UNCG University Libraries received more than $200,000 in grant funding from the State Library of North Carolina to help preserve African American history. The grants are for projects that promote community engagement, provide equitable access, or support responsive organizations. The Digital Library on American Slavery at UNCG was awarded $113,442 to expand its “People Not Property – Slave Deeds” effort….
Category: African American History and Culture
God’s Trombones: African American Cadences and Culture
“I’ll Make Me a World”: James Weldon Johnson’s God’s Trombones in the African American Poetic Tradition Exhibit by Noelle Morrissette will be on display in the Hodges Reading Room of UNCG Special Collections and University Archives on the second floor of Jackson Library March 12-16, 2018, from 9 am – 5 pm. The exhibit is…
Spring 2018 Diversity Lecture Will Feature Randall Burkett
Please join us on March 15, 2018 at 10 a.m. for “Books, Boxes and Bangles: Building Research Collections in African American History and Culture,” by Randall Burkett. The event will be held in the Hodges Reading Room of Jackson Library on the second floor. Randall Burkett started collecting books to support his research on Marcus Garvey…