A New Project to Preserve HBCU History

A New Project to Preserve HBCU History

A new partnership between Getty Images and the genealogy website Ancestry aims to save the records and photographs of historically Black colleges and universities. A group of Claflin University students were perusing old campus photos when one image caught a student’s eye—it was a picture of his grandmother from her college days. He knew they attended the same historically Black university in South Carolina, but he had never seen a picture of he…