Archives & Special Collections holds many materials that represent the history of Black Studies at Ohio University.
The Black Studies Institute graduated its first undergraduate, Curtis Richardson, in 1971. The center was subsequently renamed the African American Studies Institute and later, department. The African American Studies Department today remains one of a few such programs with departmental status in the state of Ohio.
This guide serves as a repository for multiple sources of information, scholarship, and the tools to help strengthen and deepen research.
The focus of the guide is to gather content that reflects the African American experience, but the African American experience is not one moment in time and multiple disciplines and sources of information are needed to see the big picture.
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Great place to start when looking for information; some entries are packed with excellent further resources. Just a good place to start when investigating.