IDEA Lab Exhibit: Preserving the Stories of Etown Students and Alumni of Color In-Person
Since the summer of 2024, the Hess Archives has been conducting oral history interviews with alumni of color and researching student experiences represented in our yearbooks, newspapers, and archival collections. Visit this new exhibition to view the oral history interviews and learn more about early BIPOC alumni, influential faculty and staff, student clubs, activism, and much more. We will also share the work of the Elizabethtown Church of the Brethren Racial Justice Working Group including research on Elizabethtown’s history as a “sundown town” that used various methods, including racial covenants, to keep Blacks from living here in the first half of the 20th century.
The exhibition will include a display of books available for checkout including titles suggested by the College’s Coalition for Anti-racist Education (CARE) as well as information on Elizabethtown’s Truth, Racial Healing & Transformation Campus Center.
The exhibition is free and open to the public during the library's open hours. Contact Archivist Rachel Grove Rohrbaugh with any questions.
This project was made possible with support from the Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies; the Office of Civil Rights, Opportunity, and Access; as well as the Office of Alumni Relations.
- Date:
- Sunday, February 9, 2025 Show more dates
- Time:
- All Day Event
- Time Zone:
- Eastern Time - US & Canada (change)
- Location:
- High Library - IDEA Lab
- Categories:
- High Library IDEA Lab