African American Studies at Beinecke Library

Collections, events, and news from the James Weldon Johnson Memorial Collection of African American Arts and Letters.

Research in Beinecke Collections
September 8, 2011
The Photographic Memory Workshop is pleased to invite graduate students, post-doctoral students and academic fellows of the Yale community to submit presentation proposals to its 2011-2012 Graduate Student Working Group.
Multitudes
July 6, 2011
Multitudes: A Celebration of the Yale Collection of American Literature, 1911–2011
Amos Beman Scrapbooks
April 21, 2011
The Amos Beman Scrapbook collection includes news clippings related to and collected by Amos Gerry Beman, a black minister in New Haven, Connecticut.
Yale College Poets Reading
April 6, 2011
Kevin Young at Yale
April 1, 2011
Tuesday, April 5 at 4:00, Yale University Art Gallery (YUAG), The Schlesinger Visiting Writer Series presents: Kevin Young, the Atticus Haygood Professor of English and Creative Writing, and Curator of Literary Collections and the Raymond Danowski Poetry Library, Emory University.
Poetry Readings
March 28, 2011
A reading in conjunction with the Yale University Art Gallery’s current exhibition, Embodied: Black Identities in American Art from the Yale University Art Gallery.
Hilton Als at Beinecke
March 16, 2011
Hilton Als, a staff writer and theatre critic at The New Yorker, is a recipient of a Guggenheim Award for Creative Writing, and the George Jean Nathan Award for Dramatic Criticism.
Alexander Lmanian Photographs
February 26, 2011
The Beinecke Library's collection of photographs by Alexander Lmanian (1925-1996) is now available in the Beinecke's Digital Library.
Lloyd Richards Papers
October 22, 2010
The Lloyd Richards Papers (YCAL MSS 366) are fully processed and open for research at the Beinecke Library.
Research Fellow Lecture
October 12, 2010
Talking Diaspora: Ophelia Settle Egypt’s Interviews with Former Slaves and the Origins of the Social History of American Slavery