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Full-Text Articles in African American Studies
A Separate Space: Remembering Meridian’S Segregated Carnegie Library, 1913-74, Matthew R. Griffis
A Separate Space: Remembering Meridian’S Segregated Carnegie Library, 1913-74, Matthew R. Griffis
Publications and Other Resources
This article explores the largely undocumented history of Meridian, Mississippi’s 13th Street library, a segregated branch library constructed in 1912-13 with funds from Carnegie’s famous library program. Although the library no longer stands, it remains an important connection between libraries in Mississippi and the history of race relations. Using archival sources as well as oral history interviews with some of the library’s former users, the article considers the library’s importance as an early symbol of civic autonomy for Meridian’s African Americans and how it became a valued educational support center and community space. The article closes with a call …
Historical Society Has Tools To Dig Deep, John M. Rudy
Historical Society Has Tools To Dig Deep, John M. Rudy
Civil War Era Studies Faculty Publications
"On last Wednesday night, Lincoln's Birthday," the Star and Sentinel reported in 1908, "a colored lodge of Elks was instituted in Xavier Hall this place with 45 members." The Improved Benevolent Protective Order of Elks of the World was originally formed as an African-American fraternal organization in the 1890s after a white elks lodge in Philadelphia denied local black men membership. By 1908, the organization was quickly working its way through Pennsylvania. And now Gettysburg had "Colored Elks," working as a social safety net for the black community of the Third Ward. They provided aid to the sick and the …
Eartha M. M. White Collection Container List, Thomas G. Carpenter Library Special Collections And University Archives
Eartha M. M. White Collection Container List, Thomas G. Carpenter Library Special Collections And University Archives
Finding Aids and Container Lists
Personal correspondence, documents, notes, memorabilia, printed materials and photographs. Notable materials include numerous photographs chronicling twentieth century black history in Jacksonville and historical photographs of urban Jacksonville. Included in the collection are the photographs of R. Lee Thomas, a black photographer active in the early twentieth century in the southern United States. Thomas' work covers primarily southern black religious and labor groups, circa 1946-49.
Oral History With Karen Edwards-Hunter, Matthew R. Griffis
Oral History With Karen Edwards-Hunter, Matthew R. Griffis
Oral History Archive
Karen Edwards-Hunter was born in Louisville, Kentucky in 1950 and has lived most of her life there. Her father was a mail carrier and her mother, who was originally a homemaker, was later a Teacher’s Assistant at Perry Elementary School. Edwards-Hunter grew up on 15th Street in the city’s Russell neighborhood and attended Perry Elementary School and Harvey C. Russell Junior High School when both were still segregated. She later attended Louisville Male High School before earning a B.A. in English at Eastern Kentucky University and the University of Louisville. She completed further studies at Bard College in New …
Oral History With Houston A. Baker, Matthew R. Griffis
Oral History With Houston A. Baker, Matthew R. Griffis
Oral History Archive
Born in March of 1943, Houston Alfred Baker Jr. grew up in segregated Louisville. His mother was a schoolteacher; his father served as chief administrator of the city’s African-American hospital, the Red Cross Hospital, and had earned a master’s degree in hospital administration from Northwestern University on a Rockefeller fellowship. When Baker was a child, his family lived on Virginia Avenue, where Baker attended Virginia Avenue Elementary School. After his family moved to Broadway Street, Baker attended Western Elementary, later Western Junior High School, and then Male High School before leaving for Howard University in 1961. The family attended Grace …
Newroom: Do Lord Remember Me: Black Church In Ri 02-21-2017, Roger Williams University School Of Law
Newroom: Do Lord Remember Me: Black Church In Ri 02-21-2017, Roger Williams University School Of Law
Life of the Law School (1993- )
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How Have Black Lives Mattered At La Salle, Then And Now?, Katie Carey, Ludmille Glaude, Rebecca Goldman, Alicia Miller, Maureen O'Connell, Cherylyn Rush
How Have Black Lives Mattered At La Salle, Then And Now?, Katie Carey, Ludmille Glaude, Rebecca Goldman, Alicia Miller, Maureen O'Connell, Cherylyn Rush
Explorer Café
No abstract provided.
Ua1f Wku Cultural Diversity, Wku Archives
Ua1f Wku Cultural Diversity, Wku Archives
WKU Archives Records
Bibliography of sources related to cultural diversity at WKU.