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Raymond G. von Tobel papers
Collection
Identifier: 374
Scope and Contents
The Raymond G. von Tobel papers relate to von Tobel's career as a teacher and school administrator in Georgia and North Dakota with the American Missionary Association. The collection includes correspondence, speeches, writings, photographs, newspaper clippings, programs, and school publications. The majority of the collection pertains to von Tobel's work at Ballard Normal School in Macon, Georgia. Additional material documents his time in North Dakota teaching among the Sioux people and...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1911-1936; Other: Date acquired: 08/01/1976
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Lillian W. Voorhees papers
Collection
Identifier: 375
Scope and Contents
The Lillian Welch Voorhees papers consist of 21.7 linear feet of items typical of the life of a 20th century educator. The collection also reflects Voorhees's literary and theatrical interests with examples of her own writings, as well as those of her students. Correspondence, 1900-1973 (ca. 8450 items), comprises the largest part of Voorhees's papers. Her literary efforts, 1907-71, are another large section. These include bibliographies; articles; a fragmentary autobiography and...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1892-1973; Other: Date acquired: 01/01/1970
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Joseph T. Vuong papers
Collection
Identifier: 376
Content Description
Joseph T. Vuong is a counselor who includes fellow Vietnamese students in Jefferson Parish public schools and refugees among his clients. This collection includes photocopies of typescripts regarding counseling and guidance of Vietnamese students, culture and the history of Vietnam. Items in this collection also include four issues of a Vietnamese publication, Day Ngoc Lan, published in New Orleans; a typescript of an interview with Thai Nguyen by Dung Tran and Linh Truong; and a handbill...
Dates:
Other: 1984-1988, n.d.
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Theresa Vuong interview
Collection
Identifier: 2190
Content Description
This collection includes materials related to an interview with Theresa Vuong that was conducted by Trang Vuong of the Tulane University Vietnamese Association. Theresa Vuong was a Vietnamese refugee who arrived in the United States in 1975. Present are a questionnaire used in the interview and a brief handwritten transcript of the answers.
Dates:
Other: 1988
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Ruth G. Waddy papers
Collection
Identifier: 377
Scope and Contents
The papers of African American artist Ruth G. Waddy document her career, particularly the founding of Art West, an African American artists collective in Los Angeles, California, as well as her collaboration with Samella Lewis on the two-volume Black Artists on Art. The collection includes correspondence, catalogs, invitations, programs for plays and musical events, biographical information on Waddy, collected periodicals, news clippings, photographs, and...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1932-1985; Other: Date acquired: 07/01/1985
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Walker-Ish Family papers
Collection
Identifier: 378
Content Description
The Walker-Ish Family papers consist of correspondence, news clippings, programs, family obituaries, invitations (especially to presidential and gubernatorial inaugurations), photographs and albums, memorabilia and printed items about the families of Dr. Joseph Edison Walker of Memphis, Tennessee; his wife, Lelia O'Neal Walker; Dr. George W. Stanley Ish Sr.; and his wife, Lily Johnson Ish, of Little Rock, Arkansas. The families were united by the marriage of A. Maceo Walker, son of Dr. and...
Dates:
Other: 1935-1986
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Amistad Research Center
Jerry W. Ward papers
Collection
Identifier: 413
Scope and Contents
The papers of literary scholar Jerry Ward include correspondence regarding his teaching career, submissions of works to academic journals, and letters regarding his work with the Coordinating Council of Literary Magazines. Included are various examples of Ward's writings, including scholarly essays, interviews, and critical reviews. The papers also consist of fiction and poetry by Ward, as well as news clippings, programs, announcements, and his dissertation, "Richard Wright and His American...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1973-2007; Other: Date acquired: 09/30/1992
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Jerry W. Ward papers addendum
Collection
Identifier: 413-1
Content Description
This collection contains academic, professional and personal correspondence, writings, lecture notes, collected writings, ephemera and newspaper clippings that were generated during Dr. Jerry Ward’s teaching career at Tougaloo College and Dillard University, and from his work as a literary critic. This addendum also includes materials related to his post-retirement activities. Items of note include materials from an unfinished book project with Dr. Reginald Martin; working texts for the book...
Dates:
Other: 1975-2019
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William Warfield papers
Collection — Container: 32 boxes
Identifier: 379
Scope and Contents
The William Warfield papers document Warfield's career as a bass baritone singer, actor, narrator, and professor. The collection consists of correspondence, financial documents, schedules, collected items, newspaper articles, and photographs spanning the years 1948 to 1990. The papers have been arranged into five series, which are arranged as follows: biographical information and correspondence, financial records, itineraries and schedules, collected items, and oversize items. The bulk of...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1948-1990; Other: Majority of material found in 1950-1980; Other: Date acquired: 01/01/1989
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Kenneth R. Warren papers
Collection
Identifier: 821
Content Description
The Kenneth Warren papers mainly document Reverend Warren’s work with the Cape Cod Refugee Relief Committee in Barnstable, Massachusetts. The committee was established to assist the 96 Reverse Freedom Riders who arrived in the resort town of Hyannis, Massachusetts between May and October 1962. Warren was the chairman of the committee, committed to assisting the arrivals as best possible in finding housing, employment and transportation. All arrivals but one family—Mrs. Victoria Bell and her...
Dates:
1959-2012; Majority of material found within 1962-1965
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Amistad Research Center