50 Years/50 Collections: The Preston and Bonita Valien Papers, 1969
One of the founding collections at the Amistad Research Center that documents the Civil Rights Movement is the Preston and Bonita Valien Papers. This collection of papers is an exquisite example of activism in the form of scholarship. Originally donated in 1969 with an addition received in 1999, the strengths of the papers of this husband and wife team of African American sociologists lay in the extensive documentation created during their study of the fight for southern dese