Black Histories at the University of Delaware
The Campus Tours Committee is excited to announce the launch of our major project, Black
Histories at University of Delaware: An Interactive UDARI StoryMap.
Engage with this student-authored digital public history project to learn more about African
American experiences’ vital to UD’s history, from struggles of disenfranchisement and
unfreedom, to racial justice activism and protest, to Black excellence and achievement. We invite
you to share your responses, to teach with the StoryMap, and to circulate it widely
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The Campus Tours Committee is excited to announce the launch of our major project, Black
Histories at University of Delaware: An Interactive UDARI StoryMap.
The StoryMap connects previously under-studied histories, now coming to light thanks to
ongoing work by UDARI researchers and community partners, to specific sites on UD’s Newark
campus and the city of Newark. A dynamic resource to which future researchers can add, the
StoryMap can continue to accrue layers of history and be updated with new findings. It is the
work of past UDARI interns Alenoush Davis, Tara Lennon, and Elisa Davila, with the assistance
of members of UDARI’s Campus Tours Committee, Legacies of Enslavement and Dispossession
at UD committee, UDARI advisor Alison Parker, and UD Library Digital Scholarship Librarian
Kayla Abner.
This digital project is a first step in realigning campus histories to honor important Black stories
while acknowledging the ways that the University of Delaware has benefitted historically from
unfreedom and perpetuated racism. The Campus Tours committee continues to work toward
commemorating Black histories at the University of Delaware more widely and in more
permanent and visible ways.