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  • From the Director

    From the Director

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    Madeline Eastergard

    Most of us are aware of the challenges caused by FAFSA, the federal form required for financial aid, which has affected every university in the country this year. Because of Furman’s uncertainty about net tuition revenue for the fall, the University is in the process of realigning our budget to be more fiscally responsible. To meet…

  • Brittany Champion presents at NC Live Conference

    Brittany Champion presents at NC Live Conference

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    Madeline Eastergard

    Brittany N. Champion, Outreach Librarian, presented at the NC Live Conference and Triad Academic Library Association (TALA). Each session supported her research interests and encouraged library personnel to incorporate holistic DEI practices in their daily work. This year’s NC Live Conference theme was the Wellness in Libraries. One of the sessions focused on the incorporation…

  • Ethel Carlisle Southern Scholarship Recipients for 2024

    Ethel Carlisle Southern Scholarship Recipients for 2024

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    Madeline Eastergard

    On behalf of the Southern Scholarship Committee, I am very excited to announce our 2024 Ethel Carlisle Southern Scholarship award winners. Before we get to our lucky recipients, some history and information about the scholarship. The Ethel Carlisle Southern Scholarship was established in 1985 by her husband, J. Albert Southern, and their children, Tom and…

  • BHM #16 – FBI Confidential Files and Radical Politics in the U.S., 1945-1972

    BHM #16 – FBI Confidential Files and Radical Politics in the U.S., 1945-1972

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    Miles Dame

    Under the leadership of J. Edgar Hoover, the FBI vigorously investigated and tracked the activities of Communist groups, Communist-front groups, and other radical organizations in the United States. This module consists of records of the FBI and the Subversive Activities Control Board from 1945-1972. Highlights of this module include J. Edgar Hoover’s office files; documentation…

  • BHM #15 – Race Relations in America

    BHM #15 – Race Relations in America

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    Mary Fairbairn

    Race Relations in America –  This primary source collection from Adam Matthews offers…  Over 100 hours of audio recordings – speeches, panel discussions, dictations of reports, and the narration of the film slideshows ‘Of a New Day Begun’ and ‘Rebirth in Roxbury’  Images organized into thematic galleries such as Arts and Culture, Civil Rights, Education…

  • BHM #13 – The Republic of New Afrika

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    Mary Fairbairn

    The Republic of New Afrika (RNA) was a social movement organization that proposed three objectives: The creation of an independent Black-majority country composed of the states of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, and South Carolina and the Black-majority counties adjacent to this area in Arkansas, Tennessee and Florida. $400 billion in reparations for the injustices suffered…

  • BHM #12 – Africa and the New Imperialism

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    lbaker

    Africa and the New Imperialism,  part of the Adam Matthew collections of primary sources, documents the period of rapid colonial expansion by European powers across the African continent during the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.    From the accounts of missionaries and European explorers navigating the interior of the continent in the early nineteenth century;…

  • BHM #11 – Black Abolitionist Papers

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    lbaker

      Black Abolitionist Papers  –This primary source collection details the extensive work of African Americans to abolish slavery in the United States prior to the Civil War. Covering the period 1830-1865, the collection presents the international impact of African American activism against slavery, in the writings of the activists themselves. The approximately 15,000 articles, documents,…

  • BHM #10 – African American Communities

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    Mary Fairbairn

    African American Communities – Pamphlets, photos, postcards. Political cartoons, illustrations, maps. Scrap books, legal documents, ephemera and more.   This collection, albeit somewhat small, contains a fascinating variety of primary source documents evidencing race relations across social, political, cultural, and religious arenas.   Examining multiple aspects of the lives of African Americans through the lens of…

  • BHM #9 – Civil Rights and Social Justice

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    lbaker

    HeinOnline’s Civil Rights and Social Justice database brings together diverse publications covering civil rights in the United States.   This database is packed with great resources all in one place!  It contains links to scholarly articles, hearings and committee prints, legislative histories on the landmark legislation, CRS and GAO reports, briefs from major Supreme Court cases,…