Description
The records include brochures, correspondence, membership lists, minutes, newspaper clippings, photographs, posters and printed
programs, proposals and reports that document the establishment and growth of the Contemporary Black Arts Program at UCSD.
These records consist chiefly of administrative files from this academic program, friends organization, and Black History
Month celebrations, as well as various publicity materials for events sponsored by CBAP.
Background
The Contemporary Black Arts Program developed from the Cultural Traditions Program at John Muir College in 1979. Strongly
interdisciplinary, the Program was established to satisfy general education requirements, to add richness and diversity to
the process of educating students, and to serve as a means of increasing the involvement of African Americans in university
and local community affairs. In 1979, the Program moved to the Third College, now named Thurgood Marshall College, under the
guidance of Dr. Floyd Gaffney, Professor of Drama. Gaffney continued as Director of the program until his retirement in June
1994.
Extent
2.4 Linear feet
(6 archives boxes and 1 map case folder)
Restrictions
Publication rights are held by UC Regents.