UNITED STATES SECTION ... the BLACK EXPERIENCE in AMERICA SINCE the 17Th CENTURY VOLUME II
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Atlanta University-Bell & Howell BLACK CULTURE COLLECTION CATALOG UNITED STATES SECTION ... THE BLACK EXPERIENCE IN AMERICA SINCE THE 17th CENTURY VOLUME II Titles Pro uesf Start here. --- This volume is a finding aid to a ProQuest Research Collection in Microform. To learn more visit: www.proquest.com or call (800) 521-0600 About ProQuest: ProQuest connects people with vetted, reliable information. Key to serious research, the company has forged a 70-year reputation as a gateway to the world's knowledge-from dissertations to governmental and cultural archives to news, in all its forms. Its role is essential to libraries and other organizations whose missions depend on the delivery of complete, trustworthy information. 789 E. Eisenhower Parkway • P.O Box 1346 • Ann Arbor, Ml 48106-1346 • USA •Tel: 734.461.4700 • Toll-free 800-521-0600 • www.proquest.com Copyright 1974 BY BELL & HOWELL FIRST PRINTING, IN THREE VOLUMESo VOL . I AUTHORS January, 1974 VOL. II TITLES February, 1974 VOL. III SUBJECTS (projected-March, 1974 This catalog was printed on 60 lb. PERMALIFE® paper. produced by the Standard Paper Manufacturing Company of Richmond, Virginia. PERMALIFE® was selected for use in this collection because it is an acid-free, chemical-wood, permanent paper with a minimum life expectancy of 300 years. PRINTf.ll IN U.S.A. BY MICRO PHOTO DIV. Bf.I.I. & HOWF.1.1. 01.ll MANSFIEl.I> RD. WOOSTER. OHIO 44691 INIROOUCilON Black Studies is an important subject for mankind, and yet only recently has it been given the attention it so richly deserves. Now, Bell & Howell's Micro Photo Division, with the cooperation of Dr. Richard A. Long, Director of The Center for African and African-American Studies, and Mrs. Gay nelle Barksdale,· Head Librarian of The Trevor-Arnett Library, Atlanta University, has compiled a Black Library in microform in order to further the scope and study of Black Culture among interested persons .. Sell & Howell is making available approximately 6,000 titles which comprise only a minuscule portion of the Negro Collection in The Trevor-Arnett Library at Atlanta Uni versity. And while these volumes have been selected with great care to present the most representative portions of that collection, I feel that with a thorough knowledge of the history of these materials-a knowledge of how and why they came to be part of the At lanta University Collection-one can fully appreciate the value of the works offered. The bulk of the materials listed here represent items selected from the Henry P. Slaughter Collection, which was acquired by Atlanta University in 1946. The Slaughter Collection consists of approximately I0,000 items including books, pamphlets, portraits, and letters by and about the Black Man in Africa, Europe, and the Americas. These items were collected over a forty-year period by the Black bibliophile Henry P. Slaugh ter. A graduate of Langston College and Howard University, Mr. Slaughter worked in the Government Printing Office in Washington, D. C. His real vocation-the one for which he was dispositionally so well suited and the one for which he will be remembered -was the acquisition of books related to the Black Man. The marvelous collection of his books represents the fruit of his labors. While he maintained the collection in his own possession, Mr. Slaughter housed it in his three story brown-stone home in Washington. It was only after the collection out grew these facilities, thus creating a fire hazard, that Mr. Slaughter was persuaded to sell his collection. After receiving offers from several universities, Mr. Slaughter finally determined to accept the bid made by Atlanta University. His decision to sell to Atlanta was not based so much upon monetary considerations, as it was upon his friendship with the Universi ty's President, Dr. Rufus E. Clement, and upon his belief that the materials would be well used and appreciated here. The Slaughter Collection became the nucleus for what is today known as the Negro Collection of Trevor-Arnett Library, Atlanta University. And it was through the estab lishment of the Negro Collection that this university became one of the major resources for the study of the Black Man. While it remained in the possession of Mr. Slaughter, only scholars recommended by the Library of Congress and Howard University were permitted to use the Collection. Since its acquisition by Atlanta University, the materials in the Slaughter Collection have been available to large numbers of students and scholars alike. Now. with the comple tion of the Bell & Howell microfilming project, items from the Collection are easily ac cessible to other institutions, as well as individuals. Atlanta University acquired the Slaughter Collection for $25,000, a price which seems ridiculously small to us today. However, the true value of such materials cannot be esti mated in monetary terms. The true value is to be determined by the use students and scholars make of them in their attempts to better understand and appreciate the complex history of the Black Man in America and throughout the world. · I · Lillian Miles Lewis Director, Special Collections THE;~L~EGE OF WOOSTER Robert A. Jones Nancy L. Rhoades Editor Associate Editor Margaret S. Powell · Assistant Editor and Cataloger Barbara L. ~ • ~ataloger John T. Lindgren ·· - Consultant Philip C. Wei ..