June 2024
Abolition – One Hundred Years. Host: Assessoria de Cultura Afro-Brasileira da Secretaria de Estado da Cultura, 1988. Collection: Soweto Black Organization. Program: Modern Endangered Archives Program
The Memory and Identity of Afro-Brazilian Archives project, available at the Library of the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) website, gathers together archives containing documents of Afro-Brazilian1(964 – 1990s).
This project seeks to enable access to neglected aspects of Afro-Brazilian memory through archives containing documents of Afro-Brazilian activism. The material encompasses three periods of Brazilian history: the onset of the military dictatorship (1964), democratization (the 1980s), and the deepening of Brazilian democracy (from the 1990s onwards).
The Soweto Black Organization collection has focused on Black agencies in Brazilian history, documenting grassroots activism and the transnational consequences for democracy. This archive uncovers various topics, including human rights struggles, the demand for African history in education, and Afro-Brazilian religious and cultural self-preservation.
