Celebrate Black History Month with the Libraries! This year’s theme is African Americans and Labor. Mullins Library has two book displays honoring Black History Month: the Children’s Literature Collection: Black History Month and the Main Collection: Black History Month Display. Please feel free to check out these books!
Another way the University Libraries celebrate Black history and culture is by acquiring materials in our Special Collections that document the history of Black Americans with ties to Arkansas, such as Florence Price, Daisy Bates, and Geleve Grice.
Florence Price
Florence Price was the first African American female composer. You can view her photos, original compositions, concert programs and more in our Digital Collections and Special Collections.
Special Collection Finding Aid: Price, Florence, 1887-1953 | ArchivesSpace at the University of Arkansas
Daisy Bates
Daisy Bates was reporter and president of the Arkansas chapter of the NAACP during the Little Rock Nine Crisis. View her correspondence, photos, newspaper clippings at more in our Digital Collections and Special Collections.
Special Collections Finding Aid: Daisy Bates Papers | ArchivesSpace at the University of Arkansas
Geleve Grice
Geleve Grice was one of the most prolific Black photographers in Arkansas history. Public figures featured in his photographs include Muhammad Ali, Rev. Jesse Jackson, Dionne Warwick, Maya Angelou, Wiley Branton, Edith Irby Jones, Ida Rowland Bellegard, Raymond Miller, Lawrence A. Davis, Martin Luther King Jr. and Silas Hunt.
Geleve Grice Search Results – Digital Collections
Special Collections Finding Aid: Geleve Grice Photograph Collection | ArchivesSpace at the University of Arkansas
Explore other Special Collections that highlight Black history:
- BAD Times Collection – Digital Collections
- Land of (Unequal) Opportunity: Documenting the Civil Rights Struggle in Arkansas – Digital Collections
- African American legislators — Arkansas | ArchivesSpace at the University of Arkansas
- African Americans — Education — Arkansas | ArchivesSpace at the University of Arkansas
- African Americans — History | ArchivesSpace at the University of Arkansas
- Collection: Judith Kilpatrick Arkansas Black Lawyers Research Materials | ArchivesSpace at the University of Arkansas
Special Collections supports the research, teaching, and learning mission of the University of Arkansas by collecting, preserving, and providing access to unique and rare materials. Get started with your Special Collections research.
In addition to our books and Special Collections, we also have several databases to help with research related to Black History, including: