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Edna Pullen Brown photograph
Item
Identifier: 2023
Content Description
One photograph of the 1925 fourth and fifth grades of Daniel Hand Elementary School of Straight College in New Orleans, Louisiana. Teachers Edna Pullen Brown and Anna Spottswood are included in the photograph.
Dates:
Other: 1925
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
Bush Elementary School yearbook collection
Collection
Identifier: 065
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of the first three issues of The Hi-Fli, the yearbook for Bush Elementary School, a private, non-sectarian school in the Uptown area of New Orleans. The school was founded by Ethel Boyd Bush in 1939.
Dates:
Created: 1957-1959; Other: Date acquired: 01/01/1981
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
Dent Family papers addendum
Collection
Identifier: 116-01
Scope and Contents
The addendum to the papers of Albert Walter Dent (1904-1984) and Ernestine Jessie Covington Dent (1904-2001) provides a rich source of documentation of a prominent African American family, and covers topics such as education, healthcare, musical traditions and culture in New Orleans, Louisiana, and Houston, Texas. The papers consist of 38 linear feet of personal and collected papers of both individuals and other Covington-Dent family members. The addition to the papers is comprised of...
Dates:
1890-2001, undated
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
John Wesley Dobbs Family papers
Collection
Identifier: 122
Scope and Contents
The papers document the personal and professional lives of the John Wesley Dobbs family of Atlanta, Georgia. The key topics are civil rights, education, integration, race relations, and African American suffrage. The main strengths are the civil rights activities of the family as well as J.W. Dobb's tenure as Grand Master of Prince Hall Masonic Grand Lodge of Georgia. The collection encompasses 5.8 linear feet of correspondence, photographs, programs, sound recordings, speeches, and news...
Dates:
Created: 1873-2001; Other: Date acquired: 01/01/1974
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
Alice R. Geoffray papers
Collection
Identifier: 845
Content Description
The papers primarily document the career of Dr. Alice R. Geoffray. Some materials pertain to the Adult Education Center (AEC) as well, including letters, emails, and other correspondence from AEC graduates, faculty and board members (2000-2003). Formats include articles, correspondence, programs, brochures, publications, textbooks, press releases, newsletters, expense reports, emails, and publications written by Geoffray regarding business professional speeches. Other items include...
Dates:
1957-2023
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
Elsie M. Lewis papers
Collection
Identifier: 218
Acknowledgement
This project was made possible in part by the Institute of Museum and Library Services award MH-245560-OMS-20. Content Description The papers primarily document the career of Elsie Mae Lewis, and significantly highlight the contributions of an African American educator, consultant, scholar and writer in the United States. The collection is extremely rich on the subjects of Black history, education and the documentation of Lewis’ career, with...
Dates:
Other: 1829-1979, undated
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
Rosanna Edwards Marshall papers
Collection
Identifier: 433
Content Description
Rosanna Edwards Marshall was an educator and author in New Orleans. Her papers include photographs of her travels and her military service in World War II, a photograph of Martin Luther King Jr., and copies of Veterans' Voices (1984-1992). Included are a photograph album documenting a trip to California (1985), correspondence (1953-1993), legal documents (1966), a program for the Thomy Lafon School (1948), newspaper articles, a flyer for her book, ...
Dates:
Other: 1940-1996
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
Lel H. McCullough collection
Collection
Identifier: 237
Content Description
The Lel H. McCullough collection contains photocopies of material gathered as part of McCullough's research on Emerson Bentley. Included is a copy of McCullough's research paper on the topic entitled "Emerson Bentley: A Personal Crusade in Louisiana Reconstruction." The collection contains legal papers pertaining to a suit instigated by Bentley, articles, clippings, maps, biographical data, a diary for 1864-1865, obituary notices, and correspondence from Bentley's teacher in Ohio to his...
Dates:
Other: 1864-1975
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
New Orleans Chapter of The Links, Inc. records
Collection
Identifier: 272
Content Description
The records include correspondence, minutes, programs, program planning materials, photographs, clippings, financial records, scrapbooks and various ephemera regarding activities of the local chapter and data about the parent organization. Charter groups in Baton Rouge and Jackson, Mississippi, are also included in the photographs and clippings, as well as members from the Houston chapter and throughout the South. Names include Maude Reid, Etta Moten Barnett, Julia Purnell, Roger Dickerson,...
Dates:
Other: 1957-2016
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
Anne Pruitt-Logan papers
Collection
Identifier: 625
Content Description
The Anne Pruitt-Logan papers primarily consist of research materials related to the desegregation of higher education with the Southern Regional Educational Board and the Southern Education Foundation. These materials include research notes, reports, empirical data and correspondence. The collection also contains materials related to Dr. Pruitt-Logan’s work at universities as a lecturer. The university records also contain writings and course materials from her teaching positions, as well as...
Dates:
1950-1994
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
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