subj25. Holdings related to Women

Acknowledgement This project was made possible in part by the Institute of Museum and Library Services award MH-245560-OMS-20. Content Description The papers primarily document the career of Elsie Mae Lewis, and significantly highlight the contributions of an African American educator, consultant, scholar and writer in the United States. The collection is extremely rich on the subjects of Black history, education and the documentation of Lewis’ career, with...

Content Description The addition to the papers primarily documents the career of Maida Springer Kemp, and significantly highlights the contributions of an African American woman involved with national and international labor movements. The collection is extremely rich on the subjects of trade unions, international labor laws and projects, women’s labor rights and civil rights. It features Springer Kemp’s work and speaking engagements in Africa, Europe, the Caribbean and the United States and includes ample...

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The papers document the career of composer, arranger, and pianist Loretta Manggrum and includes 0.2 linear feet of musical scores, news clippings and audiocassette recordings of Manggrum’s performances. Items of note within the collection are audiocassettes of a 1980 interview with Manggrum and a recording of the program “Can’t You See," a Cantata Composed by Loretta C. Manggrum, a Sermon in Song” (undated).

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...

Content Description The Lel H. McCullough collection contains photocopies of material gathered as part of McCullough's research on Emerson Bentley. Included is a copy of McCullough's research paper on the topic entitled "Emerson Bentley: A Personal Crusade in Louisiana Reconstruction." The collection contains legal papers pertaining to a suit instigated by Bentley, articles, clippings, maps, biographical data, a diary for 1864-1865, obituary notices, and correspondence from Bentley's teacher in Ohio to his...

Scope and Contents The papers of Edna Merson contain professional, as well as personal papers documenting Merson's life as a civic leader. The papers encompass 1.0 feet and include correspondence, publications, newspaper articles, photographs, typescripts, and a bibliography on Dr. Kenneth Clark. The papers span almost 20 years from 1958-1972, with the bulk of the papers being professional in nature. The correspondence focuses on her work with the Committee on Civil Rights in Metropolitan New York,...

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...

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This collection includes various acceptance remarks by Mary Lee Mills for awards conferred upon her by multiple professional nursing organizations, her cirriculum vita, and other documents pertaining to her career as a nursing consultant. These materials attest to her contributions to desegregating the nursing profession and her positive dedication to human needs of people everywhere.

Content Description This collection includes collected correspondence, clippings, fliers, and other planning and promotional documents removed from a scrapbook documenting this inaugural pageant held in Asbury Park, New Jersey, in 1969, ultimately won by Shirley Washington. Other materials include applications for contest entry, the official contest song, letters of inquiry to churches seeking eligible contestants between the ages of eighteen and twenty-one, an organizational structure chart, a telegraph from...

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This collection consists of a scrapbook assembled by Ruth Morton, former Director of Schools and Community Relations at the American Missionary Association. The scrapbook contains clippings, pamphlets, reports, photographs and other documents mostly related to schools and institutions throughout North Carolina, Georgia, Puerto Rico, Tennessee and Alabama.