By Amber L. Moore, Project Archivist, Amistad Research Center “Working for Freedom: Documenting Civil Rights Organizations” is a collaborative project between Emory University’s Manuscript, Archives and Rare Book Library, The Auburn Avenue Research Library on African American Culture and History, The Amistad Research Center at Tulane University, and The Robert W. Woodruff Library of…
New Insights into the Early Political and Philosophical Thought of Jesse L. Jackson
By Michael R. Hall, Graduate Processing Assistant, Southern Christian Leadership Conference records, MARBL “Working for Freedom: Documenting Civil Rights Organizations” is a collaborative project between Emory University's Manuscript, Archives and Rare Book Library, The Auburn Avenue Research Library on African American Culture and History, The Amistad Research Center at Tulane University, and The Robert W….
“An Easy Burden:” Reflections on the Andrew J. Young, Jr. Papers Photograph Collection
by Brenda Tindal, Graduate Processing Assistant, Auburn Avenue Research Library and MARBL Woodruff Fellow “Working for Freedom: Documenting Civil Rights Organizations” is a collaborative project between Emory University’s Manuscript, Archives and Rare Book Library, The Auburn Avenue Research Library on African American Culture and History, The Amistad Research Center at Tulane University, and The Robert…
No Longer Hidden: A Civil Rights Oral History Resource in the Tom Dent Papers
By Laura J. Thomson, Director of Processing “Working for Freedom: Documenting Civil Rights Organizations” is a collaborative project between Emory University’s Manuscript, Archives and Rare Book Library, The Auburn Avenue Research Library on African American Culture and History, The Amistad Research Center at Tulane University, and The Robert W. Woodruff Library of Atlanta University Center…
Martin Luther King Speaks: The Radio Voice of SCLC
by Rebecca Sherman, Graduate Processing Assistant, Southern Christian Leaderhip Conference records, MARBL “Working for Freedom: Documenting Civil Rights Organizations” is a collaborative project between Emory University's Manuscript, Archives and Rare Book Library, The Auburn Avenue Research Library on African American Culture and History, The Amistad Research Center at Tulane University, and The Robert W. Woodruff…
John Lewis: Voter Education Project Executive Director, 1970-1977
By Alison Hughes, Archival Assistant, Voter Education Project Collection, Robert W. Woodruff Library of Atlanta University Center “Working for Freedom: Documenting Civil Rights Organizations” is a collaborative project between Emory University’s Manuscript, Archives and Rare Book Library, The Auburn Avenue Research Library on African American Culture and History, The Amistad Research Center at Tulane University,…
Andrew Young’s Campaigns
By Cheryl Oestreicher, Project Archivist, Andrew J. Young Papers, Auburn Avenue Research Library on African American Culture and History “Working for Freedom: Documenting Civil Rights Organizations” is a collaborative project between Emory University’s Manuscript, Archives and Rare Book Library, The Auburn Avenue Research Library on African American Culture and History, The Amistad Research Center at…
An Easy Burden: an Oral History Collection of Andrew Young
By Christopher Harter, Director of Library and Reference Services, Amistad Research Center “Working for Freedom: Documenting Civil Rights Organizations” is a collaborative project between Emory University's Manuscript, Archives and Rare Book Library, The Auburn Avenue Research Library on African American Culture and History, The Amistad Research Center at Tulane University, and The Robert W. Woodruff…
A Year in Review
By Sarah Quigley, Project Archivist, Southern Christian Leadership Conference records, MARBL “Working for Freedom: Documenting Civil Rights Organizations” is a collaborative project between Emory University's Manuscript, Archives and Rare Book Library, The Auburn Avenue Research Library on African American Culture and History, The Amistad Research Center at Tulane University, and The Robert W. Woodruff Library…
Voter Education Project Under Vernon Jordan (1966-1970)
“Working for Freedom: Documenting Civil Rights Organizations” is a collaborative project between Emory University’s Manuscript, Archives and Rare Book Library, The Auburn Avenue Research Library on African American Culture and History, The Amistad Research Center at Tulane University, and The Robert W. Woodruff Library of Atlanta University Center to uncover and make available previously hidden…
Andrew Young the Ambassador
By Cheryl Oestreicher, Project Archivist, Auburn Avenue Research Library “Working for Freedom: Documenting Civil Rights Organizations” is a collaborative project between Emory University’s Manuscript, Archives and Rare Book Library, The Auburn Avenue Research Library on African American Culture and History, The Amistad Research Center at Tulane University, and The Robert W. Woodruff Library of Atlanta…
Library Stacks Shift as 200,000 Items Go to Storage
Project Overview The Stack Tower Project will send 20,000 linear feet of materials – some 200,000 items – to on-campus and off-campus storage. This will reduce six floors of collections to five, freeing up level 9 for immediate and future use by the Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library (MARBL). Book movers will shift the…
Rose Library Blog
- Wars not Fought: Neutrality and European Navies in American Waters during the US Civil War. June 29, 2022Mark Markov is a PhD candidate from Durham University in the United Kingdom. He was awarded a Rose fellowship in support of his research on Wars not Fought: Neutrality and European Navies in American Waters during the US Civil War. He conducted his research the spring of 2022. David Anderson, a Confederate prisoner of war...Erin Glogowski
- 2022 Research Fellowships. April 15, 2022The Rose Library offers a variety of fellowships and awards to support travel for researchers to come to Emory to conduct research in our holdings. Here are links to both our Short-Term Fellowships and Subject Specific Fellowships: Short-Term Fellowships: https://prod.libraries.emory.edu/rose/research-learning/about-fellowship-and-award-opportunities/visiting-researchers/short-term Subject Specific Fellowships: https://prod.libraries.emory.edu/rose/research-and-learning/fellowship-and-award-opportunities/visiting-researchers/subject. We did not offer any fellowships in 2021 because of...Erin Glogowski
- The Past is Contemporary March 23, 2022Eric Flohr Reynolds (PhD Candidate, Department of Comparative Literature) is the 2021-2022 Black Women Writers & Intellectuals Fellow in the Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library. His project centers on the role of Black creatives during times of social and political unrest. Despite some exposure to a few of Rose Library’s collections...Erin Glogowski
- Resistance Zine March 22, 2022In June 2019, Rare Book School received a $1.5 million grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, in June 2019, “to support the Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship for Diversity, Inclusion & Cultural Heritage, a six-year program which aims to advance multicultural collections through innovative and inclusive curatorial practice and leadership.” After a rigorous selection process,...Erin Glogowski
- Gabrielle M. Dudley, Head of Research Services March 14, 2022The Rose Library is thrilled to announce Gabrielle M. Dudley as the Library’s new Head of Research Services. Gabrielle is a familiar face around Emory Libraries and needs no introduction to many of our faculty, students, and regular researchers; she has been serving as Instruction Archivist here in the Rose since 2014 and before that...Erin Glogowski