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Black History and Culture Evergreen Initiative

The Black History and Culture Evergreen Initiative is an effort to foreground African American and Black authored holdings in Princeton University Library, and to allow digital access to them around the world. The ongoing collection and digitization of materials supports teaching and research initiatives in reconstructing social, cultural, artistic, historic, economic, and political worlds that the dominant historical record has ignored, neglected or obscured.

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Phase 01 of the project was seeded by a list of about 310 Special Collections items relating primarily to Black Print Culture, selected by Rene Boatman, Gabriel Swift, Jennifer Garcon and Steve Knowlton. This is comprehensive coverage for African American related print-material housed in Special Collections prior to copyright restrictions (1929). These materials have been selected by curators for their rare and unique elements to include: availability, edition, bindings, dust jackets, annotations, inscriptions, among other special identifying characteristics that make them individual copies and unlike what may appear in HathiTrust or Internet Archive.  Additions will be added as copyright considerations allow.  Phase 02 of the project will digitize photographs, manuscripts, materials held in the graphic arts collection, and other items. 

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Princeton University Library claims no copyright governing this digital resource. It is provided for free, on a non-commercial, open-access basis, for fair-use academic and research purposes only. Anyone who claims copyright over any part of these resources and feels that they should not be presented in this manner is invited to contact Princeton University Library, who will in turn consider such concerns and make reasonable efforts to respond to such concerns.

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[Identification of item], [Sub-collection name (if applicable)], Black History and Culture Evergreen Initiative Collection, Princeton University Library.

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