Civil rights workers
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 13 Collections and/or Records:
Andy Simons collection
Collection
Identifier: 339
Content Description
Consists of clippings about Chicago civil rights activists, including Harold Washington, Lu Palmer, Louis Farrakhan, Nathaniel Clay. The audiocassettes include recordings by or about the same individuals and others including Marcus Garvey, Stokley Carmichael, Margaret Walker, Melvin Van Peebles, Dorothy Tillman, and John G. Jackson. Collection file includes an index to call 70 audiocassettes with some topical summaries. This collection also includes an audiocassette entitled...
Dates:
Other: 1982-1988
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
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Andy Simons collection
Preston and Bonita Valien Papers
Collection
Identifier: 371
Scope and Contents
The Preston and Bonita Valien papers are a rich source of documentation generated during the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s, and extremely strong in documenting their ground breaking sociology research in the areas of African American higher education, housing segregation, public school and public transportation integration, population migration from the south to the north, race relations, as well as women’s health related to birth control and infant mortality. The...
Dates:
Created: 1932-1996; Other: Majority of material found in 1940-1960; Other: Date acquired: 04/01/1969
Bob Zellner oral history collection
Collection — 5 audiocassettes
Identifier: 2333
Scope and Contents
This collections is made up of five audiocassette recordings of oral history interviews with civil rights activist Bob Zellner conducted by Eric Diner, then a Tulane University undergraduate, as part of Diner's honors thesis. Zellner, the first White field secretary from the south for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), has a long career in civil rights activism.
Dates:
Created: 1994; Other: Date acquired: 05/11/1995