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American Missionary Association archives
Collection
Identifier: 001
Scope and Contents
This collection is a valuable resource for the study of the abolitionist movement. It includes approximately 350,000 manuscript pieces. The mass of these was written during the period from 1839 to 1882, but several thousand are dated before and after that time. The manuscripts include some of the treasurers’ papers and minutes of Executive Committee meetings, as well as other items such as sermons, statistical reports, drawings, photographs, and essays; however, letters make up the large...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1828-1969; Other: Majority of material found in 1839-1882; Other: Date acquired: 08/22/1968
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
American Missionary Association archives addenda
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 001-1
Scope and Contents
The 1969 addendum and later addenda to the American Missionary Association archives are mostly twentieth century in scope, covering two main subject areas. The first is the association's numerous schools. These are considered "field" records, or, the fruits of the Association's missionary work outside of its New York City office. The Addendum is divided into three series: Series 1 covers field-related work, mainly the AMA schools; Series 2 covers projects that were run directly form the New...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1849-1991; Other: Date acquired: 03/31/1969
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Amistad Research Center
American Missionary photograph collection
Collection
Identifier: 018
Content Description
The collection contains photographs that were gathered for use in the monthly magazine American Missionary, published by the American Missionary Association. Photographers include W. Knighton Bloom, Laura Kincheloe, and Frank Moore. These photographs document various ethnic groups and communities, both urban and rural in various sections of the United States. Also included are numerous photographs related to Ellis Island in the 1920s.Photographs taken and collected by W. Knighton...
Dates:
Other: 1922-1934
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Amistad Research Center
Amistad America, Inc. collection
Collection
Identifier: 629
Content Description
This artificial collection contains promotional packets, news clippings, and memorabilia related to Amistad America Inc., a non-profit organization headquartered in New Haven, Connecticut, that operates the Freedom Schooner Amistad, a replica of the original schooner La Amistad.
Dates:
Other: 2000
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
Amistad Promotions, Inc. records
Collection
Identifier: 020
Content Description
This collection contains correspondence and printed items relating to the National Afro-American Exposition and Festival held in Miami.
Dates:
Other: 1982-1984
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
Amistad Research Center vertical file
Collection
Identifier: 691
Scope and Contents
The Amistad Research Center vertical file consists of an accumulation of hundreds of items, largely ephemeral in nature, in myriad formats and on topics as diverse as the people and institutions who created them. The bulk of the materials are from the 1980s onward. This is an artificial collection curated by Amistad Research Center staff to house important, yet ephemeral, materials that do not clearly warrant inclusion in the Center's library or manuscripts holdings. Formats include...
Dates:
Other: Date acquired: 09/09/1999
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Amistad Research Center
Geraldine Odester Amos collection
Collection
Identifier: SC2002
Content Description
Included is a 1925 letter from U. G. Mason and R. W. Coleman, minister at the First African Baptist Church in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, concerning a meeting of fraternal heads and educators throughout Alabama to establish a "Fraternal University for the training of the Negro youth." Also included is a promotional packet for a 1958 joint United Nations and foreign policy seminar sponsored by the Council on Christian Social Progress of the American Baptist Convention and the National Baptist...
Dates:
Other: 1925-1958
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
Kwaw Ansah collection
Collection
Identifier: SC2003
Content Description
This collection includes a copy of Ghanaian filmmaker Kwaw Ansah's screenplay “Heritage (The Colonial Subject).” The main character is Quincy Arthur Bosomfield, alias Kwesi Atta Bosomefi. It concerns an identity crisis of a Gold Coast colonial administrator who had been born a member of the Fante people.
Dates:
Other: 1982
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith Race Relations Work records
Collection — Box: 28
Identifier: 026
Scope and Contents
The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) of B'nai B'rith Race Relations Work records provide documentation of the organization's work in human and race relations. The ADL was founded in 1913 "to stop the defamation of the Jewish people and to secure justice and fair treatment to all." Although the organization was founded to primarily combat anti-Semitism, it grew defend the civil rights of all people and to promote relations between groups. The records in this collection contain...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1946-1982
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Amistad Research Center
Orissa Arend typescript
Collection — Container: Small Collections
Identifier: 2490
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of a draft typescript of Orissa Arend's book Showdown in Desire: The Black Panthers Take a Stand in New Orleans, which was published by The University of Arkansas Press in 2009. This draft, comprised of 268 leaves, includes revised chapters of the book dating from July-August 2005 prior to substantial revision leading to publication. The typescript includes a timeline of events described in the book, as well as a list of individuals...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 2005; Other: Date acquired: 01/17/2006
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Amistad Research Center