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United States--Race relations

 Subject
Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source

Found in 21 Collections and/or Records:

Audio collection of June Jordan, 1970-2000

Collection Identifier: T-331; Phon-38; CD-13
Overview:

The audio collection of June Jordan, poet, author, activist, and professor.

Papers of Gwendolyn C. Baker, 1942-2015

Collection Identifier: MC 880: DVD-129
Overview:

Correspondence, research, articles, speeches, records and other papers of educator, professor, and activist Gwendolyn C. Baker.

Biographical files of the Black Women Oral History Project, ca.1879-2011

Collection Identifier: MC 916
Overview:

Articles, resumes, ephemera, and photographs providing additional biographical information about women interviewed for the Schlesinger Library's Black Women Oral History Project. Materials relate to family background, childhood, education, careers, and professional and voluntary accomplishments.

Interviews of the Black Women Oral History Project, 1976-1981

Collection Identifier: OH-31: T-32
Overview:

The Black Women Oral History Project collection consists of audiotapes and transcripts of 72 oral histories.

Cecil F. Poole papers

Collection Identifier: LAW-MMC-300
Content Description:

The Cecil F. Poole papers contain a wide swath of personal and professional material from Poole’s earliest career in the U.S. Army Air Corps and the Price Administration to his appointment as Judge for the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. The entire collection spans from 1935 until Poole’s death in 1997 and primarily consists of correspondence, memoranda, case files, personnel files, newspaper and magazine clippings, speeches, photographs, date books and personal ephemera.

Papers of Tia Cross, 1963-2007

Collection Identifier: MC 801
Overview:

Correspondence, writings, photography, and memorabilia of Tia Cross, photographer, anti-racism activist, and feminist.

Papers of Barbara Deming, 1886-1995

Collection Identifier: MC 408: T-248
Overview:

Correspondence, writings, etc., of Barbara Deming, feminist lesbian author and activist.

Papers of Donna M. Finn, 1971-2014

Collection Identifier: MC 882: Vt-280
Overview:

Correspondence, writings, notes, projects, and master's thesis of Donna Finn, Boston-based activist and co-founder of the Dorchester Women's Committee.

Papers of Tove Gertrud Gerson, 1919-1993

Collection Identifier: MC 447
Overview:

Biographical material, speeches, correspondence, etc., of Tove Gertrud Mueller Gerson, teacher, physical therapist, YWCA administrator, and activist for peace and civil rights.

Papers of Dorothy I. Height, 1933-2012

Collection Identifier: MC 1149: T-571: DVD-153
Overview:

Awards, organizational records, biographical essays, correspondence, photographs, and memorabilia of human rights activist Dorothy I. Height.

Videotape collection of June Jordan, 1976-2002

Collection Identifier: Vt-155
Overview:

The videotape collection of June Jordan, poet, author, activist, and professor.

Papers of Robin W. Kilson, 1956-2015

Collection Identifier: MC 877: Vt-275
Overview:

Diaries, notebooks, correspondence, research, photographs, course materials and other papers of historian and professor Robin W. Kilson.

Papers of Pauli Murray, 1827-1985

Collection Identifier: MC 412: T-194: T-245
Overview:

Correspondence, writings, photographs, etc., of Pauli Murray, lawyer, activist, and first African-American woman ordained as an Episcopal priest.

Papers of Charlotte Hawkins Brown, 1900-1961

Collection Identifier: A-146: M-92
Overview:

Correspondence, speeches, etc., of Charlotte Hawkins Brown, educator and founder of the Palmer Memorial Institute in Sedalia, North Carolina.

Papers of Helen Lingenfelter Gray, 1901-2017 (inclusive), 1928-1980 (bulk)

Collection Identifier: MC 781
Overview:

Papers of Helen Lingenfelter Gray, lawyer and women's rights and peace activist.

Papers of June Jordan, 1936-2002 (inclusive), 1954-2002 (bulk)

Collection Identifier: MC 513
Overview:

The papers of June Jordan, poet, author, outspoken activist, champion of equal rights for African Americans and women, and professor.

Papers of Marita Bonner, 1940-1986

Collection Identifier: SC 97
Overview:

Correspondence, essays, short fiction, photographs, etc., of Marita Bonner, Radcliffe College Class of 1922.

Papers of Sophia Yarnall, 1932-1975

Collection Identifier: 75-386
Overview:

Correspondence, speeches, articles, etc., of Sophia Yarnall Jacobs, civic worker and author.

Papers of Rebecca Primus, 1854-1872

Collection Identifier: A/P9537
Overview:

Letters to African American educator Rebecca Primus from family and friends regarding daily activities, health, and community events, and discussing local race relations and prejudice among whites.

Papers of Adrienne Rich, 1927-1999

Collection Identifier: MC 1120
Overview:

Papers of Adrienne Cecile Rich, poet, author, feminist, and teacher.

Ruchell Magee collection, 1971, undated

Collection Identifier: A/M191
Overview:

Nine items of printed material, including press releases and open letters, created for distribution by several Oakland, California, groups in support of Ruchell Magee and other Black people incarcerated for political reasons.