The Blacks at Brown timeline was created to celebrate Brown University National Diversity Summit on March 6-8, 2015. It was funded and developed as IPC’s contribution to celebrate Brown’s sesquicentennial in 2014. The timeline migrated to the Brown University Library in 2022.
Thanks to all who participated in this effort:
Karen Allen Baxter – Curator
Renee E. Neely ’12
Karen McLaurin-Chesson ‘74 and Darwyn Parker ’75
Liza Cariaga-Lo
Shamara Alhassan AM’18 PhD’19 – Graduate Student Assistant
Reya Sehgal AM’16 – Graduate Student Assistant
Andrea Ledesma AM’17 – Teaching with Technology Innovation Fellow
Hong T. Chau ’09, Giovanna Roz Gastaldi PhD’21, Melwyn Pak ’15 – CIS Academic Technology
With special assistance from Harold Bailey, Jr. ’70 LHD’95 hon., P’99, P’03 and Bernicestine M. Bailey ’68, P’99, P’03
We thank the following individuals, alumni, institutions and archives for their contributions:
Brown Alumni Magazine, previously Brown Alumni Monthly (BAM)
Brown Center for Students of Color
Brown Daily Herald (BDH)
Brown Office of Institutional Equity and Diversity (OIED)
Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice
Frank Mullin (BAM/photograph of Lynn Nottage)
Inman Page Alumni Council (IPC)
jacksonadvocateonline.com (photograph of Tougaloo College Students)
Mark Ostow (photograph of Afaa Weaver)
Peter Mackie, Sports Archivist, Edward North Robinson Collection of Brown Athletics
Ramona Wilkins Bass Kolobe
Researchers @ Brown
Rites and Reason Theatre, Department of Africana Studies
University Archives, John Hay Library
White House Initiative on Historically Black Colleges and Universities (photograph of President Hogan), courtesy of the Department of Africana Studies