Vanderbilt-Fisk collaboration profiles careers of highly successful Black women during Depression, Jim Crow era

Raquelle K. Bostow, Mellon postdoctoral scholar at Vanderbilt University, and a team of six undergraduate students from Fisk University have created the digital retrospective “Women of Rosenwald: Curating Social Justice through the Arts (1928-1948).” The exhibit, made possible through the Mellon Partners for Humanities Education program, sheds light on a lesser known part of one of Fisk’s most popular collections—that of the Rosenwald Foundation.  Dr. Bostow worked with our colleague  DeLisa Minor Harris, special collections librarian at Fisk University’s John Hope and Aurelia E. Franklin Library, on the project. Read more…

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