Sound recordings
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 122 Collections and/or Records:
August C. Terrence papers
Collection
Identifier: 361
Content Description
Includes audiocassette of testimonial given in honor of Dr. Terrence by Dr. Albert W. Dent. Also includes correspondence relating to the professional, social, and civic activities of the physician. William J. Guste Jr., and Samuel DuBois Cook are among the correspondents. Correspondence regards Terrence's candidacy for attorney general; organizations represented in the collection include the Bonanza Social Club, the Dillard-Xavier Annual Fund, the Howard University Alumni Club of New...
Dates:
Other: 1956-1981
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
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August C. Terrence papers
Treme Oral History Project collection
Collection
Identifier: 494
Scope and Contents
The Treme Oral History Project Collection consists of sound recordings of oral history interviews conducted by the Amistad Research Center from 1993 to 1994. It was funded by the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Foundation. Its purpose was to document the musical heritage of the Treme neighborhood of New Orleans, a predominantly African American neighborhood since the early nineteenth century. Interviewees were residents of Treme who had experience the musical heritage of New Orleans from a...
Dates:
Created: 1993-1994; Other: Majority of material found in 1993-1994; Other: Date acquired: 09/01/1995
Trinity United Church of Christ (Chicago, Illinois) collection
Collection
Identifier: 2222
Content Description
Includes recording of a Kwanzaa program held at Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago in 1989.
Dates:
Other: 1989
Office of the Executive Vice President of the United Church Board for Homeland Ministries records
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 368-02-368
Scope and Contents
The United Church Board for Homeland Ministries (UCBHM) was an autonomous but recognized instrumentality of the United Church of Christ (UCC) that functioned as the administrative body of the United Church of Christ's home missions and services (1962-2000). The UCBHM formed in 1962 by the union of the Board of Home Missions of the Congregational Christian Churches and the Board of National Missions of the Evangelical and Reformed Church and continued the corporations and the work of...
Dates:
Created: 1926-2000; Other: Majority of material found in 1958-2000; Other: Date acquired: 01/01/1979
University of Mississippi Center for the Study of Southern Culture Civil Rights Movement and the Law oral history collection
Collection
Identifier: 2246
Content Description
Sound recordings of the proceedings of a civil rights conference held in 1989 by the Center for the Study of Southern Culture entitled The Civil Rights Movement and the Law. Recordings include panel discussions with panelists Jack Greenberg, Constance Baker Motley, Charles Clark, Jean Fairfax, Frank R. Parker, and others. Also included is a paper copy of remarks by Constance Baker Motley.
Dates:
1989
Preston and Bonita Valien Papers
Collection
Identifier: 371
Scope and Contents
The Preston and Bonita Valien papers are a rich source of documentation generated during the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s, and extremely strong in documenting their ground breaking sociology research in the areas of African American higher education, housing segregation, public school and public transportation integration, population migration from the south to the north, race relations, as well as women’s health related to birth control and infant mortality. The...
Dates:
Created: 1932-1996; Other: Majority of material found in 1940-1960; Other: Date acquired: 04/01/1969
Lillian W. Voorhees papers
Collection
Identifier: 375
Scope and Contents
The Lillian Welch Voorhees papers consist of 21.7 linear feet of items typical of the life of a 20th century educator. The collection also reflects Voorhees's literary and theatrical interests with examples of her own writings, as well as those of her students. Correspondence, 1900-1973 (ca. 8450 items), comprises the largest part of Voorhees's papers. Her literary efforts, 1907-71, are another large section. These include bibliographies; articles; a fragmentary autobiography and...
Dates:
Created: 1892-1973; Other: Date acquired: 01/01/1970
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
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Lillian W. Voorhees papers
Theresa Vuong interview
Collection
Identifier: 2190
Content Description
This collection includes materials related to an interview with Theresa Vuong that was conducted by Trang Vuong of the Tulane University Vietnamese Association. Theresa Vuong was a Vietnamese refugee who arrived in the United States in 1975. Present are a questionnaire used in the interview and a brief handwritten transcript of the answers.
Dates:
Other: 1988
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
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Theresa Vuong interview
WGBH Radio New Orleans Jazz Modules collection
Collection
Identifier: 2062
Content Description
The WGBH Radio New Orleans Jazz Modules collection includes a series of nine audio histories of New Orleans jazz musicians and jazz scholars, each under ten minutes in length. Topics and/or artists include: Ellis Marsalis on teaching jazz; Jason Berry on jazz funerals; Roger Lewis; Ed Blackwell; Danny Barker; Edward "Kidd" Jordan; Blue Lou Barker; and African retention in New Orleans culture. Accompanying the audiocassette is a memorandum with a brief description of the content of each audio...
Dates:
Other: 1991
Where They At collection
Collection
Identifier: 754
Scope and Contents
The Where They At project was begun in 2008 by photographer Aubrey Edwards and journalist Alison Fensterstock, with the assistance of a grant from the Greater New Orleans Foundation. It collected over 50 photographic portraits and audio interviews with New Orleans rappers, DJs, producers, photographers, label owners, promoters, record store personnel, journalists and other parties involved in the New Orleans hip-hop and bounce scene from the late 1980s through Hurricane Katrina, as well as...
Dates:
Created: 2008-2010; Other: Date acquired: 08/01/2013
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
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Where They At collection