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James E. Blackwell papers
Collection
Identifier: 050
Scope and Contents
The papers of sociologist and educator Dr. James E. Blackwell provide extensive documentation regarding discrimination and desegregation of higher education institutions and mentoring of Black students, as well as affirmative action, economic and social justice issues in regards to the Black community and other ethnic minorities during the late 20th century. The papers consist of extensive correspondence files documenting Blackwell’s work as the chair of the...
Dates:
Created: 1948-2016; Other: Majority of material found in 1963-2000; Other: Date acquired: 01/07/1990
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Amistad Research Center
James E. Conyers papers
Collection
Identifier: 523
Content Description
The papers of sociologist and professor James E. Conyers consist of biographical information, correspondence, material related to the Black Caucus of the American Sociologists Association, articles written by Conyers and collected articles of various aspects of sociological aspects of African American life, programs, newspaper clippings, printed ephemera and collected publications, statistical information on African Americans in Fulton County, Georgia, in 1965 and 1966, correspondence and...
Dates:
Other: 1965-1992
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Amistad Research Center
James L. Jr. Conyers papers
Collection
Identifier: 538
Content Description
Dr. James L. Conyers, Jr. is the Chair of the Department of Black Studies and Associate Professor of Black Studies and Sociology at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. His papers include his dissertation entitled "An Evaluative and Descriptive Analysis of Selected African American Studies Departments and Programs," submitted to Temple University in 1991; a syllabus from one of his classes on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X; as well as academic certificates and some personal...
Dates:
Other: 1991-1997
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Amistad Research Center
Joseph S. Himes papers
Collection
Identifier: 181
Scope and Contents
The Joseph S. Himes papers encompass 12 linear feet of material covering Himes personal and professional career as a professor of Sociology at several Universities including the University of North Carolina Greensboro and North Carolina Central University. The collection covers the areas of blindness, teenaged pregnancy, racial conflict, social change and social movements of the civil rights era. The papers are arranged into six groups of materials with the bulk of them being professional...
Dates:
Created: 1928-1991; Other: Majority of material found in 1946-1985; Other: Date acquired: 05/15/1991
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Amistad Research Center
Preston and Bonita Valien Papers
Collection
Identifier: 371
Scope and Contents
The Preston and Bonita Valien papers are a rich source of documentation generated during the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s, and extremely strong in documenting their ground breaking sociology research in the areas of African American higher education, housing segregation, public school and public transportation integration, population migration from the south to the north, race relations, as well as women’s health related to birth control and infant mortality. The...
Dates:
Created: 1932-1996; Other: Majority of material found in 1940-1960; Other: Date acquired: 04/01/1969
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
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