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R.D. Crow letter
Collection — Container: 1 folder
Identifier: 2502
Scope and Contents
This collection is comprised of a letter dated 5 December 1934 from R.D. Crow, Scout Executive of the New Orleans Council of the Boy Scouts of America, to "all colored scoutleaders." The letter announces an upcoming public meeting court of honor to be held on December 11. The meeting will feature a talk by Rabbi Louis Binstock, the recognition of new troops, and music by the Post Office Band and the Valena C. Jones School Band. Crow also announces the organization of four new boy scout...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1933-1934; Other: Date acquired: 12/01/2009
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
Jesse Cornelius Crump papers
Collection — Box: 1-2andscrapbook
Identifier: 109
Scope and Contents
This collection documents the career of Bogalusa, Louisiana, teacher and school administrator Jesse Cornelius Crump. It contains biographical and family data, correspondence, photographs, programs, Masonic publications, a yearbook and reunion materials for Central Memorial High School in Bogalusa, as well as a large scrapbook that contains photographs, newspaper clippings, etc. of athletic teams and activities at Central Memorial High School. The majority of the correspondence...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1928-1985; Other: Date acquired: 04/01/1987
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
Countee Cullen letter
Collection
Identifier: 2535
Content Description
Letter by Harlem Renaissance poet, Countee Cullen, referring a writing job to his fellow poet Sterling Brown. Letter signed to Mr. Shipley, Tuckahoe, New York, 9 July 1944.
Dates:
1944 July 9
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
Countée Cullen papers
Collection — Container: Drawing of Cullen
Identifier: 111
Scope and Contents
The papers of poet and playwright Countee Cullen document his personal and professional lives, as well as his relations with leading writers and artists of the Harlem Renaissance era. Among the papers, which measure 11.9 linear feet, are correspondence; accounts, records, documents, legal papers, and certificates; a fragmentary diary (1928); teaching plan books and other teaching records; writings, including, articles, a book review, letters to editors, juvenile novels, plays, poems, a...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1900-1947; Other: Date acquired: 01/01/1970
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
Evelyn Cunningham papers
Collection
Identifier: 656
Scope and Contents
The papers of Evelyn Cunningham document her work as a feature writer and columnist for the Pittsburgh Courier (1950-1962); political aide for Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller (1969-1976); and her activism in politics, feminism, and civil rights. A theme running throughout the collection is the role of the African American professional woman in society. Of note are materials regarding the integration of New York City restaurants (circa 1954); Cunningham's...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1941-2005; Other: Majority of material found in 1951-2003; Other: Date acquired: 11/07/2003
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
Rebecca Cureau papers
Collection
Identifier: 763
Content Description
The collections contains 1 linear foot of correspondence, newspaper clippings, musical programs, ephemera, newsletters,” manuscripts, and an unpublished portion of a Master’s thesis and a complete doctoral dissertation. All items detail Cureau’s professional involvement in teaching and researching music, her professional affiliations and relationships, performances, and her participation with institutions and conferences dedicated to Black musical genres, folk music and ethnomusicology. Of...
Dates:
Other: 1954-2000
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
Rae Dalven radio drama script
Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: 2488
Scope and Contents
This eight-page radio script, written in 1952 by Rae Dalven, is entitled "Jim-Crow Schools Must Go: An Original Radio Drama Based on an Episode in the Life of Frederick Douglass." This is a dramatization of Frederick Douglass and the efforts of Douglass and his daughter, Rosetta, to enter the Seward Seminary in Rochester, New York. Characters include Frederick Douglass; Anna Murray-Douglass; Rosetta Douglass; Miss Tracy, the principal of the school; an unnamed school trustee; Jean, Sally,...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1952; Other: Date acquired: 01/01/1966
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
Michael Dardar collection
Collection
Identifier: 420
Content Description
The Michael Dardar collection consists of photocopies of writings on the Houma, a Native American people in Louisiana. Included is a court case and a newsletter entitled "Talking Stick".
Dates:
Other: 1917-1992
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
Dashiki Project Theatre records
Collection
Identifier: 477
Content Description
The records of the New Orleans-based Dashiki Project Theatre consist of three scrapbooks containing newspaper clippings on the organization and reviews of its productions, as well as photographs of productions, programs, handbills, and correspondence. The scrapbooks cover the founding of the Theatre in 1968 through 1982.
Dates:
Other: 1968-1982
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
Matthew Simpson Davage papers
Collection
Identifier: 112
Content Description
The papers of Matthew S. Davage contains sermons, addresses, reports, clippings, pamphlets, honors and a single letter from Dr. Benjamin E. Mays. A report for 1950-1951 for the Department of Higher Education for Negroes of the Methodist Church when Davage headed that department is present. Several of the speeches are on African Americans, the Methodist Church, race relations, and one on Abraham Lincoln.
Dates:
Other: 1948-1963
Found in:
Amistad Research Center