William LePre Houston family papers, 1777-1936
4,000 items ; 23 containers plus 2 oversize ; 9.2 linear feet -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Lawyers. Correspondence, diaries, financial records, academic papers, printed matter, and miscellaneous material related to the Houstons’ family life, fraternal organizations, the law, and Charles Hamilton Houston’s military service during World War I.
Jackie Robinson papers, 1934-2001
7,000 items ; 17 containers ; 6.6 linear feet -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Baseball player, civil rights leader, and corporate executive. Correspondence, fan mail, financial and legal records, drafts of speeches and writings, printed matter, newspaper clippings, and miscellaneous items relating to Robinson as the first African American to play major league baseball in the twentieth century and to various business and civic activities following his baseball career,...
Rayford Whittingham Logan papers, 1925-1982
800 items ; 10 containers ; 4.0 linear feet ; 1 microfilm reel -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Historian and educator. Correspondence, diaries, and biographical material documenting Logan's concern with racial inequality and his career as an historian of Africans and African Americans.
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Andrew Carnegie papers, 1803-1935
67,400 items ; 304 containers ; 72 linear feet -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Industrialist and philanthropist. Correspondence, reports, memoranda, speeches, articles, book files, financial papers, printed materials, and other papers relating to Carnegie's steel manufacturing and other business and philanthropic activities.
James Dodson Barbee and David Rankin Barbee papers, 1784-1953
5,000 items ; 17 containers plus 1 oversize ; 7.2 linear feet ; 2 microfilm reels -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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James Dodson Barbee, Methodist clergyman in Tennessee and Alabama and publishing agent, and son David Rankin Barbee, journalist. Correspondence, including family letters, notebooks, account books, printed matter, notes, and sermons chiefly relating to the Methodist Publishing House, Nashville, Tennessee, and to claims of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, growing out of Civil War property...
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Black history collection, 1700-2008
1,165 items ; 5 containers plus 1 oversize ; 1.9 linear feet -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Letters, court records, legal documents, slave deeds, financial records, speeches and writings, family and genealogical papers, military records, birth records, inventories, wills, ships' papers, a commonplace book, poll tax receipts, broadsides, postcards, marriage certificates, newspaper clippings, printed matter, and other material pertaining to African Americans.
Barnett Allen Howard papers, 1885-1949
13 items ; 2 containers ; 0.8 linear feet -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Farmer, preacher, and trader. Memoirs documenting Howard's life as well as genealogical material, legal documents, and printed matter.
Carter Godwin Woodson papers, 1736-1974
18,000 items ; 54 containers plus 19 oversize ; 21.2 linear feet ; 46 microfilm reels -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Historian, author, and collector. Papers of prominent African Americans, research files, business records, writings, correspondence, and other material relating to Woodson's leadership of the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History and to scholarship and publishing in the field of African and African-American history.
United States Work Projects Administration records, 1524-1975
409,000 items ; 1,634 containers plus 1 oversize ; 637.6 linear feet ; 63 microfilm reels -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Correspondence, memoranda, speeches, essays, scripts, plays, life histories, folklore material, field reports, notes, transcripts of documents, inventories, lists, statements, instructions, surveys and appraisals, graphs, drawings, maps, indexes, and administrative records of the Federal Writer's Project and the Historical Records Survey of the U.S. Work Projects Administration. Also includes a...
David Ginsburg papers, 1919-2007
70,000 items ; 245 containers plus 1 classified and 3 oversize ; 99.6 linear feet ; 2 microfilm reels -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Lawyer, author, and teacher. Correspondence and memoranda, newspaper clippings and press releases, legal material, speeches and writings, reports, research material, minutes, political campaign material, legislation, biographical material, printed matter, and other papers relating primarily to Ginsburg's involvement with civil rights, the recovery of German assets after World War II, and his...
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