Showing Collections: 821 - 830 of 869
Fredi Washington papers
Collection
Identifier: 380
Scope and Contents
The papers of actress, dancer, and activist Fredi Washington measure 2.14 linear feet. The collection, dating from 1925-1979, documents her stage and film career, her writings on theater, and her professional work in supporting African American actors and actresses. It contains correspondence, photographs, news clippings, honors and awards, scripts, and a scrapbook. Approximately one hundred items of correspondence from 1933 to 1979 are contained in the collection. The...
Dates:
Created: 1925-1979; Other: Date acquired: 06/30/1975
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
Helen Hamilton Washington papers
Collection
Identifier: 760
Content Description
Helen Hamilton Washington, of Savannah, Georgia, is a graduate of Daniel Hand School and Tougaloo College in Tougaloo, Mississippi. She is also a member of the First Congregational Church in Savannah. Her papers reflect her and her family's association with the school and church. Tougaloo College material includes photographs of Washington as a child through graduation at Tougaloo, as well as later photographs of reunion visits to the campus. Also present are two reprints showing her father,...
Dates:
Other: 1910-2013
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
Lizzie D. Watson papers
Collection
Identifier: 2059
Content Description
The Lizzie D. Watson papers are comprised of correspondence and teaching certificates regarding the teaching career of Elizabeth D. Watson, also known as Lizzie Watson or L. D. Watson, of New Orleans, Louisiana. The papers include an 1869 letter of recommendation from Edward Orton for Watson, then a recent graduate of the Preparatory School of Antioch College. Also included is correspondence dating from 1906 to 1923 from New Orleans Public Schools Superintendent Warren Easton and others...
Dates:
Other: 1869-1923
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
Weeksville [New York] collection
Collection
Identifier: 382
Content Description
The Weeksville [New York] collection includes items collected and prepared by Dr. Marguerite Casanave Thompson, who served as facilitator for the Weeksville/Bank Street College Follow Through Resource Center. The collection documents the early history of a New York African American community in the early 1800s. The community took the name of James Weeks, a property holder in the area. The collection contains photocopies and includes correspondence, resource materials for teaching, and...
Dates:
Other: 1846-1982
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
Roy Joseph Weems papers
Collection
Identifier: 561
Abstract
The papers of Roy Joseph Weems richly document student life at Straight College in New Orleans, Louisiana, during the 1920s and 1930s, with a particular emphasis on athletics.
Dates:
Created: 1909-1999; Other: Date acquired: 01/20/1999
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
We'll Never Turn Back collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 383
Scope and Contents
This collection contains correspondence, publications, ephemera, publicity, and other materials related to the We’ll Never Turn Back exhibition sponsored by the Amistad Research Center in 1980. Items of note include an exhibition catalog containing profiles of the photographers whose work was featured in the exhibition as well as ten reproductions of their photographs. Photographers include Tamio Wakayama, Maria Varela, Elaine Tomlin, Charles Moore, Danny Lyon, Julius Lester, Matt Herron,...
Dates:
Created: 1960-1987; Other: Date acquired: 01/01/1987
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
Eric Steele Wells papers
Collection
Identifier: 384
Scope and Contents
The Eric Steele Wells papers document the family and education of Wells, a native of Charleston, South Carolina, especially Avery Institute in Charleston, where Wells attended school. The bulk of the collection includes material reflecting Wells' interest in collecting materials related to African American and African history. The collection contains correspondence, photographs, financial documents, Avery Institute publications and school documents, posters, printed ephemera, newsclippings...
Dates:
Created: 1855-1986; Other: Date acquired: 09/03/1969
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
Eric Steele Wells papers addendum
Collection
Identifier: 384-1
Content Description
The collection consists of a single, circular photograph of Eric Steele Wells with boats in the background. Photographer, location and date are unknown.
Dates:
Other: circa 1950s?
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
Gabriel and John W. Wells invoice book
Collection
Identifier: 2274
Scope and Contents
An invoice book, 1812-1817, for items purchased for a general store in New York owned by Gabriel and John W. Wells. In this same volume is an account book, 1832-1836, containing debits and credits for both a store and a farm, listing sums in pounds, shillings, and pence. The Wells bought various items: groceries; supplies for cooking, sewing, shooting, and smoking; clothing; tableware; equipment for horses; and school supplies. Other items include spectacles, toothbrushes,...
