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

Arthur (originally Arturo) Alfonso Schomburg was a collector of books and manuscripts pertaining to black history and culture, whose collection formed the basis for the Schomburg Center for Black Culture. This collection consists primarily of correspondence to Arthur Schomburg; press clippings, mostly in scrapbooks, of articles by and about Schomburg; ephemera; and memorials of Schomburg written after his death. less