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- About the OpportunityThis position reports to the African American History Archivist in the University Archives and Special Collections (UASC), at the Snell Library on the Boston campus.
- The successful candidate will support the Archivist with several research, public history, and archiving projects.
- The position’s primary responsibility is to assist the Archivist in supporting the Racial Redress and Reparations Lab of the Civil Rights and Restorative Justice (CRRJ), an affiliate program of the Center for Law, Equity and Race’s research of legacies of slavery in the City of Boston that adversely affected Black residents of the city.
- The position will collect and make publicly available the archival evidence that supports the research team, who will focus on the following topics: public school desegregation, the police and fire departments’ employment practices, and public housing segregation.
- The position will also collect, organize, and describe evidence of how the City’s exclusionary practices affected the lives of Black residents, the legal and policy measures that addressed the discrimination, and the relevance to contemporary social relations, economic factors, and other outcomes.
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