"[1] Per the company's 1969 catalog, NUP was an incorporated company that was designed to behave as a university press for the historically black colleges and universities of the United States, and "to publish original books written by scholars and specialists affiliated with the more than one hundred American colleges and universities that are predominantly Negro in enrollment.
[3] In 1959, Marguerite Cartwright mentioned in her newspaper column that she had met with Alan Angoff about his proposal for a Negro Universities Press.
[7][8] Among the company's publications was a 125-volume history of slavery in the U.S., composed primarily of 1000-copy reprints of books from the late 19th century to the 1930s.
[9] They also reprinted whole runs of historical African-American periodicals, including the National Anti-Slavery Standard (1840–1870), Colored American magazine (1900–1909), and the NAACP's Crisis, a Record of the Darker Races.
These periodicals present a broad history of Black culture and thought during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.