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On 6 April, the South African History Archive was officially relaunched at Wits university by its Vice-Chancellor Zeblon Vilakazi.

Resistance has been an unavoidable part of our lives as people of African heritage. So much so that it has become fashionable to remember our experience in terms of struggle. This collaborative project between SAHA and DTA is not that kind of project.

The South African Coalition for Transitional Justice (SACTJ) notes with deep concern the decision by the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) that it does not intend to pursue charges against two apartheid Security Branch police officers, Seth Sons and Ne

In a precedent setting judgment handed down by the Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) on Friday 29 May 2020 the South African History Archive SAHA prevailed in a six year long battle for access to information.

Following the declaration of a national state of disaster by President Cyril Ramaphosa, we thought it prudent to help unpack the Disaster Management Act No. 57 of 2002 which enabled the announcement made by the president.

On March 3, 2020, SAHA and the SARB appear before a court of law once again. This time, to argue and appeal lodged by SAHA following the March 2018 ruling from the High Court.

The inquest into the death of Dr. Neil Aggett has been re-opened and commenced on 20 January, 2020.

This brief write up was written by Andile (the Canadian Bar Association Intern) in commemoration of this year's International 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Based Violence.

SAHA's new address

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On 6 April, the South African History Archive was officially relaunched at Wits university by its Vice-Chancellor Zeblon Vilakazi. Resistance has been an unavoidable part of our lives as people of African heritage. So much so that it has become fashionable to remember our experience in terms of struggle.

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The University of the West Indies - St. Augustine Campus, Campus, Trinidad and Tobago

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The University of the West Indies

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https://sta.uwi.edu/fhe/history/caribbean-history-digital-archives

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The following list has been collated to support student research on Caribbean Historical topics.

It includes sites that exhibit digitizited primary material related to Caribbean History.

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The Digital Library of the Caribbean (dLOC) is a cooperative digital library for resources from and about the Caribbean and circum-Caribbean. The dLOC partner institutions are the core of dLOC. dLOC partners retain all rights to their materials and provide access to digitized versions of Caribbean cultural, historical and research materials currently held in archives, libraries, and private collections.

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) Caribbean Service donated its archive of recordings to The University of the West Indies (UWI) after it ceased broadcasting on March 25, 2011. This archive of audio recordings covers the period 1988-2011 and includes BBC flagship programmes Caribbean Report (morning and evening drivetime editions) and Caribbean Magazine. The BBC Caribbean Archive is currently hosted within the UWI Institutional repository UWISpace. This unique collection provides a contemporary record of the political, social, cultural and economic issues pertaining to the Caribbean and supports the needs of regional and global researchers in multiple disciplines.

The CMP functions as a public repository for texts-family archives, collections, found/discarded materials, and public databases-that begins to illustrate the range of documentary activity produced by (and about) Caribbean people and their descendants. Participants and the general public have direct and open access to this heritage database that may be used for reflection, education, and research into the social histories of indigenous, native, and naturalized communities by local, regional, and transnational parties.

The Caribbean Newspaper Digital Collection is within the Digital Library of the Caribbean (dLOC), a cooperative digital library for newspapers resources from the Caribbean and circum-Caribbean. dLOC provides access to digitized versions of Caribbean newspapers, gazettes, and other research materials on newsprint currently held in archives, libraries, and private collections. dLOC continues to add historical and current newspapers through ongoing digitization and born-digital curation, expanding the geographic, temporal, political and linguistic variety of the newspapers.

The National Archives of the UK' collection of Caribbean images drawn from the Ministry of Information (INF 10) and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (CO 1069) that span over 100 years of history.

The Caribbean Photo Archive is a privately owned collection of original photographs taken throughout the Caribbean Islands, the Bahamas and Bermuda in the 19th century and early 20th century.

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A service with national jurisdiction established in Aix-en-Provence since 1966, the National Archives of Overseas (ANOM) are responsible for the conservation, communication and collection of the archives of the French colonial expansion.

Barbados

The Barbados Mercury and Bridgetown Gazette ​was ​printed​ ​bi-weekly​ ​in​ ​Barbados. The Department of​ ​Archives holds ​the​ ​most​ ​complete​ ​set​ ​of​ ​volumes​ ​of​ ​​The Gazette (20 volumes covering 28 years between 1783-1848).

This database includes speeches, interviews, etc., by Fidel Castro from 1959 to 1996. All texts are in English.

Online catalog of the Biblioteca Nacional de Cuba José Martí.

Cuban Heritage Collection digital collections possesses digital manuscripts, photographs, letters, maps and other resources held in the University of Miami Libraries Cuban Heritage Collection. These presentations have been developed collaboratively by teams comprised of archivists, Digital Initiatives staff and the Cataloging Department.

SPAT Memory Project is a repository for the publications and related documents of the Dominica-based non-profit organization, Small Projects Assistance Team (locally known as SPAT).

Haiti/ St. Domingue/The Haitian Revolution

A map and timeline of the Haitian Revolution, with additional educational resources designed for high school students.

The website is designed to provide online access to both the French originals and the English translations of key primary sources dealing with the grain shortage faced by the colony of Saint-Domingue in 1789

Complete audio archive of Haiti's first and most prominent independent radio station, Radio Haïti-Inter (Jean L. Dominique and Michèle Montas). Funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Council on Library and Information Resources

In 1819, Haitian playwright, polemicist, journalist and statesman Juste Chanlatte published Néhri, Chef des Haytiens, his dramatized, fictionalized version of Haiti's final victory over France. It has been presumed lost or unpublished for 200 years. Today, it is back. This site offers: * new biographical information on poet, playwright, pamphletist and statesman Juste Chanlatte whose life - like that of so many early Haitian figures - has been subject to supposition and hearsay; * a material history of the physical copy of the book itself, located in Chantilly, tracing its passage from one French bibliophile to another, rebound and miscatalogued; * previously unrecorded series of reviews that traveled across three continents and over two oceans in the weeks following King Henry I of Haiti's suicide in 1820, as well as the extant evidence that the play was performed and discussed.

In light of this obliteration of history, The Public Archive was initiated to serve as an accessible clearinghouse of historical essays, archival sources, and informed contemporary journalism on Haiti. The Public Archive compiles links to documents freely accessible through the digital collections of libraries and repositories as well as open-access online periodicals, academic journals and newspapers.

The exhibition items have been chosen, and the captions written, so as to provide a running narrative of the Haitian Revolution.

This guide provides descriptions and links to useful databases, websites, digital collections and other resources for researching Caribbean History.

The National Library of Jamaica's (NLJ) holdings constitute the most comprehensive collection of Jamaican documentary offering an invaluable representation of Jamaica's history and heritage. To enhance access to its rich and varied collections, the National NLJ has digitized thousands of historical photographs, prints, drawings, pamphlets, programmes, manuscripts, books, rare maps and other rare and unique materials.

The town of Falmouth Jamaica has one of the richest collections of historic architecture in the Caribbean. This web site, the product of ten years on-site research, is a window into that architecture and its history.

This animated thematic map narrates the spatial history of the greatest slave insurrection in the eighteenth century British Empire. To teachers and researchers, the presentation offers a carefully curated archive of key documentary evidence. To all viewers, the map suggests an argument about the strategies of the rebels and the tactics of counterinsurgency, about the importance of the landscape to the course of the uprising, and about the difficulty of representing such events cartographically with available sources.

A digital collection of materials from the special collections of the Universidad de Puerto Rico, Río Piedras.

The Centro Library and Archives is a treasured place where researchers, academics, teachers, students, genealogists, filmmakers, and the community at large find primary (historical documents) and secondary sources about the history and culture of the Puerto Rican diaspora. The Digital Collections provide access to photographs, documents, artifacts, art, maps, oral histories, moving image and audio clips, and other digitized or born digital material pertaining to stateside Puerto Ricans.

Official publication of the Autoridad sobre Hogares de Puerto Rico under the Luis Muñoz Marín administration, 1942 to 1959.

Digital archive Universidad, the magazine of the Universidad de Puerto Rico from 1948 to 1960.

The Dominican Republic

Access to library catalog, online exhibits, curriculum materials, and digitized archival documents form the City University of New York's Dominican Studies Institute.

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This website presents information about selected trials for religious crimes held in the Caribbean between the 1760s and the 1980s. Most of the trials relate to obeah, but some are for transgressions of the Trinidadian Shouters Prohibition Law, while others are for breaches of medical licencing laws and vagrancy laws.

The Archive is a project of the Catholic Research Resources Alliance (CRRA), a non-profit alliance of archives and libraries collaborating in support of the mission to provide enduring global access to Catholic research resources. The site has thousands of newspaper pages, from different cities, over multiple years. This collection contains 26,241 issues comprising 568,141 pages.

Work in newspapers and colonial archives, however, has revealed information about hundreds of people who were prosecuted for crimes relating to religion between the eighteenth and twentieth century. This website tells some of their stories, explains the legal context of the laws under which they were prosecuted, and directs interested readers to where they might find out more.

This website is designed to give personal and scholarly perspectives on a major event in the history of religion in America. Its primary purpose is to present information about Peoples Temple as accurately and objectively as possible. In an effort to be impartial, it offers many diverse views and opinions about the Temple and the events in Jonestown.

The Barbados Synagogue Restoration Project (BSRP) Collection contains records related to the activities and functions of BSRP, a charity established in 1984 in Bridgetown, Barbados.

Imperial and Colonial Studies

One More Voice focuses on recovering non-European contributions from nineteenth-century British imperial and colonial archives. The non-European contributions take multiple forms and appear in multiple genres, including travel narratives, autobiographies, letters, diaries, testimonies, interviews, treaties, maps, oral histories, genealogies, and vocabularies.

The archive collection is now one of the most comprehensive collections that document the history and cultural heritage of Black Britain.

This digital memorial raises questions about the largest slave trades in history and offers access to the documentation available to answer them. European colonizers turned to Africa for enslaved laborers to build the cities and extract the resources of the Americas. They forced millions of Africans across the Atlantic to the Americas, and from one part of the Americas to another. Analyze these slave trades and view interactive maps, timelines, and animations to see the dispersal in action.

The Free Womb Project is a bilingual (English and Spanish-language) digital collection of laws legislating the gradual abolition of slavery through "Free Womb" decrees in fifteen different governments across the Atlantic World during the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

This an open access collection of pre-twentieth-century Caribbean texts, maps, and images. Texts include travel narratives, novels, poetry, natural histories, and diaries that have not been brought together before as a single collection focused on the Caribbean.

The Early Caribbean Digital Archive (ECDA) is a publicly available archive platform for accessing, researching, and contributing pre-twentieth-century Caribbean archival materials.

Mapping Slavery NL maps historical places from the Dutch slavery past as well as heritage from the Dutch colonial 'empire'.

The Slave Societies Digital Archive (formerly Ecclesiastical and Secular Sources for Slave Societies), directed by Jane Landers and hosted at Vanderbilt University, preserves endangered ecclesiastical and secular documents related to Africans and African-descended peoples in slave societies. SSDA holdings include more than 700,000 digital images drawn close to 2,000 unique volumes dating from the sixteenth through twentieth centuries that document the lives of an estimated four to six million individuals. This collection contains the most extensive serial records for the history of Africans in the Atlantic World, and also includes valuable information about the indigenous, European, and Asian populations who lived alongside them.

The trading of Africans who were forced into slavery was the 'core business' of the MCC (The Middelburgse Commercie Compagnie). From 1732 to 1807, 31.095 African slaves were bought by the MCC with the intention to sell them in the West Indies. The archive of the MCC is kept by the Zeeland Archives and is included on UNESCO's World Heritage List.

This website is envisioned as a tool and a resource that can be used by teachers, researchers, students, and the general public - in brief, anyone interested in the experiences of Africans who were enslaved and transported to the Americas and the lives of their descendants in the slave societies of the New World.

Blog that features/contextualizes newspaper content digitized by the US Caribbean & Ethnic Florida Digital Newspaper Project. Newspapers published between 1800-1963 that are chosen for digitization for this project come from Florida, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands and are made openly available for access via the Library of Congress site, Chronicling America ( https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/) as well as in the Digital Library of the Caribbean (dLOC) and the University of Florida Digital Collections (UFDC).

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"From Dat Time": The Oral & Public History Institute of the University of The Bahamas invites you to explore Ramble Bahamas. The site can be explored by browsing individual stories, browsing Rambles, or through interacting with the map. Each place-based story includes a narrative which centers on an historically significant site or object.

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A map of Black British protests, uprisings and battles throughout the 20th century

It focuses on mapping the routes of vessels between about 1750 and 1900 that carried cargoes of coffee, sugar, spices, gold, and many other products as well as enslaved Africans between Europe, Africa, the Caribbean, South America, North America, and Asia.

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Caribbean Studies in Video: The Banyan Archive

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Banyan Archives (access via Alexander Street Press), Banyan Productions

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https://video.alexanderstreet.com/channel/caribbean-studies-in-video-the-banyan-archive

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National Archives Of Trinidad and Tobago, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago

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National Archives of Trinidad and Tobago

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National Archives of Trinidad and Tobago

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https://natt.gov.tt/

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The African Caribbean Institute of Jamaica/Jamaica Memory bank, Ocean Boulevard, Kingston, Jamaica

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African Caribbean Institute of Jamaica/Jamaica Memory Bank

https://acij-ioj.org.jm/av-collections/

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AV COLLECTIONS – African Institute of Jamaica/Jamaica Memory Bank

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The African Caribbean Institute of Jamaica/Jamaica Memory Bank (ACIJ/JMB) is a storehouse of Jamaica’s memories. Over the years, teams of researchers have conducted over a thousand interviews which make up an archive of oral testimony that is immensely valuable for the study Jamaica’s social history.

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National Museum of Scotland, Chambers Street, Edinburgh, UK

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National Museums Scotland

https://www.nms.ac.uk/explore-our-collections/stories/scottish-history-and-archaeology/scotland-and-the-caribbean/

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National Museum of Scotland, Chambers Street, Edinburgh, UK

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Ancient African Queens: New Perspectives on Black History

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Ancient African Queens: New Perspectives on Black History

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National Museums Scotland

https://www.nms.ac.uk/exhibitions-events/online-event/archive-online-events/ancient-african-queens/

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In the 19th and 20th centuries European and American Egyptologists appropriated ancient Egypt into an idea of 'Western civilisation' and set it apart from other African cultures. This historical colonial bias against Africa has ramifications on how we interpret ancient Egyptian and Sudanese collections today.

Although less well-known, ancient Egypt's southern neighbour, Nubia also had a long and fascinating history. Through focussing on powerful queens, including the Qurna burial featured in our Ancient Egypt Rediscovered gallery, our speakers demonstrate how ancient Nubian culture was equally important to that of ancient Egypt.

Curator Dr Margaret Maitland and Dr Solange Ashby examine colonial-era biases which cast ancient Egypt as culturally superior and consider the politics of representation. They reassess the cultural connections between ancient Egypt and Nubia, applying this new perspective to historical collections in recognition of the importance of Nubian material culture.

This event included a live Q&A chaired by Professor Katherine Harloe.

Speakers

Dr Margaret Maitland is Principal Curator of the Ancient Mediterranean and Head of the Mediterranean, Africa, Americas and Oceania Section at National Museums Scotland. Margaret discusses recent research on the 'Qurna Queen' burial group, the first major reassessment since its excavation over a hundred years ago.

