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Harold R. Battiste papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 451
Scope and Contents
As a central figure among a small group of jazz musicians and jazz educators who shaped the second 50 years of New Orleans jazz, the papers of Harold R. Battiste document Battiste's career as an influential composer, producer, educator, and promoter of modern jazz music. Also documented are Battiste's various business ventures in the area of music, including his work with Sonny and Cher and the foundation and history of All For One (A.F.O.) Records and At Last Publishing Co., the first...
Dates:
Created: 1928-2010; Other: Date acquired: 08/12/1994
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Amistad Research Center
Derrick Joshua Beard collection
Collection
Identifier: 488
Content Description
This collection contains news clippings, programs, brochures, and slides regarding Derrick Joshua Beard's private collection devoted to African American decorative arts and exhibitions of his collection under the title Sankofa Exhibition: African American Traditions in Decorative Arts. Also present is an article by Beard on the Muslim presence in the United States; articles on Omar bin Said, a West African Muslim enslaved in North Carolina; a photocopy of a manuscript in Arabic written by...
Dates:
Other: 1870-2010
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Amistad Research Center
Beecher Memorial United Church of Christ records addendum
Collection
Identifier: 487-1
Content Description
This deposit includes agendas for the Beecher Memorial Church Council in 1996 and a copy of the Beecher charter from 1905. Other materials include audio recordings of 1989 sermons by Barry E. Brandon and a 1993 sermon by Elder McFarland.
Dates:
Other: 1962-2001
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
Adam Beittel oral history interview
Collection
Identifier: 2208
Content Description
Recording of an interview conducted by Clifton H. Johnson with Adam Beittel, former president of Talladega College and Tougaloo College. Beittel began Tougaloo's noted exchange program with Brown University and supported student activism during the Civil Rights Movement.
Dates:
Other: 1987
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
Jason Berry papers
Collection
Identifier: 045
Scope and Contents
The personal papers of Jason Berry, author, civil rights activist, and press secretary to Charles Evers, consist of 7.89 linear feet of material related to civil rights, politics, and race relations in Mississippi and Louisiana. The papers also document Berry's journalism and interest in the history of jazz in New Orleans, as well as environmental issues in southeast Louisiana. The bulk of the materials consist of documentation related to Charles Evers' gubernatorial (1971) and senatorial...
Dates:
Created: 1971-1991; Other: Majority of material found in 1971-1988; Other: Date acquired: 12/01/1986
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Amistad Research Center
Between a Rock and a Hard Place collection
Collection
Identifier: 601
Content Description
This collection consists of video and audio tape interviews of African American United Church of Christ clergy and laity documenting experiences with the Committee for Racial Justice NOW, the Ministers for Racial, Social, and Economic Justice, the Committee for Racial Justice, the United Black Christians, and the United Church of Christ. Interviewees include A. Knighton Stanley, Elder (MRSJ/MRSEJ), Dr. Shelby Rooks, Elder (MRSJ/MRSEJ), Reverend Leon White, Elder (CRJ/UBC/MRSJ/MRSEJ),...
Dates:
Other: 2000-2010
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
Edward S. and Eva H. Bishop papers
Collection
Identifier: 2011
Content Description
Small collection of papers of Edward S. Bishop and Eva H. Bishop of Corinth, Mississippi. Includes files pertaining to an application to the Mississippi Committee for the Humanities to fund a project entitled "Problems of the Aged" and materials collected from a Mississippi governor's committe to commemorate the hundredth anniversary of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's birth, among other topics. Also included are materials reflecting Eva Bishop's presidency of the Mississippi Federation of...
Dates:
Other: 1968-1982
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
Black Arts Collection
Collection
Identifier: 048
Content Description
This artificial collection of memorabilia documents Black artists (1908-2002). This collection consists of news clippings, programs, posters, exhibition catalogs, correspondence, announcements, and invitations arranged in chronological order.
Dates:
Other: 1908-2002
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
Peter Bodlaender collection
Collection
Identifier: 052
Content Description
17 prints, including 2 framed, by Margaret Burroughs, Leslie Emery, and F. Bazille. 30 phonodiscs, including singles and albums, and 14 books. Books have been separated to cataloging. Prints have been separated to Fine Art collection.
Dates:
Other: 1870-1969
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
Edward V. Bonnemere collection
Collection
Identifier: 2017
Content Description
Includes correspondence, clippings, biographical data, photographs, and ephemera related to the career of Eddie V. Bonnemere - a proponent of jazz music in liturgical settings. Also includes an audiocassette of Bonnemere's album Isn't it Odd?
Dates:
Other: 1966-1985
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
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