Afeni Shakur-Davis, the mother of Tupac Shakur, will make available her son`s manuscript writings and other papers for scholarly research for the Atlanta University Center.
The Tupac Shakur Collection is currently housed within the Woodruff Library Archives. It features handwritten lyrics, personal notes, fan correspondence and promotional materials providing an insight into his career."The Woodruff Library Archives has done a phenomenal job archiving my son's materials," said Afeni Shakur-Davis in a statement. "I thank their staff for partnering with my family and the Foundation in helping to make these important documents available in a professional manner that will benefit scholars for years to come."
According to the Tupac foundation, “In addition to the archival partnership with the Woodruff Library, the Tupac Amaru Shakur Foundation has recruited some of the nation's top scholars to assemble the Tupac Shakur Secondary School Curriculum, a seventh-12th grade academic curriculum and a college-level reader. In this comprehensive curriculum, the poetry, music and views of Tupac Shakur are used to teach basic hip hop studies units within academic disciplines such as fine arts, history and language arts. This learning tool can be used separately or in conjunction with any state-mandated learning standards curriculum. Both the release of the secondary and college-level curriculums will coincide with the opening for research of The Tupac Shakur Collection at the Woodruff Library in Fall 2010”.
The library currently houses 11 boxes of material relating to 2PAC. The Collection is expected to be open for Fall 2010.
