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African American Music Collection

 Collection
Identifier: SPC-2020-007
Abstract This collection contains sheet music, event programs, magazines, booklets, postcards, photographs, and other material related to African American musicians, composers, arrangers, and musical groups. This collection is mostly comprised of sheet music that falls under the sacred music genre such as gospels and spirituals, but also includes music in the blues genres. Also included in this collection are a few flyers and programs for events featuring African American musicians, booklets and...
Dates: 1871-1990; undated; Majority of material found within 1890-1945

Alfred and Bernice Ligon Aquarian Collection

 Collection
Identifier: SPC-2015-001
Abstract This collection contains archival materials and rare books related to Alfred and Bernice Ligon as the proprietors and founders of The Aquarian Book Shop and Aquarian Spiritual Center in Los Angeles, CA; their interests in African American history and culture; and studies and teaching of metaphysics, occultism and black gnostic studies. The archival collection concentrates on the operations and events of the Book Shop, curriculum of the Spiritual Center, and African American culture. The rare...
Dates: Late 1800s - 2014; Bulk 1941-1996

Black History Pamphlets Collection

 Collection
Identifier: SPC-2022-064
Abstract

This collection contains pamphlets, ephemera, booklets, joutrnals, comic books, and other materials related to Black history in the last 200 years. Subjects include slavery, economics, Black/White relations, as well as noted Black figures, including Rev. Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, Anglea Davis, Huey Newton, Paul Robeson, C.L.R. James, and Amanda Smith. Publications include Black journals, zines, and comic books introducing Black superheroes.

Dates: ca. 1890-2018

Dadisi Sanyika Collection

 Collection
Identifier: SPC-2015-002
Abstract

This collection contains archival material and rare books related to Dadisi Sanyika and his interests in African American history and culture, African drumming and dance, and the study of astrology, metaphysics, occultism, black gnostic studies, and PermaCulture. Included in the collection are published books and periodicals, pamphlets, yearbooks, handwritten notes, study materials, lesson plans, astrology charts, ephemera, newspaper clippings, and VHS tapes.

Dates: 1940s-2005; 1970-2005

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African Americans -- Civil Rights 3
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African American Jews 1
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African American choirs 1
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Aquarian Spiritual Center (Los Angeles, Calif.) 2
Bailey, Alice, 1880-1949 2
Dunbar, Paul Laurence, 1872-1906 2
Hall, Manly P. (Manly Palmer), 1901-1990 2
Jackson, John G. 2
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King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968 2
Robeson, Paul, 1898-1976 2
X, Malcolm, 1925-1965 2
Acquah, Joseph 1
Angelou, Maya 1
Armour, Alaine 1
Ben-Jochannan, Yosef 1
Besant, Annie, 1847-1933 1
Black Panther Party 1
Blake, Eubie, 1887-1983 1
Budge, E. A. Wallis, Sir (Ernest Alfred Wallis), 1857-1934 1
Churchward, Albert 1
Clymer, R. Swinburne (Reuben Swinburne), 1878-1966 1
Cooper, J. California 1
Curtiss, Harriette Augusta, 1856?-1932 1
Davis, Angela Y. (Angela Yvonne ), 1944- 1
DuBois, W.E.B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963 1
Eliade, Mircea, 1907-1986 1
Ellington, Duke, 1899-1974 1
Europe, James Reese, 1881-1919 1
Fortune, Dion 1
Gadalla, Moustafa, 1944 1
Gauquelin, Michel, 1928-1991 1
Gayle, Addison, Jr., 1932-1991 1
Ghose, Aurobindo, 1872-1950 1
Giovanni, Nikki 1
Greenfield, Eloise 1
Gregory, Dick 1
Guy, Rosa 1
Haley, Alex 1
Hall Johnson Choir 1
Handy, W. C. (William Christopher), 1873-1958 1
Hartmann, Franz, 1838-1912 1
Heline, Corinne, 1882- 1
Herskovits, Melville J. (Melville Jean), 1895-1963 1
Himes, Chester B., 1909-1984 1
Hodson, Geoffrey, 1886-1983 1
Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967 1
Hurston, Zora Neale 1
Jackson, Jesse, 1941- 1
Johnson, J. Rosamond (John Rosamond), 1873-1954 1
Johnson, James Weldon, 1871-1938 1
Jones, Marc Edmund, 1888-1980 1
Jordan, June, 1936-2002 1
Jubilee Singers (Fisk University) 1
Jung, C.G. (Carl Gustav), 1875-1961 1
Kgositsile, Keorapetse 1
Killens, John Oliver, 1916-1987 1
King, Richard D. 1
Lester, Julius 1
Ligon, Alfred, 1906-2002 1
Ligon, Bernice, 1912-2000 1
Lorde, Audre 1
Lévi, Éliphas, 1810-1875 1
Marshall, Paule, 1929-2019 1
Martin, Roberta, 1907-1969 1
Massey, Gerald, 1828-1907 1
Meeds, Virgil A. 1
Nation of Islam (Chicago, Ill.) 1
Newton, Huey P. 1
Perry, Armagene Hasani 1
Purucker, G. de (Gottfried), 1874-1942 1
Regardie, Israel 1
Rogers, J.A. (Joel Augustus), 1880-1966 1
Rudhyar, Dane, 1895-1985 1
Rustin, Bayard, 1912-1987 1
Sakoian , Frances 1
Sanyika, Dadisi 1
Saraydarian, Torkom 1
Schwaller de Lubicz, R.A. 1
Scott, Hazel, 1920-1981 1
Shields, Raymond 1
Silber, Irwin, 1925-2010 1
Soyinka, Wole 1
Thurman, Howard, 1915-1998 1
Walker, Alice, 1944- 1
Walker, Margaret, 1915-1998 1
Weatherwax, John M. (John Martin), 1900-1984 1
Williams Jubilee Singers 1
Winston, Henry, 1911-1986 1
Wright, Richard, 1908-1960 1
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