Civil Rights -- United States
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 9 Collections and/or Records:
Black Student League
Collection — Box 1
Collection number: UA-5-10-13
Scope and Contents
This collection contains items relating to the Black Student League. The collection deals more with events and news releases rather than organizational papers. There are several programs for events sponsored by the Black Student League, Pamphlets titled Black Involvement at Valdosta State College, and flyers and letters about Black Awareness Week Events. There are also some photographs and newspaper articles concerning the early Black Student League (circa 1970s).Harmful Content...
Dates:
circa 1960's-1970's
Catherine Oglesby Civil Rights Papers
Collection — Box 1
Collection number: UA-23-31
Scope and Contents
This collection of papers was donated to the Valdosta State University Archives and Special Collections by Professor of History Dr. Catherine Oglesby. They mostly date from the late 1960s to the early 1970s. Containing newspapers, magazines, legal papers, and newsletters most of these materials were produced in the Civil Rights Era which gives a special insight into that topic. Subjects that appear throughout the collection include: Integration, desegregation, gender bias, cooperatives...
Dates:
1964 - 1975
Civil Rights Papers
Collection — Box 1
Collection number: MS-134
Scope and Contents
This collection contains materials relating to civil rights, dating from 1893 to 1962. The subjects covered include: civil rights, segregation, integration, the NAACP, the League of Women Voters, the Republican Party, and the Democratic Party. These materials are also available as scanned images through v-text: Harmful Content Policy:
Valdosta State University Archives and Special Collection’s collection houses materials collected to elucidate the past. We recognize that users...
Dates:
1893 - 1962
Copeland African American Museum Collection
Collection
Collection number: UA -9-10
Scope and Contents
In 1989, Roy Copeland informed his wife, Cheryl, that he did not wish to select a gift for Christmas. Rather than doing this she decided to surprise him! For Christmas that year, she presented him with a seasonally wrapped box. Inside the box, to his surprise, was a set of autographed Muhammad Ali boxing gloves. This expression of love for her husband, led to a labor of love from that Christmas forward. Each year, Cheryl selected a unique piece of memorabilia for Roy. He then parlayed those...
Dates:
2021-07-13
Margaret Leonard / Long Collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Collection number: MS-126
Scope and Contents
Margaret (Sissy) Leonard and her family have a strong legacy in journalism and activism throughout the 20th century. The tradition started with her grandfather, George Long, who courageously criticized the Ku Klux Klan in his editorials for the Macon Telegraph in the early 1900s. Margaret's mother, Margaret Long, was a progressive journalist who worked at several newspapers in the southern United States. She managed to raise two children mostly on her own while also writing two published...
Dates:
1900 - 1989; Majority of material found within 1950 - 1970
Open Source Alexandrian and Witches' Order of the Golden Dawn Collections
Collection
Collection number: MS-150-6
Scope and Contents
The Collection contains a variety of born digital items from the activities of Witches' Order of the Golden Dawn (WOGD), teh coven Circle of Cerridwen, and the Open Source Alexandrian tradition including, Podcasts, blog posts, essays, and other miscellenous publications.
Dates:
2010 - 2015
The Black Panther Newspaper
Collection — Box 1
Collection number: MS-163
Scope and Contents
Includes issues from 1969-1972. It does not include every issue printed during the time.Harmful Content Policy:
Valdosta State University Archives and Special Collection’s collection houses materials collected to elucidate the past. We recognize that users may encounter some items within these collections that contain offensive language, viewpoints, imagery or other forms of objectionable content. Such materials document the past and should be viewed within the context of...
Dates:
1969-1972
The Southern Patriot
Collection — Multiple Containers
Collection number: MS-124
Scope and Contents
The Southern Patriot was a progressive southern newspaper that ran from 1942-1976? out of South Carolina. The newspaper supported and advocated desegregation before and after the Civil Rights Movement. It covered groups like the militant-leaning Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in a favorable light. It covered the youth movements, sit-ins, and acts of civil disobedience surrounding the Civil Rights Movement and inspired activists in their endeavors.The Southern...
Dates:
1965 - 1976
Valdosta State University Chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
Collection — Multiple Containers
Collection number: UA-5-10-26
Scope and Contents
This collection presents a comprehensive view of the history of the Valdosta State University Chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. The bulk of the papers are from 2003-2007, and contain a brief history of the NAACP, the materials used in founding the VSU Chapter including the Charter, and the by-laws and constitutions for the local,state, and national level of the NAACP. It also includes agendas and minutes for NAACP meetings, as well as...
Dates:
2003 - 2007; Acquired: 2007-07-25