Dates
- Creation: 1907-1973
Language of Materials
English
Extent
584.32 GigabytesBiographical / Historical
The Black Teacher Archive (BTA) began as an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation awarded grant co-principally investigated by Dr. Jarvis Givens of Harvard Graduate School of Education and Dr. Imani Perry of Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences. In fall 2020, the co-pi's hired Micha Broadnax to serve as the Project Manager. The Black Teacher Archive is a post-custodial digital collection initiative. The items is this collection are largely in the custodianship of non-Harvard repositories. With over 65 contributing repositories, the Black Teacher Archive seeks to create a centralized access point to review items created by Black educator organizations. The BTA has required the assistance and enlistment of local expertise:
In Gutman Library - Carla Lillvik, Rebecca Martin, Alex R. Hodges, Lindsay Whitacre, Carol Ketner, Te-Yi Lee, and Myanne Krivoshey.
In Harvard Imaging Services - Mingtao Zhao, Bill Comstock, Maggie E. Hale, Robert Heintz, Katherine Sweeney, and David Remington.
Across Harvard Library - Vanessa Venti, Robin Wendler, Michael Vandermillen, Kate Bowers, and Jennifer Weintraub.
Research Assistants- Abigail Goldstein, MarQuis Bullock, Farah Afify, and Luna Pham.
About Colored Teacher Associations: Colored Teacher Associations (CTAs) are a historical reference to Black educator organizations in the United States that began forming prior to the Civil War, and a national body of these organizations formed in 1903. These organizations primarily in southern and bordering states, began to publish journals at the national and state levels in the 1920s. Colored Teacher Associations were the primary professional organizations for African American teachers in the 20th century United States, and they were essential to the political, intellectual, and cultural terrain of the black civil rights struggle during this era.
Arrangement
This is a digital post-custodial collection that has been arranged according to the alphabetical order of the state and then dates for publications within the state.
Existence and Location of Originals
As a post-custodial project, the physical existence of these publications are primarily in non-Harvard repositories. These items appear in general library collections, manuscript collections, and rare book and special collections.
The following are the contributing (owning) repositories of items in the Black Teacher Archive:
Allen County Public Library
Amistad Research Center
Arkansas State Archives
Auburn Avenue Research Library
Auburn University Libraries
Berea College Special Collections and Archives
Center for Research Libraries
David M. Rubenstein Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Duke University
William & Mary Libraries
Kiplinger Research Library, DC History Center
Charles C. Sherrod Library, East Tennessee State University
Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library, Emory University
John Hope and Aurelia E. Franklin Library, Fisk University
Meeks-Eaton Black Archives, Florida A&M University
Henry A. Hunt Memorial Library, Fort Valley State University
Gelman Library, George Washington University
Georgia State University Library
Al-Tony Gilmore Private Collection
Monroe C. Gutman Library, Harvard University
Mother Abrams Library and Museum
Monroe C. Gutman Library, Harvard University
Historic New Orleans Collection
Milner Library, Illinois State University
H.T. Sampson Library, Jackson State University
Sheridan Libraries, Johns Hopkins University
Paul G. Blazer Library, Kentucky State University
Library of Virginia
Inman E. Page Library, Lincoln University
Hill Memorial Library, Louisiana State University
Margaret Walker Center, Jackson State University
Mississippi State University Libraries
Lyman Beecher Brooks Library, Norfolk State University
W. Frank Steely Library, Northern Kentucky University
Oklahoma Historical Society
John B. Coleman Library, Prairie View A&M University
Samford University Library
Schomburg Center for Black Research, New York Public Library
St.Louis Public Library
Stanford Libraries
State Archives of Florida
State Historical Society of Missouri
Tennessee State Library and Archives
Brown-Daniel Library, Tennessee State University
University of Southern Mississippi University Libraries
Tulane University Libraries
Benson Latin American Collection, University of Texas at Austin
Briscoe Center for American History, University of Texas at Austin
W.S. Hoole Special Collections Library, the University of Alabama
University of Arkansas Libraries
University at Buffalo Libraries
The University of Chicago Library
George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida
University of Georgia Libraries
University of Kentucky Libraries
University of Louisville Libraries
University of Mississippi Libraries
Wilson Library, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
University of North Texas Libraries
University of Oregon Libraries
South Caroliniana Library, University of South Carolina
Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia
Libraries at West Virginia University
Drain-Jordan Library, West Virginia State University
West Virginia Department of Arts, Culture, and History
Widener Library, Harvard University
Ida Jane Dacus Library, Winthrop University
Wisconsin Historical Society
Beinecke Library, Yale University
- Title
- The Black Teacher Archive
- Status
- in_progress
- Author
- Micha Broadnax
- Date
- June 2023
- Language of description
- und
- EAD ID
- GUT50000
Repository Details
Part of the Monroe C. Gutman Library, Harvard Graduate School of Education, Harvard University Repository
Monroe C. Gutman Library
6 Appian Way
Cambridge MA 02138 United States
special_collections@gse.harvard.edu