Temple University’s Charles L. Blockson Afro-American Collection has an extensive collection of materials related to African American history and culture and has grown to over 700,000 items housed in Sullivan Hall. The earliest book in the Block Collection was published in 1600. Standing from left to right are Serkaddis Alemayehu, Diane D. Turner and Robert Houston, who donated his archive during the We Remember and We Recall: North Philadelphia Oral History Project program.

Photo by Ryan S. Brandenberg

The Philadelphia Black Music Archive was developed in partnership with Temple alum, musicologist and educator Frank Johnson

Photo by Joseph A. Labolito