http://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/c8xg9wkh No online items Guide to the African American Museum & Library at Oakland Vertical File Collection Sean Heyliger African American Museum & Library at Oakland 659 14th Street Oakland, California 94612 Phone: (510) 637-0198 Fax: (510) 637-0204 Email: [email protected] URL: http://www.oaklandlibrary.org/locations/african-american-museum-library-oakland © 2013 African American Museum & Library at Oakland. All rights reserved. Guide to the African American MS 179 1 Museum & Library at Oakland Vertical File Collection Guide to the African American Museum & Library at Oakland Vertical File Collection Collection number: MS 179 African American Museum & Library at Oakland Oakland, California Processed by: Sean Heyliger Date Completed: 2015-08-21 Encoded by: Sean Heyliger © 2013 African American Museum & Library at Oakland. All rights reserved. Descriptive Summary Title: African American Museum & Library at Oakland Vertical File Collection Dates: 1828-2017 Collection number: MS 179 Collector: African American Museum & Library at Oakland (Oakland, Calif.) Collection Size: 61.5 linear feet(82 boxes + 13 oversized boxes) Repository: African American Museum & Library at Oakland (Oakland, Calif.) Oakland, CA 94612 Abstract: 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). Languages: Languages represented in the collection: English Access No access restrictions. Collection is open to the public. Access Restrictions Materials are for use in-library only, non-circulating. Publication Rights Permission to publish from the African American Museum & Library at Oakland Vertical File Collection must be obtained from the African American Museum & Library at Oakland. Preferred Citation African American Museum & Library at Oakland Vertical File Collection, MS 179, African American Museum & Library at Oakland, Oakland Public Library. Oakland, California. Processing Information Processed by Sean Heyliger, 08/21/2015. Updated for additions on August 24, 2016. Updated for additions on September 17, 2016. Updated for additions (Acc. 2016-090) on December 14, 2016.Updated for additions (Acc. #2017-016 and Acc. #2017-017) on April 21, 2017.Updated for additions (Acc. 2016-090) on December 14, 2016. Updated for additions (Acc. #2017-032, #2017-35, #2017-038, #2017-039 and #2017-040) on October 6, 2017. Updated by Sean Heyliger for additions Acc.# 2017-041 and 2017-044 on October 7, 2017. Updated by Sean Heyliger for additions Acc.# 2017-014, 2018-013, 2018-014, 2018-018, 2018-020, 2018-021, 2018-022 and 2018-023 on October 31, 2018. Updated for additions accessions #2018-028, #2018-029 on November 17, 2018. Scope and Content of Collection 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 Guide to the African American MS 179 2 Museum & Library at Oakland Vertical File Collection 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, which is followed by a / and a short description of the item. The collection includes 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). The vertical files include church programs and ephemera of numerous African American churches in Oakland and Berkeley, California, and flyers and pamphlets on African American radicalism in the San Francisco Bay Area during the 1960s-1970s. Arrangement Arranged alphabetically by either subject, organization, or last name. Indexing Terms The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog. African Americans--California. African Americans--California--Allensworth--History. Civil rights--California. Oakland (Calif.)--History. Oakland (Calif.)--Politics and government. Oakland (Calif.)--Race relations. Oakland (Calif.)--Social conditions. West Oakland (Oakland, Calif.)