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James H. Costen Collection
Black Presbyterians by Dr. Gayraund S. Wilmore Jr., January 18, 1975
Date Created
1975-01-28
Description
Subject
African American Presbyterians, Interviews, Church history, African Americans--Education, Oral history
Collection
James H. Costen Collection
James H. Costen Collection
Small Churches, 1972
Date Created
1972
Description
Subject
African American Presbyterians, Church buildings, African Americans--Social conditions
Collection
James H. Costen Collection
C. Eric Lincoln (far left), stands with a large group outside the Leon Lowenstein Center at Fordham University, New York City, New York.
C. Eric Lincoln Collection
C. Eric Lincoln With a Large Group, circa 1975
Date Created
1970/1980
Description
C. Eric Lincoln (far left), stands with a large group outside the Leon Lowenstein Center at Fordham University, New York City, New York.
Subject
African American authors, African American scholars, Portraits and people, Events and programs
Collection
C. Eric Lincoln Collection
National Council of Negro Women brochure on Mary McLeod Bethune and Bethune-Cookman College. 2 pages.
Subject Vertical Files
NCNW "I Leave You Love", 1971
Date Created
1971
Description
National Council of Negro Women brochure on Mary McLeod Bethune and Bethune-Cookman College. 2 pages.
Subject
African American women--Societies and clubs, Women in community organization, Women's rights, African American women social reformers, African American women
Collection
Subject Vertical Files
Articles from reproductive rights organization about abortion repeal. 12 pages.
Grace Towns Hamilton Papers
NARAL Distributions on Abortion, circa 1970
Date Created
1967/1973
Description
Articles from reproductive rights organization about abortion repeal. 12 pages.
Subject
Atlanta Urban League, African Americans--Politics and government, Women's rights, African American women social reformers, Abortion
Collection
Grace Towns Hamilton Papers
A poster depicting Willie Mae Reid speaking at a microphone. Written on recto: Vote Socialist workers. Willie Mae Reid for vice-president. For more information contact: Socialist Workers 1976 Campaign Committee.
Political Posters Collection
"Willie Mae Reid for Vice-President", 1976
Date Created
1976
Description
A poster depicting Willie Mae Reid speaking at a microphone. Written on recto: Vote Socialist workers. Willie Mae Reid for vice-president. For more information contact: Socialist Workers 1976 Campaign Committee.
Subject
Political posters, Voting, Socialism, African American civic leaders, African American women
Collection
Political Posters Collection
Producer Ely Landau and film stars Ruby Dee and Paul Newman are shown conversing with director Sidney Lumet. Attached caption reads: STARS WORK FOR KING TRIBUTE -- Photo left to right: Producer Ely Landau, and film stars Ruby Dee and Paul Newman confer with director Sidney Lumet in New York City just prior to filming special dramatic reading sequences for the two-and-a-half-hour motion picture film: "KING: A Filmed Record...Montgomery to Memphis", scheduled to be shown on Tuesday evening, March 24th at 8:00 P.M. on a one-time only simultaneous showing in more than one thousand theaters across the country. Tickets are $5 tax-deductible. Total proceeds will go into the Martin Luther King Jr. Special Fund which will seek through its program to support Dr. King's principles and ideals of using non-violent methods in the war on poverty and illiteracy and the struggle for civil and human rights for all peoples.
The Joseph Echols and Evelyn Gibson Lowery Collection, Photograph Series
Ely Landau, Ruby Dee, Paul Newman, and Sidney Lumet, 1970
Date Created
1970
Description
Producer Ely Landau and film stars Ruby Dee and Paul Newman are shown conversing with director Sidney Lumet. Attached caption reads: STARS WORK FOR KING TRIBUTE -- Photo left to right: Producer Ely Landau, and film stars Ruby Dee and Paul Newman confer with director Sidney Lumet in New York City just prior to filming special dramatic reading sequences for the two-and-a-half-hour motion picture film: "KING: A Filmed Record...Montgomery to Memphis", scheduled to be shown on Tuesday evening, March 24th at 8:00 P.M. on a one-time only simultaneous showing in more than one thousand theaters across the country. Tickets are $5 tax-deductible. Total proceeds will go into the Martin Luther King Jr. Special Fund which will seek through its program to support Dr. King's principles and ideals of using non-violent methods in the war on poverty and illiteracy and the struggle for civil and human rights for all peoples.
