Center for Afroamerican and African Studies (University of Michigan) records 1966-2010 1970-1994

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Center for Afroamerican and African Studies (University of Michigan) records 1966-2010 1970-1994

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This record group pertains to the University of Michigan Center for Afroamerican and African Studies and to campus, regional, and national organizations devoted to political and civil rights causes from the 1960s to the 1990s. The collection includes print documents, photographs, and audio-visual material that document racial harassment incidents, political protests, scholarly conferences and symposia, MLK Day celebrations and black student life on the U-M campus. There are also materials about the civil rights movement of the 1960s and the anti-apartheid and divestment movements of the 1980s.

54 linear feet, 1 oversized folder, and ca. 800 GB

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Bentley Historical Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 6388830

Bentley Historical Library

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Ella Baker-Nelson Mandela Center for Anti-Raicst Education.

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Unitd Coaliton Against Racism (University of Michigan).

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University of Michigan. Center for Afroamerican and African Studies

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The University of Michigan Center for Afroamerican and African Studies (CAAS), was founded in 1970 to be a home for interdisciplinary research, teaching and community outreach. In 2011, CAAS became the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies (DAAS) in the College of Literature Science and the Arts (LSA). CAAS's beginnings are rooted in the era of the modern civil rights and black consciousness movements of the 1960s. Beginning in 1968, following the assassination ...

Black Action Movement (University of Michigan.)

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University of Michigan.

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Outside of museum holdings, no comprehensive survey and inventory of campus artwork had been attempted since 1937. With support from the Michigan Commission on Art in Public Places, 1,076 items were inventoried during 1988-1990. Additional inventory work was undertaken in 1997-1998 for risk management purposed, but generated little new information. From the description of Inventory of University of Michigan-owned art, 1988-1990, 1997-1998. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id...