James Weldon Johnson Memorial Collection

The James Weldon Johnson Memorial Collection (JWJ) documents and celebrates the cultural and artistic achievements and the intellectual and political activities of African Americans.

The Archives of the Movement (Yale Daily News)
January 25, 2019
Female American Poets: Archival Connections
December 6, 2018
The second in our series, Female American Poets: Archival Connections, this post focuses on the poems and legacies of Gwendolyn Brooks.
Display placards promoting fashions and hairstyles for African American women
November 26, 2018
Display placards promoting fashions and hairstyles for African American women, 1939, Greater New York Coordinating Committee for Employment
A James Baldwin Book, Forgotten and Overlooked for Four Decades, Gets Another Life (New York Times)
August 20, 2018
New Acquisition -- Frederick Douglass Letters
February 9, 2018
The Beinecke Library is pleased to announce the acquisition of a small collection of Frederick Douglass correspondence with William L. Thomas.
Christmas Cheer from a Lean Year: The 1950 Holiday Cards of Langston Hughes (Hyperallergic)
December 15, 2017
Langston Hughes’s Collection of Rent Party Cards from Harlem (Hyperallergic)
April 4, 2017
Yale University’s Beinecke Library is displaying Langston Hughes’s collection of rent party cards, which advertised fundraising gatherings in an era of discriminatory Harlem rent.