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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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Amistad Research Center
Henry E. Braden III papers
Collection
Identifier: 549
Scope and Contents
Dr. Henry E. Braden III's papers center on New Orleans' political, professional, and social circles of the latter half of the twentieth century. The papers include personal and political correspondence, military records, awards and honors, programs, invitations, newspaper clippings on the Braden and Haydel families, photographs, and other collected materials. Of particular note is Dr. Braden's sizable collection of political correspondence and campaign materials for politicians...
Dates:
Created: 1936-2000; Other: Majority of material found in 1950-1990; Other: Date acquired: 12/13/1997
Found in:
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Marshall Bragdon papers
Collection
Identifier: 054
Scope and Contents
The papers of Marshall Bragdon comprise approximately 7.2 linear feet. They include diaries, correspondence, notes for speeches, writings, photographs, as well as other materials dealing with the three organizations to which Bragdon devoted his life and work: the Mayor's Friendly Relations Committee of Cincinnati, the Community Relations Service of the United States Department of Justice, and the National Association of Intergroup Relations Officials. Bragdon's diaries cover the...
Dates:
Created: 1923-1981; Other: Date acquired: 02/01/1983
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
Campaign to Oppose Bank Loans to South Africa (COBLSA) records
Collection
Identifier: 736
Scope and Contents
The records of the Campaign to Oppose Bank Loans to South Africa (COBLSA) consist of research files, collected news clippings, presentation papers, publications, periodicals, and reports (1977-1983), as well as files generated during the tenure of National Coordinator Carole Collins (1981-1983). A smaller amount of material that the organization created includes correspondence, occasional minutes of meetings and reports, lists of bank lenders to South Africa and networking contacts. Of...
Dates:
Created: 1967-1995; Other: Majority of material found in 1979-1983; Other: Date acquired: 07/01/2000
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
Marguerite Cartwright papers
Collection
Identifier: 72
Content Description
The papers of actress, journalist and educator Dr. Marguerite Cartwright chronicle her personal life, career and academic endeavors. The collection encompasses 165.59 linear feet and provides an in-depth look at African Americans and world affairs, contemporary issues facing the United States in the mid-twentieth century, the anti-colonialism movement following World War II, and the United Nations through her work as an accredited UN correspondent for the Pittsburgh Courier. She was...
Dates:
1912-1984
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
Catholic Committee of the South Records
Collection
Identifier: 076
Scope and Contents
This collection contains records related to the Catholic Committee of the South, an organization formed in 1940 by Catholic layman Paul D. Williams, who sought to tackle the oppressive economic, political, racial, and social institutions of the South. The collection highlights the Catholic Church as a religious minority in a region dominated by Protestantism and the presence of progressivism in the post-World War II South. The collection encompasses 0.8 linear feet of correspondence,...
Dates:
Created: 1939-1977; Other: Majority of material found in 1941-1952
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
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
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
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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Josiah George Chatham papers
Collection
Identifier: 083
Content Description
Chatham was a Roman Catholic clergyman based out of Mississippi. Largely consisting of correspondence, materials in this collection chiefly concern race relations in Mississippi during the 1960s. Other materials include speeches and sermons, collected publications, as well as parish announcements occasioned by the assassination of Medgar Evers. Correspondents include Henry A. Cabirac, Hodding Carter, Edward A. Fitzgerald, Richard O. Gerow, Philip A. Hannan, William A. Percy, Robert E....
Dates:
Other: 1936-1971
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
Cincinnati Chapter of Friends of the Amistad Research Center collection
Collection
Identifier: 090
Content Description
The Cincinnati Chapter of the Friends of the Amistad Research Center collection encompasses collected materials regarding the history of African Americans in Cincinnati. The collection contains correspondence, financial records, invitations, meeting minutes, newsletters, photographs, programs, and other ephemera. primarily regarding activities in the Cincinnati area.
Of interest is information on gospel music, including collected materials on the Cincinnati Gospel Choral Union
Dates:
Other: 1935-1994
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
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