Amistad Research Group
The Amistad Research Center is housed in Tulane University’s Tilton Memorial Hall. From its beginnings as the first archives documenting the modern civil rights movement, the Amistad Research Center has experienced considerable expansion and its mission continues to evolve. The history of slavery, race relations, African American community development, and the civil rights movement have received new and thought-provoking interpretations as the result of scholarly research using Amistad’s resources. The holdings include the papers of artists, educators, authors, business leaders, clergy, lawyers, factory workers, farmers and musicians. The collection contains approximately 250,000 photographs dating from 1859. Literary manuscript holdings contain letters and original manuscripts from prominent Harlem Renaissance writers and poets. The Center is guardian to more than 800 works of African and African American art, including works by several internationally renowned 19th and 20th century African American masters.
Mission
As the nation’s largest independent archives specializing in the history of African Americans and other ethnic groups, the Amistad Research Center is dedicated to preserving America’s ethnic heritage by providing a home to the manuscripts, photographs, oral histories, books, periodicals and works of art that contain the history of peoples, of nations, of beliefs and dreams, of a past worth sharing with the future.
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Amistad Research Group
Amistad Research Center
6823 St. Charles Ave.
Tulane University
New Orleans, 70118
web: http://www.amistadresearchcenter.org/
phone: (504) 865-5535
