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Black Women Oral History Project. Black Women Oral History Project transcripts, 1976-1981.

Title: Black Women Oral History Project transcripts, 1976-1981.

Transcripts from the Schlesinger Library's oral history project which documented the contributions of black women 70 years or older to American life. Interviews document the lives, professional careers, and voluntary activities of women nationwide and focus on their contributions in a wide variety of fields including medicine, law, business, the arts, social work, education, politics, and civil rights. Interviews include Christia Adair, Frances Albrier, Sadie Alexander, Elizabeth Cardozo Barker, Etta Moten Barnett, May Edward Chinn, Alfreda Duster, Mae Eberhardt, Lena Edwards, Zelma George, Frances Grant, Ardie Halyard, Pleasant Harrison, Dorothy Height, Margaret Cardozo Holmes, Lois Mailou Jones, Virginia Jones, Maida Kemp, Catherine Cardozo Lewis, Audley Moore, Muriel Snowden, Olivia Stokes, Ann Tanneyhill, Constance Thomas, Era Bell Thompson, Charleszett Waddles, Dorothy West and Deborah Wofe.

ArchivalResource: 5 lin. ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122465931 View

Guide to the Audley Moore: FOIA File (United States Federal Bureau of Investigation), 1940s-1960s, undated

Title: Guide to the Audley Moore: FOIA File (United States Federal Bureau of Investigation), 1940s-1960s, undated

Audley (Queen Mother) Moore was an African American black nationalist and communist. In the 1920s she was active in Marcus Garvey's Universal Negro Improvement Association in New York City. In 1936 she joined the Communist Party, becoming secretary of its Harlem section in 1941, and in 1942, secretary of the New York State Party organization. She left the Party in 1950, and subsequently founded the Universal Association of Ethiopian Women, In 1959 tutored the young Malcolm X, in 1963 she established a Reparations Committee to advocate compensatory payment to descendants of slaves, and in 1968 participated in the declaration of the Republic of New Africa and initiated its statement of independence. The collection contains FBI files, and documents Audley Moore's political activity and views from the 1940s through the 1960s.

ArchivalResource: 0.5 Linear Feet (1 box)

http://dlib.nyu.edu/findingaids/html/tamwag/tam_410/tam_410.html View

Black Women Oral History Project. Records, 1976-1997 (inclusive).

Title: Records, 1976-1997 (inclusive).

Collection consists of research material collected by the project consisting of printed and manuscript material and photographs.

ArchivalResource: 5 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122562011 View

Guide to the Audley Moore: FOIA File (United States Federal Bureau of Investigation), 1940s-1960s, undated

Title: Guide to the Audley Moore: FOIA File (United States Federal Bureau of Investigation), 1940s-1960s, undated

Audley (Queen Mother) Moore was an African American black nationalist and communist. In the 1920s she was active in Marcus Garvey's Universal Negro Improvement Association in New York City. In 1936 she joined the Communist Party, becoming secretary of its Harlem section in 1941, and in 1942, secretary of the New York State Party organization. She left the Party in 1950, and subsequently founded the Universal Association of Ethiopian Women, In 1959 tutored the young Malcolm X, in 1963 she established a Reparations Committee to advocate compensatory payment to descendants of slaves, and in 1968 participated in the declaration of the Republic of New Africa and initiated its statement of independence. The collection contains FBI files, and documents Audley Moore's political activity and views from the 1940s through the 1960s.

ArchivalResource: 0.5 Linear Feet (1 box)

http://dlib.nyu.edu/findingaids/html/tamwag/tam_410/tam_410.html View

Black Women Oral History Project transcripts, 1976-1981

Title: Black Women Oral History Project transcripts 1976-1981

Transcripts from the Schlesinger Library's oral history project which documented the contributions of black women 70 years or older to American life. Interviews document the lives, professional careers, and voluntary activities of women nationwide and focus on their contributions in a wide variety of fields including medicine, law, business, the arts, social work, education, politics, and civil rights. Interviews include Christia Adair, Frances Albrier, Sadie Alexander, Elizabeth Cardozo Barker, Etta Moten Barnett, May Edward Chinn, Alfreda Duster, Mae Eberhardt, Lena Edwards, Zelma George, Frances Grant, Ardie Halyard, Pleasant Harrison, Dorothy Height, Margaret Cardozo Holmes, Lois Mailou Jones, Virginia Jones, Maida Kemp, Catherine Cardozo Lewis, Audley Moore, Muriel Snowden, Olivia Stokes, Ann Tanneyhill, Constance Thomas, Era Bell Thompson, Charleszett Waddles, Dorothy West and Deborah Wofe.

