Yesterday, I learned of a new digital collection being offered online. The HBCU Digital Collection was launched last month and is the beginning of a digital archive of materials from 10 historically black colleges and universities. The information in the Digital Library contains a variety of items – including “campus charters, student yearbooks, early campus architectural drawings, graduating classes, famous alumni and churches” and more. Currently, the institutions participating include:
- Alabama State University
- Atlanta University Center
- Bennett College for Women
- Fisk University
- Grambling State University
- Hampton University
- Southern University
- Tuskegee University
- Tennessee State University
- Virginia State University
Given my interest in the history of blacks in Nashville, I was happy to see Fisk & TSU represented. I went to the site to do some searching and found quite a bit of interesting material that would add a family tree if your ancestor was represented in those images. Fisk especially seems to have a concentration of yearbook materials. I definitely plan to spend some time looking through the site.