Sound recordings
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 122 Collections and/or Records:
Arthur Dorsey oral history interview
Item
Identifier: 2456
Content Description
This collection consist of an audiocassette tape and transcript of an oral interview conducted by Dr. Edward Dees of his uncle Authur Dorsey, World War II Merchant Marine Veteran. Dorsey describes his battle against segregation and personal experiences as chief radio operator on board the USS Dan Beard as it was torpedoed off the British Isles on December 10, 1944 with a loss of 51% fatalities. Also included is a newspaper article on the Dan Beard and a photographic reprint of the...
Dates:
Other: 2001
Fred Duff collection
Collection
Identifier: 2254
Content Description
Materials include an interview of Fred Duff by Gary Boyd of radio station WLIB in August 1994, and articles pertaining to the National Association of Black Scuba Divers and the commemoration of the slave ship the Henrietta Marie.
Dates:
Other: 1993-1994
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
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Fred Duff collection
Dunn-Landry Family papers
Collection
Identifier: 138
Scope and Contents
The Dunn-Landry Family Papers encompass 14 linear feet of material covering subject areas of civil rights, African American education, ministerial work, historically black colleges and universities, Louisiana politics and race relations.The collection is arranged into nine series of personal and professional materials. The bulk of the papers are professional in nature with some personal correspondence. The strength of the collection is national and local civic activities, civil rights ...
Dates:
Created: 1872-2003; Other: Majority of material found in 1916 -1992; Other: Date acquired: 01/01/1984
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
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Dunn-Landry Family papers
Ed Pincus oral history interview
Collection
Identifier: 624-2
Content Description
The Ed Pincus oral history interview consists of recordings of an interview conducted with filmmaker Ed Pincus on April 20, 2002, by Lance Hill, Director of the Southern Institute for Education and Research at Tulane University.
Dates:
Other: 2002
Gabrielle Simon Edgcomb collection
Collection
Identifier: 141
Content Description
This collection consists of 18 audiocassettes containing oral interviews conducted by Gabrielle Simon Edgcomb with German and Jewish refugee scholars who taught at Black colleges during the 1930s and 1940s. Collection also contains one VHS cassette of a symposium entitled "A Fruitful Encounter -- German Jewish Refugee Scholars at Black Colleges" that took place at Howard University in April 1989. Panelists included Dr. Russell L. Adams, Dr. Hartmut Lehmann, and Dr. Max Ticktin, and the...
Dates:
Other: 1987-1989
William James Edwards papers
Collection
Identifier: 144
Content Description
The papers of William James Edwards document the career of the founder and principal of Snow Hill Normal and Industrial Institute in Snow Hill, Alabama. The collection includes his 1893 diploma from Tuskegee Normal School, correspondence, speeches, reports, financial statements, photographs, printed items regarding Snow Hill Institute.
Dates:
Other: 1893-1979
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
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William James Edwards papers
Evergreen Plantation collection
Collection
Identifier: 2156
Content Description
Collection documents the Evergreen Plantation in St. John the Baptist Parish, in Louisiana. Collection includes photographic slides and prints, a collected article on the plantation, and a videocassette.
Dates:
Other: 1980-1991
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
Louis Farrakhan collection
Collection
Identifier: SC2468
Content Description
The original collection consists of six audio tapes containing addresses delivered by Nation of Islam leader Minister Louis Farrakhan during a three day visit to New Orleans in 1990 as part of his “Stop the Killing” tour. These include a press conference and talks presented to the Black Leadership Awareness Council and at the Municipal Auditorium and St. Theresa Catholic Church. The general theme is “black on black” crime. The collection also contains an audio tape of a 1990 address entitled...
Dates:
Other: 1990-2004
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
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Louis Farrakhan collection
Federation of Southern Cooperatives/Land Assistance Fund records
Collection
Identifier: 151
Content Description
The Federation of Southern Cooperatives (FSC) was founded to assist African American farmers, reverse the trend of decline in Black ownership of land in the South, and to develop cooperatives and credit unions as a means to assist individuals and families in rural and low-income communities. The records of FSC include voluminous correspondence, memoranda, studies, reports, statistical data, photographs, financial records, newsletters and publications both generated and collected by the...
Dates:
Other: 1910, 1942-1996