Processing, cataloguing, and digitizing hqbca's collections [the hallie Q. Brown community archive [hqbca] seeks funding for a one-year project to acquire, arrange, preserve, describe, digitize, and…

The Hallie Q Brown Community Center Inc. received a $135,770 project grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program. The award will support processing, cataloging, and digitizing 22 historical collections held by the Hallie Q. Brown Community Archive that document the experiences of the African American community in St. Paul, Minnesota's Rondo neighborhood and the history of African Americans in the Upper Midwest following the Great Migration. Specifically, the one-year project beginning June 1, 2023 will improve access to and preservation of the collections, create digital surrogates to allow for online primary source research through the ContentDM platform, and enhance community outreach capabilities. The Preservation and Access program aims to ensure long-term availability of humanities resources by funding projects that promote preserving and providing intellectual access to archival materials.

Processing, cataloguing, and digitizing hqbca's collections [the hallie Q. Brown community archive [hqbca] seeks funding for a one-year project to acquire, arrange, preserve, describe, digitize, and disseminate our twenty-two collections that document the experiences of the african-american community in the rondo neighborhood of ST. Paul, MN, as well as the history of african-americans in the upper midwest in the years following the great migration. This project will: - support historical and african-american studies research by improving access to and preservation of hqbca?S collections - deepen our online presence by creating digital surrogates of our collections, allowing US to fully utilize contentdm with the goal of users being able to conduct primary-research online - improve our outreach capabilities with community members, who are both the source of and primary audience for our collections]