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Africana Studies Subject Guide

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Simmona E. Simmons
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Selected UMBC Primary Source Collections

The majority of these collections are on microfilm or microfiche. Accompanying guides and texts are included if owned by UMBC Library
  • reference book Black Abolitionist Papers, 1830-1865.
    Sanford, NC, USA: Microfilming Corporation of America, 1981.
    Location: UMBC Serials - Microform
    17 microfilm reels; 4 in., 35 mm. + 1 guide
  • reference book Black Workers in the Era of the Great Migration, 1916-1925.
    James R. Grossman, editor. Frederick, MD, USA: University Publications of America, 1985.
    Location: UMBC Serials - Microform
    25 microfilm reels; 35 mm
  • reference book Civil rights during the Johnson Administration, 1963-1969: A Collection from the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library, Austin, TX.
    Frederick, MD, USA: University Publications of America, 1984.
    Location: UMBC Serials - Microform
    21 microfilm reels; 35 mm. + 1 guide. Pt. 1. The White House central files (15 reels) -- Pt. 2. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission: administrative history (3 reels) -- Pt. 3. Oral histories (3 reels)
  • reference book The Martin Luther King, Jr., FBI File.
    David J. Garrow and Robert Lester (compiled guide). Frederick, MD, USA: University Publications of America, 1984.
    Location: UMBC Serials - Microform
    16 microfilm reels; 35 mm
  • reference book New Deal Agencies and Black America in the 1930s.
    John B. Kirby, Robert Lester, and Dale Reynolds. Frederick, MD, USA: University Publications of America, 1983.
    Location: UMBC Serials - Microform
    25 microfilm reels; 25 mm. + guide
  • reference book Slavery.
    Sanford, NC, USA: University Publications of America, 1984.
    Location: UMBC Reference - Microform - HT861 .S62 1983
    6720 microfiche; 11 x 15 cm. Includes primary sources on American slavery, Latin American and Caribbean slavery, and the British and French slave trades from the 16th through the 19th centuries. UMBC Collection incomplete.

    Related Guides and Texts:
    • Slavery, a Bibliographic Guide to the Microfiche Collection. Henry Barnard, editor. 1983.
      Location: REF HT861 S6 1983
    • African American Slave Narratives: An Anthology. Sterling Lecater Bland, Jr., editor. 2001.
      Location: REF E444 A23 2001
  • reference book Schomburg Collection of Negro Literature and History. Dictionary Catalog.
    Boston, MA, USA: G.K. Hall, 1962.
    Location: UMBC Reference - Z881 N592 S35
    9 v. (8473 p.) 37 cm.

    Related Text:
    • Bibliographic Guide to Black Studies. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Supplement to Schomburg Collection of Negro Literature and History. Dictionary catalog. 1975-.
      Location: REF Z881 N596 S331

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