Found 2 collections related to African Americans and libraries

The Task Force was created by the National Commission on Libraries and Information Science to explore the status of library and information services, resources, and programs concentrating on blacks, Native Americans, Asians, and Hispanics, and to produce a final report with specific recommendations. The Task Force was created in 1980 and dissolved in 1982. Correspondence, memoranda, minutes, research materials, press releases, drafts, and final reports of the Task Force. less

Lawrence Dunbar Reddick (March 3, 1910 – August 2, 1995) was a professor, historian, biographer of Martin Luther King, Jr., and former curator of the New York Public Library's Schomburg Collection. Reddick was a scholar in the field of African American Studies and collected materials related to the Black experience in the military, education, and professional environments. Reddick's collection contains photographs and negatives used in his research, as well as images illustrating his academic career, civil rights advocacy, and personal life. less