Abstract
American Council of Learned Societies' (ACLS) designation of its Committee on Negro Studies in 1941 held out the prospect of anchoring both the black scholar and the study of Afro-American life and culture in American scholarship. Although black scholars had pioneered the scientific examination of the Afro-American past, they encountered numerous restrictions in their work, especially in the South. They were generally denied access to libraries and the meetings of professional and scholarly organizations (Winston, 1971: 702). E. Horace Fitchett, for example, was barred from the Charleston Library Society in 1936 while researching materials for his dissertation The Free Negro in Charleston, South Carolina.
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