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    John J. Crittenden papers, Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available Correspondence, speeches, legal papers, and other papers. Chiefly correspondence covering Crittenden's career as U.S. attorney general and U.S. senator from and governor of Kentucky. Subjects include national politics, particularly banking and tariff matters, slavery, Mexico, and Texas; the southern Whigs; Crittenden's relations with Henry Clay; reactions to the Crittenden Compromise; and Kentucky politics and law. Correspondents include George Edmund Badger, Francis Preston Blair, Orlando...
    • Contributor: Crittenden, John J. (John Jordan)
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    Jay I. Kislak Collection,
    Jay I. Kislak collection of the archaeology and history of the early Americas Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available     The Jay I. Kislak Collection is composed chiefly of archaeological artifacts, rare books, manuscripts, maps, and graphic works of art documenting the earliest history of the lands that would become known as the Americas including the pre-Columbian cultures of the Caribbean and Mesoamerica. Also includes manuscripts and rare books relating to the arrival of Europeans in the Americas and to the history of the...
    • Contributor: Boazio, Baptista - LeĂłn Y Gama, Antonio De - Lorenzana, Francisco Antonio - Schöner, Johann - Kislak, Jay I. - WaldseemĂĽller, Martin - Jay I. Kislak Collection (Library of Congress) - Molina, Alonso De - CortĂ©s, Hernán
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    American Missionary Association archives, Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available Correspondence, committee meeting minutes, sermons, essays, statistical reports, treasury reports, and other records of the American Missionary Association (AMA). Chiefly letters from teachers and missionaries portraying the organization's support of abolitionism in the North and of other religious and missionary societies, as well as its efforts to aid freedmen after the American Civil War. Subjects include the work of the AMA to send teachers...
    • Contributor: American Missionary Association
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    Voices of Civil Rights The events of the U.S. Civil Rights Movement are documented through personal stories, oral histories, and photographs collected by the “Voices of Civil Rights” project, and marks the arrival of these materials to the Library.
    • Contributor: Trickey, Minnijean Brown - Ynclan, Nery - Marquez Stathis, Sandra - Monroe, Sputnik - Boggs, Grace Lee - Hargrove, Earnestine - Meier, Deborah - Green, Percy - O'Konis, Jonathan - Mingo, Lucy ... Trickey, Minnijean Brown - Ynclan, Nery - Marquez Stathis, Sandra - Monroe, Sputnik - Boggs, Grace Lee - Hargrove, Earnestine - Meier, Deborah - Green, Percy - O'Konis, Jonathan - Mingo, Lucy - Hackney, Lucy D. - Sellers, Cleveland - Hill, Oliver W. - Brownmiller, Susan - Reid, Vernon - Norton, Eleanor Holmes - Carlos, John - Briggs, Jimmie - Lee, Helen Shores - McKinstry, Carolyn Maull - Kirk, Ron - Zabel, William D. - Charles, Michael Ray - Wilkins, Roger W. - Wilson, Diane - Krol, Debra Utacia - Rowles, Billy E. - Little Joe - Wilder, Lawrence Douglas - Forman, James - Bonilla, RubĂ©n - Romilly, Constancia - Reavis, Dick J. - Horowitz, Rachelle - Steger, Michelle - Harjo, Suzan Shown - Halpern, Rosario Salgado - Oldham, Charles R. - Thompson, Larry Dean - Iverem, Esther - Adams, Victoria Gray - Tafel, Richard - Dinkins, David N. - Dahmer, Ellie J. - Jones, Doug (G. Douglas) - Lyons, Kenneth O. - Tisdale, Alice - Library of Congress - Smith, Vern E. - Jarrett, Vernon - Sloan, Lester - Seay, Norman R. - Swann-Daniels, Carol - Spellman-Diaz, Toyin - Booth, Heather - Rivers, Eugene - Wilson, Edwin O. - Lee, Sammy - Beerman, Leonard I. - Lewis, John - Lowery, Joseph E. - Aarp (Organization) - Shores, Barbara - Holland, Endesha Ida Mae - McWhorter, Diane - Neubauer, Rita - Patoski, Joe Nick - Sims, Bernice Banks - Mapp, Marilyn - Braxton, Annye H. - Kwoh, Stewart - Hooks, Benjamin L. (Benjamin Lawson) - Wolf, Bonny - King, B. B. - Doty, Juanita Sims - West, W. Richard - Pierce, Ponchitta Anne - Branch, Raylawni G. - Bowley, Andy - Beal, Gerald K. - Tisdale, Charles - Kyles, Samuel Billy - Baxley, Bill (William Joseph) - Fountain, Clarence - Davis, L. Clifford - Rosenfeld, Megan - Lewis, Dan - Frank, Barney - Fleming, Karl - Poussaint, Alvin F. - Hayes, Shirley G. - Harrington, Penny - Murray, Tawanda - Lout, Mike (James M.) - Dickinson, James Luther - Kellogg, Alex - Height, Dorothy I. (Dorothy Irene) - Collins, Wendell - History Channel (Television Network) - Whitehouse, Liz - Mease, Quentin R. - Moses, Robert Parris - Leadership Conference on Civil Rights - GutiĂ©rrez, JosĂ© Angel - Lum, Lydia - Rosenzweig, Hannah - Williams, Juan - Smith, Jerome M. - Garcia, Isabel (Isabel G.) - Bourne, St. Clair - Uyeshima, Erin Emiko - Wunrow, Jeffrey D. - Hite, Nancy - Epps, Jesse - Fife, John M. (John Macmillan) - Lawson, James M. - Graves, Curtis - Kochiyama, Yuri - Miller, Tom - Sutton, Goodloe - Latimer, Leah Y. - Goodman, Carolyn - Landrieu, Moon - Gields, Clarence - Mashariki, Job - Andrade, Juan - Moutoussamy-Ashe, Jeanne - Yamamoto, Joyce C. - Pride, Carlton
    • Date: 2005-02-24
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    Blair family papers, Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available Correspondence, memoranda, diaries, speeches, lectures, writings, legal files, financial records, military records, biographical and genealogical material, printed matter, photographs, and other papers of Blair family members. Family correspondents include many members of the immediate Blair family as well as extended relations such as Mary Elizabeth Woodbury Blair, Gustavus Vasa Fox, Virginia L. Woodbury Fox, Elizabeth Blair Lee, Samuel Phillips Lee, Minna Blair Richey, and...
    • Contributor: Blair, Montgomery - Blair, Gist - Blair, Francis Preston - Blair, Frank P., (Francis Preston) - Blair, Woodbury - Clapp, Charles Q. - Stevens, Samuel - Woodbury, Levi
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    Voices of Civil Rights Project collection, Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available Collection consists of oral history interviews, sound and video recordings, photographs and manuscript materials documenting memories of the civil rights movement for the Voices of Civil Rights Project, sponsored by the American Association of Retired Persons (AARP). The manuscript submissions consist of correspondence from AARP members and the general public who responded to invitations in AARP Magazine, AARP Bulletin and Parade Magazine in 2003...
    • Contributor: Trickey, Minnijean Brown - Ynclan, Nery - Marquez Stathis, Sandra - Monroe, Sputnik - Boggs, Grace Lee - Hargrove, Earnestine - Meier, Deborah - Green, Percy - O'Konis, Jonathan - Mingo, Lucy ... Trickey, Minnijean Brown - Ynclan, Nery - Marquez Stathis, Sandra - Monroe, Sputnik - Boggs, Grace Lee - Hargrove, Earnestine - Meier, Deborah - Green, Percy - O'Konis, Jonathan - Mingo, Lucy - Hackney, Lucy D. - Sellers, Cleveland - Hill, Oliver W. - Brownmiller, Susan - Reid, Vernon - Norton, Eleanor Holmes - Carlos, John - Briggs, Jimmie - Lee, Helen Shores - McKinstry, Carolyn Maull - Kirk, Ron - Zabel, William D. - Charles, Michael Ray - Wilkins, Roger W. - Wilson, Diane - Krol, Debra Utacia - Rowles, Billy E. - Little Joe - Wilder, Lawrence Douglas - Forman, James - Bonilla, RubĂ©n - Romilly, Constancia - Reavis, Dick J. - Horowitz, Rachelle - Steger, Michelle - Harjo, Suzan Shown - Halpern, Rosario Salgado - Oldham, Charles R. - Thompson, Larry Dean - Iverem, Esther - Adams, Victoria Gray - Tafel, Richard - Dinkins, David N. - Dahmer, Ellie J. - Jones, Doug (G. Douglas) - Lyons, Kenneth O. - Tisdale, Alice - Library of Congress - Smith, Vern E. - Jarrett, Vernon - Sloan, Lester - Seay, Norman R. - Swann-Daniels, Carol - Spellman-Diaz, Toyin - Booth, Heather - Rivers, Eugene - Wilson, Edwin O. - Lee, Sammy - Beerman, Leonard I. - Lewis, John - Lowery, Joseph E. - Aarp (Organization) - Shores, Barbara - Holland, Endesha Ida Mae - McWhorter, Diane - Neubauer, Rita - Patoski, Joe Nick - Sims, Bernice Banks - Mapp, Marilyn - Braxton, Annye H. - Kwoh, Stewart - Hooks, Benjamin L. (Benjamin Lawson) - Wolf, Bonny - King, B. B. - Doty, Juanita Sims - West, W. Richard - Pierce, Ponchitta Anne - Branch, Raylawni G. - Bowley, Andy - Beal, Gerald K. - Tisdale, Charles - Kyles, Samuel Billy - Baxley, Bill (William Joseph) - Fountain, Clarence - Davis, L. Clifford - Rosenfeld, Megan - Lewis, Dan - Frank, Barney - Fleming, Karl - Poussaint, Alvin F. - Hayes, Shirley G. - Harrington, Penny - Murray, Tawanda - Lout, Mike (James M.) - Dickinson, James Luther - Kellogg, Alex - Height, Dorothy I. (Dorothy Irene) - Collins, Wendell - History Channel (Television Network) - Whitehouse, Liz - Mease, Quentin R. - Moses, Robert Parris - Leadership Conference on Civil Rights - GutiĂ©rrez, JosĂ© Angel - Lum, Lydia - Rosenzweig, Hannah - Williams, Juan - Smith, Jerome M. - Garcia, Isabel (Isabel G.) - Bourne, St. Clair - Uyeshima, Erin Emiko - Wunrow, Jeffrey D. - Hite, Nancy - Epps, Jesse - Fife, John M. (John Macmillan) - Lawson, James M. - Graves, Curtis - Kochiyama, Yuri - Miller, Tom - Sutton, Goodloe - Latimer, Leah Y. - Goodman, Carolyn - Landrieu, Moon - Gields, Clarence - Mashariki, Job - Andrade, Juan - Moutoussamy-Ashe, Jeanne - Yamamoto, Joyce C. - Pride, Carlton
    • Date: 2003
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    Many Paths to Freedom: Looking Back, Looking Ahead at the Long Civil Rights Movement - Schedule (The American Folklife Center, Library of Congress)
    Many paths to freedom: looking back, looking ahead at the long civil rights movement | American Folklife Center lecture, 2014-09-25 | American Folklife Center symposium, 2014-09-25 | American Folklife Center lecture, 2014-04-17 | Freedom struggle in Southwest Georgia | American Folklife Center lecture, 2014-02-27 | American Folklife Center lecture, 2014-05-19 | American Folklife Center symposium, 2014-05-19     Four leaders who participated in the Mississippi Freedom Project in 1964 discussed their experiences and the legacy of their civil rights work. They included Robert "Bob" Parris Moses, founder and president of The Algebra Project, Inc. He received his BA from Hamilton College (1956), and his MA in Philosophy from Harvard University (1957). Moses was a prominent figure in the civil rights movement as...
    • Contributor: Moses, Robert Parris - Ellis, Rex M. - Araiza, Lauren - Jeffries, Hasan Kwame - Cook, Richard Baldwin - Blacks in Government (U.S.). Library of Congress Chapter - Hogan, Wesley C. - Pearcy, Glen - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress) - Jennings, Bill X ... Moses, Robert Parris - Ellis, Rex M. - Araiza, Lauren - Jeffries, Hasan Kwame - Cook, Richard Baldwin - Blacks in Government (U.S.). Library of Congress Chapter - Hogan, Wesley C. - Pearcy, Glen - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress) - Jennings, Bill X - Stewart, Kate - Cobb, Charles E. - Shankar, Guha - Hinojosa, Felipe - Jackson, Thomas F. - Ladner, Joyce A. - Mantler, Gordon Keith - Ladner, Dorie - American Folklife Center - Cline, David P.
    • Date: 2014-01-01
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    Carter Godwin Woodson papers, Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available Papers of prominent African Americans, correspondence, writings, research files, business records, and other papers relating to Woodson's leadership of the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History (ASNLH) and to scholarship and publishing in the field of African and African-American history. Part I, 1803-1936 (bulk 1830-1927), was assembled by Woodson who collected and preserved primary sources on African American history as executive...
    • Contributor: Clark, John T. - McKinlay, Whitefield - Tanner, Benj. T. (Benjamin Tucker) - Woodson, Carter Godwin