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Interview No. 1581, Harrison Locke

Combined Interviews

African-American farmer. No braceros on his farm but he remember them in tour on plantations. Machines just beginning to come in. became a principal of school, taught for a years. Taught 56- 62. Remember 1st cotton picker. Describe conditions in farm. Discussing segregation. What’s not picking as much cotton. Mercanization people out of the area to Midwestern cities. Rice area. Also stopped Mexican migrant worker. Discusses the importance of training. College as UA-PB. Workeron the farm as a kid. Father Abb Locke, mother Rubby Locke; 3 younger brothers. Late 1940's, early 1950’s no machines. They had houses on the farm …

Interview No. 1590, Don Stallings

Combined Interviews

Father farmer 2000 acres of cotton and owned/operated a gin at Yarrow, AR. From 1963, his father contracted for 300 bracero laborers. Constructional and maintains the Mexican barrotes on his farm. Contracted with a Texas Mexican Jesus Salinas to provide andmanage all of the laborers. Length of

Interview No. 1591, Jonathan Abbot

Combined Interviews

Describes the vivid colors of the crew leaders trades. He comments on the laborers purchasing trade singer sewing machines to take back to Mexico. Discusses housing and social interaction at the Mexican barracks on the Stallings farm at Yarbro, AR.

Smith, George W. (Sc 26), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 26. Deed for a lot in Louisville, Kentucky, whereby George W. Smith and his wife, Sabina, convey the property to William Sale.

Ford, Sandra Young, 1944-1998 (Sc 1752), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1752. Items related to Sandra Young Ford's battle with cancer and her ultimate death.

Ward Family Letters (Sc 27), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 27. Letter written to Jonathan Ward, Plymouth, New Hampshire, by his brother, Daniel Ward, Indianapolis, Indiana, 1840, which concerns family affairs and politics, and a letter written to Ralph Ward by his mother, Mrs. Catherine Ward, Talbottom, Georgia, 1861, which concerns her experience of traveling on a railway car with Jefferson Davis and southern pre-Civil War sentiments.

Harrison, William Henry, 1773-1841- Relating To (Sc 28), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 28. William Henry Harrison campaign ribbon badge used for advertising during the 1840 presidential campaign, often referred to as the "log cabin and hard cider" campaign.

Foster, Elsie (Rex), 1901-1986 (Sc 1753), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1753. Diary kept by Elsie (Rex) Foster, Hopkinsville, Kentucky, from 1 January 1937 to 28 June 1937 in which she records daily activities, particularly of her baby son Gordon Bryan Foster.

In Case You Missed It: Tibet Special, Part 3–Comments By Pico Iyer And Pankaj Mishra

China Beat Blog: Archive 2008-2012

Continuing our series seeking to draw attention to overlooked readings on Tibet, we are happy to be able to provide comments by two long-time friends of the blog, Pico Iyer and Pankaj Mishra, talented and versatile writers whose most recent books are The Open Road: The Global Journey of the Fourteenth Dalai Lama and Temptations of the West: How to Be Modern in India, Pakistan, Tibet, and Beyond, respectively. It seemed particularly appropriate to ask Iyer and Mishra to suggest articles or books that they have found useful in thinking about Tibet but which might be under the radar of …

Interview No. 1579, Sam Ashworth

Combined Interviews

Mexican just bought what was a needed canned goods. Mechanization station, late 1950’s into 1960’s. Asked about a good incident and a bad incident. Would go into Blade Club’s. Black women would make money. Mexicans married black women. Length

The Chanticleer, 2008-09-22, Coastal Carolina University

The Chanticleer Student Newspaper

The editorially independent student produced weekly newspaper of Coastal Carolina University.

Correspondence; 2008-09-22; Health One Interview, Catherine Collins

Correspondence

No abstract provided.

Ccu Newsletter, September 22, 2008, Coastal Carolina University

Coastal Carolina University Newsletter

Coastal Carolina University's weekly on-campus newsletter.

Newman, Josiah, 1806-1893 (Sc 1711), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1711. Slave bill of sale to Josiah Newman, Franklin, Simpson County, Kentucky, 1844; bill of lading for tobacco to be shipped to New Orleans via the Green River, 1847; letter and agreement concerning his freed slaves, 1864 & 1866; tax receipt, 1872.

