About the Journal

Publisher
Moorland-Spingarn Research
Center, Howard University

H. Patrick Swygert, Esq.,
President

Antoine M. Garibaldi, Ph.D.,
Provost and Chief Academic
Officer

Thomas Elzey, Executive Vice
President and Chief
Operating Officer

Thomas C. Battle, Ph.D., Editor
in Chief, Director, MSRC

Ronald Walters, Ph.D.,
Guest Editor

Janet Sims-Wood, Ph.D.,
Assistant Guest Editor

Rosa L. Anthony, Coordinator
Jean Currie Church, Managing
     Editor
Robin Van Fleet, Webmaster
Donna M. Wells, Graphics Editor
Kathy I. Jenkins, Technical
     Advisor
Joellen El Bashir, Contributing
     Editor
Clifford, L. Muse, Jr., Ph.D.,
     Contributing Editor

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Cover Note: "The Student" (1946), a mural by Abraham Joel Tobias, The Founders Library, Howard University. Secco fresco, watercolors on dry plaster, 8' x 12'.

Inset: President Lyndon B. Johnson signing the Voting Rights Act, 1965; Reception following, attended by Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. and others.

HUArchivesNet; the Electronic Journal of the Moorland-Spingarn Research Center at Howard University is published quarterly by the Center at Howard University, Washington, D.C. 20059. The electronic journal serves to link Howard University and MCI WorldCom in an innovative partnership which creates new ways to access one of the finest repositories of African and African American resources through the communications technology of MCI WorldCom's global networks.

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November 1999