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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
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
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
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