Research Resources

"This Is My Life": The Sonnet and the Emergence of Black Subjectivity Thursday, September 29, 2011 at 2:00 pm Beinecke Library, Room 38

Photographic Memory Workshop – Graduate Student Working Group 2011-2012

The Amos Beman Scrapbook collection includes news clippings related to and collected by Amos Gerry Beman, a black minister in New Haven, Connecticut. Beman was a national leader during the mid-nineteenth century, a proponent of abolition, suffrage, temperance and educational and moral reform.

The Lloyd Richards Papers (YCAL MSS 366) are fully processed and open for research at the Beinecke Library.

The Beinecke Library collections include numerous African American community and business directories from the early decades of the 20th century. Such directories reveal detailed information about African American communities, documenting commerce, religious and civic activity, and social events.

The Manet Harrison Fowler and Manet Helen Fowler Papers (JWJ MSS 59) are available for research. A detailed description of the collection can be found online: Manet Harrison Fowler and Manet Helen Fowler Papers JWJ MSS 59.