African Americans
Found in 21 Collections and/or Records:
Arnold Marshall Rose papers
This collection contains the papers of Arnold M. Rose, sociology professor at the University of Minnesota.
Azalea (New York) Publications
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.
"Caafimaadkeena - Our Health" Somali TV Project (Minneapolis, Minnesota) collection
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.
Clayton Jackson McGhie Memorial Committee records
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.
Concerned Citizens for Central Hillside Community Center records
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.
Deterred but not Defeated grave marker dedication
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.
Duluth African-American Oral History Project
Duluth Junior College scrapbook
The collection consists of one 84 page fragile scrapbook with primarily unidentified and undated local news clippings and 6 photos and 1 photocopied photo.
Duluth Minnesota Lynchings of 1920: Selected Materials
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.
Walter and Goldie Eldot papers
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.
George Graff papers
Heidi Bakk-Hansen papers
The collection contains materials related to Heidi Bakk-Hansen's work in Duluth as a writer, researcher, and activist.
Richard H. Hudelson labor history research collection
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.
Institute on Domestic Violence in the African American Community records
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.
Irving Elementary School PTA records
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.
Marjorie Wilkins papers
Eudora V. Marshall Commemoration Celebration collection
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.
William F. Maupins papers
The collection largely consists of correspondence, legal documents, and news clippings dealing with civil rights issues.
Office of the Dean of Women records
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.
Oral history methods in research, interviews and documents
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.