Hello,
I am writing to ask if you could promote the Library Company Mellon Scholars program on this listserv.
The Library Company of Philadelphia's Program in African American History (PAAH), with the support of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, offers an annual Mellon Scholars Program of fellowships, internships, and a professional development workshop.
These competitive programs are designed to increase the participation of scholars from underrepresented backgrounds and others in the field of African American history prior to 1900.
The African Americana Collection (over 13,000 titles and almost 1,000 graphics, and growing) includes books, pamphlets, newspapers, periodicals, broadsides, and graphics documenting the western discovery and exploitation of Africa, the rise of slavery in the new world along with the rise of movements against slavery, the development of racial thought and racism, descriptions of African American life, slave and free, throughout the Americas, slavery and race in fiction and drama, and the printed works of African American individuals and organizations.
I am attaching a pdf with further information about the Mellon Scholars. If you have any additional questions, please feel free to contact me. Thanks in advance for your help!
http://librarycompany.org/academic-programs/paah/fellowships/.
Jasmine Smith
African American History Subject Specialist & Reference Librarian
Library Company of Philadelphia
1314 Locust Street, Philadelphia PA 19107
215-546-3181 x 132