- Concordia University Library, Special Collections and Archives
- Black Studies Center fonds
Black Studies Center fonds
fonds1912-2014F035
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- Held by
- Concordia University Library, Special Collections and Archives via Concordia University Archives and Special Collections
- Creator
- Black Studies Center
- Dates
- 1912-2014 (indexed as 1912–2014)
- Level
- fonds
- Extent
- ca. 22 m of textual records 2744 photographs 211 drawings 17 maps 5 objects 4 cm of posters 18 moving images 8 sound recordings 5 art works 2 architectural plans
- Scope & content
- The Black Studies Center fonds contains materials documenting the administration, services, and activities of the Black Studies Center from its beginnings as the National Black Coalition Quebec Institute of Research until 2014. The fonds also documents the Center’s role within Montreal’s Black communities, as well as its relationships to other organizations working within and outside Montreal. In addition, the Black Studies Center fonds is an important source of reference documentation pertaining to the history, culture, and contributions of Black communities in Canada: it contains a rich collection of newspapers, periodicals, and books, dating from 1969 to 2012, including but not limited to copies of Contrast (1969-1999), Community Contact (1998-2008), Afro-Can (1981-1984), Focus Umoja (1974-1978), Uhuru (1969-1970), and Umoja (1969-1970, 1990), as well as books that were previously held in the collection of the Black Studies Center’s Library. The fonds is divided into the following series: F034/A Administration F034/B Financial records F034/C External relations F035/D Programming and Services F035/E Research F035/F Reference documentation The Black Studies Center fonds contains, among other documents, meeting minutes, agendas, reports, policies, correspondence, letters patent, statistics, photographs, architectural plans, deeds of sale, insurance policies, permits, contracts, agreements, organizational charts, resumes, job descriptions, lists, financial documents, grant applications, brochures, by-laws, directories, newspapers and newspaper articles, press releases, newsletters, leaflets, flyers, invitations, catalogs, notes, index cards, moving images, sound recordings, posters, biographies, schedules, attendance records, stories, poems, song texts, drawings, forms, costumes, research papers, bibliographies, bibliographic records, interview transcripts, reproductions of historical documents, speeches, summaries of newspaper articles, accession records, subscriptions, a guest book, books, magazines, periodicals, and a musical instrument.
- Location
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- Subjects
- Black History in Quebec
- Genre / form
- Multiple media
- Language
- English, French
- Access & use
- In most cases, reproductions are allowed for the purpose of research and private study. The use of material in a publication may only be done with written consent of the copyright owner(s).
- Harvested
- 2026-10-15T17:01:14Z · source datestamp n/a · ead