The best way to access the Sankofa Special Collection is via our digitized Sankofa materials. Digitizing the collections within Sankofa was the very first digital project undertaken by Meadville Lombard and the majority of the Sankofa Special Collection is now digitized. The Sankofa digital collections are completely and freely accessible to anyone in the world. A list of Sankofa digital collections can be found in the Digital Collections tab of this guide. The page below will provide information about accessing physical documents if you cannot find what you are looking for within digital collections, or if you prefer to access the physical documents.
If you need access to archival material from Sankofa that is not digitized, we offer access to physical collections to researchers through limited scanning requests and general reference help. If you cannot come to Chicago to use materials in person, email us at archive@meadville.edu and we will do what we can to assist.
The Meadville Lombard Archives and Special Collections is located right in the center of Chicago's downtown in the Loop neighborhood. We are open 9:00am to 5:00pm, Monday through Friday by appointment. For researchers traveling to Chicago, we have special room rates at local hotels. Due to building security, all archive visits must be scheduled ahead of time. To arrange a visit, email us at archives@meadville.edu with the dates and times you want to visit and the collections you would like to use.
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