The Clement Alexander Price Archive and Circulating Collection was unveiled at Dana Library in October.
On October 24, the John Cotton Dana Library hosted a reception for the grand opening of the Clement Alexander Price Archive and Circulating Collection. The event featured an exhibition of items from Price’s archival collection and personal library. It also kicked off a year of programming called Clement@80, which is taking place around what would have been the 80th year of Price’s life. Speakers at the event included Amanda Clay Powers, associate university librarian for Rutgers University–Newark; Mary Sue Sweeney Price, Clement’s wife and Director Emerita of the Newark Museum; and Spencer Crew, Robinson Professor of American History at George Mason University, who coauthored a book with Price.
Price was an eminent professor, renowned scholar, and dedicated citizen. His influence can still be felt in the very fabric of Rutgers–Newark, the city of Newark, and the entire nation. He was the Board of Governors Distinguished Service Professor of History at Rutgers–Newark; the founding director of the Institute on Ethnicity, Culture, and the Modern Experience (now the Price Institute); the vice chair of President Barak Obama’s Advisory Council on Historic Preservation; the chair of Obama’s transition team for the National Endowment for the Humanities; a member of the Scholarly Advisory Committee of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture; and a trustee of the National Trust for Historic Preservation. You can read more about his tremendous legacy in this story on the Rutgers website.
The Dana Library faculty and staff are pleased and proud to make the Price archive and collection available. Special recognition goes to two former associate university librarians for Rutgers–Newark, Consuella Askew and Rhonda Marker, for the acquisition of the collection, and to Mary Sue Sweeney Price for making it available.
