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American Home Missionary Society records
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 014
Scope and Contents
The records of the American Home Missionary Society contain correspondence, both incoming and outgoing, and printed matter. The collection documents the financial and administrative aspects of the Society, as well as the personal activities of and issues faced by its missionaries. Immigrant and frontier communities are also detailed within the letters and reports by missionaries.The strength of the American Home Missionary Society records is contained within the incoming and...
Dates:
Created: 1816-1907; Other: Majority of material found in 1826-1894; Other: Date acquired: 07/21/1969
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Amistad Research Center
Catholic Committee of the South Records
Collection
Identifier: 076
Scope and Contents
This collection contains records related to the Catholic Committee of the South, an organization formed in 1940 by Catholic layman Paul D. Williams, who sought to tackle the oppressive economic, political, racial, and social institutions of the South. The collection highlights the Catholic Church as a religious minority in a region dominated by Protestantism and the presence of progressivism in the post-World War II South. The collection encompasses 0.8 linear feet of correspondence,...
Dates:
Created: 1939-1977; Other: Majority of material found in 1941-1952
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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:
Amistad Research Center
Esther W. Douglass papers
Collection — Container: small collections
Identifier: 2473
Scope and Contents
The papers of Esther W. Douglass contain outgoing correspondence and a bound volume containing her life reminiscences written for a family member. They detail her work as a teacher and missionary with the American Missionary Association from 1865 to 1895 in Virginia, Georgia, Tennessee, North Carolina, and South Carolina. The correspondence consists of nine letters and fragments of seven additional letters written by Douglass while in Oaks, North Carolina. Most are addressed to...
Dates:
Created: 1887-1909; Other: Date acquired: 01/01/1984
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
Dunn-Landry Family papers
Collection
Identifier: 138
Scope and Contents
The Dunn-Landry Family Papers encompass 14 linear feet of material covering subject areas of civil rights, African American education, ministerial work, historically black colleges and universities, Louisiana politics and race relations.The collection is arranged into nine series of personal and professional materials. The bulk of the papers are professional in nature with some personal correspondence. The strength of the collection is national and local civic activities, civil rights ...
Dates:
Created: 1872-2003; Other: Majority of material found in 1916 -1992; Other: Date acquired: 01/01/1984
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
Charles Mantinband papers
Collection
Identifier: 245
Content Description
The papers of Rabbi Charles Mantinband document his life and career, particularly his involvement in civil rights. The collection includes correspondence, news clippings, articles, broadsides, sermons, pamphlets, and Mantinband's dissertation. Some of the items pertain to Emmett Till and Medgar Evers, who were both killed in Mississippi. Other items pertain to speaking engagements at historically Black colleges. Correspondents include: A.D. Beittel, P.D. East, Medgar Evers, John Howard...
Dates:
Other: 1951-1974
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
E. Harold Mason papers
Collection
Identifier: 247
Content Description
Eugene Harold Mason was a specialist in race relations and intercultural education in California. He was a Baptist minister involved with promoting annual events such as Negro History Week and Race Relations Sundays. He was also involved with prison ministry. Mason’s papers include correspondence, clippings, collected publications, photographs and photo albums. Of note are correspondence with author and poet, Langston Hughes, artists Richard Bruce Nugent and Richmond Barthe, as well as...
Dates:
Other: 1908-1993
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Amistad Research Center
Margaret Callender McCulloch papers
Collection
Identifier: 236
Content Description
The papers of historian and race relations activist Margaret Callender McCulloch include articles, pamphlets, speeches, reports, and poem written by McCulloch, as well as a typescript of "Can This Be Me?...memories of Mary Eliza West, Freedwoman" about a former enslaved woman on a Georgia plantation, edited by McCulloch. The collection also includes correspondence, photographs, a genealogical chart, a map, and handwritten transcripts of correspondence of physician Francis Julius LeMoyne and...
Dates:
Other: 1936-1988
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Elizabeth Meaders collection
Collection
Identifier: 2526
Content Description
The Elizabeth Meaders collection documents portions of the extensive collection of material and documentary sources held by Ms. Meaders on the topic of African-American history. The collection is comprised of five DVDs recorded by Ms. Meaders. The DVDS concern the following aspects of her collection: slavery, religion, politics, education, sports, and military participation. In the videos, Ms. Meaders discusses those aspects of her collection with discussion of specific items from her...
Dates:
Other: 2010s
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
Mickle Family papers
Collection
Identifier: 063
Content Description
Reverend John Charles Mickle was a United Church of Christ minister, who retired from his pastorate in 1982. This collection includes correspondence, church bulletins, biographical data, and a photocopy of an article from JET magazine. Also included are biographies and family photographs, as well as degrees and certificates awarded to Mickle. Of special note are oral history interviews with Mickle conducted by Roger Knight on December 10, 1989, and church reports and newspaper articles on...
Dates:
Other: 1936-1996
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
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