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By Jennifer Gunter King, Director of Rose Library The Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library seeks nominations and applications for our next Curator of African American Collections and Curator for Literature and Poetry Collections positions.  If you envision building library collections that advance research and public interests as part of a dynamic research Read More …

A RACE against HIV/AIDS in Black Churches

Daniel Royles is an Assistant Professor of History at Florida International University in Miami. He is the recipient of a Rose Library short-term research fellowship. A short-term fellowship from the Rose Library at Emory University gave me the opportunity to do on-site archival research in the records of SCLC/Women’s Organizational Movement for Equality Now (SCLC/W.O.M.E.N.), Read More …

SEEING IS BELIEVING

Yanyi is a writer and critic,  author of Dream of the Divided Field (One World 2022) and The Year of Blue Water (Yale 2019), winner of the 2018 Yale Series of Younger Poets Prize. His work has been featured in or at NPR’s All Things Considered, New York Public Library, Tin House, Granta, and A Public Space. The recipient of fellowships from Asian Read More …

New Digitized Collection: William H. Scott Family Papers

Emory University’s Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library is excited to announce the addition of a new digital collection to Emory Digital Collections. The William H. Scott Family Papers is a manuscript collection from the family of William H. Scott (1848-1910), who was a Black Baptist minister and political activist who was Read More …

Carter G. Woodson, The Father of Black History at the Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library

As we observe Black History Month we look to Carter G. Woodson, who is known as the Father of Black History. Rose Library holds a collection of materials from Woodson’s library which includes, correspondence, photographs, and books. Woodson with the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History, an organization he helped found announced Read More …

How Ebony magazine engaged and reacted to the Black Power movement in the 1960s and 1970s

Sid Ahmed ZIANE is a PhD student at Manchester Metropolitan University. He studies African American history and his area of interest revolves around race and media in Post-war America. He is currently working on a project which looks at the correlation between the modern black print media and the modern black liberation movement in the US. Read More …

Personality and the Passage of Time in Handwritten Letters

Colin Newton is a writer from Los Angeles whose fiction and nonfiction has appeared in The Ignatian, Westwind, Maudlin House, Red Planet Magazine, The Fabulist and Northridge Review. Newton was a 2018 Trillium Project resident at Oregon State University’s Shotpouch Cabin, and has years of experience as a freelance writer and writing instructor. Research conducted Read More …

Max Moses Heller and Southern Jewish Politicians

Andrew Harrison Baker, Ph.D., is a Lecturer of History in the Department of History and Geography at Clemson University.  His research focuses on focuses on politics, economic development, and southern cities in the post-World War II South with a particular interest in the Sunbelt era.             My introduction to southern Jewish history began in October 2018 Read More …

The Atlanta Daily World, Old Sermons, and a Reporter’s Expense Report

Josina Guess is a writer and editor with more than 20 years experience in non-profit, faith-based, arts and cross-cultural communication in urban and rural settings.  She is the 2022 recipient of The Nancy and Randall Burkett Award for Research in Black Print Culture.   The Nancy and Randall Burkett Award for Research in Black Print Read More …

Black Internationalism and a Wide View of Leon Sullivan’s Work

Mattie C. Webb is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of History at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where she studies 20th century U.S. and African history. She was a recipient of the Rose Library’s African American Short Term Research Fellowship, which she used to research in the Leon H. Sullivan Papers. My first Read More …

Faith in the World Community: Sue Bailey Thurman and Black Women’s World Reconstruction, 1920-1950

Kayleigh Whitman is a fifth year PhD student at Vanderbilt University.   She studies American Religious History with a special focus on questions of race, religion, and activism.   She is the recipient of the 2020 Nancy and Randall Burkett Fellowship. In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, African American women were the vanguard of the international struggle Read More …