African Americans -- Civil rights
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 23 Collections and/or Records:
Dent Family papers addendum
Collection
Identifier: 116-01
Scope and Contents
The addendum to the papers of Albert Walter Dent (1904-1984) and Ernestine Jessie Covington Dent (1904-2001) provides a rich source of documentation of a prominent African American family, and covers topics such as education, healthcare, musical traditions and culture in New Orleans, Louisiana, and Houston, Texas. The papers consist of 38 linear feet of personal and collected papers of both individuals and other Covington-Dent family members. The addition to the papers is comprised of...
Dates:
1890-2001, undated
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
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Dent Family papers addendum
John Wesley Dobbs Family papers
Collection
Identifier: 122
Scope and Contents
The papers document the personal and professional lives of the John Wesley Dobbs family of Atlanta, Georgia. The key topics are civil rights, education, integration, race relations, and African American suffrage. The main strengths are the civil rights activities of the family as well as J.W. Dobb's tenure as Grand Master of Prince Hall Masonic Grand Lodge of Georgia. The collection encompasses 5.8 linear feet of correspondence, photographs, programs, sound recordings, speeches, and news...
Dates:
Created: 1873-2001; Other: Date acquired: 01/01/1974
Adam Fairclough oral history collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 679
Scope and Contents
The Adam Fairclough oral history collection contains three audiocassettes of interviews conducted by Dr. Adam Fairclough during his research period for his book Race & Democracy: The Civil Rights Struggle in Louisiana, 1915-1972. Included is one cassette each of interviews with William Bailey, Sr. (President of the Bogalusa NAACP, 1950-72), Harvey R.H. Britton (Field Director of the NAACP in Louisiana), and James H. Henderson (President of the New Iberia...
Dates:
Created: 1987, 1992; Other: Majority of material found in 1987; Other: Date acquired: 00/00/1988
Rose Carver Fishman papers
Collection
Identifier: 686
Scope and Contents
Fannie Lou Hamer was Field Secretary for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), a founder of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, and helped seat an integrated delegation to the Democratic National Convention. This collection consists of seventeen letters written by Hamer to her friend Rose Carver Fishman in Waban, MA, who Hamer had earlier met while raising money for the Cambridge, Massachusetts, chapter of SNCC. Hamer reports on SNCC activities in various states and...
Dates:
Created: 1965-1968; Other: Date acquired: 10/27/1995
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
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Rose Carver Fishman papers
Spiver Gordon oral history interview
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 2119
Scope and Contents
This small collection is made up of a single audiocassette of a January 1984 interview with Spiver Gordon, a field secretary for the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) who served in Plaquemine, Baton Rouge, and Monroe, Louisiana. The interviewer is unidentified. 45 minute recording, side 1 only.
Dates:
Created: 1984; Other: Date acquired: 11/03/2011
Roland Tilman Heacock papers
Collection
Identifier: 175
Content Description
The papers of Congregational clergyman and author Roland Tilman Heacock contain correspondence, writings, sermons, notes, photographs, news clippings, a scrapbook, memorabilia, and collected items. Writings by Heacock document his interest in civil rights, African American history, religion, and bee culture. Several unpublished manuscripts and poems constitute a portion of the collection. Correspondence of interest includes letters generated by Heacock's acceptance to an all-White...
Dates:
Other: 1894-1973
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
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Roland Tilman Heacock papers
James A. Dombrowski Memorial Committee collection
Collection
Identifier: 126
Content Description
This collection includes correspondence regarding a memorial to James A. Dombrowski, a southern White Methodist minister and civil rights activist. Dombrowski co-founded the Highlander Folk School in Tennessee, founded the Conference of Younger Churchmen of the South, served as director of the Southern Conference for Human Welfare and the Southern Conference Educational Fund, andedited the liberal journal Southern Patriot. The memorial was co-chaired by...
Dates:
Other: 1983-1984
Maude Veal Jenkins Collection on Julius Waties Waring
Collection
Identifier: 199
Scope and Contents
The Maude Veal Jenkins Collection on Julius Waties Waring documents the life and career of Judge Julius Waties Waring. The collection highlights the activites and ideologies of Waring, his wife, Elizabeth, and to a smaller extent his daughter, Anne. The collection encompasses 0.4. linear feet of correspondence, photographs, programs, invitations, speeches, and newspaper clippings related to the Waring family. Jenkins, a close friend of the Warings, collected the materials to honor Waring,...
Dates:
Created: 1948-1968; Other: Date acquired: 01/01/1972
Maida Springer Kemp papers addendum
Collection
Identifier: 349-1
Content Description
The addition to the papers primarily documents the career of Maida Springer Kemp, and significantly highlights the contributions of an African American woman involved with national and international labor movements. The collection is extremely rich on the subjects of trade unions, international labor laws and projects, women’s labor rights and civil rights. It features Springer Kemp’s work and speaking engagements in Africa, Europe, the Caribbean and the United States and includes ample...
Dates:
1934-2008, undated
Charles Mantinband papers
Collection
Identifier: 245
Content Description
The papers of Rabbi Charles Mantinband document his life and career, particularly his involvement in civil rights. The collection includes correspondence, news clippings, articles, broadsides, sermons, pamphlets, and Mantinband's dissertation. Some of the items pertain to Emmett Till and Medgar Evers, who were both killed in Mississippi. Other items pertain to speaking engagements at historically Black colleges. Correspondents include: A.D. Beittel, P.D. East, Medgar Evers, John Howard...
Dates:
Other: 1951-1974
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
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Charles Mantinband papers