Isaiah Dorman and the Custer Expedition

McConnell, Roland C.

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“…In the end, McConnell's piece represented an opening wedge in reconsidering the role of African Americans in westward expansion-just the sort of corrective to conventional historiography Pinkett favored. 79 Also mirroring the approach taken by Pinkett in the Crisis, McConnell underlined the need to ferret out and exploit untapped sources. Revisionist history, he lamented, lagged because of historians' neglect of records at the National Archives.…”

Section: Postwar Work and Scholarshipmentioning

confidence: 97%

Harold T. Pinkett and the Lonely Crusade of African American Archivists in the Twentieth Century

Poole¹

2017

The American Archivist

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As suggested by its Statement of Core Values (2011), Statement on Diversity (2013), and Strategic Plan (2014-2018, the Society of American Archivists has recently increased its efforts regarding diversity and inclusion. This article focuses on Harold T. Pinkett (1914Pinkett ( -2001, the first African American archivist employed by the National Archives as well as the first African American to be named an SAA Fellow, to edit The American Archivist, and to serve on SAA Council. Pinkett's life speaks to current diversity and inclusivity conversations in two ways. First, it illuminates the history of racial and ethnic diversity and inclusivity in the archival profession, particularly at the National Archives and in the Society of American Archivists. Archivists such as Harold Pinkett began to fight for diversity and inclusivity in the profession's early years. Second, Pinkett's story shows the long-standing investment of African American archivists in increasing racial and ethnic diversity and inclusivity in collections and documentation. Pinkett proselytized for the maximum use of records in the writing of history, especially in documenting the history of underrepresented people, and his own writings reflected this belief.

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Section: Postwar Work and Scholarshipmentioning

confidence: 97%