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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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California Afro American Oral History Proj. Transcripts
Canada Lee Foundation Records
Cannon, George D. Papers
Carlson, Joel/South Africa Legal Defense Collection *
Carnegie-Myrdal Research Memoranda (Carnegie-Myrdal Study of the Negro in America)
Carpenter, Elliot Papers
Carpenter, John A./Research Material Files
Carrington, Glenn Papers, 1921-1971 - Finding Aid
Carruthers, Benjamin Papers
Carter, Ronald L. Papers
Carter, Sylvester Papers & Slides
Carver, George Washington Letters
Casey, Mamie Letters
Casimir, J. R. Ralph Papers
Cato, Minto Papers
Cauvin, Victor and Luxembourg Papers
Center for Constitutional Rights Records *
Central Africa Project Collection
Chambers, Andrew Papers
Charlton, Melville Papers
Cheatham, Henry P. Collection
Child Development Group of Mississippi Collection
Children's Art Carnival Records *
Childress, Alice Papers
Chinn, May Edward Papers
CIBA-GEIGY Corp. Exceptional Black Scientists Collection
Civil Rights Congress Records
Clark, Conrad Collection
Clark, Kenneth B. Collection
Catherine Clarke Civil Rights Collection, 1936-1969 (bulk 1966-1969) - Finding Aid
Clarke, John Henrik Papers
Club Cubano Collection
Coalition of Black Trade Unionists Collection, 1972-1988 - Finding Aid
Cobb, Jewel Plummer Papers
Coleman, Edward Papers
Coleman, John Milton scrapbooks
Collins, Christiane/Morningside Park Coalition Collection - Finding Aid
Colman, Henry Collection
Colored School Number 1 Collection
Commandment Keepers Ethiopian Hebrew Congregation Records
Committee Against Jim Crow in Military Service and Training Collection
Community News Service Records, 1969-1976 - Finding Aid
Connor, Edric and Pearl Papers
Conrad, Earl /Harriet Tubman Collection, 1939-1941, 1946 - Finding Aid
Constituency for Africa Collection *
Cooper, Opal Papers
Corley, Elayne Williams Papers
Corps d'Afrique Muster Roll
Cosme, Eusebia Papers, 1927-1973 - Finding Aid
Council on Interracial Books for Children. Directors Files
Countee Cullen Regional Library Records
Frank R. Crosswaith Papers, 1917-1965 - Finding Aid
Crummell, Alexander Papers
Crusader News Agency
Cumbo, Marion & Clarissa Papers *

* Closed until processed