Category: African American History and Culture

First Looks and Second Glances: Exploring the Amalia Amaki Papers and the Robert Langmuir African American Photograph Collection

Posted onAuthorGaby Hale

Stephanie Rambo is an assistant professor of English at George Mason University. She specializes in African American literature, Black Girlhood Studies, Diasporic Black theory, and Women and Gender Studies. She is currently working on her first a book monograph which examines literary and visual depictions of Black girlhood in African American literature. This past December Read More …

Notice: Kathleen Cleaver Papers Will Be Closed For Processing

Posted onAuthorGaby Hale

By Anicka Austin, Collections Processing Archivist. The Kathleen Cleaver papers will be closed for processing starting January 1, 2024. The papers of African American activist and lawyer, Kathleen Cleaver were acquired in 2020 by the late Dr. Pellom McDaniels, former Curator of African American collections. The collection includes photographs, printed material, audiovisual and born digital Read More …

NEH Wayfinder Project: Establishing a Linked Data Future for African American Periodicals with the Advisory Board

Posted onAuthorJennifer Gunter King

Over the course of two days, the Wayfinder Project Advisory Board and Project Team met at Emory University on October 24-25, 2022, to consider and determine the opportunities and critical considerations for advancing a linked data version of the Bibliography of African American Periodicals at Emory University. High level take-away from the advisory board meeting Read More …

Navigating The Camille Billops and James V. Hatch Archives

Posted onAuthorGaby Hale

By Charmaine Branch (she/her), PhD Candidate in Art History at Princeton University with a Graduate Certificate in African American Studies.  This August I visited the Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library at Emory University to study the formation of Hatch-Billops Collection Inc. In 1975, Camille Billops and James V. Hatch founded an archive Read More …

15 Notable Rose Library Collections Newly Available for Fall 2023

Posted onAuthorGaby Hale

By Randy Gue, Kayla Annan, Jonathan Coulis, and Jennifer Gunter King.  The new school year has arrived, and the Rose Library has a variety of new collections available for use, research, and teaching. These exciting acquisitions span our collecting strengths—African American history and culture, Emory Oral History Program, Emory University Archives, literary and poetry collections, Read More …

A ‘Lost Giant’: William Melvin Kelley Jr. & His Zany Realist Style

Posted onAuthorGaby Hale

Annika Schadewaldt is a Ph.D. candidate in American literature with a focus on post-45 novels at Leipzig University, Germany. She is a 2023 Rose Library Short-Term Research Fellow.  I came to the Rose library to be able to look at the papers of William Melvin Kelley, Jr., a Black postwar author who has only recently Read More …

“More Is Gained Than Lost”: The Papers of Samella S. Lewis

Posted onAuthorGaby Hale

Audrey Florey is a Ph.D. candidate in Visual Studies at the University of Missouri with an emphasis in American art history. Her dissertation examines the work of women artist-educators who dedicated their life to establishing and cultivating a diverse array of art programs within numerous cultural institutions across the United States. Beginning in the late Read More …

C.T. Vivian

Juneteenth: Celebrating C.T. Vivian and Upward Bound at Emory University 

Posted onAuthorGaby Hale1 Comment

By Jennifer Gunter King, drawing heavily on writing by Dr. Pellom McDaniels (1968-2020)   In honor of Juneteenth and drawing from its extensive African American archives, the Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library is thrilled to announce the public release of “Into the Archives: Small Steps – C.T. Vivian, Upward Bound and the Read More …

Join our growing team!

Posted onAuthorErin Glogowski

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 …

‘Untitled’: A Collaborative Dance & Photography-Based Activation

Posted onAuthorGaby Hale

  written by Gaby Hale, Outreach Archivist for Rose Library.  This month, visitors to the For Keeps Bookstore and Auburn Avenue Research Library will have the opportunity to watch performances curated by Sierra King and Rose Library’s Anicka Austin. The pair have been working together on a dance and performance-based activation that reflects their archival Read More …

New Digitized Collection: William H. Scott Family Papers

Posted onAuthorErin Glogowski1 Comment

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

Posted onAuthorErin Glogowski

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 …