{"id":286,"date":"2019-04-11T14:32:12","date_gmt":"2019-04-11T18:32:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.krieger.jhu.edu\/billie-holiday-project\/?page_id=286"},"modified":"2024-10-24T12:31:38","modified_gmt":"2024-10-24T16:31:38","slug":"baltimore-africana-archives-initiative","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.krieger.jhu.edu\/billie-holiday\/programs\/baltimore-africana-archives-initiative\/","title":{"rendered":"Baltimore Africana Archives Initiative"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Photo credit: John Mayden<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

The Baltimore Africana Archives Initiative has three prongs: (1) building African American historical collections at JHU, (2) establishing a citywide digital network integrating the holdings of local archival repositories, and (3) public exhibition programming. By the year 2030, the Billie Holiday Project for Liberation Arts and The Sheridan Libraries hope to grow at JHU a collection of African American primary sources with a special emphasis on local history and culture that stands unprecedented in Maryland. In collaboration with donors and institutional partners around the city, we are building collections that illuminate the region\u2019s arts, politics, and history\u2014helping to reestablish Baltimore\u2019s central place in the growth and development of the United States in the 19th and 20th centuries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Recent acquisitions include the John Clark Mayden Collection\u2014100 of his important urban Baltimore photographs shot between 1974 and 2012\u2014the Ethel Ennis and Earl Arnett Collection, and the William Worthy Papers. Other acquisitions in progress include the Melvin Brown Papers and Hoen Printing Company Collection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A Sampling of Africana Archives at Johns Hopkins<\/h2>\n\n\n\n