Moses Moon Civil Rights Movement Audio Collection
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- Creators:
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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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Wilder, John Brantley
- Dates:
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1937-circa 1979
- Size:
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1.5 Linear feet
- Collection ID:
- AAA.wildjohb
- Repository:
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Archives of American Art
The papers of painter, journalist, and civil rights activist John Brantley Wilder measure 1.5 linear feet and date from 1937 to circa 1979. The papers include correspondence; clippings; invoices; photographs; reproductions of some of Wilder's pen and ink sketches; as well as a scrapbook, which includes clippings, photographs, and printed material. Also included in the collection is a diorama representing a Sioux family.
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Morrison, Joan, -2010
Morrison, Robert K.
Beirne, Barbara T.
- Dates:
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1985 - 1987
- Size:
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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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- Dates:
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1838 - 1898
- Size:
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0.5 Linear feet (1 box)
- Collection ID:
- ACMA.06-119
- Repository:
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Anacostia Community Museum Archives
This collection, which dates from 1838-1898, contains nine pamphlets and one booklet. The materials cover various subjects relating to African-Americans, including civil rights, education, the Civil War draft and services for freedmen. Several of the pamphlets contain speeches by Frederick Douglass.
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Peratrovich, Roy, Sr., 1908-1989
Peratrovich, Elizabeth, 1911-1958
- Dates:
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1929-2001
bulk 1939-2001
- Size:
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0.42 Linear feet
- Collection ID:
- NMAI.AC.078
- Repository:
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National Museum of the American Indian
The Peratrovich family papers include correspondence, personal papers, and newsclippings related to civil rights work done by Elizabeth and Roy Peratrovich in Alaska in the mid-twentieth century.
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Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center
- Dates:
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2009-2016
- Collection ID:
- Accession 16-198
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of two blogs and one section of a website maintained by the Asian Pacific American Center. The "BookDragon" blog, crawled on October 23, 2015, reviews books which predominantly highlight the contributions of Asian and Pacific Islander Americans to the American experience and world cultures. The blog was opened in March...
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Anacostia Community Museum
- Dates:
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circa 1970s
- Size:
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14 Video recordings (open reel, 1/2 inch)
15 Sound recordings (open reel, 1/4 inch)
- Collection ID:
- ACMA.09-037
- Repository:
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Anacostia Community Museum Archives
This collection includes news programs, television shows, and music recorded from local and national radio and television broadcasts as well as prerecorded programs, such as The Negro Texans and Alex Haley Lecture for the Doubleday Lecture Series. Anacostia Community Museum does not hold the copyright of the broadcast programs and prerecorded progr...
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Spokeswoman Magazine
Political History, Division of (NMAH)
- Dates:
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1972-1980
- Size:
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2 Cubic feet (4 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0931
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Printed materials spanning 1972-1980, relating to second-wave feminism and women's rights, mainly newsletters and periodicals and focused on the Equal Rights Amendment, Title IX, reproductive healthcare rights, and educational equality. Well-known organizations included in the collection are NOW (National Organization for Women), Planned Parenthood, United States Department of Labor, and the United States Commission on Civil Rights.
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Smithsonian Institution. Anacostia Community Museum
- Dates:
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1992-01 - 1992-07
- Size:
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13.04 Linear feet (18 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- ACMA.03-033
- Repository:
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Anacostia Community Museum Archives
An exhibition on 187 years of civil rights activism in Washington, DC. The show was created by the Anacostia Neighborhood Museum and exhibited there from January 1992 to July 1992. These records document the planning, organizing, execution, and promotion of the exhibition. Materials include correspondence, research files, exhibit script, administrative records, brochures, press coverage, education packets, loan agreements, floor plans, and catalogues.
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Christopher, William R, 1924-1973
- Dates:
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circa 1920s-circa 1973
- Size:
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8.2 Linear feet
- Collection ID:
- AAA.chriwill
- Repository:
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Archives of American Art
The William Christopher papers measure 8.2 linear feet and date from circa 1920s to circa 1973. Materials include biographical materials, correspondence, writings and notes, five diaries, subject/project files, printed materials, photographs, numerous sketches and eleven sketchbooks, and five short film reels containing amateur footage of New York City. The subject/project files include correspondence, printed materials, and two additional diaries about Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and the 1965 civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama.