Selected Primary Source Collections on Microfilm at Princeton
The selected microfilm sets listed below are all located in Firestone Library's Microform Services. Visit the Microforms Service webpage for more microform collections, and the Guide to Major Microform Holdings in History for additional help.
African American History
Black Abolitionist Papers, 1830-1865. MICROFILM 05367, Guide (FilmB) E449.B625 1981
Blacks in the Railroad Industry Collection, 1946-1954. MICROFILM 11640, See guide here
Black Workers in the Era of the Great Migration, 1916-1925. MICROFILM 05597
Correspondence of the Military Intelligence Division relating to "Negro Subversion," 1917-1941. MICROFILM 09662
Daniel Murray Pamphlet Collection. MICROFILM 08889
The East St. Louis Race Riot of 1917. MICROFILM 05595, Short contents index on Reel 1
Federal surveillance of Afro-Americans, 1917-1925: The First World War, the Red Scare, and the Garvey Movement. MICROFILM 05596
The Negro in the Military Service of the United States, 1639-1886. (Film) 1099.9227, Guide (FilmB) CD3026.A52
New Deal Agencies and Black America. MICROFILM 05473, Guide (FilmB) E185.61 .L47
The Peonage Files of the U. S. Department of Justice, 1901-1945. MICROFILM 06400, Guide (FilmB) HD4875.U6 P46
Scottsboro Case: State of Alabama v. Patterson, et. al. MICROFILM 05618
Southern Tenant Farmers’ Union papers, 1934-1970. MICROFILM 06126, Guide (Film B) Z7164.T7S56
State Free Negro Capitation Tax Books, Charleston, South Carolina, ca. 1811-1860. MICROFILM 08353, Guide filmed at the beginning of both reels
Transcripts of the Malcolm X Assassination Trial: The People of the State of New York v. Thomas Hagan, Thomas 15X Johnson, and Norman 3X Butler. MICROFILM 09179, Guide (FilmB) KF224.H3 H342 1993
The Tuskegee Institute News Clippings File. MICROFILM 05488, Guide (FilmB) Z1361.N39xT8 1978
United States. Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands. Registers and Letters Received by the Commissioner of the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands, 1865-1872. MICROFILM 08519, Guide (FilmB) E185.2.U547 1968
________________. Selected Series of Records Issued by Commissioner of the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands, 1865-1872. MICROFILM 08518
Antislavery, Slavery, and Slave Trade
Amistad Research Center's Microfilm Edition of the American Missionary Association Archives. MICROFILM 05360, Guide (FilmB) Z7817.A45
Anti-Slavery Materials: Regional Records and Other Pamphlets, 18th-19th Centuries: the Collection at John Rylands University Library, Manchester. MICROFILM 06843, Guide (FilmB) HT1163.A675
Black Abolitionist Papers, 1830-1865. MICROFILM 05367, Guide (FilmB) E449.B625 1981
Butler Plantation Papers: the Papers of Pierce Butler (1744-1822) and Successors from the Historical Society of Pennsylvania. Electronic Access. MICROFILM 10622, Guide (FilmB) F290.B96 B874
Correspondence of the Secretary of the Navy Relating to African Colonization, 1819-1844. MICROFILM 09664, Guide (FilmB) CD3026.A52
Papers of the American Slave Trade. MICROFILM 10617, Guide (FilmB) E445.R4 P363
The Papers of the Pennsylvania Abolitionist Society. (Film) 1083.706
Race, Slavery, and Free Blacks: Petitions to Southern Legislatures, 1777-1867. MICROFILM 10695, Guide (FilmB) E441.R323
Records of Ante-Bellum Southern Plantations from the Revolution Through the Civil War: Series A-N. MICROFILM 05474, Guide (FilmB) F213.S35
The Rhodes House Anti-Slavery Papers: Material Relating to America from the Anti-Slavery Collection in Rhodes House, Oxford; Mainly 1839-1868. (Film) 1083.692
Slave Narratives, a Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves. Typewritten Records Prepared by the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938. (Film) 1083.341
Slave Trade Journals and Papers. Pt. 1. The Humphrey Morice Papers from the Bank of England. MICROFILM 11775, Guide (FilmB) HT1161.M674
Slavery, Source Material and Critical Literature. MICROFICHE 199, Guide (FilmB) HT857.S528
