Subject Guide
Selected Microform Titles - A to H
- American Missionary Association. ArchivesThe American Missionary Association (AMA) was established in 1846 as an interdenominational missionary society devoted to abolitionist principles. The Association grew directly from the committee organized in 1839 to defend the Africans who had revolted and seized the schooner La Amistad. Micfilm 72
Click on title links below for VIRGO records containing location of microfilm, subject information and links to online guides, if available.
- Black abolitionist papers, 1830-1865"The approximately 15,000 articles, documents, correspondence, proceedings, manuscripts, and literary works of almost 300 Black abolitionists show the full range of their activities in the United States, Canada, England, Scotland, Ireland, France and Germany." Micfilm 1714
- Black biographical dictionaries, 1790-1950"Written and edited in most cases by blacks, the works reproduced include biographical sketches of individuals from all walks of life - national activists, state and local figures, prominent women, lawyers, artists, musicians, church and missionary society leaders and many more".Micfich 2129
- Black workers in the era of the great migration, 1916-1925Micfilm 1636. See online guide.
- The Black power movement. Part 2, The papers of Robert F. WilliamsMicfilm 7480 pt.2
- Civil rights during the Johnson administration, 1963-1969A collection from the holdings of The Lyndon Baines Johnson Library, Austin, Texas. Micfilm 1569
- Selected documents from records of the Committee on Fair Employment PracticeRecord Group 228 in the custody of the National Archives.
Micfilm 1613 - Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) PapersMicfilm 1567
- Freedmen's Bureau files - VIRGO SearchUnited States. Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands. From the National Archives. For Arkansas, District of Columbia, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia.
Selected Microform Titles - M to Z
- Martin Luther King, Jr., FBI fileMicfilm 1715
- Records of ante-bellum southern plantations from the Revolution through the Civil WarBe sure and click on See More in VIRGO record for contents of this large set. Micfilm 1705
- Slave narratives : a folk history of slavery in the United States from interviews with former slavesMicfilm 145. Guide in Shannon Library , 3 Center. Microfilm reels in Ivy Annex. Call Number Micfilm 145. Guide in Shannon Library 3 Center. Microfilm reels in Ivy Annex. See also digitized version from Library of Congress..
- Southern Tenant Farmers' Union PapersMicfilm 286