present
South Carolina State University
Our Choking Times, 1970-1982
The Ohio State University
Paul M. Gaston Papers, 1950-1990
University of Virginia
peninsula Times Tribune- Stanford University photographs, 1959-1992
Stanford University Archives
Philosophy Born of Struggle Conference records, 1994-2014
Purdue University
Phoebe Farris Papers, 1972-2011
Purdue University
Photography and Cinema- Film of Student Demonstration, 1968
The Ohio State University
Pictorial Record of African-American Students, 1998-1992
Purdue University
Poor Peoples Campaign records, 1972
Case Western Reserve University Archives
President Jerome Papers-Black Student Union Negotiations File, 1970
Center for Archival Collections-Bowling Green State University
President Moore Papers-Black Student Union Materials, 1970-1971
Center for Archival Collections-Bowling Greene State University
President Olscamp Papers-Black Student Union Issues, 1970-1980
Center for Archival Collections-Bowling Green State University
Purdue University African-American Students, Alumni and Faculty Collection, 1961-2014
Purdue University
Ready Reference Demonstration Material, 1969-1971
The Ohio State University
Records of the 1968 Bursar Office Takeover, 1968-2008
Northwestern University
Records of the Multicultural Center, 1956-2004
University of Rhode Island
Reorientation Guide, 2010
Stanford University Archives
Richard W. Lyman Provost of Stanford University Papers, 1959-1972
Stanford University Archives
Richard W. Lyman Personal Papers, 1965-1981
Stanford University Archives
Robert I. White papers, 1963-1971
Kent State University
Robert J. Kegerreis Papers, 1971-1984
Wright State University
Robert W. Beyers Papers, 1965-1992
Stanford University Archives
Sonja Haynes Stone Center for Black Culture and History records, 1984-2013
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Southern Students Organizing Committee Papers, 1959-1977
University of Virginia
The Spectator, 1966-1970
Indiana University Archives
Spring of Dissent Exhibit, 1970
The Ohio State University
Stanford Activism (Archive-It), 2018
Stanford University Archives
Stanford Historical Photograph Collection, 1887-2018
Stanford University Archives
African American Collections: S-Z
Legend:
View Online – Collection is digitized and accessible online, in full or in part.
About the Collection – Collection inventory/finding aid is available online.
Contact Institution – Collection may be unprocessed or does not have an inventory/finding aid available online.
Stanford Historical Society Oral History Program Interviews, 1999-2016
Stanford University Archives
Stanford News Service Audio-Visual Records, 1936-2011
Stanford University Archives
Stanford Stories Collection, 2015
Stanford University Archives
Stanford University- Assistant to the President for Black Affairs records, 1968-197
Stanford University Archives
Stanford University- Faculty Senate Records, 1891-2014
Stanford University Archives
Stanford University Instagram Collection (Archive-It), 2017-2018
Stanford University Archives
Stanford University Poster Collection, 1892-2018
Stanford University Archives
Stanford University Student Organizations Website Collection (Archive-It), 2016-2018
Stanford University Archives
Student Demonstration Files, 1960-1975
The Ohio State University
Student Publications, 1960-present
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Students for the Defense of Angela Davis, 1971
Stanford University Archives
Student Tenure Protest, 1974-2002
Denison University
Tel-Buch Yearbooks, 1960-1989
The University of Akron
Tell Us How UC It: A Living Archive, 1960-present
University of California-San Diego
The Colonist, 1969-1970
Stanford University Archives
The Michigan Daily, 1890-present
University of Michigan-Bentley Historical Library
The Oberlin Sanctuary Project, 1840s-1970s
Oberlin College Archives
The Real News, 1970-1971
Stanford University Archives
Thomas W. Benson Papers, 1962-2012
Penn State University Special Collections
Underground and Political Student Newspapers, circa 1939-2008
Purdue University
Unite the Right Rally and Community Response, 2017-2018
University of Virginia
Unity House Records, 1968-2017
Connecticut College
University of Connecticut Photograph Collection, 1968-1974
University of Connecticut
University Photographs, circa 1960-1989
The University of Akron
Virginia Weekly, 1969-1972
University of Virginia
VP for Academic Affairs/ Provost records, 1957-1981
Center for Archival Collections-Bowling Green State University
Western Reserve University Panel of Americans Records, 1952-1955
Case Western Reserve University Archives
Western Reserve University Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee Records, 1965
Case Western Reserve University Archives
Yes We Can, 1974
Stanford University Archives