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Collection
Identifier: 764
Content Description
The first formal meeting of what was to be the Black Caucus of the Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD) was convened in March 1973. It included attendees of the 1971and 1973 SRCD meetings in Minneapolis, MN, and Philadelphia, PA. The charge of this meeting was to investigate the relationship between African Americans and the organizational structure of SRCD. In 1977, SRCS’s Governing Council established the Committee on Minority Participation as a new standing committee. Later...
Dates:
Other: 1973-2007
Collection
Identifier: 524
Scope and Contents
This small collection contains correspondence, organizational information, reports and programs from the 1995 and 1996 annual conventions, copies of the association's publications, collected publications, newsletters from various chapters of the organization, and ephemera. Items of note include a brochure for United States Black Online—the first nationwide black-owned Internet service provider.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1994-1998; Other: Date acquired: 09/29/1995
Collection
Identifier: 049
Content Description
Black Employees of the Library of Congress (BELC) was founded in 1970 and Ethnic Employees of the Library of Congress (EELC) was founded in 1973 to improve conditions of Black and other minority employees at the Library of Congress. Items include copies of correspondence, clippings, a history of the organization, a publication by the group titled Ethnic Racial Brotherhood first published in 1980, and copies of Ethnic Racial Review first published in 1975 (both unbound). Some of the issues...
Dates:
Other: 1981-1983
Collection
Identifier: 547
Content Description
The collection consists of photocopies of documents from the records of the Federal Writers' Project at Northwestern State University in Natchitoches, Louisiana, this collection contains interviews, writings, and poetry by former enslaved individuals detailing their lives in the slave-holding South, primarily Louisiana.
Dates:
Other: 1940-1941
Collection
Identifier: 050
Scope and Contents
The papers of sociologist and educator Dr. James E. Blackwell provide extensive documentation regarding discrimination and desegregation of higher education institutions and mentoring of Black students, as well as affirmative action, economic and social justice issues in regards to the Black community and other ethnic minorities during the late 20th century. The papers consist of extensive correspondence files documenting Blackwell’s work as the chair of the...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1948-2016; Other: Majority of material found in 1963-2000; Other: Date acquired: 01/07/1990
Collection
Identifier: 496
Content Description
Osceola Blanchet was a pianist, school teacher, and a member of the Osceola Five, a singing group formed in New Orleans in 1925. The original male quintet included Blanchet, Andrew J. Young, Laddie Melton, and Lord Beaconsfield Landry, and performed classical and spiritual music. The collection includes concert programs for the Osceola Five and other local concerts, correspondence, newspaper clippings, pamphlets, rosters of subsequent members of the quintet, and sheet music.
Dates:
Other: 1926-1975
Collection
Identifier: 051
Content Description
The collection consists of three reels of negative microfilm and 28 photocopies of successions, marriage contracts, and marriage entries. The latter are from registers of marriages of free persons of color at St. Louis Cathedral. The data for the microfilm reels were compiled from the appropriate decennial census of the United States for 1850, 1860, and 1870. Abstracted information is included about those persons of color who possessed $200 or more in property during the periods covered. The...
Dates:
Other: 1831-1879
Collection
Identifier: 2016
Content Description
20 items. The items included in the collection are clippings, honors and awards, photographs, trophy, plaque, and a woven mat. The relate to Lolita Brice Bluford, Guion Bluford, and other members of the Bluford family. Guion Bluford became an astronaut.
Dates:
Other: 1946-1976
Collection
Identifier: 052
Content Description
17 prints, including 2 framed, by Margaret Burroughs, Leslie Emery, and F. Bazille. 30 phonodiscs, including singles and albums, and 14 books. Books have been separated to cataloging. Prints have been separated to Fine Art collection.
Dates:
Other: 1870-1969
Collection
Identifier: 2017
Content Description
Includes correspondence, clippings, biographical data, photographs, and ephemera related to the career of Eddie V. Bonnemere - a proponent of jazz music in liturgical settings. Also includes an audiocassette of Bonnemere's album Isn't it Odd?
Dates:
Other: 1966-1985