Slavery Tracts and Pamphlets from the West India Committee Collection. MICROFILM 05622, Guide (FilmB) HT1071.S52
State Slavery Statutes. MICROFICHE 1887, Guide (FilmB) KF4545.S5 A127 1989
Black Power
The Black Power Movement. Part 1. Amiri Baraka, from Black Arts to Black Radicalism. MICROFILM 11800, Guide (FilmB) E185.615.B521
________. Part 2. The Papers of Robert F. Williams. MICROFILM 11744, Guide (FilmB) E185.615.B522
________. Part 3. Papers of the Revolutionary Action Movement, 1962-1996. MICROFILM 11801, Guide (FilmB) E185.615.B523
________. Part 4. The League of Revolutionary Black Workers, 1965-1976. MICROFILM 11876, Guide (FilmB) E185.615.B524
Civil Rights
Civil Rights During the Kennedy Administration, 1961-1963: A Collection from the holdings of the John F. Kennedy Library, Boston, Massachusetts. Part 1. The White House Central Files and Staff Files and the President’s Office Files. Part 2. The Papers of Burke Marshall, Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights. MICROFILM 05859, Guide (FilmB) JC599.U5C59
Civil Rights During the Johnson Administration, 1963-1969, Part 1. White House Central Files. Part. 2. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Administrative History. Part 3. Oral Histories. Part 4. Records of the White House Conference on Civil Rights, 1965-1966. Part 5. Records of the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders (Kerner Commission). MICROFILM 05445, Guide (FilmB) JK1717.L38
Civil Rights During the Nixon Administration, 1969-1974, Part 1, The White House Central Files . MICROFILM 09172, Guide (FilmB) E185.615 .C587
Papers of the Civil Rights Congress. Part 1. Case Files. Part 2. Files of William L. Patterson and the National Office. Part 3. Publications. Part 4. Communist Party USA files. Part 5. Citizens Emergency Defense Conference. MICROFILM 11925, Guide (FilmB) E185.61.C59 1988
President Truman’s Commission on Civil Rights. MICROFILM 05573, Guide (FilmB) E813.J84
Southern Civil Rights Litigation Records for the 1960s. MICROFILM 05448, Guide (FilmB) KF4756.A1G84 or (SF) KF4756.A1G84
See also Organizations
FBI Files
Centers of the Struggle: FBI Files on Selma, Memphis, Montgomery, Albany, and St. Augustine. MICROFILM 11926, Guide (FilmB) E185.61.C46 1988
FBI File on Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. MICROFILM 10705, Guide (FilmB) E748.P86 F34
FBI File on Elijah Muhammad. MICROFILM 10593, Guide (FilmB) BP223.Z8 E4532
FBI File on John L. Lewis. MICROFILM 11817, Guide (FilmB) HD6509.L4 F24
FBI File on Malcolm X. MICROFILM 10595, Guide (FilmB) BP223.Z8 L574
FBI File on Martin Luther King, Jr. MICROFILM 05368, Guide (FilmB) E185.97.K5L47
FBI File on Moorish Science Temple of America. MICROFILM 11875, Guide (FilmB) BP232.F23 1998
FBI File on Paul Robeson. MICROFILM 06062, Guide (FilmB) E185.97.R63F34
FBI File on the Black Panther Party, North Carolina. MICROFILM 06082, Guide (FilmB) E185.615.F24
FBI File on the Muslim Mosque, Inc. MICROFILM 10591, Guide (FilmB) BP223.Z8 L5743
FBI File on the National Negro Congress (NNC). MICROFILM 06061, Guide (FilmB) E185.61.F34
FBI File on the Organization of Afro-American Unity. MICROFILM 10594, Guide (FilmB) BP223.Z8 L5745
FBI File on the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). MICROFILM 09178, Guide (FilmB) E185.61.F355
FBI File on Thurgood Marshall. MICROFILM 11883, Guide (FilmB) KF8745.M34 F35 2001
FBI File on W.E.B. Du Bois. MICROFILM 10592, Guide (FilmB) E185.97.D73 F24
FBI Files on the Highlander Folk School. MICROFILM 09608, Guide (FilmB) LC5301.M65 F34
Marcus Garvey: FBI Investigation File. MICROFILM 04447
Organizations
American Civil Liberties Union archives, 1917-1950. Seeley G. Mudd Library, (Mudd) MC001
American Negro Historical Society Collection, 1790-1905. MICROFILM 11981, Guide (FilmB) E185.93.P41 A5 1998
Archives of the Race Relations Department of the United Church Board for Homeland Ministries, 1942-1976. MICROFILM 12000
