African-American--History
Found in 53 Collections and/or Records:
2 male children on street (Series I, Item 55)
3 unidentified women (Series I, Item 68)
African American baby on porch (Series I, Item 90)
African American baby on porch (Series I, Item 91)
African American boy in front of sign that reads "Books" (Series I, Item 26)
African American child, laundry in the background (Series I, Item 30)
African American man fishing (Series I, Item 86)
African American nanny with white baby (Series I, Item 66)
African American teachers oral histories
Augusta African American church histories
This collection is comprised of typed histories of African American churches in Augusta, Ga.
"Augusta Georgia Race Riots"
This collection is comprised of 44 typed pages about the Race Riots in Augusta Ga., written by William Winn in 1970.
Augusta Riots clippings
Channel 6 Augusta Riots footage
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.
Dr. Perzavia Praylow black history research files
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.
Group of 7 African American children eating watermelon (Series I, Item 31)
Group of African Americans on Augusta street (Series I, Item 13)
Miscellaneous legal papers
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
Patrick Timmons Augusta riots oral histories
This collection consists of oral histories on the 1970 Augusta riots collected by Patrick Timmons' Historical Research Methods Class.
Polylogue newspapers
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.