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African-American--History

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 53 Collections and/or Records:

2 male children on street (Series I, Item 55)

 Digital Record
Identifier: MSS411_SeriesI_Item55
Dates: Digitized: undated

3 unidentified women (Series I, Item 68)

 Digital Record
Identifier: MSS411_SeriesI_Item68
Dates: Digitized: undated

African American baby on porch (Series I, Item 90)

 Digital Record
Identifier: MSS411_SeriesI_Item90
Dates: Digitized: undated

African American baby on porch (Series I, Item 91)

 Digital Record
Identifier: MSS411_SeriesI_Item91
Dates: Digitized: undated

African American boy in front of sign that reads "Books" (Series I, Item 26)

 Digital Record
Identifier: MSS411_SeriesI_Item26
Dates: Digitized: undated

African American child, laundry in the background (Series I, Item 30)

 Digital Record
Identifier: MSS411_SeriesI_Item30
Dates: Digitized: undated

African American man fishing (Series I, Item 86)

 Digital Record
Identifier: MSS411_SeriesI_Item86
Dates: Digitized: undated

African American nanny with white baby (Series I, Item 66)

 Digital Record
Identifier: MSS411_SeriesI_Item66
Dates: Digitized: undated

African American teachers oral histories

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS-231
Scope and Contents This collection records the experiences of African-American teachers who taught in one room schools in Burke County, Georgia between 1930 and 1955.  Six of the fourteen interviews discuss the role of Jeans supervisors in the schools. Jeans supervisors were funded by the philanthropist Anna Jeans to raise the level of educational opportunities in the South. Interviews conducted with: Mrs. Willie Henry Benefield, Allene Bessent, Alma Griffin, Azalene Young,, Rev. Paul Howard,, Dr. Justine...
Dates: Created: 1930-1955; Other: Date acquired: 10/08/2000

Augusta African American church histories

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS-398
Scope and Contents

This collection is comprised of typed histories of African American churches in Augusta, Ga.

Dates: Created: Undated

"Augusta Georgia Race Riots"

 Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: MSS-223
Scope and Contents

This collection is comprised of 44 typed pages about the Race Riots in Augusta Ga., written by William Winn in 1970.

Dates: Created: 1970; Other: Date acquired: 02/01/1995

Augusta Riots clippings

 Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: MSS-329
Dates: Other: Dummy Date

Channel 6 Augusta Riots footage

 Collection — Object 1
Identifier: MSS-258
Scope and Contents

Footage runs for 2 minutes and 11 seconds.  Material is retrospective coverage of the riots made within a week of the occurrence of the event.  Footage includes scenes of the protestors assembling at the Augusta Richmond County Municipal Building, scenes of peace-keeping personal and scenes of destroyed buildings.  There is audio of James Brown discussing the cause of the riot accompanied by a still photograph.

Dates: Created: 1970; Other: Date acquired: 10/01/2006

Dr. Perzavia Praylow black history research files

 Collection
Identifier: IA-15-01-01-001
Scope and Contents

This collection is comprised of 3 boxes of materials collected by Dr. Perzavia Praylow, an Assistant Professor of African American History at Augusta University (2012-2015) on behalf of Reese Library's Special Collections and Institutional Archives. The majority of the materials in the collection are photocopies of news paper articles and some ephemera realted to African American history in Augusta.

Dates: Created: Undated; Other: Date acquired: 00/00/2015

Group of 7 African American children eating watermelon (Series I, Item 31)

 Digital Record
Identifier: MSS411_SeriesI_Item31
Dates: Digitized: undated

Group of African Americans on Augusta street (Series I, Item 13)

 Digital Record
Identifier: MSS411_SeriesI_Item13
Dates: Digitized: undated

Miscellaneous legal papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS-006
Scope and Contents

Collection includes: slave bills of sale, Georgia land deeds; including Cherokee,  Wilkes, Richmond, Columbia, Greene, Wilkinson, Jefferson, Burke, Screven, Washington, and Early Counties, and cities Augusta and Savannah, South Carolina land deeds; including Edgefield, Granville, Effingham, Barnwell, and Aiken Counties and Beech Island and Newberry District, Georgia Legal Papers, South Carolina Legal Papers, and Confederate and Military Papers

Dates: Created: 1732-1922; Other: Majority of material found in 1800-1893; Other: Date acquired: 02/14/1978

Patrick Timmons Augusta riots oral histories

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: IA-09-01-001
Abstract

This collection consists of oral histories on the 1970 Augusta riots collected by Patrick Timmons' Historical Research Methods Class.

Dates: Other: Dummy Date

Polylogue newspapers

 Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: MSS-014
Scope and Contents

This collection includes two issues of Polylogue: Vol. 1 (7), 20 July 1970, and  Vol. 1(9), September, 1970.  These issues report on the Augusta Riot and the Charles Oatman murder.

Dates: Created: 1970-1970; Other: Date acquired: 06/03/1981

Portrait of young African American Man and an elderly African American woman (Series I, Item 27)

 Digital Record
Identifier: MSS411_SeriesI_Item27
Dates: Digitized: undated