African American Studies at Beinecke Library

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

  • African American Directories

    September 28, 2010

    The Beinecke Library collections include numerous African American community and business directories from the early decades of the 20th century.

  • Student Research in Beinecke Collections

    June 2, 2010

    David Suwondo’s essay on Jean Toomer’s novel Cane (written for Professor Jessica Pressman’s Spring 2010 English 127 class) draws on two items in the Jean Toomer Papers (JWJ MSS 1) at the Beinecke Library

  • Recent Scholarship

    June 2, 2010

    The Yale Collection of American Literature is pleased to acknowledge the work of scholars and students conducting research in Beinecke Library collections.

  • Student Research in Beinecke Collections

    May 12, 2010

    Taja Cheek’s essay on Jean Toomer’s Cane (written for Professor Jessica Pressman’s Spring 2010 English 127 class) focuses on the tension between black southern dialect and scholarly English in the third section of the novel.

  • In Memoriam

    May 10, 2010

    Lena Horne (June 30, 1917 – May 9, 2010), photographed by Carl Van Vechten, September 15, 1941.

  • Yale Slavery and Abolition Portal

    May 9, 2010

    Yale University’s Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition and the Instructional Technology Group , have launched a web...