{"id":1371,"date":"2011-02-17T11:09:38","date_gmt":"2011-02-17T15:09:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.lib.purdue.edu\/news\/?p=1371"},"modified":"2011-02-17T11:09:38","modified_gmt":"2011-02-17T15:09:38","slug":"purdue-libraries-bcc-collaborate-to-archive-universitys-african-american-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.purdue.edu\/news\/2011\/02\/17\/purdue-libraries-bcc-collaborate-to-archive-universitys-african-american-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Purdue Libraries, BCC collaborate to archive university&#8217;s African-American history"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. &#8211; The Division of Archives and Special  Collections in Purdue Libraries has developed a permanent digital  timeline to document significant dates of African-American history at  the university.<\/p>\n<p>The collection, available at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lib.purdue.edu\/spcol\/orthefirenexttime\/index.html\">http:\/\/www.lib.purdue.edu\/spcol\/orthefirenexttime\/index.html<\/a>,  is the result of a collaboration among Archives and Special  Collections, Digital Initiatives, and Purdue&#8217;s Black Cultural Center,  and is titled &#8220;\u2026 Or the Fire Next Time: African-American Students at  Purdue, A Digital Timeline.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>From the first entry, featuring  David Robert Lewis as Purdue&#8217;s first black graduate in 1894, to the most  recent, G. Christine Taylor&#8217;s appointment in 2009 as the university&#8217;s  first vice provost and chief diversity officer, the timeline continues  to evolve. It will soon include the first major facility named for an  African-American alumnus, the Roland G. Parrish Library of Management  and Economics, said Shauna Borger, digital collections coordinator in  Purdue Libraries.<\/p>\n<p>February is Black History month.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Writer:<\/strong> Jim Bush, 765-494-2077, <a href=\"mailto:jsbush@purdue.edu\">jsbush@purdue.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Source<\/strong>: Shauna Borger, 765-496-7851, <a href=\"mailto:borger@purdue.edu\">borger@purdue.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/general\/2011\/110217BorgerBCC.html<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. &#8211; The Division of Archives and Special Collections in Purdue Libraries has developed a permanent digital timeline to document significant dates of African-American history at the university. The collection, available at http:\/\/www.lib.purdue.edu\/spcol\/orthefirenexttime\/index.html, is the result of a collaboration among Archives and Special Collections, Digital Initiatives, and Purdue&#8217;s Black Cultural Center, and is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[13,92,64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-press_release","category-spec"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pT6ms-m7","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1371"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1375,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1371\/revisions\/1375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}