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Manuscripts Collections

The Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division holds manuscript and archival collections of personal and family papers, organizational records, and miscellaneous manuscripts. These holdings focus on the history, literature, politics, and culture of peoples of African descent in the Americas and Africa, primarily in the twentieth century. The collections are strongest in the areas of the performing arts, women's studies, Harlem, civil rights and post-civil rights movements, cultural and political movements, African-American religion, and Haitian, Caribbean and Central African history. Geographic concentration within the manuscripts collection is primarily in the United States.

Catalog records for approximately two-third of the collections can be found in the Library's online catalog. In addition, links can be made to finding aids on the Library's Manuscript & Archival Finding Aids site. Not all of the finding aids are available via the Archives & Manuscripts webpage, nor do all of the collections have finding aids. For additional information concerning these collections contact the division via email (scmarbref@nypl.org) or telephone: 212 491-2224. Some collections are closed until processed.

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Bailey, Charity Albert Papers
Baker, Ella Papers
Baldwin, James Collection
Ballets (Les) Negres Scrapbook
Baraka, Amiri Collection of Playscripts
Baraka, Amiri Collection of Unpublished Poetry
Beach, Lillian Collection *
Beam, Joseph F. Papers, 1967-1990 - Finding Aid
Bearden, Bessye B. Papers, 1922-1944 - Finding Aid
Bearden, Romare Papers, 1933-1979 - Finding Aid
Beecher, Robert Papers
Begeleus, Andre Emile II Papers
Belafonte, Harry Collection *
Benjamin, Claude A. Bennie Papers
Bennett, George W. Manuscript, n.d. - Finding Aid
Bennett, Gwendolyn Papers, 1916-1981, n.d. - Finding Aid
Bermuda Benevolent Association Records
Berry Family Letters
Isaac Reed Berry Papers, 1931-1975 - Finding Aid
Berry, Leonidas H. Papers
Llewellyn L. Berry Collection, 1900-1954 - Finding Aid
Beth Elohim Hebrew Congregation Records
Beth Ha-Tefilah Ethiopian Hebrew Congregation Records
Bishop, Shelton Hale Collection
Black Academy of Arts and Letters (Records), 1968-1980 - Finding Aid
Black and Third World Periodicals - Sample Issues
Black Economic Research Center Records
Black Emergency Cultural Coalition Records *
Black Films Collection
Black Gay and Lesbian Archive
Black Newspapers - Sample Issues
Black Panther Party - F.B.I. File
Black Panther Party. Harlem Branch Collection, 1970,n.d. - Finding Aid
Black Theology Project Records
Black Women Oral History Project
Black, W. Joseph Papers, 1961-1977 - Finding Aid
Blacks in the Railroad Industry Collection, 1946-1954 - Finding Aid
Bledsoe, Jules Papers
B'Nai Adath Kol Beth Yisroel (Ethiopian Hebrew) Congregation Records
Boatner, Edward Hammond Papers, 1941-1980, n. d. - Finding Aid
Bolin, Jane Matilda Papers
Bonnemere, Eddie Papers *
Booker T. Washington Center for Servicemen Records
Bowser, Aubrey H. Papers
Bradley, Henry Thorpe Papers
Bragg, George Freeman Manuscripts, n.d. - Finding Aid
Braithwaite, William Stanley Beaumont Papers - Finding Aid
Brazil-Miscellaneous Collections
British Virgin Islands Benevolent Association Records
Broadfield, George Papers *
Broadsides Collection
Broady, Tolly Rupert Collection of Writings
Broderick, Francis L./W.E.B. Du Bois Research Material
Brooks, Gwendolyn Collection
Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters Collection
Brown, Earl Papers
Brown, Egbert Ethelred Papers, 1908-1964 - Finding Aid
Brown, Helen Scrapbook
Brown, Lawrence Papers
Browne, Clement Collection
Browne, Robert S. Papers, 1957-1995 - Finding Aid
Bruce, Herbert L. Papers
Bruce, John E. Papers
Brutus, Dennis Papers
Bryant, Desso B. Scrapbook
Bunche, Ralph Letters
Bunche, Ralph J. Papers, 1922-1988. - Finding Aid
Bunche, Ralph/FBI File
Henry C. Bunton Papers, 1871-1989 - Finding Aid
Burke, Mamie Oral History Interview
Burnett, Theodora Stewart Collection
Burnham, Louis Collection
Burns, Heywood Papers *
Bush Family Papers
Butler, William H. Papers

* Closed until processed