Documenting Black History and Culture across the Diaspora

Daphne Muse is an activist, writer, educator, movement elder and cultural broker. Her collection of more than 5,000 letters documenting Black life and culture across the diaspora from 1958 to the present includes correspondence from activist Angela Davis, comedienne Richard Pryor, President Barack Obama, the San Quentin Six, author and poet Alice Walker and leaders in the Black Arts, Pan African and Civil Rights Movements.

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Presented by 

Imagining America

Event Co-Sponsors

• Department of African American and African Studies
• Department of American Studies
• Office of Research and Policy for Equity
• Feminist Research Institute
• Public Scholarship and Engagement 
• International House Davis