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Greta de Jong collection
Collection
Identifier: 585
Content Description
Collection consists solely of Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) file reports on various organizations and incidents in specific geographic areas: Louisiana Farmers Union, Communist Party of Louisiana, Southern Gentlemen, Deacons for Defense and Justice, Iberville Parish school desegregation, Citizens Council of Louisiana, Original Knights of the Ku Klux Klan of Louisiana, St. Helena Parish school desegregation, and of African Americans who were beaten while registering to vote in...
Dates:
Other: 1941-1970
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
Tom Dent papers
Collection
Identifier: 117
Scope and Contents
The papers of Tom Dent provide a rich documentary source in the areas of African American literature and theater, the Civil Rights Movement, and the society and culture of New Orleans. The collection encompasses 149 linear feet of correspondence, literary manuscripts, oral history interviews, photographs, financial records, and memorabilia generated by one of New Orleans' most treasured poets, playwrights, and oral historians. Dent was a prolific writer of letters, poetry, and...
Dates:
Created: 1861-1998; Other: Majority of material found in 1959-1998; Other: Date acquired: 01/01/1976
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
Vanessa Murphree oral history collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 2507
Scope and Contents
This small oral history collection contains interviews done by Vanessa D. Murphree in 2001 and 2002 with members of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). Interviews focus on SNCC's use of public relations and communications for the promotion of civil rights. To this end, Murphree interviews members of SNCC's Communications Department, Research Department, and Executive Committee to discuss specific tools and strategies used in their messaging and direct actions. The...
Dates:
Created: 2001-2002; Other: Majority of material found in 2001; Other: Date acquired: 05/25/2005
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
Preston and Bonita Valien Papers
Collection
Identifier: 371
Scope and Contents
The Preston and Bonita Valien papers are a rich source of documentation generated during the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s, and extremely strong in documenting their ground breaking sociology research in the areas of African American higher education, housing segregation, public school and public transportation integration, population migration from the south to the north, race relations, as well as women’s health related to birth control and infant mortality. The...
Dates:
Created: 1932-1996; Other: Majority of material found in 1940-1960; Other: Date acquired: 04/01/1969
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
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