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Fisk University Library

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Amistad Research Center

Amistad Research Center
New Orleans, United States

Libraries are the center of academic life on any college campus, and the American Missionary Association's college libraries were quite unique. The murals in the background were by Aaron Douglas. The noted Harlem Renaissance painter formed Fisk University's Art Department where he taught for 27 years. Poet Arna Bontemps was Fisk’s librarian from the 1940s until the 1960s.

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  • Title: Fisk University Library
  • Creator: Unknown
  • Subject Keywords: Fisk University. Library.
  • Type: photograph
  • Rights: Physical rights are retained by the Amistad Research Center. The materials in this exhibition are being made available for personal and scholarly research use only. Copyright is retained in accordance with U.S. copyright laws. If you are the rightful copyright holder of an item represented in this exhibition and wishes to have it removed, please submit a request to reference@amistadresearchcenter.org including proof of ownership and clear identification of the work, preferably with URL.
  • Repository: Amistad Research Center
  • Date: undated
  • Collection: American Missionary Association Archives
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