The third offering in the Historic Preservation & Black Atlanta Atlanta series is Preserving African American Cultural Patrimony. Event includes reception. For information, please visit this link.

Of the comparatively few African American libraries and archival repositories in the country, Atlanta is home to five—Atlanta University Center’s Robert W. Woodruff Library, the Auburn Avenue Research Library on African American Culture and History, Spelman College Archives, Emory University’s Rose Library; and Georgia State University’s Music and Popular Culture Archives. This event will focus on the important roles these institutions play in collecting, preserving, and interpreting Atlanta’s African American cultural history and ephemera.

Guest Speaker: La’Neice Littleton, Ph.D.

Panelists: 

• Kayla Siddell, Ph.D., Associate Library Director, Robert W. Woodruff Library

• Victor Simmons, Administrator, Auburn Avenue Research Library

• Holly A. Smith, College Archivist, Spelman College

• N’Kosi Oates, Ph.D., Curator of African American Collections, Rose Library, Emory University

• Brittany Newberry, Music and Popular Culture Archivist, Georgia State University