African American Studies at Beinecke Library

Collections, events, and news from the James Weldon Johnson Memorial Collection of African American Arts and Letters.

Reading Call Numbers
September 11, 2019
Call numbers of many YCAL & JWJ books reveal information about the book, its receptionv and more -- here are some hints on how to read them.
Langston Hughes 1927 "Trip South" Notebooks
July 19, 2019

A recent post at Smithsonian.com discusses notebooks Langston Hughes kept during his 1927 road trip with Zora Neale Hurston – the notebooks are found in...
Yale Hosts Reading Of Rare Copy Of Declaration Of Independence (WNPR)
July 10, 2019
Stonewall, Before and After: An Interview with Samuel R. Delany (Los Angeles Review of Books)
July 6, 2019
Frederick Douglass’s Timely Words Resonate At The Beinecke (New Haven Independent)
July 6, 2019
We hold these truths ... Declaration of Independence on view June 27 - July 11, 2019
June 20, 2019

The Beinecke Library marks the 243rd anniversary of the nation’s founding with a special display of a major document of United States history from its...
Patience and a steady hand: Increasing diversity in art conservation
June 17, 2019
Fulfilling a dream: Phoenix Alexander ’19 Ph.D. reflects on work with the Beinecke Library
May 15, 2019

Phoenix Alexander came to Yale for graduate studies in the 2013 from the United Kingdom., where he had earned an M.A. in English from Queen Mary University of...
Classic documentary ‘The Cry of Jazz’ at Yale (Hartford Courant)
May 6, 2019
The Book Art of Harlem Renaissance Artist Aaron Douglas: A Bibliography
April 29, 2019
The first complete bibliography of illustrations and jacket art of Aaron Douglas, who created the visual vocabulary of the Harlem Renaissance