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Pyramid Community Parent Resource Center records
Collection
Identifier: 807
Content Description
These records consist of 1.5 linear feet of materials including correspondence, writings, financial records, photographs, and ephemera highlighting the operations of the organization. Materials also include newsletters, proposals, grant files, and writings produced by the PCPRC. Notable items include photographs from protests revolving around education in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Dates:
1988-2015
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
James Herman Robinson papers
Collection
Identifier: 314
Scope and Contents
The papers document the public career of James Herman Robinson, an African American Presbyterian clergyman, who achieved world recognition for his work in New York’s Harlem and his accomplishments in founding Operation Crossroads Africa, which served as one of the models for the Peace Corps. The papers encompass 21.6 linear feet of correspondence, writings, reports, publications, lists, financial statements, minutes, schedules and agendas, press releases, newspaper clippings, photographs,...
Dates:
Created: 1935-1973; Other: Date acquired: 12/01/1974
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
John A. Rockwell Papers
Collection
Identifier: 315
Scope and Contents
The John A. Rockwell Papers consist of approximately 250 letters, dating from 1865-1867. The letters are from the period when Rockwell served as Superintendent of the American Missionary Association's (AMA) Lincoln School in Macon, Georgia, and record his efforts on behalf of the freedmen population in the area of education. The correspondence deals almost exclusively with the problems of administering and supplying a school for freedmen in the heart of the former Confederacy....
Dates:
Created: 1865-1867; Other: Date acquired: 01/01/1970
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
Save Our Schools records
Collection — Container: 1 folder
Identifier: 329
Scope and Contents
The Save Our Schools records document the efforts by this organization, which was founded in April 1960 to maintain free public education in New Orleans during the integration of the public school system. The collection contains organizational records, as well as newspaper clippings and publications collected by SOS and its members. The bulk of the materials within the Save Our Schools collection spans the years 1957 to 1962, with correspondence dating from 1960 to 1962. The...
Dates:
Created: 1957-1963; Other: Date acquired: 11/01/1978
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
Margaret Helen Scott papers
Collection
Identifier: 335
Scope and Contents
The Margarett Scott papers contain correspondence, newspaper clippings primarily containing aritlces about Scott, and other collected ephemera. The papers also contain photographic slides of Talledega, Alabama. Other materials include the story of early Richland County, Wisconsin, written by Scott and published weekly in "The Richland Observer" in 1975 and, an article on Lone Rock Congregational Church in the area.
Dates:
Created: 1936-1977; Other: Date acquired: 01/01/1975
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
Robert G. Sherer collection
Collection
Identifier: 735
Scope and Contents
The Robert G. Sherer collection consists of 26 black and white photographs taken by Sherer during the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, as well as a booklet, texts of speeches, biographical sketches of individuals participating in the march, lists of sponsors, a program schedule, a map, and press releases. Texts of speeches include those delivered by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.; John Lewis, Chairman of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee; Whitney M. Young Jr.,...
Dates:
Created: 1899-1982; Other: Date acquired: 01/01/2002
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
Hale Smith papers
Collection
Identifier: 667
Scope and Contents
The Hale Smith papers cover the length of Smith's musical career, documenting his education at the Cleveland Institute of Music; his early career in Cleveland, particularly with the Karamu Theatre; his move to New York where he worked the jazz circuit with Dizzy Gillepsie and Chico Hamilton before he settled into his career as a music editor, an educator, and a copyright specialist; and the relationships he developed over time up to shortly before his death. Hale Smith maintained a...
Dates:
Created: 1840-2012; Other: Majority of material found in 1950-2000; Other: Date acquired: 01/01/1984
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
Marian Hamilton Spotts papers
Collection
Identifier: 346
Scope and Contents
This collection includes correspondence, speeches, notes, photographs and other documents, mostly related to the Cincinnati Federation of Colored Women’s Clubs and its parent organizations—the Ohio Federation of Women’s Clubs and the National Association of Colored Women’s Clubs. Notable materials include drafts of the History of the Cincinnati Federation of Colored Women’s Clubs which gives a detailed history of the organization and information about the member organizations. Other items of...
Dates:
Other: 1939-1962
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
Howard E. Spragg papers
Collection
Identifier: 348
Content Description
Dr. Howard E. Spragg was a United Church of Christ clergyman who served as Treasurer (1959-1969) and Executive Vice President (1969-1983)of the United Church Board for Homeland Ministries. The items include a cover letter (1988) accompanying a copy of a 1940 statement on the Selective Training and Service Act, a letter concerning his enrollment in Union Theological Seminary (1941) and remarks made by Spragg before an annual meeting of Eastman Kodak Company Shareholders (1967)....
Dates:
Other: 1940-1988
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
John Lee Tilley papers addendum
Collection
Identifier: 364-2
Content Description
The addendum to the John Lee Tilley papers includes a small amount of material that touches upon various aspects of Tilley’s life and career. Included are nine letters, dating from 1956-1970, the bulk of which concern the United Baptist Missionary Convention of Maryland & Auxiliaries. One letter of note is from various members of the Convention, including Tilley, to President Dwight D. Eisenhower concerning the Montgomery Bus Boycott. It is dated 24 February 1956 and concerns “the grave...
Dates:
Other: 1954-1971
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
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