Morgan State College’s Ideas for Black Studies

1971

Morgan State was one of the first HBCUs to develop a Black Studies program.

Professor Walter Fisher created this pamphlet that documents Black Studies at Morgan State University. It includes sample syllabi of Black Studies courses and a bibliography of Black Studies publications by other faculty including Nick Aaron Ford. The pamphlet also includes a list of artworks by Black artists in the Morgan State Gallery of Art (now the James E. Lewis Museum of Art).

The pamphlet’s cover features an anti-colonial folk tapestry made by the Dahomey people (Benin, West Africa), connecting the college’s Black Studies program to African artistic, social, and political traditions. Morgan State University now offers a minor and Master of Arts degree in African American and African Diaspora Studies.