AUTHOR: Kate Stewart

Kate Stewart served as the archivist for the Civil Rights History Project, an oral history project sponsored by the American Folklife Center and the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture, a result of the Civil Rights History Project Act of 2009. Kate also processed and cataloged other collections related to African American history at the AFC. A graduate of Vassar College and the University of Iowa, her other passions are women's history, the history of librarianship, and the Washington Nationals. In July 2015, she left the Library of Congress for a position as Senator Barbara Mikulski’s archivist.

Most Recent Posts

• Q & A with Journalist Vern Smith on the Voices of Civil Rights Project Collection February 20th, 2015
• Ask Us Anything: Our Most Frequently Asked Questions November 5th, 2014
• Symposium Spotlights Interracial and Interfaith Coalitions September 30th, 2014
• Civil Rights Act of 1964 Exhibit Now Open September 12th, 2014
• New Civil Rights History Project Oral Histories September 9th, 2014
• Teaching with the Civil Rights History Project August 12th, 2014
• Researcher Spotlight: Jeannette Estruth July 18th, 2014
• Photographs of the Southern Freedom Movement in the Alan Lomax Collection June 25th, 2014
• Tracing the Long Journey of “We Shall Overcome” February 6th, 2014