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Crusader, March 19, 2010, College Of The Holy Cross

Student Newspapers

The student newspaper for the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts. Articles include coverage of campus events and issues, sports, editorials and special features.

Lanthorn, Vol. 44, No. 49, March 18, 2010, Grand Valley State University

Volume 44, July 8, 2009 - June 10, 2010

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

Interview No. 1461, Marcelino Gonzalez D.

Combined Interviews

Mr. Gonzalez talks about his hometown and how, despite the economic difficulties, he enjoyed his childhood; he describes his schooling and that when he was studying he wanted to come to the united States to work; around the year of 1954, Mr. Gonzalez went through the hiring process to become a bracero; he mentions going through the hiring center of Monterrey, Nuevo León, México; he describes the embarrassment of going through physical medical exams, where they were stripped and examined; as a bracero, Mr. Gonzalez remembers mainly working in the cotton, onion, and lettuce fields of El Paso, Plainview and …

Interview No. 1463, Juventino Muñoz P.

Combined Interviews

Mr. Muñoz briefly recalls his family and childhood; he remembers his family living under good conditions having lands and animals; when he was around 12 years old his family lost everything and he had to quit school in order to work in the fields; he served in the Mexican military until he became a bracero in June of 1963; Mr. Muñoz recalls the entire process, including going through centers in Piedras Negras and Mexicali; in addition, he mentions going through medical examinations; as a bracero he worked in the cucumber fields in Michigan and then he worked on the lemon …

Interview No. 1460, Ramon García

Combined Interviews

Mr. García mentions his childhood and how difficult it was when his parents separated; he and his siblings had to work to support their family when they were only children; he crossed illegally at the age of fifteen to work in the U.S.; when he was eighteen he decided to enlist in the bracero program and went to the contracting center in Monterrey, Nuevo León; he remembers the entire process, including the waiting times, the amount of people, and the harsh conditions; he recalls the medical exams he went through; after being hired he was sent to Arkansas to the …

Interview No. 1459, Jesus T. Castilleda

Combined Interviews

Mr. Castilleda briefly recalls his childhood and working in agriculture with his family; he crossed the border to work illegally in the cotton fields with his father when he was ten or twelve years old; he remembers that his uncles came as braceros and as soon as he turned eighteen he enlisted in the city of Monterrey; after enlisting, he went through contracting centers in Piedras Negras and Hidalgo, Texas; he remembers the medical exams they were put through; he worked in places like La Mesa and Big Springs, Texas, as well as in Tennessee and Arkansas, mainly on cotton …

Ground Family Graveyard - Warren County, Kentucky (Sc 2203), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and full text (click on Additional Files below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2203. Record book listing burials of Ground and related family members in Ground family graveyard, Three Forks, Warren County, Kentucky. Includes diagram of graveyard and genealogical material about those buried within.

Taylor, Carrie (Burnam), 1855-1917 (Sc 2206), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2206. Correspondence relating to the Mrs. A. H. Taylor Company, a Bowling Green, Kentucky dressmaking firm. Includes letters from customers and a measurement questionnaire. A letter by an unidentified writer recommends the wages paid by Mrs. Taylor. Includes transcriptions of the letters made by Western Kentucky University student Theresa L. Jureka for her 1983 thesis on Taylor, and one unrelated letter from a father to his son.

Tate, W. (Sc 2204), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid, scan and typescript (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2204. Letter, 15 December 1809, from W. Tate of Abingdon, Virginia, to Ignatius Hazel, Greensburg, Kentucky. He instructs Hazel on the terms and conditions for negotiating the sale of his books.

Violence Across The Land: Vigilantism And Extralegal Justice In The Utah Territory, Scott K. Thomas

Theses and Dissertations

For years historians of the American West have overlooked Utah when dealing with the subject of extrajudicial violence, while researchers of Mormonism have misread the existence of such violence in territorial Utah. The former asserts that Utah was free from extrajudicial proceedings and that such violence was nearly nonexistent within the contours of the Mormon kingdom. The latter maintains that any violence that existed in Utah was directly connected to the religious fanaticism of the Mormon populace in the region. The reality is that much of the extralegal violence in Utah was a result of the frontier, not the religion …

Christ Episcopal Church - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 2219), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2219. Records of Christ Episcopal Church, Bowling Green, Kentucky. Includes lists of members 1867-1914, baptisms 1861-1917, confirmations 1861-1919, marriages and burials 1864-1919. Also includes lists of Russellville members 1880-1886, baptisms 1873-1885, confirmations 1876-1886, and deaths 1877-1885; and lists of Glasgow members 1880, 1893, confirmations and baptisms 1890-1899. Also includes historical notes and extracts from church convention proceedings 1831-1859 that relate to the Bowling Green church.

