Emory University has acquired the personal papers of Black Panther Party member, activist, and retired Emory Law faculty member Kathleen Cleaver. The papers, which will reside at Emory’s Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library, span Cleaver’s career and life as an activist, particularly as a member of the Black Panther Party (BPP),…
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Dear John Lewis and Dear CT Vivian
by Karen Garrabrant, senior acquisitions assistant In the wake of the passing of a pair of civil rights icons, John Lewis and C.T. Vivian, the Emory Libraries Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) Committee invites you to share your thoughts about these men and the impact they have had on you. As news of the passing…
New Database: SNCC, CORE, Claude Barnett, and Robert F. Williams Papers in Proquest’s History Vault
Welcome to New Databases! This blog series from the Robert W. Woodruff Library is intended to give you a brief introduction to databases that you may not know and to provide you with some tips to get you started. To explore all of our databases, please visit Emory Library’s databases page Featured database: Proquest’s History Vault, Black Freedom…
And the Struggle Continues: The Southern Christian Leadership Conference’s Fight for Social Change
The exhibition, “And The Struggle Continues: The Southern Christian Leadership Conference’s Fight For Social Change,” which was curated by Carol Anderson, Michael Ra-Shon Hall and Sarah Quigley, is on display now through December 1 in the Schatten Gallery which is located on Level 3 of the Robert W. Woodruff Library. Below is the curator’s statement…
Newsweek Atlanta Bureau Records available
By Laura Carroll, Manuscript Archivist. The Manuscript, Archives and Rare Book Library (MARBL) is pleased to announce the Newsweek Atlanta Bureau records have been processed and are once again available to our researchers. The Atlanta Bureau of Newsweek, inc., was the hub of Newsweek magazine's Southern network. It was established in 1953, with William (Bill)…
Rose Library Blog
- Rose Library awarded Silver Level Green Office Certification! February 12, 2021The Emory University Office of Sustainability Initiatives awarded the Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library their Green Office Certification at the Silver Level for 2020-2021. Rose Library, as it’s more commonly known, is uniquely positioned to develop environmental literacy among those who use our collections as well as our own staff and has already identified justice-centered professional practice as a priority of our work. In meeting...Lolita Rowe
- Correspondence from the Geoffrey Holder and Carmen de Lavallade papers is now open for research February 11, 2021Writers, actors and artists like James Baldwin, Eartha Kitt and Ada “Bricktop” Smith found inspiration, escape and illustrious careers in Paris. It was in a Paris nightclub that composer and piano virtuoso Mary Lou Williams stood up from her piano and retired from music for three years, in search of a more spiritual path (Wilson,...Lolita Rowe
- Disability Justice Past and Present: Theatre, Scholarship, Activism February 10, 2021Emory University and the Folger Institute, with the support of Georgia Humanities, invite students, members of the Emory community and the general public to New Research and Performance Directions in Premodern Disability Studies, a virtual seminar taking place Thursday afternoon through Saturday, 4 – 6 March 2021. Tickets are free and registration is required by...Lolita Rowe
- Emory’s Raymond Danowski Poetry Library Changes Literary History February 5, 2021This March, Dr. Nick Sturm, the NEH Postdoctoral Fellow in Poetics at The Bill and Carol Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry, will lead a “Great Works” seminar series that explores the history and holdings of the Raymond Danowski Poetry Library. Assembled by collector Raymond Danowski over 30 years, the Danowski Poetry Library contains over 75,000...Lolita Rowe
- Rose Library’s collections tie the past and present together: Rabbi Jacob Rothschild & Jon Ossoff January 20, 2021Today Senators Jon Ossoff and Reverend Raphael Warnock will be sworn into office. Ossoff will take the oath of office using Rabbi Jacob Rothschild’s Chumash. Rothschild served as the rabbi for Atlanta’s Reform congregation, the Hebrew Benevolent Congregation, usually referred to as the Temple. The Rothschild papers detail the Rabbi’s friendship with Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. and...Lolita Rowe