African American universities and colleges
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:
Middleton A. Harris collection
Collection
Identifier: 169
Content Description
The Middleton A. Harris collection contains five filmstrips: The Revolutionary Period, Early American Inventors, Anti-Slavery Coins, The Story of Lewis Latimer, and The Doctor is a Lady (regarding Dr. Dorothy L. Brown); three manuals accompanying the filmstrips; three speical editions of the Times and Democrat of Orangeburg, South Carolina (one for the centennial of Claflin College, 1969, one about Wilkinson High School, 1971), and one about South Carolina State College, 1967); two...
Dates:
Other: 1845-1971
Medgar Evers College records
Collection
Identifier: 250
Content Description
Medgar Evers College, located in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, is a college within the City University of New York system. The college was named for civil rights leader Medgar Evers, who was killed in his native state of Mississippi in 1963. The college opened its doors in 1971 with the idea of expanding educational opportunities for the community's gifted, young, returning veterans, and a diverse adult population. The records include correspondence, rosters, invitations, annual reports,...
Dates:
Other: 1976-1982
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
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Medgar Evers College records
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
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
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Joseph A. Pierce papers
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
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
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Robert G. Sherer collection
Daniel Webster Wynn papers
Collection
Identifier: 396
Scope and Contents
The papers of Dr. Daniel W. Wynn, clergyman, educator, administrator, and author, consist mainly of correspondence, but also includes his writings in the forms of articles, book reviews, reports, sermons, speeches, and his autobiography. Other materials include teaching contracts, invitations, programs, news clippings, and photographs, as well as agenda, constitutions, and minutes from institutional bodies. Wynn's 1979 typescript autobiography tells of his lineage, which includes...
Dates:
Created: 1936-1979; Other: Date acquired: 06/01/1976
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
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Daniel Webster Wynn papers