Amistad Research Center

Amistad Research Center

The Amistad Research Center is committed to collecting, preserving, and providing open access to original materials that reference the social and cultural importance of America’s ethnic and racial history, the African Diaspora, human relations, and civil rights.

The original Henry O. Tanners, Jacob Lawrences, Bruce Nugents, Elizabeth Catletts and other masters are housed in Amistad Research Center’s fine arts collection

Amistad research collection's mission was derived directly from the ardently anti-caste American Missionary Association.

As such, collection efforts have traditionally focused on civil rights and race relations, along with the cultural and social contributions of underrepresented peoples, including African Americans, Native Americans, Asian Americans, Latinos, Jewish Americans, and Appalachian whites.