Dr Solange Ashby is a President's Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of California, Los Angeles. Solange discusses her current research which focusses on the roles of royal and noble women - Kushite queens, priestesses, mothers - in traditional Nubian religious practices.

Professor Katherine Harloe is Director of the Institute of Classical Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London. Katherine is the first woman Director of the Institute and the first Black Professor of Classics in the UK.

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Discover a diverse programme of exhibitions and events across National Museums Scotland's four museums.

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National Library of Wales, Penglais Road, Aberystwyth, UK

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Iolo Morganwg and Taliesin ab Iolo manuscripts and papers

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Iolo Morganwg and Taliesin ab Iolo manuscripts and papers

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National Library of Wales

https://archives.library.wales/index.php/iolo-morganwg-manuscripts

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National Library of Wales, Penglais Road, Aberystwyth, UK

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Welsh Committee Against Racialism Papers

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Welsh Committee Against Racialism Papers

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National Library of Wales

https://archives.library.wales/index.php/welsh-committee-against-racialism-papers

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National Library of Wales, Penglais Road, Aberystwyth, UK

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National Library of Wales

https://archives.library.wales/index.php/wales-anti-apartheid-movement-papers

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National Library of Wales, Penglais Road, Aberystwyth, UK

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National Library of Wales

https://archives.library.wales/index.php/jazz-heritage-wales-archive-archif-menywod-cymru-womens-archive-of-wales

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Jazz Heritage Wales Archive (Archif Menywod Cymru/Women's Archive of Wales)

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Administrative history

The Jazz Heritage Wales Collection (Casgliad Treftadaeth Jazz Cymru) was founded in 1986 as the Women's Jazz Archive by pianist, historian and author Professor Jen Wilson. It is based at University of Wales Trinity St David, Swansea and also occupies premises in the Maritime Cultural Quarter of Swansea, adjacent to the Swansea Museum and the Dylan Thomas Theatre. At its relaunch in 2002, it was renamed Women in Jazz. The organisation became a registered charity in 1998 and has been run since then by a Board of Trustees. Its patrons include celebrated jazz and pop singer Dame Cleo Laine, Paula Gardiner, head of Jazz Studies at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama in Cardiff, and Huw Warren, winner of the BBC Jazz Award for Innovation. Jazz Heritage Wales (incorporating the Jazz Archive Collection) is the only multi-media resource in Britain which focuses on the contribution made by Wales to British jazz culture. In addition, emphasis is placed upon lesser known aspects of Wales' jazz heritage, such as the rôle played by women jazz musicians and the influence of African-American music within Welsh jazz. The latest in a long line of honours accorded Jazz Heritage Wales was the St David Award for Culture, bestowed by the Welsh Government in 2017.

2/11: Contains some Cornish and French.
2/25: Contains German.
25/4: Contains some Italian.
28/2/18: Contains some Spanish, Breton and Scots.
28/2/41: Contains some Dutch.

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Ambientscape Project

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https://www.ambientscape.com/black-europe-archive

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The most comprehensive Black European sound collection available online, this series traces the origins of the earliest African European recordings pre-1927. The breadth and range of this collection is immense, almost encyclopedic in scope, and also includes 2 reference books for further research.

Black Europe: The Sounds And Images Of Black People In Europe Pre-1927, compilation producers; Jeffrey Green, Ranier E. Lotz & Howard Rye, mastering engineer; Christian Zwarg.

This compilation, released on 'Bear Family Records,' has been long out of print and now available for the first time complete and accessible in MP3 format mastered from the original wax cylinders and shellac discs.

'From African-Americans comes an aural kaleidoscope of entertainers and music from the last days of minstrelsy through ragtime and music hall artists to string bands, spirituals, and the early days of jazz in Europe, including the earliest examples of stride piano and rhythm scat singing, and some of the first records made anywhere of African-American folk music practices. From Africans come recordings of African languages and folk tales, religious music on both African and European models, and recordings of the popular music of the 1920s. Also documented is the involvement of those born in Europe of African descent in the wider culture of the African diaspora.'

Disclaimer: Please note, these are important recordings of African European history, however certain tracks in the archive contain terms and language that is outdated, offensive and deemed racially derogatory, this is indicative of the time it was recorded, it is important to be mindful of the impact that this content may have on others. Sensitivity to the nature of this material and all those affected is advised. The books accompanying the music also cover biographical histories and advertising. 'Brace yourselves,' as it also sheds an uncomfortable light on the realities of racism in Europe pre 1927 where we are given a glimpse into actual examples of racist depictions, portrayals and stereotypes of black people ingrained in everyday life, a reminder of the type of struggles that performers and musicians during this era would face on their way towards shaping history.

Black Europe: The Sounds and Images of Black People in Europe Pre-1927' was first published on the 25th October 2015 and the collection is owned by Bear Family Records.

The Official Bear Family Record Label - Website

Black British History Collection, Britain & the British Empire

Radio 4: Black Music in Europe a Hidden History by Clarke Peters

The Black Europe Reissue Project by Rainer E Lotz 2011 ARSC Conference

(MP3 320kbps Googledrive Access)

1244 Tracks: Total Runtime - 56 Hours 26 Minutes

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Access the Black Europe African European Archive

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Coalition for Racial Equality and Rights (CRER), John Street, Glasgow, UK

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Coalition for Racial Equality and Rights, and Black History Month Scotland

(Digital)

https://www.crer.org.uk/black-history-map

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Coalition for Racial Equality and Rights (CRER), John Street, Glasgow, UK

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Black History Month Scotland

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https://www.blackhistorymonthscotland.org/gallery

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Race Council Cymru, Singleton Street, Swansea, Wales, UK

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Black History Wales; Race Council Cymru

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https://blackhistorywales.org.uk/resources/

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Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI

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Michigan State University

(Digital)

https://africanactivist.msu.edu/

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Buffalo Soldiers National Museum, Caroline Street, Houston, TX

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https://buffalosoldiersmuseum.org/

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Buffalo Soldiers National Museum (BSNM), is dedicated to exploring and displaying the stories and contributions of African Americans in the military by way of performing and visual arts, educational programming, and exhibitions.

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Oakland Museum of California, Oak Street, Oakland, CA

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Oakland Museum of California

https://museumca.org/on-view/black-power/

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Ongoing | Gallery of California History

Uncover the history of the Black Power movements in California with a compelling addition to the Gallery of California History. In response to the widely-popular 2016 exhibition All Power to the People: Black Panthers at 50, this installation illustrates the creative ways Black anti-racist activists in California supported their communities and challenged the U.S. government. Focusing on the example of the Black Panther Party, Black Power brings to light the tensions between a culturally and socially progressive California and examples of economic racism and oppression in the state. This moment in California history is represented through historic photographs, provocative objects, iconic posters, paintings and interactive prompts that encourage visitors to take action out in the world. Learn more about the Bay Area role in this national story, and the impacts this history continues to have today.

Highlights

Black Power inspires visitors to keep thinking about this legacy and what they can do to contribute.
- Hyperallergic

More

All Power to the People: Black Panthers at 50 - Chinaka Hodge Poem​

Sponsors

Black Power is supported in part by the Oakland Museum Women's Board.

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Uncover the history of the Black Power movements in California with a compelling addition to the Gallery of California History. In response to the widely-popular 2016 exhibition All Power to the People: Black Panthers at 50, this installation illustrates the creative ways Black anti-racist activists in California supported their communities and challenged the U.S.

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Laurel County African American Heritage Center, Short Street, London, KY

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Laurel County African American Heritage Center

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Laurel County African American Heritage Center

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https://www.facebook.com/lcaahc.inc/

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Laurel County African American Heritage Center Inc. | London KY

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Kentucky Center for African American Heritage, West Muhammad Ali Boulevard, Louisville, KY

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Kentucky Center for African American Heritage

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Kentucky Center for African American Heritage

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Kentucky Center for African American Heritage

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Kentucky Center for African American Heritage celebrates Juneteenth through song, storytelling

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National Museum of African American History and Culture, Constitution Avenue Northwest, Washington, DC

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National Museum of African American History and Culture

https://nmaahc.si.edu/explore/collection

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Inside the National Museum of African American History and Culture

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DuSable Museum of African American History, East 56th Place, Chicago, IL

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DuSable Museum of African American History

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DuSable Museum of African American History

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American Soul: The DuSable Museum of African-American History

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Pacifica Radio Archive, Cahuenga Boulevard, Studio City, CA

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Pacifica Radio Archives; Pacifica Network

https://www.pacificaradioarchives.org/black-panther-party

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https://blacklesbianarchives.wixsite.com/info

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The Archives for Black Lesbians to build Community, Educate & Preserve our Culture.

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Honey Pot Performance

https://cbscmap.omeka.net/about

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The Chicago Black Social Culture Map (CBSCM) archive is designed by Honey Pot Performance (HPP) to reach a wide demographic, from the casually curious to academic experts. The archive documents the lived experiences of Black Chicagoans from the Great Migration through the rise of House music, giving this chronically under-documented constituency an opportunity to see their stories and histories represented as written record and archive. The act of creating and sharing the CBSCM archive not only serves to insert this important segment of American history into the official canon, but also engages those whom the archive represents, inviting them to actively help to build and shape this historical record, and increasing their agency from passive audience into participant and history-maker.

In addition to working directly with community members as primary sources for contributions to the archive, the CBSCM has partnered with local archives and organizations including the Blackivists, the Modern Dance Music Research and Archiving Foundation, the Center for Black Music Research, DuSable Museum, and Arts + Public Life at University of Chicago to research entry content for venues and sites. HPP purposefully approaches the process of archiving as a social, community driven practice, with the aim of fostering intersection and interaction between a wide range of institutions, grassroots efforts, and practitioners. In this way, we hope to additionally serve the archiving and historic preservation community by facilitating connections with communities they may not normally have direct access to.

Most public engagement around the archive takes place in community-based partner institutions and community centers on the South and West Sides of Chicago, both of which are home to majority Black and Brown communities.

The CBSCM archive encompasses the oral and material history of Chicago's Black social culture across the 20th century from the Great Migration through the birth of house music. Since 2014, through open sessions, targeted interviews, and multi-faceted research, data has been compiled on over 350 venues in the Chicagoland area. Materials in the collection include digitally recorded oral histories, digitized audio from cassette tapes, two-dimensional paper flyers, posters, small hand-held "pluggers," and printed photographs, as well as sartorial expressions of house music culture.

Project Director
Meida McNeal

Technical Director
Jo de Presser

Community Data & Research Manager
TBA

Community Data & Research Associate
TBA

Marketing & Communications Director
Abra Johnson

Social Media Coordinator
Jamila Johnson

Program & Exhibitions Team
Lori Branch, Lauren Lowery, Duane Powell, Darlene Jackson, Jo de Presser, Lynneah McCarrell, Jeneca Onikoyi, Abra Johnson, Meida McNeal, Larissa Johnson

Archiving Advisory Leads
Skyla Hearn & Lauren Lowery

Education & Curriculum Team
Abra Johnson, Jennifer Ligaya, Sea Michell Miller, Meida McNeal

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Honey Pot Performance Organizational Mission Honey Pot Performance (HPP) is a creative Afro-feminist nonprofit that has evolved from an organic collective into a 501c3 organization. Since 2001, HPP has cultivated an approach to performance integrating movement, theater, and first-voice to examine the nuanced ways people negotiate identity, belonging, and difference in their lives and cultural memberships.

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Beck Cultural Exchange Center, Dandridge Avenue, Knoxville, TN

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Learn about the Beck Cultural Exchange Center

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https://blackinappalachia.omeka.net/

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Audio recording of "He's Able" by Central Baptist Church, Youth Choir, May 6, 1953. Kingsport, Tennessee.
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Audio recording of "I Bowed on My Knees" by Central Baptist Church, Youth Choir, May 6, 1953. Kingsport, Tennessee.
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Audio recording of "Come on in the Room" by Central Baptist Church, Youth Choir, May 6, 1953. Kingsport, Tennessee.
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Black in Appalachia: Community History Digital Archive

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The Community History digital archive is a public, searchable archive of digital materials related to African American history in East Tennessee, Southwest Virginia and Eastern Kentucky. Built from the contributions of local institutions and community members, this archive increases the documentation and accessibility of the region's African American history, benefiting local community members as well as regional scholars and researchers.

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https://www.nshharchive.ca/

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https://tafaridiop.com/Book-Space-Archive

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Eastside Arts Alliance, International Boulevard, Oakland, CA

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Third World Community Archival Resource Project

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Third World Community Archival Resource Project

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Eastside Arts Alliance
https://www.eastsideartsalliance.org/community-archival-resource-project

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The Black Archives, Zeeburgerdijk, Amsterdam, Netherlands

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The Black Archives on Tour
​20 - 24 June 2017

Van 19 t/m 20 juni organiseren we sessies rondom de zwartepietendiscussie (20 juni) en de verborgen verhalen van zwart verzet en radicale zwarte denkers, met een lezing van Dr. Kehinde Andrews (Associate Professor Sociology, Birmingham University). Andre Reeder (filmmaker) en Ernestine Comvalius (directeur Bijlmerparktheater en theatermaker) behandelen Surinaamse emancipatiebewegingen zoals LOSON/SAWO. Het live archiveren van een omvangrijke schenking aan The Black Archives, een project van New Urban Collective, is onderdeel van de tentoonstelling.

Otto Huiswoud in art movie Cinema Olanda at Biënnale in Venice

Op 10 mei werd het Nederlandse Paviljoen geopend op de Biënnale van Venetië. Kunstenares Wendelien van Oldenborg en curator Lucy Cotter hebben met het project kunstproject Cinema Olanda "actief vergeten" verhalen, zoals het verhaal van Otto Huiswoud weer aan het licht gebracht. Voor de film is materiaal uit the Black Archives gebruikt.

Black Intellectual Gathering with dr. Kehinde Andrews on the Black Studies Movement in the UK

This talk will discuss the importance of developing a critical Black Studies and the tensions of housing the degree and research in the university space. Black Studies is essential, but can it flourish in the institutionally racist space of the university? The talk will also consider the prospects for Black Studies emerging across Europe.

Screening + Panel "I Am Not Your Negro" by James Baldwin - June 2nd​

On Friday the 2nd of June 2017, New Urban Collective, Humanity in Action, NinSee and "Vereniging Ons Suriname" will organize a screening and panel discuss of the new documentary "I Am Not Your Negro" about James Baldwin and the Civil Rights Movement.

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Van 19 t/m 20 juni organiseren we sessies rondom de zwartepietendiscussie (20 juni) en de verborgen verhalen van zwart verzet en radicale zwarte denkers, met een lezing van Dr. Kehinde Andrews (Associate Professor Sociology, Birmingham University). Andre Reeder (filmmaker) en Ernestine Comvalius (directeur Bijlmerparktheater en theatermaker) behandelen Surinaamse emancipatiebewegingen zoals LOSON/SAWO.

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Black Film Archive is a living register of Black films made from 1915 to 1979 currently streaming. Created by Maya S. Cade.

