During 2002, Susan Smulyan and James Campbell, together with students and colleagues at Brown and its sister school Tougaloo College did research in the Tougaloo archives to gather materials documenting the Civil Rights movement. This lead to further student research in both the Brown and Tougaloo archives exploring the relationship between the two schools. The faculty and students felt that the best way to publish this research was in digital form, so as to reach the widest possible audience. The projects were designed to be digital from their inception. Materials were scanned as soon as they were selected, and the students created metadata records for each piece of evidence. They also wrote topic essays to contextualize and explain the materials they had collected. STG worked with the faculty and students to determine a metadata information model, and to design metadata templates for the source materials. STG then implemented the Freedom Now! website, which includes the topic essays written by the students, and the underlying database.

Freedom Now! An Archival Project of Tougaloo College and Brown University is a project of American Civilization and Africana Studies.

Contributors to this project include Kerri Hicks (STG), Julia Flanders (STG)