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Carol Brice papers
Collection
Identifier: 056
Scope and Contents
The Carol Brice papers document the career and personal life of Carol Lovette Brice, an acclaimed African American concert singer, recording artist, and professor in the United States and abroad. The papers encompass 11.8 linear feetof correspondence (2.3 linear feet), programs and professional materials (2.3 linear feet), news clippings and publications (1.0 linear foot), personal and financial materials, miscellaneous collected items (0.8 linear feet), as well as photographs, scrapbooks,...
Dates:
Created: 1905-1986; Other: Date acquired: 12/01/1972
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Amistad Research Center
Jinx Coleman Broussard papers
Collection
Identifier: 664
Content Description
The collection consists of administrative files for the public relations function for the Mayor of New Orleans including press releases, files for city projects and events, correspondence, planning materials, appointment books, notes and news clippings. Campaign press releases, audiotapes, correspondence, and ephemera from the Clinton/Gore 1992 campaign in Louisiana. Lastly, administrative files for the New Orleans Chapter of Jack and Jill of America, Inc., including minutes, press releases,...
Dates:
Other: 1986-2001
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Amistad Research Center
Anne Wiggins Brown papers
Collection — Container: 14 items
Identifier: 057
Scope and Contents
The papers of Anne Wiggins Brown document her career as a singer, producer and stage director which spanned five decades. Brown was the original "Bess" in George Gershwin's Porgy and Bess. The papers include personal and professional correspondence, photographs, financial records, musical scores, playbills, posters and other collected publications. A large majority of the collection is newspaper clippings. The correspondence dates from 1935 until 1998. The earliest correspondence...
Dates:
Created: 1935-2002; Other: Date acquired: 11/01/1991
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Charlotte and David Brown papers
Collection
Identifier: 648
Content Description
Through Operation Crossroads Africa, Drs. Charlotte and David Brown worked on medical projects and helped run several hospitals in Africa, in particular the Eastern Clinic in Mobai, Sierra Leone from 1962 to the present. The materials in this collection consists of scrapbooks and correspondence related to a trip to Ekwendeni, Nyasaland, in 1962 by the Brown family; scrapbooks, news clippings and correspondence regarding Dr. David Brown’s work with the Eastern Clinic, which was founded by Dr....
Dates:
Other: 1962-2002
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Amistad Research Center
Robert S. Browne oral history interview
Collection
Identifier: 2339
Content Description
Recordings of an oral history interview with Robert S. Browne conducted by Clifton H. Johnson. Browne was the founder of the Black Economics Research Center.
Dates:
Other: 1995
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Amistad Research Center
Selma H. Burke interviews
Collection
Identifier: 633
Content Description
Selma H. Burke was an African American teacher and sculptress who designed the portrait for the Roosevelt dime and who founded the Selma Burke Art Center in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The collection consists of 5 audiocassette tapes of interviews conducted by Clifton H. Johnson with Burke in her home in Pennsylvania from May 7-9, 1991. A separate interview conducted on February 20, 1991 is present on a VHS videotape.
Dates:
Other: 1991
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Amistad Research Center
Raphael Cassimere Jr., papers
Collection
Identifier: 712
Content Description
The bulk of the collection consists of Cassimere’s records of the activities of the New Orleans Branch of the NAACP and the NAACP Louisiana State Conference of Branches and Youth Councils; convention materials for the annual meeting of the NAACP; local committees and boards including, the Vieux Carré Commission in New Orleans, the Louisiana Black Culture Commission, and the Citizen’s Committee for Equality and Excellence in Louisiana’s Universities. The materials are administrative in...
Dates:
Other: 1935-2008
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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Amistad Research Center
Ron Chisom interviews
Collection
Identifier: 2478
Content Description
The Ron Chisom interviews consist of three audiocassettes of interviews conducted with community organizer, activist, and co-founder of The People's Institute for Survival and Beyond (PISAB). The interviews took place on March 27 and April 22, 2009. According to its mission statement, PISAB is a "national and international collective of anti-racist, multicultural community organizers and educators dedicated to building an effective movement for social transformation." The organization was...
Dates:
Other: 2009
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Amistad Research Center
Committee on Civil Rights in Metropolitan New York, Inc. records
Collection — Box: 82
Identifier: 095
Scope and Contents
The records of the Committee on Civil Rights in Metropolitan New York measure approximately 32 linear feet, comprising administrative, restaurant, and housing records, each being inclusive of correspondence, minutes and notices, speeches, sound recordings, publications, mailing lists, and collected print items. Financial, legal, fundraising, and personnel records can be found under the Administrative series, while survey findings, summaries, research data, and methodology can be found under...
Dates:
Created: 1950-1966; Other: Date acquired: 01/01/1972
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
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