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Rebuild Foundation, South Stony Island Avenue, Chicago, IL

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Black Cultural Archives, Windrush Square, London, UK

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https://blackculturalarchives.org/

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Serendipity, Bowling Green Street, Leicester, UK

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Serendipity: Institute for Black Arts and Heritage

https://www.serendipity-uk.com/living-archive-landing/

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Library of Congress, Independence Avenue Southeast, Washington, DC

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African American History Online: A Resource Guide

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African American History Online: A Resource Guide

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Library of Congress

https://guides.loc.gov/african-american-history-online/online-resources

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A large number of primary source collection materials related to African American history are digitized and available online via the Library of Congress's website, including manuscripts, newspaper articles, images, and rare books. In addition, the Library also provides digital content on African American history through their exhibition program, "Today in History" essays, and online research guides.

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Research Guides: African American History Online: A Resource Guide: Library of Congress Online Resources

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A large number of primary source collection materials related to African American history are digitized and available online via the Library of Congress's website, including manuscripts, newspaper articles, images, and rare books. In addition, the Library also provides digital content on African American history through their exhibition program, "Today in History" essays, and online research guides.

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Library of Congress, Independence Avenue Southeast, Washington, DC

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African Americans in Business and Entrepreneurship: A Resource Guide

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African Americans in Business and Entrepreneurship: A Resource Guide

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Library of Congress

https://guides.loc.gov/african-americans-in-business/library-of-congress-resources/special-collections

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The Manuscript Division seeks to preserve personal papers and organizational records that document the course of America's national experience. Its more than twelve thousand collections and more than seventy million items touch upon every aspect of American history and culture. The Manuscript Division's holdings are strongest, however, in the areas of American national government, the federal judiciary, diplomacy, military history, women's history, and black history.

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Research Guides: African Americans in Business and Entrepreneurship: A Resource Guide: Special Collections

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The history of African Americans in business has been shaped by institutional racism as well as inequities in education and opportunity. This guide provides access to a wide variety of primary and secondary sources to aid in the research of this topic.

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Library of Congress, Independence Avenue Southeast, Washington, DC

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Zora Neale Hurston Plays at the Library of Congress

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Zora Neale Hurston Plays at the Library of Congress

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Library of Congress

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https://www.loc.gov/collections/zora-neale-hurston-plays/about-this-collection/

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Library of Congress, Independence Avenue Southeast, Washington, DC

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Voices Remembering Slavery: Freed People Tell Their Stories

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Voices Remembering Slavery: Freed People Tell Their Stories

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Library of Congress

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https://www.loc.gov/collections/voices-remembering-slavery/about-this-collection/

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Library of Congress, Independence Avenue Southeast, Washington, DC

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Library of Congress

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https://www.loc.gov/collections/rosa-parks-papers/about-this-collection/

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The papers of Rosa Parks (1913-2005) span the years 1866-2006, with the bulk of the material dating from 1955 to 2000. The collection, which contains approximately 7,500 items in the Manuscript Division, as well as 2,500 photographs in the Prints and Photographs Division, documents many aspects of Parks's private life and public activism on behalf of civil rights for African Americans. The collection is a gift made to the Library in 2016 through the generosity of the Howard G. Buffett Foundation. The Library received the materials in late 2014, formally opened them to researchers in the Library's reading rooms in February 2015, and now has digitized them for optimal access by the public.

Family papers include correspondence with her husband Raymond A. Parks; her mother, Leona Edwards McCauley; and her brother, Sylvester McCauley. Correspondence with her husband and mother contains the largest number of letters written by Parks in the collection. Letters by Sylvester McCauley largely concern his efforts to convince his sister to move to Detroit. Events surrounding Parks's arrest in 1955 for disorderly conduct after she refused to give her seat to a white passenger, as well as the subsequent Montgomery Bus Boycott, are described in many of her writings, notes, and correspondence from 1955 to 1956. Other subjects covered in the collection include Parks's work in Congressman John Conyers's Detroit office; her participation in major civil rights events such as the Prayer Pilgrimage for Freedom in 1957, March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom in 1963, Mississippi Freedom Project in 1964, and the Poor People's Campaign in 1968; and Parks's Presidential Medal of Freedom and Congressional Gold Medal along with material concerning other honors received by Parks.

The collection also documents Parks's affiliation with organizations and institutions including the Rosa and Raymond Parks Institute for Self Development, an organization she founded with Elaine Eason Steele to promote youth development and civil rights education; Hampton Institute, Highlander Folk School, Martin Luther King, Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change; National Association for the Advancement of Colored People; Southern Christian Leadership Conference; and Saint Matthew African Methodist Episcopal Church, Detroit, Michigan.

The vast majority of items in the Parks Collection have been digitized in their entirety and may be viewed in this online collection. Other material is available to researchers through the Manuscript and Prints and Photographs reading rooms. A small percentage (approximately 6 percent) of the manuscript items, consisting largely of newspapers, magazines, and other publications still under copyright along with some materials for which rights clearance is still pending, may be viewed onsite only at this time. Among the visual materials, all items were digitized except the children's greeting cards for which a representative sample is included in this online collection.

Description of Series

The manuscript collection is arranged in eleven series:

Includes correspondence, certificates, notes, financial records, employment records, insurance documents, medical records, photographs, news clippings, and other material pertaining to the family of Rosa Parks. Letters to and from Parks arranged alphabetically by name of immediate family member. Papers of Parks's husband, mother, brother, and father arranged alphabetically by name of family member and alphabetically thereunder by topic or type of material. Letters from extended family grouped together in a chronological arrangement.

Includes letters Parks received from prominent individuals; a chronological file of largely incoming correspondence from friends, acquaintances, organizations, event planners, and the general public; greeting cards; and the letters and drawings of children. Arranged alphabetically and chronologically.

Includes correspondence, memoranda, invitations, notes, writings, interview transcripts, programs, flyers, name tags, newsletters, lists, certificates, song sheets, petitions, photographs, and other material pertaining to Parks's affiliation with organizations and institutions, her participation in major civil rights events, and various efforts to honor her. Arranged alphabetically by name of organization, institution, or event, by topic, or by type of material.

Contains book galleys, drafts of writings, notes, notebooks, interviews, prayers, spiritual reflections, and statements by Parks. Arranged alphabetically by type of material.

Includes programs, flyers, tickets, and other printed matter pertaining to Parks's speaking engagements, the honors she received, and the events she attended. Arranged in two parts: events featuring or honoring Parks and a general file of events that she most likely attended even though her name does not appear in programs. Each part is arranged chronologically within.

Resolutions and Other Honors, 1967-2006

Contains resolutions, tributes, certificates, honorary degrees, and poetry honoring Parks. Arranged alphabetically in categories and within each category by name of organization, institution, person, or state. These materials are included as part of the oversize series in this online edition.

Includes financial, employment, insurance, estate, and medical records, appointment calendars, address books, biographical material, membership and business cards, telephone messages, a recipe, a questionnaire, and other material documenting Parks's daily life and material circumstances. Arranged alphabetically by type of material or topic.

Contains magazines, newspapers, pamphlets, brochures, commemorative stamps, calendars, and various printed ephemera either pertaining to or collected by Parks. Arranged alphabetically by type of material or topic. Partially digitized.

Books owned by Parks. Some of the books are inscribed with the names of family. Others contain inscriptions to Parks by the author or the person giving her the book. Arranged alphabetically by name of author or title. Partially digitized.

The Congressional Gold Medal and the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Arranged alphabetically by name of medal.

Oversize material consisting of resolutions, tributes, certificates, honorary degrees, correspondence, writings, political ephemera, labor and campaign buttons, a calendar, a family Bible, and newspapers. Arranged and described according to series, containers, and folders from which the items were removed. Partially digitized.

NOTE: Also available with this online collection are the Visual Materials from the Rosa Parks Papers.

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The papers of Rosa Parks (1913-2005) span the years 1866-2006, with the bulk of the material dating from 1955 to 2000. The collection, which contains approximately 7,500 items in the Manuscript Division, as well as 2,500 photographs in the Prints and Photographs Division, documents many aspects of Parks's private life and public activism on behalf of civil rights for African Americans.

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Library of Congress, Independence Avenue Southeast, Washington, DC

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Now What a Time: Blues, Gospel, and the Fort Valley Music Festivals, 1938 to 1943

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Now What a Time: Blues, Gospel, and the Fort Valley Music Festivals, 1938 to 1943

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Library of Congress

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https://www.loc.gov/collections/blues-gospel-and-the-fort-valley-music-festivals/about-this-collection/

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Library of Congress, Independence Avenue Southeast, Washington, DC

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Library of Congress

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https://www.loc.gov/collections/mary-church-terrell-papers/about-this-collection/

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Library of Congress, Independence Avenue Southeast, Washington, DC

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Gladstone Collection of African American Photographs

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Gladstone Collection of African American Photographs

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Library of Congress

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https://www.loc.gov/collections/gladstone-african-american-photographs/about-this-collection/

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Library of Congress, Independence Avenue Southeast, Washington, DC

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African American Photographs Assembled for 1900 Paris Exposition

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African American Photographs Assembled for 1900 Paris Exposition

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Library of Congress

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https://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/anedub/background.html

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Library of Congress, Independence Avenue Southeast, Washington, DC

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Library of Congress

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https://www.loc.gov/collections/frederick-douglass-papers/about-this-collection/

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Library of Congress, Independence Avenue Southeast, Washington, DC

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Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938

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Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938

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Library of Congress

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https://www.loc.gov/collections/slave-narratives-from-the-federal-writers-project-1936-to-1938/about-this-collection/

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Library of Congress, Independence Avenue Southeast, Washington, DC

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African American Perspectives: Materials Selected from the Rare Book Collection

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African American Perspectives: Materials Selected from the Rare Book Collection

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Library of Congress

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https://www.loc.gov/collections/african-american-perspectives-rare-books/about-this-collection/

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Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture - New York Public Library, Malcolm X Boulevard, New York, NY

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Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, The New York Public Library

https://archives.nypl.org/scm/24832

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Ann Petry (originally Anna Houston Lane) was born on October 12, 1908, in Old Saybrook, Connecticut, to Peter Clark Lane and Bertha James Lane. Petry's father was a pharmacist who owned drugstores in Old Saybrook and nearby Old Lyme and her mother was a chiropodist and entrepreneur. Petry was the youngest of two girls. Her older sister's name was Helen Lane (later Bush after marriage). Petry hailed from four generations of African Americans living in the predominantly white, middle class town of Old Saybrook. Stories of her ancestors' hardships in New England planted the creative seeds of inspiration that would eventually become central to her writings. Petry began penning short stories and one-act plays while in high school. However, much of her time was spent working at the family pharmacy. Upon graduating high school, she briefly attended Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute in Hampton, VA where she studied Home Economics. This area of study was not to her liking. So, in keeping with family tradition (in addition to her father, Petry's aunt, Anna Louise James, was also a pharmacist), she decided to become a pharmacist. She attended the Connecticut College of Pharmacy and earned a graduate degree in 1931.

For the next few years, she worked as a pharmacist at the family drugstore while continuing to write short stories in her spare time. In 1938, Ann married George David Petry and moved to New York City to pursue her literary ambitions of becoming a writer. Throughout their time in New York, they lived on Edgecombe Ave., on East 129th St., and eventually in a leftist housing complex in the Bronx, and potentially other locations. While living in New York City, Petry visited a numerologist who told her that she would never be successful unless she dropped the extra "a" from her first name. Thus, Anna became Ann.

Petry's decade in Harlem was rich, dense, productive, and successful. Upon her arrival in Harlem, she soon found work selling advertising space for the Amsterdam News, a weekly Harlem publication. She then became a reporter for a weekly paper published by Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. called, the People's Voice. Petry contributed a women's column called "The Lighter Side" which covered social events and news stories. She taught for the NAACP and at PS 101. Petry was also involved in the arts as an actress. Her debut performance was at the American Negro Theater in a comedy called, On Striver's Row, written by Abram Hill. She also took drawing classes at the Harlem Art Center and her husband, George, took weaving classes. She was co-founder of Negro Women Incorporated along with Dollie Lowther Robinson. Negro Women Incorporated was a women's advocacy group that sought to "help women get their money's worth" and was affiliated with the People's Committee, founded by Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.

To assist in her literary pursuits, Petry enrolled in Mabel Louise Robinson's writing class at Columbia University. Her first short fiction, a romance-suspense piece titled, "Marie of the Cabin Club", was published in 1939 in The Afro American under male pseudonym, Arnold Petri. From 1938 until 1944, Petry wrote numerous short stories for literary journals. The initial chapters of The Street won Petry the 1945 Houghton Mifflin Literary Fellowship, which served as a turning point in her career. The Street tells the story of protagonist, Lutie Johnson, a single mother trying to provide a better life for her son than could realistically be had amidst the poverty of West 116th St. in Harlem. The book was an instant hit, selling a million and a half copies. It received numerous, positive reviews, being favorably compared with Richard Wright's Native Son, and was widely published and translated into French, Spanish, Japanese, and Portuguese. Country Place, Petry's second novel, was published the following year in 1947.

Ultimately, the success of The Street made Petry a much sought-after but reluctant interview subject and speaker, who would inevitably, if futilely, strive for a secluded writing life in Connecticut. In 1948, after becoming an established writer, Petry and her husband moved back to Old Saybrook. Petry gave birth to her only child, Elisabeth (Liz) Ann Petry, on January 28, 1949. As a departure from her novels, Petry's first foray into the world of children's books also occurred in 1949 with the publication of Drugstore Cat. Petry's subsequent publications include her third novel, The Narrows, published in 1953; Harriet Tubman: Conductor of the Underground Railroad, published in 1955; Tituba of Salem Village, published in 1964; Legends of the Saints, in 1970; and a book of short stories titled Miss Muriel and Other Stories, published in 1971.

From 1973-1975, Petry briefly moved to Hawaii to serve as a Visiting Professor in the English Department at the University of Hawaii. When she returned to Old Saybrook, much of her time was divided between writing, parenting, and providing care and assistance to other ailing family members. Petry passed away on April 28, 1997.

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Ann Petry (originally Anna Houston Lane) was born on October 12, 1908, in Old Saybrook, Connecticut, to Peter Clark Lane and Bertha James Lane. Petry's father was a pharmacist who owned drugstores in Old Saybrook and nearby Old Lyme and her mother was a chiropodist and entrepreneur.

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Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture - New York Public Library, Malcolm X Boulevard, New York, NY

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Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, The New York Public Library

https://archives.nypl.org/scm/22986

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The Maya Angelou papers consist of original manuscripts, computer generated typescripts, galleys, and proofs of published work such as I Know why the Caged Bird Sings, Hallelujah the Welcome Table, I Shall Not Be Moved, A Song Flung Up to Heaven, Heart of a Woman, and All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes, among others, as well as manuscripts for unpublished work and dozens of poems. Additionally, there is personal and professional correspondence with such notable figures as James Baldwin, Ruby Dee and Ossie Davis, Mari Evans, Rosa Guy, Coretta Scott King, Abbey Lincoln and Max Roach, Julian Mayfield, Malcolm X, and her editors, to name a few.

Also significant are requests to read or perform her work at universities and other organizations, and material related to various organizations' boards and committees on which she participated. Additionally, there are office files; teaching material, such as syllabi and reading assignments; and materials pertaining to Angelou's Hallmark greeting card series. There are a large number of subject files on various individuals, organizations, geographic locations, publications, and schools. Lastly, there is a considerable amount of material about Angelou and includes newspaper clippings, magazine articles, reviews, and other printed material regarding her publications and appearances..

