Black History at Duke University

Duke University Departments and Offices:

• African and African American Studies
• Center for Multicultural Affairs
• Mary Lou Williams Center for Black Culture

Duke University Student Organizations:

• Black Student Alliance
• Black Graduate and Professional Student Association
• Black & Latino MBA Organization (Fuqua School of Business)
• Black Law Students Association (Duke University School of Law)

Research Resources:

• African Americans in Durham: a research guide to manuscript and archival collections in the John Hope Franklin Research Center for African and African American History and Culture. Many of the collections listed here have a Duke University connection.

• Black History at Duke Health: a research guide to manuscript and archival collections at the Duke University Medical Center Archives.

• Durham Civil Rights Heritage Project: Created by the North Carolina Collection at the Durham County Library, the Durham Civil Rights Heritage Project focuses on collecting photographs and stories about the Civil Rights Movement in Durham. Oral histories of Durham’s civil rights era have also been gathered by the project.

Please let us know about other relevant online resources that we should add to this list!