The vision for the Black Diaspora Archive at The University of Texas at Austin came into focus in 2013 as a collaborative project between Black Studies, LLILAS Benson, and the University of Texas Libraries. After years of continued successful collaboration, Black Studies approached LLILAS Benson with the idea of creating an archive devoted to the Black Diaspora. Since its founding in 1921, the Benson Latin American Collection has actively collected Latin American materials that document communities and people of color, but it had never done so in a planned and dedicated way. Very quickly, leadership Continue reading “Establishing History: The Black Diaspora Archive and the Texas Domestic Slave Trade Project”
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2016 Fall Internship Q & A with Angela Perkins
Angela Perkins served at the BDA’s first Graduate Student Assistant (GRA), and made significant contributions to the processing of the Edmund W. Gordon Papers.
Read about Angela’s experience on the Texas iSchool Information Portal here.