Digitizing The Past for the Future
The Digital Archives is dedicated to enhancing access to the Center's unique collections through providing digitization and long-term preservation of historical manuscripts, photographs, and born digital materials while expanding the Center’s digital footprint to a global community of researchers, students, and patrons.
Explore Amistad’s digital collections for convenient and comprehensive access
Explore Amistad’s Digital Collections
Amistad’s digital projects include a diverse range of topics from the African American experience to civil rights documentation. Each collection is curated to educate, inform, and inspire the Center’s global audience.
The Long Civil Rights Movement: Photographs from the Ronnie Moore Papers, 1963-1972
Ronnie Moore served as the field secretary in the South for the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) and the executive director of the Scholarship, Education and Defense Fund for Racial Equality, Inc. (SEDFRE). The Ronnie Moore papers consist of photographs (1964-1972) from his involvement with these organizations.
The Long Civil Rights Movement: Photographs from the Ronnie Moore Papers, 1963-1972
Ronnie Moore served as the field secretary in the South for the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) and the executive director of the Scholarship, Education and Defense Fund for Racial Equality, Inc. (SEDFRE). The Ronnie Moore papers consist of photographs (1964-1972) from his involvement with these organizations.
The Rex Madsen and Jimmie Daniels Photograph Collection
The Rex Madsen and Jimmie Daniels photograph collection documents the life of Jimmie Daniels and his career as a a nightclub host and entertainer during the Harlem Renaissance and into the 1950s and 1960s.
The Rex Madsen and Jimmie Daniels Photograph Collection
The Rex Madsen and Jimmie Daniels photograph collection documents the life of Jimmie Daniels and his career as a a nightclub host and entertainer during the Harlem Renaissance and into the 1950s and 1960s.
The Crescent City Pictorial
In 1926, former school teacher and newspaper publisher O.C.W. (Orlando Capitola Ward) Taylor published a 28-page souvenir booklet dedicated "to the Progress of the Colored Citizens of New Orleans, Louisiana, "America's Most Interesting City."
The Crescent City Pictorial
In 1926, former school teacher and newspaper publisher O.C.W. (Orlando Capitola Ward) Taylor published a 28-page souvenir booklet dedicated "to the Progress of the Colored Citizens of New Orleans, Louisiana, "America's Most Interesting City."
Print Culture of the Civil Rights Movement, 1950-1980
The Civil Rights Movement in the United States coincided with rapid changes in a variety of news and communications media.
Print Culture of the Civil Rights Movement, 1950-1980
The Civil Rights Movement in the United States coincided with rapid changes in a variety of news and communications media.