FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
February 1, 2005
Press Contacts
202/606-8339
Eileen Maxwell [log in to unmask]
Institute of Museum and Library Services
212-491-2259
Laini Madhubuti [log in to unmask]
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
Ground Breaking New Web Site on African American Migration Experience
Ushers in Black History Month
WASHINGTON, DC -The Institute of Museum and Library Services is proud to
announce its support of In Motion: The African-American Migration
Experience launched today in honor of African American History Month.
Created by New York Public Library's Schomburg Center for Research in
Black Culture, the groundbreaking new Web site makes accessible to the
general public more than 16,500 pages of essays, books, articles, and
manuscripts, 8,300 illustrations, 100 lesson plans, and 60 maps that
will help users understand the peoples, places, and the events that have
shaped African America's migration traditions of the past four hundred
years.
The project is made possible in part by a $2.4 million dollar grant from
the Institute of Museum and Library Services with the support of the
Congressional Black Caucus. Other project components include the book,
In Motion: The African-American Migration Experience, released by
National Geographic in January 2005; a Black History Month education kit
comprised of illustrations and photographs, maps, lesson plans and a
bibliography; and an exhibition in the Schomburg Center Exhibition Hall.
Through images, maps, narratives and music, the exhibition presents,
chronicles, and interprets the migratory movements that have formed and
transformed the African-American community and the nation in the last
century. Visit the Web site at www.inmotionaame.org .
Harry Belafonte world-renowned actor, singer, producer, human rights
activist, and son of Jamaican immigrants who spent his childhood years
in Jamaica joined Paul LeClerc, President of the New York Public
library, Howard Dodson, Director of The Schomburg Center for Research in
Black Culture, and Mamie Bittner, Director of Public and Legislative
Affairs of the Institute of Museum and Library Services at a press
conference to mark the public launch of The Schomburg Center's In
Motion: The African-American Migration Experience project at The New
York Public Library today. The gathering ushered in Black History Month
by celebrating the 35 million African-Americans who have been
participants in or are heirs to the migrations that have shaped this
country and the African Diaspora.
The Institute of Museum and Library Services is an independent Federal
grant-making agency dedicated to creating and sustaining a nation of
learners by helping libraries and museums serve their communities. The
Institute fosters leadership, innovation, and a lifetime of learning by
supporting the nation's 15,000 museums and 122,000 libraries. The
Institute also encourages partnerships to expand the educational benefit
of libraries and museums. To learn more about the Institute, please log
onto: http://www.imls.gov.
Eileen Maxwell
Public Affairs Specialist
Institute of Museum and Library Services 1100 Pennsylvania Ave., N.W.
Suite 510
Washington, DC 20506
202-606-8339
202-606-8591 (fax)
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