North Carolina Central University has long had a physical archive. The HBCU’s collection spans centuries with texts from the antebellum period, first edition novels written by authors like W.E.B Dubois and Phyllis Wheatley, and various other invaluable Black history narratives.
But the HBCU has never had an oral history archive – until English professor Rachelle Gold launched the first earlier this year.
The CLEOPATRA archive contains oral histories of Black women who graduated from NCCU in the past 60 years – with the oldest alumna graduating in 1962 and the youngest in 2015…