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Albert Turner Bharucha-Reid papers
Collection — Container: 25 Volumes
Identifier: 047
Scope and Contents
The papers document the professional life of African American mathematician and researcher Albert Turner Bharucha-Reid and include correspondence, writings, research materials, and documentation on his involvement in professional conferences and organizations, as well as his work as a university professor spanning from the early 1950's to 1985. The papers contain general correspondence with mathematicians around the world and correspondence related to his role as editor and associate editor...
Dates:
Created: 1950-1985; Other: Majority of material found in 1970-1985; Other: Date acquired: 04/01/1985
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Amistad Research Center
Kenneth Bronstorph M. Crooks papers
Collection
Identifier: 108
Abstract
The papers of the Jamaican-born educator Kenneth Bronstorph M. Crooks include correspondence, photographs, writings, diaries, and various collected items. Materials reflect Crooks' upbringing in Jamaica, his work as headmaster of Happy Grove School, his efforts to gain financial assistance for Jamaicans to study in the United States, and his other work as an educator in the U.S., as well as his scientific research.
Dates:
Created: 1923-1974; Other: Date acquired: 07/01/1974
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
Alice R. Geoffray papers
Collection
Identifier: 845
Content Description
The papers primarily document the career of Dr. Alice R. Geoffray. Some materials pertain to the Adult Education Center (AEC) as well, including letters, emails, and other correspondence from AEC graduates, faculty and board members (2000-2003). Formats include articles, correspondence, programs, brochures, publications, textbooks, press releases, newsletters, expense reports, emails, and publications written by Geoffray regarding business professional speeches. Other items include...
Dates:
1957-2023
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
William H. Moses Jr. papers
Collection
Identifier: 258
Scope and Contents
The papers of William H. Moses, Jr., architect, columnist, and founder of the architecture program at the Hampton Institute in Virginia mainly consist of manuscript drafts of his weekly column, “A Dark Point of View,” published in The New Observer and The Carolinian. This column was published from 1969 to 1986 and Moses described it as, “A collection of Black concerns expressed by a Black columnist.” In “A Dark Point of View,”...
Dates:
Created: 1943-1989; Other: Majority of material found in 1969-1986; Other: Date acquired: 08/01/1989
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
Joseph A. Pierce papers
Collection
Identifier: 299
Scope and Contents
The papers of mathematician Joseph A. Pierce, encompasses personal and professional materials documenting his life in academia, as a mathematics professor and as a university administrator. The collection contains correspondence, university records such as report cards and degrees, financial records, ephemera, reports, proposals, publications, and notes. Much of his collection deals with issues in higher education during the civil rights era and briefly touches on the unrest at Texas...
Dates:
Created: 1928-1972; Other: Majority of material found in 1960-1969; Other: Date acquired: 01/01/1989
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
Erwin A. Salk collection on Paul Robeson
Collection
Identifier: 2293
Content Description
The Erwin A. Salk collection on Paul Robeson dates from 1933 to 1976 and consists of 0.80 linear feet of material devoted to actor, singer, scholar and civil rights activist Paul Robeson. Materials include brochures, photographs and audiovisual materials. Of interest are a collection of photographs representing Robeson’s educational accomplishments as a star varsity team member on Rutgers Intercollegiate Debating Association. In addition, images feature Robeson as a star athlete...
Dates:
Other: 1933-1976
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
Robert Ambrose Thornton papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 363
Scope and Contents
The Thornton papers include correspondence, speeches, notes, writings, reports, studies, book reviews, newspaper clippings, and audio and video cassettes. Additionally, there is information from the community organizations in which Thornton participated. The correspondence gives insight into Dr. Thornton’s teaching positions at different institutions beginning in 1944. The collection also includes three letters from Albert Einstein mounted on plaques. Photocopies of these letters are...
Dates:
Created: 1922-1982; Other: Majority of material found in 1944-1977; Other: Date acquired: 01/01/1983
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
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