Reference Request
Finding Aids to Official Records of the Smithsonian Institution Archives
Accession 96-121
Smithsonian Institution. Resident Associates Program. African American Studies Center
Records, 1986-1992
Descriptive Entry
This accession consists of program materials for the African American Studies Center in the Smithsonian Resident Associate Program (RAP). Most records are correspondence, memoranda, notes and reports to and from Jacqueline Hicks Grazette, Program Manager, concerning her contacts with African American speakers, entrepreneurs, authors, and local African American Church leaders; local, mostly African American-owned, radio and television stations; Hispanic and African American civic organizations within the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area; mailing lists for Latino and African American professionals; mailing lists for professional organizations such as the National Bar Association, the National Conference of Artists, the National Business League, the Metropolitan Organization of Black Scientists, and the National University Continuing Education Association. Other records include Grazette's lecture notes, minutes of various meetings, copies of the Center's fiscal budgets, proposals for youth activities, newspaper clippings, brochures and membership survey results.
There are also 81 audiocassette tapes, which were taped at various programs such as Black American History Seminar, Angela Davis, Halley's Comet, Black Diaspora, African Diaspora, Black Inventions, Migration to Washington, Bernice Reagon, Black Churches, Afro-American Photographers, Black Presence in Asia, Morgan State Choir, Once Upon a Time, Black Memorabilia, Cross Talk with Jacqueline Grazette, and others.
Records dealing with outreach activities include lists of local black Churches; contacts with organizations such as the Afro-American History and Genealogical Society; the Alexandria Black History Resource Center; the African American Aviators; the International Association of Black Professionals in International Affairs; the African American Museum Association; and Delta Sigma Theta. There is correspondence with other bureaus within the Smithsonian Institution such as the Committee for a Wider Audience; contacts with the Anacostia Museum and the African American Gallery, Columbia, Maryland; contacts with African American-owned newspapers such as Afro-American, and others such as the City Paper and Community News.
Index Terms
This collection is indexed under the following access terms. These are links to collections with related topics, persons or places.
Name
- African American Gallery (Columbia, Maryland)
- African American Museums Association
- Afro-American (Baltimore, Md. : newspaper)
- Afro-American History and Genealogical Society
- Alexandria (Virginia) Black History Resource Center
- Anacostia Museum
- Association of Black Professionals in International Affairs
- Community News (Newspaper)
- Cross Talk (Radio program)
- Davis, Angela E., 1926-1994
- Delta Sigma Theta Sorority
- Grazette, Jacqueline Hicks
- Metropolitan Organization of Black Scientists
- Morgan State University. Choir
- National Bar Association
- National Business League (U.S.)
- National Conference of Artists (U.S.)
- National University Continuing Education Association (U.S.)
- Reagon, Bernice Johnson, 1942-
- Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Associates. African American Studies Center
- Washington City Paper (Firm)
Subject
- African American air pilots
- African American churches
- African Americans
- African diaspora
- Halley's Comet
- Lectures and lecturing
- Photographers
Physical Characteristics of Materials in the Collection
Administrative Information
Preferred Citation
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 96-121, Smithsonian Institution, Resident Associates Program, African American Studies Center, Records