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Dillard University Alumni Association records
Collection
Identifier: 120
Content Description
The Dillard University Alumni Association records consist of four bound volumes, including three minute books, dated 1951-1963, and one receipt book, dated 1965-1967. Unbound items include correspondence, receipts, tickets, and rosters. Names documented within the collection include Albert W. Dent, Emily Davis Bickham, Rosemary St. Cyr Smith, Ruth A. Steele, and Jessie B. Vickman.
Dates:
Other: 1951-1967
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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
Esther W. Douglass collection
Collection
Identifier: 130
Content Description
This collection consists of photocopies of materials in the Michigan Historical Collections at the University of Michigan. Esther W. Douglass was a teacher and missionary for the American Missionary Association in Virginia, Georgia, North and South Carolina, and Tennessee for 31 years. Included in the collection are 22 outgoing letters to family members, 32 incoming letters from her family and such persons as Booker T. Washington and Billy Sunday. Also present is the biography written by her...
Dates:
Other: 1865-1915
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
Esther W. Douglass papers
Collection — Container: small collections
Identifier: 2473
Scope and Contents
The papers of Esther W. Douglass contain outgoing correspondence and a bound volume containing her life reminiscences written for a family member. They detail her work as a teacher and missionary with the American Missionary Association from 1865 to 1895 in Virginia, Georgia, Tennessee, North Carolina, and South Carolina. The correspondence consists of nine letters and fragments of seven additional letters written by Douglass while in Oaks, North Carolina. Most are addressed to...
Dates:
Created: 1887-1909; Other: Date acquired: 01/01/1984
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
Downtown Neighborhood Improvement Association (DNIA) Education Committee records
Collection
Identifier: 2495
Content Description
The Downtown Neighborhood Improvement Association serves the historic downtown area of New Orleans bounded by Orleans Avenue and St. Bernard Avenue, North Rampart Street and North Broad Street, as well as the triangle above North Broad between Gentilly Avenue and St. Bernard Avenue, which includes the 6th and 7th Wards, Treme, and Greater Treme.The records of the Downtown Neighborhood Improvement Association’s Education Committee consist of meeting minutes and collected items...
Dates:
Other: 2006-2010
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
Dryades Street Young Men's Christian Association (New Orleans, La.) records
Collection
Identifier: 133
Content Description
Records of the Dryades Street YMCA include administrative records of the School of Commerce and programs conducted by the organization, such as Outreach, Neighborhood Youth Corps Out-of-School project, Competitive Physical Education, and youth clubs and activities. Record types include correspondence, teacher roll books, other reporting forms, student files, applications, grant proposals, programs, financial records, and clippings. Names in the records include director William H. Mitchell...
Dates:
Other: 1942-1990
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
Dunn-Landry Family papers
Collection
Identifier: 138
Scope and Contents
The Dunn-Landry Family Papers encompass 14 linear feet of material covering subject areas of civil rights, African American education, ministerial work, historically black colleges and universities, Louisiana politics and race relations.The collection is arranged into nine series of personal and professional materials. The bulk of the papers are professional in nature with some personal correspondence. The strength of the collection is national and local civic activities, civil rights ...
Dates:
Created: 1872-2003; Other: Majority of material found in 1916 -1992; Other: Date acquired: 01/01/1984
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
Richard English papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 149
Scope and Contents
The papers of educator and World War II veteran, Richard W. English, contains correspondence, educator and military records, and photographs related to his service in the all-black combat unit, the 761ST Tank Battalion, during World War II (1942-1945), his post-war service in Germany (1945-1950), and his work as a teacher and administrator in the public schools of New Orleans, Louisiana. Correspondence (1945-1982) includes a number of letters between English...
Dates:
Created: 1942-1984; Other: Date acquired: 05/09/1980
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
Freedmen's Aid Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church records
Collection
Identifier: 157
Content Description
This collection is composed of two boxes and two reels of microfilm. The boxes contain photocopies of original docuements (1865-1897) held in the Freedmen's Aid Society records held at the Interdenominational Theological Center in Atlanta, Georgia. The documents are letters and reports primarily pertaining to Georgia and Alabama. The microfilm contains annual reports of the organization from 1866-1924. There are two folders of non-Georgia and non-Alabama letters, dated 1866-1878. The Georgia...
Dates:
Other: 1865-1924
Found in:
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
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