- People
- Aaron, Stephen
- Albert, Carl Bert, 1908-
- Aldridge, Ira Frederick, d.1867
- Algren, Nelson, 1909-
- Allen, Robert E., 1920- - Manuscripts
- Anderson, Marian, 1897-1993
- Anderson, Marian, 1897-1993 - Manuscripts
- Anderson, T. J. (Thomas Jefferson), 1928-
- Anquoe, James
- Aremu, Aduke
- Arlen, Harold, 1905-1986
- Armstrong, Louis, 1900-1971
- Arvey, Verna, 1910-
- Asch, Moses
- Asprey, W. - Manuscripts
- Bailey, Anne L. (Anne Lee), 1894-1975
- Baker, Josephine, 1906-1975
- Baraka, Imamu Amiri, 1934-
- Barthe, Richmond, 1901-1989
- Bayliss, John F
- Beardon, Romare, 1911-1988
- Blake, Eubie, 1883-
- Bledsoe, Jules, 1898-1943
- Blind Tom, 1849-1908
- Boatner, Edward, 1898-1981
- Boatwright, McHenry, 1928-
- Bohanan, Otto Leland - Musical settings
- Bond, Julian, 1940-
- Bontemps, Arna Wendell, 1902-1973 - Archives
- Bowens, Telitha Cumi - Interviews
- Braithwaite, William Stanley, 1878-1962
- Breman, Paul
- Brewster, Townsend, 1924-
- Brice, Carol, 1916-1985
- Brooks, Gwendolyn, 1917-
- Brown, Henry Box, b. 1816
- Brown, Sterling Allen, 1901-
- Burden, Jean
- Burke, James Joseph - Musical settings
- Burleigh, H. T. (Harry Thacker), 1866-1949 - Manuscripts
- Burns, Robert, 1759-1796 - Musical settings
- Burr, Amelia Josephine, b. 1878 - Musical settings
- Burroughs, Margaret Taylor, 1917-
- Busby, Orel, ca. 1890-1965
- Bush, Anita
- Cadle, Mary Elizabeth Barnicle
- Campbell, E. Simms (Elmer Simms), 1906-1971
- Campbell, Walter Stanley, 1887-1957
- Carter, Ron, 1937-
- Carver, Robert
- Cary, Alice, 1820-1871 - Musical settings
- Cary, Phoebe, 1824-1871 - Musical settings
- Cate, Roscoe Simmons, 1876-1954
- Cayton, Horace R. (Horace Roscoe), 1903-1970
- Chapman, Abraham
- Charlton, Melville
- Childress, Alice
- Christian, Marcus Bruce, 1900-
- Clarke, John Henrik, 1915-
- Cleghorn, Mildred
- Coffey, Lillian Brooks, 1896-1964
- Cohen, Cecil, 1894-1967 - Manuscripts
- Coleman, Edward D
- Coleman, Emma A. (Emma Alberta), 1863-1949
- Coleman, Rebekah
- Collins, Janet
- Connelly, Nora - Musical settings
- Connor, George Carpenter - Musical settings
- Conroy, Jack, 1899-
- Cook, Will Marion - Manuscripts
- Cotter, Joseph Seamon, 1895-1919 - Musical settings
- Craft, Ellen
- Craft, William
- Cullen, Countee, 1903-1946
- Cullen, Countee, 1903-1946 - Musical settings
- Cullen, Ida Mae Roberson
- Cuney, William Waring, 1906-1976
- Dale, Edward Everett, 1879-1972
- Danner, Margaret
- Davis, Frank Marshall, 1905-
- Davis, Robert A
- Davison, Denver B
- Dawson, Mary Cardwell
- Dawson, William L. (William Levi), 1886-1970
- DeGolyer, Everette Lee
- Demby, William
- Dixon, Frank - Musical settings
- Dodson, Owen, 1914-
- Dover, Cedric
- Doyle, Marion - Musical settings
- Du Bois, W. E. B.(William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963
- Dunbar, Paul Laurence, 1872-1906 - Musical settings
- Dunham, Katherine
- Edmonds, Randolph, 1900-1983
