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Historically black colleges and universities

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 11 Collections and/or Records:

Harold G. Cureau papers

 Collection
Identifier: 639
Content Description This collection consists mainly of working papers dealing with a study conducted by Dr. Harold G. Cureau on the availability of art galleries and museums as educational resources at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). The bulk of the collection consists of information collected by Dr. Cureau in the form of surveys and visits to HBCUs around the country. Also included within the collection are correspondence files, photographs, and manuscripts by Dr. Cureau. The survey files...
Dates: Other: 1956-1996

Charles Mantinband papers

 Collection
Identifier: 245
Content Description The papers of Rabbi Charles Mantinband document his life and career, particularly his involvement in civil rights. The collection includes correspondence, news clippings, articles, broadsides, sermons, pamphlets, and Mantinband's dissertation. Some of the items pertain to Emmett Till and Medgar Evers, who were both killed in Mississippi. Other items pertain to speaking engagements at historically Black colleges. Correspondents include: A.D. Beittel, P.D. East, Medgar Evers, John Howard...
Dates: Other: 1951-1974

Theodore Roosevelt McLemore oral history interview

 Collection
Identifier: 2123
Content Description

This collection contains an oral history interview with Theodore Roosevelt McLemore conducted by Clifton H. Johnson. McLemore, a longtime trustee of LeMoyne College and LeMoyne-Owen College, discusses his life growing up in Tennessee, family history, and the development of the college under various administrators, including Frederick Leslie Brownlee, Frank Sweeney, and Hollis Price.

Dates: Other: 1988

Ruth A. Morton scrapbook

 Collection
Identifier: 257
Content Description

This collection consists of a scrapbook assembled by Ruth Morton, former Director of Schools and Community Relations at the American Missionary Association. The scrapbook contains clippings, pamphlets, reports, photographs and other documents mostly related to schools and institutions throughout North Carolina, Georgia, Puerto Rico, Tennessee and Alabama.

Dates: Other: 1934-1950

Joseph A. Pierce papers

 Collection
Identifier: 299
Scope and Contents The papers of mathematician Joseph A. Pierce, encompasses personal and professional materials documenting his life in academia, as a mathematics professor and as a university administrator. The collection contains correspondence, university records such as report cards and degrees, financial records, ephemera, reports, proposals, publications, and notes. Much of his collection deals with issues in higher education during the civil rights era and briefly touches on the unrest at Texas...
Dates: Created: 1928-1972; Other: Majority of material found in 1960-1969; Other: Date acquired: 01/01/1989

Ophelia Taylor Pinkard papers

 Collection
Identifier: 300
Content Description The papers include correspondence, invitations, programs, clippings, scrapbooks, and other printed items regarding Talladega College, of which Pinkard is an alumnus. The papers also encompass materials about persons associated with Talladega College including Lillian Welch Voorhees, Edyth L. Ross, and Esther La Marr. Other materials document issues of the Talladegan, picture postcards of the campus, a program for the Negro Ensemble Company, Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority and Taylor's life in...
Dates: Other: 1921-1934, 1967-1984

Price Family papers

 Collection
Identifier: 408
Content Description

The Price Family papers document the life and career of Hollis Price Sr. and his work as an educator and president of LeMoyne-Owen College from 1943-1970. Materials also document his wife Althea, an educator and counselor, and his son and economics professor Hollis Jr.

Dates: Other: 1915-1988

Robert G. Sherer collection

 Collection
Identifier: 735
Scope and Contents The Robert G. Sherer collection consists of 26 black and white photographs taken by Sherer during the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, as well as a booklet, texts of speeches, biographical sketches of individuals participating in the march, lists of sponsors, a program schedule, a map, and press releases. Texts of speeches include those delivered by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.; John Lewis, Chairman of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee; Whitney M. Young Jr.,...
Dates: Created: 1899-1982; Other: Date acquired: 01/01/2002

George Thomas, Jr. papers

 Collection
Identifier: 657
Scope and Contents The papers of physician George Thomas, Jr. include materials related to his career at Flint-Goodridge Hospital, the medical profession, and the social organizations with which he was involved. Correspondence, speeches, interview transcripts, and other records chronicle the challenges faced by Flint-Goodridge Hospital in New Orleans, Louisiana as it struggled to maintain its identity and competitiveness after segregation of hospitals ended. Flint’s patients and medical professionals sought...
Dates: Created: 1935-2001; Other: Majority of material found in 1967-1989; Other: Date acquired: 12/18/2003

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