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.
Remembering the Tragic Shooting at Jackson State
The tragedy at Kent State is embedded in America's collective memory but another shooting incident 11 days later at historically Black Jackson State University in Mississippi has not received the same level of attention from historians. A new documentary video seeks to fill the void.
Voorhees College Honors Its Founder
Elizabeth Evelyn Wright Menafee was a graduate of Tuskegee University and after moving to South Carolina wanted to start a school modeled after her alma mater.
Johns Hopkins Exhibit Examines the University’s Black History
The exhibit, entitled "The Indispensable Role of Blacks at Johns Hopkins," pays tribute to 50 individuals "whose professional and personal achievements have brought honor to the institution."
University Historians Assembling Archive of Runaway Slave Advertisements
Two scholars at the University of Southern Mississippi are starting with ads from Mississippi newspapers but hope to expand the archive to other states, the Caribbean, and Brazil.
Vanderbilt Debuts Digital Archive of 1964 Taped Interviews of Leaders of the Civil Rights...
The interviews were conducted by Robert Penn Warren for his book Who Speaks for the Negro?
Duke University Honors Its First Black Students
The scholarship fund was established with a $1 million gift from a White classmate of the five Black students who racially integrated Duke's undergraduate programs in 1963.
Emory University Opens Its Archives of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference
The archive includes materials from 918 boxes documenting the activities of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference from 1968 to 2007.
Dickinson College Apologizes for 1940s Racial Slight
Patricia Shaw Iverson, the only daughter of the college's first Black woman alumna, was admitted to the college but was not permitted to live on campus.
The University of Texas Arlington to Explore Its Racial History
The new Center for African American Studies will conduct an oral history project involving its earliest Black alumni.
Two Black Poets Honored by the U.S. Postal Service
Robert Hayden and Gwendolyn Brooks are among 10 poets honored in a new series of stamps.
New Online Archive of the Papers of the Founder of North Carolina Central University
James E. Shepard established the National Religious Training School and Chautauqua for the Colored Race. The first classes were held in 1910.
Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia Opens at Ferris State University
The new $1.3 million, 3,300-square-foot museum's collection includes more than 9,000 artifacts.
Wayne State University Law School Receives Papers of Congressman John Conyers
Representatives John Conyers, the former chair of the House Judiciary Committee, earned his law degree at Wayne State in 1958.
University of Mississippi Commemorates 50 Years of Racial Integration
Fifty years ago there were no Black students at Ole Miss. Today they make up 16 percent of the undergraduate student body.
Duke University Opens Exhibit on the History of the Portrayal of Africans Americans in...
The exhibit, entitled "From Blackface to Blaxploitation: Representations of African Americans in Film," will be shown through the end of July.
LSU Students Investigate “Cold Case” Murders From the Civil Rights Era
As a result of their research, the students filed Freedom of Information Act requests seeking more than 30,000 pages of FBI investigation files.
University of Nebraska Scholars Debut New Online Archive Documenting Slavery in Washington, D.C.
The University of Nebraska-Lincoln has created an online project entitled Civil War Washington that contains paperwork filed by slaveowners in the District of Columbia in response to the Compensated Emancipation Act.
Mississippi University for Women Undertakes an Oral History of the Local Civil Rights Movement
Eleven students are conducting the interviews which will be digitally stored at the Columbus-Lowdnes Public Library.
Florida State University to Celebrate the 50th Anniversary of Its Racial Integration
Florida State admitted Black students in 1962 without the racial violence and federal intervention that occurred at several other state-operated universities in the South.
Alcorn State Selects Ed Dwight to Create Medgar Evers Memorial
Dwight, the first African American trained in the astronaut program, made a mid-life change to become a sculptor.
Coast Guard Academy Honors Its First Black Graduate
In 1966, Merle Smith was the academy's first Black graduate. Today 5 percent of the cadets are Black.
Duke University President Addresses the Issue of Race
Each year Richard H. Brodhead, president of Duke University, addresses the annual meeting of the university faculty. This year, he chose to discuss the issue of race and its impact on the Duke University community.
Emory University Video Series Highlights Lesser Known Events in Civil Rights History
A series of videos entitled "The Hidden History of the Quest for Civil Rights," offers history lessons on lesser known events of the civil rights struggle.
Black Alumni of Southern Methodist University Create a Scholarship
A gathering of 118 Black alumni celebrated their history and pledged to help those who walk in their footsteps.
Book on the Civil Rights Movement in Atlanta Wins the Bancroft Prize
Tomiko Brown-Nagin of the University of Virginia Law School is one of three winners of the Bancroft Prize, considered one of the highest honors in academic history.
An Historic Find in a Chicago Attic: The Papers of Harvard’s First Black Graduate
The papers of Richard T. Greener, including his Harvard University diploma, were discovered in an old trunk in a house that was about to be razed.
Huge Digital Archive of African American History Now Available Online
The database established by Johns Hopkins University contains photographs and documents from the "morgue" files of the Afro-American newspaper.
University of Arkansas Provides Online Record of an Early Black Student Group on Campus
The two collections relate to the organization Black Americans for Democracy, a student group at the university during the late 1960s through the 1970s.
Founder of Bethune-Cookman University Inducted Into the Florida Civil Rights Hall of Fame
Mary McLeod Bethune is one of the first three Floridians inducted into the new Hall of Fame at the State Capitol.
“Civil Rights in a Northern City:” Temple University Debuts New Online Archive
The online collection includes more than 1,500 items including newsreel footage of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. that previously has not publicly available.
Columbia University Debuts Website With Digitized Images from Vast Scrapbook Collection
L.S. Alexander Gumby compiled 161 large scrapbooks documenting African American life in Harlem.
Martin Puryear to Design Slavery Memorial at Brown University
The project will recognize the historic ties of Brown University's founders to the slave trade. The memorial will be located near the site of the university's earliest buildings, some of which were built with the help of slave labor.
University of Virginia Unveils New Digitized Oral History Project of the Civil Rights Era
The recorded interviews of scores of attorneys and scholars who were active in the civil rights movement were conducted in the 1980s and are now available online.
After More Than a Century, W.E.B. Du Bois Is Named to a Faculty Post...
Despite a Ph.D. from Harvard and groundbreaking research on sociology and race in the final years of the nineteenth century, W.E.B. Du Bois was not offered a faculty position at the University of Pennsylvania.
