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…
Posts Tagged: civil rights
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
- Lift Every Voice 2020: The Vision of Dr. Pellom McDaniels III June 19, 2020As the Curator of African American Collections at Emory’s Rose Library, Dr. Pellom McDaniels III worked to bring these collections to the public in order to highlight the lives and contributions of African Americans. A year-long project, Lift Every Voice 2020 began with his idea that Reconstruction was “a time of great possibility” for African...Lolita Rowe
- Rose Library Statement of Solidarity June 4, 2020The Rose Library stands with our community, our campus, and our nation in mourning the violent loss of the lives of Ahmaud Arbery, George Floyd, Tony McDade, Breonna Taylor, and so many others. Following the inspirational vision of our African American Studies department, we collect the records of Black Lives. Black Lives Matter. Black Lives...Courtney E. Chartier
- Born Digital: From Kilobytes to Terabytes Virtual Exhibit Walkthrough: Behind the Scenes/Preserving Your Born Digital Materials: (Case 4) May 4, 2020Hello, and welcome to the final post of our Virtual Exhibit Walkthrough! Due to COVID-19 and Rose Library being closed, we’ve decided to do a virtual walk-through of our current exhibit, Born Digital: From Kilobytes to Terabytes. For a more in-depth “tour,” see below for up-close photographs and exhibit text. Be sure to click through photographs of each case...Lolita Rowe
- Nikki Giovanni is Amazing! Two New Videos April 30, 2020Even though National Poetry Month ends today, we hope these new videos featuring the indelible poet Nikki Giovanni will linger with you long after. Both were created this February, when Ms. Giovanni visited Emory’s campus for several wonderful days, during which time she met with Emory students for a Q&A in conversation with Professor Jericho...Lolita Rowe
- Emory Wheel Now Available Digitally to the Emory Community April 28, 2020Back issues of the Emory Wheel held in the University Archives are now available digitally to the Emory community via the Emory Digital Gallery. Anyone with an Emory Network ID can login and access the resource. The digitized version of the Wheel covers 1919 through 2009 and is digitized from the original newsprint version of...Lolita Rowe