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[Scrapbook of newspaper clippings and handbills relating to Captain Hugh Mulzac's tour of various cities in 1944, campaigning for the Roosevelt-Truman ticket].
- Text
- [1944]
- 1944
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc Micro R-4108 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Notes from the British Legation in the United States to the Department of State, 1791-1906.
- Text
- Washington, National Archives and Records Service, 1943-62.
- 1943-1962
- 145 Items
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc Micro R-3076 r. 143 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc Micro R-3076 r. 144 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc Micro R-3076 r. 145 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Black men of the sea / by Michael Cohn and Michael K. H. Platzer.
- Text
- New York : Dodd, Mead, c1978.
- 1978
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc D 78-889 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Colored mariners in ports of South Carolina. Message from the President of the United States transmitting the information required by a resolution of the House of Representatives of 2d February ultimo, in relation to an act of the Legislature of the State of South Carolina. directing the imprisonment of colored persons arriving from abroad in the ports of that State, & c. March 2, 1842.
- Text
- [Washington, D. C.: s. n.], 1842
- 1842
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc Micro F-1710 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Destination freedom: keeper of the dream. (Radio program)
- Audio
- Chicago: WMAQ, 1949.
- 1949
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Audio Sc Audio C-404 Side 2 Schomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Fifty years in chains, or, The life of an American slave.
- Text
- New-York : H. Dayton, 29 Ann Street, 1858.
- 1858
- 1 Item
Available Online
https://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc2.ark:/13960/t7zk5631gItem details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc Rare 326.92-B (Ball, C. Fifty years in chains) Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Record and proceedings of a general court martial [microform] : convened at U.S. Naval Training and Distribution Center, San Francisco, California, by order of the commandant, Twelfth Naval District, and commander, Naval Operating Base, San Francisco, California ... 14 September-24 October 1944.
- Text
- [San Francisco, Calif. : s.n., 1945?]
- 1945
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc Micro R-3912 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
U.S.S. Mason [microform].
- Text
- 1944-1945.
- 1944-1945
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc Micro R-911 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
[Charts and graphs showing the conditions of Afro-Americans in 1900] [microform] / compiled and prepared by W.E.B. Du Bois for the Negro Exhibit of the American Section of the Exposition universelle, Paris, 1900.
- Text
- 1900.
- 1900
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc Micro R-4083 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Narrative of Billy Tilghman / transcribed and edited by Paul E. Sluby, Sr., Stanton L. Wormley.
- Text
- [Washington, D.C.] : Columbian Harmony Society, c1983.
- 1983
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc F 86-10 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
The life of John Thompson, a fugitive slave : containing his history of 25 years in bondage, and his providential escape / written by himself.
- Text
- Worcester [Mass.] : Published by John Thompson, MDCCCLVI [1856]
- 1856
- 3 Items
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text AN (Thompson) (Thompson, J. Life of John Thompson) Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc Rare 326.92-T (Thompson, J. Life of John Thompson) Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives Not available - Please for assistance.Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc Rare C 88-7 Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Black odyssey : the seafaring traditions of Afro-Americans / by James Barker Farr.
- Text
- c1982.
- 1982
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc Micro R-5511 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Black odyssey : the seafaring traditions of Afro-Americans / James Barker Farr.
- Text
- New York : P. Lang, c1989.
- 1989
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc D 91-14 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Paul Cuffe portrait collection [graphic].
- Still image
- <198-?>
- 1980-1989
- 1 Item
Available Online
https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/collections/8903b2c0-c5f1-012f-080d-58d385a7bc34#/?tab=navigation&roots=68:bfbf60c0-c5f1-012f-fb41-58d385a7bc34Item details Format Call Number Item Location Still image Sc Photo Cuffe, Paul Schomburg Center - Photographs & Prints Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Lester Granger portrait collection [graphic].
- Still image
- <1940?-1959?>
- 1940-1959
- 2 Items
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Still image Sc Photo Granger, Lester B. folder 1 Schomburg Center - Photographs & Prints Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Still image Sc Photo Granger, Lester B. folder 2 Schomburg Center - Photographs & Prints Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Edward J. Odum portrait collection [graphic].
- Still image
- <1940?-1959?>
- 1940-1959
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Still image Sc Photo Odom, Edward J. Schomburg Center - Photographs & Prints Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Dorie Miller portrait collection [graphic] / United States Navy.
- Still image
- <1940?-1969?>
- 1940-1969
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Still image Sc Photo Miller, Dorie Schomburg Center - Photographs & Prints Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Virginia Negro soldiers and seamen in the Revolutionary War [microform] / by Luther Porter Jackson.
