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National Committee Against Discrimination in Housing, Inc. records
Collection
Identifier: 266
Scope and Contents
The records of the National Committee Against Discrimination in Housing (NCADH) (1945-1974) consist of documentation for the establishment and administration of the organization, its programs and projects, as well as legal activities. Correspondence makes up approximately a fourth of the collection and covers the years 1948 to 1974. The administrative records, financial and corporate, include memoranda, agenda, minutes, and personnel records. The collection documents NCADH’s programs and...
Dates:
Created: 1945-1974; Other: Date acquired: 01/01/1976
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
Richard H. Newhouse, Jr. papers
Collection
Identifier: 271
Content Description
The papers include correspondence, legal documents, collected printed items, clippings, and other materials generated in the case of Mars, Ketchum, and Newhouse v. Jane Byrne and the City of Chicago to stop a remapping attempt that would have disenfranchised numerous African American and Hispanic voters in Chicago. The suit was successful and led to greater support for Mayor Harold Washington from the African American and Hispanic constituency. Other items in the collection relate to Logan...
Dates:
Other: 1980-1986
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
Pontchartrain Park Pioneers Oral History collection
Collection
Identifier: 834
Content Description
The Pontchartrain Park Pioneers Oral History Collection encompasses ten digital mp4 video interviews with original residents of the safe haven all-black suburb, Pontchartrain Park in New Orleans, formed during the era of Jim Crow and racial segregation. The second oldest black suburb, built between 1955 and 1961, Pontchartrain Park was envisioned and developed by and for middle and upper-class African Americans who were denied the opportunity of homeownership in historic and new suburban...
Dates:
2019
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
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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- National Association for the Advancement of Colored People 3
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- National Committee Against Discrimination in Housing 2
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- Bontemps, Arna (Arna Wendell), 1902-1973 1
- Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters 1
- Christian Church of New Orleans 1
- Committee of Civil Rights in Metropolitan New York, Inc. 1
- Community Relations Council of Greater New Orleans 1
- Eatmon, Alberta (Alberta Mary Knox), circa 1898-1991 1
- Hooks, Benjamin L (Benjamin Lawson) 1
- Horne, Lena, 1917-2010 1
- Knox, Clinton E. (Clinton Everett), 1908-1980 1
- Knox, William J., Jr. (William Jacob), 1904-1995 1
- Levin, Carl, 1934- 1
- Morial, Marc H., Marc H. (Marc Haydel), 1958- 1
- National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Memphis Branch 1
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- Newhouse, Richard H., Jr. 1
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- United States. Housing and Home Finance Agency 1
- Valien, Bonita H., 1912-2011 1
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