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Larry Caldwell collection
Collection
Identifier: 2362
Content Description
Includes articles, photographs, and publicity materials relating to Lawrence "Desperado" Caldwell and his work with the Michigan Black Horsemen's Association.
Dates:
Other: 1990-1995
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Amistad Research Center
Campaign to Oppose Bank Loans to South Africa (COBLSA) records
Collection
Identifier: 736
Scope and Contents
The records of the Campaign to Oppose Bank Loans to South Africa (COBLSA) consist of research files, collected news clippings, presentation papers, publications, periodicals, and reports (1977-1983), as well as files generated during the tenure of National Coordinator Carole Collins (1981-1983). A smaller amount of material that the organization created includes correspondence, occasional minutes of meetings and reports, lists of bank lenders to South Africa and networking contacts. Of...
Dates:
Created: 1967-1995; Other: Majority of material found in 1979-1983; Other: Date acquired: 07/01/2000
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
Reber Simpkins Cann papers
Collection
Identifier: 070
Content Description
The Reber Simpkins Cann papers include the 1948 summer issue of Negro Heroes, as well as detailed minutes, agendas, reports and correspondence from a myriad of social justice organizations. Simpkins Cann served on various councils, and participated in initiatives to improve employment opportunities, access and quality of life for Black communities in Cincinnati, Ohio and on a national level. Her advocacy efforts included participation in the NAACP, the National Urban League, the National...
Dates:
1923-1985
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
Thomas Carey papers
Collection
Identifier: 71
Scope and Contents
Papers of Thomas Devore Carey, baritone singer, professor of music, and husband of Carol Brice include correspondence, financial records, and administrative materials on their joint project, the Cimarron Circuit Opera Company.The papers consist of correspondence, photographs, news releases, newspaper and magazine clippings, programs, brochures, and announcements. The bulk of his correspondence (1959-1969) are letters written to Maestro and Madame (Wilfred and Rose Pelletier),...
Dates:
1947-1991
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
Juanita Chenault Carman papers
Collection
Identifier: 414
Scope and Contents
The papers of Juanita Carman contain fourteen self-published books, including five editions of her most established series, Reach Out, as well as the first and last editions of her series, Super Seniors: African Americans 100 Years and Plus. The other books feature poems, essays, and reading skill pamphlets all written by Carman. Also included are biographical materials, poetry, and self-made...
Dates:
Created: 1981-1996; Other: Date acquired: 11/12/1996
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
Jacob H. Carruthers papers
Collection
Identifier: 522
Content Description
Jacob H. Carruthers was one of six African Americans to integrate the University of Texas School of Law in 1950. He later taught at Northeastern Illinois University for 32 years and was the Director of the Kemetic Institute in Chicago. His papers include numerous articles authored by Carruthers dealing with African American and Africa though, history, and culture. Also included is a copy of a play entitled "J.J. Dessalines" authored by Carruthers.
Dates:
Other: 1977-1990
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
James P. Carter oral history interview
Item
Identifier: 2496
Content Description
James Puckette Carter is a Professor Emeritus from the Tulane School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine. He is the author of the book Racketeering in Medicine: The Suppression of Alternatives, among several other publications.
This collection includes an audio recording of an oral history interview of James P. Carter conducted by Ed Dees. In the interview, Carter discusses his long career in medicine, among other topics. Persons named in the interview include Fannie Lou Hamer and...
Dates:
Other: 1976-2004
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
Wilfred Cartey typescript
Item
Identifier: 495
Content Description
Collection consists of a typescript manuscript of Wilfred G. Cartey's work Whispers from the Caribbean: I Going Away, I Going Home, which was a critical review of the works of Caribbean novelists. The book was published by the Center for Afro-American Studies, Univesity of California, Los Angeles in 1991.
Dates:
Other: 1990
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
Marguerite Cartwright papers
Collection
Identifier: 72
Content Description
The papers of actress, journalist and educator Dr. Marguerite Cartwright chronicle her personal life, career and academic endeavors. The collection encompasses 165.59 linear feet and provides an in-depth look at African Americans and world affairs, contemporary issues facing the United States in the mid-twentieth century, the anti-colonialism movement following World War II, and the United Nations through her work as an accredited UN correspondent for the Pittsburgh Courier. She was...
Dates:
1912-1984
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
Mary Carver and Marion Russell scrapbook
Collection
Identifier: 074
Scope and Contents
In the summer of 1933, Marion Russell and Mary Carver of the Home Mission Board in Boston took a trip by car throughout the eastern and southern United States visiting projects of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions and Congregational Christian Churches. This scrapbook and photo journal comprises a rich documentary source of religious and rural life in and around the Appalachian Mountains in 1933. Ephemera and photographs depict the home of Chief Justice Roger Brooke...
Dates:
Created: 1933; Other: Date acquired: 08/01/1989
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
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