African American Museum & Library at Oakland Vertical File Collection

Program for a service at the Oakland Auditorium Arena featuring a photograph of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Program for Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Emancipation Proclamation service at the Oakland Auditorium Arena, 1962, African American Museum & Library at Oakland Vertical File Collection, MS 179, African American Museum & Library at Oakland, Oakland Public Library.

The African American Museum & Library at Oakland Vertical File Collection consists of programs, flyers, correspondence, posters, pamphlets, and ephemera collected by the African American Museum & Library at Oakland. The East Bay Negro Historical Society began vertical files in the late 1960s, collecting ephemera and newspaper clippings about African American history and culture.

The vertical files are arranged alphabetically by subject, organization, or last name, and include correspondence, programs, flyers, and pamphlets mostly about African American organizations and cultural institutions in the Oakland and the East Bay during the mid-20th century (1940s-1970s).

Dates: 1828-2017
 
Collection number: MS 179
 
Collector: African American Museum & Library at Oakland
 
Collection Size: 61.5 linear feet (82 boxes + 13 oversized boxes)
 

Guide to the African American Museum & Library at Oakland Vertical File Collection

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