African Americans
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 122 Collections and/or Records:
A. Mercer Daniel Photographic Album
Collection
Identifier: 2022-003
Scope and Contents
This collection is a personal photo album created by A. Mercer Daniel, a law librarian and the first African American member of the American Association of Law Libraries, documenting the 1910s–1960s with an emphasis on the 1930s. There are 216 photographs on 114 pages, mostly black and white and some sepia; most inserted into corner mounts, the rest adhesive mounted. Most photographs measure 2 ¼” x 3” to 5 ½” x 3 ½”, all are captioned. 22 photographs lacking from album and 2 with surface loss...
Dates:
1910 - 1960
A. S. Williams III Civil Rights Photograph Collection
Collection
Identifier: WP-016
Overview
This collection consists of photographs and manuscripts related to the United States Civil Rights Movement (1954-1968). The images depict major events, key figures, and opposition from hate groups. While the collection focuses heavily on Alabama, there are additional events and locations represented.
Dates:
1920 - 1985
African American Mounted Photographs Collection
Collection
Identifier: WP-014
Overview
A collection of thirteen black-and-white mounted portraits depicting African Americans.
Dates:
1920 - 1939
Alabama Nurses Association records
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0044
Abstract
This collection includes meeting minutes, 1913-1940, copies of the organization's newsletter, 1958-1972, miscellaneous newspaper and magazine articles, photographs, and correspondence, a few rosters, and papers relating to admitting African Americans to the association, 1949-1950.
Dates:
1913-1977
Anna Lively Letters, 1933-1937
File — Box 4257.020: [1006214244], Folder: 19
Scope and Contents
Letters and postcards to Anna Lively of Louisville, Kentucky, primarily from her husband A. J. Lively, a porter with the Pullman Company, telling her about his travels, as well as discussing politics, religion, and personal health. There is also a promissory note to the Pullman Company for an advance on his salary.
Dates:
1933-1937
Aunt Judy holding an infant, 1923 November
Item — Box 3: [1006235689], Folder: 2011.004.000264
Identifier: 2011.004.000264
Scope and Contents note
From the Series:
100 photographs depicting views of the Black Warrior River; camping near the Black Warrior River; students, buildings, and scenes at The University of Alabama campus; portrait of Pauline Jones Gandrud; Jones’s campsite and other views in Mexico; George Walter Jones’s home in Huntsville, Alabama, and other views around town; Walter B. Jones and other views at Chapel Hill, North Carolina; scenes at Johns Hopkins University; honorable military discharge, record, and commission of Walter B. Jones;...
Dates:
1923 November
Jesse Beene letters
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0128
Abstract
Two letters written from Cahawba, Alabama, to Rowland G. Hazard in Peace Dale, Rhode Island. The first, dated 14 July 1839, orders shoes for Beene's sixty-eight slaves and includes a list of slaves and a measurement of their feet in inches. In the second, dated 16 December 1841, Beene expresses dissatisfaction with both shoes and prices.
Dates:
1839-1841
Bill of Sale for Enslaved Man Named Zeke
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0012
Abstract
Bill of sale and warrantee for an enslaved person, Zeke, sold by W. S. Adkins of Lowndes County, Alabama, for $1600. The buyer's name is illegible.
Dates:
1860-02-16
Walter P. Billings newspaper clippings
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0157
Abstract
Several newspaper clippings relating to the trial of several white men for the murder of Walter P. Billings, an African-America resident of Sumter County, Alabama, on 1 August 1874, and also a lengthy jury charge by U.S. Circuit Court Judge Ballard decrying violence used by the Ku Klux Klan and other white supremacist organizations against African-Americans.
Dates:
1873
Charlie J. Black papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0167
Overview
Photocopy of Black’s autobiography, “After The Fact: 20/20 Hindsight,” which covers Black’s youth in Beatrice, Monroe County, Alabama, his upbringing, education, teaching career, and political life in Washington. Also, some correspondence and newspaper articles by Black.
Dates:
1985-1987
Buford Boone papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0187
Abstract
Correspondence, scrapbooks, litigation papers, speeches, editorials, etc., of this Pulitzer Prize winner and long-time Tuscaloosa News editor.
Dates:
1935-1968; Majority of material found within 1949 - 1968
Glenda Brewer research paper
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0208
Overview
Research paper titled "Integration at the University of Alabama," submitted for seminar in African American history at the University of Alabama in 1975.
