The Maryland Institute Black Archives were started not to sort through information, but to find it.

Deyane Moses, a senior photography major at the Maryland Institute College of Art, wanted her thesis project to look at the experience of African-American students at the arts school. When she went to consult a published campus history, she found only one page dedicated to the black experience, she said.

Clyde Johnson, associate dean of diversity and intercultural development at MICA, said he’s not surprised by the brief reference to African Americans in the school’s own telling of its history.

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