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Collection — Container: 4 tapes
Identifier: 087
Scope and Contents
The records of the Chinese Presbyterian Church in New Orleans, Louisiana, consist largely of photocopied correspondence, monthly and annual reports, church bulletins, financial reports, attendance records, news clippings, and other church records, as well as photographic negatives and oral histories with members of the church. The materials comprising the collection date from 1882 to 1984. The majority of the materials consist of photocopies of documents with some original...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1882-1984; Other: Date acquired: 01/01/1986
Collection
Identifier: 2478
Content Description
The Ron Chisom interviews consist of three audiocassettes of interviews conducted with community organizer, activist, and co-founder of The People's Institute for Survival and Beyond (PISAB). The interviews took place on March 27 and April 22, 2009. According to its mission statement, PISAB is a "national and international collective of anti-racist, multicultural community organizers and educators dedicated to building an effective movement for social transformation." The organization was...
Dates:
Other: 2009
Collection
Identifier: 088
Content Description
Correspondence and collected items about the Christian Church of New Orleans and its grievance and demonstration against the management of WWL-TV and Robert Fraychineaub, a landlord of one of the church's members. Variant title for collection: Christian Church of New Orleans Investigation Interrogative Body.
Dates:
Other: 1986-1988
Collection
Identifier: 692
Content Description
The papers of educator Clarence Christian include correspondence, news clippings, and collected materials related to his involvement with LeMoyne-Owen College; the Second Congregational Church in Memphis, Tennessee; National Collegiate Honors Council; and Alpha Kappa Alpha. Collected materials include biographical information on Ernest Columbus Withers and Lewis O. Swingler. Of note are a series of letters from Christian’s former professor, Clifton H. Johnson.
Dates:
Other: 1970-2008
Collection
Identifier: 089
Content Description
The collection consists primarily of orders of service, programs, schedules of activities, and other various materials. The collection documents the activities of African American United Church of Christ churches, and they augment holdings about African American Congregational churches in particular.
Dates:
Other: 1987
Collection
Identifier: 090
Content Description
The Cincinnati Chapter of the Friends of the Amistad Research Center collection encompasses collected materials regarding the history of African Americans in Cincinnati. The collection contains correspondence, financial records, invitations, meeting minutes, newsletters, photographs, programs, and other ephemera. primarily regarding activities in the Cincinnati area.
Of interest is information on gospel music, including collected materials on the Cincinnati Gospel Choral Union
Dates:
Other: 1935-1994
Collection
Identifier: 091
Content Description
This collection includes correspondence, collected items, notes, and worksheets on noted New Orleans personalities and institutions. These materials were compiled in relation to the major exhibit on African American New Orleans history planned by the city of New Orleans. The exhibit was funded by the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development. Of particular significance are the brief historical and biographical sketches on Black institutions and prominent New Orleanians of...
Dates:
Other: 1980-1981
Collection
Identifier: 773
Content Description
The Claude Clark papers document the life and work of Clark, an African American painter, printmaker, and educator active from the 1940s through the 1990s. The collection dating from circa 1935 to 2001 consists of correspondence, exhibition catalogs and invitations, teaching materials, writings, photographs, and moving image formats.
The earliest documents are reproductions of family photographs and Clark’s contributions to The Wissahickson, the school magazine at Roxborough High...
Dates:
Other: 1935-2001
Collection
Identifier: 092
Content Description
This collection chronicles the development and progress of Rev. Clark's work at the Knox Institute of Athens, Georgia, where he spent much of his life, first as an instructor and then as principal, where he retired in 1926. The collection includes family photographs and those of the Knox Institute and various memorabilia such as school programs and event invitations. There is information regarding the marriage and family life of Elise Clark Rousseve, wife of Ferdinand Rousseve.
Dates:
Other: 1876-1980
Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: 2033
Scope and Contents
In June 1840, English abolitionist Thomas Clarkson was the key speaker at the first World Anti-Slavery Convention held in London. The convention was sponsored by the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society, which had been formed the previous year. This letter written by Clarkson in July 1840 to the Society and addressed to Joseph Sturge expresses Clarkson's thanks for the kindness shown him while in London. Clarkson comments that despite his age and infirmities, "you may count upon my...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1840; Other: Date acquired: 11/23/1971
