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Greta de Jong collection
Collection
Identifier: 585
Content Description
Collection consists solely of Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) file reports on various organizations and incidents in specific geographic areas: Louisiana Farmers Union, Communist Party of Louisiana, Southern Gentlemen, Deacons for Defense and Justice, Iberville Parish school desegregation, Citizens Council of Louisiana, Original Knights of the Ku Klux Klan of Louisiana, St. Helena Parish school desegregation, and of African Americans who were beaten while registering to vote in...
Dates:
Other: 1941-1970
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
Nils R. Douglas papers
Collection
Identifier: 128
Scope and Contents
The Nils R. Douglas papers consist primarily of items collected or generated by attorney Nils R. Douglas, concerning Louis Andre Martinet and the legal society that bears his name, in addition to those concerning the case of Plessy v. Ferguson and the life of Homer A. Plessy. In addition, the bound personal manuscripts of Nils Douglas reflect his years as a prominent civil rights attorney, representing activists from the Congress of Racial Equality along with his law partners Robert F....
Dates:
Created: 1893-1967; Other: Date acquired: 01/01/1979
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Amistad Research Center
Lance Hill papers
Collection — Container: 9 boxes
Identifier: 745
Scope and Contents
The collection includes Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) memoranda regarding counterintelligence and surveillance on the Ku Klux Klan and other hate groups in the greater New Orleans area as well as FBI reports on these groups, also including the Bogalusa Civic and Voters League. The bulk of these materials, dating from 1964 to 1971, regard the Klan in Bogalusa, Louisiana. Complementing these are collected articles on the Deacons for Defense and Justice, briefs and other research...
Dates:
Created: 1939-2017; Other: Majority of material found in 1964-1971; Other: Date acquired: 7/15/2004
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
Louisiana Women in the Civil Rights Era public forum recordings
Collection
Identifier: 2523
Content Description
This collection consists of two DVD recordings and a program of a 2002 public forum entitled “Louisiana Women in the Civil Rights Era: From Memory to Education.” The forum included Dr. V.P. Franklin, Florence Borders, Dr. Clyde Robertson, Dr. Mary Frances Berry, Dr. Melinda Chateauvert, Dr. Bettye Collier-Thomas, Dr. Beverly Mason, Dr. Leeta Allen-Haynes, Sister Kathleen Bahlinger, Pearlie Harin Elloie, Sister Anne Meridier, Dr. Barbara Guillory Thompson, Dr. Linda Bart Tucker, Tessie...
Dates:
Other: 2002
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
M. W. Prince Hall Grand Lodge, F. & A. M. for the State of Louisiana records
Collection
Identifier: 607
Scope and Contents
The records of the Most Worshipful Prince Hall Grand Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons for the State of Louisiana are a rich source of primary documentation about the history of African American freemasonry in Louisiana and throughout the United States, the period of post-Civil War Reconstruction (1865-1877), the long civil rights movement of the late 19th and early 20th centuries (1878-1954) and the modern civil rights movement (1955-1968). The...
Dates:
Created: 1857-2002; Other: Majority of material found in 1940-1980; Other: Date acquired: 08/13/2008
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
John O'Neal papers
Collection
Identifier: 279
Scope and Contents
The papers highlight the personal and professional life of John M. O'Neal, Jr. The John O'Neal papers consist of 25.94 linear feet and document O'Neal's artistic style and vision as an African American actor, director, playwright, and community and civil rights activist. The papers are of interest for studying the southern Black Arts Movement and more specifically the Black Theater Movement; the Free Southern Theater; the Civil Rights Movement; voter rights registration; race relations;...
Dates:
Created: 1927-1999; Other: Majority of material found in 1970-1989; Other: Date acquired: 02/01/1983
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
Paper Monuments collection
Collection
Identifier: 793
Content Description
The Paper Monuments Collection is a collection of printed works produced by Paper Monuments, a project of Colloqate Design, a New Orleans-based multidisciplinary nonprofit Design Justice practice, whose mission is to intentionally organize, advocate, and design spaces of racial, social, and cultural equity. The project developed in the midst of public controversy over the status and removal of public monuments in New Orleans that commemorated Confederate and Reconstruction era people and...
Dates:
Other: 2017-2018
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
A. P. Tureaud oral history interview with Joseph Logsdon
Collection
Identifier: 795
Content Description
In the late 1960s/early 1970s, Joseph Logsdon, an historian and professor at University of New Orleans, conducted over 30 hours of an oral history interview with New Orleans attorney A.P. Tureaud. The collection is comprised of transcripts for eleven tapes of the interview. During the interview, Tureaud discusses both his personal and professional lives. He discusses African American leadership in New Orleans during the 1920s and the creation of civic leagues within the city. He discusses...
Dates:
Other: 1968-1972
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
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