Civil Rights, Black Power, and Anti-War Actions:

Orangeburg, Kent, and Jackson, 1960-1967

Acknowledgements

Thank you to the following colleagues, teachers, and scholars whose work was instrumental in the planning and implementation of this exhibition.

• Professor Idris Kabir Syed, Kent State University Department of Africana Studies

• Professor Lae’l Hughes-Watkins, former University Archivist, Kent State University (2013-2018)
• Professor Kenneth Burhanna, Dean, Kent State University Libraries

• Matthew Merten, Senior Graphic Designer, Kent State University Libraries
• Professor Cynthia Kristof, Head, Copyright and Scholarly Communication, Kent State University Libraries
• Lori Boes, Assistant Director, Kent State University May 4 Visitors Center

• Dr. Mindy Farmer, Director, Kent State University May 4 Visitors Center

• Professor Larrie King, Creative Director, Glyphix Studio, Kent State University School of Visual Communication Design
• Kristin Dowling, Director, IdeaBase Kent
 State University
• Dr. Robert Luckett, Director, Margaret Walker Center, Jackson State University

• Dr. Thomas M. Grace and his work Kent State: Death and Dissent in the Long Sixties, University of Massachusetts Press, 2016


Very special thanks to Mr. Cecil Williams, activist, scholar, and photographer, for the use of selected photographs from his extensive archive and his publications Freedom & Justice: Four Decades of the Civil Rights Struggle as Seen by a Black Photographer of the Deep South, Mercer University Press, 1995 and Out-of-the-Box in Dixie: Cecil Williams’ Photography of the South Carolina Events that Changed America, 2010.

Credits

Curated by Professor Cara Gilgenbach, Head, Special Collections & Archives, Kent State University Libraries

Original physical exhibit and logo designed by Ashley Liptak with IdeaBase and Glyphix Studio

In addition to Kent State University Special Collections & Archives, the following institutions and online repositories provided content and historical information for this exhibition.

• Cleveland Press Collection, Michael Schwartz Library, Cleveland State University
• Digital Library of Georgia, Civil Rights Digital Library
• FBI Records: The Vault
• Library of Congress, American Memory Project
• Jackson Advocate, Library of Congress, Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers
• Mississippi Encyclopedia
• National Archives, Black Power Subject Guide
• Reveal Digital, Independent Voices
• SNCC Digital Gateway
• Civil Rights Memorial Center, Montgomery, Alabama
• Wisconsin Historical Society, Freedom Summer Digital Collection