Civil rights politics and legislation

Scope and Contents The papers of civil rights and gay rights activist Larry Bagneris Jr. document his community and political activities in Houston, Texas, and New Orleans, Louisiana. The collection includes correspondence, photographs, speeches, flyers, campaign material, news clippings, biographical material, programs, and various periodicals focused on gay rights and communities.  The earliest material concerns Bagneris' employment with the Washington National Insurance Company (1970-1989). Correspondence...

Content Description Walter Morial is the uncle of former Mayor of New Orleans, Marc Morial and the brother of Ernest “Dutch” Morial, who was the first African American Mayor of New Orleans. Walter Morial was a graduate of the University of Chicago and had various educational and social interests in New Orleans. The papers reflect his involvement with various clubs and educational institutions, and consist of correspondence files, working papers, memorabilia, and publications.Additionally, the...

Scope and Contents The papers of E. Frederic Morrow document the administration of United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower, as it relates to business, commerce, civil rights legislation, and economic conditions for minorities in the southern United States. The collection encompasses 5.0 linear feet of correspondence, autobiographical manuscript drafts, photographs, and speeches that are mainly professional in nature related to Morrow's work as the first African American to serve as an executive assistant...

Scope and Contents The papers of William H. Moses, Jr., architect, columnist, and founder of the architecture program at the Hampton Institute in Virginia mainly consist of manuscript drafts of his weekly column, “A Dark Point of View,” published in The New Observer and The Carolinian. This column was published from 1969 to 1986 and Moses described it as, “A collection of Black concerns expressed by a Black columnist.” In “A Dark Point of View,”...

Content Description In the late 1960s/early 1970s, Joseph Logsdon, an historian and professor at University of New Orleans, conducted over 30 hours of an oral history interview with New Orleans attorney A.P. Tureaud. The collection is comprised of transcripts for eleven tapes of the interview. During the interview, Tureaud discusses both his personal and professional lives. He discusses African American leadership in New Orleans during the 1920s and the creation of civic leagues within the city. He discusses...