The Maya Angelou papers are arranged in five series:

This series is comprised of all aspects of the writing process, from handwritten first drafts to final edited proofs, for Angelou's most well-known publications, including I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings and Letter to My Daughter. Additionally, there is a large number of unpublished work, including poems, essays, and articles. This series also consists of work by others, mostly by friends and colleagues or from publishers requesting quotes or comments.

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Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture - New York Public Library, Malcolm X Boulevard, New York, NY

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Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, The New York Public Library

https://archives.nypl.org/scm/23322

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The Michele Wallace papers document her career as a cultural critic, journalist, and intellectual since the late 1970s. Material includes personal papers, such as biographical information and correspondence; writing, which includes contracts, publicity material, and reviews for books, essays, and poetry, among others; and professional papers, such as teaching material, conference papers, and contracts.

The Michele Wallace papers are arranged in three series:

The Personal series includes biographical information on Wallace in interviews, statements, letters, and educational materials. Information about her mother, artist Faith Ringgold, and other family members is also found here. Significant correspondents include Wallace's former husband, Eugene Nesmith, and writers Jill Nelson, Ishmael Reed, Roberta (Bobbi) Sykes, Alice Walker, Cornel West, and Sherley Anne Williams.

The Writing series contains five subseries, Books, Articles and essays, Interviews, Fiction, and Poetry. The Books subseries includes contracts; annotated galleys; correspondence with publishers; publicity materials; reviews for Black Macho and the Myth of the Superwoman, Invisibility Blues: From Pop to Theory, and Dark Designs and Visual Culture; and a file for the book, Black Popular Culture: A Project by Wallace and edited by Gina Dent. The Articles and essays subseries contains drafts for articles, essays, and critical papers published in the Village Voice and other magazines, journals, and anthologies. Her published interviews with Alvin Ailey, Nona Hendryx, Iman, Grace Jones, Wilma Mankiller, and Richard Pryor are included in the Interviews subseries. Wallace's unpublished novel, "Aint Nobody Business," can be found in the Fiction subseries, along with correspondence with publishers, and other unpublished fiction. The Poetry subseries contains a file of unpublished poems written by Wallace.

The Professional series is divided into six subseries: Teaching; Associations, Conferences, lectures and speaking events, contracts and Correspondence and Research files. The Teaching files are primarily syllabi and classroom notes from English courses she taught at the University of Oklahoma; State University of New York, Buffalo; University of California; City College of New York; University of Wisconsin; and Rutgers University.The Associations subseries contains files for The Women Students and Artists for Black Art Liberation (WSABAL), and The Sisterhood. Founded in 1970 by Faith Ringgold, Wallace, and her sister, Barbara Wallace, WSABAL was an ad hoc group of the Art Workers' Coalition, an organization of white artists protesting against the Museum of Modern Art and their callous treatment of artists and their work. The file contains letters about plans to demonstrate at the SVA show, as well as letters Wallace penned to Gloria Steinem, editor of Ms. Magazine. The Sisterhood was a black women's writers group which featured among its membership Margo Jefferson, Audre Lorde, Ntozake Shange, Alice Walker, and Wallace. These files contain minutes for meetings in 1977, in-house proposals, and letters to the membership. Additionally, Wallace's records for attending and presenting at conferences are found in the third subseries, Conferences, lectures, and speaking events. There are files for conferences including "1968 in Global Perspective", at Brooklyn College in 1988; "Critical Fictions" and "Black Popular Culture/Mass Culture Conference", at the Dia Art Foundation, in 1990 and 1991 respectively; and "Yari Yari: Black Women Writers and the Future", at New York University in 1997. Most files include drafts of speeches, research, and information about the conference or event. The next two subseries, Contracts and Correspondence, arranged by Wallace separately, relate to published writings in journals and art catalogs, as well as conferences, lectures, and speaking appearances, from 1991-2004. The last subseries, Research files, are for individuals and subjects that Wallace has written about since the early 1970s, including rap music, black women, slavery, and the arts.

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The Michele Wallace papers document her career as a cultural critic, journalist, and intellectual since the late 1970s. Material includes personal papers, such as biographical information and correspondence; writing, which includes contracts, publicity material, and reviews for books, essays, and poetry, among others; and professional papers, such as teaching material, conference papers, and contracts.

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Black Women’s Suffrage Digital Collection

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Black Women’s Suffrage Digital Collection

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https://blackwomenssuffrage.dp.la/

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BLACK WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE PORTAL

The Black Women's Suffrage Digital Collection is a collaborative project to provide digital access to materials documenting the roles and experiences of Black Women in the Women's Suffrage Movement and, more broadly, women's rights, voting rights, and civic activism between the 1850s and 1960.

The materials in this collection include photographs, correspondence, speeches, event programs, publications, oral histories, and other artifacts.
SEARCH THE COLLECTION

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The Black Women's Suffrage Digital Collection is a collaborative project to provide digital access to materials documenting the roles and experiences of Black Women in the Women's Suffrage Movement and, more broadly, women's rights, voting rights, and civic activism between the 1850s and 1960.

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The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, Oxford Road, San Marino, CA

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The Huntington Library

https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/c8hm5br8/

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Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture - New York Public Library, Malcolm X Boulevard, New York, NY

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African American Women Writers of the 19th Century

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African American Women Writers of the 19th Century

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Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, The New York Public Library

https://libguides.nypl.org/african-american-women-writers-of-the-19th-Century

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The Black Panther Party was founded in Oakland, California on October 15, 1966, by Huey Percy Newton and Bobby George Seale. Originally called the "Black Panther Party for Self Defense," the name was abbreviated because Newton wanted the party to be recognized as a political organization and not merely a paramilitary group, or an organization of body guards. Their symbol, the leaping black panther, which later became identified with black militancy, had originally been used in 1965 by Alabama's Lowndes County Freedom Party.

Huey Newton, the Party's Minister of Defense, was born in Louisiana in 1942; when he was a year old, his family moved to California. Although he graduated from high school, he claimed that he became literate by "self determination," and attended Merritt Junior College. Bobby Seale, the party's Chairman, was a musician, carpenter, journeyman sheet metal mechanic and a mechanical draftsman, and was born in Dallas, Texas in 1936. He moved with his family to California, and graduated from Oakland High School after a stint in the Air Force.

Newton and Seale met at Merritt College and worked together to initiate courses in black history and lay the groundwork for the hiring of more black instructors. They also worked at the North Oakland Poverty Center and joined the Afro-American Association, a black nationalist group at Merritt, early in 1965. They left within a year, dissatisfied with the group's emphasis on cultural nationalism which made no distinction between racist whites and non-racists whites; and that a black man cannot be the enemy of black people. Besides questioning the validity of these beliefs, Newton and Seale were also disturbed by the fact that the group mainly met and talked and did nothing concrete to end oppression in the black ghetto. Shortly thereafter, they began working in the black community, knocking on doors and asking residents of Oakland's ghetto what they needed and wanted. From the responses they received, Newton and Seale developed the Black Panther Party's ten-point program, "What We Want, What We Believe", which would become the basis for all Panther actions.

The tenets of the ten-point program included a demand for: freedom, full employment, the end of robbery by capitalism in the black community, decent housing, exemption of all black men from military service, an immediate end to police brutality and the murder of black people, and freedom for all black men held in federal, state, county and city prisons and jails. The Party also advocated that all black people brought to trial be tried by a jury of their peers or people from black communities, and a general program demanding land, housing, education, clothing, justice and peace. The ten-point program also stipulated as one of its major political objectives, a United Nations supervised plebiscite to be held throughout the black "colony" in the U.S. in which only black "colonial" subjects would be allowed to participate, for the purpose of determining the will of black people as to their national destiny.

When the Party put their ten-point program into action they began with point 7, the end of police brutality and murder of black people. Completely within the law, carrying both guns and lawbooks, the Party established a system of armed patrol cars trailing police cars through the slums of Oakland. Whenever black men or women were stopped by police, armed Panthers would be on the scene, making sure that their constitutional rights were not violated.

A month later, the first Black Panther Party headquarters opened in Oakland on January 1, 1967. In their first venture outside of Oakland, an armed group of Panthers marched into the San Francisco airport to provide an escort for Betty Shabazz, the widow of Malcolm X, on her appearance at Black House in that city. Another example of how the Panthers operated in this early phase was in the action taken around the death of Denzil Dowell in April 1967. Dowell, a black youth living in North Richmond, California, a city a few miles from Oakland, had been shot and killed by the police, whose official account of the slaying was contradicted by dozens of black eyewitnesses. The Dowell family called in the Panthers to investigate, and the Party decided to hold a street-corner rally in the neighborhood to expose the facts of the slaying and the political importance of self-defense. The Panthers, assuming the police would try to stop the rally, decided to demonstrate their point on the spot and set up armed guards around the rally site. Hundreds of black people turned out, many carrying their own weapons. The police who came to stop the rally quickly turned away. Several Panthers, including Huey Newton, addressed the crowd, explaining the Party's program. That day, hundreds signed up to work with the Party.

With about forty active members, the Black Panther Party remained a local operation in the Oakland-San Francisco area. While they received attention for their self-defense activities in 1967, they were also involved in a variety of other work. The Party protested rent evictions, informed welfare recipients of their legal rights, taught classes in black history, and demanded and won school traffic lights. The installation of a street light on a corner where several black children had been killed coming home from school was an important event in the Party's early history.

May 2, 1967 marked a turning point for the organization. A floor discussion was scheduled in the Assembly that day on an Oakland Assemblyman's bill to restrict the carrying of loaded weapons within city limits. Huey Newton sent a delegation of thirty armed Panthers to the state capitol in Sacramento, led by Seale. Upon their arrival Seale read Newton's "executive mandate" on the capitol steps. Seale and twenty-five other Panthers were arrested and subsequently served a six-month prison sentence. Despite their efforts, the gun restrictions were passed by the California Legislature, thus putting a permanent curb on the Panther's public gun displays and armed patrols in northern California. This incident however, resulted in national publicity for the Panthers, which was followed by the addition of two well known black militants to the team: Stokely Carmichael and [Leroy] Eldridge Cleaver. In May 1967, Carmichael publicly pledged support for the Panthers. Newton "drafted" the former Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) chairman, who had received a great deal of publicity as a result of his militant cross-country speaking tours, as the Party's first and only Prime Minister, invested with the rank of field marshall for the eastern part of the United States.

Although Eldridge Cleaver's formal association with the Panthers was not immediately made public, after joining the Party he became Minister of Information. Later, the publication of his widely acclaimed book Soul on Ice,gave the Party national publicity. In May 1967, with Cleaver serving as editor, the first issue of The Black Panther, a tabloid type newspaper, was sold on the streets by the Oakland Panthers. Described in the masthead as the "Black Community News Service", it was issued once or twice a month until April 1969, when a weekly publication schedule was established. It was Cleaver who devised the pose Newton assumed for a photograph which appeared in the Panther newspaper and was thereafter widely circulated in poster form, showing Newton seated in a wicker chair with a shotgun in one hand and a spear in the other. Cleaver also contributed his talents on the Panther lecture circuit, and when both Newton and Seale were in jail later that year, he took over supervision of the Party. Another national officer of the Party was H. Rap Brown, who was Minister of Justice. In August 1970, Huey Newton assumed an additional title "Supreme Commander" of the Black Panther Party.

In October 1967, the course of the party changed, when Oakland police stopped a vehicle in which Huey Newton was riding. A shootout ensued, a policeman was killed, another officer wounded, and Newton was taken to the San Quentin State Prison hospital, with four bullet wounds in his stomach. Charged with murder and kidnapping, Newton immediately proclaimed his innocence, and the Black Panther Party mobilized its forces for a "Free Huey" campaign. With its two top officers in jail, the Panther party was piloted onto its new course by Minister of Information Eldridge Cleaver and Chief-of-Staff David Hilliard. They were credited with building supportive alliances with black nationalist and white radical organizations. The most successful of the coalitions established after the jailing of Newton was with the Peace and Freedom Party (PFP), an emerging political force, first in California and then across the country, consisting mainly of a coalition of white left-liberals and radicals organized as a third party electoral alternative in opposition to the war in Vietnam. The PFP allowed the Panthers to use their organizational facilities in the Newton defense campaign. Joint rallies and speaking tours, use of printing equipment and sound trucks, and the availability of numerous young militants, black and white, to write, print, and distribute thousands of buttons, posters, leaflets, and other literature helped to publicize the Newton case and the Panther program, not only nationally but also abroad. Additionally, nationwide publicity for the Panther cause was assured later in 1968 when Cleaver became a Peace and Freedom Party candidate for President of the United States.

The "Free Huey" activity spanned most of 1968. In September of that year, Newton was found guilty of voluntary manslaughter and was sentenced to two to fifteen years in prison. In May, 1970 the California Court of Appeals reversed the conviction, and in July, Newton was released from prison pending a new trial.

By 1969, the Panthers were nationally known, and within a few months branches had been established in Los Angeles, Tennessee, Georgia, New York and Detroit. Black youth around the country were attracted to the Panther Party and its programs. In the space of only two years, the Black Panther Party grew from a local operation in Oakland to an organization of 1,500 to 2,000 members scattered in twenty-five chapters across the nation, with many additional thousands of supporters in major urban areas. Almost two years later, the party announced establishment of an "international section" headquartered in Algeria.

The Black Panther Party at one time or another, from its founding in October 1966 to early 1971, had official chapters with the same name or affiliated organizations under other names in at least 61 cities in 26 states and the District of Columbia. This activity was conducted under the supervision of 13 Black Panther Party chapters and five branches, twenty National Committees to Combat Fascism (NCCF), and two community information centers. NCCF's were Panther controlled/multi-racial local committees, sometimes referred to as "organizing bureaus", aimed at maintaining a link between black miltants and whites willing to work on the Panthers' behalf. The admission of whites to NCCF membership also gave the Party a broader base for fundraising and propaganda purposes. Most of the chapters and branches functioned in large urban centers outside of the South. The rise and decline of local Panther organizations varied from city to city and the success of a chapter depended, to some extent, upon the availability of qualified leadership. After the winter of 1968-1969 the trend veered away from "mass" membership and toward small hard-core Panther chapters with "mass" support relegated to National Committees to Combat Fascism created after July 1969.

Around April 1968, a central committee, consisting of the national leaders, was formed to make policy decisions for a rapidly growing organization. Prior to that time, all policy matters were democratically decided upon by a vote of the Panther membership, which did not exceed fifty in the headquarters area, and even fewer hard-core members. When the central committee was formed, a central staff was also created to implement decisions of the committee. Chief-of-Staff David Hilliard, who had been brought into the Party by Newton in the spring of 1967, with the rank of captain, supervised the headquarters staff. In addition to the national leaders previously mentioned, also included were ministers of education, finance, culture, religion, a deputyminister of information, an assistant chief-of-staff and a communications secretary.

During the spring of 1968 Bobby Seale and David Hilliard began "chartering" the groups in various cities of the United States that were calling themselves Black Panthers. The charter was a statement that national headquarters recognized a group as one of its official chapters, and was granted only to groups that agreed to meet qualifications established by the national office. Persons who desired to establish a new chapter were required to attend a six week training program which included political education classes, and instruction on administrative and reporting procedures of chapters' activities. Individuals approved for Panther leadership assumed the rank of deputy chairman, defense captain, or deputy defense minister. All chapter heads were directly responsible to national headquarters and required to submit weekly and monthly reports concerning their chapters' activities and financial status.

