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2020 Mlk Keynote Address: Michelle Alexander Presentation, Center For Social Equity & Inclusion, Michelle Alexander, Rosanne Somerson, Matthew Shenoda

Martin Luther King, Jr. Series

2020 MLK Series Keynote Michelle Alexander brings audiences profoundly necessary and meaningful insights on the practice of mass incarceration that plagues the US justice system, as well as eye-opening conversation on how we can end racial caste in America. Lecture Wednesday, January 22, 2020 at 5:30pm, RISD Auditorium, 17 Canal Walk, Providence, RI.

In her acclaimed bestseller The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, Alexander peels back the curtain on systemic racism in the US prison system in a work that the New York Review of Books describes as "striking in the intelligence of her …

Rita M. Krouse Collection, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University

Manuscript Finding Aids

Correspondence concerning the building of a military road between Fort Smith on the Arkansas River to Natchitoches, Louisiana

Rodney Ruby Family Papers, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University

Manuscript Finding Aids

Civil War records and diary of members of the Ruby family of Farmerville, Union Parish, Louisiana

Ross Hale Camp Ruston Collection, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University

Manuscript Finding Aids

CAMP RUSTON DOCUMENTATION PROJECT

Various photographs from Camp Ruston of buildings, U.S. soldiers, staff, and their wives. Also included is the donor's letter to Vince Spione, October 1995

Roland Oliver Papers, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University

Manuscript Finding Aids

Confederate letters of Oliver from Louisiana and Mississippi (including one from Vicksburg) during the Civil War.

Ruston Collection, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University

Manuscript Finding Aids

Materials related to the history and development of Ruston, Louisiana

Scotty Gatlin Collection, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University

Manuscript Finding Aids

Civil War letter from 28th Louisiana Regiment land information on men mentioned in it.

Stephen Webre, Phd., Historical Documents Collection, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University

Manuscript Finding Aids

Letter from Lavinia Hood to Thomas Bacon Coleman, who was a private in Company I, Second Louisiana Volunteer Infantry Regiment, dated Claiborne Parish, La., July 12, 1861

Thomas M. Wade Collection, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University

Manuscript Finding Aids

Research materials on history of Tensas Parish, Louisiana, compiled by Wade

World War Ii Ration Documents, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University

Manuscript Finding Aids

Unused ration books from World War II, various rations, gas, store, tires, shoes, fuel oil, etc

Rufus M. Smith Collection, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University

Manuscript Finding Aids

CAMP RUSTON DOCUMENTATION PROJECT

List of former prisoners interned in U.S. World War II prisoner of war camps who returned for reunion in 1984, including four from Camp Ruston

Amjambo Africa! (January 2020), Kathreen Harrison

Amjambo Africa!

In This Issue...

Transportation planning ...........p. 2

Celebrating Diversity in Maine .p. 3

Opinion on refugee numbers....p. 4

Jamat Ibrahim dreams big..........p. 9

In Her Kitchen ...........................p. 10

Lewiston author pens children’s book.........................p. 13

Food Co-op and MAIN ............p. 18

World Affairs Council...............p. 19

Youth Get Together..................p. 19

Ua1b3 Confederates In Our Attic - Discussion Guide, Wku Naming & Symbols Task Force

WKU Administration Documents

Guidelines created by the WKU Naming & Symbols Task Force for conversations regarding naming of buildings for Confederate sympathizers.

Ua1b3 Confederates In Our Attic - Discussion Guide 2, Wku Naming & Symbols Task Force

WKU Administration Documents

Short discussion guide created by the WKU Naming & Symbols Task Force for use in consideration of renaming buildings honoring Confederate sympathizers.

Virgil Orr Collection, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University

Manuscript Finding Aids

Memorabilia from the donor's student days at Louisiana Polytechnic Institute, [1940], and from his service in the U.S. Army during World War II, 1944-1945.

