African Americans -- Education
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
American Missionary Association archives addenda
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 001-1
Scope and Contents
The 1969 addendum and later addenda to the American Missionary Association archives are mostly twentieth century in scope, covering two main subject areas. The first is the association's numerous schools. These are considered "field" records, or, the fruits of the Association's missionary work outside of its New York City office. The Addendum is divided into three series: Series 1 covers field-related work, mainly the AMA schools; Series 2 covers projects that were run directly form the New...
Dates:
Created: 1849-1991; Other: Date acquired: 03/31/1969
Nellie De Spelder diaries
Collection
Identifier: 575
Content Description
This collection consists of approximately 200 photocopied pages from the diaries of Nellie DeSpelder during her tenure as an American Missionary Association (AMA) teacher at Daniel Hand Preparatory School in New Orleans, Louisiana. DeSpelder was a teacher who journeyed from Greenville, Michigan to work in the AMA schools. During her tenure she visited the school at Orange Park and that at King's Mountain. Interesting sidelights are revealed in her brief trips to the nearby Mississippi Gulf...
Dates:
Other: 1895-1899
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
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Nellie De Spelder diaries
Esther W. Douglass collection
Collection
Identifier: 130
Content Description
This collection consists of photocopies of materials in the Michigan Historical Collections at the University of Michigan. Esther W. Douglass was a teacher and missionary for the American Missionary Association in Virginia, Georgia, North and South Carolina, and Tennessee for 31 years. Included in the collection are 22 outgoing letters to family members, 32 incoming letters from her family and such persons as Booker T. Washington and Billy Sunday. Also present is the biography written by her...
Dates:
Other: 1865-1915
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
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Esther W. Douglass collection
Dunn-Landry Family papers
Collection
Identifier: 138
Scope and Contents
The Dunn-Landry Family Papers encompass 14 linear feet of material covering subject areas of civil rights, African American education, ministerial work, historically black colleges and universities, Louisiana politics and race relations.The collection is arranged into nine series of personal and professional materials. The bulk of the papers are professional in nature with some personal correspondence. The strength of the collection is national and local civic activities, civil rights ...
Dates:
Created: 1872-2003; Other: Majority of material found in 1916 -1992; Other: Date acquired: 01/01/1984
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
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Dunn-Landry Family papers