African Americans

Photographs of the Black Employee Club site, an unidentified portrait of a Black man in a suit, and of a community meeting between Black residents and the police following the killing of six area Black men Includes a clipping of the relevant newspaper article.

Photographs of African Americans in Niagara Falls, including Louis Guy (an attendant for Judge T.G. Hulett), a riverside baptism, and workers

Outline and draft of text for book on Benjamin Banneker

Press kit for the Black American Museum and Cultural Center includes photographs and set of plans

One cabinet card photograph taken of an African American man in a studio with a Niagara Falls image as a background. The man in the photograph has a skin condition called Vitiligo. Also present is a short note about the photo.

Research notes related to church names, years of operation, addresses and leaders

Booklet with proposals and letters related to the Black Employees Club organization [originals]

Buffalo Evening News - The Blacks, Part I (HAI 2020)

Program for the Black Achievers Award Banquet (1991), advertisements for local businesses, and plans for a Museum of Black Afro American History and Culture in Niagara Falls as part of the Rainbow Center Complex [originals]

Book by local Black author, newspaper clippings related to the history of the Underground Railroad in the Niagara Falls area, and a feasibility study related to the building of the Black American Museum & Cultural Center in Niagara Falls, New York