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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
Collection
Identifier: 116
Scope and Contents
The Dent Family papers are comprised of the personal, professional and collected papers of Albert Walter Dent (1904-1984) and Ernestine Jessie Covington Dent (1904-2001), as well as a small amount of material related to their son, Tom Dent (1932-1996) and other family members. The collection has six series of files, three of which deal specifically with Albert W. Dent while the remainder deals with Jessie C. Dent and members of the Covington-Dent family. The correspondence (1908-1985)...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1897-1985; Other: Date acquired: 01/01/1976
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
Dent Family papers addendum
Collection
Identifier: 116-2
Scope and Contents
This project was made possible in part by the Institute of Museum and Library Services award MH-245560-OMS-20. Content Description The Dent Family papers addendum include the personal, professional, and collected papers of Albert Walter Dent (1904-1984) and Ernestine Jessie Covington Dent (1904-2001). The papers break down into six series: the papers of Albert Walter Dent, the papers of Ernestine Jessie Covington Dent, images, ephemera,...
Dates:
Other: 1948-2010
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
Tom Dent and Allison "Tootie" Montana photograph
Collection — Container: small collections
Identifier: 2485
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of one black and white 8 x 10 photograph taken by New Orleans-based photographer Matt Anderson of poet and playwright Tom Dent and Mardi Gras Indian chief Allison "Tootie" Montana. The photograph was taken on Mardi Gras 1998.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1998; Other: Date acquired: 08/06/2009
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
Tom Dent papers
Collection
Identifier: 117
Scope and Contents
The papers of Tom Dent provide a rich documentary source in the areas of African American literature and theater, the Civil Rights Movement, and the society and culture of New Orleans. The collection encompasses 149 linear feet of correspondence, literary manuscripts, oral history interviews, photographs, financial records, and memorabilia generated by one of New Orleans' most treasured poets, playwrights, and oral historians. Dent was a prolific writer of letters, poetry, and...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1861-1998; Other: Majority of material found in 1959-1998; Other: Date acquired: 01/01/1976
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
Armand Derfner papers
Collection
Identifier: 450
Content Description
Armand Derfner is an attorney in Charleston, South Carolina. His papers include case files related to the Alabama higher education desegregation cases, John Knight, et al. v. State of Alabama and United States v. State of Alabama.
Dates:
Other: 1967-2000
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
Desegregation of Tulane University oral history interviews
Collection
Identifier: 2407
Content Description
Three oral history interviews of those involved in the desegregation of Tulane University. Interviews are with Pearlie Hardin Elloie, one of the original plaintiffs in the suit to desegregate Tulane; Addison Cary, one of the first African Americans to attend Tulane University; and John P. Nelson, a prominent New Orleans civil rights lawyer who represented the plaintiffs in Guillory v. Tulane. The interviews with Elloie and Carey are transcribed, and the interview questions for Nelson are...
Dates:
Other: 2000
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
Nellie De Spelder diaries
Collection
Identifier: 575
Content Description
This collection consists of approximately 200 photocopied pages from the diaries of Nellie DeSpelder during her tenure as an American Missionary Association (AMA) teacher at Daniel Hand Preparatory School in New Orleans, Louisiana. DeSpelder was a teacher who journeyed from Greenville, Michigan to work in the AMA schools. During her tenure she visited the school at Orange Park and that at King's Mountain. Interesting sidelights are revealed in her brief trips to the nearby Mississippi Gulf...
Dates:
Other: 1895-1899
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
Detiege-Honore Family papers
Collection
Identifier: 2460
Content Description
This small collection consists predominantly of photocopies of original documents collected about the history of the Detiege-Honore family of St. Martinville, Louisiana. Most materials concern Emile Detiege, a Civil War veteran and politician during the Reconstruction period who served in both the Louisiana State Senate and the Louisiana House of Representatives. Detiege was a free man of color, and he organized a battalion of Black troops, the First Regiment, Corps d'Afrique in 1862. He...
Dates:
Other: 1873-1950
Found in:
Amistad Research Center