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African American women

 Subject
Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source

Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:

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.

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...