The Civil Rights History Project: Survey of Collections and Repositories

Fisk University. Special Collections and Archives

1000 17th Ave. N.
Nashville, Tennessee 37208

Email: [email protected]

Phone: 615-329-8646

Repository URL: http://www.fisk.edu/Academics/Library/SpecialCollections.aspx

Repository code: tnf

Repository description (extant): Special Collections and Archives consist mainly of primary and secondary materials on African-American themes. The collections serve the research needs of Fisk students and faculty as well as external scholars. Among the rare items there are the American edition of Phillis Wheatley's Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral (1773); examples of Benjamin Banneker's almanacs; a bible especially edited for slaves in the West Indies in 1808; a first edition of Les Cenelles (1845), the first anthology of poetry by blacks published in this country; Clotel, or The President's Daughter (1853), the first novel by an African-American; Harriet E. Wilson's Our Nig (1859), the first novel published by a black in the U.S; nearly 200 printed items from American minstrel shows; and a bible presented to President Abraham Lincoln by free blacks of Baltimore in 1864. Special Collections contains university archives as well as papers and works of scholars and literary figures of national acclaim.

Repository type: University Special Collection

Collections:

[Civil rights videotapes at Fisk University]
Black oral history program