African-American History

Ohio State Suspends Chapter of a Historically Black Sorority Over Hazing Incident

Delta Sigma Theta was founded at Howard University a century ago. Members have include Mary McLeod Bethune, Shirley Chisholm, Patricia Robert Harris, Lena Horne, Barbara Jordan, and Wilma Rudolph.

University of Alabama Birmingham Conducting Oral History Project of the Civil Rights Movement

The goal of the StoryCorps Griot Initiative is to record for prosperity the stories of the city's residents who participated in the historical civil rights movement in the early 1960s.

New Discovery of Photograph of Edmonia Lewis

The first African American sculptor to receive international fame, was a student at Oberlin College in Ohio where she was accused of trying to poison two White students and stealing artist supplies. She was acquitted but was not permitted to graduate and spent most of her career in Rome.

Tulane University Exhibit Documents the History of a Local Black Fraternal Group in Louisiana

The Amistad Research Center at Tulane University in New Orleans is currently showing an exhibit to honor the history of the African American fraternal organization, the Prince Hall Grand Lodge Free and Accepted Masons of Louisiana.

University of Cincinnati Reopens Its African American Cultural and Resource Center

The African American Cultural and Resource Center. which was established in 1991, has been undergoing a major renovation project since last August.

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.
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