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Cass, Melnea A. (Melnea Agnes), 1896-1978. Reminiscences of Melnea A. Cass : oral history, 1977.

Title: Reminiscences of Melnea A. Cass : oral history, 1977.

Relatives; education to 1914; work as housekeeper; early protest meetings; Robert Gould Shaw House in 1920s; daily life; church work; community clubs; National Association for the Advancement of Colored People; Action for Boston Community Development in 1950s; views on illegitimacy, abortion, skin color; awards and honorary degrees.

ArchivalResource: Transcript: 140 leaves.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122608520 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

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)

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The Notable Women of Boston, 1980

Title: The Notable Women of Boston

Portfolio of published drawings of notable women of Boston by Ellen Lanyon; also original sketch of Lucy Stone. The Notable Women of Boston was a publication issued by Workingmens Co-operative Bank in commemoration of their 100th and Boston's 350th anniversary.

ArchivalResource: 1 folder.

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/990015004500203941/catalog View