Family history -- African Americans

Content Description The Lydia Sindos Adams Family papers document the life and civic interests of Adams, as well as the Adams/Sindos/Gumbel families of New Orleans. Materials include correspondence; photographs, both of the Adams family and various New Orleans organizations; news clippings; genealogy materials; marriage certificates; land deeds; school certificates and diplomas; financial records; autograph and guest books; a diary; and photo albums. Organizations represented in the collection include the...

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The collection contains diplomas, correspondence, records of vital statistics, and photographs of Arthur Lee Branch and family of Thomasville, Georgia. Branch was a graduate of Meharry Medical College.

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Largely consisting of family correspondence, this collection also includes photographs, a scrapbook, various ephemera, and a wedding announcement. The collection also includes some materials from the Oberlin College class of 1899.

Scope and Contents The Collins Family Papers consist of correspondence dated 1889-1987 that comprises about one-third of the collection. The majority of the letters are between Sophronia A. Collins Easley and her brother Malachi C. Collins and husband Willis Easley, in addition to communication with other family members and friends. Of note are the letters sent to Sophronia A. Collins Easley from various evangelical and ecumenical lay persons and clerics in the United States and Canada.  Also included are the...

Scope and Contents The Harrietta Harris papers provide a documentary source in the field of genealogy, home museums, and turpentine camps in Mississippi in the early twentieth century. Work conditions in such camps were often harsh and considered a form of peonage.The papers contain professional, as well as personal papers documenting Harris' life as a professor, social worker, and author and document Harris' genealogical research and devotion to save her family's history. The papers encompass 0.4...

Content Description The L. Monique McKenna collection consists of two oral history interviews conducted by McKenna with former New Orleans mayors Sidney Barthelemy and Marc H. Morial in 2004. In the Barthelemy interview, he discusses his family and early work history, his political involvement, his tenures in the Louisiana State Senate and as New Orleans Mayor, and accusations of patronage. Marc H. Morial discusses his family history, Creole culture, the career of his father, Ernest Morial, his political...

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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.

Content Description Reverend John Charles Mickle was a United Church of Christ minister, who retired from his pastorate in 1982. This collection includes correspondence, church bulletins, biographical data, and a photocopy of an article from JET magazine. Also included are biographies and family photographs, as well as degrees and certificates awarded to Mickle. Of special note are oral history interviews with Mickle conducted by Roger Knight on December 10, 1989, and church reports and newspaper articles on...

Content Description The Ruth Crawford Mitchell papers consists of Mitchell's personal papers, including correspondence, press clippings, photographs, and collected items, as well as genealogical materials and materials related to her grandfather, Edward Parmalee Smith. Collected materials concern the centenial of Howard University in 1967. Correspondents include: Harriet G. Gilfillan, Mordecai W. Johnson, James T. Babb, Dorothy Porter, Elizabeth Tenney, William H. Armstrong, Mary Gertrude Smith, Hannah C....

Content Description The Thomas-Jones Family Papers document four successive generations of an African-American family with ties to New Orleans, North Carolina, and New York City. The collection is comprised of correspondence; legal records, such as marriage, death, and birth records; real estate records; membership certificates; insurance and funeral records; school records; photographs; news clippings; collected ephemera; and art work. The earliest family members documented are William W. and Elizabeth (nee...