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Poor People’s Campaign Publicized Poverty In ’68

Marian Wright, then the young director of the NAACP Legal Defense & Education Fund in Jackson, Miss., made a suggestion to the Rev....

New Orleans Improvement League: Fighting for integration in the shadows of the NAACP

Sometimes a simple question can lead you down a rabbit hole. That’s the enjoyment of reference, your ability to learn something new while...

50 Years/50 Collections Defenders of Social Justice: The Prince Hall Masons of Louisiana

The records of the Most Worshipful Prince Hall Grand Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons of Louisiana has become one of the Center’s most...

50 Years/50 Collections: The Fannie Lou Hamer Papers, 1981

“Dear fanny lou, we have gust studied some fammouise black leaders it’s hard to explain about how I feel but there [is] one thing I can...

50 Years/50 Collections: The A.P. Tureaud Papers, 1974

An institution such as the Amistad Research Center is comprised of many collections. Yet, as is often the case, particular collections...

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