Subject
African Americans--Civil rights, Civil rights movements, African American actors, African American entertainers, Human rights
Collection
The Joseph Echols and Evelyn Gibson Lowery Collection, Photograph Series
"Black Teens Say it Will Pay to Register" article about Black teenagers registering to vote for the first time, and seeing their participation and progress toward equality.
Johnson Publishing Company Clipping Files Collection
"Black Teens Say it Will Pay to Register", January 15, 1971
Date Created
1971-01-15
Description
"Black Teens Say it Will Pay to Register" article about Black teenagers registering to vote for the first time, and seeing their participation and progress toward equality.
Subject
African Americans--Civil rights, African Americans--Politics and government, Political participation, Voting, African American teenagers
Collection
Johnson Publishing Company Clipping Files Collection
"What the Voting Rights Bill Has Done" infographic on the increase of non-white voters in the south.
Johnson Publishing Company Clipping Files Collection
"What the Voting Rights Bill Has Done", June 21, 1970
Date Created
1970-06-21
Description
"What the Voting Rights Bill Has Done" infographic on the increase of non-white voters in the south.
Subject
African Americans--Civil rights, African Americans--Politics and government, Political participation, Voting
Collection
Johnson Publishing Company Clipping Files Collection
Handbook of production information from Paramount Pictures film, "Mahogany", including cast and crew list and outline of the story.
Johnson Publishing Company Clipping Files Collection
Film "Mahogany" Production Information, circa 1975
Date Created
1974/1976
Description
Handbook of production information from Paramount Pictures film, "Mahogany", including cast and crew list and outline of the story.
Subject
African Americans--Civil rights, African Americans--Politics and government, Political participation, Voting
Collection
Johnson Publishing Company Clipping Files Collection
Letter from the Emergency Conference to Defend the Right of the Black Panther Party to Exist, concerning fundraising.
Bernard W. Bell Collection
"Give a Week to End Genocide" Letter, October 1970
Date Created
1970-10
Description
Letter from the Emergency Conference to Defend the Right of the Black Panther Party to Exist, concerning fundraising.
Subject
African Americans--Civil rights, Political campaigns
Collection
Bernard W. Bell Collection
Correspondence to Bernard Bell from Audre Lorde about permission to reprint poems.
Bernard W. Bell Collection
Corrrespondence to Bernard Bell From Audre Lorde, October 24, 1970
Date Created
1970-10-24
Description
Correspondence to Bernard Bell from Audre Lorde about permission to reprint poems.
Subject
African American authors, African American poets
Collection
Bernard W. Bell Collection
Correspondence to Bernard Bell from Audre Lorde about the value of her poetry.
Bernard W. Bell Collection
Corrrespondence to Bernard Bell From Audre Lorde, October 24, 1970
Date Created
1970-10-24
Description
Correspondence to Bernard Bell from Audre Lorde about the value of her poetry.
Subject
African American authors, African American poets
Collection
Bernard W. Bell Collection
Correspondence to Richard Long from the Studio Museum regarding a retrospective of Woodruff's work. 4 pages.
Hale Woodruff Collection
Correspondence from Mary Smith Campbell to Richard Long, November 22, 1978
Date Created
1978-11-22
Creator
Campbell, Mary Smith
Description
Correspondence to Richard Long from the Studio Museum regarding a retrospective of Woodruff's work. 4 pages.
Subject
African American artists, African American educators, African American arts, Art
Collection
Hale Woodruff Collection
John Lewis, Executive Director of the Atlanta-based Voter Education Project, displays Proclamations from Governors of ten southern states designating July as �Voter registration Month�. 1 page.
Voter Education Project Organizational Records
John Lewis, July 29, 1976
Date Created
1976-07-29
Description
John Lewis, Executive Director of the Atlanta-based Voter Education Project, displays Proclamations from Governors of ten southern states designating July as �Voter registration Month�. 1 page.
