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I have struggled with the no original research rule! I'd love hear Ari share an example of how a secondary source made the use of collections possible. 

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I have struggled with the no original research rule! I'd love hear Ari share an example of how a secondary source made the use of collections possible. 

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This is the primary way I have students engage with Wikipedia: the final assignment of my Seminar in Academic Inquiry and Writing asks them to improve an article. Assignment prompt here: https://unewhavendh.org/seminar-in-academic-inquiry-and-writing/wp-admin/post.php?post=36&action=edit

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This is the primary way I have students engage with Wikipedia: the final assignment of my Seminar in Academic Inquiry and Writing asks them to improve an article. Assignment prompt here: https://unewhavendh.org/seminar-in-academic-inquiry-and-writing/wp-admin/post.php?post=36&action=edit

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I'd love to learn more from faculty who ask students to create posters describing the work they've done in Wikipedia. I have students improve articles and write reflections they share with me, but something that they could display would be excellent.

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I'd love to learn more from faculty who ask students to create posters describing the work they've done in Wikipedia. I have students improve articles and write reflections they share with me, but something that they could display would be excellent.

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CT History Featured Topics in the CT Digital Archive

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CT History Featured Topics in the CT Digital Archive

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The CT Digital Archive has 24 curated collections of items from institutions across the state on CT history topics, including women's suffrage, social justice, industry, immigration, etc.

The CTDA is forming a working group to steward these collections. ctda@uconn.edu

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Citizens’ Bulletin was a monthly publication (11 issues per year) of the newly formed Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection (established in 1971) that began in the heyday of environmentalism in 1973 and continued publication until its end due to Connecticut state budget cuts in 1991. The pages of Citizens’ Bulletin present us with an inspiring array of new ideas about how to live on a changing planet, from air pollution, cars, and land trusts, to recycling, solar energy, and wetlands protection. Virtually all of the major environmental issues of today can be traced back to the now decades-old pages of Citizens’ Bulletin.

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Citizens' Bulletin was a monthly publication (11 issues per year) of the newly formed Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection (established in 1971) that began in the heyday of environmentalism in 1973. In addition to several name changes - DEP Citizens' Bulletin (10/1973 -...

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CT State Library contributes digitized CT newspapers to Chronicling America database: https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/ ​

Over 30 titles have been digitized​

Part of the National Endowment for the Humanities/Library of Congress National Digital Newspaper Project​

If you'd like to think through using this collection for your class, reach out here: https://ctdigitalnewspaperproject.org/contact/.

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Eastern Kentucky African American Migration Project Collection, 1927-2015

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Eastern Kentucky African American Migration Project Collection, 1927-2015

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The Eastern Kentucky African American Migration Project (EKAAMP) is a public humanities and archival collecting initiative directed by sociologist Karida Brown in partnership with the Southern Historical Collection (SHC) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

In 2013, the SHC joined Brown in her efforts to document a multi generational African American community with familial ties to coal mining towns in Harlan County, Ky.

The collection includes numerous digitized oral histories, as well as documents and photographs.

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Collection Number: 05585
Collection Title: Eastern Kentucky African American Migration Project Collection, 1927-2015

This collection has access restrictions. For details, please see the restrictions.

This is a finding aid. It is a description of archival material held in the Wilson Library at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Unless otherwise noted, the materials described below are physically available in our reading room, and not digitally available through the World Wide Web. See the Duplication Policy section for more information.

Size

.5 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 200 items)

Abstract

The Eastern Kentucky African American Migration Project (EKAAMP) is a public humanities and archival collecting initiative directed by sociologist Karida Brown in partnership with the Southern Historical Collection (SHC) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. In 2013, the SHC joined Brown in her efforts to document a multi generational African American community with familial ties to coal mining towns in Harlan County, Ky. The community which Brown studies has its origins in the coalfields of the Appalachian South and specifically the surrounding area of Lynch, Ky. Appalachia was a destination for thousands of African Americans, who left the rural deep South in the early twentieth century during the Great Migration. A company town, Lynch was established in 1917 by U.S. Coal and Coke Company, a subsidiary of U.S. Steel. The collection contains oral history interviews, photographs, copies of documents related to coal miners in the mid-twentieth century, and community histories of Lynch, Ky. Karida Brown conducted the oral history interviews with African Americans whose families migrated from the coal camps of the Appalachian South to cities and suburbs across the country. Photographs from circa 1948 depict street scenes, residential areas, and coal mining facilities in Lynch, Ky., and also African American residents of Lynch, both adults and children. Copied documents include floor plans for company housing and a discharge report for a fired coal miner. Community histories describe the founding of the coal camp, the buildings and businesses in the company town of Lynch, schools, entertainment venues, and leisure activities.