In January 1969, a complete reorganization of the Party structure from the national to the local chapter level occurred. A three month moratorium was put on the acceptance of new members, and a purge was launched against party members who had broken discipline. Sixteen new rules were added to the original ten governing party members' behaviour which were aimed principally at abuses in the areas of narcotics, alcohol, gun handling, and petty crime, and promised expulsion to any member on hard drugs. Most of the sixteen new rules dealt with administrative measures to insure activity of chapter members on paper sales and Panther community projects. Other significant additions were instructions to all Panthers to "learn to operate and service weapons correctly" and to have "first aid or medical cadres." The new rules stressed "political education" and required Panthers in leadership positions to "read no less than two hours per day to keep abreast of the changing political situation." Besides the twenty-six rules, Panther members continued to be controlled by the Party's "8 Points of Attention" and "3 Main Rules of Discipline" taken from Mao's "little red book" and updated.

Sale of the Black Panther newspaper was one of the main sources of revenue for the organization. At a cost of twenty-five cents, national headquarters received fifty percent of all sales, with five cents from each sale sometimes going to the individual member making the sales as an incentive to meet national and local quotas. Of the national office's share, after production and shipping costs were subtracted, about five cents profit was realized. It was estimated that 140,000 copies of the paper were circulated in the United States weekly in 1970. Fees from speechmaking, donations or contributions were the other main sources of income.

Seeking to solve critical community problems, the Panthers adopted a "serve the people" program. In 1970, community centers or community information centers were added to the organizational structure of the Panther Party at the local level. The community programs, often directed and staffed by female members, included free breakfast for school children; free medical care; liberation schools; free transportation to visit relatives in prison and for senior citizens; free shoes and clothing; student action committees; political education classes for adults; petition campaigns for community control of the police; voter registration assistance; and legal aid.

Nineteen seventy-one brought the first signs of serious internal strife in the Black Panther Party. By March 1971, the dissension led to an open break between two of the most prominent Panthers, the party's founder and Minister of Defense, Newton, and Minister of Information-in-exile, Cleaver. In November 1969, Cleaver, along with his wife Kathleen, national communications secretary, had fled to Cuba and then Algeria to avoid a prison sentence. The Cleaver faction called for party emphasis on underground confrontational activity, while the bulk of the party under Newton, Seale and Hilliard's leadership appeared to prefer legal forms of activity such as community service programs, spoken and printed propaganda, rallies and conventions.

In addition to internal problems, external forces such as intense undercover activity by the FBI's COINTELPRO (Counterintelligence Program Against Domestic Dissent), local law enforcement actions (in 1969 alone, three hundred and eighty-four Panthers were arrested on a variety of charges), and excessive media coverage, led to the decline of the Black Panthers. It should also be noted that much of the internal dissension mentioned above was traced to the FBI's COINTELPRO activities once the documentation of this program surfaced during the 1975 hearings of the United States Senate Committee on Terrorism in the United States (Church Committee). With many of its leaders jailed, exiled, expelled, or dead, a small hard-core group of Panthers, based mainly in the Oakland, California area remained active in politics (in 1973 Bobby Seale made an almost-successful bid for the mayorship of Oakland and in 1977 the Panthers helped to elect the city's first black mayor, Lionel Wilson, and community service programs as late as 1981.

New York Chapter - Harlem Branch

Although most Black Panther Party chapters and branches were formed after January 1968, there is evidence of BPP activity in Harlem as early as the fall of 1966. Located at Seventh Avenue and 141st Street, one of the Harlem Branch's first acts was a call for a September 12th shutdown of Harlem schools, and demands for two high schools in Central Harlem, a community college, African languages and arts and sciences classes in elementary and junior high schools, and the hiring of more black superintendants, assistant superintendants and principals.

The Harlem Branch operated under a forty-seven article constitution, which spelled out in detail all rules and policies governing membership, organizational structure and Party principles. The branch was made up of three basic party organizations: the Party Congress which included the total active membership; the Executive Committee which included the chairman, executive director, executive treasurer, executive secretary, the editor of the Party organ; and the Party Directors who were responsible for political, organizational and community relations, community action, housing, educational, economic, cultural and youth oriented matters. The Party leadership core came from the Executive Committee and the Party Directors.

The Harlem BPP also established a youth section called the Black Panther Athletic Club and, like most branches, organized a free breakfast program for school children similar to the one on the West Coast. A sickle cell anemia screening center was also opened as was a health clinic that was located in the Bronx. The health clinic provided medical and dental services to the community at a reduced fee. In conjunction with the Brooklyn, Bronx, Mt. Vernon and Corona branches, the Harlem BPP issued a multi-page newsletter or bulletin called the People's Community News.Articles were contributed by members from all the aforementioned branches concerning activities and events in their areas. Included were descriptions of new programs, police actions and arrests, world news, letters from interested observers of Panther activities, announcements of locations for free health care and free breakfast programs, upcoming Panther events, messages from national leaders and photographs.

In addition to the Harlem BPP Branch, whose offices were considered to be the central offices for the entire State, there were branches in Brooklyn, the Bronx, Mt. Vernon, Corona-East Elmhurst, Staten Island and Jamaica. The Party also operated in White Plains, Peekskill, and Albany. The Ministry for Information for the east coast was located on Boston Road in the Bronx; a community center operated in Mt. Vernon, and east coast distrition for packaging and preparing the Panther newspaper was located in Jamaica, N.Y.

Leaders for New York State included field secretary Dhoruba bin Wahad (Richard Moore); Zayd-Malik Shakur (James Coston), Minister of Information/area captain; and David Brothers, State chairman as well as a captain for the Brooklyn BPP. Joudon Ford was the captain for New York City and Minister of Defense for Brooklyn BPP, and the Harlem BPP Branch heads included Deputy Minister of Defense Lumumba Shakur; Rashid al Fatal, section leader; Al Carroll, captain of defense; and Beth Mitchell, Minister of Information/Communications Secretary.

Although New York was one of the BPP's stronger chapters, and was at one time put in charge of the Philadelphia Branch, it had one of the highest number of expulsions during the 1969 national purge and reorganization. Further membership reductions came about when the Harlem Branch's leadership, also known as the New York Panther 21, were arrested on charges of planning to dynamite and bomb New York City department stores. Some of the Panther 21 were released before trial; those remaining became known as the Panther 13, and were acquitted of all charges against them in May 1971.

During the jailing of the New York Panthers, further dissension erupted between the national leadership and the east coast Panthers which hastened the demise of the New York Panther organization. Two of the defendants, who were out on bail, Dhoruba bin Wahad (Richard Moore) and Michael "Cetewayo" Tabor had fled to Algeria, further angering national leadership. New York Panthers told the New York Timesthat Oakland headquarters paid more attention to the legal defense of national officers than to New York members who had been in jail since the spring of 1969. Oakland was accused of being angry asbout its inability to "control" the New York Chapter. Differing ideological views brought about the expulsion of first the Panther 13, and then the entire New York Chapter. In retaliation, the New York Chapter similarly "expelled" Huey Newton and David Hilliard and announced that the group was setting up a new national headquarters of the Panther Party in New York City and would publish its own newspaper. The newspaper, Right On, was published beginning in March 1971, by the East Coast Black Panther Party. Despite the attempt to continue the Panthers in New York, it was too late. Some New York Panthers went "underground" and became active with the Black Liberation Army, but it became clear that COINTELPRO had succeeded in demoralizing and splitting the leadership.

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The Black Panther Party was founded in Oakland, California on October 15, 1966, by Huey Percy Newton and Bobby George Seale. Originally called the "Black Panther Party for Self Defense," the name was abbreviated because Newton wanted the party to be recognized as a political organization and not merely a paramilitary group, or an organization of body guards.

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The Angela Davis Legal Defense Collection documents the initial phase of the legal defense as well as the support activities generated by the incarceration and trial of Angela Davis on charges of murder, kidnapping and conspiracy. The case, which became a major cause célebre in the early 1970s, garnered national and international attention and thrust Davis, then in her 20s, into the leadership of the black liberation movement.

Born in Alabama in 1944 to a middle class family, Davis was the oldest of three children. She attended the segregated schools of Alabama until the age of 15, when she received a scholarship from the American Friends Service Committee to attend Elizabeth Irwin High School, a progressive private school in New York City. While at Elizabeth Irwin, Davis joined Advance, a Marxist-Leninist youth group with ties to the Communist Party. Although probably not her first exposure to communism (family friends in Alabama and New York City were members of the Party), her experience in Advance may have provided Davis with her first formal introduction to Marxist-Leninist literature and philosophy.

After graduating from high school Davis won a scholarship to Brandeis University, where she majored in French literature. She spent her junior year (1962) at the Sorbonne in Paris, witnessed firsthand the Algerian conflict being waged in the streets there, and attended the Communist Youth Festival in Helsinki which had a significant impact on her political development. In 1965 she graduated from Brandeis with honors and went to Frankfurt, Germany to study philosophy at Goethe University. At the University she continued her activism and joined a socialist student group opposed to the war in Vietnam. In her autobiography, Davis notes that she spent time in East Germany, which served to deepen her commitment to socialism.

Upon her return to the U.S. Davis joined the black liberation movement and the struggle against the Vietnam war in San Diego and Los Angeles. In 1969, while completing her doctoral studies at the University of California at La Jolla, she was offered and accepted a one year temporary appointment at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) in the Philosophy Department. Following the publication of an anonymous letter in the student newspaper, The Daily Bruin,and articles in newspapers in San Francisco and Los Angeles in which it was revealed that Davis was a communist (although she had not officially joined the party), the Regents of the University of California terminated her contract. Davis sued the Regents and was reinstated. In 1970 the Philosophy Department recommended to retain Davis for another year, but the Regents declined to renew her appointment, using her speeches on behalf of the Soledad Brothers as the main reason for their decision.

According to her autobiography, Davis first became aware of the Soledad Brothers after reading a February 1970 article in the Los Angeles Times.Three black inmates, George Jackson, Fleeta Drumgo and John Clutchette, who had become known as the Soledad Brothers, had been accused of murdering a white prison guard in Soledad Prison. Davis believed that the three men were unjustly accused as there was no substantial evidence of their guilt, and became actively engaged in the struggle for their defense. She accepted the co-chair of the Soledad Brothers Defense Committee and lectured throughout the state on the Soledad Brothers and prison conditions.

As a result of her activities and subsequent visits to Soledad Prison, Davis befriended the families of the Soledad Brothers and corresponded with the three men. She developed a special friendship with George Jackson who had been in prison for ten years and was serving a sentence for second degree armed robbery. Jackson had educated himself politically while in prison, and like Davis had developed a Marxist political outlook. He had joined the Black Panther Party, and wrote two books, Soledad Brother(1970) and Blood In My Eye(1972). On August 21, 1971 Jackson was killed in prison while allegedly trying to escape. That same year Drumgo and Cluchette were acquitted of the murder charge against them.

On August 3, 1970, an event occurred which would profoundly alter Davis' life. Jonathan Jackson, George Jackson's seventeen year old brother who idolized him, tried to assist James McClain, on trial for an alleged attempt to stab an officer, escape from the courthouse. During the escape attempt Jonathan Jackson, with William Christmas and Ruchell Magee, two prisoners who were in the courtroom as witnesses for McClain, took five hostages: three jurors, the district attorney, and the judge. To effect their escape, Jackson and his associates taped a shotgun to the judge's neck. As they were leaving the Marin County courthouse with the hostages, Jackson and the others were reported to have shouted, "We want the Soledad Brothers freed by 12:30 today!," thus indelibly imprinting in the public mind a relationship between the kidnapping and the Soledad Brothers.

During the escape attempt the judge, Jackson and Christmas were killed in a shootout with the police; one juror and the district attorney were wounded. The guns used in the kidnapping were traced to Davis, implicating her in the escape attempt. A California warrant was issued for Davis' arrest in which she was charged as an accomplice to murder, kidnapping, and conspiracy. She fled Los Angeles and evaded arrest by seeking refuge in several places including New York City. A federal fugitive warrant was subsequently issued and she was placed on the Federal Bureau of Investigation's ten most wanted list.

Two months later Davis was captured in New York City accompanied by a friend, David Rudolph Poindexter, who was charged with harboring a fugitive. When Davis was extradited to California she was charged, along with Ruchell Magee (a survivor of the courthouse kidnapping attempt). While awaiting trial, and after a few joint court appearances, Davis separated her case from Magee's and their cases were tried separately. Magee wanted his trial held in a federal court while Davis wanted her trial held in California's state court. Davis' trial was moved from Marin County, a primarily white upper middle class community to San Jose, California which was an ethnically and racially more diverse city, in an effort to secure a fair trial with a less biased jury.

Almost immediately a groundswell of support developed in favor of Davis' and Magee's release. Davis in particular, received widespread national and international support from the black community, liberals and the progressive left. The Communist Party mounted a major political campaign and held rallies in the United States and abroad, published articles, pamphlets and posters, issued petitions, distributed postcards, and requested that the public mail cards and letters on Davis' behalf. The National Council of Black Lawyers offered Davis assistance with her trial and the Presbyterian Church gave the Davis Defense Fund $10,000. Singer Aretha Franklin had offered to pay Davis' bail but was out of the country when Davis had her bail hearing. A white farmer from Fresno County who sympathized with Davis gave her the money she needed for bail, and on February 23, 1972, five days before her trial, Davis was released on $102,000 bail after serving seventeen months in jail.

Leading the defense team were Oakland attorney Howard Moore Jr. and Davis childhood friend Margaret Burnham. The other attorneys on the team were Leo Branton, Jr., Doris Brin Walker, Sheldon Otis, Michael Tigar, Dennis Roberts and Allan Brotsky. Representatives from the National Council of Black Lawyers, the American Civil Liberties Union, and the National Lawyers Guild assisted with the preparation of pre-trial motions.

After a trial by jury, consisting of eleven whites and one Latino, Davis was acquitted of all charges. Following her acquittal Davis taught at San Francisco State University for several years. From 1973 until the early 1990s she served on the board of the National Alliance Against Racism and Political Repression, an organization she helped found with Charlene Mitchell. In the Fall of 1995, she was appointed to the University of California at Santa Cruz Presidential Chair and became a consultant to the Ph.D program there. Davis has written several books on gender and class issues, and is a major figure in the orthodox Communist Party.

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The Angela Davis Legal Defense Collection documents the initial phase of the legal defense as well as the support activities generated by the incarceration and trial of Angela Davis on charges of murder, kidnapping and conspiracy.

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Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Library, East San Fernando Street, San Jose, CA

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Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Library; San Jose State University

https://library.sjsu.edu/aaacna/africana-collection

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The Africana Collection was created in late 1995/early 1996 thanks to the efforts of the African American Faculty and Staff Association and was formally recognized in October 1997. The word Africana was coined in 1909 by W.E.B. Du Bois, a premier African American scholar who dreamed of editing an Encyclopedia Africana, a comprehensive collection of information about black history and culture in Africa, the Americas, Europe, and the Caribbean. Africana is a term that refers to items such as books, documents, or artifacts relating to African history and culture.

