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Slavery -- Louisiana

 Subject
Subject Source: Lcnaf

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

Gwendolyn Midlo Hall papers

 Collection
Identifier: 163
Scope and Contents The papers of historian Gwendolyn Midlo Hall are comprised of correspondence; professional working papers, including applications, reports, resumes, and grants; professional writings, including book and chapter drafts, essays, and lectures; and research materials including articles, news clippings, interviews, notes, vital records, and publications in English, French and Spanish.  The collection includes reproductions of research materials and research notes dating from 1705-1820 and...
Dates: Created: 1943-2001; Other: Majority of material found in 1970s-2001; Other: Date acquired: 06/01/1972

Gwendolyn Midlo Hall papers addenda

 Collection — 1 Box
Identifier: 163-1
Scope and Contents

This addition consists of research materials and notes in the form of negative and positive photocopies of articles, hand script and typescript notes and copies of original correspondence. Topics covered in the files regarding civil rights activities in Jonesboro and Bogalusa, Louisiana, the Deacons for Defense and Justice, the Congress of Racial Equality, and the Ku Klux Klan.

Dates: Created: 1964-1966; Other: Date acquired: 01/01/2004

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