Month: January 2016

John Lewis, Chet Edwards, and Black History Month

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Black History Month (also known as African-American History Month) initially began in 1926 as “Negro History Week,” an event during the second week of February designed to encourage the study and teaching of American black history in public schools. By the 1960s, political and cultural turbulence surrounding historic events such as the passage of the…

The Second Session and Hatton W. Sumners

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Baylor University has been relatively quiet since finals week last December. The student body’s annual mid-winter migration transformed the campus into a ghost town populated by faculty, university employees, and, of course, archivists. Coincidentally, the 114th Congress is also returning to its second session, and so our first blog post of 2016 commemorates Hatton W.…

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