The African American Department is on the first floor of the Enoch Pratt Central Library Annex, past the computer lab and Special Collections.
The collection includes more than 45,000 circulating and non-circulating volumes of fiction and nonfiction; microforms and CD-ROMs; and an extensive selection of reference works.
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Ephemera Collection
Microfilm Collection
Photograph Collection
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Maps help to illustrate the African American experience in Maryland.
The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database offers researchers, students and the general public a chance to rediscover the reality of one of the largest movements of people in the history of the world.
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Selected periodicals held by the Pratt Periodicals Department that are of special interest to African-Americans. Pratt holds the G.K. Hall Index to Black Periodicals from 1950 to 2003.
In 1935, President Franklin D. Roosevelt formed the Works Progress Administration (later renamed the Work Projects Administration--WPA) to create jobs that would allow individuals to maintain their sense of self-esteem. During its brief existence, the WPA generated numerous documents consisting of written histories, oral histories, guidebooks, fine prints, plays, posters, photographs, and architectural histories, many of them relating to African- American history.
