Featured Collections

With the Africana celebrating its 50th anniversary with events and an exhibit at the Tufts University Art Galleries we are highlighting the Africana Center Records as our featured collection. This group of records document the Center's work from its founding in 1969 to its development over the several decades into a provider of academic and social resources and activities for students of African descent. Some of the larger projects represented in the records include the founding of the Tufts Black Alumni Association; the organization of the freshmen orientation Cape Cod retreat; the...

Roslyn Brogue Henning (1919 -1981) was a Tufts professor, composer, musician, and classics scholar. Henning studied at Drake University and at the University of Chicago, where she received a degree in classics at the age of 19. She continued her education at Radcliffe College earning a M.A. in 1943 and a PhD. from Harvard University in 1947. She joined the Tufts Department of Classics in 1962 as an associate professor.

The collection consists of sheet music, some printed and some handwritten in a box called "Manuscripts," and Henning's scrapbooks from 1919 to 1965, containing concert programs...