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• 1 2021-08-10T04:39:36+00:00 July 29th, 2021 - Jerri Norman - Blog Post #3 1 plain 2021-08-10T04:39:36+00:00 Today was our first gathering in Special Collections at the library as a team this summer! I was really excited for this today because I had never really been to Special Collections before today. I worked on identifying people in pictures we already have digitized as well as identified events that had occurred, older ABC board members, and more!
  
  The most exciting thing I came across during my time looking at older documents in special collections was finding out about the Black Arts Festival. From my research, it looked like there was a Black Arts Festival created and run by ABC in the 1971, 1972, and 1973 for 4-5 days in the spring. There were photo copies of old news articles from the Lafayette and an Easton newspaper, old itineraries, letters, and communications too! During the first year of this program, there were multiples talks/seminars, parties, gatherings, and even a really cool concert where Kool & the Gang performed too! Also excitingly, we came across about 8 editions of Rapped in Black which helped us identify many of the photos we did not have any identifying informations about. 
  
  
  As we are about to wrap up the summer work, I look forward to exploring the Black Arts Festivals through the years as well as increase the number of digitized items we have in our inventory aside from submissions in the future!