About this Collection
The Black community in Uruguay was persecuted and evicted from their historic neighborhoods in Montevideo during the 1973-1984 dictatorship. These archives represent the acts of resistance against forms of repression, and has served as one of the largest collections of African Uruguayan history during this time period.
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Digitization for the Tomás Olivera collection was sponsored by the Modern Endangered Archives Program with funding from Arcadia.
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The personal collection of Tomás Olivera documents the history of the Afro-Uruguayan population from 1960 to 2005. Digitization of this collection addresses the absence of Afro-Uruguayans from existing archives in Uruguay. Digitization was completed by the Archivo Sociedad en Movimientos.
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The collection includes letters, printed materials, photographs, audio and visual recordings.