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Tom Thurman collection
Collection
Identifier: 689
Content Description
This collection consists of 31 Betacam SP videotapes, which contain raw footage of scholars interviewed for Tom Thurman's documentary, "Movies of Color: Black Southern Cinema. A Portrait of Independent African-American Filmmaking," as well as examples of pre-WWII films by African American filmmakers. The subject matter covered in the documentary includes African American arts and culture, primarily independently-made films with a southern focus prior to WWII, plus topics such as the Great...
Dates:
Other: 2000
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
John Lee Tilley papers addendum
Collection
Identifier: 364-1
Scope and Contents
The addition consists of correspondence, clippings, church bulletins, financial records, instructional materials, invitations, maps, minutes, notes, photographs, programs, reports, rosters, schoolwork, writings, collected items, and memorabilia. The heaviest period of concentration of the materials falls within the 1950's; the beginning and ending dates are represented in fewer materials. The correspondence is predominately incoming and expands information about non-pulpit activities of...
Dates:
Created: 1927-1973; Other: Majority of material found in 1950-1958; Other: Date acquired: 08/01/1974
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
John Lee Tilley papers
Collection
Identifier: 364
Scope and Contents
The collection contains 93 items of correspondence, primarily incoming, and handwritten sermons, speeches, and notes, in addition to diaries, notebooks, minutes, reports, newspaper clippings, photographs, collected items, and memorabilia. The letters reflect family ties, civic, and educational pursuits, and community involvement. Of particular interest in this group of items are letters concerning the Southern Christian Leadership Conference's (SCLC) unsuccessful suit to desegregate airport...
Dates:
Created: 1927-1971; Other: Date acquired: 01/01/1973
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
John Lee Tilley papers addendum
Collection
Identifier: 364-2
Content Description
The addendum to the John Lee Tilley papers includes a small amount of material that touches upon various aspects of Tilley’s life and career. Included are nine letters, dating from 1956-1970, the bulk of which concern the United Baptist Missionary Convention of Maryland & Auxiliaries. One letter of note is from various members of the Convention, including Tilley, to President Dwight D. Eisenhower concerning the Montgomery Bus Boycott. It is dated 24 February 1956 and concerns “the grave...
Dates:
Other: 1954-1971
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
Treme Oral History Project collection
Collection
Identifier: 494
Scope and Contents
The Treme Oral History Project Collection consists of sound recordings of oral history interviews conducted by the Amistad Research Center from 1993 to 1994. It was funded by the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Foundation. Its purpose was to document the musical heritage of the Treme neighborhood of New Orleans, a predominantly African American neighborhood since the early nineteenth century. Interviewees were residents of Treme who had experience the musical heritage of New Orleans from a...
Dates:
Created: 1993-1994; Other: Majority of material found in 1993-1994; Other: Date acquired: 09/01/1995
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
Tri-Cities Chapter, Friends of Amistad collection
Collection
Identifier: 365
Content Description
Collected materials from the Tri-Cities Chapter of the Friends of Amistad, which was based in Elyria, Lorain, and Oberlin, Ohio, and active in the 1970s and 1980s. Collection includes collected materials on family history, African Americans in the Midwest, and other topics. Includes family histories on descendents of Godfrey Brown; a biographical sketch of Thelma C. Quinn Smith; collected materials on Curtis and Pearletha Nelson and Wanda and Howard O. Jones; memoirs of Esther L. Hassell; a...
Dates:
1822-1981
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
Trinity United Church of Christ (Chicago, Illinois) collection
Collection
Identifier: 2222
Content Description
Includes recording of a Kwanzaa program held at Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago in 1989.
Dates:
Other: 1989
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
A.M. Trudeau Jr. papers
Collection
Identifier: 2180
Scope and Contents
The A. M. Trudeau, Jr. papers consist of two folders of correspondence and printed ephemera. These pertain to the Supreme Court cases in which Trudeau was involved. The correspondence consists largely of Trudeau’s outgoing carbons recommending local African American civil leaders to various posts. Notable items include Trudeau’s letter to President Gerald Ford recommending Revius O. Ortique, Jr. for the United States District Court and letters of recommendation for Clarence Barney of the...
Dates:
Created: 1962-1975; Other: Date acquired: 11/01/1982
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
Yvonne and Curtis Tucker papers
Collection
Identifier: 661
Content Description
Yvonne and Curtis Tucker were a husband and wife team of nationally-known ceramists. Curtis Tucker, originally a painter, became interested in ceramics when he saw the work of his future wife Yvonne Edwards at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He was born in Austin, Texas, but raised in San Diego, California. He passed in 1992 after working with his wife for over twenty years. Yvonne Tucker is a professor of art at Florida A&M in Tallahassee. She is a ceramist and sculptor...
Dates:
Other: 1960-2002
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
Tulane University Vietnamese Association records
Collection — Container: Sound Recording
Identifier: 366
Scope and Contents
The records of the Tulane University Vietnamese Association (TUVA) provide a small amount of documentation about the organization's first two years of community and charitable work. The collection contains documentation in Vietnamese and English in the form of correspondence, meeting agendas, newsletters, publications, questionnaires, and speeches. The collection contains a small selection of color photograph snapshots and negatives of members at meetings of the association. The...
Dates:
Created: 1987-1989; Other: Date acquired: 08/01/1989
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
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