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
HILL, John H., MSRC Staff
HILYER, Andrew Franklin, MSRC Staff
HIMES, CHESTER B., MSRC Staff
Hobson Normal Institute, MSRC Staff
Home for Destitute Colored Children, Philadelphia, PA, MSRC Staff
HOUSTON, Charles Hamilton, MSRC Staff
Howard, Andrew Jackson, Jr., MSRC Staff
HOWARD, Oliver Otis, MSRC Staff
Howard University Men and Women in the Armed Forces, MSRC Staff
HUBBARD, Charlotte, MSRC Staff
HUGHES, Revella, MSRC Staff
HUNT, William, MSRC Staff
JEFFERSON, Thomas, MSRC Staff
JENKINS-Montgomery Family, MSRC Staff
JOHNSON, Campbell Carrington, MSRC Staff
Johnson, Georgia Douglas, MSRC Staff
JOHNSON, Joseph, MSRC Staff
JOHNSON, MORDECAI, MSRC Staff
JOHNSON, SOLOMON JAMES, MSRC Staff
JOHNSON, William Jr., MSRC Staff
JOINER, William, MSRC Staff
Jones, Lawrence, DPAAC Staff
JONES, LOIS MAILOU, MSRC Staff
JONES, LOUIA VAUGHN, MSRC Staff
JUST, Earnest E., MSRC Staff
Kelly, Sharon Pratt, DPAAC Staff
KINSLEY, Edward, MSRC Staff
KITTRELL, Flemmie, MSRC Staff
LANE, Layle, MSRC Staff
LANGSTON, John Mercer, MSRC Staff
LANGWORTHY, Charles, MSRC Staff
LEWIS, Thomas Narven, MSRC Staff
LOCHARD, Metz T. B., MSRC Staff
LOCKE, ALAIN, MSRC Staff
LOGAN, James Reginald, MSRC Staff
LOGAN, Rayford W., MSRC Staff
Louisiana (Free People of Color in ), MSRC Staff
Lovell, John, DPAAC Staff
LOVETT, Edward, MSRC Staff
LOVING, Walter, MSRC Staff
LUCAS, Townsend McKinley, MSRC Staff
MACKEY, HOWARD H, SR., MSRC Staff
Manuscript Material Related to Abraham Lincoln, MSRC Staff
MARTIN, Charles, MSRC Staff
MARTIN, HOWARD, MSRC Staff
MARYLAND WAR BOUNTY, MSRC Staff
MATZELIGER, Jan, MSRC Staff
MAYS, Benjamin, MSRC Staff
McGinty, Doris, DPAAC Staff
METROPOLITAN AME Church, MSRC Staff
MILLER, Kelly, MSRC Staff
MING, Robert, MSRC Staff
Ming, William Robert, MSRC Staff
Mitchell, Joseph E., MSRC Staff
MIZELL, Alfonce and Freddie Perren, MSRC Staff
MOORLAND, JESSE EDWARD, MSRC Staff
Murphy, Jr., George, DPAAC Staff
MURRAY, Daniel, MSRC Staff
MURRAY, Freeman Henry Morris, MSRC Staff
Murray, Pauli, MSRC Staff
MURRY, Peter Marshall, MSRC Staff
Mu-So-Lit Club, Washington, D.C., MSRC Staff
MUSTAPHA, Jennie, MSRC Staff
NAACP-District of Columbia Branch, MSRC Staff
Nabrit, Jr., James, DPAAC Staff
Nethula Journal Records, DPAAC Staff
NICKERSON, CAMILLE, MSRC Staff
NIXON, WILLIAM, MSRC Staff
NKRUMAH, Kwame, MSRC Staff
Omnium Gatherum Collection (Digital), MSRC Staff
PARKER, Theodore, MSRC Staff
Patience, Charles Edgar, MSRC Staff
PATTERSON, William, MSRC Staff
PAYNE, Christopher, MSRC Staff
PAYNE, Daniel Alexander, MSRC Staff
PAYNE, Ethel, MSRC Staff
PENDLETON, MILES, MSRC Staff
PINCHBACK, Pinckney Benton Stewart (PBS), MSRC Staff
Pittsburgh Courier, MSRC Staff
POOL, Rosey, MSRC Staff
PRATTIS, PERCIVAL LEROY, MSRC Staff
PROMETHEANS, MSRC Staff
Ralph Bunche Oral History Collection, MSRC Staff
RANKIN, Jeremiah, MSRC Staff
RANSOM, Leon, MSRC Staff
RAPIER Family, MSRC Staff
Raullerson, Calvin, DPAAC Staff
RAZAF, Andy, MSRC Staff
REYNOLDS, Anita Thompson Dickinson, MSRC Staff
RILLIEUX, Norbert, MSRC Staff
ROBESON, Eslanda, MSRC Staff
ROBESON, PAUL AND ESLANDA, MSRC Staff
Rodney, Walter, MSRC Staff
Rolark, Wilhelmina, DPAAC Staff
RUFFIN FAMILY, MSRC Staff
SETTLE, Josiah, MSRC Staff
SIDNEY Hollander Foundation, MSRC Staff
SIMMS FAMILY, MSRC Staff
Sixth Pan-African Congress Records, DPAAC Staff
SLOWE, Lucy Diggs, MSRC Staff