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The D.C. Africana Archives Proj ect: The George Washington - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
The D.C. Africana Archives Proj ect: The George Washington - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
The D.C. Africana Archives Proj ect: The George Washington University DCAAP Mission & Vision Mission The mission of t he D.C. Africana Archives Proj ect is t o process and provide access t o collect ions represent ing Africana hist ory in
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D.C. Africana Archives Proj ect Partner S ites
DCAAP is a grant funded by the Council on Library and Information Resources’s Hidden Collections initiative. DCAAP consists of six institutions:
- District of Columbia Archives
- D.C. Public Library, MLK, Jr. Memorial Library
- Historical S
- ciety of Washington, D.C.
- Moorland-S
pingarn Research Center at Howard University
- S
mithsonian National Museum of American History
- S
pecial Collections, George Washington University
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DCAAP Grant Goals
- Process 100-125 collections related to Africana history and culture
in Washington, D.C.
- Provide access to processed collections to enhance the
understanding of the multiple narratives of the history of this region.
- Increase the amount of local history presented by teachers in the
classroom using the historical narratives in the processed collections.
- Attract and inform students of all classifications, K-12 and
collegiate, of the significance of Africana history.
- Engage communities through public programming and educational
- utreach.
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Unrest Telegram, Civil Disobedience Collection, DC Archives
Nat ional Ant i-Imperialist Movement Pin George Murphy, Jr. Collect ion, Moorland Addison S curlock Port rait & Omega Psi Phi Frat ernit y Banquet , Howard Universit y, 1935, Scurlock Studio Collection, Archives Center
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Nat ional Alliance Against Racial and Polit ical Repressions, & Afro-American In Ant i-Imperialist S
- lidarit y wit h Africa, 1970s, George Murphy, Jr. Papers, MS
RC Incorporat ion Cert ificat e, Delt a S igma Thet a S
- rorit y, 1913, DC Archives
Arrest of Elenora Davis, November 1955, D.C. Jail Regist er, DC Archives
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Mort gage Burning S ervice, Florida Ave. Bapt ist Church, July 1944, S curlock S t udio Collect ion, Archives Cent er, S mit hsonian Capping Class, Freedman’s Hospit al S chool for Nurses, 1946, S curlock S t udio Collect ion, Archives Cent er, S mit hsonian
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DCAAP Graduate S tudent Processors
- 6-10 graduate students spend 20 hours a week processing
collections housed at all six repositories.
- Museum S
tudies
- History
- English & Literature
- Explore hidden collections in their area of research.
- Network with scholars who share similar research interests.
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erve as panelists for local and national conferences.
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DCAAP Panelists Biographies
- Haley Bryant is current ly in her culminat ing semest er of coursework for her Mast er’s degree
in t he depart ment of ant hropology at George Washingt on Universit y. Her concent rat ion is Museum Ant hropology wit h part icular int erest in the collect ion and exhibit ion of Cult ure, cult ural herit age, and archival pract ices. S he has been a processing assist ant wit h DCAAP at t he Moorland-S pingarn Research Cent er for t he last year.
- Theodora Danylevich is complet ing her doct orat e in 20th Cent ury American Lit erat ure and
Cult ure in t he English Depart ment at t he George Washingt on Universit y. Working in disabilit y and feminist st udies, her dissert at ion, “ S ick Chick: Reproduct ive Flesh in American Modernit y” considers t he subj ugat ed body as an uncanny reposit ory of cult ural memory. “ S ick Chick” t heorizes t he ways in which violence and harm on t he body are reart iculat ed as polit ical crit ique.
- Anton House is a doct oral st udent in Howard Universit y’s Hist ory Depart ment . His