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CEMA 99
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Title: Santa Barbara African American local history collection
Identifier/Call Number: CEMA 99
Language of Material:
English.
Contributing Institution:
UC Santa Barbara Library, Department of Special Research Collections
Physical Description:
3 Linear Feet
(1 carton, 3 document boxes, 1 over-sized box and 19 cassette tapes)
Date (inclusive): 1900-2011
Abstract: Materials produced and compiled by the Black Santa Barbara Historical Calendar project. Additional materials pertinent to
Santa Barbara African Americans continue to be added to the collection.
Physical Location: Special Research Collections, UC Santa Barbara Library
source:
Daniels, Douglas
source:
University of California, Santa Barbara. Department of Black Studies
source:
Robinson, Cedric J.
The origins of this collection began as the Black Santa Barbara Historical Calendar, a collaborative research project in the
Black Studies Department at UC Santa Barbara. The aim of the calendar was to call attention to local personages and events
important in Santa Barbara's African American community. Professor Cedric Robinson headed the project with the help of undergraduate
students from across the nation and high school students from the local district. Research for the first calendar began in
the summer of 1994; the Black Studies Department published two calendars, one in 1995 and the other in 1996 and research continued
in the summer of 1997 until funding was lost and the project was halted. While the collection's origins were to support a
discontinued calendar project, the documents, photographs and interviews are of great value for an understanding of African
American local history. Additional materials continue to be be added.
The collection is open for research.
Property rights to the collection and physical objects belong to the Regents of the University of California acting through
the Department of Special Research Collections at the UCSB Library. All applicable literary rights, including copyright to
the collection and physical objects, are protected under Chapter 17 of the U.S. Copyright Code and are retained by the creator
and the copyright owner, heir(s), or assigns.
All requests to reproduce, quote from, or otherwise reuse collection materials must be submitted in writing to the Department
of Special Research Collections at UCSB at special@ucsb.edu. Consent is given on behalf of the Regents of the University of
California acting through the Department of Special Research Collections at UCSB as the owner of the physical items and is
not intended to include or imply permission from the copyright owner. Such permission must be obtained from the copyright
owner, heir(s), or assigns. It is the responsibility of the researcher to determine who holds the copyright and pursue the
copyright owner or their assigns for permission to publish where the UC Regents do not hold the copyright.
The collection contains project files and historical material compiled and produced in the making of Black Santa Barbara Historical
calednars. The calendar project produced two calendars for the years, 1995 and 1996.
Additional photos, calendars, articles, and audio-recordings connected to civic African Americans leaders continue to be added
to the collection.
Series I: Calendar project contains a copy of the 1995 and 1996 version of the calendar as well as many of the component parts
that made the 1995 calendar. Also of particular interest is a paper documenting selective case studies of the "Oral history
of the Black Santa Barbara community during the 1940's and 1950's," which arose from the 1996 calendar project. There are
copies of articles related to African American history and organizations such as the NAACP. There is an assortment of photographs
of important local personages and community groups in Santa Barbara. This series is arranged alphabetically by title; those
files that fall under the common title of calendar have been arranged chronologically.
Series II: Subject Files contains research on various topics and people relative to the Santa Barbara African American community.
The files range from dates 1878-2011. These files have been arranged alphabetically by title.
Series III: Audio-recordings from the Black Santa Barbara Calendar Project. The dates of the files range from the years 1994-1995.
These files have been arranged alphabetically by name of the interviewee.
Santa Barbara African American local history collection, CEMA 99, Department of Special Collections, University Library, University
of California, Santa Barbara
Horace James McMillan papers. CEMA 7, Special Research Collections, University of California, Santa Barbara.
Anita Mackey papers. CEMA 57. Department of Special Collections, UC Santa Barbara Library, University of California, Santa Barbara.
William Downey Papers. CEMA 32, Department of Special Collections, University Library, University of California, Santa Barbara.
Santa Barbara Afro-American Oral History Project collection. CEMA 42, Department of Special Collections, University Library, University of California, Santa Barbara.
Grover C. Barnes papers. CEMA 115, Department of Special Collections, University Library, University of California, Santa Barbara.
Sojourner Kincaid Rolle papers. CEMA 155. Department of Special Collections, UC Santa Barbara Library, University of California, Santa Barbara.
Shirley Kennedy papers. UArch FacP 67. Department of Special Research Collections, UC Santa Barbara Library, University of California, Santa Barbara.
Processed by Michelle Wilder, Alexander Hauschild October 8, 2007, Callie Bowdish and Mari Khasmanyan February 18, 2011. Addition
processed by Rebecca Vasquez, February 2024.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
African American civic leaders -- California -- Santa Barbara
Daniels, Douglas
University of California, Santa Barbara. Department of Black Studies