On June 18, 2020, The Harvard Crimson published an article entitled "Graduate School of Education Begins Black Teacher Archives Project" announcing that AAAS Professor Jarvis Givens was awarded a $610,000 Mellon Foundation grant to archive and digitize the journals of "Colored Teachers Associations." His co-PI is Imani Perry (Princeton), is a longtime friend of the AAAS department.
You can read more about the Black Teacher Archives project below and a link to the Crimson article is at the bottom of this post.
The Black Teacher Archives project is pleased to announce that Harvard University, where the project is based, is the recipient of a major two-year grant, in the amount of $610,000, from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. This first phase of the project will archive and digitize the state journals of “Colored Teachers Associations,” which operated for more than 100 years, from 1861 through 1970. Providing access to these materials, largely the products of teachers in segregated Southern schools, will revolutionize research in the History of Education, African American Studies, and the study of critical pedagogy. The project will be helmed by co-PIs professors Jarvis Givens of the Harvard Graduate School of Education and Imani Perry of the Princeton University Department of African American Studies. The investigators will partner with scholars and archivists at Historically Black Colleges and Universities, and the advisory board includes leading scholars of Black education from across the nation.
https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2020/6/18/hgse-black-teacher-archives/