With holdings totaling more than 18,000 linear feet, the Manuscript Division provides extensive documentation of African American life and history. Currently more than 250 collections are available for research. These collections include the correspondence, photographs, diaries, scrapbooks, writings and memorabilia of such notables as Alain Locke, E. Franklin Frazier, Frederick Douglass, Mary Church Terrell, Anna J. Cooper, Angelina Grimke, Lois Mailou Jones, Dr. Benjamin Mays and Amiri Baraka
All permission to publish inquiries for Manuscript Division printed materials and photographs are processed through the Prints and Photographs Department. To request information and to learn more about the collections please visit us at the MSRC Webpage. To view our collections digitally, please visit the Manuscript Division Digital Collections. Any manuscript collections that are available on Digital Howard will not be pulled for on-site appointments as they are readily available for viewing on our website.
Please Note: ALL artifacts, oversized and Audio/Visual materials are currently unavailable.
Locate collections alphabetically by last name, organization name, or topic by clicking on the letter corresponding to the collection name (usually the subject's last name or the first word of organizational title) below.
Articles
ADAMS, CATO W., MSRC Staff
AGGREY, J.E. KWEGYIR, MSRC Staff
ALLEN, Maryrose Reeves, MSRC Staff
ALLEN, William, MSRC Staff
ANDERSON, Marion, MSRC Staff
ANDREWS.Richard, MSRC Staff
AUZENNE,.Gustav, MSRC Staff
BAKER'S DOZEN, MSRC Staff
BALLOCH, GEORGE WILLIAMSON, MSRC Staff
Baraka, Amiri, DCAAP Staff
BEECHER FAMILY PAPERS, MSRC Staff
Berryman-Johnson, Sherrill, MSRC Staff
Berryman, Matilene Spencer, MSRC Staff
BETHEL LITERARY AND HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION RECORDS, MSRC Staff
BLACKBURN FAMILY PAPERS, MSRC Staff
BOLDEN, ED, MSRC Staff
BRAGG, GEORGE FREEMAN, MSRC Staff
BRANCH, MARY E., MSRC Staff
BRANTON.Wiley, MSRC Staff
BRAWLELY.Benjamin, MSRC Staff
Brown, Helen, DPAAC Staff
Brown, Jr., Oscar, DPAAC Staff
BRUCE, Blanche Kelso, MSRC Staff
Bruce, Roscoe Conklin, Sr., MSRC Staff
Bryant, William, DPAAC Staff
BURCH.Charles, MSRC Staff
BURGE, R. LOUISE, MSRC Staff
BUSTILL-Bowser-Asbury Family, MSRC Staff
CALIVER, Ambrose, MSRC Staff
Callis, Henry Arthur, MSRC Staff
CALLIS, Myra, MSRC Staff
CARRINGTON, C. Glenn, MSRC Staff
CARTER, ART, MSRC Staff
CARTER, Jeanette, MSRC Staff
CARY, Maryann Shadd, MSRC Staff
CASSELL, ALBERT, MSRC Staff
CHAPMAN, Charles, MSRC Staff
CHRISTOPHER, Arthur, MSRC Staff
CIVIL RIGHTS DOCUMENTATION PROJECT, MSRC Staff
CIVIL RIGHTS Vertical Files, MSRC Staff
CLARKE, THOMAS, MSRC Staff
CLARKSON, Thomas, MSRC Staff
COBB, JAMES ADLAI, MSRC Staff
COLEMAN, Sarah, MSRC Staff
CONSOLIDATED PARENT GROUP INC, MSRC Staff
COOKE, Anne, MSRC Staff
COOK FAMILY, MSRC Staff
COOK, George, MSRC Staff
COOK, Vivian Johnson, MSRC Staff
Cook, Will Mercer, MSRC Staff
COOPER, Anna Julia, MSRC Staff
CROMWELL FAMILY, MSRC Staff
DANIEL, A MERCER, MSRC Staff
DAVIDSON, EUGENE C., MSRC Staff
DAVIDSON FAMILY, MSRC Staff
DAVIDSON, Shelby Jeames, MSRC Staff
Davis, Arthur P., DPAAC Staff
DAVIS, John Warren, MSRC Staff
DAWSON, William L., MSRC Staff
DC.Emancipation, MSRC Staff
DICKEY, Robert, MSRC Staff
DODSON, Owen Vincent, MSRC Staff
DORSEY, Thomas and William, MSRC Staff
DOUGLASS, Frederick, MSRC Staff
DOWNING, George T., MSRC Staff
DREW, Charles, MSRC Staff
DUBOIS, William Edward Burghardt, MSRC Staff
DUMAS, Alexandre, MSRC Staff
DUNNIGAN, Alice, MSRC Staff
DURKEE, James, MSRC Staff
DYKES, Eva, MSRC Staff
Edwards, Cecile Hoover, DPAAC Staff
EDWARDS, Lena, MSRC Staff
EGYPT, OPHELIA, MSRC Staff
FAULKNER, William J., MSRC Staff
FAUSET, Crystal Bird, MSRC Staff
FEREBEE, Dorothy, MSRC Staff
Fifteenth Street Presbyterian Church, Washington, DC, MSRC Staff
First Congregational Church, Washington, DC, MSRC Staff
Fitzhugh, H. Naylor, DPAAC Staff
Francis, H. Minton, DPAAC Staff
FRAZIER, E. FRANKLIN, MSRC Staff
FREEMAN, Frankie Muse, MSRC Staff
GILL, Lee Andrew, MSRC Staff
GIZENGA, Dabu, MSRC Staff
GOINS, Gregoria, MSRC Staff
GOODLETT, CARLTON, MSRC Staff
GREGORY, THOMAS MONTGOMERY, MSRC Staff
GRIMKE, Angelina, MSRC Staff
GRIMKE, Archibald, MSRC Staff
GRIMKE, Francis, MSRC Staff
GROSS, Carl, MSRC Staff
HARPER, Solomon, MSRC Staff
HARRIS, Abram Lincoln, MSRC Staff
HARRISON, Hazel, MSRC Staff
Harrison, Mark, MSRC Staff
Harris, Patricia Roberts, DPAAC Staff
HAYES, George E. C., MSRC Staff
HENDERSON, Edwin Bancroft, MSRC Staff
Hendley, Charles V., DPAAC Staff