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Rucker, Aiken, Mollison, Harper family papers
Collection — Box: 1-53
Identifier: 0000-0000-0000-0089
Scope and contents
Rucker, Aiken, Mollison, Harper Family Papers cover the years between 1890 and 1992, with the bulk of the materials dated between 1950 and 1992. The collection consists of materials from each of the eight Rucker siblings. Many of the series include correspondence, legal, and financial documents as well as photographs. In some of the larger series, artwork, information about organizational memberships, medical information and materials from their respective careers are included.
Dates:
1890-1992; Majority of material found within 1930 - 1992
Judge John H. Ruffin Jr., papers
Collection — Box: 1-35, OS 1-4
Identifier: 0000-0000-0000-0181
Scope and contents
This collection documents the work of the Honorable John H. Ruffin, Jr. as a civil rights attorney, judge, speaker, lecturer, and civic leader. The Judge John H. Ruffin, Jr., papers span the years between 1952-2016, providing a limited record of his forty-plus years of service to the law. While the bulk of the collection dates from 1961 to 1993, the Professional Papers series includes materials related to his case files, legal documents, office files, and subject files. Judge Ruffin was...
Dates:
1952-2016
George A. Sewell papers
Collection — Box: 1-59
Identifier: 0000-0000-0000-0103
Scope note
The collection dates span the years from 1881 and 1990. The bulk of the collection dates from 1960 to 1983, and documents Sewell’s career as a professor, pastor, and author. The George A. Sewell papers include materials related to the African Methodist Episcopal Church and his time as pastor and minister in multiple congregations, his time as educator at Morris Brown College, the Interdenominational Theological Center, and Alcorn A.& M. College (Alcorn State University), and his work...
Dates:
1881-1990; Majority of material found within 1960-1983
Henry P. Slaughter collection
Collection — Box: 1-52
Identifier: 0000-0000-0000-0054
Scope and contents
The Henry P. Slaughter collection consists of materials collected by Henry P. Slaughter which emphasize the early history of African Americans in the United States. It contains materials which date from 1667 to 1964, however, the bulk of the material spans from 1792 to 1959. The collection is composed mainly of slave papers and correspondence of African American leaders, abolitionists, and political figures of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The materials include pamphlets,...
Dates:
1667-1964; Majority of material found within 1792 - 1959
Documents of the Enslaved
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 0000-0000-0000-0111
Scope and contents
This aggregate collection contains documents related enslaved peoples dating from 1830-1865 from the American south including bills of sale, lists of enslaved people from various estates and correspondences between slave owners. Documents from Virginia and Georgia are represented as well as the estates of Richard Bayne, George Zuesenbury and Daniel Payne.
Dates:
1830-1865
Society for the Study of Black Religion collection
Collection — Box: 1-4
Identifier: 0000-0000-0000-0120a
Scope and Contents
The Society for the Study of Black Religion collection spans the years between 1977 and 1985. The collection contains annual meeting programs, as well as audiovisual materials comprised of audiotapes and videotapes featuring addresses, presentations, lectures, and workshops from the Society for the Study of Black Religion annual meetings and convocations.
Dates:
1977-1985
Clara Hewitt Southeastern Association for Educational Opportunity Personnel Program (SAEOPP) papers
Collection — Box: 1-9
Identifier: 0000-0000-0000-0055
Scope note
The Southeastern Association for Educational Opportunity Personnel Program (SAEOPP) is a nonprofit organization, established in 1978, designed to promote and support equal education opportunity and access to postsecondary education. SAEOPP membership embraces eight states – Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee. The purpose of SAEOPP is to bring together into a work and study community those persons who have an active interest in...
Dates:
1997-2008
Southern Conference for Human Welfare collection
Collection — Box: 1-38
Identifier: 0000-0000-0000-0056
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, minutes of meetings, drafts of speeches, financial records, photographs, clippings and other printed matter from the files of the Southern Conference for Human Welfare make up this collection. These papers were donated to
Trevor Arnett Library in 1950 by Clark Howell Foreman, one time president of the Conference. They span the years 1938 to 1972, with the greatest concentration of material falling in 1946-1948. This Collection is particularly rich in information on the...
Dates:
1938-1972
Southern Education Foundation records
Collection — Box: 1-184
Identifier: 0000-0000-0000-0057
Scope and contents
The Southern Education Foundation records include the administrative files of the John F. Slater Fund (1882-1937), the Negro Rural School Fund (Anna T. Jeanes Fund)(1907-1937), and the Southern Education Foundation (SEF). The records of these organizations document the activities of philanthropists and educators in helping to provide African Americans in the South with greater educational opportunities. The records of both the John F. Slater Fund and the Anna T. Jeanes Fund include...
Dates:
1882-1979
Southern Regional Council papers
Collection
Identifier: 0000-0000-0000-0058
Scope and contents
The Southern Regional Council papers, 1944-1968 offer scholars a unique opportunity to explore fields of inquiry that just now coming of age because of the historical perspective that passage of time has afforded. The papers provide rich and varied documentation of peculiarly southern problems, not the least of which have been race, and the difficult, ongoing struggle for black equality. University Microfilms International is pleased to make this important body of records more widely...
Dates:
1944-1968