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Daniel Ellis Byrd papers
Collection
Identifier: 068
Scope and Contents
The papers of attorney and civil rights activist Daniel Ellis Byrd include correspondence, reports, speeches, biographical data, minutes, financial records, resolutions, agendas, lists, and collected items. Many of the documents chronicle Daniel Byrd's involvement in activities related to his employment as an NAACP field secretary for forty years and as assistant director of the Department of Teacher Information and Security of the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund. Subjects treated in...
Dates:
Created: 1940-1984; Other: Majority of material found in 1947-1977; Other: Date acquired: 11/01/1977
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
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