Immigration, Migration, and the Transformation of the African-American Community in the 20th and 21st Centuries

FAIN: ES-50586-14

New York Public Library (New York, NY 10016-0109)
Deirdre Lynn Hollman (Project Director: March 2014 to September 2016)

A three-week institute for thirty school teachers on black migration and immigration in twentieth- and twenty-first-century North America.

The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, a division of The New York Public Library, proposes to commemorate the 50th Anniversary of the Immigration Act (1965) by developing an interactive three week summer institute of scholarship that will explore the dynamic legacy of black migration and immigration in North America through history, culture, literature and digital media. The proposed project will foster a community of intellectual discovery that will link teaching and research in the humanities to support the professional development of school teachers in the classroom. As the world’s leading archive on the global black experience, the Schomburg Center will work with leading historians, scholars, and institutional partners to provide participants with a comprehensive intellectual experience to enhance their teaching of American history, from 1600 to today, with broad footing in all aspects of the humanities.