subj17. Oral History Holdings

Content Description The papers primarily document Larney Goodkind’s client, William Warfield, and highlight Goodkind’s efforts to promote Warfield’s career as an international classical operatic performer. Some materials pertain to other clients as well, including African American soprano Leontyne Price. Formats in the collection include correspondence, concert programs and stage bills, concert reviews, photographs, contracts, biographical sketches, scrapbooks, certificates and awards, press releases, and sound...

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This small collection is made up of a single audiocassette of a January 1984 interview with Spiver Gordon, a field secretary for the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) who served in Plaquemine, Baton Rouge, and Monroe, Louisiana. The interviewer is unidentified. 45 minute recording, side 1 only.

Content Description Two reel-to-reel audio tapes of interviews with Dr. Frederick Douglass Hall, Sr., conducted by Harry Eskew in July and August of 1976. Hall was then head of the Music Department at Dillard University. Hall, a Rosenwald Fellow, had an active career on faculty of Dillard University, Jackson State University, Alabama State University, and Southern University. Interviews discuss Hall's childhood, his experiences as a musician and as a faculty member at historically Black colleges and...

Scope and Contents The George M. Houser collection consists of 1634 slides and approximately nine hours of film taken by Houser during trips to various African countries due to his association with the American Committee on Africa. The trips spanned a period of time from 1954 to 1999. Some of the notable events and personages included in the collection are: the first election of an independent Ghana (1954); three All African Peoples Conferences in Ghana (1958), Tunis (1960), and Cairo (1961); the founding of...

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The papers of Lucile Levy Hutton occupy 7.8 linear feet of shelf space and cover not only her career in public education; but also chronicle her vigorous participation in civic, religious, and cultural activities. Correspondence (1890-1988) has been kept with related material where it was generated and therefore may be found in six of the ten series. The papers are arranged chronologically within each category.

Content Description This collection includes correspondence regarding a memorial to James A. Dombrowski, a southern White Methodist minister and civil rights activist. Dombrowski co-founded the Highlander Folk School in Tennessee, founded the Conference of Younger Churchmen of the South, served as director of the Southern Conference for Human Welfare and the Southern Conference Educational Fund, andedited the liberal journal Southern Patriot. The memorial was co-chaired by...

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This collection contains audiocassette tapes and one videotape of various talks, speeches, and lectures of national and international African and African American leaders. Individuals include Marcus Garvey, Malcolm X, Haki Madhubuti, Ivan Van Sertima, Haile Selassie, and Martin Luther King Jr.

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35-page transcription of oral history interview with Jacob Lawrence conducted by James Buell and David Driskell in February 1982. Lawrence discusses the influences behind his creation of the Toussaint l'Ouverture series along with his other historical series.

Content Description The papers of historian and race relations activist Margaret Callender McCulloch include articles, pamphlets, speeches, reports, and poem written by McCulloch, as well as a typescript of "Can This Be Me?...memories of Mary Eliza West, Freedwoman" about a former enslaved woman on a Georgia plantation, edited by McCulloch. The collection also includes correspondence, photographs, a genealogical chart, a map, and handwritten transcripts of correspondence of physician Francis Julius LeMoyne and...

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This collection contains an oral history interview with Theodore Roosevelt McLemore conducted by Clifton H. Johnson. McLemore, a longtime trustee of LeMoyne College and LeMoyne-Owen College, discusses his life growing up in Tennessee, family history, and the development of the college under various administrators, including Frederick Leslie Brownlee, Frank Sweeney, and Hollis Price.