Donate Books and Ephemera

The Center for the Study of Black Membership Organizations welcomes donations of history books and ephemera for our cause of cataloging and preserving the history of BMOs. Acceptable donations include:

  • National, regional, and local history books
  • Souvenir journals from conventions and conferences
  • Programs

The Center is not currently accepting photographs (digitally or otherwise).

The Center will never accept donations of secret, confidential, or proprietary information such as rituals, personnel files, or disciplinary records of living people.

Catalog

The Center possesses the following books:

  • Commission on Evaluation, The. The American Council on Human Rights: An Evaluation.
  • Giddings, Paula. In Search of Sisterhood: Delta Sigma Theta and the Challenge of the Black Sorority Movement. William Morrow and Company, Inc., 1988.
  • Jarrett, Hobart Sidney. The History of Sigma Pi Phi: First of the African-American Greek-Letter Fraternities, Founded May 15, 1904. Quantum Leap Publisher, Inc., 1995
  • Wesley, Charles H. The History of Alpha Phi Alpha: A Development in Negro College Life. The Foundation Publishers, 1948.
  • Wesley, Charles H. History of Sigma Pi Phi: First of the Negro-American Greek-Letter Fraternities. The Association For the Study of Negro Life and History, Inc., 1954, 1969