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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 …

Geneva Joyce Lawrence

African American Funeral Programs

No abstract provided.

Mr. Frederick Hill Sr.

African American Funeral Programs

Mr_Frederick_Hill_Sr.pdf - Funeral program for Mr. Frederick Hill Sr.

Gail L. Sampson

African American Funeral Programs

No abstract provided.

Buena Brown

African American Funeral Programs

No abstract provided.

Mary Elizabeth Baker

African American Funeral Programs

No abstract provided.

Henry Tenner

African American Funeral Programs

No abstract provided.

A Village Comes To Life: The Interpretation Of Henry Ford's Greenfield Village, Claire E. Herhold

The Hilltop Review

Of all American living history sites, Greenfield Village, in Dearborn, Michigan, is one of the most interesting. Founded by Henry Ford and opened in 1929, Greenfield Village consists of 90 acres of nearly 100 historic buildings, all moved to the site from around the country and reassembled in a vague village formation. Unlike Colonial Williamsburg, the site is not historically significant and represents no one geographic location or time period. While in keeping with Ford’s vision of celebrating small-town life and the humble origins of many great thinkers and innovators, this structure has presented challenges for both the staff and …

Omari Tyshawn Marquise Jenkins

African American Funeral Programs

Interment: Lakeside First Baptist Church Cemetery in Metter, Georgia.

Patricia Gordon Brunson

African American Funeral Programs

No abstract provided.

Ollie Mae Campbell

African American Funeral Programs

Interment: Bulloch Memorial Gardens in Statesboro, Georgia.

Jacob Edward Crawford Sr.

African American Funeral Programs

No abstract provided.

Isaac William "Scoop" Campbell, Jr.

African American Funeral Programs

No abstract provided.

Mr. Timothy Smith, Jr

African American Funeral Programs

No abstract provided.

Dr. Ivery Dwight Clifton

African American Funeral Programs

Dr_Ivery_Dwight_Clifton.pdf - Funeral program for Dr. Ivery Dwight Clifton

Carolyn Lee Baldwin

African American Funeral Programs

No abstract provided.

Ms. Gail Roberson

African American Funeral Programs

Funeral Program for Ms. Gail Roberson on Jan. 4, 2020 at Tabernacle Missionary Baptist Church

Pastor Jeanette Mikell Johnson

African American Funeral Programs

No abstract provided.

Ruby Deloach Arnold

African American Funeral Programs

No abstract provided.

Raymond Clary Louisiana Industrial Institute Collection, 1913, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University

Manuscript Finding Aids

Set of picture postcards featuring buildings at Louisiana Industrial Institute

Ralph Bills Louisiana Polytechnic Institute Collection, 1950-1955., University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University

Manuscript Finding Aids

Photographs of Louisiana Tech campus taken during donor's Air Force training period

Reggie Mccleroy,, "Living Legacies Of Lincoln Parish", University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University

Manuscript Finding Aids

Drawings by area artist of local NAACP leaders in Lincoln Parish, Louisiana: Clara Carr, E.D. Smith, C.C. McClain, Thalia Williams, J.K. Haynes

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

Robert J. Pfister Collection, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University

Manuscript Finding Aids

Prints from the collection of Bob J. Pfister of photographic negatives from the inventories of the Ruston, Louisiana photographic studios of John Green Davis (1890's-?) and John Green Davis Jr. (?-1943), of the amateur photographers William Marbury (1930's-1940's) and J.E. Woodward (mid-1940's-1971), and of Louisiana Tech University photographer Bob J. Pfister (1950's), including index prepared by Pamela Pfister, who made the prints. Woodward accumulated the collection, which was given at his death to Pfister (some are photocopies). Prints funded by Ruston Building and Loan Association, President Benjamin Denny, in honor of the centennial of Louisiana Tech University, 1894-1994

Robert Edwin Russ Papers, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University

Manuscript Finding Aids

Correspondence and his other writings reflecting Russ's life (1830-1902) as planter, community leader, and founder of Ruston, Louisiana; legal records and notes on the history of Ruston compiled by his descendants for the Diamond Jubilee in Ruston

Rita Krouse Papers, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University

Manuscript Finding Aids

The collection contains research material pertaining to Germantown, Louisiana

"Rocky Mount Presbyterian Cemetery", Tanya L. Arant

Manuscript Finding Aids

History, records, map of cemetery

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.