African Americans -- Southern States -- Economic conditions
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Alma Cottles papers
Collection
Identifier: 105
Content Description
Correspondence, family materials, photographs, and writings, some of which reflects Cottles' anti-poverty advocacy in the Central City neighborhood of New Orleans.
Dates:
Other: 1956-1971
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
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Alma Cottles papers
Economic Opportunity Corporation records
Collection — 1 box
Identifier: 140
Scope and Contents
This collection contains minutes, correspondence, election materials, lists, maps, reports, and by-laws of the Central City Economic Opportunity Corporation (EOC) of New Orleans, Louisiana. Items of note include a report on the Houma people of Louisiana and the opposition to the proposed Uptown Bridge over the Mississippi River.
Dates:
Created: 1968-1973; Other: Majority of material found in 1978-1973; Other: Date acquired: 01/01/1983
Emergency Land Fund records
Collection
Identifier: 148
Content Description
The Emergency Land Fund was created in 1972 to reverse the trend of descreasing black ownership of lands in the rural South. The records of the fund include correspondence (carbons and photostatics copies primarily), mostly outgoing but some incoming. Other record types include agenda, studies and reports, memoranda, financial records, and news clippings. Topics contained in the records include the effect of the construction of the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway on black ownership of farms in...
Dates:
Other: 1972-1980
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
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Emergency Land Fund records