Appendix 16 of the Task Force on Racial and Ethnic Concerns, also known as Project 87.
Local Charlotte-Mecklenburg School Systems K-12 teacher gives presentation about oral history pedagogy at the Davidson Summer Institute.
Jethro Rumple, class of 1850, reflects on life in Davidson in the 1840s. Later in the document, Rumple discusses the work of Esom, the college president's "body servant."
This is the third page of an edition of the Rainbow Revue, a newsletter from the Black Student Coalition. Note the reference to the Task Force on Racial and Ethnic Concerns.
A selection from a July 1863 sermon delivered by Rev. Robert Zenas Johnston. Note the language used at the height of the Civil War.
Archives prepares for a debrief session after the student-led campus history tour, Davidson Disorientation.
Typescript of a January 7, 1864 letter by Mary Gibson describing the purchase of enslaved people in the Carolinas during the Civil War.
A selection of puzzles, promotional postcards, and memory matching games made of photographs from the Archives for Town Day in 2018.
The Justice, Equality, Community (JEC) grant was a three-year, campus-wide initiative to support increased transdisciplinary engagement with issues of race, gender, religion, and social justice across the humanities at Davidson College between 2017 and 2020.
The grant focused on redesigning curricular development, enriching student learning, deepening equitable community ties, and increasing access to local history resources through four main funding categories:
The archives portion of the JEC grant primarily led the digitization and development of digital “archival resources related to research and teaching in justice, equality, community beginning with the issues of race and religion” with the goal of inspiring original research, critical dialogs, and community partnerships.
To accomplish this, the archives was given four main tasks:
