African American Studies

The Chicago Jazz Archive is part of the University of Chicago Library's Special Collections Research Center.

A guide to material in the Center for Research Libraries.

The largest African American history and literature collection in the Midwest is housed in the Woodson Regional branch of the Chicago Public Library.

The Black Metropolis Research Consortium (BMRC) is a Chicago-based membership association of libraries, universities, and other archival institutions. Its mission is to make broadly accessible its members’ holdings of materials that document African American and African diasporic culture, history, and politics, with a specific focus on materials relating to Chicago.

African American Manuscript Materials are housed in the Duke University Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library.

Includes information on the annual Gwendolyn Brooks Conference for Black Literature and Creative Writing.

Note African American History in the American Memory collections and the African American MOSAIC exhibit.

A research unit of The New York Public Library, generally recognized as one of the leading institutions of its kind in the world. Digital Schomburg provides access to their online collections.