Dates:
1975
Brien Chapel A.M.E. Church records
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0211
Overview
Records of this African Methodist Episcopal church in Burnsville, Alabama, from 1924-1973.
Dates:
1924-1973; Majority of material found within 1926 - 1956
Brown Hill School Trustees' minutes
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0217
Overview
Trustees' minutes, covering 1916-1924 (including parents' rolls), of this school for African American students in Loachapoka, Lee County, Alabama.
Dates:
1916-1924
Bruce A. Hood Paper
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0696
Abstract
Paper entitled "Some Rambling Thoughts on the American Negro and Current Related Issues," describing life for African Americans since emancipation
Dates:
1965
Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands labor contract
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0230
Overview
Labor contract dated 16 June 1865 with estate of Greene Underwood of Dallas Co., Alabama, binding former slaves to plantation in return for food, clothing and medical care
Dates:
1865 June 16
Joe W. Burleson deposition
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0232
Overview
Tuscaloosa, Alabama Circuit Court deposition, dated 3 February 1977, of the plaintiff in civil action no. 7984, Joe W. Burleson vs. National Broadcasting Co., et al.
Dates:
1977 February 3
Calhoun School Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0260
Overview
Photocopy of the songbook "Calhoun Plantation Songs," 3rd ed. (1923) edited by Emily Hollowell, first published in 1901 to raise money for this Lowndes County, Alabama, school for African-Americans, and six postcard views of the school and students, etc.
Dates:
1891-1923
Carriere and Borduzat conveyance
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0282
Overview
Notarized document dated 22 April 1836, for sale of slaves in New Orleans by (Auguste) Carriere & (Daniel Gregoire) Borduzat to Prosper Foy.
Dates:
1836 April 22
Central Iron and Coal Company Photographs
Collection
Identifier: 2007-009
Overview
Central Iron and Coal photographic collection consist of images depicting different aspects of coal and iron production, from mining to building a furnace and transporting the material by train, as well as workers' houses, offices, and stores. Some of the photographs have locations identified as Bibbville and Vance, Alabama.
Dates:
1901 - 1903
Civilians and military watching baseball game at Schofield Barracks, 1914-1918
Item — Box 3: [1006063504], Folder: 273
Identifier: 2008.034.000273
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
This collection consists of 534 photographs from World War I, a drawing, and a short narrative.
Dates:
1914-1918
Clipping about Langston Hughes, 1995
File — Box 4265.001: [1006233187], Folder: 56
Scope and Contents
One book review for a volume of collected poems by American poet Langston Hughes (1901-1967) from The New York Times, February 8, 1995.
Dates:
1995
Creole Social Club records
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0374
Overview
Insurance policies on the club house, an account book from a Mobile, Alabama, apothecary with the club, and tickets for social events sponsored by this African-American social club.
Dates:
1878-1902
W. E. B. Du Bois papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3889
Overview
Typewritten works by DuBois, including an essay entitled "The Future of Africa in America" as well as a list of "Books on the African American"
Dates:
Circa 1940
Farm Security Administration Photographs
Collection — Box 1: [1006235609]
Identifier: 2009-093
Overview
The collection consists of eighty copy photographs. Originals were taken by the Farm Security Administration's photographers of Alabama agriculture and industry during the Depression. Primarily images of white and African American sharecropper families and homes, churches, schools, and farm scenes. Photographs were taken around Moundville, Eutaw, Selma, Scottsboro, Greensboro, and Birmingham, Alabama.
Originals are stored at the Library of Congress.
Dates:
1930 - 1942
Folder 13, 1890s
File — Box 69: [1006213222], Folder: 13
Identifier: Folder 13
Scope and Contents note
Photographs depicting unidentified people.
Dates:
1890s
Folder 15
File — Box 70: [1006213223], Folder: 15
Identifier: Folder 15
Scope and Conternts note
Photographs depicting unidentified people.
Dates:
1850 - 1900
Folder 16
File — Box 70: [1006213223], Folder: 16
Identifier: Folder 16
Scope and Contents note
Photographs depicting unidentified people.
Dates:
1850 - 1900
Folder 17
File — Box 70: [1006213223], Folder: 17
Identifier: Folder 17
Scope and Contents note
Photographs depicting unidentified people.
Dates:
1850 - 1900
Folder 18
File — Box 70: [1006213223], Folder: 18
Identifier: Folder 18
Scope and Contents note
Photographs depicting unidentified people.
