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Mary McLeod Bethune papers
Collection — Box: 3
Identifier: 046
Scope and Contents
This collection consists primarily of outgoing and incoming correspondence. Primary correspondents include John Hope, Frank S. Horne, Mary W. Ovington, William Pickens, the Rev. Adam Clayton Powell Sr., John J. Tigert, Walter White, Roy Wilkins, and Plummer Bernard Young. The correspondence is chiefly invitations to speak and letters of congratulations to Bethune after being named the recipient of the 21st Joel E. Spingarn Medal. This includes a congratulatory telegram from Herbert Hoover,...
Dates:
Created: 1923-1942; Other: Majority of material found in 1927-1936; Other: Date acquired: 01/01/1969
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Catholic Council on Human Relations records
Collection
Identifier: 077
Scope and Contents
This collection includes a variety of materials regarding the Catholic Council on Human Relations (CCHR) and their work to desegregate New Orleans parochial schools. The collection includes correspondence by and to C. Ellic Henican, Charles Plauche, Henry Bezou, and Henry Cabirac. The collection includes the organization's foundational documents, collected publications, and financial materials. Much of the collection consists of correspondence between CCHR staff and directors,...
Dates:
Created: 1955-1969; Other: Date acquired: 01/01/1972
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Elizabeth Catlett papers
Collection
Identifier: 078
Scope and Contents
The papers of Elizabeth Catlett, sculptor, graphic artist, teacher, and political activist, consist of correspondence, audiotape cassettes, biographical data, news clippings, notes, photographs, exhibition catalogs, posters, writings, and a reel-to-reel film. The papers have been arranged into three general groups: correspondence, non-correspondence and oversized items, and is arranged alphabetically according to topic and chronologically within each file unit. Non-correspondence includes...
Dates:
Created: 1959-1984; Other: Date acquired: 01/01/1984
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Arnold de Mille papers
Collection
Identifier: 600
Scope and Contents
Photo journalist Arnold de Mille (1908-1996) spent his career capturing the African American experience for the better part of the twentieth century, as well as recording the African experience during a time of volatility and upheaval. His papers and photographs span this storied career with a significant amount of these materials dedicated to beauty culture, the Civil Rights Movement, and his work for the United Nations. Included are issues from the short-lived ...
Dates:
Created: 1942-1996; Other: Majority of material found in 1950-1970; Other: Date acquired: 04/01/2000
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Gwendolyn Midlo Hall papers
Collection
Identifier: 163
Scope and Contents
The papers of historian Gwendolyn Midlo Hall are comprised of correspondence; professional working papers, including applications, reports, resumes, and grants; professional writings, including book and chapter drafts, essays, and lectures; and research materials including articles, news clippings, interviews, notes, vital records, and publications in English, French and Spanish. The collection includes reproductions of research materials and research notes dating from 1705-1820 and...
Dates:
Created: 1943-2001; Other: Majority of material found in 1970s-2001; Other: Date acquired: 06/01/1972
Found in:
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Gwendolyn Midlo Hall papers addenda
Collection — Container: 1 Box
Identifier: 163-1
Scope and Contents
This addition consists of research materials and notes in the form of negative and positive photocopies of articles, hand script and typescript notes and copies of original correspondence. Topics covered in the files regarding civil rights activities in Jonesboro and Bogalusa, Louisiana, the Deacons for Defense and Justice, the Congress of Racial Equality, and the Ku Klux Klan.
Dates:
Created: 1964-1966; Other: Date acquired: 01/01/2004
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Fannie Lou Hamer papers
Collection
Identifier: 165
Scope and Contents
The Papers of Fannie Lou Hamer measure approximately 16 linear feet and consist of 3,293 pieces of correspondence dated between 1966 and 1978. The correspondence represented includes not only that of Fannie Lou Hamer, but also that of a number of organizations to which she was in some way connected and of her business manager, Joseph Harris. Much of Hamer's business correspondence is included in the Harris correspondence. He was almost entirely responsible for the business aspects of Hamer's...
Dates:
Created: 1966-1978; Other: Date acquired: 01/01/1981
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Frank S. Horne papers
Collection
Identifier: 189
Scope and Contents
The papers of Frank Smith Horne measure approximately 22 linear feet and consist of 30,000 items dated between 1927 and 1974. Over half of the papers of the collection is personal and business correspondence. The other half consists of financial records, lists, minutes, legal documents, writings, press releases, reports, general items, newspaper clippings, and various collected publications. The papers have been arranged topically and chronologically.
Dates:
Created: 1927-1974; Other: Date acquired: 01/01/1975
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Alexander Louis Jackson II papers
Collection
Identifier: 192
Scope and Contents
The papers of Alexander Louis Jackson II span the 1890s to the early 1970s and contain correspondence, biographical information and articles, family and school reunion photographs, invitations, photo copied news clippings about major Civil Rights events in the 1960s, which document the Jackson's activities as a real estate investor in Chicago, co-founder of the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History, and civic activist who was heavily involved in many civil rights and community...
Dates:
Created: 1893-1974; Other: Majority of material found in 1917-1974; Other: Date acquired: 01/01/1982
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Jane T. Lemann papers
Collection
Identifier: 214
Scope and Contents
The Jane T. Lemann papers reflect Lemann's wide civic involvement in New Orleans, particularly in areas pertaining to educational reform and student welfare. Materials reflecting Lemann's involvement in efforts to desegregate the New Orleans Public Schools comprise the bulk of the collection. The collection consists mostly of planning and meeting notes, reports, correspondence, collected ephemera and publications, and newsclippings. Some materials pertain to Lemann's work with multiple...
Dates:
Created: 1944-1966; Other: Date acquired: 01/01/1983
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