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New Orleans District Association of Congregational Churches records
Collection
Identifier: 273
Content Description
This collection contains a record book which includes meeting minutes from the association, held from October 1921 to December 1929.
Dates:
Other: 1921-1929
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
New Orleans Embalmers Association records
Collection
Identifier: 528
Scope and Contents
The records of the New Orleans Embalmers Association include correspondence, news clippings, minutes, lists, stationary, and two record books (1952-56 and 1967-85) that contain meeting minutes and organizational financial records. Also included are some collected materials from the Louisiana State Colored Funeral Directors and Embalmers Association.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1950-2001; Other: Date acquired: 03/12/1997
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
New Orleans Improvement League records
Collection — Container: Small Collections
Identifier: 2481
Scope and Contents
The New Orleans Improvement League was a civil rights organization founded on Thursday, June 21, 1956, to supplement the objectives of the NAACP, which was banned from operating in Louisiana by a state court order. Members included Dr. W.R. Adams, Rev. G.N. Collins, A.L. Davis, Arthur J. Chapital Sr., Revius Ortique, Leonard Burns, C.C. Dejoie Jr., and other prominent New Orleanians. The collection consist of the organization's constitution and by-laws; correspondence; minutes of the...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1955-1959; Other: Date acquired: 10/01/1998
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Foundation oral history collection
Collection
Identifier: 274
Content Description
This collection includes 59 audiocassette tape interviews with 27 Louisiana-based musicians across multiple genres, including jazz, zydeco, classical, R&B, and Mardi Gras Indian traditions. The collection was formed out of a project funded by NOJHF and coordinated by Tom Dent from 1983-1988. The Foundation donated the collection to Amistad prior to the formation of its own archives.Interviewees include Placide Adams, Alvin Alcorn, Morris Ardoin, Danny Barker, Alvin Batiste,...
Dates:
Other: 1982-1984
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
New Orleans Old Timers Baseball Club collection
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 536
Scope and Contents
The New Orleans Old Timers Baseball Club collection comprises one standard archival box and consists mostly of correspondence, photographs, news clippings, biographical sketches, and other collected items pertaining to the Negro Leagues in New Orleans and the Negro Leagues more generally. The collection also represents the efforts of club president Walter Wright to raise awareness of the local Negro Leagues through fundraising, media coverage, advocating for entry of former players into the...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1918-1997; Other: Majority of material found in 1966-1997; Other: Date acquired: 07/08/1997
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
New Orleans school integration photographs
Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: 2266
Scope and Contents
The collection contains nine photographs that document the integration of the public school system in New Orleans in November 1960. Individuals or scenes depicted include Ruby Bridges entering William Frantz Elementary School; Tessie Prevost entering McDonogh No. 19 Elementary School; Louisiana State Representative John Garrett; Federal judges Herbert Christenberry, J. Skelly Wright, and John Minor Wisdom; and protests against the integration of William Frantz and McDonogh No. 19.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1960-1961; Other: Date acquired: 04/30/1994
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
New Orleans Sickle Cell Anemia Foundation collection
Collection
Identifier: 275
Content Description
The collection primarily consists of photographs of the Foundation's 1982 annual fundraising telethon and printed materials promoting that event.
Dates:
Other: 1976-1982
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
Richard H. Newhouse, Jr. papers
Collection
Identifier: 271
Content Description
The papers include correspondence, legal documents, collected printed items, clippings, and other materials generated in the case of Mars, Ketchum, and Newhouse v. Jane Byrne and the City of Chicago to stop a remapping attempt that would have disenfranchised numerous African American and Hispanic voters in Chicago. The suit was successful and led to greater support for Mayor Harold Washington from the African American and Hispanic constituency. Other items in the collection relate to Logan...
Dates:
Other: 1980-1986
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
William Kincaid Newman collection
Collection
Identifier: 2130
Scope and Contents
This small collection pertains to ancestors of the donor, William Kincaid Newman; this includes Newman's grandfather, William Kincaid, and Newman's great-grandfather, Daniel Chapman. The collection includes an 1889 map of Guthrie, Oklahoma, Indian Territory, printed by C. P. Spining & Co. shortly after the incorporation of Guthrie after the Land Run of 1889. The map is inscribed "compliments of Rock, Clevinger & Hays Attorneys at-Law Guthrie" and includes some annotations on the map...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1883-1889; Other: Date acquired: 01/01/1978
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
Nkombo Publications records
Collection
Identifier: 467
Scope and Contents
This collection documents the literary production and intergroup collaboration of Nkombo Publications, one of the best-organized and most active groups affiliated with the Southern extension of the Black Arts Movement. These records include outgoing and incoming correspondence, published and unpublished manuscripts from both well-known and lesser-known poets of the Black Arts Movement, collected publications and ephemera, and financial documents. The records span the late 1960s and early...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1968-1974; Other: Date acquired: 03/22/1995
Found in:
Amistad Research Center