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Between a Rock and a Hard Place collection

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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

Florence Borders papers

 Collection
Identifier: 816
Content Description Materials in this collection consist primarily of correspondence (mostly still in their original envelopes), collected serials, collected essays, miscellaneous ephemera, various archival finding aids, archival publications and conference programs, among other various formats.Items relate to the B-Sharp Music Club, Ladies Auxiliary of the Knights of Peter Claver, various social aid and pleasure clubs, Southern University-New Orleans, and Our Lady of Lourdes Parish. Other...
Dates: Other: 1933-2007

Carol Brice papers

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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

Edna Pullen Brown photograph

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Identifier: 2023
Content Description

One photograph of the 1925 fourth and fifth grades of Daniel Hand Elementary School of Straight College in New Orleans, Louisiana. Teachers Edna Pullen Brown and Anna Spottswood are included in the photograph.

Dates: Other: 1925

Olivia Ward Bush-Banks papers

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Identifier: 066
Scope and Contents The Olivia Ward Bush-Banks papers consist primarily of the published and unpublished fiction of Olivia Ward Bush-Banks, teacher, poet, playwright, socialite, historian, and activist. The materials, both in hand script and typescript, include drafts and final copies.  Several of the poems, plays, and stories were subsequently published in The Collected Works of Olivia Ward Bush-Banks by The Schomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women...
Dates: Created: 1907-1941; Other: Date acquired: 01/01/1989

Bush Elementary School yearbook collection

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Identifier: 065
Scope and Contents

This collection consists of the first three issues of The Hi-Fli, the yearbook for Bush Elementary School, a private, non-sectarian school in the Uptown area of New Orleans. The school was founded by Ethel Boyd Bush in 1939.

Dates: Created: 1957-1959; Other: Date acquired: 01/01/1981

Chicago Music Association collection

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Identifier: 86
Content Description This collection is comprised of 7.84 linear feet of printed items of the Chicago Music Association, the first incorporated branch of the National Association of Negro Musicians, Inc. and of collected printed items highlighting the musical activities of the members of the Association, the recipients of its yearly cash awards, and other professional African American musicians, singers and organizations. Formats in the collection include programs, playbills, flyers and newsletters. The bulk of...
Dates: 1936 - 1991, undated

Rebecca Cureau papers

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Identifier: 763
Content Description The collections contains 1 linear foot of correspondence, newspaper clippings, musical programs, ephemera, newsletters,” manuscripts, and an unpublished portion of a Master’s thesis and a complete doctoral dissertation. All items detail Cureau’s professional involvement in teaching and researching music, her professional affiliations and relationships, performances, and her participation with institutions and conferences dedicated to Black musical genres, folk music and ethnomusicology. Of...
Dates: Other: 1954-2000

Dent Family papers addendum

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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

Dent Family papers addendum

 Collection
Identifier: 116-2
Scope and Contents This project was made possible in part by the Institute of Museum and Library Services award MH-245560-OMS-20. Content Description The Dent Family papers addendum include the personal, professional, and collected papers of Albert Walter Dent (1904-1984) and Ernestine Jessie Covington Dent (1904-2001). The papers break down into six series: the papers of Albert Walter Dent, the papers of Ernestine Jessie Covington Dent, images, ephemera,...
Dates: Other: 1948-2010

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Dent, Jessie Covington (Ernestine Jessie), 1904-2001 3
Dent, Albert W., Dr. (Albert Walter), 1904-1984 2
Dent, Tom (Thomas Covington), 1932-1998 2
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King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968 2
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Bush Elementary School 1
Bush, Ethel Boyd, 1911-1990 1
Bush-Banks, Olivia Ward, 1869-1944 1
Butts, June Dobbs, 1928-2019 1
Chicago Music Association 1
Clement, Josephine (Josephine Dobbs Clement), 1918-1998 1
Cook, Celestine Strode, 1924-1985 1
Cureau, Rebecca 1
Dobbs, Irene Thompson, 1885-1972 1
Dobbs, John Wesley, 1882-1961 1
Dobbs, Mattiwilda (Mattiwilda "Geekie" Dobbs Jazon), 1925-2015 1
Flint-Goodridge Hospital (New Orleans, La.) 1
Gist, Eloyse 1
Greater St. Stephen Full Gospel Baptist Church 1
Jackson, Irene (Irene "Renie" Dobbs Jackson), 1908-1999 1
Jackson, Maynard, 1938-2003 1
Johnson, Bernette Joshua 1
Jordan, Millicent (Millicent Dobbs Jordan), 1911-1991 1
Lewis, Elsie (1912-1992) 1
Links, Inc. 1
Links, Inc. New Orleans Chapter 1
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Lowe, Lena E. 1
Manggrum, Loretta C. 1
Marshall, Rosanna Edwards 1
Marshall, Thurgood, 1908-1993 1
Mary Allen College (Crockett, Tex.) 1
McCulloch, Margaret C. (Margaret Callender), 1901-1996 1
McCullough, Lel H. 1
McDaniel, Hattie, 1895-1952 1
Metropolitan Opera (New York, N.Y.) 1
Micheaux, Oscar, 1884-1951 1
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Miss Black America Beauty Pageant of Hudson County (N.J.) 1
Moore, Darlene A. 1
Moore, Hazel (Hazel Stamps) 1
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National Association for the Advancement of Colored People 1
National Bar Association. Judicial Council 1
Nengudi, Senga (Senga Nengudi Fittz), 1943- 1
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Stevenson, Marion Fisher, 1897-1981 1
Thomas, Clarence, 1948- 1
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Union Bethel A.M.E. Church (New Orleans, La.) 1
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Williams, Spencer, 1893-1969 1
Winston De Ville 1
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