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National Committee Against Discrimination in Housing, Inc. records
Collection
Identifier: 266
Scope and Contents
The records of the National Committee Against Discrimination in Housing (NCADH) (1945-1974) consist of documentation for the establishment and administration of the organization, its programs and projects, as well as legal activities. Correspondence makes up approximately a fourth of the collection and covers the years 1948 to 1974. The administrative records, financial and corporate, include memoranda, agenda, minutes, and personnel records. The collection documents NCADH’s programs and...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1945-1974; Other: Date acquired: 01/01/1976
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
National Conference of Artists records
Collection
Identifier: 620
Content Description
The National Conference of Artists (NCA) was founded March 28-29,1959, at Dean Sage Hall of Atlanta University during the opening of the Atlanta University Eighteenth Annual Art Exhibition. The records consist of correspondence, reports, minutes and agenda, conference materials, exhibition materials, speeches, and publications. Membership information is also included, as are news clippings, financial records, and memorabilia. Audiocassette tapes include speeches, business meetings, and...
Dates:
Other: 1943-1993
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
National Insurance Association records
Collection
Identifier: 718
Content Description
The National Insurance Association (NIA) was established as the National Negro Insurance Association in Durham, North Carolina, in 1921. Charles Clinton Spaulding, President of North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company, the nation’s largest African American business, was its inaugural president. The NIA was recognized as the nation’s most effective economic organization for most of the twentieth century, committed to racial uplift and a broad economic and social agenda. It grew to as many...
Dates:
Other: 1971-1991
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
National Negro Funeral Directors Association photograph
Collection — Container: 1 item
Identifier: 2457
Scope and Contents
This panoramic photograph includes members of the National Negro Funeral Directors Association, which met in Atlantic City, New Jersey, during August 11-15, 1946. The photograph is by Fred Hess & Son of Atlantic City and was taken in front of the West Side All Wars Memorial.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1946 August; Other: Date acquired: 02/04/1999
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
National Neighbors, Inc. records
Collection
Identifier: 267
Content Description
National Neighbors, known later as the National Federation for Neighborhood Diversity, was founded in May 1971 as a nonprofit federation of interracial neighborhoods. Its goal was "to foster and encourage successful multiracial neighborhoods throughout the United States." The regional structure was established in 1975. The executive director and nine volunteer regional coordinators directed all regional activities, especially the regional conferences, and published regional...
Dates:
Other: 1968-1986
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
Negro Almanac Photograph Collection
Collection
Identifier: 268
Dates:
1700-1970s
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
John P. Nelson papers
Collection
Identifier: 269
Scope and Contents
The papers document Nelson's active participation in the civil rights movement, school integration in New Orleans, and his work as an Assistant District Attorney for Orleans Parish. The papers of John P. Nelson, Jr. measure approximately 7.2 linear feet. There are 1,227 pieces of correspondence dated between 1957 and 1977. The papers also include magazine articles, speeches, a proposal, collected materials, notes, memoranda, agendas, reports, minutes, job descriptions, applications, resumes,...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1957-1977; Other: Date acquired: 06/06/1973
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
Senga Nengudi papers
Collection
Identifier: 794
Processing Information
This project was made possible in part by the Institute of Museum and Library Services award MH-245560-OMS-20. Content Description Senga Nengudi papers compile records reflecting more than fifty years of Nengudi’s career and personal life. The papers of Senga Nengudi mainly document her artistic career as a sculptor and performance artist encompassing correspondence, ephemera and photographs. Images and documentation for Nengudi’s...
Dates:
1952-2021, undated
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
Marcus Neustadter, Jr. papers
Collection
Identifier: 448
Content Description
The papers of Marcus Neustadter Jr. reflect his civic and professional affairs, including his work as Public Relations Director at Dillard University and his membership in the Original Illinois Club, the Prince Hall Masons, and other organizations. Included are news clippings, correspondence, programs, photographs, materials related to social organizations such as the Original Illinois Club and the Beau Brummel Club, audio cassettes of programs and courses held at Dillard University, and...
Dates:
Other: circa 1950-1990
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
New Orleans Chapter of The Links, Inc. records
Collection
Identifier: 272
Content Description
The records include correspondence, minutes, programs, program planning materials, photographs, clippings, financial records, scrapbooks and various ephemera regarding activities of the local chapter and data about the parent organization. Charter groups in Baton Rouge and Jackson, Mississippi, are also included in the photographs and clippings, as well as members from the Houston chapter and throughout the South. Names include Maude Reid, Etta Moten Barnett, Julia Purnell, Roger Dickerson,...
Dates:
Other: 1957-2016
Found in:
Amistad Research Center