Skip to main content Skip to search results

Showing Collections: 11 - 20 of 49

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

Spiver Gordon oral history interview

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 2119
Scope and Contents

This small collection is made up of a single audiocassette of a January 1984 interview with Spiver Gordon, a field secretary for the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) who served in Plaquemine, Baton Rouge, and Monroe, Louisiana. The interviewer is unidentified. 45 minute recording, side 1 only.

Dates: Created: 1984; Other: Date acquired: 11/03/2011

Antoinette Harrell papers

 Collection
Identifier: 608
Content Description The Antoinette Harrell papers primarily document Harrell's career as a historian and activist, with collected files from her civil and social activities within New Orleans and Louisiana. The collection is extremely rich on the subjects of African American history in Louisiana and the Mississippi Delta; slavery reparations; and peonage in the South from the 1920s to the 1960s. The Harrell papers contain correspondence, news clippings, photographs, yearbooks, leaflets, genealogical material...
Dates: Other: circa 1864-2017, undated

Connie Harse papers

 Collection
Identifier: 573
Scope and Contents The Connie Harse papers include materials gathered or produced by Harse related to her years in New Orleans, and specifically her membership in the Congress of Racial Equality. Materials include photographs of CORE demonstrations against lunch counter segregation in New Orleans and an issue of the CORE-lator with an article on the demonstrations, photographs of St. Charles Avenue, Charles DeGaulle's visit to New Orleans, an anti-nuclear demonstration at...
Dates: Created: 1959-1965; Other: Date acquired: 01/01/1999

Roland Tilman Heacock papers

 Collection
Identifier: 175
Content Description The papers of Congregational clergyman and author Roland Tilman Heacock contain correspondence, writings, sermons, notes, photographs, news clippings, a scrapbook, memorabilia, and collected items. Writings by Heacock document his interest in civil rights, African American history, religion, and bee culture. Several unpublished manuscripts and poems constitute a portion of the collection. Correspondence of interest includes letters generated by Heacock's acceptance to an all-White...
Dates: Other: 1894-1973

James A. Dombrowski Memorial Committee collection

 Collection
Identifier: 126
Content Description This collection includes correspondence regarding a memorial to James A. Dombrowski, a southern White Methodist minister and civil rights activist. Dombrowski co-founded the Highlander Folk School in Tennessee, founded the Conference of Younger Churchmen of the South, served as director of the Southern Conference for Human Welfare and the Southern Conference Educational Fund, andedited the liberal journal Southern Patriot. The memorial was co-chaired by...
Dates: Other: 1983-1984

Maude Veal Jenkins Collection on Julius Waties Waring

 Collection
Identifier: 199
Scope and Contents The Maude Veal Jenkins Collection on Julius Waties Waring documents the life and career of Judge Julius Waties Waring. The collection highlights the activites and ideologies of Waring, his wife, Elizabeth, and to a smaller extent his daughter, Anne. The collection encompasses 0.4. linear feet of correspondence, photographs, programs, invitations, speeches, and newspaper clippings related to the Waring family. Jenkins, a close friend of the Warings, collected the materials to honor Waring,...
Dates: Created: 1948-1968; Other: Date acquired: 01/01/1972

Lewis Family papers

 Collection
Identifier: 788
Scope and Contents The papers of the Lewis Family (circa 1860-1977; bulk 1880-1950) from Natchitoches, Louisiana, contain significant documents related to Louisiana’s Reconstruction and Post-Reconstruction eras, extensive examples of late 19th and early 20th century portraiture, and the relationships and achievements of an African American family across generations. Family members represented throughout the collection include patriarch John G. Lewis Sr. (1849-1931); his wife Virginia Thompson (1864-1931); and...
Dates: Created: circa 1860-1977; Other: Majority of material found in 1880-1950; Other: Date acquired: 08/08/2012

George Longe papers

 Collection
Identifier: 225
Scope and Contents The papers of educator, civic leader, and Masonic official George Longe reflect his career in the area of education and his involvement as a member and Supreme Grand Commander of the Supreme Council of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry of Louisiana (AASRFML). The papers contain correspondence, news clippings, invitations, programs, photographs, financial records, speeches, and other printed items. Materials maintained by Longe document his position as principal at various...
Dates: Created: 1849-1971; Other: Date acquired: 01/01/1983

