Beulah Myrtle Davis Special Collections Department

This department is named for Miss Beulah Myrtle Davis who was Morgan College librarian from 1926 to 1965. The Department  houses non-circulating collections of African American materials that chronicles the life, history and culture of the African American experience throughout the diaspora.  The Collections include: rare books, manuscripts, artifacts, etc.

Digital Dissertation

• Morgan  State University's Master Theses and Dissertations are housed in the Beulah M. Davis Special Collections Department. 
• Masters theses and dissertation are non-circulating and follows the guidelines for our "Copyright Warning" Policy

Policies

• Collection Use Policies
• Copying Policy
• Copyright   
• Manuscript Governing Policy
• Permission to Publish

Suggested Web Sites for Research

• Howard University Moorland Spingarn Research Center
• Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture  

“The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, a research unit of The New York Public Library, is generally recognized as one of the leading institutions of its kind in the world. For over 80 years the Center has collected, preserved, and provided access to materials documenting black life, and promoted the study and interpretation of the history and culture of peoples of African descent. The Schomburg Center consists of three connected buildings: The Schomburg Building, the Langston Hughes Building and the Landmark Building.”

•  Maryland Historical Society
•  National Museum of American History
•  Enoch Pratt Free Library:African American Department
• Tuskegee University Library-Washington Room 
• Booker T. Washington Papers (Library of Congress)
• "African American Odyssey: The Booker T. Washington Era" (Library of Congress)
• African American Research
• W.E.B. Du Bois : The diaspora Elder
• Du Bois - University of Mass Special Collections
•  Forbush Collection (BMD - Baltimore and Swarthmore College)
• Swarthmore College Special Collections
• Slavery (British - American ) links
• Henson-North Pole-Compass
• Bojangles' Magic Feet
• Bojangles  

 African Diaspora Community 

• Images of Slave Life in the Americas
• Gullah of Charleston
• Gullah Culture
• Goree Look
• Painful Truth - Goree Pathway
•  Bahia, Brazil Kinship
• Ghana: W.E.B. Du Bois Voyage
• Grave Site of W. E. B. Du Bois
• African Diaspora Studies
• African Diaspora 

         Databases

• Black Sudies Center
• African American Biographical Center

  GALLERY

• JSTOR
• ERIC
• NetLibrary
• Black Thought and Culture
• Digital Dissertations
• Biographical Resource Center
• International Index to Black Periodicals