African American Studies at Beinecke Library

The James Weldon Johnson Memorial Collection of African American Arts and Letters

Materials featured on African American Studies at Beinecke Library may be protected by copyright restrictions; permission to publish should be sought from the owners of the rights, typically the creator or the heirs to his or her estate. Two websites may be very helpful to researchers who are tracing copyright holders:

An exhibition curated by Caitlin Mitchell, Y06; on view through March, 2006.

  An exhibition of sheet music representing all the major African American musical genres of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, including ragtime, black musical theater, folk songs, spirituals, the blues, and jazz. Major black composers and lyricist represented include Eubie Blake, Cab Calloway, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Duke Ellington, James Weldon and John Rosamond Johnson, Noble Sissle, and Samuel Coleridge-Taylor. On exhitibtion at the Beinecke Library in February, 2005.

Literature and Resistance: African-American Voices from the 1960s and1970s, on exhibition February-April, 2003.