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John P. Nelson papers

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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

John O'Neal papers

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Identifier: 279
Scope and Contents The papers highlight the personal and professional life of John M. O'Neal, Jr. The John O'Neal papers consist of 25.94 linear feet and document O'Neal's artistic style and vision as an African American actor, director, playwright, and community and civil rights activist. The papers are of interest for studying the southern Black Arts Movement and more specifically the Black Theater Movement; the Free Southern Theater; the Civil Rights Movement; voter rights registration; race relations;...
Dates: Created: 1927-1999; Other: Majority of material found in 1970-1989; Other: Date acquired: 02/01/1983

Paper Monuments collection

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Identifier: 793
Content Description The Paper Monuments Collection is a collection of printed works produced by Paper Monuments, a project of Colloqate Design, a New Orleans-based multidisciplinary nonprofit Design Justice practice, whose mission is to intentionally organize, advocate, and design spaces of racial, social, and cultural equity. The project developed in the midst of public controversy over the status and removal of public monuments in New Orleans that commemorated Confederate and Reconstruction era people and...
Dates: Other: 2017-2018

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

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

Kim Lacy Rogers collection

 Collection — Container: 1
Identifier: 317
Scope and Contents This collection consists mostly of sound recordings of oral history interviews conducted by Kim Lacy Rogers with persons involved in the desegregation process in New Orleans. These include opponents and proponents of segregation. Notable interviewees include: Daniel Byrd, Albert Dent, Tom Dent, Lolis Elie, Oretha Castle Haley, Rosa Freeman Keller, Mayor Maurice "Moon" Landrieu, Rudy Lombard, Mayor Ernest N. "Dutch" Morial, John O'Neal, Revius Ortique, Jackson Ricau, Jerome Smith, and Betty...
Dates: Created: 1959-1996; Other: Majority of material found in 1979-1988; Other: Date acquired: 10/02/1979

Dorothy Sterling papers

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Identifier: 354
Content Description Dorothy Sterling is a scholar of African American history and has authored many books including Forever Free, Tear Down the Walls!, It Started in Montgomery, Speak Out in Thunder Tones, The Trouble They Seen. Collected items are research and documentary material accumulated for several of her books including those above, as well as Ahead of Her Time: Abby Kelley and the Politics of...
Dates: Other: 1795-1994

A. P. Tureaud oral history interview with Joseph Logsdon

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Identifier: 795
Content Description In the late 1960s/early 1970s, Joseph Logsdon, an historian and professor at University of New Orleans, conducted over 30 hours of an oral history interview with New Orleans attorney A.P. Tureaud. The collection is comprised of transcripts for eleven tapes of the interview. During the interview, Tureaud discusses both his personal and professional lives. He discusses African American leadership in New Orleans during the 1920s and the creation of civic leagues within the city. He discusses...
Dates: Other: 1968-1972

University of Mississippi Center for the Study of Southern Culture Civil Rights Movement and the Law oral history collection

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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

Preston and Bonita Valien Papers

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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

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