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  • Moore’s Ford Bridge Lynching Photo Discovery

    A cache of 32 photographs taken shortly after the 1946 Moore’s Ford Bridge Lynching in Walton County, Georgia has been recently discovered by Tim Crimmins,...
    Topics
    • African American Studies
    • Criminal Justice
    • Faculty Publications and Research
    • For Faculty
    • For Graduate Students
  • Digitization of Labor Photographs Underway!

    The Southern Labor Archives, part of the Special Collections and Archives department of the University Library, has a collection of over 3,000 photographs as a...
    Topics
    • African American Studies
    • Business
    • Communication
    • Economics
    • For Faculty
  • The Usual Subjects: New Subject Librarians!

    The library has subject librarians assigned to each department on campus that provide in-class instruction and help increase your ability to conduct research efficiently and...
    Topics
    • African American Studies
    • Anthropology
    • Business
    • For Faculty
    • For Graduate Students
  • New African Studies Encyclopedia

    Researchers interested in African Studies will want to be aware of this new library resource – The Oxford Encyclopedia of African Thought. This online encyclopedia...
    Topics
    • African American Studies
    • For Faculty
    • For Graduate Students
    • For Students
    • History
  • Religious Studies Faculty Member Receives Fellowship

    Dr. Vincent Lloyd of the Department of Religious Studies has been awarded a James Welden Johnson Institute Visiting Scholars Fellowship.  The fellowship, supported by the...
    Topics
    • African American Studies
    • For Faculty
    • For Graduate Students
    • For Students
    • General
  • Africa during the Cold War

    Are you interested in the history of Africa during the Cold War?  Larry Grubbs, a lecturer in GSU’s History Department, has just published a book...
    Topics
    • African American Studies
    • Books
    • For Faculty
    • General
    • History
  • The “Black Socrates” of the Harlem Renaissance – March 2, 2010

    “Politically, the Negro is the touchstone of the modern democratic idea,” said activist Hubert Harrison, the subject of an upcoming campus lecture by biographer Jeffrey...
    Topics
    • African American Studies
    • For Faculty
    • For Graduate Students
    • For Students
    • General
  • African-American Labor History: The National Domestic Workers Union records

            The National Domestic Workers Union (NDWU) was founded in Atlanta in 1968 by Dorothy Bolden, who wanted to set standards for salaries and benefits...
    Topics
    • African American Studies
    • For Faculty
    • For Graduate Students
    • For Students
    • History
  • African-American Labor History: the Association of Colored Railway Trainmen records

    The Association of Colored Railway Trainmen records (ACTA), 1918-1936, are held by Georgia State University’s Southern Labor Archives and consist of records of the ACTA...
    Topics
    • African American Studies
    • Business
    • For Faculty
    • For Graduate Students
    • For Students
  • African-American Labor History: Oral History Collections in the Southern Labor Archives

    In addition to manuscripts, photographs, and labor union records, the Southern Labor Archives collects oral histories, which preserve first-person accounts of the successes and struggles of...
    Topics
    • African American Studies
    • For Faculty
    • For Graduate Students
    • For Students
    • History