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African Americans

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 21 Collections and/or Records:

Arnold Marshall Rose papers

 Collection
Identifier: uarc 381
Abstract

This collection contains the papers of Arnold M. Rose, sociology professor at the University of Minnesota.

Dates: 1935-1968

Azalea (New York) Publications

 Collection
Identifier: Tretter-71
Abstract

This record represents the run of Azalea held in the Tretter Collection. It is not a complete run but contains issues of the publication from 1979 up to 1983.

Dates: 1979 - 1983

"Caafimaadkeena - Our Health" Somali TV Project (Minneapolis, Minnesota) collection

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: IHRC3444
Abstract

Collection consists of 5 DVDs containing the series "Our Health" produced for Somali immigrants by the Minnesota International Health Volunteers in Minneapolis. Featured are programs on birth giving, maternal and child health, infectious and chronic diseases. English transcripts included.

Dates: 2007

Clayton Jackson McGhie Memorial Committee records

 Collection
Identifier: U6139
Abstract

The collection consists of Committee meeting agendas, minutes, and financial statements; a limited amount of correspondence and publications; educational materials, student reaction papers to classroom presentations on the lynchings and racism, and scholarship essays; and Heidi Bakk-Hansen's notes for her Ripsaw article.

Dates: 1991-2019

Concerned Citizens for Central Hillside Community Center records

 Collection — Box SC
Identifier: S4523
Abstract

The collection consists of correspondence, minutes from 1977, 1978, articles of incorporation, articles of incorporation for Institute of Afro-American Awareness, constitution and by-laws; an abstract from about 1972 “to marshal the resources of the black community; Urban Renewal Plan for Central Hillside Area, November 1972.

Dates: 1972-1978

Deterred but not Defeated grave marker dedication

 Collection — Box VHS
Identifier: S4513
Abstract

The collection consists of one videotape. Bob Baldwin of the local chapter of the NAACP officiated at the dedication and arranged for the proceedings to be taped. The video, entitled Deterred but not Defeated, contains a documentary filmed at Park Hill Cemetery where stones were placed to acknowledge the victims of the 1920 lynchings in Duluth.

Dates: 1991

Duluth African-American Oral History Project

 Item
Identifier: U6213
Abstract The African American Oral History Project was initiated by the Clayton, Jackson, McGhie Memorial Committee to aid in the documentation of the history of Duluth’s African American community. It includes interviews designed to document particular aspects of Duluth’s history and/or important local institutions, such as the Institute for Afro-American Awareness, the local branch of NAACP, St. Mark’s African Methodist Episcopal, Calvary Baptist Church and the Juneteenth Celebration committee, as...
Dates: November 2016 - February 2017

Duluth Junior College scrapbook

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: S6017
Abstract

The collection consists of one 84 page fragile scrapbook with primarily unidentified and undated local news clippings and 6 photos and 1 photocopied photo.

Dates: 1938-1941

Duluth Minnesota Lynchings of 1920: Selected Materials

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: S6037
Abstract

The collection consists of selected materials, all but one from the collections of the Minnesota Historical Society (St. Paul, Minnesota), documenting the lynchings, press coverage, and court records of subsequent trials.

Dates: 1920-1976; Majority of material found in 1920-1925, circa 1939, 1971, 1976

Walter and Goldie Eldot papers

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: S4527
Abstract

The collection consists of 1956 articles of incorporation for Duluth Community Chest; a 90 minute interview on cassette tape with 89-year old Glen Merritt on October 26, 1983, about Merritt’s recollections of YMCA’s Camp Miller; and black and white photographs collected by Eldot that may have illustrated his articles in Outlook and Cosmopolitan sections of the newspaper when he was editor.

