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Orissa Arend typescript
Collection — Container: Small Collections
Identifier: 2490
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of a draft typescript of Orissa Arend's book Showdown in Desire: The Black Panthers Take a Stand in New Orleans, which was published by The University of Arkansas Press in 2009. This draft, comprised of 268 leaves, includes revised chapters of the book dating from July-August 2005 prior to substantial revision leading to publication. The typescript includes a timeline of events described in the book, as well as a list of individuals...
Dates:
Created: 2005; Other: Date acquired: 01/17/2006
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
Beecher Memorial United Church of Christ records
Collection
Identifier: 487
Content Description
The records of Beecher Memorial United Church of Christ consist mainly of minutes, annual reports and financial papers. The first minute book 1904 -1909 is available. The later books consist of the Board of Trustee Minutes 1935-1942, 1951-1954 and the Church Council Minutes 1977-1980. The main bulk of correspondence documents race relations, desegregation issues and church activities 1958 to 1968. Notable is the correspondence and working papers for the Interdenominational Ministerial...
Dates:
Other: 1904-2000
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
Claiborne Avenue North Project collection
Collection
Identifier: 091
Content Description
This collection includes correspondence, collected items, notes, and worksheets on noted New Orleans personalities and institutions. These materials were compiled in relation to the major exhibit on African American New Orleans history planned by the city of New Orleans. The exhibit was funded by the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development. Of particular significance are the brief historical and biographical sketches on Black institutions and prominent New Orleanians of...
Dates:
Other: 1980-1981
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
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
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
Keith Weldon Medley collection
Collection
Identifier: 504
Content Description
This collection consists of photocopies of 34 articles by author Keith Weldon Medley about New Orleans history and culture, many of which originally appeared in The New Orleans Tribune newspaper.
Dates:
Other: 1985-1994
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
St. Matthew's United Church of Christ records
Collection
Identifier: 777
Content Description
The records of St. Matthew’s United Church of Christ pre-date its founding as the German Evangelical Church of Carrollton in 1849 and continue until 2003 prior to Hurricane Katrina and its merger with Central Congregational United Church of Christ in 2007.
The records consist of ledger books for member rolls, baptisms, confirmations, and deaths, as well as finances. There are extensive minutes for the church’s Consistory (1827-1982), as well as Consistory correspondence. Council minutes...
Dates:
Other: 1824-2003
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
Gene L. Usdin collection
Collection — Container: Small Collections
Identifier: SC2503
Scope and Contents
The Gene L. Usdin collection contains documents related to the debate regarding public school integration in New Orleans in 1960. It contains a 2 February 1961 letter to Usdin from U.S. District Judge J. Skelly Wright regarding a school board dinner. In it, Wright writes in part: "Unquestionably, you made a great contribution toward the eventual settlement of this very difficult problem. The dinner was the first time, to my knowledge, when the moderates in this city have spoken above a...
Dates:
Created: 1961; Other: Majority of material found in 1961; Other: Date acquired: 08/22/1998
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
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