subj20. Holdings Related to Sociology

Content Description The family's papers document grandfather Lewis Adams, co-founder of Tuskegee Institute, Charles P. Adams, founder of Grambling State University in Louisiana and other prominent members of the Adams family including author Chester Himes, and sociologist Joseph S. Himes. The items include a copy of the publication Today's Omaha Woman, which features an article on Charles P. Adams, III's sister and niece, JoAnne A. Lofton, and daughter Dhana Chandler. Additional materials consist of a family...

Scope and Contents The papers of sociologist and educator Dr. James E. Blackwell provide extensive documentation regarding discrimination and desegregation of higher education institutions and mentoring of Black students, as well as affirmative action, economic and social justice issues in regards to the Black community and other ethnic minorities during the late 20th century. The papers consist of extensive correspondence files documenting Blackwell’s work as the chair of the...

Content Description The papers of sociologist and professor James E. Conyers consist of biographical information, correspondence, material related to the Black Caucus of the American Sociologists Association, articles written by Conyers and collected articles of various aspects of sociological aspects of African American life, programs, newspaper clippings, printed ephemera and collected publications, statistical information on African Americans in Fulton County, Georgia, in 1965 and 1966, correspondence and...

Content Description Dr. James L. Conyers, Jr. is the Chair of the Department of Black Studies and Associate Professor of Black Studies and Sociology at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. His papers include his dissertation entitled "An Evaluative and Descriptive Analysis of Selected African American Studies Departments and Programs," submitted to Temple University in 1991; a syllabus from one of his classes on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X; as well as academic certificates and some personal...

Scope and Contents The Joseph S. Himes papers encompass 12 linear feet of material covering Himes personal and professional career as a professor of Sociology at several Universities including the University of North Carolina Greensboro and North Carolina Central University. The collection covers the areas  of blindness, teenaged pregnancy, racial conflict, social change and social movements of the civil rights era. The papers are arranged into six groups of materials with the bulk of them being professional...