The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education May 10, 2012 Emory University Opens Its Archives of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference<http://www.jbhe.com/2012/05/emory-university-opens-its-archives-of-the-southern-christian-leadership-conference/> The Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library at Emory University in Atlanta, recently has made available to researchers the archives of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. The SCLC was founded in Atlanta in 1957 by a group of civil rights leaders from across the Southeast that included Martin Luther King Jr., Ralph David Abernathy, and Joseph E. Lowery, each of whom also served as president. The organization continues to operate today. The collection, obtained by Emory in 2008, includes 918 boxes of materials documenting the activities of the SCLC from 1968 to 2007. The collection includes administrative files with correspondence, reports, memos, notebooks and meeting minutes, as well as photographs, flyers, and audio and video recordings. Ginger Smith, interim director of the Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library at Emory, said, "Emory is honored to house these records and make them available, with equal access, to researchers of every age and stage of scholarly research, whether that person is a freshman in a history class or an award-winning historian writing another in a series of books on the civil rights movement." SANDRA M. PHOENIX Executive Director HBCU Library Alliance sphoenix@hbculibraries.org<mailto:sphoenix@hbculibraries.org> www.hbculibraries.org<http://www.hbculibraries.org/> 800-999-8558, ext. 4820 404-520-0593 Skype:sandra.phoenix1 1438 West Peachtree Street NW Suite 200 Atlanta, GA 30309 Toll Free: 1.800.999.8558 (Lyrasis) Fax: 404.892.7879 www.lyrasis.org<http://www.lyrasis.org/> Honor the ancestors, honor the children. Register now http://www.hbculibraries.org/html/2012meeting-form.html for the October 21-23, 2012 HBCU Library Alliance 5th Membership Meeting and the Photographic Preservation Pre-Conference in New Orleans, LA. The Pre-Conference and Membership meeting are open to directors and other librarians.