Pamphlets, newspapers and periodicals, correspondence, official records, reports and in-depth oral histories, revealing the prevalent challenges of racism, discrimination and integration, and African American culture and identity.

The HistoryMakers is a non-profit educational institution committed to recording, preserving, and disseminating video oral history interviews with African Americans. Interviews are with well-known and unsung African Americans from diverse backgrounds, including several Vassar College alumni. Interviewing began in 1993 and continue to the present.

Primary source materials, including letters, papers, photographs, scrapbooks, financial records, and diaries, from ProQuest's University Publications of America (UPA) Collection in a digital format. Includes Black freedom struggle in the 20th century; Struggle for women's rights, organizational records, 1880-1990; and Women's studies manuscript collections from the Schlesinger Library.