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Dent Family papers addendum
Collection
Identifier: 116-01
Scope and Contents
The addendum to the papers of Albert Walter Dent (1904-1984) and Ernestine Jessie Covington Dent (1904-2001) provides a rich source of documentation of a prominent African American family, and covers topics such as education, healthcare, musical traditions and culture in New Orleans, Louisiana, and Houston, Texas. The papers consist of 38 linear feet of personal and collected papers of both individuals and other Covington-Dent family members. The addition to the papers is comprised of...
Dates:
1890-2001, undated
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
Mary Allen College records
Collection
Identifier: 662
Content Description
Founded as a seminary in 1885, Mary Allen College in Crockett, Texas, was reorganized as a college for women by the Board of Missions for Freedmen of the Presbyterian Church, USA in 1886. The college was named for one of its main supporters Mrs. Mary Allen of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In 1924, the Board of Missions for Freedmen changed teaching personnel from Caucasian to African American. In 1933, the institution became co-educational and in 1943 the Presbyterian Church stopped its...
Dates:
Other: 1929-1970
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
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- African American families -- Louisiana 1
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- African Americans -- Civil rights 1
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- American poetry -- African American authors 1
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- Dent, Albert W., Dr. (Albert Walter), 1904-1984 1
- Dent, Jessie Covington (Ernestine Jessie), 1904-2001 1
- Dent, Tom (Thomas Covington), 1932-1998 1
- Dillard University 1
- Flint-Goodridge Hospital (New Orleans, La.) 1
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