African Americans -- Education -- Louisiana
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 6 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
Dillard University Alumni Association records
Collection
Identifier: 120
Content Description
The Dillard University Alumni Association records consist of four bound volumes, including three minute books, dated 1951-1963, and one receipt book, dated 1965-1967. Unbound items include correspondence, receipts, tickets, and rosters. Names documented within the collection include Albert W. Dent, Emily Davis Bickham, Rosemary St. Cyr Smith, Ruth A. Steele, and Jessie B. Vickman.
Dates:
Other: 1951-1967
Downtown Neighborhood Improvement Association (DNIA) Education Committee records
Collection
Identifier: 2495
Content Description
The Downtown Neighborhood Improvement Association serves the historic downtown area of New Orleans bounded by Orleans Avenue and St. Bernard Avenue, North Rampart Street and North Broad Street, as well as the triangle above North Broad between Gentilly Avenue and St. Bernard Avenue, which includes the 6th and 7th Wards, Treme, and Greater Treme.The records of the Downtown Neighborhood Improvement Association’s Education Committee consist of meeting minutes and collected items...
Dates:
Other: 2006-2010
Dryades Street Young Men's Christian Association (New Orleans, La.) records
Collection
Identifier: 133
Content Description
Records of the Dryades Street YMCA include administrative records of the School of Commerce and programs conducted by the organization, such as Outreach, Neighborhood Youth Corps Out-of-School project, Competitive Physical Education, and youth clubs and activities. Record types include correspondence, teacher roll books, other reporting forms, student files, applications, grant proposals, programs, financial records, and clippings. Names in the records include director William H. Mitchell...
Dates:
Other: 1942-1990
NAACP, Office of Field Director of Louisiana records
Collection
Identifier: 261
Scope and Contents
The records of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People’s (NAACP) Louisiana State Field Office consist of 21 linear feet of documents. The largest portion of the collection is comprised of correspondence; the remainder of the collection consists of reports, press releases, minutes, newsletters, complaints, newspaper clippings, and photographs. The correspondence in the collection is arranged chronologically and consists primarily of letters written to and by the NAACP...
Dates:
Created: 1964-1976; Other: Date acquired: 01/01/1977
Yearbook collection
Collection — 70 items
Identifier: 398
Scope and Contents
This artificial collection contains school yearbooks from southern historically black colleges and universities, as well as Louisiana high schools. Schools and the years represented include: Alcorn A&M College (Lorman, MS) - 1967; Southern University (Baton Rouge, LA) - 1951-1952, 1954-1957, 1959, 1962-1971, 1975; Wiley College (Marshall, TX) - 1954; Xavier University of Louisiana (New Orleans, LA) - 1976; Booker T. Washington Senior High School (New Orleans, LA) - 1959,...
Dates:
Created: 1953-1979; Other: Date acquired: 10/01/1994
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
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Yearbook collection