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Ruth Morand Baham collection
Collection — Container: Seventh War Loan Poster
Identifier: 530
Scope and Contents
The Ruth Morand Baham collection contains news clippings, magazine articles, ephemera, collected writings, and books related to African American history with an emphasis on New Orleans and the city's first African American mayor, Ernest "Dutch" Morial and the Morial family. The collection also emphasizes Marcus Christian, J.A. Rogers, Leontyne Bryant Gumbel, Martin Luther King Jr, and others. Subjects covered in the newspaper clippings include African Americans in arts and...
Dates:
Created: 1941-1998; Other: Majority of material found in 1968-1994; Other: Date acquired: 04/10/1997
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
Celestine Strode Cook papers
Collection
Identifier: 100
Acknowledgement
This project was made possible in part by the Institute of Museum and Library Services award MH-245560-OMS-20. Scope and Contents The papers of Celestine Cook primarily document her business, social, and civic activities in both Galveston, Texas and New Orleans, Louisiana.Personal materials include correspondence, awards, family Bibles, programs, invitations, and newspaper clippings. This collection also contains organizational...
Dates:
Other: 1932-1985, undated
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
Arnold Hirsch collection of Ernest N. "Dutch" Morial Oral History Interviews
Collection
Identifier: ##na5
Abstract
This collection consists of sound recordings of oral history interviews conducted by Arnold R. Hirsch from April to November of 1987 and again in May 1994 with persons involved in politics and government on a local and state level, as well as civil rights issues in New Orleans. This collection explores the racial politics of New Orleans before and after the Civil Rights Movement, and how the interviewees were able to navigate through the constant changes and challenges of the time. The...
Dates:
Created: 1987; Other: Date acquired: 05/31/2018
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
Judicial Council of the National Bar Association records
Collection
Identifier: 206
Content Description
The Judicial Council of the National Bar Association was created in 1970 as an independent section of the Association with George W. Crockett Jr. appointed as coordinator. The Council had its own officers, by-laws, programs, and treasury. The records of the Council include correspondence, minutes, financial records, resolutions, newsletters, lists, photographs, press releases, and other printed items. The correspondence is mostly to or from Crockett and usually concerns itself with...
Dates:
Other: 1970-1977
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
Ernest "Dutch" Morial papers
Collection
Identifier: 256
Scope and Contents
The Ernest "Dutch" Morial papers document Morial's career as an activist, lawyer, judge, and mayor of New Orleans. The collection consists of correspondence, photographs, financial documents, newspaper articles, audiovisual materials, and collected items spanning the years 1929 to 1995. The papers have been arranged into the following seven series: Personal papers, campaigns and legislation, City of New Orleans mayoral tenure, community service and memberships, legal activities and judicial...
Dates:
Created: 1929-1995; Other: Date acquired: 07/13/1977
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
Ernest "Dutch" Morial Addendum
Collection
Identifier: 256-1
Scope and Contents
The addition to the Ernest “Dutch” Morial papers primarily contains speeches given by Morial during his time as Mayor of New Orleans (1978-1986). The speeches cover a wide variety of topics including budget and financial issues, economic development in New Orleans, immigration, crime, environmental affairs, and unemployment and homelessness. The speeches are delivered before a wide variety of audiences including the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People), the...
Dates:
Created: 1954-1990; Other: Majority of material found in 1978-1986; Other: Date acquired: 11/06/2012
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
Marc H. Morial papers addenda
Collection
Identifier: 553-1
Scope and Contents
The additions to Mr. Morial's papers consist of professional correspondence from the period following his mayoral tenure as the Mayor of New Orleans (1994-2002), when he joined the law firm Adams & Reese, LLP as part of their governmental relations business team. Correspondence for the year 2002 within the files labeled "Reading File," overlaps with his work as the President of the United States Conference of Mayors. The correspondence is professional in nature, but with personal...
Dates:
Created: 1976-2018; Other: Majority of material found in 2002-2003; Other: Date acquired: 09/15/2003
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
Parson v. Kaiser Aluminum and Chemical Corporation records
Collection
Identifier: 288
Scope and Contents
The Parson v. Kaiser Aluminum and Chemical Corporation records document an employment racial discrimination lawsuit filed by African American workers at the Kaiser Aluminum plant in Chalmette, Louisiana in 1967. The collection spans 1951-1985, and includes the years leading up to the case and the decades that followed, as the case went through various court systems. The collection consists of court records from Orleans Parish District Court and the Fifth Circuit Appeals Court....
Dates:
Created: 1951-1985; Other: Majority of material found in 1967-1985; Other: Date acquired: 08/22/1985
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
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