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Liva Baker collection
Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: 2389
Scope and Contents
This collection contains a cassette audiotape and transcription of a talk given by Liva Baker at the Amistad Research Center on October 22, 1996. The topic of Baker's talk was the recent publication of her book The Second Battle of New Orleans: The Hundred-Year Struggle to Integrate the Schools. Particular focus was given to individuals who played a role in the book: Rosa Freeman Keller, A.P. Tureaud, J. Skelly Wright, Daniel Ellis Byrd, John P. Nelson and...
Dates:
Created: 1996; Other: Date acquired: 10/26/1996
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
Melinda Bartley papers
Collection
Identifier: 655
Content Description
Dr. Melinda Bartley, an educator and administrator, served as Vice Chancellor of Academic Affairs at Southern University New Orleans from 1991 to 1996. She was vice president of the Urban League of Greater New Orleans, president of the New Orleans Alumnae Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, coordinator of the Adolescent Pregnancy Childwatch Project, vice president of the Dryades YMCA, member of Greater Liberty Baptist Church, and board member of the Morgan City-based Kuji Center. Her...
Dates:
Other: 1955-2002
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
Community Relations Council of Greater New Orleans records
Collection
Identifier: 097
Scope and Contents
The records of the Community Relations Council of Greater New Orleans reflect the general objectives and other program activities adopted by this non-profit, interracial organization of about 800 members. The collection includes correspondence, minutes, and agendas and notices, as well as by-laws, reports, biographical material on members, financial records, news releases, printed items, and worksheets. Correspondence is arranged in chronological order. The reports deal with...
Dates:
Created: 1965-1982; Other: Majority of material found in 1964-1974; Other: Date acquired: 01/01/1983
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
Barbara Edmonson collection
Collection
Identifier: 2531
Content Description
The Barbara Edmonson collection consists of transcripts, as well as background information in typescript form describing the harassment the Edmonson family received from their New Orleans neighbors for hosting an interracial birthday party for their daughters in 1962. The documents within the collection contain a first-hand account of in person and telephone harassment based on racism endured by a white family in New Orleans for allowing their daughters to invite three African American...
Dates:
1961
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
Charles J. Hatfield papers
Collection
Identifier: 316
Scope and Contents
The papers of educator, union organizer, and civil rights activist Charles J. Hatfield Jr. document his life and career, as well as aspects of his family history. The collection includes correspondence; photographs; family records; financial, school, and military records; newspaper clippings; video cassettes; and writings/speeches by Hatfield. Hatfield's legal pursuits to integrate the Louisiana State University Law School, as well as his later teaching career, are documented within the...
Dates:
Created: 1872-2000; Other: Date acquired: 09/01/1998
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
Rosa Freeman Keller papers
Collection
Identifier: 208
Scope and Contents
The Rosa Freeman Keller papers consist of correspondence, news clippings, collected ephemera and publications, and photographs reflecting Rosa Keller's wide civic involvement and especially her activism in the areas of race relations and social welfare. Materials of note involve Keller's involvement with Dillard University and Flint-Goodridge Hospital; the Committee to Name Public Schools in New Orleans; and correspondence and other materials integral to the suit brought against Tulane...
Dates:
Created: 1931-1998; Other: Majority of material found in 1954-1998; Other: Date acquired: 04/07/1971
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
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
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
Natalie Midlo collection
Collection — Container: 1 box
Identifier: 253
Scope and Contents
This collection of approximately 70 items contains correspondence, bulletins, newspaper clippings, programs, sample forms, questionnaires, and sermons collected by Natalie Midlo. These materials reflect her civic activism and support of civil rights and school desegregation. Several items are from esoteric groups and express anti-Semitic and racist views, support segregated schools and white supremacy, state sovereignty, and other social and political issues. Included is an...
Dates:
Created: 1830-1973; Other: Majority of material found in 1946-1973; Other: Date acquired: 02/01/1971
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
Carmen Morial collection
Collection
Identifier: 2466
Content Description
This collection consists of a booklet, "Facts and Finances, New Orleans Public Schools 1959-1960," which provides salary, enrollment, staff, demographic, and other statistical information the year before New Orleans Public Schools were desegregated. The collection also includes a 1948 photograph of Ada Lois Sipuel Fisher, the first African American to apply to and enroll in the University of Oklahoma Law School, with Dean of Admissions J. E. Fellows, Amos T. Hall of the Tulsa NAACP, and...
Dates:
Other: 1948-1960
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
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