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help further academic study of her lifetime work.
“Schlesinger's acquisition of her papers will ensure that generations of students, scholars, and activists have access to her body of work and a better understanding of the histories she has helped to shape,” wrote Farah J. Griffin, a professor of English, Comparative Literature, and African American Studies at Columbia University.
Elizabeth Hinton, an assistant
professor of History and African and African American Studies at Harvard, said Davis’s papers will also strengthen the Schlesinger Library’s stature as a center
for studying the history of civil oppression.
“The acquisition of Angela Davis’s papers makes the Schlesinger Library even more vital for all those seeking a deeper understanding
of the history of oppression and resistance on a global scale.” Hinton wrote in a statement.
BCALA NEWS | Volume 45, Issue 1 | 17 The collection of Davis’s work
includes letters, photographs, and audio from Davis’s radio show “Angela Speaks,” according to a press release from the library. The library will also host materials related to Davis’s incarceration and trial from the Soledad Prison case, as well as the movement advocating for her release.
Davis’s papers will be available for research by 2020.
Dedication Honors Memory
of Billy C. Beal
By Meridian (MS) Community College
Meridian Community College dedicated the L.O. Todd – Billy C. Beal Learning Resources facility on May 10 amid a gathering of family, friends, MCC faculty and staff as well as community members.
Beal, the longtime Meridian educator who worked for MCC
for more than three decades, was honored with the naming of the resource center that’s located in the center of the campus. Beal died Dec. 7, 2015.
Family members Christy Beal, left, Denise Beal, Maria Beal Parker and Andrea Williams pose by the portrait of Billy C. Beal that is now on display in the facility.