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The D.C. Africana Archives Proj ect: The George Washington University

DCAAP Mission & Vision Mission The mission of t he D.C. Africana Archives Proj ect is t o process and provide access t o collect ions represent ing Africana hist ory in t he Dist rict of Columbia. Vision The sit e part ners affiliat ed wit h t he D.C. Africana Archives Proj ect envision a consort ium of inst it ut ions building research bridges and bringing t oget her scholars, t eachers, cult ural cent ers, and communit ies t o examine Africana life and cult ure.

D.C. Africana Archives Proj ect Partner S ites DCAAP is a grant funded by the Council on Library and Information Resources’s Hidden Collections initiative. DCAAP consists of six institutions: • District of Columbia Archives • D.C. Public Library, MLK, Jr. Memorial Library • Historical S ociety of Washington, D.C. • Moorland-S pingarn Research Center at Howard University • S mithsonian National Museum of American History • S pecial Collections, George Washington University

DCAAP Grant Goals • Process 100-125 collections related to Africana history and culture in Washington, D.C. • Provide access to processed collections to enhance the understanding of the multiple narratives of the history of this region. • Increase the amount of local history presented by teachers in the classroom using the historical narratives in the processed collections. • Attract and inform students of all classifications, K-12 and collegiate, of the significance of Africana history. • Engage communities through public programming and educational outreach.

Unrest Telegram, Civil Disobedience Collection, DC Archives Nat ional Ant i-Imperialist Movement Pin George Murphy, Jr. Collect ion, Moorland Addison S curlock Port rait & Omega Psi Phi Frat ernit y Banquet , Howard Universit y, 1935, Scurlock Studio Collection, Archives Center

Nat ional Alliance Against Racial and Polit ical Repressions, & Afro-American In Ant i-Imperialist S olidarit y wit h Africa, 1970s, George Murphy, Jr. Papers, MS RC Incorporat ion Cert ificat e, Delt a S igma Thet a S ororit y, 1913, DC Archives Arrest of Elenora Davis, November 1955, D.C. Jail Regist er, DC Archives

Mort gage Burning S ervice, Florida Ave. Bapt ist Church, July 1944, S curlock S t udio Collect ion, Archives Cent er, S mit hsonian Capping Class, Freedman’s Hospit al S chool for Nurses, 1946, S curlock S t udio Collect ion, Archives Cent er, S mit hsonian

DCAAP Graduate S tudent Processors • 6-10 graduate students spend 20 hours a week processing collections housed at all six repositories. • Museum S tudies • History • English & Literature • Explore hidden collections in their area of research. • Network with scholars who share similar research interests. • S erve as panelists for local and national conferences.

DCAAP Panelists Biographies • Haley Bryant is current ly in her culminat ing semest er of coursework for her Mast er’s degree in t he depart ment of ant hropology at George Washingt on Universit y. Her concent rat ion is Museum Ant hropology wit h part icular int erest in the collect ion and exhibit ion of Cult ure, cult ural herit age, and archival pract ices. S he has been a processing assist ant wit h DCAAP at t he Moorland-S pingarn Research Cent er for t he last year. • Theodora Danylevich is complet ing her doct orat e in 20 th Cent ury American Lit erat ure and Cult ure in t he English Depart ment at t he George Washingt on Universit y. Working in disabilit y and feminist st udies, her dissert at ion, “ S ick Chick: Reproduct ive Flesh in American Modernit y” considers t he subj ugat ed body as an uncanny reposit ory of cult ural memory. “ S ick Chick” t heorizes t he ways in which violence and harm on t he body are reart iculat ed as polit ical crit ique. • Anton House is a doct oral st udent in Howard Universit y’s Hist ory Depart ment . His concent rat ion is in lat e ninet eent h and t went iet h cent ury Unit ed S t at es Hist ory. Among his areas of concent rat ion are t he Racial Uplift and New Negro Movement s, African American Benevolent , Frat ernal, and Mut ual Aid societ ies, migrat ion and urbanizat ion.