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Obama exhibit
Nov 7, 2008
The Blair-Caldwell African American Research Library plans Obama exhibit in Denver

Scrapbooks open up past
Nov 3, 2008
Scrapbooks have gained new respect as research tools by historians.

Pioneers of Rhythm and Blues
Oct 22, 2008
Grammy grant to IU archive aims to preserve historic interviews with R&B pioneers

U Chicago Exhibit
Oct 17, 2008
Integrating the Life of the Mind: African Americans at UC, 1870-1940

Civil Rights Digital Library
Oct 8, 2008
Teenie Harris photographs now part of digital library

Morehouse's King Collection

Sep 22, 2008

 

(source: Black College Wire, September 01, 2008, by W. Hassan Marsh)

 

Morehouse College is teaming up with Atlanta's leaders to develop the $125 million center that will exhibit the Morehouse King Collection and highlight the role of historically black colleges and universities in social justice struggles.

Woodruff Library has received a grant to help fund the processing of the paper and has engaged in a joint initiative with Boston University where over 80,000 items that belonged to King remain and Stanford's King Institute to make a master catalogue of all archival materials.

Library officials said that the collection would be available for scholarly use in late fall.

The Center will be a 100,000 square feet complex that will be dedicated to the history of civil rights struggles and the future of social justice globally. It will include exhibition, performance, and meeting space as well as a media facility.