Meeting Grace DeLorme
Jina DuVernay is the Visiting Archivist for African American Collections at the Rose Library. She will be blogging regularly throughout…
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Join us on January 31 for Emory’s Evening with Educators!
This free event, open to Atlanta area K-12 educators and administrators, begins at the Carlos Museum and ends at the…
Examining the “Fluidity of Citizenship”: My Residency at the Stuart A. ...
In fall 2017, independent scholar Dorrie Wilson conducted research in Rose Library’s Michel Fabre archives of African American Arts and…
Words are Power: Remembering the Storyteller Julius Lester
Among the thousands of authors found in the Stuart A. Rose Library, Julius Lester (1939-2018) is a giant. An essayist,…
Anthology, Archive, and Authority: Teaching with Lucille Clifton’s Papers
Marlo Starr (PhD Candidate, English Department) is the 2017-2018 Alice Walker Research Scholar in the Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives,…
“So be it”: Celebrating Lucille Clifton’s Life and Work
In perhaps her best recognized poem, “won’t you celebrate with me” Lucille Clifton invites readers to celebrate her life. Though…
Recent African American History and Culture
Celebrate the Service of African Americans in WWI
Opening soon at the Rose Library, “A Question of Manhood: African Americans and WWI” commemorates the centennial of the First World War, while celebrating the African American men who served as citizen-soldiers at a time when they were systematically denied...
Billops-Hatch Exhibition Catalog Wins Big!
Guest Post: The Black Student Union Collection
NaVosha Copeland, Emory College Class of 2016, Emory University Archives Intern, Summer 2016 On a hot August day during my first semester at Emory College in 2012 I walked to my advisor’s office that was on the campus quadrangle. Having...
Sigma Pi Phi Records Come to Emory
Emory University’s Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library is pleased to report acquisition of the current archives of the Sigma Pi Phi Fraternity, the oldest African American Greek-letter fraternity in the United States. Known as the Boulé,...
The J. Herman Blake Black Panther Party Collection: A Deep Reflection and Focus on ...
2016 marks the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Black Panther Party (BPP) for Self-Defense. Organized on October 15, 1966 in Oakland, California by Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale, the BPP became a symbol of militant resistance towards...