The Africana Collection functions both as a library resource center and a community center, with the goals of scholarship, leadership, and community responsibility about and for African Americans. It supports and sponsors programs and scholarship specific to Africana life, history, and culture.

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The Africana Collection was created in late 1995/early 1996 thanks to the efforts of the African American Faculty and Staff Association and was formally recognized in October 1997. The word Africana was coined in 1909 by W.E.B.

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National Archives Museum, Constitution Avenue Northwest, Washington, DC

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National Archives

https://www.archives.gov/research/african-americans

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The Archives holds a wealth of material documenting the Black experience. This page highlights these resources online, in programs, and through traditional and social media.
Header images: Background: Leaders at the Head of the March on Washington (NAID 542002); L to R: Young Woman Soliciting Funds for a Chicago Organization (NAID 556134); Participant of the Tuskegee Syphilis Study (NAID 956131); Attendee of the March on Washington (NAID 542029); Student of the Westinghouse Vocational School (NAID 556143)

Subject Portals

Featured Records

Blogs & Articles

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The Archives holds a wealth of material documenting the Black experience. This page highlights these resources online, in programs, and through traditional and social media.

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Spelman College, Spelman Lane Southwest, Atlanta, GA

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Spelman College

https://www.spelman.edu/about-us/spelman-college-archives/collections/spelman-college-digital-collections

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Spelman College, Spelman Lane Southwest, Atlanta, GA

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Spelman College

https://www.spelman.edu/about-us/spelman-college-archives/collections/toni-cade-bambara-papers

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Brown University Library

https://library.brown.edu/collatoz/info.php?id=645

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Hutchins Library, Campus Drive, Berea, KY

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Berea College Special Collections and Archive

https://bereaarchives.libraryhost.com/repositories/2/resources/420

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Carter G. Woodson was born December 19, 1875, the son of formerly enslaved African Americans, James and Eliza Riddle Woodson. Woodson is known as an African American historian, author of over 27 books and articles, journalist and founder of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History. As the founder of the Journal of Negro History, Woodson is credited as "the father of black history." Woodson's father moved the family to West Virginia at the end of the Civil War. It was around this time he learned a school for black children was to be built in Huntington, West Virginia. Through self-instruction, Woodson mastered the fundamentals of common school subjects by age 17. He continued his education in Fayette County, VA, earning a living as a coal miner to pay for his education. In 1895, at age 20, Woodson entered Douglass High School in Huntington, WV. There he received his diploma in less than two years. Woodson enrolled in Berea College in 1897, taking classes part-time between 1901 and 1903. He graduated from Berea with a Bachelor of Literature degree in 1903. While attending Berea College, Woodson taught at Winona, Fayette County, WV in a school established by black coal miners for their children. By 1901, Carter G. Woodson had already earned a West Virginia teaching certificate. He scored well above average in drawing, music, science, educational methods, and history. Woodson continued his education at the University of Chicago. He earned two bachelor's degrees as well as a Master's degree in European History in 1908. Woodson continued his studies at the Sorbonne in Paris and at Harvard University, where he earned a Ph.D. in history in 1912. Woodson was the second African American to earn a Ph.D. from Harvard, following this same academic accomplishment by Dr. W. E. B. DuBois in 1907. Woodson died April 3, 1950 at the age of 74 and is buried at Lincoln Memorial Cemetery in Suitland, Maryland.

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Carter G. Woodson was born December 19, 1875, the son of formerly enslaved African Americans, James and Eliza Riddle Woodson. Woodson is known as an African American historian, author of over 27 books and articles, journalist and founder of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History.

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Princeton University Library

https://findingaids.princeton.edu/catalog/C1491

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Harry Ransom Center, The University of Texas at Austin, West 21st Street, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX

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Harry Ransom Center; University of Texas at Austin

https://norman.hrc.utexas.edu/fasearch/findingAid.cfm?eadid=01049

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Handwritten and typescript drafts, page proofs, galleys, correspondence, research materials and notes, legal and editorial records, photographs, audio and video recordings, floppy disks, awards, books, notebooks, journals, magazines, newspaper clippings, periodicals, posters, maps, and electronic files document the life, work, and family of Julia Alvarez from 1963 to 2013. The eight series are arranged by size and/or importance: I. Long Works, 1966-2012; II. Short Works, 1963-2012; III. Career and Personal, 1966-2014; IV. Public Appearances, 1998-2008; V. Correspondence, 1974-2013; VI. Publicity, 1981-2012; VII. Notebooks, 1975-1990; VIII. Periodicals, 1971-2013. With the exception of the arrangement of long works and short works, for which the order has largely been imposed, each series maintains the original order and reflects Alvarez's meticulous record-keeping activities. Although a number of languages are present (most notably Spanish) the bulk of the materials are written in English. All items are in stable condition.

Series I. is divided into two subseries: A. Novels and Collections and B. Children's and Young Adult Works. The Series constitutes just over half of the Alvarez papers, documenting her literary activities from 1971 to 2012. Several unrealized works are present in addition to her published novels, poetry collections, children's and young adult fiction, and nonfiction works. Research materials relating to In the Name of Salomé, finding miracles, Return to Sender, Once Upon a Quinceañera, and Saving the World are particularly extensive. Materials relating to book tours for individual works are located in Series IV. Public Appearances (1998-2008), and the bulk of publicity materials for most works are located in Series VI. Publicity (1981-2012).

Subseries A. Novels and Collections includes numerous handwritten and typescript drafts, page proofs, galleys, correspondence, clippings, research materials, limited publicity, and electronic files for Apothecary Jars ((an unrealized 1983 work containing materials that would form the basis of chapters in How the García Girls Lost Their Accents), A Cafecito Story (2001), Homecoming (1984), The Housekeeping Book (1984), How the García Girls Lost Their Accents (1991), The Land Columbus Loved Best (unrealized work 1991-1992), In the Name of Salomé (2000), Once Upon a Quinceañera (2007), The Other Side/El Otro Lado (1995), Saving the World (2006), Seven Trees (1998), Something to Declare (1998), In the Time of the Butterflies (1994), A Wedding in Haiti (2012), The Woman I Kept to Myself (2004), and ¡Yo! (1997). No complete typescripts are present for Old Age Ain't for Sissies (1979), but materials relating to this edited anthology of poetry are present in Series III. Career and Personal. Subseries A. is arranged alphabetically by title, and items under each title are generally arranged chronologically and/or alphabetically by folder title, or by the author's original order (when discernible).

Shannon Ravenel was Alvarez's primary editor for her Algonquin Books publications and a correspondent with whom she maintained a close professional relationship. Although many of Alvarez's drafts contain Ravenel's editorial revisions and comments, such edits are only noted in the finding aid when it distinguishes between drafts. Extensive notes and background materials relating to Alvarez's works of historical fiction and nonfiction (e.g., In the Time of the Butterflies and In the Name of Salomé) provide ample evidence of her preliminary research activities. The author typically created research files with folders containing correspondence, printouts, photocopies, notes, and other materials relevant to the work. She often pasted photographs or artwork cut from publications to the folders as a mnemonic device, and all such folders were retained during processing and rehousing. Alvarez's writing process is well documented in materials for her first novel-length work How the García Girls Lost Their Accents (1991). Numerous early chapter drafts--first published as individual essays--and later typescripts provide evidence of the evolution of the work. Photocopies of published early versions of García Girls chapters and typescript and handwritten drafts of Woman I Kept to Myself, Homecoming, and The Other Side are arranged under Short Works. A few handwritten early versions of stories in How the García Girls Lost Their Accents are present in Series VII. Notebooks, 1975-1990.

Subseries B. Children's and Young Adult Works includes handwritten and typescript drafts, page proofs, correspondence, clippings, research materials, and limited publicity for Before We Were Free (2002), The Best Gift of All (2008), finding miracles (2004), A Gift of Gracias: The Legend of Altagracia (2004), Return to Sender (2009), The Secret Footprints (2000), and the Tía Lola Series. (2001-2011). The subseries is arranged alphabetically by title, and items under each title are generally arranged chronologically or by the author's original order (if discernible). Tía Lola Series titles are arranged alphabetically under the heading "Tía Lola Series" and include How Tía Lola Came to V̶i̶s̶i̶t̶ Stay (2001), How Tía Lola Ended Up Starting Over (2011), How Tía Lola Learned to Teach (2010), and How Tía Lola Saved the Summer (2011). Materials relating to all four of these works are arranged chronologically at the end of the series.

Series II. Short Works includes numerous typescript, handwritten, and electronic drafts of published and unpublished essays, short stories, op-eds, articles, and poems. A few chapter drafts from her longer works are intermingled with items in this subseries. The Series documents her early publication efforts from the 1960s and 1970s through her years as an established author and is arranged alphabetically by the original titles Alvarez assigned to groupings of associated works. Among the various subjects included are "Autobiography, " " Latinas," " Place Essays," and "Poetry in the Schools." All titles are listed in the Index of Short Works.

Series III. Career and Personal is the second largest series. Employment files, awards and honors, correspondence, grant and fellowship applications, invitations and writing requests, graduate school files, publication efforts, research, interviews, public appearances, teaching, writer-in-residence activities, electronic files, and digital images document Julia Alvarez's career as a writer, poet, teacher, and professor. Although some juvenilia and personal and family materials are present, the series largely represents her professional life. Her activities as a writer-in-residence and teacher from the 1970s to the 1990s are particularly well documented. The Series is arranged alphabetically by subject and/or folder title.

Series IV. Readings and Other Public Appearances includes correspondence, occasional typescripts, electronic files, and other materials related to her numerous speaking engagements throughout the country. Engaging with the public through poetry and the literary arts has constituted a major part of Alvarez's career as evidenced through frequent participation in poetry festivals, book tours, reading requests, Latino festivals, library events, commencement addresses, and small local gigs. Alvarez maintained a thorough record of these events from 1998 to 2008. Additional files on assorted public engagements from 1985 to 2010 are filed under "Public Appearances" in Series III. Career and Personal. Series IV is arranged chronologically by year and then alphabetically by subject.

Series V. Correspondence spans 12 boxes and 10 electronic files and is organized alphabetically by correspondent name. Individuals are represented either by incoming or outgoing letters from 1971 to 2013. The series includes correspondence with friends, colleagues, editors, activists, family, and other associates. Prominent correspondents include Peter Balakian, Daisy Cocco-DeFilippis, Edwidge Danticat, Seamus Heaney, David Huddle, Erica Jong, Patrick J. Leahy, Beatriz Maggi, Cecilia Rodríguez Milanés, Barry Moser, Katherine Neville, Achy Obejas, Sue Ellen Thomson, Bernardo Vega, A. J. Verdelle, Tobias Wolff, and Judith Yarnall.

Series VI. Publicity, spans five boxes and comprises review clippings, awards, publicity tour materials, press clippings for Before We Were Free, A Cafecito Story, Gift of Gracias, Once Upon a Quinceañera, In the Name of Salomé, The Secret Footprints, In the Time of the Butterflies, and ¡Yo! along with publicity materials for her poetry collections. The series also includes publicity and review materials for the film adaptation of In the Time of the Butterflies and general publicity about Alvarez. Materials are arranged alphabetically by title and original order.

Series VII. Notebooks is the smallest series and comprises notebooks with handwritten drafts of a number of short stories including early versions of short stories that would eventually become chapters in How the García Girls Lost Their Accents. The series is arranged according to original order. Drafts are indexed in the Index of Short Works.

Series VIII. Periodicals includes published magazines, journals, poetry collections, and other serial publications containing works by Julia Alvarez from 1971 to 2013. The series is arranged alphabetically by journal title.

A Note on Arrangement and Description

Unless otherwise stated, the phrase with revisions indicates that the manuscript contains handwritten (as opposed to typescript) changes. Folder titles are generally transcribed directly from the original folder headings and are only placed in quotation marks if they appear confusing.

Container and folder numbers were updated in 2017; at the end of the finding aid, the original container and folder numbers are listed in brackets after the updated container and folder numbers. Additionally, each folder in the collection lists the updated number followed by the original number in brackets. Not all folder numbers were updated; folders in boxes 1-6 and 10-18 retained all or most of their original numbers.

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Julia Alvarez: An Inventory of Her Papers at the Harry Ransom Center

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Handwritten and typescript drafts, page proofs, galleys, correspondence, research materials and notes, legal and editorial records, photographs, audio and video recordings, floppy disks, awards, books, notebooks, journals, magazines, newspaper clippings, periodicals, posters, maps, and electronic files document the life, work, and family of Julia Alvarez from 1963 to 2013.

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Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Wall Street, New Haven, CT

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Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University

https://beinecke.library.yale.edu/collections/highlights/zora-neale-hurston-collection

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Dust Tracks on the Road, the novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God, and a play written in collaboration with Langston Hughes, "Mule Bone," as well as a study of Hurston written in 1972 by Robert Hemenway.

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Lehigh University, Memorial Drive West, Bethlehem, PA

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Lehigh University and Sacred Heart University

https://wordpress.lehigh.edu/naylorarchive/

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Gloria Naylor's collected papers are a rich, albeit partial, record of her creative process. But, we also understand that the Archive is not about Naylor alone. It is also a window into transnational networks of writers and activists who, between the 1980s and the first few years of the 21st century, exposed the workings of racism, sexism, homophobia, and classism to envision more just social arrangements. Further, the Archive is a source of inspiration for researchers whose creative and intellectual projects will continue to expand these networks tomorrow.

Thus, we approach the Archive not only as a record of the past, but also as a movement toward new communities and different futures. In this sense, we take our cue from Naylor's novels, like Mama Day, in which past, present, and future are mutually transformative. Written between 1981 and 2010, Naylor's published works and her private papers offer fresh insights into pressing contemporary political issues today. For instance, her published and unpublished writings speak to issues of mass incarceration and police violence, migration and gentrification, religion and sexuality, racism and sexism in higher education, the enduring legacies of enslavement and colonization in North America, capitalism and globalization, as well as the power of Black joy, cultural traditions, and resistance.

In our practices and programming, the Archive seeks to honor the political, intellectual, and aesthetic commitments central to Gloria Naylor's writing. Gloria Naylor's novels center Black life-and especially the relationships among Black women. We register Naylor's trenchant critiques of academic institutions (including archives) that often marginalize, erase, and do violence to Black lives as well as her insistence on the value of knowledge that exceeds documentary records.

These are our guiding commitments:

We center Black art, Black scholarship, and Black communities in our descriptions of archival materials, our website, and our programming.

We preserve the original description and arrangement of materials in the collection, as a record of Gloria Naylor's own knowledge practices. We remain mindful and transparent about what we do not know about materials in the archive.

We envision the Archive as a space for building equitable communities. We hold ourselves accountable to the individuals and communities who engage with archival materials and to those who are represented in the Archive. We pursue non-hierarchical collaborative projects that partner with communities and institutions both inside and outside higher education. We name and acknowledge those who contribute to Archive projects.

We strive to make the Archive, as a physical and virtual space, welcoming and accommodating for all users. We envision multiple, varied audiences for the Archive, and we present material in varied formats-images, videos, scholarly articles, informal blog posts, performances-to promote access.

