African American Studies at Beinecke Library

Collections, events, and news from the James Weldon Johnson Memorial Collection of African American Arts and Letters.
  • New Exhibition: Living Portraits

    April 17, 2009

  • Cabinet of (Poetry) Curiosities

    April 4, 2009

    In honor of National Poetry Month , throughout April the Beinecke Library’s Room 26 Cabinet of Curiosities will feature poetry-related collection...
  • R. A. Adams Papers

    March 12, 2009

  • New Langston Hughes Poems

    February 12, 2009

  • In Memoriam

    January 7, 2009

    Eartha Kitt (January 17, 1927 – December 25, 2008), photographed by Carl Van Vechten on October 19, 1954. Additional images of Eartha Kitt are available in the...
  • Ella Barksdale Brown Papers

    December 3, 2008

  • Lucille Clifton Poetry Reading

    November 24, 2008

    Tuesday, December 2, 5:30pm Yale Center for British Art, 1080 Chapel Street (NOTE: this event will not take place at Beinecke Library) Co-sponsored by the Yale...
  • Beinecke Image Guides

    November 10, 2008

    The Beinecke Library is pleased to announce the addition of browseable image “collections” to our Digital Library . The collections have been selected from...