Emory Opens New Archive of African American History to Researchers
The family papers of artist and civil rights activist Edwin Harleston and his wife, photographer Elise Harlston, have been fully archived and are now available to researchers at the university's Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library.
Williams College Receives Rare Collection of African-American Writings
The collection includes poetry, plays, prose, anthologies, recordings, and personal correspondence from scholars such as W.E.B. Du Bois, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Gwendoyln Brooks, Countee Cullen, Nikki Giovanni, Langston Hughes, and Sterling Brown.
University of Alabama at Birmingham to Celebrate the City’s Civil Rights Movement
The University of Alabama at Birmingham has entered into a partnership with the city of Birmingham to sponsor "50 Years Forward," a commemoration of the 1963 civil rights movement in in the city.
Lincoln University and the Abolitionist Map of America
The interactive website offers visitors information on events, places, and people associated with the crusade to end slavery in the United States.
University of Connecticut Scholars to Study Gullah Culture
Robert Stephens and Mary Ellen Junda, both professors of music at the University of Connecticut, will hold a workshop next summer in Savannah, Georgia, to instruct K-12 teachers on how to educate their pupils on the culture and traditions of the Gullah people.
University of Kansas Debuts New Online Archive of African American Photography
The collection includes more than digital 1,000 images from the 2,700 photographs taken by Hughes of African American workers and their families in Wichita from 1940 through the 1970s.
New Project Documenting the History of Blacks at Yale Divinity School
The effort is under the director of Moses N. Moore Jr., a graduate of Yale Divinity School who is now an associate professor of religious studies at Arizona State University, and Yolanda Smith, a lecturer in Christian education at Yale Divinity School.
Duke University to Commemorate the 50th Anniversary of Its Racial Integration
The nine-month celebration, entitled "Celebrating the Past, Charting the Future: Commemorating 50 Years of Black Students at Duke," will begin in January with a reception at the Nasher Museum of Art.
African Studies Institute at the University of Georgia Establishes an Archive
The collection, established on the 25th anniversary of the founding of the institute, includes photographs, posters, flyers, and other documents. Also, there are journals written by students who studied abroad in Africa.
Cornell Students Creating Historic Gardens at Harriett Tubman’s Home
The goal is to recreate gardens that would have existed at the home in Auburn, New York, when Harriet Tubman was in residence.
University of Louisville Upgrades Its Civil Rights History Tour
The tour includes 22 sites around the Louisville area including Freedom Park where civil rights protests occurred in 1961 and a home which was bombed in 1954 when a Black family moved into a previously all-White neighborhood.
Scholar Discovers the Only Known Painting of the Harlem Renaissance’s Gwendolyn Bennett
Most of Bennett's artwork was destroyed in a fire but in conducting research for a book on Bennett, Belinda Wheeler of historically Black Paine College in Augusta, Georgia, came across a 1931 oil painting.
The Discovery of a New Novel by Claude McKay
Jamaican-born author Claude McKay died in 1948 but recently a researcher in the Columbia University archives discovered a novel penned by the key figure of the Harlem Renaissance.
Williams College Honors Two Black Alumni
The Multicultural Center at Williams College in Massachusetts has been renamed to honor Allison Davis and his brother John A. Davis.
Fordham University’s Burial Database Project of Enslaved African Americans
The project aims to create a national database for burial grounds and cemeteries of enslaved African Americans within the United States.
Lincoln University Rekindles Historic Relationship With a 169-Year-Old Church
Hosanna Church, near the campus of Lincoln University of Pennsylvania, was built in 1843. Many of the university's first students were members of the Hosanna congregation.
University of Virginia Honors a Former Slave
Henry Martin was hired in 1847 as a janitor and to ring the university's bell every hour. He did so until 1909.
Ole Miss Shares Its Celebration of the 50th Anniversary of the University’s Racial Integration
The University of Mississippi has held a series of events commemorating the racial integration of the university 50 years ago.
The First College Stop of Joseph McGill’s Slave Dwelling Project Tour
McGill sleeps in dwellings that once housed slaves in an effort to garner publicity to preserve these historical buildings as a reminder of our past. His latest stop was at Sweet Briar College in Virginia.
Ole Miss Receives the Papers of a Bishop Who 50 Years Ago Called for...
Bishop Duncan Gray Jr.'s collection includes hundreds of letters in support and in opposition to his stance that racial segregation was incompatible with the Christian faith.
The University of Rochester’s New Online Archive of Historical Documents Relating to Abolition
Included in the archives are letters to the Post family of Rochester from Sojourner Truth, Harriet Jacobs, and Frederick Douglass.
Wake Forest University Celebrates 50 Years of Racial Integration
In 1962, Ed Reynolds from Ghana became the first Black student to enroll as a full-time student at Wake Forest University in North Carolina. He returned to the university this past weekend to relate his experiences to current students.
Duke University Acquires the Papers of John Hope Franklin
The archive includes more than 300 boxes of materials which include diaries, correspondence, manuscripts, drafts of speeches, photographs, and video recordings.
Papers of Pearl Cleage Housed at Emory University Archives
A graduate of Spelman College, Cleage is best known for her novels What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day and Babylon Sisters.
Arizona State University Honors Its First Black Football Player
In 1937 Emerson Harvey was the first Black player at ASU. His presence on the football team at the university served to play a major role in the racial integration of college sports in the southwest.
Emory University Expands Its African Origins Database
Emory has added the names of an additional 80,000 African captives who were victims of the illegal slave trade.
The University of Georgia to Mark the 50th Anniversary of Its First Black Graduate
On August 16, 1962, Mary Frances Early earned a master's degree in music education at the University of Georgia.
Controversial Murals Find a New Home at the University of Georgia
Murals depicting slavery that had adorned the walls of the Georgia Department of Agriculture will now be displayed at the Georgia Museum of Art at the University of Georgia.
Pauli Murray Named a Saint of the Episcopal Church
In 1938, she mounted an unsuccessful legal effort to gain admission to the all-white University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
University of Missouri Kansas City Receives Archives of Jazz Legend
Ahmad Alaadeen was a fixture on the Kansas City jazz scene and in 2010 was the recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Jazz Museum.
New Book Explores the Impact of Early Photography on African Americans
Co-editor Maurice Wallace of Duke states that "early photography helped the U.S. visualize the possibility of African-Americans as proper and fully engaged citizens in our democracy."
How HBCUs Contributed to the 1940s War Effort
A U.S. government video from the 1940s describes how several historically Black colleges and universities were contributing to the war effort.
Emory University Acquires a Vast Archive of Photographs of African Americans
The more than 10,000 photographs, collected by Robert Langmuir of Philadelphia, contain images from the 1840s to the 1970s.
Historical Mural to Be Restored and Displayed at the University of Arkansas Little Rock
Images on the 1935 mural, entitled "The Struggle of the South," include sharecroppers and a lynching.
Author’s Son Seeks Ownership of a Malcolm X Letter Now in the Syracuse University...
The son of Alex Haley, who helped Malcolm X with his autobiography, states that the letter may be worth as much as $650,000.
In Memoriam: Wesley Anthony Brown (1927-2012)
In 1949 Brown became the first African American graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland.
