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Adams Family papers
Collection
Identifier: 004
Content Description
The family's papers document grandfather Lewis Adams, co-founder of Tuskegee Institute, Charles P. Adams, founder of Grambling State University in Louisiana and other prominent members of the Adams family including author Chester Himes, and sociologist Joseph S. Himes. The items include a copy of the publication Today's Omaha Woman, which features an article on Charles P. Adams, III's sister and niece, JoAnne A. Lofton, and daughter Dhana Chandler. Additional materials consist of a family...
Dates:
Other: 1981-1997
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
Lydia Sindos Adams Family papers
Collection
Identifier: 410
Content Description
The Lydia Sindos Adams Family papers document the life and civic interests of Adams, as well as the Adams/Sindos/Gumbel families of New Orleans. Materials include correspondence; photographs, both of the Adams family and various New Orleans organizations; news clippings; genealogy materials; marriage certificates; land deeds; school certificates and diplomas; financial records; autograph and guest books; a diary; and photo albums. Organizations represented in the collection include the...
Dates:
Other: 1913-2001
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Bluford Family collection
Collection
Identifier: 2016
Content Description
20 items. The items included in the collection are clippings, honors and awards, photographs, trophy, plaque, and a woven mat. The relate to Lolita Brice Bluford, Guion Bluford, and other members of the Bluford family. Guion Bluford became an astronaut.
Dates:
Other: 1946-1976
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
Arthur Lee Branch papers
Collection
Identifier: 055
Content Description
The collection contains diplomas, correspondence, records of vital statistics, and photographs of Arthur Lee Branch and family of Thomasville, Georgia. Branch was a graduate of Meharry Medical College.
Dates:
Other: 1905-1942
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Amistad Research Center
Mary E. Chamberlin papers
Collection
Identifier: 080
Content Description
Largely consisting of family correspondence, this collection also includes photographs, a scrapbook, various ephemera, and a wedding announcement. The collection also includes some materials from the Oberlin College class of 1899.
Dates:
Other: 1886-1906
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
Collins Family papers
Collection
Identifier: 093
Scope and Contents
The Collins Family Papers consist of correspondence dated 1889-1987 that comprises about one-third of the collection. The majority of the letters are between Sophronia A. Collins Easley and her brother Malachi C. Collins and husband Willis Easley, in addition to communication with other family members and friends. Of note are the letters sent to Sophronia A. Collins Easley from various evangelical and ecumenical lay persons and clerics in the United States and Canada. Also included are the...
Dates:
Created: 1889-1988; Other: Majority of material found in 1900-1960; Other: Date acquired: 01/01/1985
Found in:
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Dent Family papers
Collection
Identifier: 116
Scope and Contents
The Dent Family papers are comprised of the personal, professional and collected papers of Albert Walter Dent (1904-1984) and Ernestine Jessie Covington Dent (1904-2001), as well as a small amount of material related to their son, Tom Dent (1932-1996) and other family members. The collection has six series of files, three of which deal specifically with Albert W. Dent while the remainder deals with Jessie C. Dent and members of the Covington-Dent family. The correspondence (1908-1985)...
Dates:
Created: 1897-1985; Other: Date acquired: 01/01/1976
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John Wesley Dobbs Family papers
Collection
Identifier: 122
Scope and Contents
The papers document the personal and professional lives of the John Wesley Dobbs family of Atlanta, Georgia. The key topics are civil rights, education, integration, race relations, and African American suffrage. The main strengths are the civil rights activities of the family as well as J.W. Dobb's tenure as Grand Master of Prince Hall Masonic Grand Lodge of Georgia. The collection encompasses 5.8 linear feet of correspondence, photographs, programs, sound recordings, speeches, and news...
Dates:
Created: 1873-2001; Other: Date acquired: 01/01/1974
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Amistad Research Center
Harrietta Harris papers
Collection
Identifier: 440
Scope and Contents
The Harrietta Harris papers provide a documentary source in the field of genealogy, home museums, and turpentine camps in Mississippi in the early twentieth century. Work conditions in such camps were often harsh and considered a form of peonage.The papers contain professional, as well as personal papers documenting Harris' life as a professor, social worker, and author and document Harris' genealogical research and devotion to save her family's history. The papers encompass 0.4...
Dates:
Created: 1845-1992; Other: Majority of material found in 1989-1992; Other: Date acquired: 11/04/1993
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L. Monique McKenna collection
Collection
Identifier: 2497
Content Description
The L. Monique McKenna collection consists of two oral history interviews conducted by McKenna with former New Orleans mayors Sidney Barthelemy and Marc H. Morial in 2004. In the Barthelemy interview, he discusses his family and early work history, his political involvement, his tenures in the Louisiana State Senate and as New Orleans Mayor, and accusations of patronage. Marc H. Morial discusses his family history, Creole culture, the career of his father, Ernest Morial, his political...
Dates:
Other: 2004
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
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