Maida Springer Kemp papers addendum

 Collection
Identifier: 349-1
Content Description The addition to the papers primarily documents the career of Maida Springer Kemp, and significantly highlights the contributions of an African American woman involved with national and international labor movements. The collection is extremely rich on the subjects of trade unions, international labor laws and projects, women’s labor rights and civil rights. It features Springer Kemp’s work and speaking engagements in Africa, Europe, the Caribbean and the United States and includes ample...
Dates: 1934-2008, undated

Filtered By

  • Subject: African Americans -- Civil rights X

Filter Results

Additional filters:

Subject
African Americans -- Civil rights 23
African Americans -- Civil rights -- Louisiana -- New Orleans 10
Sound recordings 9
Voter registration 6
African Americans -- Civil rights -- Louisiana 5
∨ more
African American educators 4
African Americans -- Civil rights -- History -- 20th century 4
Civil rights workers 4
Civil rights workers -- Southern States -- Interviews 4
Louisiana -- History 4
Moving images 4
African American freemasons 3
African American women 3
Civil rights workers -- Louisiana 3
Community relations 3
Correspondence 3
Discrimination in housing 3
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) -- History -- 20th century 3
Race discrimination 3
African American families 2
African American families -- Louisiana 2
African American fraternal organizations 2
African American labor leaders 2
African American lawyers -- Louisiana -- Political activity -- History -- Sources 2
African American political activists -- Louisiana 2
African American singers -- opera 2
African American universities and colleges 2
African American women educators 2
African American--Interviews 2
African Americans -- Civil rights -- History 2
African Americans -- Civil rights -- Louisiana -- History -- Sources 2
African Americans -- Civil rights -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- History -- 20th century 2
African Americans -- Civil rights -- Mississippi -- Natchez -- History -- 20th century 2
African Americans -- Education 2
African Americans -- Education -- Louisiana 2
African Americans -- Education -- Louisiana -- New Orleans 2
African Americans -- Louisiana -- History -- Sources 2
African Americans -- Travel 2
Civic leaders 2
Civil Rights Movement 2
Civil rights demonstrations 2
Civil rights demonstrations -- Louisiana 2
Civil rights movements 2
Civil rights movements -- Louisiana 2
Civil rights movements -- Mississippi -- Natchez -- History -- 20th century 2
College teachers 2
Community activists 2
Community development 2
Congregational churches 2
Desegregation 2
Education -- Louisiana 2
Freemasons 2
Freemasons. Prince Hall Grand Lodge of Georgia 2
Historically black colleges and universities 2
March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom (1963 : Washington, D.C.) 2
Natchez (Miss.) -- Race relations 2
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) -- History 2
News Clippings 2
Race relations 2
Race relations -- Louisiana 2
School integration -- Louisiana 2
School integration -- Louisiana -- History -- Sources 2
Scottish Rite (Masonic order) 2
Segregation 2
Segregation -- Louisiana 2
Sermons 2
Studies in African American history and culture 2
White Citizens councils 2
African American athletes 1
African American authors 1
African American businesspeople -- Louisiana 1
African American clergy 1
African American history 1
African American lawyers 1
African American lawyers -- Louisiana 1
African American motion picture actors and actresses 1
African American musicians 1
African American newspapers -- Louisiana -- New Orleans 1
African American photographers 1
African American political activists 1
African American soldiers 1
African American teachers 1
African American universities and colleges -- Administration 1
African American universities and colleges -- Faculty 1
African American universities and colleges -- North Carolina -- Charlotte -- alumni and alumnae 1
African Americans 1
African Americans -- Civil rights -- Louisiana -- History 1
African Americans -- Civil rights -- New York (State) 1
African Americans -- Education -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
African Americans -- History 1
African Americans -- Hospitals -- Louisiana -- New Orleans 1
African Americans -- Housing 1
African Americans -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- Politics and government 1
African Americans -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- Social conditions -- 20th century 1
African Americans -- New York (State) 1
African Americans -- Reparations 1
African Americans -- Social conditions -- 20th century 1
African Americans -- Social life and customs 1
American poetry -- African American authors 1
Authors 1
∧ less
 
