African Americans -- Civil rights -- History -- 20th century
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
Ruth Morand Baham collection
Collection — Seventh War Loan Poster
Identifier: 530
Scope and Contents
The Ruth Morand Baham collection contains news clippings, magazine articles, ephemera, collected writings, and books related to African American history with an emphasis on New Orleans and the city's first African American mayor, Ernest "Dutch" Morial and the Morial family. The collection also emphasizes Marcus Christian, J.A. Rogers, Leontyne Bryant Gumbel, Martin Luther King Jr, and others. Subjects covered in the newspaper clippings include African Americans in arts and...
Dates:
Created: 1941-1998; Other: Majority of material found in 1968-1994; Other: Date acquired: 04/10/1997
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
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Ruth Morand Baham collection
Daniel Ellis Byrd papers
Collection
Identifier: 068
Scope and Contents
The papers of attorney and civil rights activist Daniel Ellis Byrd include correspondence, reports, speeches, biographical data, minutes, financial records, resolutions, agendas, lists, and collected items. Many of the documents chronicle Daniel Byrd's involvement in activities related to his employment as an NAACP field secretary for forty years and as assistant director of the Department of Teacher Information and Security of the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund. Subjects treated in...
Dates:
Created: 1940-1984; Other: Majority of material found in 1947-1977; Other: Date acquired: 11/01/1977
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
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Daniel Ellis Byrd papers
Antoinette Harrell papers
Collection
Identifier: 608
Content Description
The Antoinette Harrell papers primarily document Harrell's career as a historian and activist, with collected files from her civil and social activities within New Orleans and Louisiana. The collection is extremely rich on the subjects of African American history in Louisiana and the Mississippi Delta; slavery reparations; and peonage in the South from the 1920s to the 1960s. The Harrell papers contain correspondence, news clippings, photographs, yearbooks, leaflets, genealogical material...
Dates:
Other: circa 1864-2017, undated
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
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Antoinette Harrell papers
Pontchartrain Park Pioneers Oral History collection
Collection
Identifier: 834
Content Description
The Pontchartrain Park Pioneers Oral History Collection encompasses ten digital mp4 video interviews with original residents of the safe haven all-black suburb, Pontchartrain Park in New Orleans, formed during the era of Jim Crow and racial segregation. The second oldest black suburb, built between 1955 and 1961, Pontchartrain Park was envisioned and developed by and for middle and upper-class African Americans who were denied the opportunity of homeownership in historic and new suburban...
Dates:
2019