Skip to main content Skip to search results

Showing Records: 41 - 51 of 51

MS134-008 Program: Second Annual Conference Georgia Interracial Committee, March 3, 1939

 Book — Box: 1, Book: 8
Collection number: MS/134-008
Scope and Contents Second Annual Conference Georgia Interracial Committee, March 3, 1939. Program. (Atlanta: Georgia Interracial Committee, 1939).Lists Program of the conference, Conference Committee members and the executives of the Georgia Interracial Committee. This Committee was headed by a noted Gainesville, Georgia clergyman and the President of historically-black Atlanta University. The Committee focued on problems of higher education and the 1938 Gains Decision of the U.S. Supreme Court...
Dates: March 3, 1939

MS134-009 Study Outline, History of The American Negro People, 1619 - 1918, 1939

 Book — Box: 1, Book: 9
Collection number: MS/134-009
Scope and Contents

This book was published by a book shop that was affiliated with the Communist Party USA. The book is organized as a series of lessons on African-American history for use in workshops and classes. This is the first printing. Which is somewhat scarce compared to the second printing. Interesting and important study of American blacks some twenty years before the Civil Rights movement. (description by seller)

Dates: Event: 1619 - 1918; 1939

MS134-010 The segregation decisions : papers read at a session of the twenty-first annual meeting of the Southern Historical Association, Memphis Tennessee, November 10, 1955, 1956

 Book — Box: 1, Book: 10
Collection number: MS/134-010
Scope and Contents

William Faulkner, Benjamin Mays, Cecil Sims. Introduction by Bell Wiley. Significant because of essay by Faulkner, but Benjamin Mays is often called the spiritual mentor of Martin Luther King, Jr. Important document showing how prominent Southerners viewed early Court decisions concerning desegregation and hoe they viewed the future. (description by seller)

Dates: 1956

MS134-0011 Georgia Journal. Vol. 5, no. 9, September 28, 1957

 Book — Box: 1, Book: 11
Collection number: MS/134-011
Scope and Contents

The Journal took up political topics of the day with commentary on Civil Rights issues. Bernd seems to have taken a moderate position, Criticizing both the use of Federal troops in Little Rock and Gov. Faubus' reaction. Contains a number of ads for Macon area businesses. Little-known Georgia publication.

Dates: September 28, 1957

MS134-0012 Tampa: Tar and Terror, 1936?

 Book — Box: 1, Book: 12
Collection number: MS/134-012
Scope and Contents

Relates the story of the November 30, 1935 kidnapping, torture and murder of Joseph Shoemaker, and kidnapping and torture of other members of the Modern Democrats political organization, who were assisting cigar factory workers in Tampa, Fla. Mr. Shoemaker died 9 days later in a Tampa hospital. The police and others involved in the kidnappings were reported to be members of the Ku Klux Klan.

Dates: 1936?

MS134-0013 Negro Liberation, 1938

 Book — Box: 1, Book: 13
Collection number: MS/134-013
Preface The present pamphlet is based upon an earlier brochure under the same title first published in 1932. Since then, important changes in the United States and in the world situation have rendered sections of the old pamphlet inadequate or out of date. In addition, the movement of the Negro people towards unity in the fight for equal rights and the new progressive movement in the country have advanced considerably since 1932. These developments have brought to the fore a number of...
Dates: 1938

MS134-0014 Brown, Hallie Q. Tales My Father Told Me, 1925

 Book — Box: 1, Book: 14
Collection number: MS/134-014
Scope and Contents

Tales My Father Told By Hallie Q. Brown. This appears to be a first edition of Brown's memoir of her father who told many stories of escaping slaves. 2022-03-16 Cannot locate physical copy

Dates: 1925

MS134-0015 A souvenir program in memory of Dr. William E. Burghardt DuBois, 1868-1963, 1963

 Book — Box: 1, Book: 15
Collection number: MS/134-015
Scope and Contents Journal offered to those attending the Memorial to Dr. W.E. Burghardt DuBois at Carnegie Hall, February 23, 1964.DuBois Memorial Committee. Souvenir Program in Memory of Dr. William E. Burphardt DuBois, 1868-1963. New York: Priv. Publish, February 23, 1964. Civil Rights Papers (MS/134-033). Valdosta State University Archives and Special Collections, Valdosta State University. This is a special souvenir program for a memorial service held for Du Bois at Carnegie Hall...
Dates: 1963

MS134-0016 Defense Training and Jobs for Negroes: Our War-Time Responsibility and Opportunity, February 7, 1942