Subject
Voter registration, Political science, African Americans--Civil rights, African American civil rights workers
Collection
Voter Education Project Organizational Records
A coalition of labor and civil rights groups called the National Coalition on Black Voter Participation has launched Operation Big Vote, a bipartisan registration drive aimed at registering millions of Black voters who have never voted before, with Democrats Jimmy Carter and Walter F. Mondale likely to be the major beneficiaries of any increase in Black voter participation. 1 page.
Voter Education Project Organizational Records
"Drive to Register Blacks is Opened", August 25, 1976
Date Created
1976-08-25
Description
A coalition of labor and civil rights groups called the National Coalition on Black Voter Participation has launched Operation Big Vote, a bipartisan registration drive aimed at registering millions of Black voters who have never voted before, with Democrats Jimmy Carter and Walter F. Mondale likely to be the major beneficiaries of any increase in Black voter participation. 1 page.
Subject
Voter registration, Political science, African Americans--Civil rights, African American civil rights workers, Labor
Collection
Voter Education Project Organizational Records
The 1976 southern Black vote, with record numbers of registered Black voters turning out to vote, was the most significant exercise of minority political power in the century, as evidenced by President-elect Jimmy Carter's margins of victory in the South and the victory of several congressional candidates, according to the VEP which conducted a year-long registration drive and mounted advertising campaigns and local drives to encourage voter participation. 1 page.
Voter Education Project Organizational Records
"Voter Education Projects Report on Voting by Blacks", November 27, 1976
Date Created
1976-11-27
Description
The 1976 southern Black vote, with record numbers of registered Black voters turning out to vote, was the most significant exercise of minority political power in the century, as evidenced by President-elect Jimmy Carter's margins of victory in the South and the victory of several congressional candidates, according to the VEP which conducted a year-long registration drive and mounted advertising campaigns and local drives to encourage voter participation. 1 page.
Subject
Voter registration, Voting, Political participation
Collection
Voter Education Project Organizational Records
Article on how the overwhelming turnout of Black voters helped Jimmy Carter win in the 1976 presidential election, posing a critical problem for the emerging GOP as it threatened the steady gains Republicans had made in the South, and some Republicans believed that the vote in their states was close enough to mean the GOP had not ceded the Solid South back to the Democrats. 1 page.
Voter Education Project Organizational Records
"Politicians Find Black Voters Put Carter Over in Dixie", November 14, 1976
Date Created
1976-11-14
Description
Article on how the overwhelming turnout of Black voters helped Jimmy Carter win in the 1976 presidential election, posing a critical problem for the emerging GOP as it threatened the steady gains Republicans had made in the South, and some Republicans believed that the vote in their states was close enough to mean the GOP had not ceded the Solid South back to the Democrats. 1 page.
Subject
Voter registration, Voting, Political participation
Collection
Voter Education Project Organizational Records
Excerpts from a speech by Southern Christian Leadership Conference President Ralph D. Abernathy delivered at the Felt Forum in New York City, New York. 7 pages.
The Joseph Echols and Evelyn Gibson Lowery Collection, SCLC Records
Excerpts of Speech at the Felt Forum, January 14, 1971
Date Created
1971-01-14
Description
Excerpts from a speech by Southern Christian Leadership Conference President Ralph D. Abernathy delivered at the Felt Forum in New York City, New York. 7 pages.
Subject
African Americans--Civil rights, Civil rights movements, African American civil rights workers, Special events, Speeches
Collection
The Joseph Echols and Evelyn Gibson Lowery Collection, SCLC Records
This folder contains a letter from A. Philip Randolph to Ralph D. Abernathy asking Abernathy to serve as a sponsor for a dinner in honor of Bayard Rustin. 4 pages.
The Joseph Echols and Evelyn Gibson Lowery Collection, SCLC Records
Correspondence to Ralph D. Abernathy from A. Philip Randolph, August 28, 1970
Date Created
1970-08-28
Description
This folder contains a letter from A. Philip Randolph to Ralph D. Abernathy asking Abernathy to serve as a sponsor for a dinner in honor of Bayard Rustin. 4 pages.
Subject
African Americans--Civil rights, African American civil rights workers, Special events
Collection
The Joseph Echols and Evelyn Gibson Lowery Collection, SCLC Records