· Consultant Walter R. Wilkins~-- Consultant Trisha L. DaYis ·-Cataloging Associate Mary Alice Barrett · Assistant to the Editor Susan M. Aµen ·Bibliographer James G. Br~jijer .·· Bibliographer Alan C. Chrriwa .:'.Bibliographer Patricia W. Earley · Bibliographer Sharon H. Alford · Assistant Mary E. Armstrong · Assistant Cynthia K. K Sharon A. Clark - Assistant Myra J. Lowe - Assistant Laura E. Petrie - Assistant Rebecca A. Viska · Assistant Pamela J. Wurtz · Assistant ATLANTA UNIVERSITY Gaynelle W. Barksdale Lillian M. Lewis Librarian Director, Special Collections Frederick Dorsey · Staff Assistant John Hindsman, Jr. · Staff Assistant Vincent Winbush Staff Assistant MICRO PHOTO DIVISION OF BELL & HOWELL Merilyn J. Drumm · Special Assistant for the production of the Black Culture Collection Catalog FOREWORD The microfonn collection, though a boon to library resource development, is a new hazard to already burdened catalogers. Hard pressed as they are to cope with individual volumes, they boggle at the instant libraries that microforms make possible. Until the millenium of total bibliographic control arrives, the best response to the cataloging challenge posed by a microfonn collection - especially a coherent, static one - is the book catalog. A .Precataloged collection can;~°'·'into service the day it arrives. There are no catalog cards to produce, to type headings on, to arrange and file, and to buy additional catalog cases for. The book catalog can be provided in multiple copies, circulated, located wherever needed in a library, and even acquired by individual scholars. The United States section of the Black Culture Collection includes not only Afro-American Studies resources but materials of wider application in Black Studies: the Tuttle Pamphlet Collection (which focuses on the antislavery movement in the United States and the British Commonwealth), pertinent Atlanta University master's theses, and Atlanta University's ~' Publications, and journal Phylon. Each title among these resources is fully cataloged. The author section of the catalog contains all main and added entries - such as authors, joint authors, editors, illustrators, and organizations - and titles used as main entries. Only the author section includes full infonnation about each item. In the title section each item is listed under its title; the main entry is transposed to the line below the imprint and subsequent infonnation omitted. The subject section omits the tracings {subject headings, etc.) nonnally found at the bottom of each entry. Cross references are made in the author and subject sections from the forms of names and subjects not used to those used. In addition, both sections include 'see also' references to guide the reader to related material. The descriptive cataloging for the Black Culture Collection basically adheres to the ~ American Cataloging Rules, but established Library of Congress entries not in agreement with them are sometimes used. Items in the author and title sections are arranged according to the second edition of the ALA Rules for Filing Catalog Cards; in the subject section, according to the Filing Rules for the Dict.ionary Catalogs of the Library of Congress. The seventh edition and supplements of Subject Headings Used in the Dictionary Catalogs of the Library of Congress are the main source for the subject cataloging. Following cataloging practice at Atlanta University and elsewhere, the note, American Negro author (or editor, or compiler), is used wherever such authorship can be conclusively established. ideiitification is based on cataloging information from the Trevor Arnett Library at Atlanta University, the Dictionary Catalog of the Schomburg Collection of Negro Literature & History, The New York Public Library, biographical sources, and internal evidence. Consistency is sought throughout this catalog but not always attained, as Library of Congress practice, the basis for much of the descriptive cataloging, has undergone many changes over the years. In some instances, spacing and indentions do not conform to customary typographical or cataloging practice, because of limitations imposed by the computerized typesetting system; most notably, this catalog does not use either a hanging indention for title main entries or a paragraph indention for multiple-line author main entries. Death dates for persons who appear as authors, added entries, or subjects are used only when readily available. Alternate titles or subtitles are customarily entered only when the main title is not distinctive. Monographic series are not entered, but institutions frequently are - especially when they are responsible for important series. Serials are generally cataloged to reflect only the holdings in the collection; for some serials, and for all sets, a 'library has' note is used. Standard library abbreviations are used; the principal ones are identified in a table.