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Draft Of Press Release For Eartha White's Trip, Annual Meeting Of The National Association Of Colored Women

Eartha M. M. White Textual Material

Notes: Handwritten rough draft of press release concerning Eartha White's trip to the Annual Meeting of the National Association of Colored Women, held in California. Undated.

Convention Assignment Card For Housing

Eartha M. M. White Textual Material

Card: Convention assignment card for housing for Miss Eartha M. M. White in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Undated.

Draft, Press Release Announcing Eartha White's Departure For Conference

Eartha M. M. White Textual Material

Note: Rough draft of press release announcing Eartha White's departure for a conference on race in Washington, D.C. Undated.

Invitation To Attend Health Conference

Eartha M. M. White Textual Material

Document: Invitation, addressed Dear Doctor, to attend the Health Conference at Bethel Baptist Church. Undated.

Bethel Baptist Guest Card

Eartha M. M. White Textual Material

Card: Our Guest, Bethel Baptist, Jacksonville, Florida. Card with detachable portion to fill in and hand to usher. Schedule of services on the reverse side. Undated. F-nn_001

Invitation For Sunday School Mass Meeting

Eartha M. M. White Textual Material

Card: Invitation card for Sunday school mass meeting - Come to Bethel Sunday, July 12th, Big Sunday School Mass Meeting, 3:30 to 5:30. Undated

Card, Series Of Special Sermons On The Holy Spirit, Bethel Baptist Institutional Church

Eartha M. M. White Textual Material

Card: Program listing series of special sermons on the Holy Spirit, Bethel Baptist Institutional Church, corner of Caroline and Hogan Streets, Jacksonville, Florida. Undated

Letter From Educational Committee, Bethel Baptist Institutional Church To Co-Worker

Eartha M. M. White Textual Material

Correspondence: Appeal to members of Bethel Baptist, for donations to the Florida Normal Industrial Institute. Date: March 5, 1932

Notes On Bethel Baptist Church On Early Bible Class

Eartha M. M. White Textual Material

Document: Typed notes on Early Bible Class, Bethel Baptist Church, including lists of Chartered Members, Members, early organists, and directors. Gilbert Ambrose, President. L. D. Ervin, Teacher. Undated.

Milk Fund Committee, Jacksonville Negro League Form Letter, Eartha M. M. White

Eartha M. M. White Textual Material

Correspondence: Form letter from the Committee, soliciting donations. Eartha White listed as Chairman, Milk Fund Committee. Handwritten on back in pencil: Build a Garage 2518 Neptune West one block Mr. Albany. Handwritten in pen on back: Drs Dowd 121 E. 8th 5-4115. Annie Garfield. undated.

Blank Form, Report Of Milk Furnished Under-Nourished Children

Eartha M. M. White Textual Material

Document: Blank form for school to weekly report milk furnished to undernourished children. Handwritten names and dollar amounts on reverse side. Undated.

Blank Form, Report Of Milk Furnished Under-Nourished Children

Eartha M. M. White Textual Material

Document: Blank form for school to weekly report milk furnished to undernourished children. Handwritten on reverse side: June 6= [illegible]. Undated.

Milldale Company Bill, The Milldale Company

Eartha M. M. White Textual Material

Document: Bill from The Milldale Company, Ice, Coal and Dairy Products, to LaVilla School for four quarts of Grade A milk. Signed by W.M. Raines, April 17, year unknown. undated.

News Clippings, Negro Ex-Councilman Opposed To Integration

Eartha M. M. White Textual Material

News clipping: Article regarding former Jacksonville councilman George E. Ross's opposition to integration. Undated.

A Record, He Who Runs May Lead Transparencies, George E. Ross

Eartha M. M. White Textual Material

Leaflet: Transparencies of A Record, He Who Runs May Lead, Geo. E. Ross, Member of the City Council from Ward Six, Jacksonville, Fla. The leaflet expresses his thanks and discussing his term of office. Undated.

A Record, He Who Runs May Lead, George E. Ross

Eartha M. M. White Textual Material

Leaflet: A Record, He Who Runs May Lead, Geo. E. Ross, Member of the City Council from Ward Six, Jacksonville, Fla. Leaflet expresses his thanks and discusses his term of office as a member of the City Council. Undated.

News Clipping, Do Your Part Give Today

Eartha M. M. White Textual Material

News clipping: Article soliciting help for the American Red Cross. Article mentions the first progress report meeting, held by Chairman Mrs. Margaret G. Simms, on November 24, at the Clara White Mission, 611 West Ashley Street. Undated.

Minutes, 50th Anniversary Of The Red Cross Program, Eartha M. M. White

Eartha M. M. White Textual Material

Document: Minutes of the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Red Cross program held at the Negro Welfare League, 709 Broad Street, Jacksonville, Florida. Minutes list speakers and describe the decorations. Eartha White was President of the Duval chapter of ARC. Undated.

Allen Day Address: Greatest Negro Born In America, Richard Allen 1760-1831, R. R. Wright Jr.

Eartha M. M. White Textual Material

Booklet: Richard Wright's lecture on the founder of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, given to celebrate Richard Allen for all his great work throughout his life. Circa 1930-1939

Jacksonville Negro Welfare League Stationary

Eartha M. M. White Textual Material

Letterhead: Blank stationery of Jacksonville Negro Welfare League. Eartha White is listed on the Board of Directors. Listed as Miss E. M. M. White. Undated.

Form Letter To Workers In Community Chest Drive

Eartha M. M. White Textual Material

Correspondence: Form letter sent to Community Chest Drive workers regarding the annual charity drive.

