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Annabelle Bernard papers
Collection
Identifier: 622
Scope and Contents
This project was made possible in part by the Institute of Museum and Library Services award MH-245560-OMS-20. Content Description Annabelle Bernard’s papers reflect more than forty years of her extensive career as an internationally renowned opera singer. Her papers consist of news clippings; correspondence; programs in English, German and Italian; photographs; and critical reviews documenting Bernard’s career. Also included are two...
Dates:
Other: 1956-2001, undated
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Amistad Research Center
Arthur Berry papers
Collection
Identifier: 551
Scope and Contents
The papers document the personal and professional life of Arthur Berry, artist and educator. Included is correspondence, an essay on Aaron Douglas by Arthur Berry, his curriculum vitae, photographs of Berry and his artwork, and newspaper articles regarding his career. Notable correspondents include artists John T. Scott and John Rhoden. Materials reflect professional relationships at Fisk University, the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Florida A&M University, Alabama...
Dates:
Created: 1957-1993; Other: Date acquired: 01/27/1998
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Arthur Berry papers addendum
Collection
Identifier: 551-1
Content Description
This addition to the papers of artist and educator Arthur Berry is comprised of correspondence, photographs, biographical information, news clippings, writings and speeches, programs and catalogs of exhibitions of Berry’s work, some examples of his artwork, and collected materials on fellow African American artists and authors.
The correspondence pertains mainly to Berry’s career as an art educator and includes letters with a number of university officials. Other prominent correspondents...
Dates:
Other: 1949-2012
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Jason Berry papers
Collection
Identifier: 045
Scope and Contents
The personal papers of Jason Berry, author, civil rights activist, and press secretary to Charles Evers, consist of 7.89 linear feet of material related to civil rights, politics, and race relations in Mississippi and Louisiana. The papers also document Berry's journalism and interest in the history of jazz in New Orleans, as well as environmental issues in southeast Louisiana. The bulk of the materials consist of documentation related to Charles Evers' gubernatorial (1971) and senatorial...
Dates:
Created: 1971-1991; Other: Majority of material found in 1971-1988; Other: Date acquired: 12/01/1986
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Mary McLeod Bethune papers
Collection — Box: 3
Identifier: 046
Scope and Contents
This collection consists primarily of outgoing and incoming correspondence. Primary correspondents include John Hope, Frank S. Horne, Mary W. Ovington, William Pickens, the Rev. Adam Clayton Powell Sr., John J. Tigert, Walter White, Roy Wilkins, and Plummer Bernard Young. The correspondence is chiefly invitations to speak and letters of congratulations to Bethune after being named the recipient of the 21st Joel E. Spingarn Medal. This includes a congratulatory telegram from Herbert Hoover,...
Dates:
Created: 1923-1942; Other: Majority of material found in 1927-1936; Other: Date acquired: 01/01/1969
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Between a Rock and a Hard Place collection
Collection
Identifier: 601
Content Description
This collection consists of video and audio tape interviews of African American United Church of Christ clergy and laity documenting experiences with the Committee for Racial Justice NOW, the Ministers for Racial, Social, and Economic Justice, the Committee for Racial Justice, the United Black Christians, and the United Church of Christ. Interviewees include A. Knighton Stanley, Elder (MRSJ/MRSEJ), Dr. Shelby Rooks, Elder (MRSJ/MRSEJ), Reverend Leon White, Elder (CRJ/UBC/MRSJ/MRSEJ),...
Dates:
Other: 2000-2010
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Amistad Research Center
Albert Turner Bharucha-Reid papers
Collection — Container: 25 Volumes
Identifier: 047
Scope and Contents
The papers document the professional life of African American mathematician and researcher Albert Turner Bharucha-Reid and include correspondence, writings, research materials, and documentation on his involvement in professional conferences and organizations, as well as his work as a university professor spanning from the early 1950's to 1985. The papers contain general correspondence with mathematicians around the world and correspondence related to his role as editor and associate editor...
Dates:
Created: 1950-1985; Other: Majority of material found in 1970-1985; Other: Date acquired: 04/01/1985
Found in:
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Albert Turner Bharucha-Reid papers addendum
Collection
Identifier: 047-1
Content Description
This addendum contain Notes on Stochastic Different Equations by T.W. Anderson, a book chapters on Random Difference Equations written by Bharucha-Reid, and his own notes on Stochastic Difference Equations.
Dates:
1980
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Amistad Research Center
I.V. Billes papers
Collection
Identifier: 593
Content Description
I.V. Billes attended Southern University in Baton Rough, Louisiana, receiving a Bachelor of Science Degree in 1941. He continued his education at the Tuskegee Institute, in Tuskegee, Alabama, studying toward a Master’s Degree in Administration. He entered the Armed Forces in 1942 and fought in World War II. He was discharged in 1946 and retired from the U.S. Army Reserves as a Lt. Col. in 1969. He started his career as a teacher and coach in 1942 at Lincoln Parish Training School, Ruston,...
Dates:
Other: 1978-2001
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Amistad Research Center
Edward S. and Eva H. Bishop papers
Collection
Identifier: 2011
Content Description
Small collection of papers of Edward S. Bishop and Eva H. Bishop of Corinth, Mississippi. Includes files pertaining to an application to the Mississippi Committee for the Humanities to fund a project entitled "Problems of the Aged" and materials collected from a Mississippi governor's committe to commemorate the hundredth anniversary of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's birth, among other topics. Also included are materials reflecting Eva Bishop's presidency of the Mississippi Federation of...
Dates:
Other: 1968-1982
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
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