C. Lincoln Eric photographs, 1923-1992.

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C. Lincoln Eric photographs, 1923-1992.

The collection consists of photographs created or collected by C. Eric Lincoln from 1923-1992. The photographs relate to Lincoln's professional and personal life. Included are dozens of prints taken as part of his research into the Black Church, his participation in conferences, publicity photos, and pictures taken at public speaking events. Also includes several pictures of Lincoln and his family, some of which go back to his boyhood. Several of Lincoln's colleagues, students, and friends have their pictures included as well. Prominent individuals in this collection include Alex Haley, Stokely Carmichael (Kwane Ture), Thurgood Marshall, Ben Chavis, Albert Cleage, Jr. (Jaramogi Abebe Agyeman), John Okai, and the former president of Ghana, K.A. Busia.

1 linear ft.

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Carmichael, Stokely, 1941-1998

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Stokely Carmichael was born in Trinidad and moved to New York City with his family in 1952. In 1964 he graduated from Howard University with a B.A. in Philosophy; the same year he became a field secretary of Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). In 1966 he was elected chairman of SNCC....

Haley, Alex, 1921-1992

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Alexander Murray Palmer Haley (August 11, 1921 – February 10, 1992) was an American writer and the author of the 1976 book Roots: The Saga of an American Family. ABC adapted the book as a television miniseries of the same name and aired it in 1977 to a record-breaking audience of 130 million viewers. In the United States, the book and miniseries raised the public awareness of black American history and inspired a broad interest in genealogy and family history. Haley's first book was The Auto...

Lincoln, C. Eric (Charles Eric), 1924-2000

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C. Eric Lincoln (1924- ), author, minister, and educator, born in Athens, Alabama. From the description of C. Eric Lincoln collection, 1909-1994. (Robert W. Woodruff Library of the Atlanta University Center, Inc.). WorldCat record id: 38477108 From the description of C. Eric Lincoln correspondence, 1959-1993. (Robert W. Woodruff Library of the Atlanta University Center, Inc.). WorldCat record id: 38477114 From the description of C. Eric Lincoln biographical-family f...

Marshall, Thurgood, 1908-1993

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Thurgood Marshall (b. July 2, 1908, Baltimore, Maryland – d. January 24, 1993, Washington, D.C.) was an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, serving from October 1967 until October 1991. Marshall was the Court's 96th justice and its first African-American justice. Before becoming a judge, Marshall was a lawyer who was best known for his high success rate in arguing before the Supreme Court and for the victory in Brown v. Board of Education, a 1954 decision that ruled t...

Okai, John, 1941-

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Busia, K. A. (Kofi Abreta)

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Lincoln family.

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Cleage, Albert B.

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Detroit, Michigan clergyman, pastor at St. Mark's Presbyterian Church, which later became Central Congregational Church. In the 1960s, Cleage and his congregation began restructuring the church's rituals, programs, and theology to conform to the Black Christian Nationalist phiosophy. In 1970, the church was renamed the Shrine of the Black Madonna. From the description of Albert B. Cleage Jr. papers, 1949-2005. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 278934744 ...

Chavis, Ben, 1948-

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Benjamin Franklin Chavis, Jr, was born on January 22, 1948, in Oxford, North Carolina. Chavis's parents were educators who taught at a school for African American orphans. Chavis's activism was in his bloodline; his grandfather, John Chavis, the first black graduate from Princeton University, set up an underground school for African Americans who were forbidden to learn to read and write. Chavis became active in civil rights at the young age of thirteen when he attempted to integrate the all whi...