subj14. Holdings related to the Military

Scope and Contents This collection is a valuable resource for the study of the abolitionist movement. It includes approximately 350,000 manuscript pieces. The mass of these was written during the period from 1839 to 1882, but several thousand are dated before and after that time. The manuscripts include some of the treasurers’ papers and minutes of Executive Committee meetings, as well as other items such as sermons, statistical reports, drawings, photographs, and essays; however, letters make up the large...

Content Description Dr. Emmett Bashful, educator and political scientist, was born on March 12, 1917, in Oscar, Louisiana. He was a native of Pointe Coupee Parish, but the family moved to Baton Rouge when he was four years old, where he was educated in the public schools of East Baton Rouge. He was one of the first African Americans to receive a graduate degree in Political Science from the University of Illinois. He graduated with a Bachelor of Science in 1940 and continued on to the University of Illinois...

Content Description I.V. Billes attended Southern University in Baton Rough, Louisiana, receiving a Bachelor of Science Degree in 1941. He continued his education at the Tuskegee Institute, in Tuskegee, Alabama, studying toward a Master’s Degree in Administration. He entered the Armed Forces in 1942 and fought in World War II. He was discharged in 1946 and retired from the U.S. Army Reserves as a Lt. Col. in 1969. He started his career as a teacher and coach in 1942 at Lincoln Parish Training School, Ruston,...

Scope and Contents Dr. Henry E. Braden III's papers center on New Orleans' political, professional, and social circles of the latter half of the twentieth century. The papers include personal and political correspondence, military records, awards and honors, programs, invitations, newspaper clippings on the Braden and Haydel families, photographs, and other collected materials. Of particular note is Dr. Braden's sizable collection of political correspondence and campaign materials for politicians...

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The collection contains diplomas, correspondence, records of vital statistics, and photographs of Arthur Lee Branch and family of Thomasville, Georgia. Branch was a graduate of Meharry Medical College.

Scope and Contents The Seleste L. Chandler papers document Chandler's service as an African American medic serving in France during World War I. The collection includes Chandler's diary, photographs, correspondence, and an obituary notice. The highlight of the collection is a diary kept by Chandler from approximately June 1917, when he entered Jenner Medical College in Chicago, Illinois, to February 1919, when he returned to the United States from his tour of duty. Chandler briefly describes his...

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The collection consists of his Cambridge High and Latin School yearbook from 1939, publications on various studies he conducted in the field of chemistry, photographs, and family genealogical data.

Content Description This collection consist of an audiocassette tape and transcript of an oral interview conducted by Dr. Edward Dees of his uncle Authur Dorsey, World War II Merchant Marine Veteran. Dorsey describes his battle against segregation and personal experiences as chief radio operator on board the USS Dan Beard as it was torpedoed off the British Isles on December 10, 1944 with a loss of 51% fatalities. Also included is a newspaper article on the Dan Beard and a photographic reprint of the...

Scope and Contents The Double Victory Oral History Collection consists of five oral histories of men who served in the military during World War II (WWII) and a panel discussion of veterans of WWII hosted by the Amistad Research Center. Also included are documents and photographs donated by Bennie Francis Sr., which consist of an introduction booklet on Fort Huachuca, passenger information on the U.S.S. Randolph CV-15, discharge papers, an identification dischargee certificate and an October 1944 letter to...

Content Description The papers of this Baton Rouge civil rights leader and entrepreneur, Emmitt Douglas, largely concern one of his businesses, Douglas Beauty Supply, in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Materials include photographs of Douglas' Annual Hair Show. Several scrapbooks are in the collection, which include clippings and sympathy cards after Douglas' death, Kordice Douglas' college years and European travels, and newspaper clippings of Emmitt Douglas' political career, including his 1968 run for Louisiana...