Black Thought and Culture: African Americans from Colonial Times to the PresentIt is a source for the published works of numerous historically important black leaders. The collection features approximately 5,000 pages of unique, fugitive, and never-before-published materials. It provides thousands of pages of monographs, essays, articles, speeches, and interviews written by leaders within the black community from the earliest times to 1975. Black teachers, artists, politicians, religious leaders, athletes, war veterans, entertainers, and other leaders form the mainstay of this corpus. The collection is intended for research in black studies, political science, American history, music, literature, and art.