Jessica Brooks papers on the Brown University-Tougaloo College Partnership (AMS.1ZUT.1)

Materials in this collection contain documentation of Anti-Black, Anti-Asian, and Anti-Latine racism and the use of ethnic slurs.

Jessica Brooks collected and created this collection as part of her work as a researcher for the Brown-Tougaloo Partnership 30th anniversary. The papers contain Brooks’s administrative documents including reports, memoranda and correspondence. In addition, as part of her work, Brooks conducted interviews and surveys of faculty, students and administrators. The papers contain interview notes, essays and filled-out survey forms, copies of administrative records from Brown University and Tougaloo College and personal papers of students and faculty from both institutions. In 1993, Brooks and the Brown-Tougaloo Partnership published an advertismentment requesting interviews and Partnership-related materials for assesment and reflection and to create an archives of the history Partnership. Materials in Series 3-6 of this collection contain the materials generated and recieved as part of this effort.

The papers are divided into five series: Series 1, Brown-Tougaloo Partnership 30th anniversary celebration administrative records and research, 1966-1994: This series contains records gathered by Jessica Brooks during her work on the Brown-Tougaloo Partnership's 30th Anniversary. In chronological order. Includes RESTRICTED records with personal information.

Series 2, Jessica Brooks correspondence with Brown-Tougaloo Partnership participants, 1993-1994: This series contains letters and printed emails with faculty, students and alumni, mostly regarding her historical research on the Brown-Tougaloo Partnership. This series also includes Brooks' list of letters and correspondence. In chronological order.

Series 3, Student surveys and essays, 1993-1994: Filled-out surveys and essays by Brown and Tougaloo students about their experiences with the Brown-Tougaloo Partnership. In chronological order. Includes RESTRICTED records with student information.

Series 4, Notes on interviews with Brown-Tougaloo exchange participants, 1964-1994: Records of Jessica Brown's 1993 and 1994 interviews of people involved with the Brown-Tougaloo experience prior to 1993. In alphabetical order by interview subject last name. Original recordings of the interviews are in Series 5. Access to the microcassettes is restricted.

Series 5, Restricted: Microcassettes of interviews, 1993-1994: Recordings of interviews of people involved with the Brown-Tougaloo Partnership since its inception. Interviews were performed by Jessica Brooks. Brooks's notes from the interviews are located in Series 4. Access to the original microcassettes is restrcted due to the Library's policy on access to original media.

Series 6, Materials received from participants in Brown-Tougaloo Partnership, 1964-1993: Records regarding the Brown-Tougaloo Partnership accumulated by faculty and students and given to Jessica Brooks for her research. Most materials are photocopies. In alphabetical order by collector's last name.