- Text
- Norfolk, Virginia : Guide Quality Press, 1944.
- 1944
- 4 Items
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text *ZH-IAG p.v. 757, no. 2 Schwarzman Building - Microforms Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc 973.3-J (Jackson, L. Virginia Negro soldiers and seamen) Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc Micro F-12828, no. 137 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Ivory V. Thompson portrait collection [graphic].
- Still image
- <195-?>
- 1950-1959
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Still image Sc Photo Thompson, Ivory V. Schomburg Center - Photographs & Prints Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Middleton A. "Spike" Harris photograph collection [graphic].
- Still image
- [1870?]-[1977?]
- 1870-1977
- 8 Items
Available Online
https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/collections/bf818460-30c2-0139-dd85-0242ac110003Item details Format Call Number Item Location Still image Sc Photo Middleton A. "Spike" Harris Collection box 6 Schomburg Center - Photographs & Prints Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Still image Sc Photo Middleton A. "Spike" Harris Collection box 7 Offsite Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person.
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Still image Sc Photo Middleton A. "Spike" Harris Collection box 8 Schomburg Center - Photographs & Prints Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Black mariners [videorecording] / WCVB-TV, Boston ; produced by Karl Nurse.
- Moving image
- United States : WCVB-TV, 1990-03-01.
- 1990
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Moving image Sc Visual VRA-823 Schomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
The Negro in the armed forces, his value and status, past, present, and potential, by Seymour J. Schoenfeld.
- Text
- Washington, D.C., The Associated Publishers, 1945.
- 1945
- 3 Items
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text IEC (Schoenfeld, S. J. Negro in the armed forces) Schwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc 355-S (Schoenfeld, S. Negro in the armed forces) Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc 355-S (Schoenfeld, S. Negro in the armed forces) Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
The dark ship, by Richard O. Boyer.
- Text
- Boston, Little, Brown and Company, 1947.
- 1947
- 2 Items
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc 331.88-B (Boyer, R.O. Dark ship) Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text TDR (Boyer, R.O. Dark ship) Offsite The integration of the Negro into the U.S. Navy.
- Text
- New York, Farrar, Straus and Young [c1951]
- 1951
- 3 Items
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc 359-N (Nelson, D.Integration of the Negro into the U.S. Navy. 1951) Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text VYE (Nelson, D. D. Integration of the Negro into the U.S. Navy) Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text VYE (Nelson, D. D. Integration of the Negro into the U.S. Navy) Offsite The law of colored seamen.
- Text
- [Charleston, S.C.?] : [Publisher not identified], [1852?]
- 1852
- 2 Items
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc Rare 325.75-L (The law of colored seamen) Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text IIR p.v. 13 no. 1-3, 5-12 Schwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Negro soldiers' and sailors' memorial; hearing before the Committee on the Library, House of Representatives, Sixty-sixth Congress, first session, on H.R. 5131. October 14, 1919.
- Text
- Washington, Govt. Print. Off., 1919.
- 1919
- 2 Items
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text *SBF (United States. Library, Committee on (House, 66:1). Hearings) Offsite Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc 355.1-U (United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Library. Negro soldiers' and sailors' memorial) Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
The integration of the Negro into the United States Navy, 1776-1947, with a brief historical introduction by Lieutenant (D) Dennis Denmark Nelson, U.S.N.R.
- Text
- [Washington] [1948]
- 1948
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc 359-N (Nelson, D.Integration of the Negro into the U.S. Navy. 1948) Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Joining the Navy, or, Abroad with Uncle Sam / by Jno. H. Paynter.
- Text
- Hartford, Conn. : American Publishing Company, 1895.
- 1895
- 2 Items
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text KBG (Paynter, J. H. Joining the navy) Offsite Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc Rare 910.4-P (Paynter, J. Joining the navy) Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
The Negro in World War II, by John D. Silvera.
- Text
- [Baton Rouge, La.] Military Press, inc. [1946]
- 1946
- 2 Items
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text BZAX (Silvera, J. D. Negro in World War II) Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc 940.91-S (Silvera. Negro in World War II) Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
[1990 CEBA awards. Category 28] [videorecording] : [single feature segments, single entries].
- Moving image
- United States : [various stations], 1989.
- 1989
S. S. Silverspray, a novel, by John Langdon [pseud.]
- Text
- New York, Macmillan, [c1958]
- 1958
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc Fic (Langdon, F. S.S. Silverspray) Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Base Company 16 / Paul N. Harris.