Dates:
1850 - 1900
Folder 19
File — Box 70: [1006213223], Folder: 19
Identifier: Folder 19
Scope and Contents note
Photographs depicting unidentified people.
Dates:
1850 - 1900
Folder 22
File — Box 71: [1006213224], Folder: 22
Identifier: Folder 22
Scope and Contents note
Photographs depicting unidentified people.
Dates:
1850 - 1900
Folder 30
File — Box 72: [1006213225], Folder: 30
Identifier: Folder 30
Scope and Contents note
Photographs depicting unidentified people.
Dates:
1850 - 1900
Folder 31
File — Box 72: [1006213225], Folder: 31
Identifier: Folder 31
Scope and Contents note
Photographs depicting unidentified people, church buildings, urban areas, railroad tracks, and cotton gin.
Dates:
1850 - 1900
Folder 32
File — Box 73: [1006213226], Folder: 32
Identifier: Folder 32
Scope and Contents note
Photographs depicting unidentified people and places.
Dates:
1850 - 1900
Folder 33
File — Box 73: [1006213226], Folder: 33
Identifier: Folder 33
Scope and Contents note
Photographs depicting unidentified people and places.
Dates:
1850 - 1900
Folder 34
File — Box 73: [1006213226], Folder: 34
Identifier: Folder 34
Scope and Contents note
Photographs depicting unidentified people, factory interior, and cemetery scene.
Dates:
1850 - 1900
Folder 35
File — Box 73: [1006213226], Folder: 35
Identifier: Folder 35
Scope and Contents note
Photographs depicting unidentified people, farm scene, and family portraits.
Dates:
1850 - 1900
Folder 38
File — Box 74: [1006213227], Folder: 38
Identifier: Folder 38
Scope and Contents note
Photographs depicting people playing cards, portraits of unidentified people, and family portraits.
Dates:
1850 - 1900
Folder 39
File — Box 75: [1006213228], Folder: 39
Identifier: Folder 39
Scope and Contents note
Photographs depicting church interior, school picnic, unidentified people, and grocery store.
Dates:
1850 - 1900
Folder 41
File — Box 75: [1006213228], Folder: 41
Identifier: Folder 41
Scope and Contents note
Photographs depicting portraits of unidentified people, visit to Mammoth Cave, Kentucky, fairgrounds, school children with their teachers, canoeing, and covered bridge in Cambridgeboro, Pennsylvania.
Dates:
1850 - 1900
Folder 46
File — Box 76: [1006213229], Folder: 46
Identifier: Folder 46
Scope and Contents note
Photographs are depicting school children, family portraits, and other unidentified people.
Dates:
1850 - 1900
Folder 48
File — Box 76: [1006213229], Folder: 48
Identifier: Folder 48
Scope and Contents note
Photographs depicting aerial view of Wallace, Idaho, a grocery store, and unidentified people.
Dates:
1850 - 1900
Folder 51
File — Box 77: [1006213230], Folder: 51
Identifier: Folder 51
Scope and Contents note
Photographs depicting unidentified people, and places.
Dates:
1850 - 1900
Folder 53
File — Box 77: [1006213230], Folder: 53
Identifier: Folder 53
Scope and Contents note
Photographs are depicting a river dam, construction are, unidentified families, and a school building.
Dates:
1850 - 1900
Folder 7, 1890s
File — Box 69: [1006213222], Folder: 7
Identifier: Folder 7
Scope and Contents
Photographs depicting unidentifed people.
Dates:
1890s
Folder 9, 1890s
File — Box 69: [1006213222], Folder: 9
Identifier: Folder 9
Scope and Contents note
Photographs depicting unidentified people.
Dates:
1890s
Frederick D. Kennedy Vintage Glass Paperweight Collection
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4181
Overview
Vintage glass paperweight collection primarily featuring United Methodist or Methodist Episcopal churches around the turn of the twentieth century
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1900 - 1972
Henry Gant Scrapbook
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4172
Overview
Scrapbook, which covers over fifty years, focuses on the Gant family of Hiller and Brownsville, Pennsylvania, particularly on Henry Gant and his sons, Gene and Tim.
Dates:
1932-1988
William Gary receipt
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0563
Overview
Receipt dated 28 January 1836 for a 19 year old slave, Bradley, bought by William Gary from Linoir Lassiter.
Dates:
1836 January 28