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Daniel Ellis Byrd papers
Collection
Identifier: 068
Scope and Contents
The papers of attorney and civil rights activist Daniel Ellis Byrd include correspondence, reports, speeches, biographical data, minutes, financial records, resolutions, agendas, lists, and collected items. Many of the documents chronicle Daniel Byrd's involvement in activities related to his employment as an NAACP field secretary for forty years and as assistant director of the Department of Teacher Information and Security of the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund. Subjects treated in...
Dates:
Created: 1940-1984; Other: Majority of material found in 1947-1977; Other: Date acquired: 11/01/1977
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
Pontchartrain Park Pioneers Oral History collection
Collection
Identifier: 834
Content Description
The Pontchartrain Park Pioneers Oral History Collection encompasses ten digital mp4 video interviews with original residents of the safe haven all-black suburb, Pontchartrain Park in New Orleans, formed during the era of Jim Crow and racial segregation. The second oldest black suburb, built between 1955 and 1961, Pontchartrain Park was envisioned and developed by and for middle and upper-class African Americans who were denied the opportunity of homeownership in historic and new suburban...
Dates:
2019
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
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- African American lawyers 1
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- African Americans -- Housing 1
- Community activists 1
- Community development 1
- Community relations 1
- Discrimination in housing 1
- Discrimination in housing -- Law and legislation -- Louisiana 1
- Discrimination in housing -- Law and legislation -- United States 1
- National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) -- History -- 20th century 1
- Pontchartrain Park (New Orleans, La.: neighborhood) 1
- Race discrimination -- United States 1
- School integration -- United States -- History -- 20th century 1
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- Byrd, Daniel Ellis, 1910-1984 1
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