Suspense, Eartha M. M. White

Eartha M. M. White Monographic Material

Manuscript: Early African American history of Jacksonville covering antebellum Jacksonville through the early twentieth century. Undated.

Sexual Surveillance: Morality Policing Of Greeks And Italians In The Early 20th Century, Isabella Ferrell

Digital Legal Research Lab

The Petitioning for Freedom Project under Dr. Jagodinsky is a database of habeas corpus use in the West. It examines legal action by marginalized individuals. This project focuses on how Greek and Italian petitioners used habeas to challenge sexual policing in a xenophobic context.

Research poster titled Sexual Surveillance: Morality Policing of Greeks and Italians in the Early 20th Century; presented via the Digital Legal Research Lab NSF REU Site, University of Nebraska–Lincoln, August 2024.

Advisors: Katrina Jagodinsky and William Thomas

The Harding Brothers And Underage Enlistment In The Age Of American Expansion, 1851–1857, Ryan Minton

Digital Legal Research Lab

The Petitioning for Freedom Project is an NSF funded database project that seeks to collect and encode carceral, institutional, and interpersonal habeas corpus petitions from county, state, and federal courts all throughout the American West.

This research project explores and analyzes the twenty-four habeas corpus petitions that were submitted between 1851 and 1857 to the Saint Louis County Law Commissioners Office to challenge the enlistment of underage recruits stationed at Jefferson Barracks.

Research poster titled The Harding Brothers and Underage Enlistment in the Age of American Expansion, 1851–1857; presented via the Digital Legal Research Lab NSF REU Site, University of …

Maternal Chains: Black Women's Legal Battles For Freedom In Pre-Emancipation America, Roshawnna Brinkley

Digital Legal Research Lab

This research examines the use of habeas corpus petitions by Black Women in antebellum America to secure freedom for themselves and their children. Given that slave status was inherited matrilineally, these legal actions had implications for generational freedom. In Dr. Jagodinsky’s Petitioning for Freedom project there are numerous cases of Black Women utilizing Habeas Corpus. This study focuses on these Women's agency in navigating a hostile legal system.

Research poster titled Maternal Chains: Black Women's Legal Battles for Freedom in Pre-Emancipation America; via the Digital Legal Research Lab NSF REU Site, University of Nebraska–Lincoln, August 2024.

Advisors: Katrina Jagodinsky and …

To Have And To Hold: Habeas Corpus And The Mobilization Of Female Petitioners, 1832–1924, Miranda Martinez

Digital Legal Research Lab

Dr. Jagodinsky’s Petitioning For Freedom (PFF) is an open-access database of habeas corpus petitions from the American West. It aims to further our understanding of the United States legal landscape in the 19th and 20th centuries.

Research poster titled To Have and To Hold: Habeas Corpus & the Mobilization of Female Petitioners, 1832–1924; presented via the Digital Legal Research Lab NSF REU Site, University of Nebraska–Lincoln, August 2024.

Advisors: Katrina Jagodinsky and William Thomas

Profiled Pickpockets: Seattle's Black Community & 1890s Habeas Mobilization, Zoë Williams

Digital Legal Research Lab

The Petitioning for Freedom project examines habeas corpus in the American West, 1812–1924 to highlight the legal mobilization of marginalized people. This study uses habeas petitions to identify Black people's response to racial profiling in Seattle.

Research poster titled Profiled Pickpockets: Seattle's Black Community & 1890s Habeas Mobilization; presented via the Digital Legal Research Lab NSF REU Site, University of Nebraska–Lincoln, August 2024.

Advisors: Katrina Jagodinsky and William Thomas

Legal Proxies And Advocates: Exploring Inter-Case Relationships In 19th- And 20th-Century Habeas Corpus, Ethan Reiter

Digital Legal Research Lab

• The Petitioning for Freedom Project (PFF) is an open access database that details the use of habeas corpus in legal proceedings in the American West from 1812 to 1924.

• A writ of habeas Corpus is a challenge by a petitioner that alleges that someone is detained unlawfully.

• In certain instances. a petitioner is petitioning on behalf of someone who is held illegally. This study examines the nature of the relationships between petitioner and bound party and how those relationships reflect historical and legal developments over time.

Research poster titled Legal Proxies and Advocates: Exploring Inter-Case Relationships in 19th- and 20th-Century …

Equal Protection Of Life, Liberty, And Labor: Habeas Corpus & The 14th Amendment, 1901–1904, Madison Mendiola

Digital Legal Research Lab

Presents and synthesizes three cases demonstrating the use of habeas corpus in the contect of the 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution between 1901 and 1904.

Research poster titled Equal Protection of Life, Liberty, and Labor Habeas Corpus & the 14th Amendment, 1901–1904, presented via the Digital Legal Research Lab NSF REU Site, University of Nebraska–Lincoln, August 2024.

Advisors: Katrina Jagodinsky and William Thomas

"Huddled Masses:" The Immigration Act Of 1917 In Habeas Corpus, Chikamso Chijioke

Digital Legal Research Lab

Research poster titled "Huddled Masses:" The Immigration Act of 1917 in Habeas Corpus; presented via the Digital Legal Research Lab NSF REU Site, University of Nebraska–Lincoln, August 2024.

Introduction

Dr. Jagodinsky's Petitioning for Freedom is a collection of habeas corpus petitions in the American West and examines marginalized peoples’ use of habeas to challenge detention. This project explores the role of the Immigration Act of 1917 in these cases. The Immigration Act of 1917, passed due to xenophobic tensions surrounding WWI, restricted immigration of people from Asia and the Pacific while implementing an English literacy test for those over 16 …