This #BlackHistoryMonth we are very excited to share with you a wealth of newly digitized resources from our archival collections exploring and documenting Black history, individuals, and communities in #Ithaca and #TompkinsCounty. These six written works have been available in our archives for decades, and now are all fully digitized and available as PDFs for reading and downloading from The History Center website at thehistorycenter.net/black-history.

Our thanks to the New York State Council on the Artsfor funding the digitization of these materials and supporting #blackhistorydigitization efforts in #TompkinsCounty. We look forward to continuing the work to keep our archives accessible for our full community. Find the links to these documents always at thehistorycenter.net/black-history

• Early Slaves and Freemen of Tompkins County - by Sydney Gallwey (1962)
• Peter Webb: Slave-Freeman-Citizen of Tompkins County New York - by Sydney Gallwey (1960)
• THESIS - The Life and Times of Aunt Elsie Brooks - by Yvonne Singh (1990)
• THESIS - Without Struggle There is No Progress: An Ethnohistoric Study of Ithaca, New York's African American Community - by Deidre Hazel Pauline Hill (1994)
• THESIS - The Lore of the Negro in Central New York State - by Emma Corinne Brown Galvin (1943)
• THESIS - Practicing Neighborhood and Community - An Ethnographic History of African Americans and the Southside Neighborhood in Ithaca, New York - by Ingrid Bauer (2001)

Our thanks to the New York State Council on the Arts for supporting

the digitization of these materials through grant funds in 2023.