By Angela Tudico | National Archives News Enlarge 2021 Cokie Roberts Women's History Fellow Kara Dixon Vuic, PhD. WASHINGTON, March 29, 2023 Kara Dixon Vuic has spent the last year traveling to the National Archives at College Park and Presidential Libraries around the country, researching her book project, “Drafting Women,” on the history of women and selective service.
On Feb. 12, 1900, the students of the segregated Stanton School in Jacksonville, Fla., where James Weldon Johnson (1871-1938) the poet and novelist who would go on to become the executive secretary of the NAACP was the principal, gave the first ever performance of “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” the song that would become known as the Black national anthem, as part of a celebration of President Abraham Lincoln’s birthday.
Ronald McNair in the flight deck (the 1970s or 1980s)Photo byNational Archives at College Park - Still Pictures; Public Domain. Ronald McNair (1950 - 1986) was the second African American to fly in space.
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By Angela Tudico | National Archives News Enlarge Fulbright Scholar Cancy Chu in the Heritage Science Research and Testing Lab at the National Archives at College Park. Photo by Lindsay Oakley. COLLEGE PARK, October 5, 2022 The National Archives welcomed its first Fulbright Scholar in September. Cancy Chu, a Ph.D. candidate from the University of Melbourne’s Grimwade Centre