Contributing Institutions

• African American History
• University Publications: Ebony Herald

• Building the African-American Community

Libraries at Virginia Commonwealth University occupy two main facilities, the James Branch Cabell Library on the Monroe Park Campus and the Tompkins-McCaw Library for the Health Sciences on the MCV Campus. The VCU Libraries also supports the arts and design library of the VCU campus in Doha, Qatar. The VCU Libraries is a Resource Library in the National Network of Libraries of Medicine and a member of the Association of Southeastern Research Libraries and the Virtual Library of Virginia (VIVA), a statewide networking consortium for shared access to electronic and print resources. The Monroe Park Campus is home to most of the University's undergraduate and many of its graduate programs, including the School of the Arts, the College of Humanities and Sciences, and the Schools of Business, Education, Engineering, and Social Work. The MCV Campus includes the schools of allied health professions, dentistry, medicine, nursing, and pharmacy as well as the VCU Health System (VCUHS). The VCU Libraries support these programs with over 2.1 million volumes and over 300,000 e-books, more than 51,000 journals, and extensive collections in film, video, sound, comic, manuscript, and book-art.

• Carver-VCU Partnership Oral History Collection
• Edward H. Peeples Prince Edward County (Va.) Public Schools
• Farmville 1963 civil rights protests
• Goochland County Rosenwald Schools Oral History Project, 2013-2015
• Historic Fulton Oral History Project
• Voices of Freedom

• Highlander Folk School Collection

• Carroll Gartin Collection
• Citizens' Council Collection
• Civil Rights Archive
• Freedom Riders' 40th Anniversary Oral History Project, 2001
• Integration Correspondence
• Integration of the University of Mississippi
• James W. Silver Collection
• John E. Phay Collection
• Mississippi Education Collection
• Mississippi State Textbook Commission
• Piney Woods School Collection
• Robert F. Kennedy Speech
• Sidna Brower Mitchell Photographs and Scrapbook
• United States v. Mississippi Interrogatory Answers
• Women of the Ku Klux Klan Collection

• John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum

The Fisk University John Hope and Aurelia E. Franklin Library is the academic hub of the university, working to support the academic programs by providing books, electronic resources, and other materials. The present building was completed in 1969 and opened in January 1970. It houses over 240,000 volumes. Special Collections is a major national resource for the study of the African-American experience.

• A Celebration of Fisk University Through Photographs, Programs and Publications