Correspondence
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 37 Collections and/or Records:
Alexander Louis Jackson II papers
Collection
Identifier: 192
Scope and Contents
The papers of Alexander Louis Jackson II span the 1890s to the early 1970s and contain correspondence, biographical information and articles, family and school reunion photographs, invitations, photo copied news clippings about major Civil Rights events in the 1960s, which document the Jackson's activities as a real estate investor in Chicago, co-founder of the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History, and civic activist who was heavily involved in many civil rights and community...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1893-1974; Other: Majority of material found in 1917-1974; Other: Date acquired: 01/01/1982
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
Jane T. Lemann papers
Collection
Identifier: 214
Scope and Contents
The Jane T. Lemann papers reflect Lemann's wide civic involvement in New Orleans, particularly in areas pertaining to educational reform and student welfare. Materials reflecting Lemann's involvement in efforts to desegregate the New Orleans Public Schools comprise the bulk of the collection. The collection consists mostly of planning and meeting notes, reports, correspondence, collected ephemera and publications, and newsclippings. Some materials pertain to Lemann's work with multiple...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1944-1966; Other: Date acquired: 01/01/1983
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
Alfred Baker Lewis papers
Collection
Identifier: 217
Scope and Contents
The papers of insurance executive, union organizer, author, and Treasurer and Board Member of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) Alfred Baker Lewis consist principally of letters to the editor, which broadcast his views on race relations, as well as social and economic policy in the United States. Other materials in the collection include correspondence, press releases, and writings. Letters to the editor from Alfred Baker Lewis to newspapers...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1944-1980; Other: Date acquired: 02/18/1971
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
Louisiana Coalition Against Racism and Nazism records
Collection
Identifier: 228
Scope and Contents
The records of Louisiana Coalition Against Racism and Nazism contains 38.49 linear feet of correspondence, organizational records, writings, and ephemera and publicity materials related to their efforts to inform the public about the racist and anti-Semitic views of American white supremacist and white nationalist politician David Duke. Large portions of the collection are materials collected by LCARN as research used in their campaigns against David Duke. This includes materials...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1943-1999; Other: Majority of material found in 1988-1992; Other: Date acquired: 08/01/1990
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
Natalie Midlo collection
Collection — 1 box
Identifier: 253
Scope and Contents
This collection of approximately 70 items contains correspondence, bulletins, newspaper clippings, programs, sample forms, questionnaires, and sermons collected by Natalie Midlo. These materials reflect her civic activism and support of civil rights and school desegregation. Several items are from esoteric groups and express anti-Semitic and racist views, support segregated schools and white supremacy, state sovereignty, and other social and political issues. Included is an...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1830-1973; Other: Majority of material found in 1946-1973; Other: Date acquired: 02/01/1971
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
Marc H. Morial papers
Collection
Identifier: 553
Scope and Contents
The Marc H. Morial Papers span two mayoral terms from 1994 to 2002, and include his tenure as President of the United States Conference of Mayors and materials from his work as a Louisiana State Senator. The main bulk of the collection reflects and documents Mayor Morial's transition period from 1993 and his involvement in the United States Conference of Mayors from 1994 to 2002. The collection is comprised of correspondence, City of New Orleans transition reports and files, which contain...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1977-2002; Other: Majority of material found in 1994-2002; Other: Date acquired: 06/10/2002
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
Marc H. Morial papers addenda
Collection
Identifier: 553-1
Scope and Contents
The additions to Mr. Morial's papers consist of professional correspondence from the period following his mayoral tenure as the Mayor of New Orleans (1994-2002), when he joined the law firm Adams & Reese, LLP as part of their governmental relations business team. Correspondence for the year 2002 within the files labeled "Reading File," overlaps with his work as the President of the United States Conference of Mayors. The correspondence is professional in nature, but with personal...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1976-2018; Other: Majority of material found in 2002-2003; Other: Date acquired: 09/15/2003
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
New Orleans Old Timers Baseball Club collection
Collection — Box 1
Identifier: 536
Scope and Contents
The New Orleans Old Timers Baseball Club collection comprises one standard archival box and consists mostly of correspondence, photographs, news clippings, biographical sketches, and other collected items pertaining to the Negro Leagues in New Orleans and the Negro Leagues more generally. The collection also represents the efforts of club president Walter Wright to raise awareness of the local Negro Leagues through fundraising, media coverage, advocating for entry of former players into the...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1918-1997; Other: Majority of material found in 1966-1997; Other: Date acquired: 07/08/1997
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
William Kincaid Newman collection
Collection
Identifier: 2130
Scope and Contents
This small collection pertains to ancestors of the donor, William Kincaid Newman; this includes Newman's grandfather, William Kincaid, and Newman's great-grandfather, Daniel Chapman. The collection includes an 1889 map of Guthrie, Oklahoma, Indian Territory, printed by C. P. Spining & Co. shortly after the incorporation of Guthrie after the Land Run of 1889. The map is inscribed "compliments of Rock, Clevinger & Hays Attorneys at-Law Guthrie" and includes some annotations on the map...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1883-1889; Other: Date acquired: 01/01/1978
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
Parson v. Kaiser Aluminum and Chemical Corporation records
Collection
Identifier: 288
Scope and Contents
The Parson v. Kaiser Aluminum and Chemical Corporation records document an employment racial discrimination lawsuit filed by African American workers at the Kaiser Aluminum plant in Chalmette, Louisiana in 1967. The collection spans 1951-1985, and includes the years leading up to the case and the decades that followed, as the case went through various court systems. The collection consists of court records from Orleans Parish District Court and the Fifth Circuit Appeals Court....
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1951-1985; Other: Majority of material found in 1967-1985; Other: Date acquired: 08/22/1985
Found in:
Amistad Research Center