- California African American Historical Photos Collection (CEMA 136)
Barnes (Grover) Papers (CEMA 115)- Bay Area Black Panther Party Collection (CEMA 56)
- Blacks in Film and Television Collection (CEMA 100)
- Brooks E. (Pauline) and Abye Family collection (CEMA 190)
- Downey (William) Papers, newspaper columnist and novelist (CEMA 32)
- Garrett (Isaac) Collection (CEMA 158)
- Irby (Charles C.) Collection, cultural anthropoligst and ethnic studies pioneer (CEMA 10)
- Mackey (Anita J.) Papers, civic leader (CEMA 57)
- McMillan (Horace J.) Papers, physician and civil rights advocate (CEMA 7)
- Norman (Floyd) Papers (CEMA 200)
- Kincaid Rolle (Sojourner) Papers, poet, playwright, television producer (CEMA 55)
- Robey Theater Company, African American theater (CEMA 192)
- Santa Barbara African American Local History Collection (CEMA 99)
- Santa Barbara Afro-American Oral History Project Collection (CEMA 42)
- Steward (Lowell) Papers, former Tuskegee Airman (CEMA 58)
- Valentine (Wenonah) Collection (CEMA 146)
- Williams (Samuel L.) Papers, attorney, former Deputy Attorney General, State of California (CEMA 59)
Other Holdings
The following is a partial list of manuscripts held in other collecting areas outside CEMA. For additional resources please visit the African American Collections at Special Collections.
- Black-Jewish Information Center Press Releases, 1979-1983 (ARC Mss 38)
- Age of Segregation Oral History Project, 1989 (OH 49)
- Clark (Claude) Oral History, 1995 (OH 29)
- Mackey (Anita J.) Oral History, [ca. 1994] (OH 14)
- McRee (Rev. James F.) Oral History, 1989 (OH 63)
- 1st South Carolina/33rd US Colored Troops Records, ca. 1861-1865 (Wyles Mss 30)
- African American Photograph Album, ca. latter 1800s (Wyles Mss 130)
- African American Sheet Music, ca. 1880-1971 (Wyles Mss 146)
- African American Stereoviews, ca. 1900 (Wyles SC 989)
- African American Tintypes, ca. 1860-1890 (Wyles SC 1010)
- Phelps, A. C. [U.S. Infantry Colored, 93rd Regiment (Vol), Company I], 1864 (Wyles SC 434)
- Shepard (Isaac F.) Collection, ca. 1860s. Civil War era materials of ranking officer for African American troops (Wyles Mss 74)
- Slave Child Cartes de Visit, ca. 1863 (Wyles SC 1016)
- Slave Documents Collection, bills of sale, manumission papers, and other, ca. 1711-1878 (Wyles Mss 75)
- Slavery Era Insurance Documents, ca. 1847-1860 (Wyles Mss 97)
- Whitney (Daniel S.) Papers, 1864-1977 (Wyles SC 298)
