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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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Asadata Dafora (Horton) Papers, 1933-1963 - Finding Aid
Daly, Victor Papers
Damas, Leon Papers
Dammond, Ellen Craft. Reminiscences
Daniels, Geraldine. District Office Files *
Dartigue, Maurice Papers
Angela Davis Legal Defense Collection, 1970-1972 - Finding Aid
Davis, Benjamin J. , Jr. Papers, 1949-1964 - Finding Aid
Davis, Elizabeth Bishop Papers
Davis, Ellabelle Papers
Davis, Irving B./Pan African Skills Project Collection
Davis, Jessica B./Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters Collection
John P. Davis Papers, 1845-1972 - Finding Aid
Davis, Ossie and Ruby Dee Playscript Collection
Davis, Ruby Shepard Scrapbooks
Dawson, Mary Cardwell Papers
Day, Beth Papers
Delaney, Beauford Collection
Delaney, Beauford Letters
Delaney, Henry Beard Scrapbook
Sadie Peterson Delaney Papers, 1921-1958 - Finding Aid
Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Collection
Demby, Bishop Edward T. & Mrs. Antoinette R. Papers
Des Verney, Bertha Papers
Dewey, Kenneth/Selma Last Year Collection
Dial, Lewis Scrapbook
Dinkins, Joyce Public School Reading Program Scrapbook
Dixon, Dean Papers
Dixon, Melvin Papers
Dodson, Jualynne Papers
Dodson, Owen Collection
Donaldson, Andrew Papers
Douglas, Aaron Papers
Douglass, Frederick Collection
Dowridge-Challenor Family Letters, 1904-1917 - Finding Aid
Drake, St. Clair Papers
Drayton, Thaddious Collection
Du Bois, W.E.B. Collection
Dumas, Henry papers
Dunbar, Paul Laurence Letters
Dupree African-American Pentecostal and Holiness Collection, 1876-1989 - Finding Aid
Dyer, William Holmes Memoirs

* Closed until processed