The Gloria Naylor Archive in the News

2023

Call for papers Gloria Naylor Conference at Sacred Heart University, October 19-20, 2023

2022

"Gloria Naylor and 'The Other Place' of Black Feminism" by Kiana T. Murphy

Project showcase at The Recovery Hub for American Women Writers

Call for paper and panel proposals at the Gloria Naylor Archive Symposium, November 5-7, 2021

"Novelist Gloria Naylor's Newly Rediscovered 'Sapphira Wade' Was Worth the Wait" by Jaelani Turner-Williams

"Excerpts from an unfinished manuscript by Gloria Naylor published for the first time" via Science Codex

"A More Accessible Archive: Showcasing the Work of Writer Gloria Naylor" by Kelly Hochbein

"Gloria Naylor Archive Project Awarded Accelerator Grant" via Lehigh University LTS

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Welcome to the Gloria Naylor Archive. The Archive, an interdisciplinary and multi-institution collaboration, facilitates engagement with Gloria Naylor's...

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Smith College Special Collections, Neilson Drive, Northampton, MA

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Third World Women's Alliance, Bay Area chapter records

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Third World Women's Alliance, Bay Area chapter records

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Smith College Special Collections

https://findingaids.smith.edu/repositories/2/resources/931

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The Third World Women's Alliance (TWWA) operated from 1968-1980. It originated in New York as the Black Women's Liberation Committee (BWLC), which was a caucus of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), and was created to address the issue of male chauvinism within the movement against racism. From there the BWLC evolved into the Black Woman's Alliance (BWA), independent from SNCC but maintaining close political ties with it. In 1970 the group's common work and dialogue with Puerto Rican women transformed the BWA into the TWWA. Frances M. Beal was a founding member of the BWLC, and stayed with the organization through its various incarnations until 1978. TWWA became bi-coastal in 1971 with the formation of TWAA-Bay Area.

The TWWA was one of several organizations formed by women of color in the late 1960s and early 1970s as responses to the essentialist theories of the early feminist movement. These organizations paved the way for Chicana feminism, Womanism, and Black feminism, among other theoretical approaches to feminism. TWWA broadened the scope of women's activism to address issues such as sterilization abuse, infant mortality, welfare rights, and low-wage work. Through its political activities, TWWA helped to create spaces in racial justice organizations for women's voices, issues and leadership. Although primarily an activist organization, concepts developed by TWWA's members in the course of political organization contributed much to feminist theory. TWWA's ideas of "double jeopardy" and "triple jeopardy" which were elaborated on by scholars as "simultaneity of oppression" and "both/and," advanced the understanding of the intersectionality of race, class, and gender in the women's movement. It also contributed to the experience of building "third world" and "black/brown" unity in opposing racism and sexism. The orientation of TWWA towards the "third world" brought the struggles, condition, and status of women in Latin America, Asia, Africa, and the Middle East to the forefront. TWWA built relations with women's organizations in other countries, pioneering a form of feminism that focuses on the affect of U.S. foreign and military policy on women's lives worldwide, promoting the idea that U.S. women of color had a role to play in the "global sisterhood."

The TWWA-New York folded in 1977. In the same year the TWWA-Bay Area transformed itself into a mass activist organization, and began forming committees for external work. Committees formed during that period include the National Committee to Overturn the Bakke Decision, the Southern Africa Organizing Committee, the Josina Machel Committee and the Coalition to Fight Infant Mortality. By 1979 the TWWA re-organized to become the Alliance Against Women's Oppression (AAWO). The AAWO existed from 1980 -1989, and then took new form again as the Women of Color Resource Center.

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Third World Women's Alliance, Bay Area chapter records

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The Third World Women's Alliance (TWWA) operated from 1968-1980. It originated in New York as the Black Women's Liberation Committee (BWLC), which was a caucus of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), and was created to address the issue of male chauvinism within the movement against racism.

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University of Winnipeg Library, Portage Avenue, Winnipeg, MB, Canada

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University of Winnipeg Archives

https://main.lib.umanitoba.ca/congress-of-black-women-manitoba-chapter-fonds

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Institute of Jazz Studies, Fourth Floor John Cotton, University Avenue, Newark, NJ

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Institute of Jazz Studies Archival Collections

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Institute of Jazz Studies Archival Collections

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Institute of Jazz Studies; Rutgers University Libraries

https://www.libraries.rutgers.edu/newark/visit-study/institute-jazz-studies/archival-collections-ijs

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Duke University Libraries, Chapel Drive, Durham, NC

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SNCC Digital Gateway: Learn from the Past, Organize for the Future, Make Democracy Work

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SNCC Digital Gateway: Learn from the Past, Organize for the Future, Make Democracy Work

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Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee Legacy Project, Duke’s Center for Documentary Studies, and Duke University Libraries

(Digital)

https://snccdigital.org/

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SNCC focused on voter registration and on mounting a systemic challenge to the white supremacy that governed the country's entrenched political, economic and social structures.

Young activists and organizers with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, or SNCC (pronounced "SNICK"), represented a radical, new unanticipated force whose work continues to have great relevance today. For the first time, young people decisively entered the ranks of civil rights movement leadership. They committed themselves to full-time organizing from the bottom-up, and with this approach empowered older efforts at change and facilitated the emergence of powerful new grassroots voices...

Continue reading The Story of SNCC "

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SNCC focused on voter registration and on mounting a systemic challenge to the white supremacy that governed the country's entrenched political, economic and social structures. Young activists and organizers with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, or SNCC (pronounced "SNICK"), represented a radical, new unanticipated force whose work continues to have great relevance today.

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Barnard Center for Research on Women, The Milstein Center 6th Floor, Broadway, New York, NY

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Barnard Center for Research on Women; Barnard College

(Digital)

https://bcrw.barnard.edu/publications/digital-shange/#

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Stanford University Libraries, Broadway, Redwood City, CA

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Stanford University Libraries

https://exhibits.stanford.edu/fitch/about/the-bob-fitch-photography-archive-at-stanford

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Spelman College, Spelman Lane Southwest, Atlanta, GA

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Spelman College

https://www.spelman.edu/about-us/spelman-college-archives/collections/audrey-lorde-papers

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About the Papers

"The Audre Lorde papers are one of the most significant among special collections in the Spelman archives," said Professor Beverly Guy-Sheftall, founding director of the Women's Center and the Anna Julia Cooper Professor of Women's Studies. "They are the first acquisition in a broader strategy on the part of the Women's Center of becoming a major repository for the papers of prominent contemporary Black feminist scholar/activists/writers. In addition, the Toni Cade Bambara papers were acquired by the archives in 2005 as a result of the generosity of her daughter, Karma Bambara Smith.

One of the most significant and influential Black feminist writer/activists of the 20th century, Lorde was born in 1934 in New York City to parents of Caribbean ancestry. She graduated from Hunter College in 1959 and earned a master's degree in library science from Columbia University in 1960.
Lorde attempted to join the Harlem Writers Guild, but the overt homophobia of the group caused her departure. She held numerous teaching positions; formed coalitions between Afro-German and Afro-Dutch women; founded a sisterhood in South Africa; was a co-founder of Kitchen Table Women of Color Press; and established the St. Croix Women's Coalition where she was living at the time of her death in 1992 from breast cancer. Lorde's first book of poetry, "The First Cities," was published in 1969.

A decade later, she published her "Cancer Journals," and later "Zami: A New Spelling of My Name" (1982) and "Sister Outsider" (1984), her first collection of essays. Both "Zami" and "Sister Outsider" are staple texts in hundreds of women's studies classes throughout the academy.

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"The Audre Lorde papers are one of the most significant among special collections in the Spelman archives," said Professor Beverly Guy-Sheftall, founding director of the Women's Center and the Anna Julia Cooper Professor of Women's Studies.

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Freie Universität Berlin Campusbibliothek, Fabeckstraße, Berlin, Germany

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University Archive; Freie Universität Berlin

https://www.jfki.fu-berlin.de/en/library/holdings/audrelorde/index.html

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Black Metropolis Research Consortium, East 58th Street, Chicago, IL

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Black Women in the Middle West Project collection

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Black Women in the Middle West Project collection

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Black Metropolis Research Consortium; University of Chicago

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Descriptive Summary

Restriction(s)

Box 8 is closed until 2035.

For listening purposes, it is necessary to use a copy, not the original (and to have a listening copy made if one is not available).

Terms governing use

Copyright may be retained by the creators of items, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law, unless otherwise noted.

Provenance statement

Project administration files were donated by Darlene Clark Hine (accession #: 2010.0032

Please cite this collection as

Black Women in the Middle West Project collection (Chicago History Museum) plus a detailed description, date, and box/folder number of a specific item.

Collection Summary

Correspondence, lists, publicity materials, and other records of the Black Women in the Middle West (BWMW) Project, a grant-funded project to document the lives of African American women and organizations in Illinois and Indiana and to encourage the donation of their historical records to research repositories. Includes files created by the project under the administration of Darlene Clark Hine, an academic historian and the project director; and through the participation of Emma J. Kemp, a Chicago librarian and one of the organizers of the project; and by Clementine Skinner, a school teacher and librarian who helped promote the project. Includes audio cassettes of radio broadcasts of interviews by Kemp and by Skinner publicizing the project. The collection also includes questionnaires and interviews completed by many women at workshops sponsored by the project, original historical items brought by the women to these workshops, and materials acquired through the efforts of project representatives Barbara A. Clark, Ida M. Cress, Emma J. Kemp, and Clementine A. Skinner, as well as the Black Studies Program at the University of Illinois at Chicago. This original documentation dating from about 1924 to 1985 includes biographical materials, correspondence, newspaper clippings, photographs, yearbooks, and brochures from a variety of people, including Ida Roberta Bell, Willa Saunders Jones, Mother Minnie Adams Norman, La Julia Rhea, Mattie Mae Rucker, Eunice Sims, Glennette Tilley Turner, the Black Studies Program at the University of Illinois at Chicago, and others.

Biographical/historical note

The Black Women in the Middle West (BWMW) Project gathered information about Black women in Illinois and Indiana through questionnaires and interviews, many filled out during workshops sponsored by the project (1984-1985), and gathered historical materials, some of which were brought by the women to these workshops. It also encouraged African American women and organizations in Illinois and Indiana to donate their historical records to local repositories.

The project grew out of efforts (ca. 1977-1981) of the National Council of Negro Women (NCNW), Indianapolis Section, to collect materials documenting the lives of African American women in Indiana. Two members of NCNW, schoolteachers Virtea Downey and Shirley Herd, contacted Darlene Clark Hine, a faculty member at Purdue University. Hine obtained funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities to plan (ca. 1982-1983) and implement (ca. 1984-1985) the BWMW Project, whose collecting scope was expanded to include Indiana and Illinois.

The project resulted in the publication of Black Women in the Middle West Project: A Comprehensive Resource Guide, Illinois and Indiana, by Darlene Clark Hine (1986).

Separated Material

Papers of women and organizations that were donated to repositories through the collecting activities of the project are divided among five repositories: Chicago History Museum; Illinois State Historical Society; Calumet Regional Archives; Northern Indiana Historical Society; and Indiana Historical Society. In addition, the administrative records of the project itself are at Chicago History Museum and at Indiana Historical Society.

Other Finding Aids

Finding aid also submitted to the Explore Chicago Collections portal.

Indexed Terms

Organization and Arrangement of Collection

The collection is arranged in two series: project files and participant files.

Series 1. Project files, 1982-1985 (Box 1-3, oversize folder, Box 11 with audio)

Series 1 consists of questionnaires, information sheets, participant lists, progress reports, promotional materials, and other administrative records of the BWMW Project. Includes materials on the participation in the project of Clementine A. Skinner and Emma J. Kemp, a Chicago librarian, including audio cassettes of two radio programs publicizing the project, one featuring Skinner (1984 Oct. 13) and one featuring Skinner and Kemp (1985 Feb. 24); and folders of Kemp's correspondence and public relations information. Also includes an oversize project poster.

Series 2. Participant files, ca. 1924-1985 (Box 4-10)

Series 2 consists of papers of project participants. Included are awards, biographical materials, certificates, correspondence, diplomas and report cards, newspaper clippings, photographs, yearbooks, etc. Individuals and organizations represented include: Alpha Gamma Pi sorority, Ida Roberta Bell, Willa Saunders Jones, Mother Minnie Adams Norman, La Julia Rhea, Mattie Mae Rucker, Eunice Sims, Clementine A. Skinner, Glennette Tilley Turner, Thelma Kirkpatrick Wheaton, and others. Includes an audio interview with Glennette Tilley Turner and oversize items pertaining to Willa Saunders Jones. Participant files were collected and donated by project participants; family members of participants; project representatives, including Clementine A. Skinner, Barbara A. Clark, Ida M. Cress, and Emma J. Kemp; and by the Black Studies Program at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Boxes 5-6 contain materials collected by the Black Studies Program at the University of Illinois at Chicago; box 7 contains materials donated by Ida M. Cress; box 8 contains a police report that is closed until 2035.

Contents list:

Series 2. Participant files

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Black Women in the Middle West Project collection

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Box 8 is closed until 2035. For listening purposes, it is necessary to use a copy, not the original (and to have a listening copy made if one is not available). Copyright may be retained by the creators of items, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law, unless otherwise noted.

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Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Garden Street, Cambridge, MA

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Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study; Harvard University

(Digital)

https://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/schlesinger-library/collections/black-women-oral-history-project

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Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University

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Schlesinger Library / Collections

The Black Women Oral History Project interviewed 72 African American women between 1976 and 1981.

With support from the Schlesinger Library, the project recorded a cross section of women who had made significant contributions to American society during the first half of the 20th century.

Many interviewees in the collection had professional careers in fields such as education, government, the arts, business, medicine, law, and social work. Other women who were interviewed combined care for their families with volunteer work at the local, regional, or national level.

During the interviews, women discuss

childhood;

education;

family background;

influences affecting their choice of primary career or activity;

professional and voluntary accomplishments; and

ways in which being black and a woman affected their opportunities.

Biographies, photographs, and transcripts as well as audio from the project are available online from the Library's research guide to the Black Women Oral History Project Interviews, 1976-1981.

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Black Women Oral History Project | Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University

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Schlesinger Library / Collections The Black Women Oral History Project interviewed 72 African American women between 1976 and 1981. With support from the Schlesinger Library, the project recorded a cross section of women who had made significant contributions to American society during the first half of the 20th century.

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Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, Red River Street, Austin, TX

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Briscoe Center for American History; The University of Texas at Austin

https://digitalcollections.briscoecenter.org/collection/477276

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University of North Texas, Union Circle, Denton, TX

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The Black Academy of Arts and Letters Records

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The Black Academy of Arts and Letters Records

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University Libraries; University of North Texas

https://library.unt.edu/special-collections/archives-manuscripts/black-academy-arts-letters/

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About the Collection

The Black Academy of Arts and Letters (TBAAL) Records comprises 247 boxes of archival documents, video and photographs documenting the history and activities of the Dallas-based arts organization. TBAAL was founded in 1977 by Curtis King, as on outgrowth of the New York City based Black Academy of Arts and Letters, with a mission to create and enhance an awareness and understanding of artistic, cultural, and aesthetic differences utilizing the framework of African, African-American, and Caribbean Arts and Letters.

