African American Experience Collections

The African American experience collections documents the rich history of the people and organizations that helped shaped Kansas. This legacy is shown through correspondence, photographs, organizational, educational and business records, books, pamphlets and newspapers.

In 1985, with funding from the National Historical and Records Commission, the Kansas Collection embarked on an augmented collecting program to document the African American experience in Kansas. After three years of grant funding, the program was made a permanent one and work continues to actively add significant primary sources in support of teaching and research.

Any faculty member, undergraduate, graduate student, or independent researcher whose work focuses on the African American experience can now apply for Spencer's Alyce Hunley Whayne Visiting Researcher/Scholar travel grant. If interested in donating material, please contact the Curator of African American Experience Collections.