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Although they do not offer a comprehensive history of African-American
life, these pamphlets provide insight into the ideas and events of their
day in a historically important physical format that often fails to
survive the test of time.  Those interested in publishing will enjoy the
variety of papers, type faces, and printing methods used to produce
these materials.

The African American Pamphlet Collection was accessioned in 1990-91 from
a miscellaneous pamphlet collection in the Library's Rare Book and
Special Collections Division.  The pamphlets were singled out for their
significance to African-American history and recataloged to enhance
access.  The collection complements the division's Daniel A.P. Murray
Pamphlet Collection, which is also a part of American Memory (URL:
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aap/).

The online presentation of the African American Pamphlet Collection was
made possible by a major gift from the Citicorp Foundation, and is part
of a five-year effort to add rare and unique items from the Library's
vast African-American collections to the National Digital Library.