*The Amistad Research Center (ARC) is celebrated on this date in 1966. The Amistad Research Center was established by the United Church Board for Homeland Ministries.
Its first home was at Fisk University to house the historical records of the American Missionary Association. In 1969, Amistad became an independent non-profit organization, and the following year, it relocated to Dillard University in New Orleans. ARC is an independent archives and manuscripts repository in the United States that specializes in the history of African Americans and ethnic nonwhites.
It is one of the first institutions in the United States to collect African American ethnic historical records and document the modern American Civil Rights Movement. The ARC has approximately 15 million holdings, emphasizing documents and including books, pamphlets, periodicals, photographs, and fine arts. It has digitized holdings to enable research and education by scholars and students at locations distant from the ARC. Although the ARC documents history and race relations in the United States, its holdings extend beyond African American history and also include the ethnic heritage of Latinos, Asian Americans, Native Americans, Appalachian whites, and the LGBTQ community.
