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African American Leadership Project collection

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Identifier: SC2500
Content Description The African American Leadership Project (AALP) is a nonpartisan network of community activists, religious and business leaders, academics, and concerned citizens that focus on dialogue and agenda building, policy advocacy, community planning, and neighborhood development. It was founded in New Orleans, Louisiana, around 2002. This collection documents the AALP's community activism following Hurricane Katrina. It includes programs, news releases, and flyers for various commemorative events...
Dates: Other: 2006

Crescent City Chapter of Links records

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Identifier: 107
Content Description The records of the Crescent City Chapter of the Links, Inc. consists of correspondence, photograph albums, and scrapbooks, which document the organization's activities in New Orleans.Additional materials include, biographies on the organization's "Unsung Heroes," miscellaneous publications and photographs, articles, and correspondence, as well as a videotape of a presentation by Dr. John Q. Adams, Delgado College administrator, and a newsletter published at the Straight Business...
Dates: Other: 1973-2018

Peggy Fleming papers

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Identifier: 774
Scope and Contents The Peggy Fleming papers consist of a 119-page travel journal documenting the summer 1961 travel of Peggy Fleming, nee Peggy Dougherty, to Nigeria as a participant in the Operation Crossroads Africa (OCA) Overseas Youth Program. The collection also includes photographs, correspondence, miscellaneous notes, newspaper clippings, and various ephemera received and collected on her trip. At the time of her participation with OCA, Fleming was employed in President John F. Kennedy's White House...
Dates: Created: 1958-2003; Other: Date acquired: 02/15/2013

Gentilly Ecumenical Alliance collection

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Identifier: 676
Content Description The Gentilly Ecumenical Alliance in New Orleans, LA was established in 1970 to provide community programs and communication among Christians regardless of affiliation. The collection consists of minutes of meetings of the St. Raphael Parish Ecumenical Committee, scrapbooks with orders of services, programs and flyers of activities, a publication from the National Office for Black Catholics and a book, Sister Thea Bowman, Shooting Star: Selected Writings and Speeches edited by Celstine...
Dates: Other: 1970-1999

James H. Hargett papers

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Identifier: 490
Scope and Contents The papers of Reverend Dr. James Hester Hargett document his civil rights and social action driven ministries in Hawaii, California, Illinois, New Jersey, and New York. The key topics covered in this collection are civil rights, community advocacy, social justice, missionary travels, multi-ethnic churches and transitional communities, race relations, and the recruitment of African American men and women into Christian service. The main strengths are Hargett's commitment towards diversifying...
Dates: Created: 1955-2007; Other: Date acquired: 12/01/1995

Nicholas Hood II papers

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Identifier: 186
Content Description The papers of Nicholas Hood II document his work as a civil rights activists, minister, and city councilman. The collection consists of correspondence, programs, news clippings, sermons, and records generated as a city official and politician. The collection is a rich resource for the study of contemporary urban developments and chonicle the urban renewal activities of the Plymouth Congregational United Church of Christ in Detroit, Michigan. Hood was a minister at Plymouth Congregational...
Dates: Other: 1941-1990

Robert Elijah Jones papers

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Identifier: 205
Scope and Contents The Robert Elijah Jones papers document the career of Jones, an African American Methodist Episcopal clergyman, who committed his life to religion, racial equality, education, and community development through his work as the editor of the Southwestern Christian Advocate, a general superintendent of the Methodist Episcopal Church in the South, and the founder of Gulfside Assembly in Waveland, Mississippi. The papers encompass 4.05 linear feet of...
Dates: Created: 1872-1965; Other: Date acquired: 01/01/1976

Land of Opportunity Film collection

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Identifier: 779
Content Description Land of Opportunity (2010) is a film, funded by the Ford Foundation and the New Orleans Center for the Gulf South, that chronicles the reconstruction of New Orleans after hurricane Katrina and the flooding which followed. The Land of Opportunity collection is made up of approximately 1500 hours of film footage on Mini DV and hard drives. The collection includes the completed documentary, outtake footage, and related production material for the project. The footage represents a diversity of...
Dates: Other: 2006-2013

M. W. Prince Hall Grand Lodge, F. & A. M. for the State of Louisiana records

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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

Marc H. Morial papers

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Identifier: 553
Scope and Contents The Marc H. Morial Papers span two mayoral terms from 1994 to 2002, and include his tenure as President of the United States Conference of Mayors and materials from his work as a Louisiana State Senator.  The main bulk of the collection reflects and documents Mayor Morial's transition period from 1993 and his involvement in the United States Conference of Mayors from 1994 to 2002. The collection is comprised of correspondence, City of New Orleans transition reports and files, which contain...
Dates: Created: 1977-2002; Other: Majority of material found in 1994-2002; Other: Date acquired: 06/10/2002

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