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Blacks at Brown

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