Southern Historical Collection

07/17/2018

Want to brush up on your "Soul City" knowledge? Check out last year's blog post featuring the , additional resources, and more info about Floyd McKissick's Papers, held here with ! (https://t.co/TXKHSxw2NA)
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This is a finding aid. It is a description of archival material held in the Wilson Library at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Unless otherwise noted, the materials described below are physically available in our reading room, and not digitally available through the World Wide Web. S...

07/11/2018

Retweeted NCPH ():

"Being an archivist doesn’t mean creating a completely perfect collection; it can be recording community stories, and giving attention to overlooked history, with whatever resources you have." https://t.co/4TrujfqmD4

07/06/2018

Perfect timing for : is tomorrow! Last year we created an exhibit about ’s decades of work (https://t.co/mH4xM05qyE) 🌳Featuring music and posters from ! 🦎

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In 1966, a group of concerned citizens led by activists Margaret and Holger Nygard organized against a plan from the City of Durham to dam the Eno River for the city’s drinking water supply. The energy sparked by these initial conservation efforts led to the formation of the Association for the Pr...

07/03/2018

Retweeted Soc Amer Archivists ():

An "Archivist in a Backpack" project from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill equips community partners with tools to start an oral history archives. https://t.co/iAfqRCSQh1

07/03/2018

Retweeted Southern Historical Collection ():

Thanks for helping us spread the word about our project to the greater archival world! The resources we develop are for our communities *and* our colleagues!

ICYMI, we assembled 50 of these mobile kits for Year 2 two weeks ago! https://t.co/gPu5ZT4oUo

07/03/2018

Thanks for helping us spread the word about our project to the greater archival world! The resources we develop are for our communities *and* our colleagues!

ICYMI, we assembled 50 of these mobile kits for Year 2 two weeks ago! https://t.co/gPu5ZT4oUo https://t.co/Ah6uyRwR16

“We’ve started Year 2 of our grant with a bang! 6 team members + 2 hours = 50 mobile kits! 🧳 Today we assembled “Archivist in a Backpack” kits that will be going out to our 4 pilot projects in the coming months 1/?”

06/28/2018

Well said! And a bit more succinct than our list of guiding principles: https://t.co/0Kx78Ghtyh (👈🏾but definitely still read those!)

ICYMI, we assembled 50 of these mobile kits for Year 2 of just last week! https://t.co/gPu5ZT4oUo https://t.co/4iTlQOnOco

Guiding Principles The Southern Historical Collection’s Community-Driven Archives grant supports historically underrepresented history keepers in telling, sharing, and preserving their stories. We do this in a few ways: Project Documentarian Bernetiae Reed captures a family story while visiting SA...

06/22/2018

Retweeted Molly Schwartz ():

My favorite item in the Archive in a Backpack kit is the pack of thank you notes. Stories are a gift 🙏 https://t.co/jJBViMg9j8

06/21/2018

THANK YOU to and for featuring our "Archivist in a Backpack" initiative, funded by 😊
ICYMI, we assembled 50 of these mobile kits for Year 2 just a few days ago! https://t.co/NunOzT5rGC
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06/21/2018

THANK YOU to and for featuring our "Archivist in a Backpack" initiative, funded by 😊
ICYMI, we assembled 50 of these mobile kits for Year 2 just a few days ago!
https://t.co/gPu5ZT4oUo

https://t.co/6tIlhLgwZO

“We’ve started Year 2 of our grant with a bang! 6 team members + 2 hours = 50 mobile kits! 🧳 Today we assembled “Archivist in a Backpack” kits that will be going out to our 4 pilot projects in the coming months 1/?”

06/02/2018

Retweeted Black Communities! ():

Here are some of our favorite tweets from this years Black Communities Conference! ⚡️
https://t.co/FpW6vcnJ9o

06/01/2018

Oops! We really took "lazy days of summer" to heart and nearly forgot about ! (It's that Southern heat!) ☀️
But now is the perfect time to point you to the NC Postcard Collection from our friends !