amistad research center

One of the newest collections at Amistad is the NOLA Hip Hop Archive Project, a digital archive of oral history interviews with foundational musical members of the New Orleans rap scene. The initial project to document this aspect of New Orleans music culture was founded in 2012 by Holly Hobbs, then a Ph.D. student at Tulane University who sought to facilitate a space for community members to tell their own stories in their own words, thereby seeking to combat the long histor

The papers of the Dent family of New Orleans provide a significant portrait of a prominent African American family during the era of the modern civil rights movement. Amistad received the initial deposit of the papers of patriarch Albert W. Dent, and his first born son Tom Dent in 1976, with continued additions until the death of the family’s matriarch, Jessie Covington Dent, in 2001. These two collections, the Albert and Jessie Dent Papers and the Tom Dent Papers, span over