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African American women

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Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source

Found in 45 Collections and/or Records:

Additional records of 9 to 5, National Association of Working Women (U.S.), 1972-1985

Collection Identifier: 82-M189--86-M213: T-78
Overview:

Addenda to the records (79-M116--81-M121) of 9 to 5, National Association of Working Women (U.S.).

Papers of Marilyn Alexander, 1950-1954

Collection Identifier: A/A377
Overview: Collection includes a narrative of Marilyn Alexander's visit to Georgia to raise awareness for the Rosa Lee Ingram case as an unlawful conviction; a letter from Charles A. Pannell, chairman of the Georgia State Board of Pardons and Paroles to Alexander regarding Ingram; a report on the Women's Committee for Equal Justice delegation visit to Georgia; and a February 1950 issue of Masses & Mainstream with an illustration by Charles White entitled "The Ingram...

Papers of De Ama Battle, 1970-2015

Collection Identifier: MC 931: DVD-90: MP-66
Overview:

Curricula, letters, flyers, programs, brochures, posters, awards, certificates, invitations, newsletters, clippings, photographs, and videos of dancer and educator De Ama Battle and her Massachusetts-based nonprofit arts education organization, the Art of Black Dance and Music.

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.

Poems of Ellen M. Brown, ca.1967-1968

Collection Identifier: A/B8775
Overview:

Eleven typed poems, some with annotations, written by Ellen M. Brown, participant in the Watts Writers' Workshop.

Family papers of Linda Crichlow White, 1907-2015 (inclusive), 1942-1987 (bulk)

Collection Identifier: MC 1233
Overview:

Diaries, correspondence, financial and educational records of members of extended African American family, primarily focused on seamstress, nurse, and federal government employee Goldie Glover Bruce.

Papers of Angela Y. Davis, 1937-2017 (inclusive), 1968-2006 (bulk)

Collection Identifier: MC 940
Overview:

Writings, correspondence, speeches, and subject files of black feminist philosopher and prison abolitionist Angela Y. Davis.

Papers of Shirley Graham Du Bois, 1865-1998 (inclusive), 1905-1975 (bulk)

Collection Identifier: MC 476
Overview:

Papers of Shirley Graham Du Bois, African American writer, playwright, composer, biographer, teacher, civil rights and left-wing activist.

Focus on Women Videotapes, 1983-1993

Collection Identifier: Vt-59
Overview:

Half-hour interviews aired on Focus on Women, a television show featuring women of achievement.

Friends of the Schlesinger Library Audiotape Collection, 1970-1996

Collection Identifier: RA.T-127
Overview:

Recordings of events sponsored by the Friends of the Schlesinger Library, whose contributions support library acquisitions and preservation.

Photographs of Eolyn Carolyn Klugh Guy, ca.1903-1977 (inclusive), 1919-1933 (bulk), undated

Collection Identifier: PC 209
Overview:

Photographs, newspapers, and other material of social worker Eolyn Carolyn Klugh Guy.

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.

Papers of Dorothy I. Height, 1950-2004

Collection Identifier: MC 1121
Overview: Collection includes correspondence (some regarding Dorothy Height's trip to East Africa in 1960), speeches, notes on a workshop, printed material, photographs, and color slides, mostly from her work for Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, the National Council of Negro Women, and the Young Women's Christian Association. The photographs document a Delta Sigma Theta event in New York City in 1951; the color slides are mostly from her travels to West Africa and India, where she was visiting professor at...

Papers of Mary Gibson Hundley, 1862-1985 (inclusive), 1934-1975 (bulk)

Collection Identifier: MC 383: T-212
Overview:

Legal records, scrapbooks, photographs, correspondence, etc., of Mary Gibson Hundley, educator and civil rights activist.

Papers of Anna Louise James, 1874-2015 (inclusive), 1901-1984 (bulk)

Collection Identifier: MC 440
Overview:

Diaries, family correspondence, financial records, etc., of Anna Louise James, the first African American woman licensed as a pharmacist in Connecticut.

Papers of Adrienne Kennedy, 1904-2021 (inclusive), 1954-2021 (bulk)

Collection Identifier: MC 1224: DVD-167: T-599
Overview:

Playscripts, autobiographical writings, correspondence, promotional material (including reviews, flyers and posters), photographs, scrapbooks, notebooks, and audiovisual material of experimental playwright Adrienne Kennedy. Some material related to her extended family is also included.

Papers of Florynce Kennedy, 1915-2004 (inclusive), 1947-1993 (bulk)

Collection Identifier: MC 555: Vt-133: MP-56
Overview:

The papers of Florynce Kennedy, lawyer, political activist, civil rights advocate, lecturer and feminist.

Bill of sale for Mary, an enslaved woman, October 1838

Collection Identifier: A/K365
Overview:

Bill of sale transferring ownership of Mary, a 17-year-old enslaved "Negro" woman, from Press G. Kennett to Reuben Mullens and Thomas Hauser in Pendleton County, Kentucky, in 1838.

Steve Kropper collection on Florynce Kennedy, 1976, 2021

Collection Identifier: A/K93; T-592
Overview:

Audiotape of African American lawyer, political activist, civil rights advocate, lecturer, and feminist Florynce "Flo" Kennedy; a statement by collection donor Steve Kropper and electronic files are also included.

May Laidley Letter, 16 March 1865?

Collection Identifier: A/L184
Overview:

Letter from May Laidley of New Richmond, Ohio, to Mrs. G. W. Summers of Kanawah County, West Virginia, describing Laidley's visits with an unnamed African American woman who is an acquaintance of the Summers family and may have been enslaved by them.

Letters to Anita C. Milton, 1902-1918

Collection Identifier: A/M662
Overview:

Letters to Anita C. Milton relating to the medical care, death, and estate settlement of Elizabeth Ann Stidum, noting the availability of work for Black men and women during World War I, and conveying news from home.

Papers of Muriel Morisey, 1924-2022 (inclusive), 1950-2016 (bulk)

Collection Identifier: MC 1219
Overview:

Correspondence, writings, and other materials of lawyer Muriel Morisey primarily documenting her work with the Department of Justice, Harvard University, and Temple University as well as her personal relationships and family history.

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.