Sound recordings
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 122 Collections and/or Records:
Kim Lacy Rogers collection
Collection — 1
Identifier: 317
Scope and Contents
This collection consists mostly of sound recordings of oral history interviews conducted by Kim Lacy Rogers with persons involved in the desegregation process in New Orleans. These include opponents and proponents of segregation. Notable interviewees include: Daniel Byrd, Albert Dent, Tom Dent, Lolis Elie, Oretha Castle Haley, Rosa Freeman Keller, Mayor Maurice "Moon" Landrieu, Rudy Lombard, Mayor Ernest N. "Dutch" Morial, John O'Neal, Revius Ortique, Jackson Ricau, Jerome Smith, and Betty...
Dates:
Created: 1959-1996; Other: Majority of material found in 1979-1988; Other: Date acquired: 10/02/1979
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
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Kim Lacy Rogers collection
Saddest Days Oral History collection
Collection
Identifier: 741
Content Description
The Saddest Days Oral History collection contains digital and analog recordings and transcriptions of 175 interviews conducted in the wake of Hurricane Katrina from September 2005 to July 2006. The vast majority of the interviews were conducted in seven southern states, which make up the area to which most of the displaced persons from the Gulf Coast region were evacuated. Overall, the interviews were conducted in approximately twenty different cities or towns. The target population for the...
Dates:
Other: 2005-2007
Erwin A. Salk collection on Paul Robeson
Collection
Identifier: 2293
Content Description
The Erwin A. Salk collection on Paul Robeson dates from 1933 to 1976 and consists of 0.80 linear feet of material devoted to actor, singer, scholar and civil rights activist Paul Robeson. Materials include brochures, photographs and audiovisual materials. Of interest are a collection of photographs representing Robeson’s educational accomplishments as a star varsity team member on Rutgers Intercollegiate Debating Association. In addition, images feature Robeson as a star athlete...
Dates:
Other: 1933-1976
Johanna Salonen oral history interviews
Collection
Identifier: 2382
Content Description
Interviews conducted in 1993 by Johanna Salonen. One interview is with Yvette Henry, an architecture student at Tulane University and the president of the local chapter of the National Association of Minority Architecture Students. The other interview is with Levasta M. Al-Naziat, a woodworker of Slidell, Louisiana.
Dates:
Other: 1993
Reuben A. Sheares II papers
Collection
Identifier: 426
Scope and Contents
The bulk of Sheares' papers include newsletters and publications from various organizations that Sheares was a member or supporter, as well as publications from various United Church of Christ (UCC) congregations. The papers focus mainly on theological issues and programs, including 122 audiocassettes of sermons that Sheares presented at the Congregational Church of Park Manor in Chicago from 1989-1992. Also included are notes and essays from classes in which Sheares was enrolled during the...
Dates:
Created: 1952-1993; Other: Majority of material found in 1960-1980; Other: Date acquired: 05/27/2004
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
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Reuben A. Sheares II papers
Andy Simons collection
Collection
Identifier: 339
Content Description
Consists of clippings about Chicago civil rights activists, including Harold Washington, Lu Palmer, Louis Farrakhan, Nathaniel Clay. The audiocassettes include recordings by or about the same individuals and others including Marcus Garvey, Stokley Carmichael, Margaret Walker, Melvin Van Peebles, Dorothy Tillman, and John G. Jackson. Collection file includes an index to call 70 audiocassettes with some topical summaries. This collection also includes an audiocassette entitled...
Dates:
Other: 1982-1988
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
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Andy Simons collection
Lloyd H. Smith collection
Collection
Identifier: 455
Content Description
Lloyd H. Smith of New Orleans, Louisiana, was a collector of jazz music and books on the topic. The collection contains approximately 580 phonograph jazz recordings by performers such as Louis Armstrong, Count Basie, Erskine Hawkins, Billie Holiday, Cab Calloway, Bessie Smith, the Ink Spots, Charlie Parker, Artie Shaw, Fats Waller, Sidney Bechet, Duke Ellington, Pete Fountain, Ella Fitzgerald, Nat King Cole, Bing Crosby, Fletcher Henderson, and others. He also donated 44 books on the topic...
Dates:
Other: 1939-1991
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
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Lloyd H. Smith collection
Hale Smith papers
Collection
Identifier: 667
Scope and Contents
The Hale Smith papers cover the length of Smith's musical career, documenting his education at the Cleveland Institute of Music; his early career in Cleveland, particularly with the Karamu Theatre; his move to New York where he worked the jazz circuit with Dizzy Gillepsie and Chico Hamilton before he settled into his career as a music editor, an educator, and a copyright specialist; and the relationships he developed over time up to shortly before his death. Hale Smith maintained a...
Dates:
Created: 1840-2012; Other: Majority of material found in 1950-2000; Other: Date acquired: 01/01/1984
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
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Hale Smith papers
St. Mark's Community Center Ethnic Heritage Project records
Collection
Identifier: 327
Content Description
The records of the St. Mark's Community Center Ethnic Heritage Project contains manuscripts, videocassettes, audiotapes, color photograph transparencies, and index cards. The project sought to "complete an oral history documentary of the black Creoles and non-Creoles of the Treme/7th Ward area of New Orleans." Those interviewed for the project were long-term residents of the area, and they discussed notable inhabitants and cultural traditions of the area. A related publication,...
Dates:
Other: 1977-1980
Philip Sterling papers
Collection
Identifier: 355
Content Description
Philip Sterling is an author, newspaper and broadcast journalist. His papers include material collected for The Real Teachers, a book of interviews with teachers of African American and Hispanic American students in Boston, Cleveland, Detroit, New York, Philadelphia and Washington, D.C. Documents include correspondence, interview transcripts, notes, news clippings and audio cassettes. Additional documents are related to Sterling’s employment with CBS, his research...
Dates:
Other: 1939-1990
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
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Philip Sterling papers