Trinity Episcopal Church - Logan County, Kentucky (Sc 2220), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2220. Record book of Trinity Episcopal Church, Russellville, Logan County, Kentucky. Includes lists of baptisms 1882-1909, confirmations 1876-1909, marriages 1868-1910, deaths 1877-1908, and parishioners 1886-1896. Also includes annual reports 1885-1902, and miscellaneous financial and statistical information 1889-1903.

Taylor, Carrie (Burnam), 1855-1917 (Sc 2205), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2205. Payroll book of the Mrs. A. H. Taylor Company, a Bowling Green dressmaking firm, listing names of employees, number of days worked per week, and pay rates. Includes a 1992 letter advising of the death of the donor of the book.

Obituary; 2010-03-16; Dunford, Marguerite, Hopewell Baptist Church

Hopewell Baptist Church

No abstract provided.

Grand Valley Forum, Volume 034, Number 25, March 15, 2010, Grand Valley State University

2009-2010, Volume 34

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

Lanthorn, Vol. 44, No. 48, March 15, 2010, Grand Valley State University

Volume 44, July 8, 2009 - June 10, 2010

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

Ada News - 03/15/2010, American Dental Association, Publishing Division

ADA News

Established in 1970 as the official newspaper of the American Dental Association, the ADA News serves practicing dentists and others allied to the dental profession in the U.S. and internationally. It is the No. 1 source of news and information about the many benefits and services the ADA delivers to members daily as well as timely information on scientific, social, political and economic developments affecting dentistry and health care.

Stony Point Methodist Episcopal Church South - Allen County, Kentucky (Sc 2218), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2218. Church register of Stony Point Methodist Episcopal Church South, Allen County, Kentucky. Includes register of pastors, baptisms and members. Also includes minutes of Church Conference of Chapel Hill, 1924-1925.

Interview With Dennis G. Payne, Jasse Chimuku

Black United Front Oral History Project

Interview with Dennis Payne by Jasse Chimuku on February 23, 2010, in Portland, Oregon.

Dennis discusses his time at Portland State University almost entirely. He gives a detailed description of his family genealogy, including the migration through Montana of his father and mother. The story of his grandparents living in Wyoming and ultimately in Harding, Montana is rich with detail of Black family life in the area during the early twentieth century.

The bulk of the interview highlights the struggle of Black students while he attended college. The Black Power movement on a nationwide basis was in full swing at …

Ewan, Avory Early, 1884-1937 (Sc 2427), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2427. Letter from A. Early Ewan, Warren County, Kentucky county agriculture extension agent, to members of the Warren County Corn-Hog Production Control Association relating information about contracts to limit production of the commodities mentioned.

Hunter, Kevin (Sc 2428), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2428.  Two papers written by Kevin Hunter in the late-1970s related to the Quigley-Younglove Building, 900 State Street, Bowling Green, Kentucky.  The papers were written for history classes at Western Kentucky University.  Also includes news clippings about the structure.

Corrine Lavon Barrax

African American Funeral Programs

No abstract provided.

Lou Anna Watson Riggs

African American Funeral Programs

No abstract provided.

Geraldine "Gerri" Rich

African American Funeral Programs

No abstract provided.

Bryan's Station Baptist Church - Fayette County, Kentucky (Sc 2216), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2216. Record book of Bryan's Station Baptist Church, Fayette County, Kentucky. Includes church covenant, rules of government, and minutes of church meetings, 1786-1898, 1901.

Shady Grove Baptist Church - Simpson County, Kentucky (Sc 2217), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2217. Compilation of membership data in minute book of Shady Grove Baptist Church, Simpson County, Kentucky. Includes member's name, date of admission and dismissal, and miscellaneous information. Both white and African American members are listed.

Moore, Robert And George Moore (Mss 318), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 318. Documents related to a nineteenth century lawsuit involving members of Bowling Green's prominent Moore family, particularly brothers George and Robert Moore. Information gleaned from Barren County court records by Gladys B. Wilson.

Interview No. 1477, Adam Nieto

Paso del Norte Entrepreneurship Oral History Project

From the age of 12 until he was 15 years old, Adam Nieto worked a paper route to earn extra money for his family. After high school, Adam left El Paso for Los Angeles for two years to work, however in 1965, the draft system caught up with Adam and at the age of 21, he was drafted by the United States Army into the Vietnam War. In 1967, after his time in the military, Adam enrolled at The University of Texas at El Paso and spent four years working on his B.A. in Education. Adam was able to use …

Interview No. 1630, James L. Hayden

Combined Interviews

As a career soldier, Hayden spent the better part of his life in the Army; in this interview he recalls his experiences as a fourth-generation West Point graduate, his service both in the Army Constabulary in immediate post-World War II Germany and in Korea during the Korean War, his responsibilities at White Sands Missile Range under Wernher von Braun, and his recent volunteer work as a West Point admissions advisor. Born in 1923 in New York, Hayden was expected from birth to attend West Point; indeed, his father was an instructor there at the time. Although he applied in 1940, …

Sarah Helen Hall

African American Funeral Programs

Interment: Friendship Baptist Church cemetery in Stilson, Georgia