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Department of African American & African Studies
810 Social Science Building
267 19th Ave South
Minneapolis, MN 55455

Phone: 612-624-9847
E-mail: afroam@umn.edu

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Morrill Hill Bridge

Make a gift to the Department of African American & African Studies online through the University of Minnesota Foundation.

For more information on ways to give, contact:

Diane Walters

Mary Hicks
CLA External Relations
220 Johnston Hall
101 Pleasant St. SE
Minneapolis, MN 55455

E-mail: hicks002@umn.edu
Phone: 612-625-5541

For other giving options, visit the U of M Foundation.

The Department of African American & African Studies is celebrating its 40th anniversary in 2009! To mark this historic occasion we are collaborating with a dynamic group of alumni and community members to organize “We Still Have a Charge to Keep,” a series of events designed to

  • commemorate the January 1969 Morrill Hall takeover that led to the formation of the department in the fall of 1969;
  • examine the current status of African American student recruitment, admission, retention, and graduation;
  • create strategies for advancing the University’s goal of becoming a top three public research institution–such a goal cannot be achieved without a strong commitment to the work done in publicly-engaged ethnic studies units.

Please consider making a one-time gift or continuing donation to support the department. Gifts to The Legacy Continues Fund will help stage 40th anniversary events. Donations to the John S. Wright Scholarship Fund enable more students to travel and study abroad. We welcome any contribution, from $1 to $10,000,000. Your gift to The Legacy Continues Fund, the John S. Wright Scholarship Fund, or the General Fund immediately helps us support cultural programming and events, build community outreach, establish student scholarships, and develop faculty research.