Colleagues,

Want to send congratulations to Juanita and Dana for a job well done.

Tuskegee University News
February 23, 2016
The Smithsonian unites with Tuskegee University to preserve Civil Rights
icon’s legacy

By honoring the importance of our past, Tuskegee University has become
part of one of the most anticipated African-American museum projects in
U.S. history. The Smithsonian Institution National Museum of African
American History and Culture will collaborate with the Tuskegee University
Archives to preserve and share significant parts of the nation’s Civil
Rights Era with the world.

According to its website: “The National Museum of African American History
and Culture was established in 2003 by an Act of Congress, making it the
19th Smithsonian Institution museum. It is the only national museum devoted
exclusively to the documentation of African American life, art, history,
and culture.” The museum is scheduled to open September 24. The Tuskegee
University Archives has a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the museum
that will support several vital projects, including digitization of
materials, lectures and education workshops.

For the first phase of the MOU, the museum has given $25,000 to the
university to process and preserve the legacy of Tuskegee alumna and
activist Amelia Boynton Robinson. Best known as the brutally beaten woman
in the iconic photo of the 1965 “Bloody Sunday” civil rights march,
Robinson donated her personal memorabilia collection to the archives before
her death in 2015. The collection consists of approximately 3,000 items
including several individual pictures and photo albums. Additionally, the
donation includes artwork, awards, audio and video tapes, books,
correspondence and documents and photos that poignantly highlight
Robinson’s later activities as a civil and human rights advocate and
provide insight into a complicated period in America’s history.

"This working agreement with the Smithsonian will aid in promoting
Tuskegee University's historical legacy to people throughout the nation and
world," said Dana Chandler, university archivist.

More to come

This partnership’s projects will be financed under the museum’s Office of
Community and Constituent Services. Its mission is to develop the museum’s
constituent and peer organization services and programs and collaborate
with existing networks that give the museum visibility outside of
Washington, D.C. The MOU with the university will help the general public
and scholars, along with other museums and archives, access the Robinson
collection. The archives are a division of the Tuskegee Library Services
and the agreement will bolster the services’ outreach efforts to provide
helpful materials to the public and academic community.

“Library Services is excited about this opportunity to expand our reach,”
said Juanita Roberts, director of Tuskegee Library Services.

*Other projects incorporated in the MOU: *

- Digitization of materials in the entire Tuskegee University Archives
pertinent to the Civil Rights Movement and placement on a common website
available to researchers worldwide. This “Consortium on Digital Resources
for Teaching and Research” site will provide researchers an opportunity to
study these materials to conduct research, create dialogues, and publish
books and articles that will provide new insight into the Civil Rights
Movement.
- An on-site workshop in Fall 2016 to introduce Tuskegee University’s
researchers and academic staff to the Civil Rights material in the Tuskegee
University Archives.
- A Civil Rights symposium at Tuskegee University with prominent Civil
Rights historians. The symposium will be held in early April 2018, in
commemoration of the assassination of Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.

For more about the Tuskegee University Archives, click here
http://www.tuskegee.edu/libraries/archives.aspx.

Mantra Henderson, MLIS

Director of Library Services

James H. White Library

Mississippi Valley State University

14000 Hwy 82 W MVSU 5232

Itta Bena, MS 38941

662-254-3494 (phone)

662-254-3499 (fax)

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This is very exciting!! Congratulations to Tuskegee!  Congratulations
Juanita.

Don't forget to tell them about the HBCU Lubrary Alliance.

Loretta Parham
AUC Woodruff Library

On Mar 24, 2016, at 8:22 AM, Mantra L Henderson mlhenderson@mvsu.edu
wrote:

Colleagues,

Want to send congratulations to Juanita and Dana for a job well done.

Tuskegee University News
February 23, 2016
The Smithsonian unites with Tuskegee University to preserve Civil Rights
icon’s legacy

By honoring the importance of our past, Tuskegee University has become
part of one of the most anticipated African-American museum projects in
U.S. history. The Smithsonian Institution National Museum of African
American History and Culture will collaborate with the Tuskegee University
Archives to preserve and share significant parts of the nation’s Civil
Rights Era with the world.

According to its website: “The National Museum of African American History
and Culture was established in 2003 by an Act of Congress, making it the
19th Smithsonian Institution museum. It is the only national museum devoted
exclusively to the documentation of African American life, art, history,
and culture.” The museum is scheduled to open September 24. The Tuskegee
University Archives has a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the museum
that will support several vital projects, including digitization of
materials, lectures and education workshops.

For the first phase of the MOU, the museum has given $25,000 to the
university to process and preserve the legacy of Tuskegee alumna and
activist Amelia Boynton Robinson. Best known as the brutally beaten woman
in the iconic photo of the 1965 “Bloody Sunday” civil rights march,
Robinson donated her personal memorabilia collection to the archives before
her death in 2015. The collection consists of approximately 3,000 items
including several individual pictures and photo albums. Additionally, the
donation includes artwork, awards, audio and video tapes, books,
correspondence and documents and photos that poignantly highlight
Robinson’s later activities as a civil and human rights advocate and
provide insight into a complicated period in America’s history.

"This working agreement with the Smithsonian will aid in promoting
Tuskegee University's historical legacy to people throughout the nation and
world," said Dana Chandler, university archivist.

More to come

This partnership’s projects will be financed under the museum’s Office of
Community and Constituent Services. Its mission is to develop the museum’s
constituent and peer organization services and programs and collaborate
with existing networks that give the museum visibility outside of
Washington, D.C. The MOU with the university will help the general public
and scholars, along with other museums and archives, access the Robinson
collection. The archives are a division of the Tuskegee Library Services
and the agreement will bolster the services’ outreach efforts to provide
helpful materials to the public and academic community.

“Library Services is excited about this opportunity to expand our reach,”
said Juanita Roberts, director of Tuskegee Library Services.

*Other projects incorporated in the MOU: *

- Digitization of materials in the entire Tuskegee University Archives
pertinent to the Civil Rights Movement and placement on a common website
available to researchers worldwide. This “Consortium on Digital Resources
for Teaching and Research” site will provide researchers an opportunity to
study these materials to conduct research, create dialogues, and publish
books and articles that will provide new insight into the Civil Rights
Movement.
- An on-site workshop in Fall 2016 to introduce Tuskegee University’s
researchers and academic staff to the Civil Rights material in the Tuskegee
University Archives.
- A Civil Rights symposium at Tuskegee University with prominent Civil
Rights historians. The symposium will be held in early April 2018, in
commemoration of the assassination of Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.

For more about the Tuskegee University Archives, click here
http://www.tuskegee.edu/libraries/archives.aspx.

Mantra Henderson, MLIS

Director of Library Services

James H. White Library

Mississippi Valley State University

14000 Hwy 82 W MVSU 5232

Itta Bena, MS 38941

662-254-3494 (phone)

662-254-3499 (fax)

HBCU-LibAdmin mailing list
HBCU-LibAdmin@lists.hbculibraries.org
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