ArchivalResource: 5 lin. ft.

http://archives.nypl.org/scm/20544 View

Conference on Priorities in Urban Education (1968 Apr. 30-May 8 : Cornell University). Conference on Priorities in Urban Education tapes and transcripts, 1968.

Title: Conference on Priorities in Urban Education tapes and transcripts, 1968.

Nine tape recordings of five presentations and discussions held at the Conference on Priorities in Urban Education, April 30-May 8, 1968, at Cornell University. Participants included Sephen J. Trachtenberg, Isaiah Robinson, Simon Beagle, Robert H. Ennis, Harry Levin, Albert Shanker, Daniel Schreiber, William T. Lowe, Mark Beach, Ruth Berken, Andre McLaughlin, Walter McCann, Queen Mother Moore, and John Valentin. Also includes five transcripts of taped presentations.

ArchivalResource: .3 cubic ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/64073070 View

Interviews of the Black Women Oral History Project, 1976-1981

Title: Interviews of the Black Women Oral History Project, 1976-1981

The Black Women Oral History Project collection consists of audiotapes and transcripts of the oral histories of 72 African-American women from across the United States. The interviews discuss family background, marriages, childhood, education and training, significant influences affecting their choice of primary career or activity, professional and voluntary accomplishments, union activities, the ways in which being black and a woman had affected their options and the choices made. For each oral history, the interviewer cooperated with the memoirist to record as full an account of her life as possible. The project's procedure was that after the tapes were transcribed, each memoirist was given an opportunity to edit and correct her oral history before the final copy was prepared. Due to the editing process afforded the memoirists, there are occasions when the transcripts do not precisely follow the audio recordings. All of transcripts are open for research with the exception of Merze Tate, which is not yet complete. All of the tapes are preserved at the Schlesinger Library, but the following five interviews are closed until 2027: Kathleen Adams, Margaret Walker Alexander, Lucy Mitchell, Ruth Temple, and Era Bell Thompson. In 1991, the Schlesinger Library in cooperation with Meckler Corporation, published a 10 volume set of many of the transcripts. For additional information on the project, see The Black Women Oral History Project: A Guide to the Transcripts (HOLLIS record), edited by Ruth Edmonds Hill and Patricia Miller King. Further information can be found in the Records of the Black Women Oral History Project. In 1981, photographer Judith Sedwick offered to photograph many of the participants, this project resulted in the exhibit Women of Courage (HOLLIS record) and the corresponding publication. All of these photographs are cataloged in HOLLIS Images, Harvard University's Visual Information Access database.

ArchivalResource: 7 linear feet ((7 cartons) plus 353 audiotapes)

https://hollisarchives.lib.harvard.edu/repositories/8/resources/7707 View

Moore, Audley, 1898-. Reminiscences of Audley Moore (Queen Mother Moore) : oral history, 1978.

Title: Reminiscences of Audley Moore (Queen Mother Moore) : oral history, 1978.

Childhood in New Iberia and New Orleans, Louisiana; work with black soldiers, World War I; move to Harlem, 1922; member of the Communist Party, 1933-1950: racism within the party, reapportioning of voting districts, picketing of white-owned businesses in Harlem, reasons for leaving party; work to Africanize blacks in the United States; help to black prisoners; trips to Africa; impressions of Marcus Garvey movement; need for education of blacks and research into black heritage; advice to black women; recollections of being arrested; experiences in Europe; impressions of many notable black leaders.

ArchivalResource: Transcript: 84 leaves.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122565674 View