- Ellington, Duke, 1899-1974
- Ellison, Ralph
- Emanuel, James A
- Erickson, Wilbur
- Evans, Mari, 1923-
- Evers, Medgar Wiley, 1925-1963 - Songs and music
- Fabre, Michel
- Father Divine
- Fauset, Jessie Redmon
- Fields, Julia
- Ford, Louis H. (Louis Henry), 1914-
- Francisco, Moncion
- Frederick, John T. (John Towner), 1893-1975
- Freeman, Kenn
- Gilbert, Chris - Correspondence
- Gilbert, Mercedes
- Gleason, Ralph J
- Gould, Gerald, 1885-1936 - Musical settings
- Grace, Daddy, 1882? 1960
- Grace, Daddy, 1882?1960
- Gray, Don Vincent - Musical settings
- Handy, W. C. (William Christopher), 1873-1958
- Harris, Joel Chandler, 1848-1908
- Hayden, Robert C. - Correspondence
- Hayes, Roland, 1887-1977
- Heyward family
- Heyward, Samuel Edwin, 1904-1982
- Higginson, Thomas Wentworth, 1823-1911
- Hill, Herbert, 1924-
- Hines, Carl Wendell
- Hoffenstein, Samuel, 1889-1947 - Musical settings
- Holiday, Billie, 1915-1959
- Howard, Bob, 1906-
- Howland, Frances
- Hudson, David
- Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967
- Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967 - Autographs
- Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967 - Correspondence
- Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967 - Musical settings
- Hunter, Eddie
- Huntley, Leston
- Hurley, Patrick J. (Patrick Jay), 1883-1963
- Jackman, Harold
- Jackson, Aunt Molly
- Jackson, Henry L
- Jacobsen, Josephine
- Jenkins, Daniel J., d.1937
- Jenkins, Edmund Thornton, 1894-1926
- Jenkins, James T., 1917- - Interviews
- Jessye, Eva, 1895-
- Jeter, Willie
- Joans, Ted
- Johnson, Charles Spurgeon, 1893-1956
- Johnson, Georgia Douglas Camp, 1886-1966
- Johnson, Georgia Douglas Camp, 1886-1966 - Musical settings
- Johnson, J. C. 1896-1981
- Johnson, James Weldon, 1871-1938 - Musical settings
- Jones, Charles Price, 1865-1949
- Jones, Lois Mailou
- Jones, Ozro Thurston, 1891-1972
- Jordan, June, 1936- - Correspondence
- Kay, Ulysses, 1917-
- King, Juanita
- Lawrence, Jacob, 1917-
- Leadbelly, 1885?1949
- Lenski, Lois
- Leslie, Lew
- Lester, Malcolm - Correspondence
- Lind, Jenny, 1820-1887
- Litton, Gaston
- Locke, Alain LeRoy, 1886-1954
- Lottinville, Savoie, 1906-
- Lowell, James Russell, 1819-1891
- Major, Clarence
- Markham, Edwin, 1852-1940 - Musical settings
- Marriott, Alice Lee, 1910-
- Mason, C. H. (Charles Harrison)
- Matson, Henrietta
- Maynor, Dorothy
- McCarthy, Thomas Joseph
- McLain, Raymond S. (Raymond Stallings), 1890-1954
- McReynolds, Edwin C
- Meadowcroft, Enid La Monte, 1898-
- Means, Florence Crannell, 1891-
- Meltzer, Milton, 1915-
- Mitchell, Leroy E., 1924- - Interviews
- Mitchell, Loften
- Moon, Bucklin, 1911-
- Morrison, Allan Malcolm, 1916-1968
- Morton, David, 1886-1957 - Musical settings
- Murray, Johnston, 1902-1974
- Murray, William H. (William Henry), 1869-1956
- Newsome, Effie Lee
- Nichols, Lea Murray, b. 1878
