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John Hope Franklin Research Center in the Rubenstein Library collects, preserves and promotes the use of published and unpublished primary sources for the exploration, understanding and advancement of scholarship of the history and culture of Africa and people of the African Diaspora in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.

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2018-2019 Travel Grant Awards

Congratulations to this year's Glaxo SmithKline travel grant awards to research the collections of the Franklin Research Center and Rubenstein Library

Heath Anderson, Viginia Commonwealth University

Keisha Blaine, University of Pittsburgh

Eric Gaither, Independent Researcher

Kathleen Hilliard, Iowa State University

Jasmin Howard, Michigan State University

Hayley O'Malley, University of Michigan

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Current Exhibit

The Activist Archive: SNCC Collections in the Rubenstein Libary

Jerry and Bruce Chappell Family Gallery, Perkins Library

February 21-June 17, 2018

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Affliated Projects

The SNCC Digital Gateway

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.