amistad research center

As a cataloger, I get a glimpse of every title that enters our library collection. This includes books, magazines, newspapers, pamphlets, and even some obscure one-off publications not found in any other institution. One particular item that grabbed my attention was an exhibition catalog as old at the Amistad Research Center itself. It’s called “Junk Art: 66 Signs of Neon,” a catalog accompanying an art display at the Firsts Annual Watts Art Festival in 1966. It’s short, only

This week, Amistad is delighted to highlight one our most recent acquisitions. The papers of actor/producer/writer Harold Sylvester came to us in 2014. The papers are made up of 30 linear feet of correspondence, film and television scripts, materials reflecting Sylvester’s involvement with the Free Southern Theater and his Blue Bayou Productions, photographs, news clippings, and more. A New Orleans native, Sylvester attended St. Augustine High School, where he played basketba

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