Operation Crossroads Africa
Organization
Found in 8 Collections and/or Records:
Charlotte and David Brown papers
Collection
Identifier: 648
Content Description
Through Operation Crossroads Africa, Drs. Charlotte and David Brown worked on medical projects and helped run several hospitals in Africa, in particular the Eastern Clinic in Mobai, Sierra Leone from 1962 to the present. The materials in this collection consists of scrapbooks and correspondence related to a trip to Ekwendeni, Nyasaland, in 1962 by the Brown family; scrapbooks, news clippings and correspondence regarding Dr. David Brown’s work with the Eastern Clinic, which was founded by Dr....
Dates:
Other: 1962-2002
Peggy Fleming papers
Collection
Identifier: 774
Scope and Contents
The Peggy Fleming papers consist of a 119-page travel journal documenting the summer 1961 travel of Peggy Fleming, nee Peggy Dougherty, to Nigeria as a participant in the Operation Crossroads Africa (OCA) Overseas Youth Program. The collection also includes photographs, correspondence, miscellaneous notes, newspaper clippings, and various ephemera received and collected on her trip. At the time of her participation with OCA, Fleming was employed in President John F. Kennedy's White House...
Dates:
Created: 1958-2003; Other: Date acquired: 02/15/2013
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
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Peggy Fleming papers
Julie Geisler papers
Collection
Identifier: 2534
Content Description
The papers document Julie Geisler’s work as a leader for Operation Crossroads Africa (OCA). Operations Crossroads Africa (OCA) is a non-profit, non-governmental organization working to build links between North America and Africa. It was founded in 1958 by Presbyterian clergyman James Herman Robinson. OCA annually sends groups of young volunteers from North America to work on projects in Africa. At its peak in the 1960s OCA sent about 350 people per year.Geisler lead groups of...
Dates:
1986-1987
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
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Julie Geisler papers
Martin Luther Harvey, Jr. papers
Collection
Identifier: 171
Scope and Contents
The papers of educator and husband of Clarie Collins Harvey, Martin Luther Harvey Jr. include correspondence (circa 1940s-1976), letters of appointment as Dean of Student Affairs at Southern University, invitations, programs, sermons, speeches, news clippings, certificates, photograph albums, memorabilia, and other printed items.A native of Newburgh, New York, Harvey was Dean of Student Affairs at Southern University for thirty-two years. The papers document his activities in...
Dates:
Other: 1911-1976
James Herman Robinson Institute collection
Collection
Identifier: 670
Content Description
The James Herman Robinson Institute was created by local New Orleans alumni of Operation Crossroads Africa (OCA) to promote scholarship in the African Diaspora through use of the archives and manuscript collections of the OCA and James H. Robinson held at the Amistad Research Center. The institute has sponsored two internship students to process and preserve portions of the OCA records, sponsored a speaker series “The Work and Legacy of Dr. James H. Robinson: Operation Crossroads Africa,”...
Dates:
Other: 1961-2004
Operation Crossroads Africa records
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 281
Scope and Contents
The Operation Crossroads Africa (OCA) records measure 34.4 linear feet and contain approximately 22 linear feet of correspondence. Most of this correspondence is dated between 1968 and 1975. Other record types in the accession are financial accounts, biographical profiles, reports, photographs, brochures, pamphlets, programs, newspaper articles, agenda and minutes, handbooks, and other printed items. The correspondence includes political items to and from American and foreign, particularly...
Dates:
Created: 1958-1979; Other: Date acquired: 01/01/1979
James Herman Robinson papers
Collection
Identifier: 314
Scope and Contents
The papers document the public career of James Herman Robinson, an African American Presbyterian clergyman, who achieved world recognition for his work in New York’s Harlem and his accomplishments in founding Operation Crossroads Africa, which served as one of the models for the Peace Corps. The papers encompass 21.6 linear feet of correspondence, writings, reports, publications, lists, financial statements, minutes, schedules and agendas, press releases, newspaper clippings, photographs,...
Dates:
Created: 1935-1973; Other: Date acquired: 12/01/1974
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
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James Herman Robinson papers
Mattie Sengstacke papers
Collection
Identifier: 609
Content Description
Mattie Sengstacke is a community activist in Memphis, Tennessee, involved with Operations Crossroads Africa. Her papers include correspondence, clippings, and publications on such topics as the Chicago Defender and Beale Street.
Dates:
Other: 1946-2000
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
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Mattie Sengstacke papers
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- Subject
- Sound recordings 3
- Intercultural communication 2
- Peace Corps (U.S.) -- History 2
- Vocational education -- Africa 2
- Africa 1
- Africa -- Description and travel 1
- African American Methodists 1
- African American clergy 1
- African American universities and colleges -- Administration 1
- Americans -- Foreign countries 1
- Community development 1
- Harlem (New York, N.Y.) 1
- Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963 -- Staff 1
- United States -- Foreign relations 1
- Young volunteers in community development -- Nigeria 1 ∧ less
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