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Atlanta Interfaith Broadcasters
- Dates:
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1989-1994
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159 video recordings (U-matic 3/4" video recordings)
1 video recording (VHS 1/2" video recording)
15 Linear feet (15 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- ACMA.09-001
- Repository:
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Anacostia Community Museum Archives
The collection, which dates from 1989 to 1994 and measures 15 linear feet, documents the reminiscences of elderly members of various African-American churches in the Atlanta area, as well as individual church histories, outstanding personalities of the South, religious expression in the South, and styles of singing and worship. The collection is co...
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circa 1943-1951
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0.03 Linear feet ((1 box))
- Collection ID:
- ACMA.06-077
- Repository:
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Anacostia Community Museum Archives
The collection, which dates from 1943 to 1951 and measures .03 linear feet, documents the inner workings of the Institute on Race Relations. The collection is comprised of newsletters, meeting minutes, advertisements and professional correspondence.
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McNamara, Norris
Moon, Moses
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1963-1964
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4 Cubic feet (18 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0556
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Recorded by Moses Moon (known at the time as Alan Ribback) and assisted by Norris McNamara during 1963 and 1964, the collection includes audio recordings of interviews with civil rights leaders and participants as well as free-style recordings of mass meetings, voter registration events, and other gatherings organized by Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). This collection provides a mostly unfiltered documentation of significant moments in the civil rights movement.
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Program in African American Culture Collection
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Maltsby, Portia
Smithsonian Institution. Program in African American Culture
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1979-1986
- Size:
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100 cubic feet
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0408
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Audio and video documentation of concerts, lectures, seminars, and colloquia on African American historical and cultural topics including gospel music, African American religion, jazz music, and the civil rights movement. Photographs are primarily documentation of the programs, rather than earlier, historic images. Includes archival original, magn...
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Morrison, Joan, -2010
Morrison, Robert K.
Beirne, Barbara T.
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1985 - 1987
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6 Cubic feet (20 boxes
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- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0359
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection is comprised of 139 audiocassettes (original copies only), 80 transcripts and tape summaries, and photographs (including some negatives). The transcripts and photographs also exist in single copies only, but they may be used with care by researchers.
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Ostroff, Elaine
- Dates:
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1965 - 2009
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16 Cubic feet (37 boxes, 1 oversize folder)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1356
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Collection documents activist and educator Elaine Ostroff who advocated for improved access for people with disabilities in public places, co-founded the Adaptive Environments Center and who taught universal design in several institutions.
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Knapp, Isaac, 1804-1843
Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879
- Dates:
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1831-1833
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2 Linear feet (3 Boxes)
- Collection ID:
- ACMA.10-012.2
- Repository:
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Anacostia Community Museum Archives
This collection contains issues of William Lloyd Garrison's abolitionist newspaper The Liberator dating from 1831-1833, including the inaugural issue.
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Kuhn, Jim, d. 2003
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circa 1823-1996
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0.54 Linear feet (2 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- ACMA.06-007
- Repository:
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Anacostia Community Museum Archives
This collection, which dates from circa 1853-1996, contains material documenting the history of Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, including the Harpers Ferry Armory, the Harpers Ferry National Historical Park, and the incorporation of Murphy Farm into the Historical Park. A highlight of the collection is a framed copyprint of members of the Colored Women's League on the Murphy Farm after their annual meeting in Washington, D.C., July 1896. Also contains several issues of Gleason's Pictorial, dating from circa 1853. Materials include newspapers, videorecordings, photographic prints, booklets, brochures, correspondence, maps and postcards.
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DeVincent, Sam, 1918-1997
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circa 1817-1982
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19 Boxes
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0300.S05
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Sam DeVincent loved music and art and began collecting sheet music with lithographs at an early age. Series 5: Politics and Political Movements contains circa 1,565 pieces of sheet music and song folios documenting the political history of the United States. An overview to the entire DeVincent collection is available here: Sam DeVincent Collection of Illustrated American Sheet Music.
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circa 1859 - 1894
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1.63 Linear feet ((2 boxes))
- Collection ID:
- ACMA.06-112
- Repository:
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Anacostia Community Museum Archives
This collection, which dates from circa 1859-1894, contains materials relating to abolitionist Frederick Douglass. It includes several of his speeches reproduced in booklets and pamphlets, a visiting card, a portrait bearing his autograph, and 28 issues of Douglass'Monthly, which ran from 1858 to 1863.