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John E. Rousseau collection
Collection
Identifier: 319
Scope and Contents
This collection contains materials collected by John E. Rousseau, editor of the Louisiana edition of the Pittsburgh Courier, relating to the case of Edgar Labat and Clifton Alton Poret, two African American men wrongfully convicted by an all-White jury for the 1950 rape of a White woman in New Orleans. Sentenced to the death penalty in 1953, Labat and Poret won nine stays of execution, ultimately becoming the longest-serving death row inmates in Louisiana...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1950-1967; Other: Date acquired: 02/01/1987
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Charles B. Roussève papers
Collection
Identifier: 320
Scope and Contents
The papers of Charles B. Rousseve consist predominantly of collected items, both from his historical research and contemporary materials reflecting his varied interests. Primary subjects include publications from the 1890s from the Citizens' Committee (Comite des Citoyens), which brought the Plessy v. Ferguson case to the United States Supreme Court; poetry and other literature written in Reconstruction-era New Orleans; the desegregation of public and...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1842-1994; Other: Date acquired: 01/01/1984
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Ferdinand L. Rousseve papers
Collection
Identifier: 321
Scope and Contents
The papers of Ferdinand L. Rousseve contain professional, as well as academic papers documenting Rousseve's life as an architect, professor, and civic leader. The papers contain approximately 130 pieces including correspondence, diplomas, lecture notes, articles, photographs, and awards that reflect his academic and professional careers. The bulk of the papers pertains to his education and his years as a scholar and teacher, as well as his work as an architect. Of interest are...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1914-1979; Other: Majority of material found in 1941-1949; Other: Date acquired: 01/01/1982
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Rene Jacques Rousseve papers
Collection
Identifier: 322
Scope and Contents
The papers of Rene Jacques Rousseve contain professional, as well as academic papers that document Rousseve's life as a social worker and civic leader. The papers encompass 2.0 linear feet and include correspondence, report cards, newspaper clippings, diplomas, employment records, photographs, and awards. The correspondence focuses on Rousseve's employment with the State of Louisiana. Main correspondents include Amy McDonnall, Everlyn Perkins, and Lillie Nairne. Of note is a...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1924-1974; Other: Majority of material found in 1942-1956; Other: Date acquired: 01/01/1984
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Ronald Rousseve papers
Collection
Identifier: 457
Content Description
Ronald Rousseve, the son of Charles and Mildred Rousseve, was born in New Orleans, Louisiana. He earned degrees from Xavier University in New Orleans and at the University of Notre Dame before teaching at Prairie View College, Seattle University, the University of Washington, and the University of Oregon, where he was a professor of education and counseling psychology. The collection includes articles written by Dr. Rousseve on the topics of education and desegregation, news clippings about...
Dates:
Other: 1960-1987
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Amistad Research Center
Joseph E. Roy scrapbook
Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: 2262
Scope and Contents
This 153-page scrapbook is devoted primarily to the career and professional interests of Joseph Edwin Roy. Joseph Roy served as chairman of the World's Congress on Africa at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago and also as Western District Secretary for the American Missionary Association, and the scrapbook documents his career in these two capacities. Materials reflecting Joseph Roy's role as chairman of the 1893 World's Congress on Africa consist entirely of newspaper...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1891-1896; Other: Date acquired: 01/01/1970
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Joseph Rubinfine collection
Collection
Identifier: 2153
Scope and Contents
This small collection consists of autographs, correspondence, and images of prominent abolitionists. Includes autographs, all with brief quotations, from William Lloyd Garrison, Wendell Phillips, Gerrit Smith, Charles Sumner, Parker Pillsbury, Anna E. Dickinson, and one unidentified person. Also present is correspondence, mostly brief letters of salutation, from Wendell Phillips, Parker Pillsbury, and Theodore Parker. Also included is a photograph of William Lloyd Garrison and a reproduced...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1858-1878; Other: Date acquired: 12/01/1986
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Amistad Research Center
Charles Rush papers
Collection
Identifier: 323
Content Description
Includes correspondence, clippings, printed items, photographs, and other documents that were generated during the ministerial and educational career of Rev. Rush, a United Church of Christ clergyman. After he left Chicago, where he was pastor of a church, Rush was employed in the school system of Los Angeles. Other items relate to his fraternal and community activities. He was pastor of Lincoln Congregational Church in Chicago and a member of Omega Psi Phi fraternity. Printed items include...
Dates:
Other: 1942-1977
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Amistad Research Center
Saddest Days Oral History collection
Collection
Identifier: 741
Content Description
The Saddest Days Oral History collection contains digital and analog recordings and transcriptions of 175 interviews conducted in the wake of Hurricane Katrina from September 2005 to July 2006. The vast majority of the interviews were conducted in seven southern states, which make up the area to which most of the displaced persons from the Gulf Coast region were evacuated. Overall, the interviews were conducted in approximately twenty different cities or towns. The target population for the...
Dates:
Other: 2005-2007
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Amistad Research Center
Saga of Shine collection
Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: 2084
Scope and Contents
A collection of six typescript poems with a title page "Saga of Shine: Various Folk Versions of a Rhymed Negro Folk Poem as Collected by Langston Hughes, 1952-1955." Variously known as "Shine and the Titanic," "Shine on the Titanic," "Shine and the Great Titanic," or simply "Shine," this African American vernacular poem or toast, typically rhymed and often bawdy, involves a Black deckhand who swims to safety amidst the sinking of the ...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: circa 1955; Other: Date acquired: 09/14/1971
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Amistad Research Center