 Book — Box: 1, Book: 16
Collection number: MS/134-016
Scope and Contents

National Negro Congress. Defense training and jobs for Negroes: Our Wartime Responsibility and Opportunity. Washington DC: Washington Council, 1942. http://hdl.handle.net/10428/2990. URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10428/2990

Dates: February 7, 1942

MS134-0017 Behind the Lynching of Emmet Louis Till, 1955

 Book — Box: 1, Book: 17
Collection number: MS/134-017
Scope and Contents

This is a fiery pamphlet regarding human rights abuses against African-Americans in the South. The pamphlet is not just about Emmet Till, whose murder helped galvanize the Civil Rights movement, but about violence against blacks throughout the South. The Auhtor was a civil rights activist who was the editor of Freedom, the newspaper founded by Paul Robeson. Compelling pamphlet from the early days of the Civil Rights Movement. - description by seller Author: Louis E. Burnham

Dates: 1955

MS134-0018 Southerner and Schools

 Book — Box: 1, Folder: 18
Collection number: MS/134-018
Scope and Contents I - The Defiant Ones in Virginia II - The "New Negroes" in Alabama III - The Segregationists Go North IV - Atlanta is Different V - New Orleans Knows Better VI - Nashville-First Steps Firmly Taken VII - Deliberate, Yes-Speed, No By Helen Fuller...
Dates: 1893 - 1962

Filtered By

  • Subject: African Americans X
  • Repository: Valdosta State University Archives and Special Collections X

Filter Results

Additional filters:

Type
Archival Record 48
Digital Record 3
 
Subject
African Americans 50
Oral history 27
Sound recordings 25
Wiregrass Country (Ga.) 19
Civil rights 18
∨ more
Rare books 18
Civil rights movements -- United States -- History -- 20th century -- Sources 17
Turpentine 15
Turpentine Industry and Trade 14
Turpentining 13
Segregation 12
Georgia 8
Naval Stores Industry 7
School integration 7
Sacred harp 5
Shape-note singing 5
Women 5
Communism 4
Cuthbert (Ga.) 4
Gospel music 4
Musicians 4
Personal Narratives 4
Randolph County (Ga.) 4
Blackshear (Ga.) 3
Electronic records 3
Valdosta (Ga.) 3
African Americans -- Legal status, laws, etc. 2
Florida 2
Folkston (Ga.) 2
Georgia -- History -- 1865- 2
Hoboken (Ga.) 2
Lowndes County (Ga.) 2
McIntosh County (Ga.) 2
Naval stores industry--Southern States--History. 2
Pierce County (Ga.) 2
Politics and culture 2
Priests 2
Soperton (Ga.) 2
Ware County (Ga.) 2
Waycross (Ga.) 2
Adrian (Ga.) 1
African American history 1
African Americans -- Education -- Georgia 1
Atlanta (Ga.) 1
Audiocassettes 1
Baptists, Black 1
Baxley (Ga.) 1
Berrien County (Ga.) 1
Brantley County (Ga.) 1
Church musicians 1
Civil defense 1
Civil rights movements -- United States 1
Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.) 1
College students 1
Desegregation 1
Esto (Fla.) 1
Food 1
Freemasonry 1
Freemasons 1
Georgia--Politics and government 1
Governors 1
Guitarists 1
Hahira (Ga.) 1
Integration 1
Jacksonville (Fla.) 1
Jakin (Ga.) 1
Korean War, 1950-1953 1
Ku Klux Klan 1
Letters 1
Ludowici (Ga.) 1
Lynching 1
Music 1
Nashville (Ga.) 1
Ocilla (Ga.) 1
Okefenokee Swamp (Ga. and Fla.) 1
Periodicals 1
Photograph collections 1
Photographs 1
Pierson (Fla.) 1
Presbyterian Church 1
Programs (Publications) 1
Slavery--United States 1
Spirituals (Songs) 1
Tampa (Fla.) 1
Television news programs 1
Tennessee 1
Theater 1
Theater programs 1
Thomasville (Ga.) 1
Tifton (Ga.) 1
Treutlen County (Ga.) 1
Universities and colleges--Administration 1
VSU-TV (TV Station : Valdosta State University) 1
Veterans 1
Video recordings 1
Volusia County (Fla.) 1
Willacoochee (Ga.) 1
World War, 1939-1945 1
Youth -- Societies and clubs 1
+ ∧ less
 
Names
Prizer, Timothy C. 6
Sommers, Laurie Kay, 1955- 4
Baldwin, Ethel Ruth, 1929- 2
Catherine Oglesby 2
Taylor, C.J., Rev. (Clifford James), 1930-2011 2