Moving images
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 68 Collections and/or Records:
Fannie Lou Hamer papers
Collection
Identifier: 165
Scope and Contents
The Papers of Fannie Lou Hamer measure approximately 16 linear feet and consist of 3,293 pieces of correspondence dated between 1966 and 1978. The correspondence represented includes not only that of Fannie Lou Hamer, but also that of a number of organizations to which she was in some way connected and of her business manager, Joseph Harris. Much of Hamer's business correspondence is included in the Harris correspondence. He was almost entirely responsible for the business aspects of Hamer's...
Dates:
Created: 1966-1978; Other: Date acquired: 01/01/1981
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
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Fannie Lou Hamer papers
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
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
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Antoinette Harrell papers
Middleton A. Harris collection
Collection
Identifier: 169
Content Description
The Middleton A. Harris collection contains five filmstrips: The Revolutionary Period, Early American Inventors, Anti-Slavery Coins, The Story of Lewis Latimer, and The Doctor is a Lady (regarding Dr. Dorothy L. Brown); three manuals accompanying the filmstrips; three speical editions of the Times and Democrat of Orangeburg, South Carolina (one for the centennial of Claflin College, 1969, one about Wilkinson High School, 1971), and one about South Carolina State College, 1967); two...
Dates:
Other: 1845-1971
Charles J. Hatfield papers
Collection
Identifier: 316
Scope and Contents
The papers of educator, union organizer, and civil rights activist Charles J. Hatfield Jr. document his life and career, as well as aspects of his family history. The collection includes correspondence; photographs; family records; financial, school, and military records; newspaper clippings; video cassettes; and writings/speeches by Hatfield. Hatfield's legal pursuits to integrate the Louisiana State University Law School, as well as his later teaching career, are documented within the...
Dates:
Created: 1872-2000; Other: Date acquired: 09/01/1998
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
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Charles J. Hatfield papers
Hebert Family collection
Collection
Identifier: 582
Content Description
The Hebert Family collection consists of a videotaped interview with Mary Hebert, a 102-year-old, Morgan City, Louisiana, resident. Hebert is a Louisiana Creole and discusses her experiences in French Creole. Also included are a photograph of Hebert, news clippings, and genealogical information for the Hebert Family.
Dates:
Other: 1984-1999
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
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Hebert Family collection
Moses Hogan papers
Collection
Identifier: 644
Content Description
Moses Hogan was a native of New Orleans and a well-known classical pianist, composer, and internationally renowned arranger of American Spirituals. He was a member of the first class of the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts. He studied with jazz pianist Ellis Marsalis and won a scholarship to Oberlin College and later studied at The Julliard School. In 1980, Hogan started the New World Ensemble choir, which he composed for. During the 1990s he formed the Moses Hogan Chorale and later the...
Dates:
Other: 1958-2003
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
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Moses Hogan papers
George M. Houser collection
Collection
Identifier: 617
Scope and Contents
The George M. Houser collection consists of 1634 slides and approximately nine hours of film taken by Houser during trips to various African countries due to his association with the American Committee on Africa. The trips spanned a period of time from 1954 to 1999. Some of the notable events and personages included in the collection are: the first election of an independent Ghana (1954); three All African Peoples Conferences in Ghana (1958), Tunis (1960), and Cairo (1961); the founding of...
Dates:
Created: 1954-1999; Other: Date acquired: 05/16/2002
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
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George M. Houser collection
Ida Jackson oral history interview
Collection
Identifier: 2087-1
Content Description
Video recording of an oral history interview with Ida Jackson.
Dates:
Other: 1987
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
William J. Jefferson papers
Collection
Identifier: 198
Content Description
The papers of former Louisiana State Representative, Senator, and U.S. Represenative William J. Jefferson includes correspondence, printed items, family and professional photographs, and clothing. The bulk of the collection documents his various political campaigns, bills submitted to the state legislature, materials of the Louisiana Black Political Caucus, State Supreme Court records, licensning agreements, records of the Southern University Remedial Plan, political opinion survey data, and...
Dates:
Other: 1953-2009
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
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William J. Jefferson papers