subj16. Holdings Related to Native Americans

Content Description These records document a range of activities including legal cases and ongoing functions of the Louisiana branch of the American Civil Liberties Union. Cases range across the state’s parishes and include a variety of issues involving prison conditions in parish facilities, as well as at Angola, the state’s maximum security prison, including death row conditions, Native American religious issues, and gender discrimination. Cases also involve Creationism, abortion, AIDS discrimination, police...

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 Reverend William H. Armstrong served as minister for the Calvary United Church of Christ, a racially-integrated inner city church in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and later for the Burton Congregational Church in Burton, Ohio. In addition to his church service, he pursues historical research and writing as a hobby. Armstrong also served as the Director of the U.S. Peace Corps in Swaziland, Africa, from 1966-1968. Armstrong's papers document his activities as minister to Calvary...

Scope and Contents This collection is Carroll G. Barber's research file on the history of McNary, a Louisiana lumber town that was relocated from Louisiana to Arizona in 1924 when the William Cady Lumber Company acquired property in Arizona. Barber was actively engaged in documenting this community from the 1960s to the 1990s, and correspondence demonstrates Barber's efforts in compiling this information from an array of sources. This move involved two trainloads of Louisiana-based employees and their...

Scope and Contents The Olivia Ward Bush-Banks papers consist primarily of the published and unpublished fiction of Olivia Ward Bush-Banks, teacher, poet, playwright, socialite, historian, and activist. The materials, both in hand script and typescript, include drafts and final copies.  Several of the poems, plays, and stories were subsequently published in The Collected Works of Olivia Ward Bush-Banks by The Schomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women...

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The Michael Dardar collection consists of photocopies of writings on the Houma, a Native American people in Louisiana. Included is a court case and a newsletter entitled "Talking Stick".

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This collection contains minutes, correspondence, election materials, lists, maps, reports, and by-laws of the Central City Economic Opportunity Corporation (EOC) of New Orleans, Louisiana. Items of note include a report on the Houma people of Louisiana and the opposition to the proposed Uptown Bridge over the Mississippi River.

Content Description This collection contains seven letters, mostly written by Mary A.S. Bailey, a girl in her early teens during the Civil War. The letters were written from Keokuk, Iowa, to a cousin, Florence Hatch, of Perry, New York. One letter was written by J.W. Adams of Brockport to a D.S. Morgan, an American citizen who was visiting London, England. The letters discuss local events and the progress of the war.Additionally, the collection formed by historian Francis J. Manno contains mostly...

Content Description This collection contains videotapes, audiotapes and transcriptions of interviews conducted by Mary  Anne Mushatt along River Road, near New Orleans, Louisiana. The interviews form the basis of Mushatt’s MFA thesis project, Lion’s Tale. Interviewees include Kathe Hambrick, Executive Director of the River Road African American Museum & Gallery in Donaldsonville; Darryl Daniels, Project Manager for the Historic River Road Project; and Gray Hawk Perkins,...

Scope and Contents This small collection pertains to ancestors of the donor, William Kincaid Newman; this includes Newman's grandfather, William Kincaid, and Newman's great-grandfather, Daniel Chapman. The collection includes an 1889 map of Guthrie, Oklahoma, Indian Territory, printed by C. P. Spining & Co. shortly after the incorporation of Guthrie after the Land Run of 1889. The map is inscribed "compliments of Rock, Clevinger & Hays Attorneys at-Law Guthrie" and includes some annotations on the map...