African-American Miscellany, 1757-1983 and undated.

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African-American Miscellany, 1757-1983 and undated.

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Collection of print and manuscript items relating to African and African American history assembled over a number of decades by the staff of the Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library at Duke University. Collection contains approximately 400 items documenting the sales, escapes, and emancipations of slaves from colonial times through the Civil War, the civil rights era from 1950-1970, and to a lesser extent, the period in between the 1870s and the 1950s. The collection brings to light details of the lives and deaths of enslaved and free Africans and African Americans in the southern United States, primarily in North Carolina, Virginia, and Kentucky, but also in Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, New York, South Carolina, and Tennessee. The collection also contains a series of various items related to the civil rights movement, covering such events as the 1968 Orangeburg Massacre in South Carolina; various readings and speeches from that time; letters from individuals such as Julian Bond and a relative of Medgar Evers; and materials on education in the Southern States, race relations in various states, and on the activities of associations such as the NAACP, with material on Ann Atwater, an activist from Durham, North Carolina.

400 items. (.6 lin. ft.)

Duke University Libraries, Duke University Library; Perkins Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7552135

Duke University Libraries, Duke University Library; Perkins Library

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National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

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Organizational History and List of Officers Organizational History 1909 Issued the “Call,” a statement calling for a conference to protest discrimination and violence against African Americans Convened the National Negro Conference on May 31 and June 1, New York, N.Y. E...

Bond, Horace Julian, 1940-2015

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Civil rights activist, state representative, and state senator Julian Bond was born on January 14, 1940 in Nashville, Tennessee. He and his family moved to Pennsylvania, where his father, Horace Mann Bond, was appointed president of Lincoln University.In 1957, Julian Bond graduated from the George School, a Quaker school in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, and entered Morehouse College. In 1960, Julian Bond was one of several hundred students who helped form the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Commit...

Evers, Medgar Wiley, 1925-1963

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Medgar Wiley Evers (b. July 2, 1925, Decatur, MS–d. June 12, 1963, Jackson, MS) was an African American civil rights activist in Mississippi. He worked to overturn segregation at the University of Mississippi, to end segregation of public facilities, and to expand opportunities for African Americans, including enforcement of voting rights. He was assassinated by a white supremacist and Klansman....

Atwater, Anne E

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