Projects & Collections
Collections
Chinua Achebe Papers
James Baldwin Manuscript
Shirley Graham Du Bois Papers
June Jordan Papers
Jamaica Kincaid Papers
Juan Latino Papers
Juan Latino, 1518?–1596. Ad catholicvm, et invictissimvm Philippvm Dei gratia Hispaniarum regem, de augusta, memorabili, simul & catholica regalium corporum ex varijs tumulis in vnum regale templum translatione . . . epigrãmatum siue epitaphiorum, libri duo per magistrum Ioannem Latinum Garnatae adolesctiae moderatorem . . . [Granada, 1576]. Houghton Library.
The son of a black slave, Juan Latino was educated along with his master’s son, and soon demonstrated his precocious talent, receiving a degree from the University of Granada at the age of 28. He went on to teach at the Cathedral School in Granada for 20 years. Famous for his epic Latin poems, in which he reflected on the condition of blacks and disputed any religious justification for slavery of Africans, this is his rare second book of poetry. For more information, please contact Houghton Library at 617.495.2449.
Celia and Henry W. McGee III Black Film Poster Collection
Albert Murray Papers
Suzan-Lori Parks Papers
Roscoe Simmons Collection
Wole Soyinka Papers
Randy Weston Collection
John Edgar Wideman Papers
Projects
- African American National Biography (AANB)
- AfricaMap / WorldMap Project
- African American Civil Rights Leaders and the Roosevelts
- Archaeological Excavations in the Meroitic Cemetery at Berber
- Black Patriots Project
- Black Periodical Literature Project
- Central Africa Diaspora to the Americas Project
- Cuba and the United States in the Atlantic Slave Trade (1789–1820)
- Dictionary of African Biography
- Dictionary of Caribbean and Afro-Latin American Biography
- Enslaved.org: Peoples of the Historical Slave Trade
- Finding Your Roots Curriculum Project
- Jazz Research Initiative
- Legacies of British Slave-Ownership
- Liberated Africans Project
- National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute
- Oxford Dictionary of African American English (ODAAE)
- Selma Online
- Southern Reconstruction Fund
- Timbuktu Library Project
- Traces of Slavery: A Database of the African Ethnic Groups Mapped in Cuba
- Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database
- W. E. B. Du Bois Society
- Willis M. Carter Project
- Workshop on African History and Economics