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Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library

Beinecke Windows Showcase James Weldon Johnson Memorial Collection of African American Arts and Letters

Enjoy from home or outdoors with physical distancing!  Always open to all online

Exhibition Hall Closed Until Further Notice; Reading Room Open to Authorized Yale Researchers Only Beginning January 12

MON - FRI Reading Room Open to Authorized Yale Researchers Only
9 AM–4 PM
Reading room open to authorized Yale researchers by advance registration. Current circumstances do not allow the Beinecke Library to welcome non-Yale researchers or public visitors at this time.
Digital collections always free and open to all online!

News

  • Words for the Nation 2020: A Playlist of Readings from the Collections

  • Mei-mei Berssenbrugge wins Yale’s 2021 Bollingen Prize for Poetry

  • Video from Beinecke Library or about authors and others in the collections

Collection Highlights

  • Langston Hughes Papers, 1862-1980

  • The Black Panthers Trial: Courtroom Sketches by Robert Templeton

  • Zora Neale Hurston Collection

  • Solomon Sir Jones Films, 1924-1928

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