Amistad Collects, Shares Cultural Capital
The gem that is the Amistad Research Center serves a worldwide assemblage of scholars, but also the New Orleans community at-large. Local playwright and director Tommye Myrick, who was then acting director of the Department of African & African-American Studies at Southern University at New Orleans, was outraged by the omission of African-American soldiers from most every aspect of the new D-Day Museum’s grand opening in 2000. After calling for Blacks to boycott the instituti