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The William Miles Collection
Jun 6, 2013
The Washington University Film and Media Archive is home to the William Miles Collection

Black Studies in Video
May 3, 2013
75 additional videos added to Black Studies in Video collection

Researching Hip Hop culture
Apr 9, 2013
New collection documents Virginia’s hip-hop history

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS
Mar 7, 2013
The Black Metropolis Research Consortium 2013 Short-Term Summer Fellowships in African-American Studies

New Digital Acquisitions
Feb 11, 2013
Three new African American Studies primary source collections added at U of I Library

Maya Angelou Papers Acquired

Oct 27, 2010

By FELICIA R. LEE (Source: New York Times, October 26, 2010, <http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/27/arts/design/27archive.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss>)


[A] total of 343 boxes containing her personal papers and documents - have been acquired by the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. The trove has notes for Ms. Angelou's autobiography, "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings"; a 1982 telegram from Coretta Scott King asking her to join a celebration at the King Center; fan mail; and personal and professional correspondence with Gordon Parks, Chester Himes, Abbey Lincoln and her longtime editor, Robert Loomis.