Original programming at TBAAL has featured numerous African-American celebrities of song, stage, and screen, including Esther Rolle, Ruby, Eartha Kitt, Eryka Badu, Dave Chappelle, and Fantasia Barrino among many others. The collection includes manuscript records of these productions, such as scripts, sheet music, programs, flyers, posters, and correspondence between TBAAL founder and director Curtis King and VIPs. The collection also documents the history of the organization, including its programming for Dallas ISD students, its relationship with the City of Dallas, and its successive location moves before finally reaching its current site in the Dallas Convention Center.

Portions of The Black Academy of Arts and Letters Records have been digitized and are available on The Portal to Texas History.

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The Black Academy of Arts and Letters Records - University Libraries - UNT

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The Black Academy of Arts and Letters (TBAAL) Records comprises 247 boxes of archival documents, video and photographs documenting the history and activities...

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Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech

(Digital)

https://digitalsc.lib.vt.edu/Ms1995-026

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The Black Women at Virginia Tech History Project, a multi-phase research and education program, involves:

The identification of the first black women--student, staff and faculty--to enter the university.

The collection of their narratives of that entry experience.

The design and execution of program events to enhance communication, understanding, and relationships within the university's culturally diverse community.

The project will increase knowledge about the women's community, celebrate the racial integration of that community, and provide deeper insight into the issues and opportunities inherent in striving to achieve an open, diverse, and just educational environment. The term "black" is used here to designate those United States citizens who are the descendants of enslaved people, ancestorially residing in the country of approximately 400 years.

The three-phase research component of the project got underway fall term, 1994 under the auspice of The Women's Center in collaboration with the University Archive in the University Libraries. Two factors supported The Women's Center's investment of a considerable amount of its limited resources in this project. First, grounded in a philosophy of feminism, it was important that the center's account of history of campus women recognize and document racial diversity. Second, administrative records only began to account for the racial identity of its members in 1985. To begin a study to build an appropriate account of the history of university women, the center and the University Archive undertook archival photographic searches and networking activities.

The education effort will involve a wide variety of programs, carried out by campus and community organizations as well as academic departments. Some of the activities will be oral, written, audio-visual, and video-taped presentations, seminars, round table discussions, exhibitions, and in tandem study and actions programs. Study and action programs will forge and sustain diverse coalitions of university members who design and carry out actions to identify and eradicate barrier to cross-racial cooperation and associations in all spheres of the university.

Elaine Carter initiated the Black Women's History Project at the Virginia Tech Women's Center in the fall of 1994.

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Special Collections and University Archives, University Libraries, Virginia Tech

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Black Women at VT Oral History Project (Ms1995-026)

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The Black Women at Virginia Tech History Project, a multi-phase research and education program, involves: The identification of the first black women--student, staff and faculty--to enter the university. The collection of their narratives of that entry experience. The design and execution of program events to enhance communication, understanding, and relationships within the university's culturally diverse community.

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Mary McLeod Bethune Council House National Historic Site, Vermont Avenue Northwest, Washington, DC

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National Archives for Black Women's History

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National Archives for Black Women's History

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Mary McLeod Bethune Council House National Historic Site

https://www.nps.gov/mamc/learn/historyculture/nabwh_collections.htm

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The University of Chicago Library, East 57th Street, Chicago, IL

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University of Chicago Library

https://www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/scrc/findingaids/view.php?eadid=ICU.SPCL.IBWELLS

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Centre College, West Walnut Street, Danville, KY

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Centre College, Furman University, Rollins College, and Washington and Lee University

(Digital)

https://omeka.centre.edu/s/pathways/page/welcome

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Statement on Potentially Harmful Content

All materials in the Pathway to Diversity collections have research value and reflect the society and time period in which they were produced. They may contain language and imagery that are offensive because of content relating to: ability, gender, race, religion, sexuality/sexual orientation, and other categories. The documents, images, publications, and other materials have been preserved in order to present the materials in their original state and context, and do not reflect the values of Centre College, Furman University, Rollins College, or Washington and Lee University. We are aware that finding aids, catalog records, and other descriptions created by staff at these institutions using standard vocabularies may contain offensive or harmful language. We are actively working to address this problem. In some instances, we will supplement but not replace the offensive terms that come from authorized sources still in use for searching. If you come across offensive language in a finding aid, catalog record, digital collection description, or other material description, please contact libraryarchives@centre.edu to bring this to our attention. If you have questions about this statement or about the Pathways to Diversity collections, we welcome your feedback. Please contact us at libraryarchives@centre.edu.

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All materials in the Pathway to Diversity collections have research value and reflect the society and time period in which they were produced. They may contain language and imagery that are offensive because of content relating to: ability, gender, race, religion, sexuality/sexual orientation, and other categories.

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UC Berkeley, Oxford Street, Berkeley, CA

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Black Panther Party and Black Power Movement: Newspapers

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Black Panther Party and Black Power Movement: Newspapers

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Berkeley Library, UC Berkeley

(Digital)

https://guides.lib.berkeley.edu/blackpantherparty

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Some African American historical and current newspapers are available electronically through subscription databases from UC Berkeley.

The Library's Newspaper & Microforms Room holds a number of African American newspapers from throughout the U.S. Papers on microfilm are shelved in title order by state. Currently received print titles are shelved by title. Some titles are also available in the Bancroft Library. Examples of California papers are listed below. Click on the newspaper title to link to its UC Library Search record.

The California Voice (Oakland) Location: News/Micro NEWSFILM-1 (separate issues)

Flatlands (Oakland) Location: News/Micro MICROFILM 78777, Bancroft BANC NMP 6764:2:3

The Oakland Post Location: News/Micro NEWSPRINT-1

The Sacramento Observer Location: News/Micro NEWSFILM-1

The Sun-Reporter (San Francisco) Location: News/Micro NEWSFILM-1

The Peninsula Bulletin (East Palo Alto) Location: News/Micro NEWSFILM-1

Los Angeles Tribune (Los Angeles, 1941-1960) Location: library only has selected issues, mainly from 1947-1952 in News/Micro NEWSFILM-1; 1943-1960 are included in African American Newspapers, Series 1.

(Los Angeles) Location: library has 1913-1930, 1944-53 in News/Micro NEWSFILM-1

The Stanford Library has one of the largest collection of newspapers in print and microfilm in the United States. They are available for on-site viewing by UCB affiliated persons. The Center for Research Libraries lends newspapers on microfilm to UCB patrons.

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Library Guides: Black Panther Party and Black Power Movement: Newspapers

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Library Guides: Black Panther Party and Black Power Movement: Newspapers

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Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Wall Street, New Haven, CT

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Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University

https://archives.yale.edu/repositories/11/resources/5848

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The collection consists of material created and collected by Lisbet Tellefsen. Many of the materials center around the creation of Aché, which was first issued in 1989 as a journal and existed as a collective in the Bay Area until 1994. The rest of the materials generally relate to allied groups and other events that Tellefsen participated in and helped to organize, such as the National Black Gay and Lesbian Conference's Video Project.

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The collection consists of material created and collected by Lisbet Tellefsen. Many of the materials center around the creation of Aché, which was first issued in 1989 as a journal and existed as a collective in the Bay Area until 1994.

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Dr. Huey P. Newton Foundation Inc. Collection

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Dr. Huey P. Newton Foundation Inc. Collection

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Stanford Libraries

https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/4084258

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National Archives of Madagascar and King's College London

https://archives-africa.org/

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The Archives Africa online catalogue is part of a new project: 'Finding Africa: exploring the potential of a continent's archives', supported and developed by a team from King's College London and the National Archives of Madagascar.

Archives Africa is modelled on the successful AIM25 initiative, which since 1999 has supported the cross-searching of new and existing archive catalogues by students, researchers and the general public drawn from more than 150 cultural organisations across London including those of universities, learned societies and local government.

It has supported new research, learning and understanding of diverse records such as diaries, administrative papers, film and photography spanning more than 500 years of history. It is the ambition of Archives Africa to do the same, linking the archives of every country in Africa beginning with Madagascar.

The project explores new, lightweight, methods of cataloguing quickly in the field; the development of a prototype thesaurus to better describe these collections from an African perspective; and the encouragement of new scholarly connections between archivists and academics in Africa and those in the UK, and between collections held in Africa and those held elsewhere.

The project was led by Vincent Hiribarren (History, King's College London) and Geoffrey Browell (Archives, King's College London). Sahondra Sylvie Andriamihamina (director of the National Archives of Madagascar) was in charge of the team of archivists who classified the archives in Antananarivo. Pete Vox (IMAGIZ) is behind our AtoM installation and made sure our website would be running in Madasgascar. Jean-Pierre Bat helped us conceive the new online inventory and insured its dissemination among French-speaking archivists.

Click here to view the catalogues News Contact us

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Archives Africa / Curating Africa's Cultural Heritage

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The Archives Africa online catalogue is part of a new project: 'Finding Africa: exploring the potential of a continent's archives', supported and developed by a team from King's College London and the National Archives of Madagascar.

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Indiana Historical Society, West Ohio Street, Indianapolis, IN

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Indiana Historical Society

(digital)

https://images.indianahistory.org/digital/collection/m0399

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Notable Kentucky African Americans Database

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Notable Kentucky African Americans Database

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University of Kentucky

(Digital Database)

https://nkaa.uky.edu/nkaa/

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Archives for Black Lives: A Liberated Archives Exhibition

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Archives for Black Lives: A Liberated Archives Exhibition

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University of Oregon Libraries

https://memorywork.uoregon.edu/programming/abllaexhibit/

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Through a partnership with the City of Portland Archives, Don't Shoot Portland gained access to informational archives that inform current systems. These educational assets are vital to sustaining social change and by building upon these dialogues through a historical context, Don't Shoot Portland is activating a call to action.

Archives for Black Lives: A Liberated Archives Exhibition centers on education, documentation, and the preservation of history. The exhibition explores how archival materials can help anyone interested in making positive efforts to expose racist systems and affect policy change to end racial oppression. QR codes throughout the exhibition refer viewers back to collections for those wanting to do their own research and liberate the UO's archives.

The exhibition is open to the public at the University of Oregon Knight Library.

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Archives for Black Lives: A Liberated Archives Exhibition

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Through a partnership with the City of Portland Archives, Don't Shoot Portland gained access to informational archives that inform current systems. These educational assets are vital to sustaining social change and by building upon these dialogues through a historical context, Don't Shoot Portland is activating a call to action.

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Cornell University Library Annex, Bookbank Drive, Ithaca, NY

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The Samuel J. May Anti-Slavery Collection

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The Samuel J. May Anti-Slavery Collection

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Cornell University Library

https://rmc.library.cornell.edu/mayantislaverycoll/

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Engraved frontispiece portrait of Harriet Tubman from: Sarah H. Bradford.
Scenes in the Life of Harriet Tubman. W.J. Moses, printer, Auburn, N.Y., 1869.

Cornell's Anti-Slavery and Civil War Collections

Cornell University Library began collecting materials on abolitionists, the anti-slavery movement and the American Civil War during the 1860s, thanks to Cornell's first President, Andrew Dickson White. Even before his arrival at Cornell, as a history professor White used his lectures at the University of Michigan to respond to the issues of the War by pointing out to his students as many examples as he could of societies that valued the rights of free men, and inviting abolitionists such as Wendell Phillips and Frederick Douglass to lecture to students. He also developed his own collection of documents, pamphlets, and letters on the progress of the Civil War. He saved the letters his students sent him from the battlefield, and gathered maps, newspapers, prints, clippings, and other ephemera. When White's personal library was transferred to Cornell in 1891, his Civil War collection contained hundreds of bound volumes of pamphlets, documenting all aspects of the War-social, political, military, and religious.

Engraved portrait of Fredrick Douglass from:
Life and Times of Frederick Douglass: His Early Life as a Slave, His Escape from Bondage, and His Complete History to the Present Time, written by himself with an introduction by George L. Ruffin. Park Pub. Co., 1881.

The May Anti-Slavery Collection

In 1870, just five years after Cornell's founding, White was instrumental in bringing an extensive collection of slavery and abolitionist materials gathered by his close friend, Reverend Samuel Joseph May, to the Cornell Library. Numbering over 10,000 titles, May's pamphlets document the anti-slavery struggle at the local, regional, and national levels. Much of the May Anti-Slavery Collection was considered ephemeral or fugitive, and many of these pamphlets remain scarce today. Sermons, position papers, offprints, local Anti-Slavery Society newsletters, speeches, poetry anthologies, freedmen's testimonies, broadsides, and Anti-Slavery Fair keepsakes all document the social and political implications of the abolitionist movement and the fight for equality and human rights.

News of the arrival of Samuel May's collection at Cornell spread, and in 1874 the abolitionists William Lloyd Garrison, Wendell Phillips, and Gerrit Smith, wrote, signed, and circulated an appeal to their friends and supporters in America and Great Britain, urging that it was of "great importance that the literature of the Anti-Slavery movement...be preserved and handed down, that the purposes and the spirit, the methods and the aims of the Abolitionists should be clearly known and understood by future generations." The effort was successful, bringing in further scarce and original manuscripts and publications to Ithaca, allowing the Cornell Library to develop an Anti-Slavery collection that is unique for its depth and coverage at a time well before other research libraries began collecting the subject.

The May Anti-Slavery Collection Pamphlets Online

The pamphlets in Samuel J. May's Anti-Slavery library have been digitized and their texts are searchable online. The collection was digitized in 1999 with $331,000 in funding provided by a grant from the "Save America's Treasures" initiative, a public-private partnership between the White House Millennium Council and National Trust for Historic Preservation, administered by the National Endowment for the Humanities. It was one of 62 projects funded nationwide in 1999, and one of only two awards made to libraries.
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The May Anti-Slavery Manuscripts Online

The May Anti-Slavery Collection also includes manuscripts and letters, featuring correspondence among several American abolitionists. The manuscripts in the May Collection include many letters to Samuel Joseph May, his diaries from 1859-1861 and 1865-1870, and correspondence among members of May's family and the family of James Miller McKim. The collection also preserves some correspondence with Daniel Willard Fiske and George William Harris concerning the building of the May Anti-Slavery Collection at Cornell. Other correspondents include Lyman Abbott, John Brown, Henry Grafton Chapman, Maria Weston Chapman, David Lee Child, Lydia Maria Child, Daniel Willard Fiske, Thomas, Garrett, William Lloyd Garrison, D.C. Haynes, George William Harris, H.B. Holmes, Oliver Otis Howard, Oliver Johnson, Joseph May, Lucretia F. May, Samuel May Jr., Samuel Joseph May, James Miller McKim, William Forster Mitchell, Lucretia Coffin Mott, Wendell Phillips, William Still, Reuben Tomlinson, George Cabot Ward, and Theodore G. Wright.
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The Samuel J. May Anti-Slavery Collection

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Engraved frontispiece portrait of Harriet Tubman from: Sarah H. Bradford. Scenes in the Life of Harriet Tubman. W.J. Moses, printer, Auburn, N.Y., 1869. Cornell University Library began collecting materials on abolitionists, the anti-slavery movement and the American Civil War during the 1860s, thanks to Cornell's first President, Andrew Dickson White.

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Cornell University Library Annex, Bookbank Drive, Ithaca, NY

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President Barack Obama: Visual Iconography

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President Barack Obama: Visual Iconography

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Cornell University Library

https://rmc.library.cornell.edu/obama/