- Nightingale, Florence, 1820-1910
- Nopawalla, Osage Chief
- O Reilly, John Boyle, 1844-1890 - Musical settings
- OReilly, John Boyle, 1844-1890 - Musical settings
- Oden, Gloria
- Ottley, Roi, 1906-
- Ovington, Mary White, 1865-1951
- Owen, Bennie
- Oxenham, John, 1852-1941 - Musical settings
- Palfi, Marion, 1907-1978
- Patterson, James Oglethorpe, 1914-1989
- Peck, George Dewey
- Phillips, Leon C. (Leon Phillips), 1890-1958
- Pippin, Horace, 1888-1946
- Piquion, Rene
- Pool, Rosey E
- Power,Tyrone, 1797-1841
- Preece, Harold, 1906-
- Preminger, Alex
- Quilter, Roger, 1877-1953 - Manuscripts
- Randall, Dudley, 1914-
- Razaf, Andy, 1895-1973
- Reynolds, Louis B. (Louis Bernard), 1917-1983
- Rhys, Mary
- Riggs, Marlon
- Roberson, Lizzie, 1860-1940
- Robinson, Bill, 1878-1949
- Rosenwald, Lessing J. (Lessing Julius), 1891-1979
- Ross, Leslie P., 1863-1944
- Salter, Lewis Spencer. d. ca. 1987
- Schmitt, Iva Osanai
- Schmitt, Karl, 1915-1952
- Schram, Rudolph
- Schuyler, George Samuel, 1895-
- Seymour, William Joseph, 1870-1922
- Shute, Nevil, 1899-1960
- Simons, Augustus Dewey
- Smith, Mack
- Smith, Venture, 1729? 1805
- Smith, Venture, 1729?1805
- Solum, Sjanna - Musical settings
- Spence, Edwin A
- Spence, Elizabeth Fisk
- Spence, Julie
- Spence, Mary
- Still, William Grant, 1895-
- Stock, Mildred
- Suazo, Ralph
- Sutton, George M. (George Miksch), 1898-1982
- Tarry, Ellen, 1906-
- Teasdale, Sara, 1884-1933 - Musical settings
- Tenedooah, Henry
- Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron, 1809-1892 - Musical settings
- Terrell, Mary Church, 1863-1954
- Tharpe, Rosetta, d. 1973
- Thomas, Elmer, 1876-1965
- Thompson, Era Bell
- Thompson, James, 1917- - Interviews
- Tolsin, Melvin Beaunorus
- Toomer, Marjorie Content
- Toussaint Louverture, 1743? 1803
- Toussaint Louverture, 1743?1803
- Tunis, John Roberts, 1889-
- Turlington, Marcellus M
- Turner, Darwin T., 1931-
- Turner, John B
- Twohig, Daniel S., 1883-1961 - Musical settings
- Van Vechten, Carl, 1880-1964
- Varela, Mary - Correspondence
- Virden, John M., 1908-1968
- Walker, Alice, 1944- - Correspondence
- Walker, Wyatt Tee
- Wallace, Emett Babe, 1909-
- Wallace, Louise C. - Musical settings
- Waters, Ethel, 1896-1977
- Weeden, Howard, 1847-1905
- Whipper, Leigh R., (Leigh Rollin), 1877-1975
- White, Clarence Cameron, 1880-1960
- White, Walter Francis, 1893-1955
- Williams, Marcellus
- Williamson, Harvey M. - Musical settings
- Willour, Leonard Scott
- Wilson, Edith, 1906-
- Woodhull, Victoria C., (Victoria Clafin), 1838-1927
- Woodruff, Hale, 1900-
- Work, John W. (John Wesley), 1901-1967
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- Canaan Baptist Church (New York, N.Y.)
- Central State University (Okla.)
- Cherokee Bilingual Education Project (Okla.)
- Day, Dawn, and Dusk (Musical group)
- Dillard University. Players Guild
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