Program Files
name: label: Collection Collector
content: Maltsby, Portia
label: Collection Creator
content: Smithsonian Institution. Program in African American Culture
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content: Program in African American Culture Collection
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1979-2004, undated
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.0408, Series 1
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: Select programs from the Voices of the Civil Rights Movement project were digitized in 2020 and 2021: OTC 408.5.1 through OTC 408.5.90; OTC 408.5.187 through OTC 408.5.187; and OVU 408.5.1 through OVU 408.5.163. Digital reference copies are available in the Smithsonian Institution Digital Asset Management System (DAMS).
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Consists of material documenting the planning, production, and execution of programs created by the Program in African American Culture (PAAC), with earlier records dating from when PAAC was known as the Program in African American History and the Program in Black American Culture, respectively.  The materials primarily document the creative process involving lectures, conferences, symposiums, and concerts. Materials include correspondence, memoranda, notes, proposals, program schedules, and contracts, budget summaries, meeting agendas and minutes, request for building services, publications, reports, press releases, newspaper clippings, magazine articles and photographs, abstracts and transcripts of interviews. There is a small amount of material relating to programs that were not created by the Program on African American and predate its existence but was maintained in their offices. Primarily due to Bernice Reagon Johnson's, work before she head the Program on African American Culture. The materials are arranged first in chronological order by the date of the program.  Within a program, materials are arranged first by textual records and then audiovisual materials. Program numbers were assigned by Archives Center staff for the purposes of duplicating audiovisual materials.