We're excited to welcome Amistad Research Center to the LDL! In this Member Highlight, Christopher Harter, Deputy Director, tells us about their content and goals.
- What types of content do you plan to add to the LDL?
Our content will vary across a variety of formats (photographic, audiovisual, manuscripts, etc), but the LDL is an important platform for us to especially share audiovisual materials, including oral histories.
- What item are you most excited about adding?
One of our first contributions will be the Ed Pincus collection, which includes 35-mm film outtakes from a 1960s civil rights documentary on Natchez, Mississippi.
- Do you have a specific audience/group that you think will be most excited to access your content?
As a community-facing archive, our audience includes not only academic affiliates, but K-12 students and educators, the media and filmmakers, genealogists, and the general community. However, we are especially excited to increase our outreach to middle and high school education by integrating our LDL collections into our online educational platform, Amistad on the Go!
- Do you see your institution as filling a particular gap in the LDL?
With a mission to collect, preserve, and provide access to materials that reference the social and cultural contributions of ethnic communities in the United States, civil rights, and social justice, ARC hopes to provide avenues for increasing voices of underrepresented communities and individuals as a way to strengthen the diversity of the LDL.
We're very excited to see all the great material that ARC will add, and we welcome the opportunity to diversify the representation in the LDL!
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