In December of 1967, when nearly 15 percent of all Americans and 40 percent of African Americans lived below the poverty line, Martin Luther King and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) began organizing a national campaign against poverty. The Poor People’s Campaign was to inaugurate a new phase of civil rights extending the struggle […]
A new finding aid is available for the Mary Elsie Fox Photograph collection. This collection came to Special Collections from a donor that discovered the photographs inside of a discarded scrapbook. The photographs remained unprocessed for several years following the donation, but graduate student intern Kate Norman recently processed the collection and created a finding […]
Since January Special Collections and Archives staff have processed a portion of the East German Poster Collection thanks to a grant from the Council on Library and Information Resources. The first series-level finding aid on the political posters is available here. Project assistants Lauren Shutt and Sean Tennant cataloged each poster individually using spreadsheets that […]
