This 1773 Réglement Concernant les Gens de Couleur Libres was one of many discriminatory laws that magistrates in the French colony of Saint-Domingue issued against free people of color from the mid-1760s on. Such laws were intended to racially ma...
This collection includes various types of documents pertaining to the historical and cultural production taking place in the Caribbean. Materials include correspondence, diaries, ledgers, property transactions including slave registers, reports, t...
Program for Haiti: A Drama of the Black Napoleon, Presented by the Federal Theatre Project, Works Project Administration, at Daly’s Theatre, New York, New YorkThis program documents one of the most notable dramatic productions presented by the Fed...
This double-sided handbill publicizes the upcoming production of Langston Hughes’ play Drums of Haiti by the Roxane Players in Detroit, Michigan on April 15-17, 1937. Hughes began to write this play in the late 1920s and originally entitled it “Em...
This program documents the historic New York City engagement of the first troupe from Haiti to perform dances of the Vodou religion in the United States. In early 1941, the government of Haiti was invited to send performers to appear at the Eighth...
New York City Association of Teachers of Health and Physical Education
Brief biographies of C.L.R. James: a Marxist national who was instrumental in awakening the political consciousness of African peoples, Winnifred Atwell: A musician who provided a new method of piano playing and gave a command performance for the ...
This box contains several issues of the newspapers, Le Matin and Le Nouvelliste, two popular publications that originated in Port-Au-Prince, Haiti and have been released daily throughout the country of Haiti for several years. It continues to be d...
Folders 1-5 of this box contain newspapers specific to the regions of Trinidad and Tobago. The Trinidad Guardian is a major national newspaper, printed in English and distributed daily throughout the region, and the Trinidad and Tobago Review is a...
National Airlines was founded by George T. Baker in 1934 and used the Miami International Airport as its base of operations from 1934 to 1980. It began offering local flights within the United States, flying almost daily from coast to coast, and q...
This collection contains scrapbooks, loose prints, and photo albums of Canada, Haiti, the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Miami, Miami Beach, and other countries in South America and the Caribbean.
An ongoing collection of comics and zines added to the holdings of the University of Miami Libraries Special Collections, with a focus on zines produced in and/or about the Caribbean and Latin America, including diaspora communities. Zines are typ...