Community-based Organizations

Content Description The Afram Associates, Inc. Collection is comprised of various publications and ephemera produced by Afram Associates, Inc. This organization was co-founded in 1968 by Harlem activist, community organizer, and educator Preston Wilcox, along with Kenneth Haskins, Gregory Simms, Lee Montgomery and Ronnie Moore. It was a non-profit public service agency focused on researching, archiving, and sharing information about Black organizations, education, history, and resources and to serve as a...

Abstract This collection consists of sound recordings of oral history interviews conducted by Arnold R. Hirsch from April to November of 1987 and again in May 1994 with persons involved in politics and government on a local and state level, as well as civil rights issues in New Orleans. This collection explores the racial politics of New Orleans before and after the Civil Rights Movement, and how the interviewees were able to navigate through the constant changes and challenges of the time. The...

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The records include reports, ephemera, news clippings, photographs, and invoices from the organization. Invoices date from 1888 to 1926 and reflect the operations of A. J. Oakes, the Oakes Coal Company, and Oakes Lumber Yard.

Content Description The Opportunity Foundation Corporation was founded by Margaret Callender McCulloch to benefit residents of Memphis and Shelby County, Tennessee, to further their education, and to alleviate past discrimination in health, education, and welfare agencies through contributions to new agencies or improving existing ones. The organization's records consist of correspondence, minutes, accounts and financial statements, reports, bylaws, lists, scholastic and testing records, invitations, press...