African Activist Archive Project
The African Activist Archive Project is building an online archive of primary materials - documents, photographs, artifacts, and written and oral memories - of 50 years of activist organizing in the United States in solidarity with African struggles against colonialism, apartheid, and injustice. This is a "people's archive" focused primarily on local organizations in the U.S. that supported African struggles against colonialism and white minority rule. We also include materials from national organizations that provided research, educational and organizing materials, and some reporting about these local community and campus groups.
The U.S. African solidarity movement was racially...
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The U.S. African solidarity movement was racially...
Collection Policy
The African Activist Archive Project's approach to preserving collections of materials and selecting material for posting on the website is based on the project's mission. Our purpose is to preserve and make freely accessible to the public multimedia materials that reveal the history of people in local groups across the United States that took action in solidarity with struggles against colonialism, apartheid, and social injustice in Africa during the second half of the 20th century.
Guidelines for choosing collections, selecting items from them, and digitizing objects for preservation and access reflect several unusual characteristics of this archival project.
Collections:...
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Guidelines for choosing collections, selecting items from them, and digitizing objects for preservation and access reflect several unusual characteristics of this archival project.
Collections:...
Michigan State University Project Partners
The African Activist Archive Project is cosponsored by the African Studies Center and Matrix: The Center for Digital Humanities and Social Sciences at Michigan State University, which have cooperated on projects about Africa for more than a decade.
Established in 1960, the African Studies Center at Michigan State University is a Title VI National Resource Center on Africa designated by the U.S. Department of Education, with 160 faculty across the university and offering graduate students the opportunity to learn 30 African...
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Established in 1960, the African Studies Center at Michigan State University is a Title VI National Resource Center on Africa designated by the U.S. Department of Education, with 160 faculty across the university and offering graduate students the opportunity to learn 30 African...
Project Staff and Advisory Committee
Richard Knight, Consulting Project Director
Jamie Monson, Principal Investigator, African Studies Center
Christine Root, MSU Project Manager, African Activist Archive
Project Advisory Committee
Marsha Bonner
Prexy Nesbitt
Kathleen Sheldon
David Wiley
Biographies of Staff and Advisory Committee members
Richard Knight, Consulting Project Director
Richard Knight has been active for more than 30 years in the U.S. movement in solidarity with African struggles and has been working to build the African Activist Archive since its inception in 2003. From 1975-2001, Knight worked...
Acknowledgements
We thank the many people who have provided documents, photographs, audio and video materials, physical artifacts, written remembrances, and interviews for inclusion in this online archive. These individuals are identified on the webpages of these objects.
We gratefully acknowledge the generous financial support to the African Activist Archive Project from numerous individual contributors and the following:
Community Church of New York, Unitarian Universalist
Communication Workers of America Local 1180
DJB Foundation
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America
Ford Foundation
Hartford Memorial Baptist Church
Marin Community Foundation
Normandie...
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We gratefully acknowledge the generous financial support to the African Activist Archive Project from numerous individual contributors and the following:
Community Church of New York, Unitarian Universalist
Communication Workers of America Local 1180
DJB Foundation
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America
Ford Foundation
Hartford Memorial Baptist Church
Marin Community Foundation
Normandie...
Contact
Richard Knight
Consulting Project Director, African Activist Archive
521 West 122nd St., Suite 61
New York, NY 10027
rvknight@earthlink.net
Telephone: (646) 684-1405
Christine Root
MSU Project Manager, African Activist Archive
rootc@msu.edu
Telephone: (517) 332-0333