- Meta J. Chapman Diaries, 1929/19351
- Mildred Davenport dance ephemera collection, 1936/19401
- North Carolina Arrest Warrant for Bazel Bunting, a Free Man of Color, 18541
- Notation of prices for enslaved persons from Columbia, South Carolina, 18641
- Nydrie and Algoma related papers, 1890/19891
- Obelia "Bee" Graves Papers, 1936/1945, bulk 1937/19391
- Office of the President records1
- Pamphlet for poem "The Negro Mother" by Langston Hughes inscribed and signed by author with illustration by Charles White, 19611
- Paul Robeson sound recording collection, 19551
- Pearl S. Buck letters, 1942/19631
- Philip Levy civil rights collection, 1948/19531
- Porgy and Bess poster collection, 1952/19561
- Racial and Ethnic Ephemera Collection, 1778/20051
- Randall Johnson collection of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. (Kappa Pi Chapter) materials, 19921
- Richard Williams Papers, 1940/19491