New York (State)--New York
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: OCLC FAST
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Morehouse College Martin Luther King, Jr. Collection: Subseries 1.1: Correspondence: General E-K
Series
Identifier: 0000-0000-0000-0131b
Scope and Contents of the Subseries
The subseries contains correspondence between Martin Luther King, Jr. and various individuals and organizations from 1953 to 1968. There are letters, telegrams, greeting cards, carbon copies, postcards, invitations, and hate mail. The correspondence is primarily professional, often accompanied by enclosures, with few personal letters. Among the topics discussed are civil rights, discrimination, SCLC activities, politics, equal employment, education, housing, passive resistance, poverty,...
Dates:
1951-1968
Morehouse College Martin Luther King, Jr. Collection: Subseries 1.2: Correspondence: Letters, Telegrams, and Cards Received after Stabbing in Harlem
Series
Identifier: 0000-0000-0000-0131e
Scope and Contents of the Subseries
The subseries is comprised of letters, greeting cards, telegrams, postcards, and other correspondence received by Martin Luther King, Jr. following his stabbing by Izola Ware Curry on September 21, 1958. The correspondence from a variety of individuals and organizations convey well wishes, offers of assistance, prayers, concerns for his safety, and admiration of his work. Donations for his medical costs, convalescence, and the civil...
Dates:
1958
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