African-American History

Universities Create Historical Online Archive of Recent Baltimore Protests

The University of Baltimore and the University of Maryland, Baltimore County are teaming up with the Maryland Historical Society to create an archive to document the history of the Baltimore protests surrounding the death of Freddie Gray in April.

University of Pittsburgh Acquires the Archives of Jazz Pianist Erroll Garner

Garner was born in Pittsburgh in 1921. He began playing piano at age 3 and by the age of seven was performing on the radio. In 1944, Garner moved to New York City where he became a leading performer and composer.

New Book Explores the History of Storer College in West Virginia

Storer College was founded in Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, in 1865 by the Freewill Baptist Home Mission Society. It was the first college in West Virginia that admitted African Americans.

University Students Uncover the Secrets of Old African American Photo Albums

Professor Martha Jones at the University of Michigan made it a project of her class on African American's women history to find out as much as they could about Arabella Chapman whose photographic albums were found in the university's archives.

Amherst College Receives the Papers of Hugh Price

Price, who graduated from Amherst in 1963, is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. From 1994 to 2003, Price was president of the National Urban League.

University of Virginia’s Holsinger Collection Offers a Look at Early 20th-Century African Americans

The University of Virginia has digitized the work of studio photographer Rufus W. Holsinger, who worked in Charlottesville, Virginia, from the late 19th century through World War I. The collection includes 500 portraits of African Americans.

University of Kansas Institute to Examine Modern Black Poetry

This July, 21 faculty members and four graduate students from colleges and universities across the country will come to the campus of the University of Kansas in Lawrence for an institute entitled "Black Poetry After the Black Arts Movement."

Emory University Students Explore Cold Case Files From the Civil Rights Era

Since 2011, Emory University in Atlanta has offered a course on the cold case murder files from the civil rights era. Students are instructed on investigative journalism techniques and then pursue leads on cold case files from Georgia's past.

Columbia University Acquires the Archives of Dancer Arthur Mitchell

Included in the collection are the administrative papers, grant proposals, financial records, teaching materials and other documents from the Dance Theatre of Harlem. Also included in the archive are some of Mitchell's personal papers and correspondence.

Oral History Project Is Documenting the Stories of Teachers During the Civil Rights Movement

The project is called Teachers in the Movement and it is led by Derrick P. Alridge, a professor in the Curry School of Education at the University of Virginia. Dr. Alridge hopes to record 200 interviews of teachers by the end of 2016.

Oral History Project on Richmond’s Historic Fulton District Is Now Available Online

The predominantly Black Fulton district in the East End of the city of Richmond was razed during the 1970s as part of the city's urban renewal project. Now Virginia Commonwealth University has made available online interviews from 32 former residents of the district.

A New Digital Archive of Documents Relating to Free Persons of Color in Antebellum Louisiana

In Louisiana, free people of color enjoyed a relatively high level of acceptance and prosperity during the antebellum period. In 1810, free people of color made up 29 percent of the population of New Orleans.

Ole Miss Students Conduct Archaelogical Dig at Former Slave Quarters

The dig occurred at the Hugh Craft House in Holly Springs that was built in the 1840s. The 1860 Census listed nine slaves living in a detached kitchen building at the Hugh Craft House.

Home of Civil Rights Pioneer Pauli Murray Designated a “National Treasure”

In 1938, Pauli Murray mounted an unsuccessful legal effort to gain admission to the all-white University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

University of California, Riverside Honors the Tuskegee Airmen

The library at the University of California, Riverside has been collecting historical materials about the Tuskegee Airmen since 2005 with a focus on the personal archives of three Tuskegee Airmen from California.

Harvard University Acquires Copy of Unfinished Play by James Baldwin

One of the main characters in the Baldwin play, Peter Davis, is based on Henry Louis Gates Jr., the Alphone Fletcher University Professor and the director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard.

University of Maryland Archaeologists Conduct Dig at Earliest Settlement of Free Blacks

A team of archaeologists from the University of Maryland is currently conducting a research project in Easton, Maryland, which they believe may be the site of oldest settlement of free Blacks in the United States.

West Virginia University Receives Donation of Artwork Depicting Racial Injustice

Harvey and Jennifer Peyton are donating a series of paintings to the Art Museum of West Virginia University that deal with racial injustice in the 1930s to the 1960s.

University of Virginia Names New Building After Former Slaves of University Professors

Both Isabella and William Gibbons were slaves who were owned by different professors at the University of Virginia prior to the Civil War. The new Gibbons Hall will house about 200 students this fall.

Will the University of North Carolina Rename a Building That Honors a KKK Leader?

In 1922 the university named its new history department building in honor of William Lawrence Saunders. A colonel in the Confederate Army, Saunders is said to have been a major figure in the Ku Klux Klan after the war.
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