Dorothy J. Berry: Black History in the Archives

Dorothy J. Berry, an archivist at the University of Minnesota, oversees the "Digitalizing African American Archival Materials Across University of Minnesota" project. Berry has experience at several local and national African American heritage repositories, such as the National Museum of African American History and Culture, the Archives of African American Music and Culture, the Black Film Center/Archive and the Ozarks Afro-American History Museum. As head of the Umbra Search Metadata and Digitalization project at Minnesota, Berry manages one million records spread across 74 collections. 

Lecture: "Giving Voice to Archival Silences: Amplifying Black History Through Research and Technology."

Archival research is the bedrock of historical scholarship, but gaps in collections have often led to gaps in our understanding, especially when it comes to marginalized groups like African Americans. This talk, from archivist and historian Dorothy J. Berry, will discuss the nature of these archival silences, how they affect our relationship to the past and how emerging research and technologies can bridge those gaps in our nation's libraries, archives and museums.

Free