Afro-American history : sources for research / edited by Robert L. Clarke.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Clarke, Robert Lewis, 1920- editor.

United States. National Archives and Records Service.

Joanna Banks Collection of African American Books (University of Pennsylvania)

Conference Name:

National Archives Conference on Federal Archives as Sources for Research on Afro-Americans (1973 : Washington, D.C.)

Series:

National Archives conferences ; v. 12.

National Archives conferences ; v. 12

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--History--Sources--Congresses.

African Americans.

History.

African Americans--History--Archival resources--Congresses.

Archival resources.

Genre:

Sources.

Conference papers and proceedings.

Penn Provenance:

Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xviii, 236 pages, 2 unnumbered pages : illustrations, maps, portraits, facsimiles ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : Howard University Press, 1981.

Contents:

Introduction / Robert L. Clarke; Opening Remarks: The Journal of Negro History and the National Archives / W. Augustus Low

I. Federal Archives: Their Nature and Use. Saving Federal Records for Research / Harold T. Pinkett; Using Federal Archives: Some Problems in Doing Research / Okon Edet Uya; Discussion Summary

II. Using Archives as Sources for Afro-American Research: Some Personal Experiences. A Love-Hate Relationship with the National Archives / Mary Frances Berry; Using Federal Archives for Research: An Archivist's Experience / Roland C. McConnell; Federal Archives as a Source for Determining the Role of Mary McLeod Bethune in the National Youth Administration / Elaine M. Smith; Discussion Summary

III. The Multipurpose Use of Federal Archives. Federal Appointment Papers and Black History / James D. Walker; Military Records for Nonmilitary History / Preston E. Amos; Freedmen's Bureau Records: Texas, a Case Study / Barry A. Crouch; Discussion Summary

IV. Related Records and Projects. Presidential Libraries as Sources for Research on Afro-Americans / J. C. James; The National Historical Publications and Records Commission's Committee on the Publication of Papers Relaint to Blacks / Edgar A. Toppin

V. Afro-Amemrican Social History Based on Federal Archives: The Family. The Other Side of Slavery / Andrew Billingsley, Marilyn Cynthia Greene; Familial Values of Freedmen and Women / Herbert G. Gutman; Genealogy of Afro-Americans / Alex Haley; Discussion Summary

VI. Assessment and Prospects. The National Archives and Records Service: An Evaluation of Afro-American Resources / John W. Blassingame.

Notes:

Illustrated endpapers.

Sponsored by the National Archives and Records Service.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.

Banks Collection copy has dust jacket retained.

ISBN:

0882580183 :

OCLC:

6603060