• 271 Memorial Library
• 76 Cooperative Children's Book Center (CCBC)
• 75 College Library
• 60 Special Collections (Memorial Library)
• 26 MERIT Library
• 10 Information School Library
• 7 Wisconsin Historical Society Library
• 5 Music Library (Mills)
• 3 Art Library (Kohler)
• 3 Ebling Library
• 3 Verona Shelving Facility
• 2 Wisconsin Historical Society Archives
• 1 ILL Library
• 1 Journalism Reading Room
• 1 WHS State Archives Preservation Facility

• 585 Books
• 15 Sound Recordings
• 5 Videos, Slides, Films
• 3 Journals, Magazines, Newspapers
• 3 Microforms
• 1 Mixed Materials
• 1 Music Scores

• 7 Compact Discs
• 3 DVDs

• 224 American poetry
• 174 African American authors
• 65 Children's poetry, American
• 35 African American women
• 30 History
• 26 Poetry
• 23 Race relations
• 21 Slavery
• 21 Social conditions
• 18 Black people
• 18 Race identity
• 17 American literature
• 16 Civil rights
• 14 History and criticism
• 12 Racism
• 11 African American poets
• 10 Intellectual life
• 10 Women authors
• 9 African American families
• 9 Social life and customs
• 8 African American men
• 8 African American women authors
• 8 African Americans in literature
• 8 Women

• 32 Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967
• 18 Dunbar, Paul Laurence, 1872-1906
• 14 Giovanni, Nikki
• 13 Bemis/Flaherty Collection of Gay Poetry
• 11 Grimes, Nikki
• 8 Adoff, Arnold
• 8 Baraka, Amiri, 1934-2014
• 8 Brooks, Gwendolyn, 1917-2000
• 8 Mott, Abigail, 1766-1851
• 8 Rampersad, Arnold
• 8 Young, Kevin, 1970-
• 7 Broadside Press
• 7 Dove, Rita
• 7 Gilchrist, Jan Spivey
• 7 Madhubuti, Haki R., 1942-
• 7 Medina, Tony
• 6 Andrews, Benny, 1930-2006
• 6 Christie, R. Gregory, 1971-
• 6 Cooper, Floyd
• 6 Cullen, Countee, 1903-1946
• 6 Greenfield, Eloise
• 6 Johnson, James Weldon, 1871-1938
• 5 Angelou, Maya
• 5 Finney, Nikky
• 5 Miller, E. Ethelbert

• 2 Spanish
• 1 French

• 63 United States
• 10 Harlem (New York, N.Y.)
• 10 New York
• 10 New York (State)
• 10 Southern States
• 5 North Carolina
• 4 Africa
• 4 New York (N.Y.)
• 2 Alabama
• 2 Appalachian Region
• 2 Chicago (Ill.)
• 2 Connecticut
• 2 Detroit
• 2 Kentucky
• 2 Louisiana
• 2 Michigan
• 2 Mississippi
• 2 New Orleans (La.)
• 2 South Carolina
• 1 Birmingham
• 1 Bronx (New York, N.Y.)
• 1 California
• 1 Canada
• 1 Chicago
• 1 Columbus (Ohio)

• 83 Juvenile poetry
• 64 poetry
• 24 Biography
• 21 American poetry
• 20 Literary collections
• 19 Essays
• 18 Fiction
• 15 Juvenile literature
• 13 Picture books
• 11 Literature
• 11 Music
• 10 Short stories
• 9 Biographies
• 8 Children's poetry
• 8 Dust jackets (Bindings)
• 8 essays
• 7 Autobiographies
• 7 Drama
• 7 Interviews
• 7 Narrative poetry
• 7 Picture books for children
• 7 Poems
• 6 Collections
• 6 Essay

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