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M. W. Prince Hall Grand Lodge, F. & A. M. for the State of Louisiana records
Collection
Identifier: 607
Scope and Contents
The records of the Most Worshipful Prince Hall Grand Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons for the State of Louisiana are a rich source of primary documentation about the history of African American freemasonry in Louisiana and throughout the United States, the period of post-Civil War Reconstruction (1865-1877), the long civil rights movement of the late 19th and early 20th centuries (1878-1954) and the modern civil rights movement (1955-1968). The...
Dates:
Created: 1857-2002; Other: Majority of material found in 1940-1980; Other: Date acquired: 08/13/2008
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
Pontchartrain Park Pioneers Oral History collection
Collection
Identifier: 834
Content Description
The Pontchartrain Park Pioneers Oral History Collection encompasses ten digital mp4 video interviews with original residents of the safe haven all-black suburb, Pontchartrain Park in New Orleans, formed during the era of Jim Crow and racial segregation. The second oldest black suburb, built between 1955 and 1961, Pontchartrain Park was envisioned and developed by and for middle and upper-class African Americans who were denied the opportunity of homeownership in historic and new suburban...
Dates:
2019
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
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- African American businesspeople -- Louisiana 1
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- African Americans -- Housing 1
- Civil rights movements -- Louisiana 1
- Community activists 1
- Community relations 1
- Discrimination in housing 1
- Discrimination in housing -- Law and legislation -- Louisiana 1
- Discrimination in housing -- Law and legislation -- United States 1
- Education -- Louisiana 1
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- Freemasons. Prince Hall Grand Lodge of Georgia 1
- Pontchartrain Park (New Orleans, La.: neighborhood) 1
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- Freemasons. Prince Hall Grand Lodge of Louisiana 1
- Lewis, John G., Jr. (John Gideon), 1904-1979 1
- Louisiana Education Association 1
- M.W. Prince Hall Grand Lodge, F. & A.M. for the State of Louisiana 1
- NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund 1
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