Dates:
Created: 1812-1836; Other: Date acquired: 01/01/1966
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
Wallace Lewis Wells papers
Collection
Identifier: 385
Content Description
Wallace Lewis Wells was an Episcopalian minister who served as dean of Chapel at Dillard University in New Orleans, Louisiana, from 1964 to 1966. His papers include a scrapbook, sermons, chapel programs and photographs. Wells also pastored St. James Episcopal Church in Houston, Texas, which is documented in a news clipping. The scrapbook contains family photographs and other items related to Wells and his family, as well as items related to his college and military service period. A later...
Dates:
Other: 1927-1987
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
Filter Results
Additional filters:
- Subject
- Sound recordings 121
- Moving images 68
- Photographs 38
- African American educators 37
- Correspondence 37
- African American musicians 29
- African American artists 25
- African Americans -- Civil rights 23
- African American authors 21
- African American clergy 21
- Race relations 21
- Scrapbooks 19
- African American women 18
- African American women educators 18
- Congregational churches 18
- African American artists -- 20th century 17
- African American businesspeople 17
- African Americans -- Education 17
- Publications 17
- Community development 15
- African American physicians 14
- News Clippings 14
- Civil rights workers 13
- Community relations 13
- Congregational churches -- Clergy 13
- Discrimination in housing 13
- Family history -- African Americans 13
- Artists 12
- Desegregation 12
- Race discrimination 12
- Religion 12
- Voter registration 12
- American literature -- African American authors 11
- Civil rights movements 11
- Clergy 11
- Ephemera 11
- School integration -- Louisiana -- New Orleans 11
- Speeches 11
- African American history 10
- African American singers -- opera 10
- African Americans -- Civil rights -- Louisiana -- New Orleans 10
- African Americans -- Education -- Louisiana -- New Orleans 10
- Civil rights demonstrations 10
- Historically black colleges and universities 10
- Minorities -- Employment 10
- American poetry -- African American authors 9
- Black Arts movement 9
- Civil Rights Movement 9
- Education 9
- Minorities -- Education 9
- Race relations -- Louisiana 9
- Reports 9
- African American art -- 20th century 8
- African American lawyers 8
- African American singers 8
- African American teachers 8
- African Americans -- Louisiana -- New Orleans 8
- African Americans -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- Politics and government 8
- Congregationalists 8
- Education -- Louisiana 8
- Mardi Gras Indians 8
- Race relations -- Louisiana -- New Orleans 8
- Sermons 8
- Affirmative action programs 7
- African American composers 7
- African American journalists 7
- African American theater 7
- Certificates 7
- Community activists 7
- Family history 7
- Harlem Renaissance, 1920-1940 7
- Louisiana -- History 7
- Minutes 7
- Mississippi -- Race relations 7
- Race discrimination -- United States 7
- Segregation in education 7
- Studies in African American history and culture 7
- Africa -- Economic conditions 6
- Africa -- Politics and government 6
- African American children -- Education 6
- African American politicians 6
- African American social workers 6
- African Americans -- Education -- Louisiana 6
- Authors 6
- Awards 6
- Civil rights movements -- Louisiana 6
- Civil rights movements -- Southern States 6
- College teachers 6
- Education -- Louisiana -- New Orleans 6
- Jazz musicians 6
- Minorities -- Housing 6
- Musicians -- Louisiana -- New Orleans 6
- New Orleans (La.) -- History 6
- New Orleans (La.) -- Politics and government 6
- New Orleans (La.) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century 6
- Race relations -- United States 6
- School integration 6
- Social aid and pleasure clubs 6
- Sociology 6
- Africa -- Race relations 5 ∧ less
