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. 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.
Browse the Manuscripts Division Collections:
Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity Inc. Digital Archive
- Life and Writings of the Grimke Family
- Manuscripts by Anna Julia Cooper
- Personal Papers
- Published Materials by Anna J. Cooper
- Scrapbooks and Albums
Bethel Literary and Historical Association
- Advocate, The (Cleveland)
- Advocate, The (Kansas)
- Advocate, The (Null)
- African News, The
- Afro-American Sentinel, The
- Aliened American, The
- American and Foreign Anti-Slavery Reporter
- American Economist
- American Freedman, The
- American, The
- Appeal, The
- Appreciator-Union, The
- Arkansas Freeman, The
- Arkansas Weekly Mansion, The
- Atlanta Independent, The
- Baptist Headlight, The
- Birmingham Reporter, The
- Bluff City News, The
- Boston Chronicle, The
- Boston Hub, The
- Boston Weekly Hub, The
- Bullet, The
- Church Advocate, The
- Cleveland Advocate, The
- Cleveland Journal, The
- Colored Alabamian, The
- Colored Citizen, The
- Colored Tribune, The
- Crusader Magazine, The
- Daily American Citizen
- Daily Christian Recorder
- Denver Star, The
- Eagle Dispatch, The
- Elevator, The
- Enterprise, The
- Evening Call, The
- Fraternal Herald, The
- Freedom's Journal
- Gazette, The
- Genuis Of Universal Emancipation
- Grit, The
- Guardian, The
- Guide, The
- Historic Times, The
- Hub, The
- Human Rights
- Illinois Record, The
- Interstate Reporter, The
- Inter-State Tattler, The
- Iowa State Bystander
- Kansas Blackman, The
- Kansas Headlight, The
- Langston City Herald
- Leavenworth Advocate, The
- Leavenworth Herald, The
- Liberator, The
- Mississippi Odd Fellow, The
- Mobile Weekly Press, The
- Mule's Ear, The
- Nashville Globe
- National Baptist Voice
- National Reflector
- Negro World
- Negro World, The
- New Era
- New National Era
- New Orleans Daily Creole
- New York Freeman, The
- Norfolk Journal and Guide
- North Star, The
- Oakland Independent
- Oakland Sunshine
- Oakland Times, The
- Odd Fellows Budget, The
- Odds Fellow Journal
- Owl, The
- Pacific Appeal
- People's Advocate, The
- People's Friend, The
- Pioneer Press, The
- Pittsburg Plain Dealer, The
- Recorder, The
- Savannah Tribune, The
- Selma-Times Journal, The
- Sentinel, The
- Southern Argus, The
- Star, The
- St. Louis Palladium
- Tattler, The
- Temple Star, The
- Topeka Tribune, The
- Tougaloo News, The
- Tuskegee Student, The
- V.C. Endeavorer and S.S. Headlight, The
- Washington Daily American, The
- Washington Sentinel, The
- Waycross Tribune, The
- Weekly Advocate, The
- Weekly Call/Topeka Call
- Weekly Pelican, The
- Western American
- Western Christian Recorder
- Western Outlook
- Wichita Protest
- Wichita Searchlight, The
Booker T. Washington Collection
- Booker T. Washington Collection - Autographs
- Booker T. Washington Collection – Letters
- Booker T. Washington Collection – Manuscripts
Bustill-Bowser-Asbury Collection
Campbell C. Johnson Collection
Freedmen's Hospital School of Nursing
- Freedmen's Hospital School of Nursing Images Collection
- Freedmen's Hospital School of Nursing Publications
Howard University Jazz Oral History Project
Howard University Men and Women in the Armed Forces
Mary Ann Shadd Cary Collection
- Articles, Editorials, Reports
- Biographical
- Certificates and Statements
- Correspondence
- Organizations
- Printed Material
- Programs
- Songs
- Speeches
- Unidentified and Incomplete Material
National Association of University Women
- The Bulletin of the National Association of University Women
- The Journal of the National Association of University Women
- Articles and Statements By and About General Howard
- Articles and Statements by Others
- Broadsides
- Correspondence
- Diaries
- First Congregational Church, Washington, D.C.
- Howard University
- Lyrics and Poetry
- Manuscripts
- Newspaper Clippings
- Personal Papers
- Photographs
- Programs and Invites
Pittsburgh Courier DC Image Collection
- Pittsburgh Courier: Buildings
- Pittsburgh Courier: Businesses
- Pittsburgh Courier: Children
- Pittsburgh Courier: Education
- Pittsburgh Courier: Entertainment
- Pittsburgh Courier: Groups
- Pittsburgh Courier: Men
- Pittsburgh Courier: Professions
- Pittsburgh Courier: Protests, Boycotts and Pickets
- Pittsburgh Courier: Religion
- Pittsburgh Courier: Social Events
- Pittsburgh Courier: Sports
- Pittsburgh Courier: Street Scenes
- Pittsburgh Courier: Transportation
- Pittsburgh Courier: Travel
- Pittsburgh Courier: Weddings
- Pittsburgh Courier: Women
Sarah Williamson Coleman Papers
The Archives of African American Architects Digital Collection
The Writer’s Club, Inc. Collection
