Posts by Allison Hughes

Interview with Zakiya Collier, Schomburg’s Digital Archivist

 by Allison Hughes, Archivist, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
September 16, 2021
Zakiya Collier is the first-ever Digital Archivist at the Schomburg Center. Her work is particularly focused on developing the #SchomburgSyllabus—an effort to document the #hashtag movement with a collection of public and often crowdsourced online syllabi and reading lists. 
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Witness to History: Lawrence Reddick's Crusade to Document the Black 20th Century

 by Allison Hughes, Archivist, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
September 16, 2021
Reddick, a Schomburg curator in the 1940s, devoted his career to documenting the Black experience during World War II and the civil rights movement through letters, documents and ephemera to ensure it wasn't "erased from mainstream narratives."
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