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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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Nash, Joe/Black Dance Collection
National Alliance Against Racial and Political Repression Records/Angela Davis Defense Committee
National Alliance against Racism and Political Repression Records *
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Montgomery Branch Minute Books, 1955
National Association of Colored Graduate Nurses Records - Finding Aid
National Association of University Women Records. New York Chapter
National Council for Black Studies Collection
National Negro Congress Records
National Negro Congress Records (Additions)
National Research Council. Committee on the Status of Black Americans
Larry Neal Papers, 1961-1985 - Finding Aid
Negro Actors Guild Records
Negro Ensemble Company Records & Scripts
Negro Labor Committee Records
Negro World Digest Records
Nelson, Jill Collection
New York Black Librarians Caucus Records
New York City Commission. African Burial Ground *
New York City. Community Development Agency. Records *
New York City. World's Fair Negro Week Records
New York Jazz Museum Records
New York Public Library. 135th Street Branch. Records
New York State Beauty Culturalists Association. Executive Secretary's Files (Maude Gadsen)
New York State Colonization Records
New York State Judicial Committee on Minorities Records
New York Urban League. Records of the Secretary of the Board of Directors
Richard Newman. Laura Adorkor Kofey Research Collection, 1926-1981 - Finding Aid
Non-violent Action Group Collection
North Manhattan/Central Harlem Project Records
Northeasterners, Inc. Collection
Northern Student Movement Records
Nurse, Godfrey Papers

* Closed until processed