Back by popular demand! SCRC staff will have rare and archival materials related to the Black Arts Movement (BAM).  The pop-up exhibition will be available for viewing and listening in room 608 Bird Library, Spector Room, and 606 Bird Library, Hillyer Room.

The Special Collections Research Center is home to rare materials on Activism, Social Reform, and Radicalism in the Arts. The Black Arts Movement (BAM), an African American led arts movement, occurred approximately between 1965 and 1975. This renaissance of Black Pride illuminated Black Life amidst and in reaction to the vast cultural, political, and social upheaval of the times through poetry and small press publications, plays, illustrations, artwork, and more. Works related to a vibrant nucleus of poets, thinkers, dramatists, and artists—such as Imamu Amiri Baraka, Sonia Sanchez, Emory Douglas, Ntozake Shange, Dudley Randall, Nikki Giovanni, Askia M. Touré, Haki R. Madhubuti—are held in the collections of SCRC.

If you need an accommodation in order to fully participate in this event, please contact scrc@syr.edu by Feb. 21.