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Hattie McDaniel Perry papers
Collection
Identifier: 294
Content Description
The papers include correspondence, photographs, financial records, and collected items. One group of letters are those written by Perry from New York where she attended one of Madame C. J. Walker's schools. Also of interest are letters written from Augusta, Georgia, when she was a teacher at Haines Institute, directed by Lucy Laney. Several items of correspondence relate to her work with the Race Relations Department at Fisk University. Correspondents include Thelma Allison, Lewis Copeland,...
Dates:
Other: 1899-1976
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
Robert N. and Lillian Dunn Perry papers
Collection
Identifier: 295
Scope and Contents
The bulk of the Robert N. and Lillian Perry papers consist of three years of personal correspondence from Mr. Perry to Lillian, prior to and early in their marriage. The remainder of the collection consists of professional papers, collected items, news clippings, and sheet music. Topics of interest are the histories of Central Congregational United Church of Christ, the Valena C. Jones Normal and Practical School, African American education, the Louisiana Education Association, civil...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1918-1994; Other: Date acquired: 00/00/1983
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
Robert N. and Lillian Dunn Perry papers addendum
Collection
Identifier: 295-1
Scope and Content Note
The addendum to the Robert and Lillian Dunn Perry papers reflects the B-Sharp Music Club, where Robert Perry served as a member and long-term president. Correspondence largely consists of matters pertaining to the B-Sharp Music Club and in particular their scholarship committee. Other items of correspondence include a photocopy of an eleven-page letter to James Redmond concerning personnel matters and reassignments of principals in 1958, including Charles Rousseve. Notable...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1931-2000
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
James Sedalia Peters II papers
Collection
Identifier: 296
Content Description
The papers of prominent psychologist James S. Peters, whose work as a research assistant during WWII helped to desegregate the US Navy, a contribution formally recognized when Peters was inducted into the first class of the Connecticut Veterans Hall of Fame in 2005. His papers contain correspondence, writings, reports, clippings, book reviews, speeches, vitae, manuscripts, legal papers, financial records, various collected items and collected publications and various ephemera pertaining to...
Dates:
1928-2002
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
Milton Peters papers
Collection
Identifier: 505
Content Description
Milton Peters served as a Deacon with Beecher Memorial United Church of Christ in New Orleans, as well as a social worker. His papers include photographs, certificates, and a greeting card.
Dates:
Other: 1956-1992
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
Philiminia M. Phillips papers
Collection
Identifier: 298
Scope and Contents
The papers of Chicago civic and social worker and club woman Philiminia Mehelenna Phillips document her paternal family history's connection to the Zulu people of South Africa. The collection dates from 1883-1970, and includes correspondence, photographs, news clippings, family records, legal papers, certificates, programs, and collected materials. Much of the correspondence documents Phillips' efforts to document her family history and her collection of family materials....
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1883-1970; Other: Date acquired: 03/30/1971
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
Joseph A. Pierce papers
Collection
Identifier: 299
Scope and Contents
The papers of mathematician Joseph A. Pierce, encompasses personal and professional materials documenting his life in academia, as a mathematics professor and as a university administrator. The collection contains correspondence, university records such as report cards and degrees, financial records, ephemera, reports, proposals, publications, and notes. Much of his collection deals with issues in higher education during the civil rights era and briefly touches on the unrest at Texas...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1928-1972; Other: Majority of material found in 1960-1969; Other: Date acquired: 01/01/1989
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
Robert L. Pierce play script
Collection
Identifier: 2053
Content Description
The colletion contains two copies of a working draft of a script, Esteban, by Robert L. Pierce, one bound in spiral binding. The original text of Esteban is by Fred Myers, and the original score is by Lucas Estrade. The draft relates to the Black explorer, also known as Estevanico or Esteban the Moor, who was the first trans-Atlantic explorer into what is now the southwestern United States. The operatic play is in three acts...
Dates:
Other: 1967
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
Ed Pincus collection
Collection — Container: Reels 1-751
Identifier: 624
Scope and Contents
The Ed Pincus collection consists of approximately 90 hours of 16mm black and white film footage used to create two civil rights era documentaries, Black Natchez and Panola. Filmmakers Ed Pincus and David Neuman shot the footage in Natchez, Mississippi, between June and September 1965. In 1967, they returned to Natchez and shot 10 additional hours of film for a planned sequel to Black Natchez,...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1965-1967; Other: Date acquired: 05/01/2002
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
Ed Pincus collection addendum
Collection
Identifier: 624-1
Scope and Contents
This addition to the collection of filmmaker Ed Pincus consists of correspondence, news clippings, an interview, reviews, photographs, slides, and production materials related to two civil rights era documentaries shot, directed, and produced by Pincus, Black Natchez and Panola. Filmmakers Ed Pincus and David Neuman shot footage in Natchez, Mississippi, between June and September 1965, which documented race relations in the...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1958-1976; Other: Date acquired: 01/01/2004
Found in:
Amistad Research Center