Creator

Eastern Kentucky African American Migration Project

Restrictions to Access

This collection contains additional materials that are not available for immediate or same day access. Please contact Research and Instructional Service staff at wilsonlibrary@unc.edu to discuss options for consulting these materials.

Restrictions to Use

No usage restrictions.

Copyright Notice

Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Eastern Kentucky African American Migration Project Collection #5585, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Oral history interviews received from Karida Brown in 2013 and 2014 (Acc. 101923); photographs received from William Shaffer, Jr. in 2014 (Acc. 102104); and manuscripts lent by Michael O'Bradovich and Mary Jo O'Bradovich in 2014 and returned following digitization in 2015. (Acc. 102105). Addition received May 2015 (Acc. 102211).

Acquired for the Southern Historical Collection as a part of the Eastern Kentucky African American Migration Project (EKAAMP) directed by Karida Brown.

Sensitive Materials Statement

Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, the North Carolina Public Records Act (N.C.G.S. § 132 1 et seq.), and Article 7 of the North Carolina State Personnel Act (Privacy of State Employee Personnel Records, N.C.G.S. § 126-22 et seq.). Researchers are advised that the disclosure of certain information pertaining to identifiable living individuals represented in this collection without the consent of those individuals may have legal ramifications (e.g., a cause of action under common law for invasion of privacy may arise if facts concerning an individual's private life are published that would be deemed highly offensive to a reasonable person) for which the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill assumes no responsibility.

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The following terms from Library of Congress Subject Headings suggest topics, persons, geography, etc. interspersed through the entire collection; the terms do not usually represent discrete and easily identifiable portions of the collection--such as folders or items.

Clicking on a subject heading below will take you into the University Library's online catalog.

Eastern Kentucky Social Club Collection (05606)

Lynch (Ky) Colored High School West Main Alumni Association Collection (05590)

Major and Leona Brown Papers (05603)

Lynch Colored School (Lynch, Ky.) and Lynch High School (Lynch, Ky.) yearbooks are available on the Internet Archive for 1950,1951,1964,1966,1967,1968,1969, and1973.

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The Eastern Kentucky African American Migration Project (EKAAMP) is a public humanities initiative directed by sociologist Karida Brown in partnership with the Southern Historical Collection (SHC) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. In 2013, the SHC joined Brown in her efforts to document a multi generational African American community with familial ties to coal mining towns in Harlan County, Ky. Brown has conducted oral history interviews with community members and helped the SHC collect manuscript materials from the community and its social organizations.

The community which Brown studies has its origins in the coalfields of the Appalachian South and specifically the surrounding area of Lynch, Ky. Appalachia was a destination for thousands of African Americans, who left the rural deep South in the early twentieth century during the Great Migration.

A company town, Lynch was established in 1917 by U.S. Coal and Coke Company, a subsidiary of U.S. Steel. The company supplied housing, health care, social services, commissary, churches, schools, and recreation for coal miners and their families. At its peak in the mid twentieth century Lynch's population reached 10,000 and included African Americans and whites with eastern European and British heritage. Although the mines were not strictly segregated, most areas of life, including schools, churches, commissary, and recreation, had separate facilities for blacks and whites until the mid 1960s.

Neighboring Benham, Ky. was also a coal mining camp and company town operated by Wisconsin Steel Company, a subsidiary of International Harvesters Company. The Benham mines closed in the 1970s.

U.S. Steel withdrew its operations in the mid 1960s, and the population of Lynch and the surrounding areas dwindled as families, who had spent only one or two generations in Appalachia, began to move across the country, settling in Ohio, Michigan, Illinois, Indiana, California, Missouri, and other states. Despite the long distances now separating this close knit community, individuals and families from the Harlan County coal towns Lynch, Benham, and Cumberland retained close ties with each other and nurtured what sociologist Karida Brown has called a "post-migration diasporic identity."

Eastern Kentucky Social Club

In 1969 a small group of African Americans living in Cleveland, Ohio who shared eastern Kentucky coal mining heritage established the Eastern Kentucky Social Club (EKSC). The primary mission of the Club was to "stay together." Membership and participation in this active social network nurture a collective identity and a community formed around remembrance of a time and place.

Cleveland was the site for the Club's first annual reunion in 1970, and by 2012 the founding chapter had been joined by 15 more chapters including ones in Lynch, Ky., Atlanta, Ga., Milwaukee, Wisc., New York, N.Y., and Washington, D.C. Chapters bid to host the annual Labor Day reunion. Attended by hundreds, the reunions include parties and other social activities, Christian worship services, featured guest speakers, and the Club's board meetings.

EKSC membership overlaps with membership in alumni associations associated with eastern Kentucky schools including Lynch Colored School, East Benham High School, and alumni of Rosenwald schools in Harlan County, Ky.

