Course Overview:

Until recently, many historians believed that black girls were inaccessible in archives, silenced by gender, race, and in some cases, poverty and illiteracy. New research proves that the voices of black girls can be recovered through creative archival strategies.  In this class, you will have an opportunity to contribute to the emergent field of black girls’ history by designing an exhibit from materials in the UVA Special Collection Library and writing an online article to accompany the exhibit. Your exhibit will be on display during February and March, 2017, for Black History Month and the Global History of Black Girlhood Conference.  Should you so choose, you can apply to present your research at an undergraduate session of the conference, March 17-18, 2017.