AfAm. African-Americans

This collection contains one copy of "Rain Songs: Poems by Paul Laurence Dunbar," Selected and Illustrated by Emily Burkman, printed by Apiary Press, Northampton, Massachusetts, 2009. This copy is number 7 of fifteen.

The collection consists of sheet music for a single piece of music: “Dusky Sleep-Song,” with words by Paul Laurence Dunbar and music by Grace A. Hammon.

This collection consists of a self-published autobiography by Anna Gee Blackwell titled He's All I Need: My Life Story. The book not only details Ms. Blackwell's life, but also serves as a chronicle of mid-to-late 20th Century middle-class African-American experience in the Miami Valley.

Sheet music and RCA phonograph recording of "Who Knows".

The collection consists of an oral history interview audio recording with Leo Lucas, a member of the Dayton City School Board during the battle over busing students for desegregation. The interview was conducted in the summer of 1975 by high school student Mark Benbow.

Booklet written by Charles M. Austin concerning the Dayton Youth Movement of the 1930s.

Original handwritten and typed version of a poem, "To Anna C." written by Paul Laurence Dunbar. The poem is believed to have been written between 1900 and 1906. It was written for Anna Coons who lived in Dunbar’s neighborhood.

The collection contains seven newspaper clippings concerning the death and funeral of Paul Laurence Dunbar, as well as his mother, Matilda Dunbar. Two of these include poems written by Paul Laurence Dunbar.

Records of freed blacks from Greene, Logan, Miami, and Montgomery counties. Information usually includes name, age, birthdate, place and date of freedom, name of former owner, and a short physical description.

Collection includes scrapbooks, correspondence and photographs of a well-known African-American civil rights activist in Dayton.