Names
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People 11
Deacons for Defense and Justice 3
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968 3
Louisiana Education Association 3
Southern Christian Leadership Conference 3
∨ more
Congress of Racial Equality 2
Evers, Medgar Wiley, 1925-1963 2
Freemasons. Prince Hall Grand Lodge of Louisiana 2
Lewis, John G., Jr. (John Gideon), 1904-1979 2
Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party 2
Pincus, Edward, 1938-2013 2
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.) 2
Tilley, John Lee, 1898-1971 2
Tureaud, A. P. (Alexander Pierre) 2
Allen, James E. (James Egert) 1
Blake, Eugene Carson, 1906-1985 1
Breda, Beatrice Cecelia Lewis, 1887-1974 1
Burghardt, Vivian Beulah Lewis, 1897-1921 1
Burns, Leonard, 1922-2008 1
Butts, June Dobbs, 1928-2019 1
Byrd, Daniel Ellis, 1910-1984 1
City University of New York. Medgar Evers College 1
Clement, Josephine (Josephine Dobbs Clement), 1918-1998 1
Davis, A. L. (Abraham Lincoln), 1914-1978 1
De Jong, Greta 1
Dent, Albert W., Dr. (Albert Walter), 1904-1984 1
Dent, Jessie Covington (Ernestine Jessie), 1904-2001 1
Dent, Tom (Thomas Covington), 1932-1998 1
Deszadier, Clara Isabelle Lewis, 1888-1948 1
Dillard University 1
Dobbs, Irene Thompson, 1885-1972 1
Dobbs, John Wesley, 1882-1961 1
Dobbs, Mattiwilda (Mattiwilda "Geekie" Dobbs Jazon), 1925-2015 1
Dombrowski, James A. (James Anderson), 1897-1983 1
Fairclough, Adam 1
Farmer, James, 1920-1999 1
Fishman, Rose Carver 1
Flint-Goodridge Hospital (New Orleans, La.) 1
Gordon, Spiver, 1939- 1
Hamer, Fannie Lou 1
Harrell, Antoinette, 1960- 1
Harse, Connie (Constance Bradford) 1
Hayes, Ruth Lewis Hedrick 1
Heacock, Roland Tilman, 1893-1972 1
Hedrick, Ruth Irene Lewis, 1889-1943 1
Jackson, Irene (Irene "Renie" Dobbs Jackson), 1908-1999 1
Jackson, Maynard, 1938-2003 1
James A. Dombrowski Memorial Committee 1
Jenkins, Maude Veal 1
Johnson C. Smith University 1
Jordan, Millicent (Millicent Dobbs Jordan), 1911-1991 1
Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity 1
Kemp, Maida Springer, 1910-2005 1
Knights of Peter Claver 1
Ku Klux Klan (1915-) 1
Lewis Family 1
Lewis, John G., Sr. (John Gideon), 1851-1931 1
Lewis, John, 1940, February 21- 1
Lewis, Lambert L'Ouverture (Beau), 1894-1965 1
Lewis, Scott (Anderson Scott), 1891-1941 1
Lewis, Vinita, 1907-1969 1
Lewis, Virginia Thompson (Mary L.L.L. Virginia), 1864-1931 1
Logsdon, Joseph 1
Longe, George, Jr., 1898-1985 1
M.W. Prince Hall Grand Lodge, F. & A.M. for the State of Louisiana 1
Mantinband, Charles, 1895-1974 1
Marr, Warren Q., II, 1916-2010 1
Marsalis, Ellis L., Sr. (Ellis Louis), 1908-2004 1
Marshall, Thurgood, 1908-1993 1
Matthew H. Ahmann 1
McCullough, Lel H. 1
McPherson, James W., 1886-1975 1
Metoyer, Rene Calvin 1
Metropolitan Opera (New York, N.Y.) 1
Moore, Hazel (Hazel Stamps) 1
Morehouse College (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
Morial, Ernest N. (Ernest Nathan), 1929-1989 1
Morrow, E. Frederic (Everett Frederic), circa 1906-1994 1
Murphree, Vanessa D. 1
NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund 1
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Memphis Branch 1
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Office of Field Director of Louisiana 1
National Catholic Conference for Interracial Justice 1
Nelson, John P. (John Pettit) 1
Neuman, David 1
New Orleans (La.). City Council 1
New Orleans Athletic Club 1
New Orleans Public Schools 1
New Zion Baptist Church (New Orleans, La.) 1
Orissa Arend 1
Powell, Larry (Lawrence N.) 1
Prinz, Joachim, 1902-1988 1
Robeson, Paul, 1898-1976 1
Royal Arch Masons of the United States, Prince Hall Affiliation 1
Ruth Morand Baham 1
Salk, Erwin A. 1
Scottish Rite (Masonic order). United Supreme Council, Prince Hall Affiliation, Southern Jurisdiction 1
Seventh Ward Civic League 1
Sherer, Robert G., Jr. 1
Southern Conference Educational Fund 1
∧ less