Jackson, Stephen, 1811-1900 (Sc 1769), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1769. Chiefly legal papers of Stephen Jackson and Oscar B. Jackson of Simpson County, Kentucky. Includes deeds, tax receipts, and a slavery bill of sale.

Schneringer, Kenneth E. (Sc 1743), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1743. Letter 17 November 2000 from Kenneth E. Schneringer, Woodstock, Georgia to Constance Ann Mills, Bowling Green, Kentucky in which he discusses the presidential election of 2000 and the candidates.

Lanthorn, Vol. 43, No. 10, September 22, 2008, Grand Valley State University

Volume 43, July 10, 2008 - June 7, 2009

Lanthorn is Grand Valley State's student newspaper, published from 1968 to the present.

Interview No. 1593, Max Render

Combined Interviews

Relates his memory of bracero cotton picker cohosted through local and employed by his father. Discusses their work and living conditions. Also talks briefly of other tasks performed by bracero labor.

Grand Valley Forum, Volume 033, Number 05, September 22, 2008, Grand Valley State University

2008-2009, Volume 33

Grand Valley Forum is Grand Valley State's faculty and staff newsletter, published from 1976 to the present.

Deacon Joseph Alton Caldwell

African American Funeral Programs

Funeral program for Joseph Caldwell. Service was held on September 22, 2008 in Winston, Georgia

Kelly Lucas

African American Funeral Programs

Funeral Program for Kelly Lucas on Sept.22, 2008 at Way of the Word Ministries

In Case You Missed It: Tibet Special, Part 2

China Beat Blog: Archive 2008-2012

This second piece in our ongoing series highlighting “In Case You Missed It” readings on Tibet, is devoted to reflections by Charlene Makley, a member of Reed College’s Anthropology Department. She was part of the same Boulder roundtable mentioned in our first post in the series, and she is the author of The Violence of Liberation: Gender and Tibetan Buddhist Revival in Post Mao China, published last year by the University of California Press in cloth and paperback editions.

Having just returned from a year in Tibetan regions of the PRC, I am not completely versed on the most recent …

Mrs. Rosetta Lanier

African American Funeral Programs

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Jessie Mae Roberts

African American Funeral Programs

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Clarence Perry

African American Funeral Programs

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Blog To Book: The China Beat Moves Into The Print World

China Beat Blog: Archive 2008-2012

This Self-Promotion Saturday will be the first of a series devoted to a book project:China in 2008: A Year of Great Significance. Rowman & Littlefield will be publishing it fairly early in 2009 and it will be edited by three people familiar to “China Beat” readers: Kate Merkel-Hess, Ken Pomeranz and Jeff Wasserstrom, all of whom are based at UC Irvine. Some of the content will also be familiar to “China Beat” readers, since the book will include material that first appeared on this site (though in some cases in an updated and expanded form). China in 2008 will also …

In Case You Missed It: Tibet Special, Part 1

China Beat Blog: Archive 2008-2012

It has now been six months since “China Beat” ran a series of reports about and suggested readings relating to the March unrest in Tibet. We thought this a fitting time to try to figure out what some of the best works out there are that deal with Tibet in general, not just a particular crisis involving the region and its people. So, we will be asking some people the following question: “Can you think of any particular article or book relating to Tibet that you wish more people had read?” We’ll run the answers periodically, as they come in. …

Clark, Thomas Dionysius, 1903-2005 (Sc 1755), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1755. Two letters from Thomas Dionysius Clark, Lexington, Kentucky, to Pat Hodges, Bowling Green, Kentucky, in response to birthday cards sent to him. He briefly reminisces about his long life.

African-American Marriage Certificate - Logan County, Kentucky (Sc 1735), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1735. Certificate of Nancy and Vilindee? Beason, Logan County, Kentucky, declaring that they had lived together in the past and desired to continue doing so as husband and wife.

Flaherty, Terah Leonard, 1914-1983 (Sc 1750), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1750. Forms and correspondence related to Terah Leonard Flaherty's World War II service in the U.S. Army; his wife's Red Cross certificate; and a humorous "Confederate" army commission.