Thadious M. Davis, Geraldine R. Segal Professor of American Social Thought and Professor of English at the Univeristy of Pennsylvania, received her Ph.D. from Boston University.
Created by the students of “African American Theater” in the spring of 2013, this web exhibition was borne of a desire to explore different modes of writing, to make use of the amazing resources in black theater held by the Beinecke Library at Yale University, and to share those resources as a work of public scholarship.
The James Weldon Johnson Memorial Collection is pleased to announce a new digital image guide: Austin Reed, The Life and Adventures of a Haunted Convict, or the Inmate of a Gloomy Prison; an unpublished manuscript, [ca. 1858].
Dr. Khalil Gibran Muhammad, director of The New York Public Library’s Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, will be speaking at Beinecke Library, at 1pm on Mary 1.
The half-hour Yale documentary retracing the trajectory of a rapidly eroding form of congregational singing out of Scotland and into both African American and Native American religious song traditions will be premiered.
The Ella Barksdale Brown Papers document Brown’s life as an educator, suffragist and anti-lynching activist and span the dates 1885-1952 although the bulk of the papers are from 1906-1926.
