Haitian Student Organization collection

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Title

Haitian Student Organization collection

Date(s)

  • 1998-2014 (Creation)

Extent

2 Boxes

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Administrative history

Planet Kreyol was founded in 1993 at the University of Miami as the Haitian Student Organization and later renamed as Planet Kreyol. Their mission is to promote cultural awareness while servicing the community and preserving the ancestry of Haiti.

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Scope and content

Haitian Student Organization collection consists of memorabilia kept in a time capsule, such as organizational records, event brochures, meeting minutes, newsletters, photographs, the Haitian national flag, and news clippings, buried on October 16, 2004 and opened on October 18, 2014.  The collection was donated by the Planet Kreyol Haitian Student Organization of the University of Miami to the University Archives in January 2015.

The donor, Planet Kreyol, was founded in 1993 at the University of Miami as the Haitian Student Organization and later renamed as Planet Kreyol. Their mission is to promote cultural awareness while servicing the community and preserving the ancestry of Haiti.

System of arrangement

Box 1 contains 23 folders.  Box 2 contains 1 poster of an event.

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Conditions governing access

This collection is open for research.

Physical access

This collection is kept in an off-campus storage facility. Please contact the University Archivist, Nick Iwanicki, at ngi5@miami.edu with the boxes you are interested in prior to your visit, and allow up to 1 week for delivery of materials.

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Conditions governing reproduction

Requests to reproduce or publish materials from this collection should be directed to ngi5@miami.edu.

Languages of the material

  • English

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Finding aids

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Immediate source of acquisition

The collection was donated by the Planet Kreyol Haitian Student Organization of the University of Miami to the University Archives in January 2015 via Beatrice Skokan, Manuscripts Librarian, Special Collections.

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UMiami Planet Kreyol's Facebook page

Information about related materials is available at https://www.facebook.com/UMPlanetKreyol/info?tab=page_info.

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Archivist's note

Finding aid edited by Processing Archivist, Yvette Yurubi, 01-09-23.

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