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<b><a href="https://ohioarchivists.org/spotlight-naamcc/" id="LPlnk873488" title="https://ohioarchivists.org/spotlight-naamcc/">Archives Spotlight: National Afro-American Museum and Cultural Center (NAAMCC)</a></b></div>
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<i>by Collette McDonough, member of the SOA Advocacy and Outreach Committee.</i></div>
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<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">To acknowledge Black History Month, the Society of Ohio Archivists would like to shine a spotlight on the archives located at the
</span><span style="color: rgb(33, 117, 155);"><a href="https://www.ohiohistory.org/visit/browse-historical-sites/national-afro-american-museum-cultural-center/" target="_blank" id="OWA6d65afc4-32e8-b3a7-18d1-6b629c0a1786" class="OWAAutoLink" rel="noopener" style="color: rgb(33, 117, 155); margin: 0px;">National
Afro-American Museum and Cultural Center (NAAMCC)</a></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">. The museum opened to the public in 1988 and is the home to about 10,000 artifacts and artwork that tell the story of African Americans. The museum also contains
“350 manuscript collections, and thousands of photographs.” The museum has a wide variety of materials in their collections including the “final draft of Roots, a buffalo hide coat worn by a Buffalo Soldier, Gregory Hines’s tap shoes, and artifacts representing
the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s.” The NAAMCC archives hold hundreds of photographs and many collections that relate to the Civil Rights Movement in the 20th century. In addition, they are the caretakers of collections on enslavement and manumission plus
the papers of Charles Young. The archives is located next to the museum in a </span>
<span style="color: rgb(33, 117, 155);"><a href="https://theclio.com/entry/6822" target="_blank" id="OWA0e31d165-d6d6-2d3e-ff07-ff17b821abba" class="OWAAutoLink" rel="noopener" style="color: rgb(33, 117, 155); margin: 0px;">former Carnegie Library building</a></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">.
The library was built with matching grants in 1907 for Wilberforce University and now houses the offices, archive, and museum storage for NAAMMCC. </span></div>
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The museum has a dynamic collection and eye-opening exhibits. If you are interested in art, World War Two or Women’s history, NAAMCC has something for you. Currently the museum has an exhibit called Rhythm of Revolution-The Transformative Power of Black Art
1619 to the Present. “The exhibit maps the visual flow of artistic, cultural, social, and political change in America from 1619 to the present day. Using three-dimensional objects from the NAAMCC collections, Rhythm of Revolution explores how Black artists,
religious leaders, and activists worked within their spheres of influence to transform Ohio and our nation.”
<i>Continue reading about NAAMCC and an interview with Mackenzie Snare, Museum Archivist</i><b><i>
</i></b><i>on the SOA blog: <a href="https://ohioarchivists.org/spotlight-naamcc/" id="LPlnk292871">
https://ohioarchivists.org/spotlight-naamcc/</a></i></div>
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