African American Museum and Library at Oakland, Research library and cultural center in Downtown Oakland, United States.

The African American Museum and Library at Oakland is a public research library and museum in downtown Oakland, California. It holds collections that document the lives of Black Americans in Northern California and the Bay Area, including archival materials, photographs, and personal records.

The collection began in 1946 as a private assemblage of artifacts and documents gathered by Eugene and Ruth Lasartemay and Jesse and Marcella Ford, first kept in a small shopfront on Grove Street (now Martin Luther King Jr. Way). It became the East Bay Negro Historical Society on July 2, 1965, later the Northern California Center for Afro-American History & Life, and was incorporated into the City of Oakland in 1994 as AAMLO. After a move to the Golden Gate Branch in 1982, it opened in the 1901 Carnegie building on 14th Street in 2002.

The name of this place reflects a community that has shaped Oakland for generations. Inside, visitors find photographs, letters, and personal objects donated by families and local organizations from the Bay Area.

The building sits in downtown Oakland and is easy to reach on foot or by public transit. Opening hours vary depending on the day, so checking in advance is a good idea, especially if you plan to use the reading rooms.

The building at 659 14th Street is the former Charles S. Greene Branch Library, a Beaux-Arts structure of 1901 by Walter Danforth Bliss and William Baker Faville. Damaged in the 1989 earthquake, it was renovated in 2001 by MWA Architects for $11.2 million and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.