- Text
- New York : Vantage Press, [c1963]
- 1963
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc B-Harris, P. (Harris, P. Base Company 16) Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Free colored seamen [microform] : majority and minority reports, January 20, 1843 ... : Report [of] the Committee on Commerce, to whom was referred the memorial of Benjamin Rich and others ...
- Text
- [Washington, D.C. : s.n., 1843]
- 1843
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc Micro F-463 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Free colored seamen, majority & minority reports, Jan. 20, 1843. [Mr. Winthrop]. [microform]
- Text
- [Washington, D.C., 1843]
- 1843
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc Micro R-5906 no. 1-27 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Middleton "Spike" Harris papers, 1929-1977.
- Mixed material
- 1929-1977
- 42 Items
Available Online
https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/collections/c82ae620-64b5-0139-f554-0242ac110002Item details Format Call Number Item Location Mixed material Sc MG 34 Box 40 Offsite Item details Format Call Number Item Location Mixed material Sc MG 34 Box 41 Offsite Item details Format Call Number Item Location Mixed material Sc MG 34 Box 42 Offsite Black soldiers - Black sailors - Black ink : research guide on African-Americans in U.S. military history, 1526-1900 / by Thomas Truxtun Moebs.
- Text
- Chesapeake Bay [Va.] : Moebs Pub. Co., 1994.
- 1994
- 3 Items
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text *R-USLHG UB418.A47 M64 1994 Schwarzman Building - Milstein Division Reference Room 121 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc *355-M (Moebs, T. Black soldiers) [pt. 1] (title page-p. 848) Schomburg Center - Research & Reference - Open Shelf Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc *355-M (Moebs, T. Black soldiers) [pt. 2] (p. 849-1654) Schomburg Center - Research & Reference - Open Shelf Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
The Eric Morgan story / by Katherine Johnson.
- Text
- Nashville, TN : Winston-Derek, c1992.
- 1992
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc D 94-1449 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Proudly we served : the men of the USS Mason / Mary Pat Kelly.
- Text
- Annapolis, Md. : Naval Institute Press, c1995.
- 1995
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JFE 95-5888 Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Proudly we served : the men of the USS Mason / Mary Pat Kelly.
- Text
- Annapolis, Md. : Naval Institute Press, c1995.
- 1995
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc E 95-304 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
The African American in the Union Navy, 1861-1865 / David L. Valuska.
- Text
- New York : Garland Pub., 1993.
- 1993
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc E 93-227 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
African Americans and WW II.
- Text
- Washington, D.C. : Association for the Study of Afro-American Life and History, c1994.
- 1994
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc F 95-274 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Navy photography [graphic] / A. Hansen.
- Still image
- 1943-1945.
- 1943-1945
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Still image Sc Photo Hansen (Navy) box 121 Schomburg Center - Photographs & Prints Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
On board the USS Mason : the World War II diary of James A. Dunn / edited by Mansel G. Blackford ; with a historical introduction by John Sibley Butler.
- Text
- Columbus : Ohio State University Press, c1996.
- 1996
- 2 Items
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JFD 96-10302 Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc D 16-643 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Military [graphic].
- Still image
- [186-?-198-]
- 198-198
- 39 Items
Available Online
https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/search/index?keywords=b13049857Item details Format Call Number Item Location Still image Sc Photo Military box 37 Schomburg Center - Photographs & Prints Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Still image Sc Photo Military box 38 Schomburg Center - Photographs & Prints Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Still image Sc Photo Military box 39 Schomburg Center - Photographs & Prints Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
African-American seamen : race, seafaring work, and Atlantic maritime culture, 1750-1860 / by William Jeffrey Bolster.
- Text
- 1991.
- 1991
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc D 97-1651 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Jack Tar vs. John Bull : the role of New York's seamen in precipitating the Revolution / Jesse Lemisch.
- Text
- New York : Garland Pub., 1997.
- 1997
- 2 Items
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text NYGB N.Y. G 43 L46 Schwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc D 97-1558 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Better than good : a Black sailor's war, 1943-1945 / Adolph W. Newton, with Winston Eldridge.
- Text
- Annapolis, Md. : Naval Institute Press, c1999.
- 1999
- 2 Items
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JFE 99-4670 Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc E 99-295 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
The Law of colored seamen.
- Text
- [Charleston, S.C.? : s.n., 1852?]
- 1852
John Biggers portrait collection [graphic].
- Still image
- [1943?]
- 1943
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Still image Sc Photo Biggers, John Schomburg Center - Photographs & Prints Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
The war's greatest scandal! The story of Jim Crow in uniform. By Nancy and Dwight Macdonald ...
- Text
- [New York] The March on Washington movement [1943]
- 1943
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