Congratulations to 2015 & 2017 BMRC Fellow Amani Morrison on being awarded the University of Illinois at Chicago’s Short-Term Travel Fellowship, which will support further engagement with UIC’s collections relating to Chicago housing conditions and policy in the mid-twentieth century.
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The Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College Chicago will host a multi-tiered academic project led by former BMRC Fellow Amy Mooney, on the under-recognized impact of African American commercial photographers working in Chicago from 1890 through the 1930s.
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Read about BMRC featured on UChicago News in article titled, Students, scholars explore African-American archives in Chicago libraries.
Read full storyThe Black Metropolis Research Consortium (BMRC) is a Chicago-based membership association of libraries, universities, and other archival institutions. The BMRC’s mission is to connect all who seek to document, share, understand and preserve Black experiences.
It is the vision of BMRC to be essential to promoting discovery, preservation, and use of Black historical collections. Through consortial programs, the BMRC aids in expanding broad access to its members’ holdings of materials that document African American and African diasporic culture, history, and politics, with a specific focus on materials relating to Chicago.
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