WSSU Archives Gets a Facelift

Over the past couple of months, the University Archives has gone through some substantial changes.  In January movable shelving was installed which doubled the linear feet of storage.  This freed up space on the shelves to make room for two major accessions to the collection.  The first accession was the Fostina Holman Collection.  Holman was a long time music professor at the University and kept a substantial amount of information about the general history of the school.  The second collection was donated by the family of the Rev. Dr. Cedric Rodney.  The religion professor and University Chaplain kept a large collection of slides from his travels as well as records related to the James A. Gray Lecture Series.

Below please enjoy images of the changes made to the Archives.

The shelving before the renovation

New Archives workspace            

New movable shelving                  

WSSU Archives Presents the new James A. Gray Lecture Series Website

The Winston-Salem State University Archives would like to present the new James A. Gray Lecture Series site as a part of the Archives' Digital Library. Each speaker has a set of photographs, videos clips, a program or brochure from their specific engagement. The site itself can be searched by name, year and soon by a drop box to find a particular speaker.


The James A. Gray Lecture Series is a lecture series which brings in outstanding speakers from academia, public life and theology scholars to discuss topics such as gender and spirituality, the African-American family and the younger generations living spiritually in a secular society. These discussions and lectures have brought great conversation and ideas to contemplate to the campus of Winston-Salem State University since 1992 until today through an endowment from James A. Gray and we present them to you in our new digital library.

James A. Gray Lecture Series Collection