Black Academy of Arts and Letters Records, 1968-1980. MICROFILM 11829
Commission on Interracial Cooperation Papers, 1919-1944. MICROFILM 05550, Guide (FilmB) E185.61.C655
Detroit Urban League papers, 1916-1950, at the University of Michigan. MICROFILM 09607, Guide (Film B) F574.D49 N454
Freedmen's Aid Society Records, 1866-1932. MICROFILM 11661, Guide (FilmB) LC2703.F743
Negro Labor Committee Record Group, 1925-1969. MICROFILM 11589, Guide (FilmB) E184.6.G853
The Papers of the Congress of Racial Equality, 1941-1967. MICROFILM 04276, Guide (FilmB) Z1361.N39M46 1980
The Papers of the Congress of Racial Equality: Addendum, 1944-1968. MICROFILM 04562, Guide (Film B) E185.61.P36
Papers of the NAACP. MICROFILM 05354, Guide (Film B) Z1361.N39G84
Papers of the National Negro Congress. Part. 1. Records and Correspondence, 1933-1942. Part. 2. Records and Correspondence, 1943-1947. Part. 3. Financial Records, 1940-1947, and Publications. Part. 4. Negro Labor Victory Committee, 1942-1945. MICROFILM 11689, Guide (Film B) E185.61.N374
Records of The National Association of Colored Women’s Clubs, 1895-1992. Part. 1. Minutes of National Conventions, Publications, and President’s Office Correspondence. Part. 2. President’s Office Files, 1958-1968. MICROFILM 09022, Guide (FilmB) E185.86 .R426
Records of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, Parts 1-3. MICROFILM 11720, Guide (Film B) HD6515.R362 B76
Records of The National Negro Business League, Parts 1-2. MICROFILM 10600, Guide (Film B) HD2425 .R426
Records of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, 1954-1970, Part. 1. Records of the President’s Office. Part. 2. Records of the Executive Director and Treasurer. Part. 3. Records of the Public Relations Dept. Part. 4. Records of the Program Dept. MICROFILM 10096, Guide (Film B) E185.61 .S687
Southern Tenant Farmers’ Union Papers, 1934-1970. MICROFILM 06126, Guide (FilmB) Z7164.T7S56
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee Papers, 1959-1972. MICROFILM 04530, Guide (Film B) E185.5.xS78
Universal Negro Improvement Association, Records of the Central Division, New York, 1918-1959. MICROFILM 11989, Guide (FilmB) E185.86.U55 1998
Universal Negro Improvement Association Records: 1921-1986. MICROFILM 11994, Guide (FilmB) E185.86.U48 A12 1994
Personal Papers
Alexander Pierre Tureaud papers, 1909-1972. On order 2006.
The Arthur A. Schomburg Papers. MICROFILM 06953, Guide (Film B) E184.6 .S365
The Bayard Rustin Papers. MICROFILM 11662, Guide (Film B) E185.97.R93 B392
Charlotte Eugenia Hawkins Brown Papers, 1883-1961. MICROFILM 11986, Guide (FilmB) LA2317.B598 A3 1999
Claude A. Barnett Papers, Parts 1 and 3. MICROFILM 02648, Guide (FilmB) PN4841.A73M44
Countee Cullen Papers, 1921-1969. MICROFILM 11820, Guide (FilmB) Z8204.55 .xB6
The Daniel Murray Papers, (1881-1955)-1966. MICROFILM 09021, Guide (Film B) Z1361.N39W76
Fannie Lou Hamer Papers, 1966-1978. MICROFILM 11839
Frederick Douglass Papers. MICROFILM 1083.309
George A. Myers papers, 1890-1929. MICROFILM 09177, Guide (Film B)E748.M93 M937
The Horace Mann Bond Papers, Parts 1-4. MICROFILM 11591, Guide (Film B) E185.97.B65 A3
Mary McLeod Bethune Papers: The Bethune-Cookman College collection, 1922-1955. MICROFILM 10234, Guide (Film B) E185.97.B34 A3
The Papers of A. Philip Randolph. MICROFILM 11722, Guide (Film B) E185.97.R27
Papers of Carter G. Woodson and the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History, 1915-1950. MICROFILM 11590, Guide (Film B) E175.5.W65 A3
Papers of John and Lugenia Burns Hope. MICROFILM 05653, Guide (Film B) Z6616.H67H67
The Papers of W.E.B. Du Bois. MICROFILM 04494, Guide (Film B) Z6616.D8M35
The Paul Robeson Collection. MICROFILM 06952, Guide (Film B) E185.97.R63 A35
W.E.B. Du Bois Papers at Fisk University. MICROFILM 11721
The William H. Hastie Papers. Part 2. Civil Rights, Organizational, and Private Activities. MICROFILM 11824, Guide (Film B) KF373.H38A25
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