Karida Brown

Sociologist Karida Brown (1982-) was born in Uniondale, N.Y., to Arnita Davis Brown and Richard Brown. Karida Brown received a bachelor's degree in administration from Temple University in 2004, a master's degree in public administration in 2009 from the University of Pennsylvania, and a master's degree in sociology from Brown University in 2013. As of 2015, she is a PhD candidate in Brown University's sociology department, and her PhD dissertation titled Before They Were Diamonds: The Intergenerational Migration of Kentucky's Coal Camp Blacks is in progress.

The Eastern Kentucky African American Migration Project (EKAAMP) is a public humanities initiative directed by sociologist Karida Brown, who studies and documents a multi generational African American community with familial ties to coal mining towns in Harlan County, Ky. during the mid twentieth century.

The collection contains oral history interviews conducted by Karida Brown with African Americans whose families migrated from the coal camps of the Appalachian South to cities and suburbs across the country. Brown asks interviewees about family life, community, race relations, segregation, schools, and migration out of Appalachia and poses the question, "where is home?".

Photographs from circa 1948 depict street scenes, coal mining structures in the company town of Lynch, Ky., founded and operated by U.S. Coal and Coke Company. Many images show African American residents of Lynch, both adults and children. All photographs have captions written by the donor, William Shaffer, Jr.

Other materials are community histories of Lynch, Ky., and copies of documents related to coal miners in eastern Kentucky. Copied documents include floor plans for company housing and a discharge report for a fired coal miner.

Contents list

Expand/collapse Series 1. Oral History Interviews, 2013-2014

Oral history interviews with African Americans conducted by sociologist Karida Brown for her dissertation Before They Were Diamonds: The Intergenerational Migration of Kentucky's Coal Camp Blacks for Brown University in Rhode Island. Interviews are chiefly digital audio recordings. Some interviews are transcribed, and five interviews are digital video recordings. Brown asks interviewees about family life; neighbors and neighborhoods; segregated and integrated schools; teachers at the segregated schools; race relations and encounters with whites; and coal mining in Lynch, Ky., Benham, Ky., and surrounding areas in Harlan County where U.S. Coal and Coke Company operated coal mining camps and built company towns during the mid twentieth century. Other topics discussed are leisure and recreation; children's games such as kick-the-can, marbles, jacks, and hide-and-seek; athletics especially baseball; family discipline including corporal punishment or "whuppings"; and the legend of Limehouse, a labor agent for U.S. Coal and Coke Company who recruited and transported African American sharecroppers and convict labor from rural Alabama to Appalachia to work in the coal mines.

Snapshots of streets, street scenes, neighborhoods, coal mine portal and coal tipple in Lynch, Ky. circa 1948. Some candid images show African American residents, both adults and children, of Lynch, which was a Harlan County, Ky. coal mining camp operated by U.S. Coal and Coke Company. A few images show coal miners outside the mine entrance. The photographs have handwritten captions on the versos that indicate the street names and building names. The donor, William Shaffer, Jr., provided the identifying captions.

Expand/collapse Series 3. Historical Materials on Lynch, Ky., 1927-2014 and undated

Various printed items gathered or compiled by donor, Mike O'Bradovich. Community histories and articles describe the neighborhoods, social life, work, education, athletics, leisure activities, and medical services in the coal mining camp and company town, Lynch, Ky., operated by U.S. Coal and Coke during the mid twentieth century. Copies of documents dating from 1927 to 1956 include floor plans for company housing options, fliers for Labor Day celebrations, paycheck stubs and discharge papers for coal miners. Also includes brass tags worn by miners, an undated, printed map of Harlan County, Ky., and sets of historical trivia about Lynch, Ky.

Interviews EKAAMP-0001-0153

Images P-05585/1-25

Oversize Paper OP-05585/1

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Processing Information

Processed by: Laura Hart, April 2015

Encoded by: Laura Hart, April 2015

Finding aid updated by Chaitra Powell and Laura Smith, July 2019

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Eastern Kentucky African American Migration Project Collection, 1927-2015

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Collection Number: 05585 Collection Title: Eastern Kentucky African American Migration Project Collection, 1927-2015 This collection has access restrictions. For details, please see the restrictions. This is a finding aid. It is a description of archival material held in the Wilson Library at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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Histories of Medicine First-Year Seminar, Trinity College

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Histories of Medicine First-Year Seminar, Trinity College

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This seminar will examine the stories we tell about medicine and its histories using the lens of disease.

Students will create a virtual exhibit to share their research.

If you have a collection to suggest, reach out to mary.mahoney@trincoll.edu.

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In this activity, first-year students  choose a newspaper article published in CT during the 1918 flu epidemic. Then they conduct primary and secondary source research and make a HistoryPin contextualizing their newspaper article. Slides are attached. Reach out to mary.mahoney@trincoll.edu with your ideas, or to learn more about this project!