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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
Charles Mantinband papers
Collection
Identifier: 245
Content Description
The papers of Rabbi Charles Mantinband document his life and career, particularly his involvement in civil rights. The collection includes correspondence, news clippings, articles, broadsides, sermons, pamphlets, and Mantinband's dissertation. Some of the items pertain to Emmett Till and Medgar Evers, who were both killed in Mississippi. Other items pertain to speaking engagements at historically Black colleges. Correspondents include: A.D. Beittel, P.D. East, Medgar Evers, John Howard...
Dates:
Other: 1951-1974
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
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
James W. McPherson papers
Collection
Identifier: 239
Scope and Contents
The papers of James Wesley McPherson contain professional and personal documents highlighting McPherson's work in the area of civil rights, particulary his efforts to increase voter registration among African Americans in South Carolina. The papers encompass 0.8 linear feet and contain correspondence, photographs, sample ballots, background information on the South Carolina Voter Education Program, newspaper clippings, speeches, pamphlets, certificates, and programs, including a program on...
Dates:
Created: 1917-1974; Other: Majority of material found in 1937-1964; Other: Date acquired: 01/01/1974
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
John P. Nelson papers
Collection
Identifier: 269
Scope and Contents
The papers document Nelson's active participation in the civil rights movement, school integration in New Orleans, and his work as an Assistant District Attorney for Orleans Parish. The papers of John P. Nelson, Jr. measure approximately 7.2 linear feet. There are 1,227 pieces of correspondence dated between 1957 and 1977. The papers also include magazine articles, speeches, a proposal, collected materials, notes, memoranda, agendas, reports, minutes, job descriptions, applications, resumes,...
Dates:
Created: 1957-1977; Other: Date acquired: 06/06/1973
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
Ed Pincus collection
Collection — Container: Reels 1-751
Identifier: 624
Scope and Contents
The Ed Pincus collection consists of approximately 90 hours of 16mm black and white film footage used to create two civil rights era documentaries, Black Natchez and Panola. Filmmakers Ed Pincus and David Neuman shot the footage in Natchez, Mississippi, between June and September 1965. In 1967, they returned to Natchez and shot 10 additional hours of film for a planned sequel to Black Natchez,...
Dates:
Created: 1965-1967; Other: Date acquired: 05/01/2002
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
Ed Pincus collection addendum
Collection
Identifier: 624-1
Scope and Contents
This addition to the collection of filmmaker Ed Pincus consists of correspondence, news clippings, an interview, reviews, photographs, slides, and production materials related to two civil rights era documentaries shot, directed, and produced by Pincus, Black Natchez and Panola. Filmmakers Ed Pincus and David Neuman shot footage in Natchez, Mississippi, between June and September 1965, which documented race relations in the...
Dates:
Created: 1958-1976; Other: Date acquired: 01/01/2004
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
University of Mississippi Center for the Study of Southern Culture Civil Rights Movement and the Law oral history collection
Collection
Identifier: 2246
Content Description
Sound recordings of the proceedings of a civil rights conference held in 1989 by the Center for the Study of Southern Culture entitled The Civil Rights Movement and the Law. Recordings include panel discussions with panelists Jack Greenberg, Constance Baker Motley, Charles Clark, Jean Fairfax, Frank R. Parker, and others. Also included is a paper copy of remarks by Constance Baker Motley.
Dates:
1989
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
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