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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
Ulysses H. Jones papers
Collection
Identifier: 747
Content Description
The papers of Ulysses H. Jones document an African American Catholic family living in Massachusetts, mainly during the 1960s-2000s. Jones’ papers, which he maintained with detailed descriptions and organization, document his life, as well as that of his wife and three children, and chronicle the racial difficulties the family faced from the children’s school, the Catholic Church, individuals, and various financial institutions, state agencies, and businesses. The papers provide a personal...
Dates:
Other: 1954-2011
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
David Levine collection
Collection
Identifier: 418
Content Description
David Levine is a scholar and writer from Madison, Wisconsin, who has written on various subjects concerning the Civil Rights Movement. The David Levine collection stems from oral history interviews recorded by Levine during his dissertation research on the Southern Christian Leadership Conference's Citizenship Schools. These schools were begun during a time when voting rights were being denied to African Americans. The schools were established to acquaint citizens with the way in which...
Dates:
Other: 1998
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
Andrew M. Manis oral history collection
Collection
Identifier: 2264
Content Description
This collection contains audiocassettes of oral history interviews conducted by Andrew Manis with various Civil Rights Movement leaders, including Ralph Abernathy, W. V. Hodge, Fred L. Shuttlesworth, and William M. Washington. Also included is a transcription of the interview with William Washington.
Dates:
Other: 1983-1984
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
Charles Mantinband papers
Collection
Identifier: 245
Content Description
The papers of Rabbi Charles Mantinband document his life and career, particularly his involvement in civil rights. The collection includes correspondence, news clippings, articles, broadsides, sermons, pamphlets, and Mantinband's dissertation. Some of the items pertain to Emmett Till and Medgar Evers, who were both killed in Mississippi. Other items pertain to speaking engagements at historically Black colleges. Correspondents include: A.D. Beittel, P.D. East, Medgar Evers, John Howard...
Dates:
Other: 1951-1974
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
Richard H. Newhouse, Jr. papers
Collection
Identifier: 271
Content Description
The papers include correspondence, legal documents, collected printed items, clippings, and other materials generated in the case of Mars, Ketchum, and Newhouse v. Jane Byrne and the City of Chicago to stop a remapping attempt that would have disenfranchised numerous African American and Hispanic voters in Chicago. The suit was successful and led to greater support for Mayor Harold Washington from the African American and Hispanic constituency. Other items in the collection relate to Logan...
Dates:
Other: 1980-1986
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
Dorothy Sterling papers
Collection
Identifier: 354
Content Description
Dorothy Sterling is a scholar of African American history and has authored many books including Forever Free, Tear Down the Walls!, It Started in Montgomery, Speak Out in Thunder Tones, The Trouble They Seen. Collected items are research and documentary material accumulated for several of her books including those above, as well as Ahead of Her Time: Abby Kelley and the Politics of...
Dates:
Other: 1795-1994
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
Gardner C. Taylor papers
Collection
Identifier: 804
Content Description
The Gardner C. Taylor papers mainly consist of sermons both in paper form and sound recordings (1977-2008), with a small amount of correspondence (1996-2014), photographs (1952-2004), and ephemeral materials (1948-2016) generated during Taylor’s later life. The bulk of the collection dates from the mid-1980s to the late-1990s.The strength of the collection can be found in the sound recordings, mainly in standard audiocassette format of Taylor preaching at Concord Baptist Church...
Dates:
1921-2015; Majority of material found within 1977-2000
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
University of Mississippi Center for the Study of Southern Culture Civil Rights Movement and the Law oral history collection
Collection
Identifier: 2246
Content Description
Sound recordings of the proceedings of a civil rights conference held in 1989 by the Center for the Study of Southern Culture entitled The Civil Rights Movement and the Law. Recordings include panel discussions with panelists Jack Greenberg, Constance Baker Motley, Charles Clark, Jean Fairfax, Frank R. Parker, and others. Also included is a paper copy of remarks by Constance Baker Motley.
Dates:
1989
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
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