Harvard and HBCU Connections: Pre-1946

This dataset is the final product of the Harvard University Archives Spring 2022 Pforzheimer Fellowship project "Harvard and HBCUs". It was created by Pforzheimer Fellow Donald "Field" Brown in collaboration with Edward Copenhagen (Harvard University Archives), Ross Mulcare (Harvard University Archives), and Jehan Sinclair (Harvard Library). To uncover underrepresented histories of people of color at Harvard, the Harvard University Archives conducted a research survey to identify individuals with connections to both Harvard and historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) between 1800 and 1945. These individuals attended, taught, or received an honorary degree at Harvard prior to 1946 and also attended, taught, or received an honorary degree from an HBCU. The initial survey identified more than 200 people: from well-known historic Black scholars such as W.E.B. Du Bois to the less known Rose Butler Browne, the first Black woman to receive a PhD in education from Harvard. This fellowship project transformed the findings of this survey into a structured dataset.

本数据集为哈佛大学档案馆2022年春季普福尔茨海姆奖学金项目“哈佛大学与历史黑人学院和大学（Historically Black Colleges and Universities，HBCUs）”的最终成果，由普福尔茨海姆学者唐纳德·“菲尔德”·布朗，与爱德华·哥本哈根（哈佛大学档案馆）、罗斯·马尔卡尔（哈佛大学档案馆）及让·辛克莱（哈佛大学图书馆）合作完成。为挖掘哈佛大学中未被充分记载的非裔美国人历史，哈佛大学档案馆开展了一项研究调查，旨在识别1800年至1945年间同时与哈佛大学及历史黑人学院和大学存在关联的个体：此类个体需在1946年之前于哈佛大学就读、任教或获荣誉学位，且同时曾在某所历史黑人学院和大学就读、任教或获荣誉学位。初始调查共识别出200余人，研究对象涵盖从知名历史黑人学者W.E.B.杜波依斯（W.E.B. Du Bois）到鲜为人知的罗斯·巴特勒·布朗——首位在哈佛大学获得教育学博士学位的非裔女性。该奖学金项目将此次调查的研究成果整理为结构化数据集。