Amistad Research Center

The Amistad Research Center (ARC) aims to make discoverable and to provide access to unique film footage and oral history interviews that document the historically Black community of Mound Bayou, Mississippi. This project will build upon ARC’s previous work creating digital online collections to ensure preservation and access to historic materials. Activities will entail physical processing and cataloging moving image and sound recordings with unique numerical identifiers and outsourced digitization of all audiovisual items in multiple formats within the collection. At the close of the project, ARC staff will convene with colleagues from the Mound Bayou Museum of African American Culture and History to discuss, evaluate, and document processes resulting from project implementation. The outcome of this convening is to create and revise effective practices to sustain ARC’s current and future digitization projects and discuss how ARC can assist and collaborate with the Mound Bayou Museum as it continues to grow into the future.