Donated in honor of the centennial of Louisiana Tech University, 1894-1994

Thomas M. Wade Papers, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University

Manuscript Finding Aids

Materials related to the history of Tensas Parish, Louisiana; notes of "The Bowies and Their Kindred" (1899), sketches of Bowie family members (including Jim Bowie)

Samuel Worth Jones Family Papers, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University

Manuscript Finding Aids

The journal of a prosperous farmer in Webster Parish, Louisiana, kept 1870-1925; and the personal, legal, and business records and correspondence of Jones, his father John Jones III, his son Floyd and other members of the family

Thomas Claude Beard Collection, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University

Manuscript Finding Aids

Materials from U.S. World War II prisoner of war camp Camp Ruston. Donor was a member of the U.S. staff at the camp

CAMP RUSTON DOCUMENTATION PROJECT

Professor Lonnie E. Maness: From The Cotton Fields To The Classroom

Jackson Purchase Historical Society Journal Archive

Professor Lonnie E. Maness: From the Cotton Fields to the Classroom

David L. Maness

Book Reviews

Jackson Purchase Historical Society Journal Archive

Kaskaskia: The Lost Capital of Illinois by David MacDonald and Raine Waters

Richard Dwayne Parker

The Bank War and the Partisan Press: Newspapers, Financial Institutions, and the Post Office in Jacksonian America by Stephen W. Campbell

Berry Craig

Religion, Race, and the Making of Confederate Kentucky, 1830-1880 by Luke E. Harlow

George Humphreys

Shiloh: Conquer or Perish by Timothy Smith

John Ridge

Johnsonville: Union Supply Operations on the Tennessee River and the Battle of Johnsonville, November 4-5, 1864 by Jerry T. Wooten

Zachery Jameson

General Hylan B. Lyon: A Kentucky Confederate and the War in the West by Dan Lee …

Blood At The Root: A Historiographical Commentary On Lynching In America

Jackson Purchase Historical Society Journal Archive

Blood at the Root: A Historiographical Commentary on Lynching in America

Brian K. Clardy

Editor’S Remarks

Jackson Purchase Historical Society Journal Archive

Editor’s Remarks

James S. Humphreys

President’S Report For August 1, 2019 To July 31, 2020

Jackson Purchase Historical Society Journal Archive

President’s Report for August 1, 2019 to July 31, 2020

William H. Mulligan, Jr.

The Truth Is Not Always In Black Or White: Facts And Fictions Surrounding The David Walker Family Lynchings

Jackson Purchase Historical Society Journal Archive

The Truth Is Not Always in Black or White: Facts and Fictions Surrounding the David Walker Family Lynchings

Melinda Meador

The Causes And Consequences Of The War Of 1812: A New Look At Old Sources

Jackson Purchase Historical Society Journal Archive

The Causes and Consequences of the War of 1812: A New Look at Old Sources

William H. Mulligan, Jr.

Cooking The Kentucky Way

Jackson Purchase Historical Society Journal Archive

Cooking the Kentucky Way

Bobbie Smith Bryant

History Of The Baptists In The Jackson Purchase: A Panel Discussion

Jackson Purchase Historical Society Journal Archive

History of the Baptists in the Jackson Purchase: A Panel Discussion

William H. Mulligan, Jr.

French Canadian Heritage In New England, Emmanuel Kayembe Phd

Original Research

Readings on French culture and history in Canada and the United States.

Recovering Lost Voices: The Rappahannock Tribe And The Jamestown Festival Of 1957, Woodie L. Walker Ii

Theses and Dissertations

This thesis employs the interdisciplinary methodologies of ethnohistory and oral history to examine the legacy of the 1957 Jamestown Festival through the experiences and memories of Rappahannock people. “Recovering Lost Voices: The Rappahannock Tribe and the Jamestown Festival of 1957” adds to the historiography of Virginia Natives by revealing that Rappahannock participation in the Jamestown Festival was the culmination of centuries of cultural preservation, greatly influenced and made immediate by their experiences in “Jim Crow” Virginia during the twentieth century. This research establishes that the enduring legacy of the Festival for the Rappahannock Tribe was political influence, culminating in state …

Rowan County Kentucky World War I Veterans, Rowan County Historical Society.

Rowan County Histories Collection

Contains biographical and military service information on veterans that served in the First World War from Rowan County, Kentucky.