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Ronald Rousseve papers
Collection
Identifier: 457
Content Description
Ronald Rousseve, the son of Charles and Mildred Rousseve, was born in New Orleans, Louisiana. He earned degrees from Xavier University in New Orleans and at the University of Notre Dame before teaching at Prairie View College, Seattle University, the University of Washington, and the University of Oregon, where he was a professor of education and counseling psychology. The collection includes articles written by Dr. Rousseve on the topics of education and desegregation, news clippings about...
Dates:
Other: 1960-1987
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
George Schemer papers
Collection
Identifier: 330
Content Description
Correspondence, bylaws, minutes, lists, newsletters, books, reports, speeches, pamphlets, and clippings. Most correspondence covers Schermer's period as executive director of the Philadelphia Commission on Human Relations. Subjects include equal access to housing, Detriot and Philadelphia, fair employment practices, police-community relations, riot and crowd control in the early 1960s Philadelphia, and desegregation of Philadelphia city and neighborhood schools. Also mentioned are the 1940s...
Dates:
Other: 1949-1973
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
Gene L. Usdin collection
Collection — Container: Small Collections
Identifier: SC2503
Scope and Contents
The Gene L. Usdin collection contains documents related to the debate regarding public school integration in New Orleans in 1960. It contains a 2 February 1961 letter to Usdin from U.S. District Judge J. Skelly Wright regarding a school board dinner. In it, Wright writes in part: "Unquestionably, you made a great contribution toward the eventual settlement of this very difficult problem. The dinner was the first time, to my knowledge, when the moderates in this city have spoken above a...
Dates:
Created: 1961; Other: Majority of material found in 1961; Other: Date acquired: 08/22/1998
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
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