RMC Request/Appointment
- Be sure to fill out the online registration portal. You will first be prompted to indicate whether you have a Cornell NetID or are a public user, select the appropriate button.
- Be sure to book an appointment to use the reading room. You can make an appointment in advance of your request being filled.
- Request material through CUL catalog.
Selected Africana Archival Collections at Cornell
The following are suggested archival collections in the Rare Manuscripts Collections.
Cornell University:
- Cornell University Africana Studies & Research Center Archives (click on Finding aid)
- Cornell University Afro-American Studies Program files
- Black Studies at Cornell Oral History Project (click on Finding aid)
Africana Study Related:
- Black Panther Collection (click on Finding aid)
- Alpha Phi Alpha records, 1907-2021 (click on Finding aid)
- Institute for Independent Education records, 1984-2005 (click on Finding aid)
- Gale and Stephen Rudin Slavery Collection (click on Finding aid)
- Amsterdam News Photography Archive (click on Finding aid)
Hip Hop:
- Born in the Bronx Collection (click on Finding aid)
- Charlie Aheam Hip-Hop Collection (click on Finding aid)
- Afrika Bambaata Hip Hop Collection (click on Finding aid)
- Joe Conzo, Jr. Photo Collection (click on Finding aid)
- Hip hop Party and Event Flyers
- Ernie Paniccioli Photo Archive
Willard Straight Hall Takeover:
- Willard Straight Hall Takeover Images
- The Afro-American Society and Cornell, April 19-21, 1969: One Professor's View
- Student Papers on Activism
- Records Regarding the occupation, takeover of Willard Straight Hall
- Cornell 1969: Key issues then and now
Selected Online Resources:
- President Barack Obama Visual Iconography
- Samuel May Anti-Slavery Manuscript Collection (click on Finding aid)
- Early Black Women at Cornell
- I Will Be Heard: Abolitionism in America
- Rudin Slavery Collection
To find materials in the Rare Manuscript Collection, visit: https://rare.library.cornell.edu/finding-materials/