African American Studies at Beinecke Library

Collections, events, and news from the James Weldon Johnson Memorial Collection of African American Arts and Letters.
  • Yale’s Beinecke Library Acquired 200+ Prints by Legendary Photographer Gordon Parks (Culture Type)

    November 20, 2021

  • Trove of Gordon Parks “Study Sets” Comes to Yale Library

    November 9, 2021

  • Getting Started

    September 3, 2021

    Research in American and African American Literature at Beinecke Library: Getting Started Archival research is fascinating and fun – but it can be complicated...
  • Juneteenth 2021 and the work still to do

    June 18, 2021

  • Restored Richard Wright novel hits bestseller lists (AP via The Oakland Press)

    May 13, 2021