This folder contains administrative materials regarding the founding and activities of the Department of African and African American Studies at the University of Minnesota. Materials include faculty files, meeting minutes and agendas, newsletters, handbooks, correspondence, and memos. On January 14, 1969, members of the Afro-American Action Com...
Creator:
University of Minnesota. Dept. of Afro-American and African Studies.
Created:
1989 - 1994
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, University Archives.
This file folder is from the collection of personal papers of Guillermo Rojas, Chair of Chicano Studies from 1983-2003. These materials relate to the Department of Chicano Studies from the 1970s through early 2000s, and include photocopies of news articles; internal publications; communications between faculty, students, and administrators; plan...
Creator:
Rojas, Guillermo
Created:
1977; 2002
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, University Archives.
Biographical Information: Tasissa Moti, born in Western Oromia, was the first Oromo to settle in Minnesota. He grew up in a small village and did not attend school until his mid teens. While working as a dresser in a hospital, he met his future wife who was from Minnesota. After they married, the couple decided to come to Minnesota so that Tasis...
Creator:
Moti, Tasissa
Contributor:
Roba, Hibaa
Created:
2023-03-09
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Immigration History Research Center Archives.
