David M. Rubenstein
Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Green Book Provides Guide to a Bygone Era
John Hope Franklin Research Center
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
About
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John Hope Franklin Research Center in the Rubenstein Library collects, preserves and promotes the use of published and unpublished primary sources for the exploration, understanding and advancement of scholarship of the history and culture of Africa and people of the African Diaspora in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.
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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Announcements
Franklin Research Center Travel Grants Now Open
The Franklin Research Center is accepting travel grant applications to research Rubenstein Library collections. Successful applications will be awarded up to $1,500. Applicants must live outside of 100 miles of Durham, NC and must have a research topic related to African and/or African American history and culture. Awards are open to anyone, regardless of institutional affiliation or discipline. Researchers from non-academic and underrepresented backgrounds are strongly encouraged to apply. Please click for more information.
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.
