Gwendolyn Midlo Hall papers 1939-1999 1968-1999

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Gwendolyn Midlo Hall papers 1939-1999 1968-1999

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Professor of history, civil rights activist, scholar of African American history. Family and professional correspondence, newspaper clippings, articles, reviews, and printed material reflecting her interest in black history, the case of Robert Williams, and her scholarly interests.

10 linear feet

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Bentley Historical Library

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Hall, Gwendolyn Midlo

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Gwendolyn Midlo Hall was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, where she became active in the civil rights movement at an early age. Hall helped to organize the New Orleans Youth Council, a militant, interracial, anti-segregation movement in 1945, and in 1947 she was elected to the national board of the Southern Negro Youth Conference. Her deep commitment to the civil rights movement was visible when she was arrested in 1949 for violating segregation laws. Her family sent her to France fr...

Williams, Robert Franklin, 1925-....

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University of Michigan.

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Outside of museum holdings, no comprehensive survey and inventory of campus artwork had been attempted since 1937. With support from the Michigan Commission on Art in Public Places, 1,076 items were inventoried during 1988-1990. Additional inventory work was undertaken in 1997-1998 for risk management purposed, but generated little new information. From the description of Inventory of University of Michigan-owned art, 1988-1990, 1997-1998. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id...