Custodial History
In 2000, the Library of Congress was awarded a grant of $1 million from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation for the purpose of undertaking the Katherine Dunham Legacy Project. Project activities included the purchase of the Katherine Dunham archives; preservation of the materials that documented and augmented the Dunham legacy; auxiliary programs that assisted the Katherine Dunham Centers in East Saint Louis and Dunham workshops; video documentation of the Dunham technique and interviews of Dunham; and creation of the Dunham website at the Library of Congress (available at http://lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/html/dunham/dunham-home.html).
Moving images were received in 2001; the remaining items in the Collection were transferred to the Library after Dunham’s death in 2006. Since 2011, additional materials have been and continue to be added to the Collection through gifts and purchases.