Civil rights movements -- Louisiana
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:
Greta de Jong collection
Collection
Identifier: 585
Content Description
Collection consists solely of Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) file reports on various organizations and incidents in specific geographic areas: Louisiana Farmers Union, Communist Party of Louisiana, Southern Gentlemen, Deacons for Defense and Justice, Iberville Parish school desegregation, Citizens Council of Louisiana, Original Knights of the Ku Klux Klan of Louisiana, St. Helena Parish school desegregation, and of African Americans who were beaten while registering to vote in...
Dates:
Other: 1941-1970
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
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Greta de Jong collection
Louisiana Women in the Civil Rights Era public forum recordings
Collection
Identifier: 2523
Content Description
This collection consists of two DVD recordings and a program of a 2002 public forum entitled “Louisiana Women in the Civil Rights Era: From Memory to Education.” The forum included Dr. V.P. Franklin, Florence Borders, Dr. Clyde Robertson, Dr. Mary Frances Berry, Dr. Melinda Chateauvert, Dr. Bettye Collier-Thomas, Dr. Beverly Mason, Dr. Leeta Allen-Haynes, Sister Kathleen Bahlinger, Pearlie Harin Elloie, Sister Anne Meridier, Dr. Barbara Guillory Thompson, Dr. Linda Bart Tucker, Tessie...
Dates:
Other: 2002
M. W. Prince Hall Grand Lodge, F. & A. M. for the State of Louisiana records
Collection
Identifier: 607
Scope and Contents
The records of the Most Worshipful Prince Hall Grand Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons for the State of Louisiana are a rich source of primary documentation about the history of African American freemasonry in Louisiana and throughout the United States, the period of post-Civil War Reconstruction (1865-1877), the long civil rights movement of the late 19th and early 20th centuries (1878-1954) and the modern civil rights movement (1955-1968). The...
Dates:
Created: 1857-2002; Other: Majority of material found in 1940-1980; Other: Date acquired: 08/13/2008
John O'Neal papers
Collection
Identifier: 279
Scope and Contents
The papers highlight the personal and professional life of John M. O'Neal, Jr. The John O'Neal papers consist of 25.94 linear feet and document O'Neal's artistic style and vision as an African American actor, director, playwright, and community and civil rights activist. The papers are of interest for studying the southern Black Arts Movement and more specifically the Black Theater Movement; the Free Southern Theater; the Civil Rights Movement; voter rights registration; race relations;...
Dates:
Created: 1927-1999; Other: Majority of material found in 1970-1989; Other: Date acquired: 02/01/1983
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
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John O'Neal papers
Paper Monuments collection
Collection
Identifier: 793
Content Description
The Paper Monuments Collection is a collection of printed works produced by Paper Monuments, a project of Colloqate Design, a New Orleans-based multidisciplinary nonprofit Design Justice practice, whose mission is to intentionally organize, advocate, and design spaces of racial, social, and cultural equity. The project developed in the midst of public controversy over the status and removal of public monuments in New Orleans that commemorated Confederate and Reconstruction era people and...
Dates:
Other: 2017-2018
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
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Paper Monuments collection
A. P. Tureaud oral history interview with Joseph Logsdon
Collection
Identifier: 795
Content Description
In the late 1960s/early 1970s, Joseph Logsdon, an historian and professor at University of New Orleans, conducted over 30 hours of an oral history interview with New Orleans attorney A.P. Tureaud. The collection is comprised of transcripts for eleven tapes of the interview. During the interview, Tureaud discusses both his personal and professional lives. He discusses African American leadership in New Orleans during the 1920s and the creation of civic leagues within the city. He discusses...
Dates:
Other: 1968-1972