RIAMCO

Rhode Island Archival and Manuscript Collections Online

For Participating Institutions

Janet Shaffer papers on the Brown University-Tougaloo College Partnership (AMS.1ZUT.2)

Brown University Library

Box A
Brown University
Providence, RI 02912
Telephone: Manuscripts: 401-863-3723; University Archives: 401-863-2148
Email: Manuscripts: hay@brown.edu; University Archives: archives@brown.edu

Scope & content

Some of the material contains descriptions of racism against Black people.

The collection contains materials collected by Janet Shaffer'88 during and around the time she was an exchange student at Tougaloo College in Mississippi in the fall 1986. The collection also includes her retrospective account of her experience. The collection contains documents, photographs, promotional materials and newsclippings.