John Hope Franklin Research Center | David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library

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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

NC Mutual Life Insurance Company Archives

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)

Behind the Veil: Documenting African American Life in the American South

Bantu Magazine, 1976, Leroy T. Walker Africa News Service Archive

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John Hope Franklin Research Center in the Rubenstein Library collects, preserves and promotes the use of published and unpublished primary sources for the exploration, understanding and advancement of scholarship of the history and culture of Africa and people of the African Diaspora in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

2019-2020 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

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

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Affliated Projects

The SNCC Digital Gateway

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.