Topic: Race & Social Justice
“Highest Standards”: Elite Philanthropy and Literary Black Voices during the Civil Rights Era
Against a backdrop of white, establishment concepts of literary excellence, one foundation struggled to appreciate Black voices.
New Research: Early Work-Relief Program, Urban Planning, Educational Broadcasting, and International Studies in the 1930s
Four new research reports delve into unique stories drawn from the history of the Ford and Rockefeller Foundations.
Funding a Social Movement: The Ford Foundation and Civil Rights, 1965-1970
A story recounting many accusations, from rigged elections to the meddling of big private money in grassroots organizing.
New Research: Prisons, Macroeconomics, Nurses of Psychiatry, and Colonial Medicine
The latest installment in our series of newly-published research reports.
New Research: Black Conservatives, Climate Policy, African Universities, and Aid to Intellectuals
Research reports drawing on several Rockefeller Archive Center collections span continents, disciplines, and eras.
Black Education and Rockefeller Philanthropy from the Jim Crow South to the Civil Rights Era
Applying a vast fortune to the American race problem, but with decades of false assumptions and well-intended approaches that fell short.
The Fairy Godmothers of Women’s Studies
Moving scholarship by and about women from margin to center.
In Brief: Manels Before #MeToo
A foundation’s early criticism of the all-male conference panel, before #nomoremanels
In Brief: The South African Institute of Race Relations
How did a US foundation manage to work under apartheid?
In Brief: The 1995 Beijing Women’s Conference
The global conversation about women’s issues takes a big step forward.