Recipient
Charles L. Blockson Afro-American Collection, Temple University
The Charles L. Blockson Afro-American Collection at Temple University is one of the nation's leading research facilities for the study of the history and culture of people of African descent. The collection of over 500,000 items includes materials representing the global black experience in all formats: books, manuscripts, sheet music, pamphlets, journals, newspapers, broadsides, posters, photographs, and rare ephemera.