THE ARCHIVES

BWC Project Archives

Records, photographs, and other items gathered and preserved by our collaborators, mainly from the Archives & Oral Histories working group. Click on the folders below to access them.

Exhibit Archive

A closer look at the records/documents on display in our exhibit, Family Foundations: Four Stories of Black Washtenaw County Community Building. Click on the folders below to access them.

A Guide to Black History in Washtenaw County

This guide was created by Jack Schmitt and Delaney Jorgensen, Master’s students at the University of Michigan School of Information, as a capstone project in partnership with the Bentley Historical Library and Michelle McClellan, Johanna Meijer Magoon Principal Archivist. This is a resource guide pointing you to some of the rich collections pertaining to Washtenaw County’s Black History.