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Gertrude Banks collection
Collection
Identifier: 032
Content Description
This collection includes a small amount of correspondence, newsletters, clippings from the Chicago press mainly, church bulletins (especially for the Church of the Good Shepherd (Chicago, IL), and obituaries. An item of interest is the 1956 commencement program for the Poro College in Chicago that was founded by Annie M. Malone. She was president of the institution that trained beauticians with a primary focus on the Black client. The letters include the first official letter written by the...
Dates:
Other: 1956-1990
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
Janice Dejoie papers
Collection
Identifier: 567
Content Description
Janice Dejoie is a retired educator from the Roosevelt Junior-Senior High School in Roosevelt, New York, and the granddaughter of New Orleans physician Rivers Frederick and Paul Dejoie, founder of Louisiana Life Insurance Company. This collection includes family photographs of the Dejoie and Frederick families, as well as photocopies of photographs, awards, and letters.
Dates:
Other: 1955-1998
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
Dent Family papers addendum
Collection
Identifier: 116-01
Scope and Contents
The addendum to the papers of Albert Walter Dent (1904-1984) and Ernestine Jessie Covington Dent (1904-2001) provides a rich source of documentation of a prominent African American family, and covers topics such as education, healthcare, musical traditions and culture in New Orleans, Louisiana, and Houston, Texas. The papers consist of 38 linear feet of personal and collected papers of both individuals and other Covington-Dent family members. The addition to the papers is comprised of...
Dates:
1890-2001, undated
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
John Wesley Dobbs Family papers
Collection
Identifier: 122
Scope and Contents
The papers document the personal and professional lives of the John Wesley Dobbs family of Atlanta, Georgia. The key topics are civil rights, education, integration, race relations, and African American suffrage. The main strengths are the civil rights activities of the family as well as J.W. Dobb's tenure as Grand Master of Prince Hall Masonic Grand Lodge of Georgia. The collection encompasses 5.8 linear feet of correspondence, photographs, programs, sound recordings, speeches, and news...
Dates:
Created: 1873-2001; Other: Date acquired: 01/01/1974
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
Rose Carver Fishman papers
Collection
Identifier: 686
Scope and Contents
Fannie Lou Hamer was Field Secretary for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), a founder of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, and helped seat an integrated delegation to the Democratic National Convention. This collection consists of seventeen letters written by Hamer to her friend Rose Carver Fishman in Waban, MA, who Hamer had earlier met while raising money for the Cambridge, Massachusetts, chapter of SNCC. Hamer reports on SNCC activities in various states and...
Dates:
Created: 1965-1968; Other: Date acquired: 10/27/1995
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
Joseph Geddes Family papers
Collection
Identifier: 159
Scope and Contents
The Joseph Geddes Family papers pertain to several generations of an African American family with multi-generational ties to Louisiana who owned and operated several businesses, including funeral parlors and life insurance companies that date back to the early 20th century. The papers consist of professional, as well as personal, papers and contain photographs, scrapbooks, memory books, a memorial record book, correspondence, programs, and newspaper clippings relating to the family...
Dates:
Created: 1928-1957; Other: Majority of material found in 1953-1955; Other: Date acquired: 02/01/1981
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
Antoinette Harrell papers
Collection
Identifier: 608
Content Description
The Antoinette Harrell papers primarily document Harrell's career as a historian and activist, with collected files from her civil and social activities within New Orleans and Louisiana. The collection is extremely rich on the subjects of African American history in Louisiana and the Mississippi Delta; slavery reparations; and peonage in the South from the 1920s to the 1960s. The Harrell papers contain correspondence, news clippings, photographs, yearbooks, leaflets, genealogical material...
Dates:
Other: circa 1864-2017, undated
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
Heslip-Ruffin Family papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 179
Scope and Contents
The Heslip-Ruffin Family Papers pertain to several generations of the Ruffin family beginning with Nancy Lewis and George W. Ruffin, who were both ante-bellum free Blacks. The collection includes correspondence between various family members and letters received by members of the Heslip-Ruffin Family, including those by Frederick Douglass and William Lloyd Garrison. Legal documents, biographical data, news clippings, printed ephemera, and photographs document the achievements of various...
Dates:
Created: 1822-1946; Other: Date acquired: 08/01/1972
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
Ulysses H. Jones papers
Collection
Identifier: 747
Content Description
The papers of Ulysses H. Jones document an African American Catholic family living in Massachusetts, mainly during the 1960s-2000s. Jones’ papers, which he maintained with detailed descriptions and organization, document his life, as well as that of his wife and three children, and chronicle the racial difficulties the family faced from the children’s school, the Catholic Church, individuals, and various financial institutions, state agencies, and businesses. The papers provide a personal...
Dates:
Other: 1954-2011
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
Philiminia M. Phillips papers
Collection
Identifier: 298
Scope and Contents
The papers of Chicago civic and social worker and club woman Philiminia Mehelenna Phillips document her paternal family history's connection to the Zulu people of South Africa. The collection dates from 1883-1970, and includes correspondence, photographs, news clippings, family records, legal papers, certificates, programs, and collected materials. Much of the correspondence documents Phillips' efforts to document her family history and her collection of family materials....
Dates:
Created: 1883-1970; Other: Date acquired: 03/30/1971
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
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