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John Wesley Dobbs Family papers
Collection
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
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Amistad Research Center
Alice R. Geoffray papers
Collection
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
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
Greater St. Stephen Full Gospel Baptist Church collection
Collection
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
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
Bernette Joshua Johnson papers
Collection
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
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Amistad Research Center
Elsie M. Lewis papers
Collection
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
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
Lena Lowe papers
Collection
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
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Amistad Research Center
Loretta C. Manggrum papers
Collection
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
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
Rosanna Edwards Marshall papers
Collection
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
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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
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Amistad Research Center
Margaret Callender McCulloch papers
Collection
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
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
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