African American Voices and History in University Collections

Resources from The Lilly Library

Baldwin mss.
The letters of author James Baldwin, 1924-1987, to editor William Rossa Cole.
Jones, L. mss.
The papers of poet and playwright Leroi Jones (Amiri Baraka). Collection I: Editorial office records of the magazines Yugen and The Floating Bear, for which Jones was an editor. Collection II: two plays by Leroi Jones.

Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, an American slave by Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895
Call Number: E449 .D737
Publication Date: 1845
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Frederick Douglass' paper. Vol. VII, no. 20 by Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895.
Call Number: E449 .F49 1854
Publication Date: 1854
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Narrative of Sojourner Truth : a northern slave, emancipated from bodily servitude by the state of New York, in 1828 by Truth, Sojourner, 1799-1883
Call Number: E185.97.T87 N2
Publication Date: 1850
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Why we can't wait by King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968
Call Number: E185.61 .K54
Publication Date: 1964
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The black student voice
Call Number: E185.61 .A258
Publication Date: Vol. 1, no. 1 (July 1, 1968)-
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