Amistad Research Center
The Amistad Research Center (ARC) is an independent archives and manuscripts repository in the United States that specializes in the history of African Americans and ethnic minorities. It is one of the first institutions of its kind in the United States to collect African American ethnic historical records and to document the modern Civil Rights Movement.
| Amistad Research Center | |
|---|---|
The reading room at the Amistad Research Center | |
| Location | New Orleans, Louisiana, United States |
| Type | Research library and archive |
| Established | 1966 |
| Collection | |
| Items collected | Manuscripts, books, and art |
| Size | approx. 15 million |
| Other information | |
| Website | www |
The ARC has approximately 15 million holdings, emphasizing documents, and also including books, pamphlets, periodicals, photographs, and fine arts. It additionally has digitized holdings to enable research and education by scholars and students at locations distant from the ARC. Although the ARC documents history and race relations in the United States its holdings extend beyond African-American history and also include the ethnic heritage of Latinos, Asian Americans, Native Americans, Appalachian whites, and the LGBTQ community.