Dates: 1956-1984; Majority of material found in 1967-1983

George Graff papers

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: IHRC791
Abstract Papers (1931-1947) of George Graff include materials relating to the Service Bureau for Intercultural Education, the American Institute of Intercultural Arts, issues of Intercultural Education News, newsletters, correspondence, minutes, clippings, and articles, and miscellany dealing with intercultural education. Correspondents include Rachel Davis DuBois, Margaret Mead, E.C. Lindemann, Mordecai Soltes, Stewart G. Cole. Newspaper clippings pertain to Blacks and to treatment of Jews in the...
Dates: 1931-1947

Heidi Bakk-Hansen papers

 Collection
Identifier: U6254
Abstract

The collection contains materials related to Heidi Bakk-Hansen's work in Duluth as a writer, researcher, and activist.

Dates: 1995-2018

Richard H. Hudelson labor history research collection

 Collection
Identifier: S6143
Abstract

The collections contains research materials compiled to write Dr. Hudelson's book published by the University of Minnesota Press in 2006 titled By the Ore Docks: A Working People’s History of Duluth.

Dates: 1880-2006; Majority of material found in 1883-1978

Institute on Domestic Violence in the African American Community records

 Collection
Identifier: ua01242
Overview

The Institute on Domestic Violence in the African American Community (IDVAAC) was founded in 1993. IDVAAC provides counseling and education to end domestic violence within the African American community.

Dates: 1993-2014

Irving Elementary School PTA records

 Collection
Identifier: S6125
Abstract

The collection consists of 12 PTA scrapbooks, a record book with handwritten minutes from 1946-1952, a homemade book of class photos from 1950 with student names, a convention packet from the 1962 Minnesota Congress of Parents and Teachers, and a scrapbook for the Irving school Mothersingers for the years 1948-1955.

Dates: 1930-1963; Majority of material found in 1930-31, 1938-40, 1942-43, 1948-1963

Marjorie Wilkins papers

 Collection
Identifier: U6267
Content Description The collection contains materials related to Marjorie Wilkins’ life and work in Duluth, Minnesota. Included are materials related to her career as a nurse anesthetist, as well as her work as an activist and local leader for racial equity. A large portion of the materials in the collection are related to her work for racial equity in education, both in K-12 public schools and in higher education. Also included are personal correspondence and photographs, along with handwritten notes,...
Dates: 1888-1998

Eudora V. Marshall Commemoration Celebration collection

 Collection — Box SC
Identifier: S4402
Abstract

Eudora V. Marshall was born in Aitkin, Minnesota in 1906, and moved to Duluth in 1924. A poet, Marshall was published in newspapers and magazines, and was one of the few black writers in the U.S. who continued to be published during the Great Depression. The collection includes materials that were generated as a result of the decision to present locally as much of Marshall’s extant work as possible.

Dates: 1986

William F. Maupins papers

 Collection
Identifier: S2367
Abstract

The collection largely consists of correspondence, legal documents, and news clippings dealing with civil rights issues.

Dates: 1958-1969

Office of the Dean of Women records

 Collection
Identifier: 606
Abstract

This collection contains the records of the Office of the Dean of Women at the University of Minnesota during the tenure of Anne Dudley Blitz, dean of women from 1923-1949.

Dates: 1905, 1919-1949 (bulk dates 1930-1945)

Oral history methods in research, interviews and documents

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: S6036
Abstract

This collection contains oral history work from college history courses taught by Professor Mari Trine with a focus on using primary sources and oral history methods in research.

Dates: 2002-2007

Postcard From a Lynching, radio broadcast

 Collection — Box CD
Identifier: S6027
Abstract “Remembering the Past, Looking to the Future” is a Minnesota Public Radio broadcast which was produced and written by Ms. Stephanie Hemphill and Mr. Chris Julin of Duluth’s MPR affiliate station. It was aired June 7, 2001 as part of a week of events in Duluth, Minnesota planned by the MEMORIAL COMMITTEE. The Committee sought to commemorate the deaths of three African-American circus workers in Duluth on June 15, 1920. The victims, lynched by a mob, were Elias Clayton, Elmer Jackson and Isaac...
Dates: 2001 June 7