- Language
- English 866
- French 3
- English, Old (ca.450-1100) 1
- Names
- American Missionary Association 25
- Dillard University 22
- United Church of Christ 21
- National Association for the Advancement of Colored People 19
- United Church Board for Homeland Ministries (1962-2000) 11
- Johnson, Clifton H. (Clifton Herman), 1921-2008 9
- Dent, Tom (Thomas Covington), 1932-1998 8
- King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968 8
- Morial, Ernest N. (Ernest Nathan), 1929-1989 8
- New Orleans Public Schools 8
- Operation Crossroads Africa 8
- Straight College (New Orleans, La.) 8
- Congregational Christian Churches 7
- Congress of Racial Equality 7
- LeMoyne-Owen College 7
- Southern Christian Leadership Conference 7
- Deacons for Defense and Justice 6
- Fisk University 6
- Free Southern Theater (1963-1978) 6
- Ku Klux Klan (1915-) 6
- Talladega College 6
- Tureaud, A. P. (Alexander Pierre) 6
- American Committee on Africa 5
- Flint-Goodridge Hospital (New Orleans, La.) 5
- Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967 5
- Louisiana Education Association 5
- Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party 5
- Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.) 5
- Tougaloo College 5
- Tuskegee Institute 5
- United Nations 5
- Africa Fund (New York, N.Y.) 4
- Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority 4
- American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions 4
- American Home Missionary Society 4
- Ballard Normal School (Macon, Ga.) 4
- Beecher Memorial United Church of Christ 4
- Central Congregational Church (New Orleans, La) 4
- Dent, Jessie Covington (Ernestine Jessie), 1904-2001 4
- Evers, Medgar Wiley, 1925-1963 4
- Freemasons. Prince Hall Grand Lodge of Louisiana 4
- Harvey, Clarie Collins, 1916-1995 4
- Horne, Frank S. (Frank Smith), 1899-1974 4
- Houser, George M. 4
- Jack and Jill of America, Inc. 4
- Links, Inc. 4
- Morial, Marc H., Marc H. (Marc Haydel), 1958- 4
- National Urban League 4
- Robeson, Paul, 1898-1976 4
- Square, Brenda B. 4
- Woodruff, Hale (Hale Aspacio), 1900-1980 4
- Adams, Lydia Sindos 3
- Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity 3
- Atlanta University 3
- Avery Normal Institute 3
- Barthé, Richmond, 1901-1989 3
- Board of Home Missions of the United Church of Christ 3
- Brice, Carol, 1916-1985 3
- Cassimere, Raphael, Jr., Dr., 1942- 3
- Catlett, Elizabeth, 1915-2012 3
- Chase, Leah, 1923-2019 3
- Congregational Education Society 3
- Convention of the South (U.C.C.) 3
- Cullen, Countée, 1903-1946 3
- Delta Sigma Theta Sorority 3
- Dent, Albert W., Dr. (Albert Walter), 1904-1984 3
- Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895 3
- Handy, W. C. (William Christopher), 1873-1958 3
- Hart, Willie Lee 3
- Himes, Chester B. (Chester Bomar), 1909-1984 3
- Home Boards of the Congregational Churches 3
- Howard University 3
- Huston-Tillotson College 3
- Marsalis, Ellis, Jr. (Ellis Louis), 1934-2020 3
- National Association of Human Rights Workers 3
- Omega Psi Phi Fraternity 3
- O’Neal, John, 1940-2019 3
- Perry, Lillian Dunn, 1914-2002 3
- Pincus, Edward, 1938-2013 3
- Pitts, Raymond J. (Raymond Jackson), 1911-2004 3
- Robinson, James H. (James Herman), 1907-1972 3
- Save Our Schools 3
- Tilley, John Lee, 1898-1971 3
- Urban League of Greater New Orleans 3
- Warfield, William, 1920-2002 3
- Washington, Booker T., 1856-1915 3
- Alexander, Raymond Pace, 1898-1974 2
- American Colonization Society 2
- Auxiliary to the National Medical Association (U.S.) 2
- B'nai B'rith. Anti-defamation League 2
- Barthelemy, Sidney 2
- Battiste, Harold R. Jr. (Harold Raymond), 1931-2015 2
- Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks 2
- Bennett College (Greensboro, N.C.) 2
- Bennett, Gwendolyn, 1902-1981 2
- Berry, Arthur R., 1923- 2
- Bethune, Mary McLeod, 1875-1955 2
- Bharucha-Reid, Albert Turner, 1927-1985 2
- Bond, Julian, 1940-2015 2
- Bontemps, Arna (Arna Wendell), 1902-1973 2 ∧ less
∨ more
∨ more