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Orissa Arend typescript

 Collection — Container: Small Collections
Identifier: 2490
Scope and Contents This collection consists of a draft typescript of Orissa Arend's book Showdown in Desire: The Black Panthers Take a Stand in New Orleans, which was published by The University of Arkansas Press in 2009. This draft, comprised of 268 leaves, includes revised chapters of the book dating from July-August 2005 prior to substantial revision leading to publication. The typescript includes a timeline of events described in the book, as well as a list of individuals...
Dates: Created: 2005; Other: Date acquired: 01/17/2006

Larney Goodkind papers

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Identifier: 726
Content Description The papers primarily document Larney Goodkind’s client, William Warfield, and highlight Goodkind’s efforts to promote Warfield’s career as an international classical operatic performer. Some materials pertain to other clients as well, including African American soprano Leontyne Price. Formats in the collection include correspondence, concert programs and stage bills, concert reviews, photographs, contracts, biographical sketches, scrapbooks, certificates and awards, press releases, and sound...
Dates: 1948-1997, undated

Fannie Lou Hamer papers

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Identifier: 165
Scope and Contents The Papers of Fannie Lou Hamer measure approximately 16 linear feet and consist of 3,293 pieces of correspondence dated between 1966 and 1978. The correspondence represented includes not only that of Fannie Lou Hamer, but also that of a number of organizations to which she was in some way connected and of her business manager, Joseph Harris. Much of Hamer's business correspondence is included in the Harris correspondence. He was almost entirely responsible for the business aspects of Hamer's...
Dates: Created: 1966-1978; Other: Date acquired: 01/01/1981

Carl Levin papers

 Collection
Identifier: 216
Scope and Contents The collection includes architectural drawings, correspondence, directories, financial records, legal documents, minutes, maps, memoranda, notes, newspaper clippings, reports, and tables generated during Mr. Levin’s seven year tenure as a Detroit councilmember. Topics covered under the city council files include inner city and ethnic relations and real estate management, particularly racial discrimination in housing and rehabilitation of residential and commercial property in...
Dates: Created: 1965-1977; Other: Date acquired: 07/01/1981

Mary Anne Mushatt oral history collection

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Identifier: 665
Content Description This collection contains videotapes, audiotapes and transcriptions of interviews conducted by Mary  Anne Mushatt along River Road, near New Orleans, Louisiana. The interviews form the basis of Mushatt’s MFA thesis project, Lion’s Tale. Interviewees include Kathe Hambrick, Executive Director of the River Road African American Museum & Gallery in Donaldsonville; Darryl Daniels, Project Manager for the Historic River Road Project; and Gray Hawk Perkins,...
Dates: Other: 1997

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