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John Lee Tilley papers
Collection
Identifier: 364
Scope and Contents
The collection contains 93 items of correspondence, primarily incoming, and handwritten sermons, speeches, and notes, in addition to diaries, notebooks, minutes, reports, newspaper clippings, photographs, collected items, and memorabilia. The letters reflect family ties, civic, and educational pursuits, and community involvement. Of particular interest in this group of items are letters concerning the Southern Christian Leadership Conference's (SCLC) unsuccessful suit to desegregate airport...
Dates:
Created: 1927-1971; Other: Date acquired: 01/01/1973
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Amistad Research Center
Ernest J. Wright collection
Collection
Identifier: 772
Content Description
This collection pertaining to New Orleans activist Ernest J. Wright documents his work in the area of labor unionism and civil rights issues, particularly voter registration during the 1930s through the 1970s. Materials include correspondence, publications and printed ephemera, news clippings and photocopies of photographs. The correspondence is small, numbering only four letters from 1955 to 1973. The earliest letter is an inivitation to John G. Lewis to speak at a Peoples Defense League...
Dates:
Other: 1933-1979
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
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- Tilley, John Lee, 1898-1971 2
- Berry, Jason (1949-) 1
- Butts, June Dobbs, 1928-2019 1
- Clement, Josephine (Josephine Dobbs Clement), 1918-1998 1
- Council of Federated Organizations (U.S.) 1
- De Jong, Greta 1
- Deacons for Defense and Justice 1
- Dobbs, Irene Thompson, 1885-1972 1
- Dobbs, John Wesley, 1882-1961 1
- Dobbs, Mattiwilda (Mattiwilda "Geekie" Dobbs Jazon), 1925-2015 1
- Free Southern Theater (1963-1978) 1
- Freedom Farms Corporation (Sunflower County, Miss.) 1
- Hamer, Fannie Lou 1
- Jackson, Irene (Irene "Renie" Dobbs Jackson), 1908-1999 1
- Jackson, Maynard, 1938-2003 1
- Jordan, Millicent (Millicent Dobbs Jordan), 1911-1991 1
- King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968 1
- Ku Klux Klan (1915-) 1
- Levine, David 1
- Marsalis, Ellis L., Sr. (Ellis Louis), 1908-2004 1
- Marshall, Thurgood, 1908-1993 1
- McPherson, James W., 1886-1975 1
- Metropolitan Opera (New York, N.Y.) 1
- Mississippi Loyalist Democratic Party 1
- Moore, Ronnie Malcolm, Ronnie (Ronnie Malcolm), 1940- 1
- Morehouse College (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
- O’Neal, John, 1940-2019 1
- Southern Regional Council 1
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