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John Wesley Dobbs Family papers

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Identifier: 122
Scope and Contents The papers document the personal and professional lives of the John Wesley Dobbs family of Atlanta, Georgia. The key topics are civil rights, education, integration, race relations, and African American suffrage. The main strengths are the civil rights activities of the family as well as J.W. Dobb's tenure as Grand Master of Prince Hall Masonic Grand Lodge of Georgia. The collection encompasses 5.8 linear feet of correspondence, photographs, programs, sound recordings, speeches, and news...
Dates: Created: 1873-2001; Other: Date acquired: 01/01/1974

Alice R. Geoffray papers

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Identifier: 845
Content Description The papers primarily document the career of Dr. Alice R. Geoffray. Some materials pertain to the Adult Education Center (AEC) as well, including letters, emails, and other correspondence from AEC graduates, faculty and board members (2000-2003). Formats include articles, correspondence, programs, brochures, publications, textbooks, press releases, newsletters, expense reports, emails, and publications written by Geoffray regarding business professional speeches. Other items include...
Dates: 1957-2023

Greater St. Stephen Full Gospel Baptist Church collection

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Identifier: 441
Content Description This collection contains materials that document the history of Greater St. Stephen Full Gospel Baptist Church in New Orleans, Louisiana. The collection contains souvenir programs and orders of service, photographs of the membership, pamphlets on scripture, a history of the church, and a letter from Nelson Mandela, dated January 1993, in connection with the 56th anniversary of the church.The audiovisual material in the collection includes audiocassettes, videocassettes, and DVDs...
Dates: Other: 1937-2005

Bernette Joshua Johnson papers

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Identifier: 658
Scope and Contents The papers of Louisiana Supreme Court Chief Justice Bernette Joshua Johnson chiefly pertain to her membership and chairmanship of the National Bar Association (NBA) Judicial Council. This collection includes correspondence, reports, meeting minutes, photographs, and other materials related to her service as chair (1997 to 1998) of the National Bar Association Judicial Council and also reflect her prior service with the Judicial Council. During her tenure as chair, the NBA drew...
Dates: Created: 1990-1999; Other: Date acquired: 12/10/2003

Elsie M. Lewis papers

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Identifier: 218
Acknowledgement This project was made possible in part by the Institute of Museum and Library Services award MH-245560-OMS-20. Content Description The papers primarily document the career of Elsie Mae Lewis, and significantly highlight the contributions of an African American educator, consultant, scholar and writer in the United States. The collection is extremely rich on the subjects of Black history, education and the documentation of Lewis’ career, with...
Dates: Other: 1829-1979, undated

Lena Lowe papers

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Identifier: 412
Content Description

The papers of retired New Orleans public school teacher and Central Congregational Church member Lena Lowe include diplomas, photographs, a letter, and a funeral program.

Dates: Other: 1920-1991

Loretta C. Manggrum papers

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Identifier: 242
Content Description

The papers document the career of composer, arranger, and pianist Loretta Manggrum and includes 0.2 linear feet of musical scores, news clippings and audiocassette recordings of Manggrum’s performances. Items of note within the collection are audiocassettes of a 1980 interview with Manggrum and a recording of the program “Can’t You See," a Cantata Composed by Loretta C. Manggrum, a Sermon in Song” (undated).

Dates: Other: 1970-1987

Rosanna Edwards Marshall papers

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Identifier: 433
Content Description Rosanna Edwards Marshall was an educator and author in New Orleans. Her papers include photographs of her travels and her military service in World War II, a photograph of Martin Luther King Jr., and copies of Veterans' Voices (1984-1992). Included are a photograph album documenting a trip to California (1985), correspondence (1953-1993), legal documents (1966), a program for the Thomy Lafon School (1948), newspaper articles, a flyer for her book, ...
Dates: Other: 1940-1996

Mary Allen College records

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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

Margaret Callender McCulloch papers

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Identifier: 236
Content Description The papers of historian and race relations activist Margaret Callender McCulloch include articles, pamphlets, speeches, reports, and poem written by McCulloch, as well as a typescript of "Can This Be Me?...memories of Mary Eliza West, Freedwoman" about a former enslaved woman on a Georgia plantation, edited by McCulloch. The collection also includes correspondence, photographs, a genealogical chart, a map, and handwritten transcripts of correspondence of physician Francis Julius LeMoyne and...
Dates: Other: 1936-1988

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Dent, Jessie Covington (Ernestine Jessie), 1904-2001 3
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Bush Elementary School 1
Bush, Ethel Boyd, 1911-1990 1
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Butts, June Dobbs, 1928-2019 1
Chicago Music Association 1
Clement, Josephine (Josephine Dobbs Clement), 1918-1998 1
Cook, Celestine Strode, 1924-1985 1
Cureau, Rebecca 1
Dobbs, Irene Thompson, 1885-1972 1
Dobbs, John Wesley, 1882-1961 1
Dobbs, Mattiwilda (Mattiwilda "Geekie" Dobbs Jazon), 1925-2015 1
Flint-Goodridge Hospital (New Orleans, La.) 1
Gist, Eloyse 1
Greater St. Stephen Full Gospel Baptist Church 1
Jackson, Irene (Irene "Renie" Dobbs Jackson), 1908-1999 1
Jackson, Maynard, 1938-2003 1
Johnson, Bernette Joshua 1
Jordan, Millicent (Millicent Dobbs Jordan), 1911-1991 1
Lewis, Elsie (1912-1992) 1
Links, Inc. 1
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Lowe, Lena E. 1
Manggrum, Loretta C. 1
Marshall, Rosanna Edwards 1
Marshall, Thurgood, 1908-1993 1
Mary Allen College (Crockett, Tex.) 1
McCulloch, Margaret C. (Margaret Callender), 1901-1996 1
McCullough, Lel H. 1
McDaniel, Hattie, 1895-1952 1
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Miss Black America Beauty Pageant of Hudson County (N.J.) 1
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Moore, Hazel (Hazel Stamps) 1
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National Association for the Advancement of Colored People 1
National Bar Association. Judicial Council 1
Nengudi, Senga (Senga Nengudi Fittz), 1943- 1
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Stevenson, Marion Fisher, 1897-1981 1
Thomas, Clarence, 1948- 1
Thurman, Tom (Thomas L.) 1
Union Bethel A.M.E. Church (New Orleans, La.) 1
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Williams, Spencer, 1893-1969 1
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