--History. African Americans--Religion--History. A Box 31:10 A raisin in the sun / A raisin in the sun Arena Stage program 1972 Box 31:10 A raisin in the sun / A raisin in the sun Blackstone Theatre program 1959-02-08 Box 15:7 A.M.E. Zion Church / Woman's Home & Foreign Missionary Society Bay Cities District 1966-1967 yearbook 1967 Box 15:7 A.M.E. Zion Church / Woman's Home & Foreign Missionary Society compilation, organization, narrative, skill, precision, efficiency, content, topic, ultima, summary 1971 Box 15:7 Abyssinian Missionary Baptist Church (Oakland, Calif.) / Abyssinian Missionary Baptist Church outreach ministries brochure undated Box 41:5 ACORN Redevelopment District / Letter from Art Jolly 1987-09-17 Box 41:5 ACORN Redevelopment District / You don't have to go to law school to work for social justice: become a community organizer with ACORN flyer undated Box 28:12 Acting / African films & videos DSR, Inc. 1993-10 Box 28:12 Acting / Black Filmworks Festival of Film & Video program 1998 Box 28:12 Acting / Matt Rich's straight out of Brooklyn flyer 1991 Box 28:12 Acting / 10th annual San Francisco Black Film Festival program 2008 Box 28:12 Acting / Amistad Research Center films directed by Black filmmakers in the 1930s and 1940s flyer 1987-12-02 Box 28:12 Acting / Black America emerges 1992 1992 Box 28:12 Acting / Black is…Black ain't and 21 other films on the African American experience brochure circa 1990s Box 28:12 Acting / Excel Quarterly Journal for Black Professionals vol. 3 no. 2 1987 Box 28:12 Acting / International Film and Video Festival global Africa 1993 Box 28:12 Acting / Mypheduh Films, Inc. Independent films African African American brochure circa 1980s Box 28:12 Acting / San Francisco Film Society presents the 35th San Francisco International Film Festival flyer 1992 Box 28:12 Acting / SIR Theatre & Music Arts Center presents separate cinema African American film a visual history brochure 1995-02-24 Guide to the African American MS 179 3 Museum & Library at Oakland Vertical File Collection A Box 57:9 Activities among Negroes / "Index to 'Activities among Negroes': a column which appeared in the Oakland Tribune on Sunday, October 14th, 1934 - Feb. 14th, 1943," compiled by the Oakland Public Library Oakland History Room 1994-01 Box 15:7 Acts Full Gospel Church of God in Christ (Oakland, Calif.) / The service of consecration and installation for bishop-designate Bob Jackson to the sacred office of auxiliary bishop 2004-04-13 Box 74:1 Advocates for Women / "Moving up" program 1980-05-13 Box 3:5 African American history / "African American - what does it mean?" undated Box 2:3 African American history / "Information, please" questions and answers concerning Negro Americans compiled by R.B. Eleazer issued by the Department of General Church School Work 1946 Box 3:5 African American history / "The forming of a community: Black Oakland in the 1870s," Donald Hausler undated Box 3:2 African American history / "The Gilmore Colony," by Phil Reader undated Box 1:1 African American history / "The Locke House," Oakland Realtor 1979-04 Box 3:4 African American history / "The meeting," Oakland Ensemble Theatre 1988-02-21 Box 3:5 African American history / "The problem of the occupational color line: race, industrial development, and job discrimination in the SF Bay Area during WWII," Donna Murch 1997-01-30 Box 3:5 African American history / "Those who stayed behind," Tury M. Flucker undated Box 3:5 African American history / "Westward movement: Afro-Americans in Yolo County, 1850-1890," Clifford Washington 1998-12-01 Box 1:2 African American history / 100 significant dates - 1861 for Civil War centennial of 1961 / Association for the Study of Afro-American Life and History, Inc. circa 1961 Box 2:4 African American history / 1965 Negro history study kit / Associated Publishers 1965 Box 2:5 African American history / 1967: high tide of Black resistance / James Forman circa 1967 Box 3:2 African American history / A brief history of the Negro in America / Commission on Race Reformed Church in America circa 1970s Box 3:2 African American history / A tribute to Septima Clark and Rosa Parks program 1980-05-01 Box 2:6 African American history / African American history knowledge cards circa 1990s Box 2:5 African American history / African Americans on stamps: a celebration of African-American heritage / United States Postal Service 2004-11 Box 3:5 African American history / Afro-American Heritage House, Inc. Black history vhs video catalog undated Box 2:6 African American history / Afromation: 366 days of American history compiled by Michael D. Woods 2000 Box 3:3 African American