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Herbert Joseph Allen papers
Collection
Identifier: 009
Content Description
This collection pertains to the career of Herbert Joseph Allen, Adjunct Associate Professor and Director of the Social Work Department at the University of Cincinnati Medical Center. His papers consist of correspondence, news clippings, lists, photographs, programs, financial records. Among the correspondents are Carl H. Blackwell, Bennett J. Cooper Jr., Emmett Cooper, Julius A. Gamble, John Levine, and Betty Oldham. Additionally, the papers contain items created by Allen in his capacity as...
Dates:
Other: 1943-1989
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority. Alpha Beta Omega Chapter records
Collection
Identifier: 717
Content Description
The Alpha Kappa Alpha – Alpha Beta Omega Chapter records consists of materials donated by various members of the chapter and document the chapter's activities, as well as those of the sorority on the regional and national level. The collection contains correspondence, programs, regional and national conference materials, photographs, certificates, membership rosters, constitutions and by-laws, minutes and agendas, financial records, scrapbooks, and audiovisual materials.
While the materials...
Dates:
Other: 1935-2012
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
Percel O. Alston papers
Collection
Identifier: 011
Content Description
The papers consists of 17 books, three videocassettes, and papers consisting of correspondence, writings including master's of art thesis, diplomas, passport, appointment books, photograph, and awards of Percel Alston generated over the period he was a minister and staff person of the Division of Christian Education of the United Church Board for Homeland Missions (UCBHM). Also included is an article about Mr. Alston in the publication United Church of Christ Education, a newsletter...
Dates:
Other: 1949-1989
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
Alternate ROOTS records
Collection
Identifier: 803
Content Description
The records of Alternate ROOTS at the Amistad Research Center (ARC) consists of the entire body of the activities of the organization and its members from late 1975 to 2017. The records document a thorough and thoughtful exploration of the arts as a form of social justice. At 111 linear feet, the records consist of correspondence and memoranda, minutes of meetings, newsletters, publicity materials, policy papers, and printed ephemera, as well as an extensive collection of electronic media...
Dates:
1975-2017
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
American and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society minute book
Collection — Container: Small Collections
Identifier: 2203
Scope and Contents
This minute book of the American and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society contains minutes of the society's executive committee dating from May 17, 1848 to May 1, 1855. Additional minutes follow for March 16-November 7, 1859. The volume also contains a list of members of the committee and the society's by-laws. Minutes reflect discussions on the general business of the society, business transactions, publications and letters received by the society from other abolitionists, and the society's...
Dates:
Created: 1848-1859; Other: Majority of material found in 1848-1855; Other: Date acquired: 07/01/1970
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
American Civil Liberties Union of Louisiana records
Collection
Identifier: 436
Content Description
These records document a range of activities including legal cases and ongoing functions of the Louisiana branch of the American Civil Liberties Union. Cases range across the state’s parishes and include a variety of issues involving prison conditions in parish facilities, as well as at Angola, the state’s maximum security prison, including death row conditions, Native American religious issues, and gender discrimination. Cases also involve Creationism, abortion, AIDS discrimination, police...
Dates:
Other: 1970-1985
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
American Committee on Africa records
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 012
Scope and Contents
The records of the American Committee on Africa (ACOA) measure approximately 146 linear feet and document the foundation and development of a U.S.-based organization dedicated to support of anti-apartheid and anti-colonial movements throughout Africa during the mid to late 20th century. The records date from 1948-1987, and include administrative records, program records and materials collected by the committee from various institutions and organizations throughout the world involved and...
Dates:
Created: 1948-1987; Other: Date acquired: 02/01/1983
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
American Committee on Africa records addendum
Collection
Identifier: 012-1
Scope and Contents
The American Committee on Africa (ACOA) records addendum (1949-2001; bulk 1971-1997) covers the era of Africa's liberation (independence) movements against British, Dutch, French, German, and Portuguese colonialism and their imperialistic policy toward the continent, including aspects of both settler and exploitation colonialism, mainly in the African countries of Angola, Guinea Bissau, Namibia, Rhodesia (Zimbabwe), and South Africa. The records also document the relationship of the United...
Dates:
Created: 1949-2001; Other: Majority of material found in 1970-1997; Other: Date acquired: 01/09/1989
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
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
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
American Home Missionary Society records addendum
Collection
Identifier: 014-1
Content Description
This addition to the records of the American Home Missionary Society (AHMS) consists of a small amount of correspondence from the British Isles, Hawaii, and abroad addressed to the officers of the society, Charles Hall, Milton Badger, and Absalom Peters. Correspondence dates from 1822-1865 and is arranged chronologically by country or region. The topics covered within the correspondence reference financial contributions to the society, applications for aid from various churches and...
Dates:
Other: 1822-1865, 1941
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
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