James Weldon Johnson Memorial Collection

The James Weldon Johnson Memorial Collection (JWJ) documents and celebrates the cultural and artistic achievements and the intellectual and political activities of African Americans.

Marilyn Nelson, Poetry Reading
October 7, 2019

JOIN US for a poetry reading by Marilyn Nelson Thursday, October 24, 4:00 PM Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, 121 Wall Street Yale Collection of...
New Research From Beinecke Collections
September 14, 2019
Recent books based on research in Beinecke Library collections
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.
Four Poems from Langston Hughes’s Spanish Civil War Verse (Anne Donlon and Evelyn Scaramella, PMLA 2019)
August 1, 2019
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
Patience and a steady hand: Increasing diversity in art conservation
June 17, 2019
New Scholarship: Seamus Joyce-Johnson on Langston Hughes and Duke Ellington.
May 24, 2019

“Fellow Americans: the Relationship Between Langston Hughes and Duke Ellington” a pop-up exhibition and seminar paper by Seamus Joyce-Johnson in Professor...