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Charlotte and David Brown papers
Collection
Identifier: 648
Content Description
Through Operation Crossroads Africa, Drs. Charlotte and David Brown worked on medical projects and helped run several hospitals in Africa, in particular the Eastern Clinic in Mobai, Sierra Leone from 1962 to the present. The materials in this collection consists of scrapbooks and correspondence related to a trip to Ekwendeni, Nyasaland, in 1962 by the Brown family; scrapbooks, news clippings and correspondence regarding Dr. David Brown’s work with the Eastern Clinic, which was founded by Dr....
Dates:
Other: 1962-2002
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
James Herman Robinson Institute collection
Collection
Identifier: 670
Content Description
The James Herman Robinson Institute was created by local New Orleans alumni of Operation Crossroads Africa (OCA) to promote scholarship in the African Diaspora through use of the archives and manuscript collections of the OCA and James H. Robinson held at the Amistad Research Center. The institute has sponsored two internship students to process and preserve portions of the OCA records, sponsored a speaker series “The Work and Legacy of Dr. James H. Robinson: Operation Crossroads Africa,”...
Dates:
Other: 1961-2004
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
Operation Crossroads Africa records
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 281
Scope and Contents
The Operation Crossroads Africa (OCA) records measure 34.4 linear feet and contain approximately 22 linear feet of correspondence. Most of this correspondence is dated between 1968 and 1975. Other record types in the accession are financial accounts, biographical profiles, reports, photographs, brochures, pamphlets, programs, newspaper articles, agenda and minutes, handbooks, and other printed items. The correspondence includes political items to and from American and foreign, particularly...
Dates:
Created: 1958-1979; Other: Date acquired: 01/01/1979
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
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- Africa -- Description and travel 1
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- Robinson, James H. (James Herman), 1907-1972 2
- Bolton, Fances Payne Bingham, 1885-1977 1
- Brooke, Edward W. (Edward William), 1919-2015 1
- Brown, Charlotte 1
- Brown, David 1
- Cleveland, James C. (James Colgate), 1920-1995 1
- Council on International Educational Exchange 1
- Diggs, Charles C. 1
- Douglas, William O. (William Orville), 1898-1980 1
- James Herman Robinson Institute 1
- Javits, Jacob K. (Jacob Koppel), 1904-1986 1
- National Association for Foreign Student Affairs 1
- National Council for Community Services to International Visitors (U.S.) 1
- Percy, Charles H., 1919-2011 1
- Rockefeller, Blanchette Hooker, 1909-1992 1
- Ryan, William Frederick, 1926- 1
- United States. Agency for International Development 1
- United States. Department of State. Bureau of African Affairs 1
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