Mississippi -- Race relations
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 7 Collections and/or Records:
Jason Berry papers
Collection
Identifier: 045
Scope and Contents
The personal papers of Jason Berry, author, civil rights activist, and press secretary to Charles Evers, consist of 7.89 linear feet of material related to civil rights, politics, and race relations in Mississippi and Louisiana. The papers also document Berry's journalism and interest in the history of jazz in New Orleans, as well as environmental issues in southeast Louisiana. The bulk of the materials consist of documentation related to Charles Evers' gubernatorial (1971) and senatorial...
Dates:
Created: 1971-1991; Other: Majority of material found in 1971-1988; Other: Date acquired: 12/01/1986
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
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Jason Berry papers
Fannie Lou Hamer papers
Collection
Identifier: 165
Scope and Contents
The Papers of Fannie Lou Hamer measure approximately 16 linear feet and consist of 3,293 pieces of correspondence dated between 1966 and 1978. The correspondence represented includes not only that of Fannie Lou Hamer, but also that of a number of organizations to which she was in some way connected and of her business manager, Joseph Harris. Much of Hamer's business correspondence is included in the Harris correspondence. He was almost entirely responsible for the business aspects of Hamer's...
Dates:
Created: 1966-1978; Other: Date acquired: 01/01/1981
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
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Fannie Lou Hamer papers
Clarie Collins Harvey papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 170
Scope and Contents
The collection of Clarie Collins Harvey consists of a nine-part series arranged according to the various activities in which she was involved. Correspondence is interspersed throughout the first five series; the largest amount is in the first series , her personal papers, and is arranged chronologically. Church activities, civic activities, higher education, and business ventures comprise the next four series arranged alphabetically. The next two series are collected writings and collected...
Dates:
Created: 1907-1991; Other: Date acquired: 08/01/1985
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
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Clarie Collins Harvey papers
John O'Neal papers
Collection
Identifier: 279
Scope and Contents
The papers highlight the personal and professional life of John M. O'Neal, Jr. The John O'Neal papers consist of 25.94 linear feet and document O'Neal's artistic style and vision as an African American actor, director, playwright, and community and civil rights activist. The papers are of interest for studying the southern Black Arts Movement and more specifically the Black Theater Movement; the Free Southern Theater; the Civil Rights Movement; voter rights registration; race relations;...
Dates:
Created: 1927-1999; Other: Majority of material found in 1970-1989; Other: Date acquired: 02/01/1983
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
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John O'Neal papers
Frederick Theodore and Winifred Schumacher collection
Collection
Identifier: 331
Content Description
Principally collected items about civil rights and race relations in Ohio, Louisiana, and Mississippi.
Dates:
Other: 1964-1984
Margaret Helen Scott papers
Collection
Identifier: 335
Scope and Contents
The Margarett Scott papers contain correspondence, newspaper clippings primarily containing aritlces about Scott, and other collected ephemera. The papers also contain photographic slides of Talledega, Alabama. Other materials include the story of early Richland County, Wisconsin, written by Scott and published weekly in "The Richland Observer" in 1975 and, an article on Lone Rock Congregational Church in the area.
Dates:
Created: 1936-1977; Other: Date acquired: 01/01/1975
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
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Margaret Helen Scott papers
Warren Barrios Wilson papers
Collection
Identifier: 594
Scope and Contents
The papers document the life of Warren Barrios Wilson, attorney and former CEO of Thomas Bros. Maps in Oakland, California. The papers encompass 3.0 linear feet of personal papers, items from his legal career, as well as collected items from Thomas Bros. Maps and the Thomas Bros. Maps Educational Foundation. The personal papers include writings, journals, correspondence, photographs, audiovisual materials, and collected news clippings. Of particular note, the portraits and...
Dates:
Created: 1965-2002; Other: Date acquired: 03/01/2002
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
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Warren Barrios Wilson papers