Library Blog

By Laura J. Thomson, Director of Processing

"Working for Freedom: Documenting Civil Rights Organizations" is a collaborative project between Emory University's Manuscript, Archives and Rare Book Library, The Auburn Avenue Research Library on African American Culture and History, The Amistad Research Center at Tulane University, and The Robert W. Woodruff Library of Atlanta University Center to uncover and make available previously hidden collections documenting the Civil Rights Movement in Atlanta and New Orleans. The project is administered by the Council on Library and Information Resources with funds from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Each organization regularly contributes blog posts about their progress.

Last month’s blog entry for the Amistad Research Center highlighted the collection of oral history interviews with Andrew Young in the Tom Dent Papers. The final processing of the entire audiovisual holdings in the Dent Papers and the posting of this information in the ">online finding aid has just been completed and the reality of the breath and scope of Dent’s pursuit of documenting the modern Civil Rights Movement has now been revealed. Thanks to the grant that Amistad received from the Council on Library and Information Resources, the Center’s creation of its online finding aid database is allowing the Center to reveal its rich, yet previously hidden holdings, on the Civil Rights Movement.

By Ricardo Gutiérrez-Mouat, Department of Spanish & Portuguese and Director, LACS Program

October 8, 2010

In 1962 a novel called La ciudad y los perros won the Biblioteca Breve Prize sponsored by the editors of Seix Barral, the most dynamic publishing house in Spain at that time. The novel, in which the “perros” of the title does not refer to actual dogs but to the cadets of a military school in Lima, Perú (in English it was translated as The Time of the Hero), brought to prominence a theretofore little-known Peruvian writer who by then was living in Paris, and launched the Boom of the Latin American novel.

Brockelmann Online consists of both original print volumes of Geschichte der arabischen Litteratur (GAL) by Carl Brockelmann (1868-1956), as well as the three supplement volumes, including the indexes. It is full-text searchable. The “Brockelmann” has become an indispensible research tool for the Islamic world in general and the Middle East in particular.

DiscoverE will undergo maintenance over Fall Break, Oct. 10-13.

Anything saved to your e-Shelf during this time period will be lost.

We apologize for any inconvenience.

by Rebecca Sherman, Graduate Processing Assistant, Southern Christian Leaderhip Conference records, MARBL

"Working for Freedom: Documenting Civil Rights Organizations" is a collaborative project between Emory University's Manuscript, Archives and Rare Book Library, The Auburn Avenue Research Library on African American Culture and History, The Amistad Research Center at Tulane University, and The Robert W. Woodruff Library of Atlanta University Center to uncover and make available previously hidden collections documenting the Civil Rights Movement in Atlanta and New Orleans. The project is administered by the Council on Library and Information Resources with funds from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Each organization regularly contributes blog posts about their progress.

SCLC began airing Martin Luther King Speaks, a weekly thirty minute radio program, in early 1967.  The program, which initially aired speeches and sermons by Martin Luther King, Jr., was an innovative expansion of SCLC’s public relations efforts.  Following the assassination of King in April 1968, SCLC continued to broadcast the program.  The leadership of SCLC used MLK Speaks as a platform for publicizing campaigns and direct action efforts, with Ralph David Abernathy, Andrew J. Young, and other staff members frequently appearing on the air. 

Nearly 200,000 books and bound journals were moved to the storage library this summer to allow expansion of MARBL to the ninth floor, and a team of student assistants worked to ensure that these items, multi-volume monograph and serial sets in particular, were fully described in the catalog.  As mentioned in an earlier post reporting other enhancements to EUCLID, catalog records for items moved to storage had to be analyzed one by one to see if there were electronic access to all or part

By Alison Hughes, Archival Assistant, Voter Education Project Collection, Robert W. Woodruff Library of Atlanta University Center

"Working for Freedom: Documenting Civil Rights Organizations" is a collaborative project between Emory University's Manuscript, Archives and Rare Book Library, The Auburn Avenue Research Library on African American Culture and History, The Amistad Research Center at Tulane University, and The Robert W. Woodruff Library of Atlanta University Center to uncover and make available previously hidden collections documenting the Civil Rights Movement in Atlanta and New Orleans. The project is administered by the Council on Library and Information Resources with funds from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Each organization regularly contributes blog posts about their progress.

John Lewis became a Civil Rights leader during his college days. As a student of Fisk University, Lewis organized his first sit-in in 1960. The next year Lewis became one of the first participants in the CORE sponsored Freedom Ride. He was one of the first to be attacked when the bus reached Rock Hill, SC and then again when he reached Montgomery, AL. When the bus arrived at in Jackson, Mississippi, Lewis was arrested and sent to Parchman State Penitentiary.