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Afro-American Studies and Research Program at the University of Illinois records
Collection
Identifier: 6
Content Description
The records consist of publications of the department, grant applications, resumes, course outlines, program activities, and proceedings of the National Council for Black Studies as well as a bound program for the 6th annual National Conference. Serial publications include Afro Scholar Newsletter and Afro Notes. Leaflets and broadsides are also included. Some items are announcements for the Illinois Council for Black Studies. Noted individuals in the collection include photographer Roy Lewis...
Dates:
Other: 1980-1984
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
James Egert Allen papers
Collection
Identifier: 010
Scope and Contents
The James Egert Allen papers occupy 18.1 linear feet of material about Allen's life as an educator, community activist and civil rights advocate. Having been a resident of Manhattan for over a half century, much of Allen's collection reflects his educational and community involvements in New York. The collection is arranged into six groups of materials that include correspondence, greeting cards, telegrams, invitations, programs, photographs, reports, minutes, recreation and...
Dates:
Created: 1917-1976; Other: Date acquired: 06/01/1974
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
American Missionary Association archives
Collection
Identifier: 001
Scope and Contents
This collection is a valuable resource for the study of the abolitionist movement. It includes approximately 350,000 manuscript pieces. The mass of these was written during the period from 1839 to 1882, but several thousand are dated before and after that time. The manuscripts include some of the treasurers’ papers and minutes of Executive Committee meetings, as well as other items such as sermons, statistical reports, drawings, photographs, and essays; however, letters make up the large...
Dates:
Created: 1828-1969; Other: Majority of material found in 1839-1882; Other: Date acquired: 08/22/1968
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
American Missionary Association archives addenda
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 001-1
Scope and Contents
The 1969 addendum and later addenda to the American Missionary Association archives are mostly twentieth century in scope, covering two main subject areas. The first is the association's numerous schools. These are considered "field" records, or, the fruits of the Association's missionary work outside of its New York City office. The Addendum is divided into three series: Series 1 covers field-related work, mainly the AMA schools; Series 2 covers projects that were run directly form the New...
Dates:
Created: 1849-1991; Other: Date acquired: 03/31/1969
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
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
Melinda Bartley papers
Collection
Identifier: 655
Content Description
Dr. Melinda Bartley, an educator and administrator, served as Vice Chancellor of Academic Affairs at Southern University New Orleans from 1991 to 1996. She was vice president of the Urban League of Greater New Orleans, president of the New Orleans Alumnae Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, coordinator of the Adolescent Pregnancy Childwatch Project, vice president of the Dryades YMCA, member of Greater Liberty Baptist Church, and board member of the Morgan City-based Kuji Center. Her...
Dates:
Other: 1955-2002
Found in:
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
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
Jacob H. Carruthers papers
Collection
Identifier: 522
Content Description
Jacob H. Carruthers was one of six African Americans to integrate the University of Texas School of Law in 1950. He later taught at Northeastern Illinois University for 32 years and was the Director of the Kemetic Institute in Chicago. His papers include numerous articles authored by Carruthers dealing with African American and Africa though, history, and culture. Also included is a copy of a play entitled "J.J. Dessalines" authored by Carruthers.
Dates:
Other: 1977-1990
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
Chicago Chapter, Friends of Amistad Research Center collection
Collection
Identifier: 084
Content Description
This collection reflects the contributions of members of the Chicago Chapter of the Friends of the Amistad Research Center documenting African American historical, political, and cultural organizations in Chicago and throughout the United States. The collection consists of collected materials including collected speeches, programs, clippings, sheet music, photographs, and other miscellaneous formats. The organization is also documented through materials from the chapter's founding in 1979....
Dates:
Other: 1893-2008
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
Dent Family papers addendum
Collection
Identifier: 116-01
Scope and Contents
The addendum to the papers of Albert Walter Dent (1904-1984) and Ernestine Jessie Covington Dent (1904-2001) provides a rich source of documentation of a prominent African American family, and covers topics such as education, healthcare, musical traditions and culture in New Orleans, Louisiana, and Houston, Texas. The papers consist of 38 linear feet of personal and collected papers of both individuals and other Covington-Dent family members. The addition to the papers is comprised of...
Dates:
1890-2001, undated
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
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