Umbra Search wins Award for Access
The national award is from the Center for Research Libraries. Umbra Search African American History has been selected to receive the 2017 Award for Access from the Center for Research Libraries. Umbra Search contains a widely diverse selection of special collections materials delivered simultaneously by numerous institutions, serving their own content withing their own interfaces,…
African Americans in the Ozarks
Missouri State University has the largest collection of materials relating to an oft-neglected Black community.
A Potential Power of Which They Had Little Dreamed
The Woman’s Missionary Council (WMC) of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, learns from African American women
W.E.B. Du Bois’s “The Star of Ethiopia” Part IV
Blake Spitz brings W.E.B. Du Bois’s folk pageant to life.
W.E.B. Du Bois’s “The Star of Ethiopia” Part III
Blake Spitz brings W.E.B. Du Bois’s folk pageant to life.
Givens Collection Open House
Sunday, February 19, 2-4 pm Join us for an open house celebrating African American literature and authors at the Givens Collection of African American Literature on Sunday, February 19, 2-4 pm. RSVP Established in 1986, the Givens Collection is a community resource for collecting, preserving, and making accessible nearly 250 years of works by African…
“Hidden Human Computers” Book Launch
Saturday, January 14, 2017, 10:00-11:30 am Hidden Human Computers, Duchess Harris Hidden Human Computers tells the little-known history of African American women with math and science degrees who worked at NASA in 1943 in secret, segregated facilities. Join Umbra Search for a book launch at the Science Museum of Minnesota that will feature the digital archive…
W.E.B. Du Bois’s “The Star of Ethiopia” Part II
Blake Spitz brings W.E.B. Du Bois’s folk pageant to life.
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