Hampton University Outreach Update

This week provided insight and further clarity moving forward with promotion of The HistoryMakers Digital Archive.

On Tuesday, January 24, 2023, the Library Director, Tina Rollins reached out my fellow Student Ambassador, Lillian Jackson and I that going forward, any events and promotion with The HistoryMakers Digital Archive on campus requires library involvement and approval since The HistoryMakers Digital Archive is a library resource. Also, any promotional material we use must include the William R. & Norma B. Harvey Library.

On Thursday, January 26, 2023, Lillian and I had a productive meeting with the Electronic Resource Librarian, Mr. Herbert Nyakudya . Within the meeting, we discussed plans for the Black History Month Contest, “Guess Who: HistoryMaker Edition” as well as future plans for outreach. During the meeting, Lillian and I decided to have students serve as our judges and to contact Beth Smith to design our flyer. it to the library for approval. Additionally, we discussed sending the following information to send to Mr. Nyakudya for library approval:

HistoryMakers PowerPoint;

Google registration form for the Black History Month Contest;

Demo video

When the meeting concurred, I sent the documents listed above to Mr. Nyakudya and received feedback the next day (January 27, 2023).

In addition to obtaining library approval , the Office of Provost must also approve of any campus events to ensure that Hampton University is being represented “in good light”. The Black History Month Contest is still scheduled to occur within February (the library is onboard with it), but details regarding the event such as the location are subject to change.

Despite learning of this news, I have received approval to present at the next monthly meeting for the Hampton University Chapter of the National Society of Speech Language Hearing Association (NSSLHA) on Wednesday, February 1. For my presentation, I plan to present the HistoryMakers PowerPoint as well as highlight Dr. Orlando Taylor (1936-), a HistoryMaker who has made important contributions in the field of speech language pathology.

**Dr. Orlando Taylor**
PHOTO CREDITS: HistoryMakers Digital Archive

BLACK HISTORY MONTH BLOG POST:

This week, I used The HistoryMakers Digital Archive to research and determine the topic of my Black History Month blog post for Thursday, February 2nd, 2023.

Before diving into the archive, I knew that my blog post would be about nature and being outdoors. Over my winter break, I visited Big Bear, CA and Lake Arrowhead, CA. Only two hours away from my hometown of Los Angeles, these cities are located within the mountain ranges in Southern California. Being surrounded by the snow and fresh air inspired me to select these two themes since oftentimes, conversations about Black people in nature and exploring the outdoors can be overlooked. As for the topic selection, I have narrowed my blog post topic down to two topics: Black women in aquatic sports or Black people and the National Parks.

Aquatic sports consists of sports such as swimming, water polo, surfing, windsurfing and kayaking. For Black women in aquatic sports, I would highlight Black women who have positive and negative experiences with aquatic sports. Some aquatic sports include swimming, water polo, kayaking, and surfing. For Black women in aquatic sports, I completed the following searches. The numbers in parentheses are the number of the results each search yielded:

SEARCH RESULTS [with “Female” as a filter]: swim (533), swimming (533), “water polo”, “wind surf” (1), “kayaking” (5), surf (18), “canoe” (16)

A mother teaching their child how to swim
**PHOTO CREDITS:** https://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/16/well/swimming-simone-manuel-black-children.html

The second topic of choice consists of Black people (of all genders) and the National Parks system. Growing up, my family and I would visit national parks within California like Yosemite National Park, Sequoia National Park and Death Valley National Park. For this topic, I would select HistoryMakers who have visited, aided or worked for the National Parks. The following searches yielded these results:

SEARCH RESULTS: National Parks (1097), “National Parks” (135), “National Park Service” (72), Yosemite (16), Yellowstone (21), “Grand Canyon” (42)

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