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Charles J. Hatfield papers
Collection
Identifier: 316
Scope and Contents
The papers of educator, union organizer, and civil rights activist Charles J. Hatfield Jr. document his life and career, as well as aspects of his family history. The collection includes correspondence; photographs; family records; financial, school, and military records; newspaper clippings; video cassettes; and writings/speeches by Hatfield. Hatfield's legal pursuits to integrate the Louisiana State University Law School, as well as his later teaching career, are documented within the...
Dates:
Created: 1872-2000; Other: Date acquired: 09/01/1998
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
NAACP, Office of Field Director of Louisiana records
Collection
Identifier: 261
Scope and Contents
The records of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People’s (NAACP) Louisiana State Field Office consist of 21 linear feet of documents. The largest portion of the collection is comprised of correspondence; the remainder of the collection consists of reports, press releases, minutes, newsletters, complaints, newspaper clippings, and photographs. The correspondence in the collection is arranged chronologically and consists primarily of letters written to and by the NAACP...
Dates:
Created: 1964-1976; Other: Date acquired: 01/01/1977
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
New Orleans school integration photographs
Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: 2266
Scope and Contents
The collection contains nine photographs that document the integration of the public school system in New Orleans in November 1960. Individuals or scenes depicted include Ruby Bridges entering William Frantz Elementary School; Tessie Prevost entering McDonogh No. 19 Elementary School; Louisiana State Representative John Garrett; Federal judges Herbert Christenberry, J. Skelly Wright, and John Minor Wisdom; and protests against the integration of William Frantz and McDonogh No. 19.
Dates:
Created: 1960-1961; Other: Date acquired: 04/30/1994
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
Save Our Schools records
Collection — Container: 1 folder
Identifier: 329
Scope and Contents
The Save Our Schools records document the efforts by this organization, which was founded in April 1960 to maintain free public education in New Orleans during the integration of the public school system. The collection contains organizational records, as well as newspaper clippings and publications collected by SOS and its members. The bulk of the materials within the Save Our Schools collection spans the years 1957 to 1962, with correspondence dating from 1960 to 1962. The...
Dates:
Created: 1957-1963; Other: Date acquired: 11/01/1978
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
Alan Wieder collection
Collection
Identifier: 685
Scope and Contents
Collection contains newspaper clippings (November 1960-January 1979) formerly housed in three scrapbooks documentating the desegregation of William Frantz and McDonogh 19 elementary schools in New Orleans by Ruby Bridges (Frantz) and Leona Tate, Tessie Prevost, and Gail Ettiene (McDonogh). Other materials include correspondence; office records of John A. Stewart, principal of McDonogh 19 when it was integrated; hand script notes by Betty Wisdom containing her reflections on the desegregation...
Dates:
Created: 1960-1984; Other: Majority of material found in 1960-1961; Other: Date acquired: 01/01/2009
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
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