Materials documenting the filmmaker, educator, poet, and gay rights activist.

Collection documenting a graphic designer and racial, cultural, and gender equity advocate.

Sheet music by African American writers or published by African-American publishers, as well as music or illustrations with African-American themes. Both series contain offensive caricatures. Many prominent jazz, ragtime, blues and popular composers are included.

Includes notes from interviews with and about Gordon Parks, film coverage in periodicals, notes from interviews with Gene Parks and others, and manuscript and typed drafts of Kevles' article on Gene Parks.

Correspondence between two African American women journalists who co-authored a book about their world travels in the 1930s.

Exhibit catalog published by the Studio Museum in Harlem in 1982.

1968 first edition of Nikki Giovanni's political and personal poetry.

Poems by Claude McKay, Jean Toomer, Countee Cullen, and Langston Hughes from the Pamphlet poets series, published in 1927.

Letterpress, illustrated book of poetry by the Kentucky founder of the Affrilachian Poets.

Choreopoem performed by seven women exploring the love and sorrows of being Black and being a woman.

First edition of Baldwin's novel exploring many themes that were taboo at the time, including bisexuality, interracial couples, and extramarital affairs.

First edition by the Harlem Rennaissance poet.

Signed by the author and includes a program of his speaking event at the Lincoln Normal School (a historically black college founded to train teachers in Alabama).

Two African American women journalists write about their world travels in the 1930s.

Contains a pamphlet edition of "Freedom's Plow" signed by Langston Hughes.

Black Thought and Culture is a source for published and unpublished works of historically important Black leaders.

Created from the Library Company of Philadelphia's Afro-Americana Collection. This online resource contains more than 12,000 printed works including books, pamphlets and broadsides about African American history, literature and culture.