
Developing a Historical Biography and The Vital Importance of Black History Archives
The SNCC Digital Gateway, a documentary website on the history of SNCC, presented by Duke University Libraries, Center for Documentary Studies, and the SNCC Legacy Project
The Blackman, 1935, edited by Marcus M. Garvey, Robert A. Hill Collection
Meeting of “The Forum,” 1920s, North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company Archives
First Edition African and African American Autobiography Biography and Autobiography, Letters of the late Ignatius Sancho, an African... (1782)
Bantu Magazine, 1976, Leroy T. Walker Africa News Service Archive
The John Hope Franklin Research Center in the Rubenstein Library collects, preserves and promotes the use of published and unpublished primary sources for the exploration, understanding and advancement of scholarship of the history and culture of Africa and people of the African Diaspora in the Americas.
Utilize these modules for remote insturction and teaching to expose students to digitized primary sources from the Rubenstein Library's collections focused on special topics of the African Diaspora.
Congratulations to this year's Glaxo SmithKline travel grant awards to research the collections of the Franklin Research Center and Rubenstein Library
Selena Doss, Western Kentucky University
John Harris, Erskine College
Jacqueline Fewkes, Florida Atlantic University
Crystal Sanders, Penn State University
Kali Tambree, University of California at Los Angeles
Charles Weisenberger, University of Massachuesetts-Amherst
African Americans and Military Service
Made possible with the generous support of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, The SNCC Digital Gateway: Learn From the Past, Organize for the Future, Make Democracy Work is a collaborative project of the Student Nonviolent Coordinator Committee, Duke's Center for Documentary Studies, and the Duke University Libraries. This documentary website tells the story of how young activists in SNCC united with local people in the Deep South to build a grassroots movement for change that empowered the Black community and transformed the nation.
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Developing a Historical Biography and The Vital Importance of Black History Archives
Glimpses of Freedom, Love, and Struggle in the American Slavery Documents Collection
From the Collections
W. E. B. DuBois in the Charles N. Hunter Papers
Announcing our 2020-2021 Travel Grant Recipients
Clydie F. Scarborough and the Scarborough Nursery School