subj10. Jewish-related Holdings

Scope and Contents The collection includes architectural drawings, correspondence, directories, financial records, legal documents, minutes, maps, memoranda, notes, newspaper clippings, reports, and tables generated during Mr. Levin’s seven year tenure as a Detroit councilmember. Topics covered under the city council files include inner city and ethnic relations and real estate management, particularly racial discrimination in housing and rehabilitation of residential and commercial property in...

Scope and Contents The records of Louisiana Coalition Against Racism and Nazism contains 38.49 linear feet of correspondence, organizational records, writings, and ephemera and publicity materials related to their efforts to inform the public about the racist and anti-Semitic views of  American white supremacist and white nationalist politician David Duke. Large portions of the collection are materials collected by LCARN as research used in their campaigns against David Duke. This includes materials...

Scope and Contents This collection of approximately 70 items contains correspondence, bulletins, newspaper clippings, programs, sample forms, questionnaires, and sermons collected by Natalie Midlo. These materials reflect her civic activism and support of civil rights and school desegregation. Several items are from esoteric groups and express anti-Semitic and racist views, support segregated schools and white supremacy, state sovereignty, and other social and political issues. Included is an...

Scope and Contents This collection contains 16 printed items, circa 1980-1984, including circulars, pamphlets, and an extra-illustrated Bible with Afro-centric illustrations published by the Temple of Love Publishers, for the Hebrew Israelites (Nation of Yahweh) of Miami, Florida. Many contain the name of Moses Israel or Yahweh ben Yahweh (pseudonyms of Hulon Mitchell Jr, the founder of the Nation of Yahweh). The extra-illustrated Bible contains the Old and New Testament of the King James version with bound-in...

Content Description Members of the National Association of Human Rights Workers (NAHRW) are individuals in both public and private agencies working to promote improved human relations. The records of the organization offer a comprehensive overview of the Civil Rights Movement since WWII, and include correspondence, corporate and financial records, accounts, agenda, minutes, reports, articles, speeches, publications, lists, newsletters, photographs, and tapes of some seminars and meetings. In addition, the...

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Papers of the physician Isidore Robbins include correspondence, writings, and photographs relating to Jewish life in New Orleans, medicine, and silent film stars. Items of interest include a typescript by Rabbi Julian B. Feibelman, "The History of the Jewish Community in New Orleans," written in 1968.

Scope and Contents The Save Our Schools records document the efforts by this organization, which was founded in April 1960 to maintain free public education in New Orleans during the integration of the public school system. The collection contains organizational records, as well as newspaper clippings and publications collected by SOS and its members. The bulk of the materials within the Save Our Schools collection spans the years 1957 to 1962, with correspondence dating from 1960 to 1962. The...

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The records of the Urban League of Greater New Orleans include correspondence, minutes, reports, studies and financial records of the Urban League's general fund and special projects, including the Street Academy Program, Adolescent Pregnancy Program, Data Processing Center, Deliquency Preservation Progam, and Parent Child Center programs. Also included are collected items and writings.