Ruth Koenig Mississippi Summer Project Collection
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Koenig, Ruth
Reagon, Bernice Johnson, 1942-
- Dates:
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1964-1966
- Size:
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0.33 Cubic feet (1 box)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0558
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Materials related to the Civil Rights struggle, voter registration drive in Holly Springs, summer 1964: includes diaries, correspondence, business records, periodical articles, newsletters, and ephemera.
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McNamara, Norris
Moon, Moses
- Dates:
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1963-1964
- Size:
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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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- Creators:
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King, Ed
- Dates:
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1961-1970.
- Size:
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0.5 Cubic feet
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0559
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The bulk of this collection contains affidavits and legal papers filed in civil action suits which document acts of violence committed against Council of Federated Organizations (COFO) workers between 1961 and 1964. All activity documented occurred in Mississippi, and much of the violence that occurred was inflicted by police and white civilians. ...
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Smithsonian/Folkways Recordings
- Dates:
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1987-2015
- Size:
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13 cu. ft. (12 record storage boxes) (2 document boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 16-173
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of records documenting the marketing and publicity of recordings produced by Smithsonian/Folkways Recordings, part of the Smithsonian Institution Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage. The majority of the records were created by Brenda Dunlap, Marketing Director, 1994-2001, and Richard Burgess, Marketing Director, ...
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Smithsonian Institution. Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage
- Dates:
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June 23-July 4, 1989
- Size:
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1 Cubic foot (approximate)
- Collection ID:
- CFCH.SFF.1989
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Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections
The Smithsonian Institution Festival of American Folklife, held annually since 1967 on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., was renamed the Smithsonian Folklife Festival in 1998. The materials collected here document the planning, production, and execution of the annual Festival, produced by the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage (1999-present) and its predecessor offices (1967-1999). An overview of the entire Festival records group is available here: Smithsonian Folklife Festival records.
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Maltsby, Portia
Smithsonian Institution. Program in African American Culture
- Dates:
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1850-2004, undated
- Size:
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100 Cubic feet (309 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0408
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection primarily documents the activities of the National Museum of American History's Program in African American Culture (PAAC) dating from 1979 through 2004. The Program in African American Culture (PAAC) created public programs documenting the black experience in the United States, as well as, other countries. Archival materials include photographs, programs, administrative files, magnetic tape, audiocassettes, U-matic and VHS video cassettes.
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Bellcomm, Inc.
- Dates:
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1959-1972
- Size:
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81.71 Cubic feet (222 letter document boxes, 1 slim letter document box, 4 flatboxes)
- Collection ID:
- NASM.XXXX.0093
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
This collection contains the non-book portion of Bellcomm's Technical Library. The material in the collection consists of technical reports prepared by NASA subcontractors and/or NASA facilities during the first decade of space exploration (1960-1970). The collections also includes some reports issued by the California Institute of Technology's Jet Propulsion Lab (JPL) at Pasadena, CA, including Space Program and Research Summaries, as well as technical and engineering documents.
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Hirsch, Stefan, 1899-1964
Rogo, Elsa, 1901-1996
- Dates:
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1851-1986
bulk 1920-1960
- Size:
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19.6 Linear feet
- Collection ID:
- AAA.hirsstef
- Repository:
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Archives of American Art
The papers of artists and educators Stefan Hirsch and Elsa Rogo measure 19.6 linear feet and date from 1851 to 1986, with the bulk of the material dating from 1920s to the 1960s. Their artistic, teaching, and journalism careers are documented through biographical materials, correspondence, writings and notes, professional files, printed materials, photographs and motion picture films, and sketchbooks and other artwork.
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Smithsonian Institution. Office of Sponsored Projects
- Dates:
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circa 1984-1998
- Size:
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22 cu. ft. (22 record storage boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 98-179
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consist of records that primarily document research projects that have been awarded funding through the Office of Sponsored Projects (OSP). Included are grant and contract information, budget proposals, authorizations, and correspondence. Also includes information on OSP workshops; chronological files; OSP audits, reviews, ...
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Smithsonian Institution. Office of Exhibits Central
- Dates:
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FY 1995-FY 2002
- Size:
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5 cu. ft. (5 record storage boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 08-158
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of records documenting design, printing, repair, and construction projects performed by the Office of Exhibits Central for museums and units, including the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service; the Office of the Secretary; the National Museum of Natural History; the National Museum of American History; ...