A description of the goals and academic courses of the Black Studies Institute, from the 1971 issue of CCAC
A tutorial on using the Library Catalog by Instructional Librarian Sheena Campbell. This video shows you how to search the CCA Libraries' catalog, understand call numbers, and locate the books you want. The video was created in 2015 and shows the Libraries Drupal website and Innovative Interfaces Millennium catalog, both of which were replaced in subsequent years.
A letter to CCAC President Ford in which Michael Wright objects to the CCAC publication Spectrum's representation of Ethnic Studies, and to Spectrum editor Ken David's inclusion of such representations. The letter is accompanied by a clipping of a cartoon, published in Spectrum, that inspired Wright's letter.
Proposal made by Michael Wright to the Academic Council of courses to be taught in CCAC's Black Studies Institute, August 31, 1970.
In the Fall semester of 2016, CCA Faculty Kari Marboe and Capp Street Project Archive Curator Jennine Scarboro teamed up for the Upper Division Interdisciplinary Studio (UDIST) course Activate Archive: Capp Street Project. During the class students were introduced to the CSP Archive, researched the process, intention,and realization of projects sponsored by CSP and used their research to inspire their own new collaborative and individual site-specific works. The course culminated in a campus exhibition In CCA's Oliver Art Center.
A letter to Wolfgang Lederer, Chairman of the Department of Design, from John W. Lottes, Assistant to the President, in which Lottes justifies his decision to assign the "African Design" course to the Design Division, attached to a later correspondence from Lederer to President Harry Ford and Martin Streich, Chairman of Basic Studies, insisting that "African Design has no place in the Design Program". And a final message from President Ford stating that "African Design" would become part of the Black Studies Department.
A letter in which Mr. Harper responds to Miss Fabio's criticism by pointing out that he has compiled a bibliography and alocated shelf space in the library, to support her work as a teacher of Black Literature in the Ethnic Studies Program
A collections of documents relating to the history of the Ethnic Studies program at California College of Arts and Crafts
Transcription of a verbal statement made by Sarah Fabio, as part of the 1969 CCAC Student-Faculty Institute, calling for, the school's increased responsibility toward "the people--all the people including racial minorities", for developing a new academic system, and for providing the black students of CCAC with an education that would enable them "to move toward a sense of integrity"