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Delta Sigma Theta records

 Collection
Identifier: 37-4-4592
Content Description

Collection contains documents relating to the founding of Delta Sigma Theta and the Cornell University formerly Theta Chapter now Mu Gamma chapter, publications, clippings, ephemera, and other material relating to Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Incorporated.

Dates: 1969 - 2004

James Baldwin ephemera

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 8882
Content Description

Programs, flyers, posters, and playbills associated with the production of Baldwin's plays; a complete set of bookstore promotional materials by Dial Press advertising the publication of The Fire Next Time and reissue of his backlist, and two recordings on vinyl. Also included are ephemera related to Baldwin's participation in the Civil Rights Movement.

Dates: 1954 - 1967

Tupac Shakur letter and photograph

 Collection — Manuscript box 89 - Folder 1: [Barcode: 31924113876712]
Identifier: 8134
Scope and content

One three-page letter addressed to Simi Chouhan dated August 17, 1995 written by Tupac when he was incarcerated in the Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora, NY, accompanied by a poem written for Simi entitled "Thinkin' of U" and a Polaroid photograph of Tupac pictured with members of his crew.

Dates: 1995.

Larry Fink photographs

 Collection
Identifier: 8791
Abstract

30 photographs by Larry Fink featuring Jazz musicians.

Dates: 1960 - 2004

Alice M. (Carpenter) Scott cabinet card portrait

 Collection — Manuscript box 91 - Folder 1: [Barcode: 31924113876704]
Identifier: 8785m
Abstract

Albumen photograph of Alice M. (Carpenter) Scott.

Dates: 1900

Sigma Kappa, Alpha Zeta chapter records

 Collection
Identifier: 37-4-571
Scope and content Collection contains correspondence, clippings, articles, ephemera, and historical documents from the Alpha Zeta chapter. Included is correspondence and documentation relating to the suspension controversy, including a few issues of the Sigma Kappa Triangle (magazine) and the Sigma Kappa Trianglette (newsletter). Also included is a circa 1920 scrapbook from the first bid to the national organization for affiliation from the local Chi Gamma group (which was then chartered as Alpha Zeta). The...
Dates: 1921-1966.

Wilbert Tatum papers

 Collection — Box ? (300 unprocessed boxes)
Identifier: 8103
Scope and content The Wilbert Tatum papers consists of personal and professional papers, including correspondence, photographic material, ephemera such as political broadsides and advertisements, audio recordings, videos, reports, and material related to Tatum's publishing of the New York Amsterdam News, circa 1960-2000. Within the collection are a scrapbook of material related to civil rights, a death-placard from the funeral of Martin Luther King, Jr., virulent broadsides and writings condemning Ed Koch as...
Dates: [ca. 1960-2000]

WHCU Department of Black Affairs records

 Collection
Identifier: 4904
Abstract

Tape recordings and scripts of the Night Sounds program broadcast on radio station WHCU in Ithaca, New York; interviews, promotional advertisements for local businesses, local news broadcasts, and other programs for the African American listening audience in Central New York State.

Dates: 1971 - 1991

Jewelle Gomez interview

 Collection — Manuscript box 76 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065347571]
Identifier: 7662
Scope and content

Interview with Jewelle Gomez by Erin Miller covering Gomez' own writing, especially THE GILDA STORIES, her perspective on Black women authors and their contribution to speculative fiction, and her thougths on popular fiction, lesbian writing, academia, the market for literature, working with Firebrand Books, and publishing in general.

Dates: 1998

Photo albums of Crips gang members

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924130349719]
Identifier: 8708
Content Description Photo albums (plus 39 loose photos) containing over 250 photographs documenting the lives of three Crips gang members, Iceman, Laffdog, and Yoyo, in the period of the rise and eventual decline of gangsta rap, the 1980s-early 2000s. The first album and the loose photos (Iceman's) cover the mid- to late 1980s, and include many images from jail cells and yards, images of friends flashing gang signs or flying colors, and images of friends and family from the West Side neighborhoods of South Los...
Dates: 1980s-2003

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Subject
African American college students 15
Photographs 12
African American college students -- New York (State) -- Ithaca. 7
Willard Straight Hall takeover, 1969. 7
Student movements. 6
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African American student movements -- New York (State) -- Ithaca. 5
Hip-hop. 5
Women college students. 5
African American student movements. 4
African Americans -- Education 4
African Americans. 4
College students -- Political activity. 4
Greek letter societies. 4
Student movements -- New York (State) -- Ithaca. 4
Women college students -- New York (State) -- Ithaca. 4
African American musicians 3
African American women. 3
Interviews. 3
Minority college students -- New York (State) -- Ithaca. 3
Students -- Political activity. 3
Women's rights 3
Academic freedom. 2
African American Greek letter societies 2
African American college students -- Political activity. 2
African American newspapers. 2
African American women 2
African American youth -- Social life and customs. 2
African Americans -- Civil rights 2
African Americans -- Civil rights -- History -- 20th century 2
African Americans -- Music 2
African Americans -- New York (State) -- Ithaca 2
African Americans -- New York (State) -- New York. 2
Athletics. 2
Civil rights 2
Civil rights movement -- United States. 2
College administrators 2
College presidents. 2
College student government. 2
College students -- Conduct of life. 2
College students -- New York (State) -- Ithaca. 2
College students -- Political activity -- New York (State) -- Ithaca. 2
Demonstrations. 2
Feminism. 2
Gay liberation movement 2
Gay rights 2
Gender identity 2
Homosexuality. 2
Ithaca (N.Y.) -- Social life and customs. 2
Memorials -- Washington (D.C.) 2
Minorities -- Education (Higher) 2
New York Amsterdam news. 2
Peace movements. 2
Race relations. 2
Rap (Music) 2
Rap (Music) -- Political aspects. 2
Rap (Music). 2
Rap musicians. 2
Social history. 2
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Participation, African American. 2
Videotapes. 2
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Protest movements 2
World War, 1914-1918 -- African Americans. 2
16mm 1
AIDS (Disease) 1
AIDS (Disease) -- Law and legislation. 1
AIDS (Disease) -- Patients -- Counseling of -- New York (N.Y.). 1
AIDS (Disease) -- Social aspects. 1
AIDS (Disease) -- Treatment. 1
Abolitionists -- United States. 1
Account books 1
Adolescence. 1
Africa -- American influences. 1
Africa -- Study and teaching. 1
African American Muslims 1
African American Sunday schools--New York (State)--Deposit. 1
African American art 1
African American artists -- United States 1
African American artists -- United States -- Pictorial works. 1
African American athletes 1
African American authors. 1
African American business enterprises -- New York (State) -- Prattsburg. 1
African American college students -- Pictorial works. 1
African American criminals. 1
African American entertainers 1
African American entertainers -- Periodicals. 1
African American fraternal organizations 1
African American gay men 1
African American gay people 1
African American gay people -- New York (State) -- New York 1
African American gay people -- Social life and customs 1
African American gay people -- United States 1
African American intellectuals. 1
African American journalists 1
African American legislators. 1
African American lesbians -- Michigan -- Detroit -- Social life and customs. 1
African American lesbians -- Social life and customs. 1
African American mass media--New York (State)--Ithaca. 1
African American men 1
African American men -- California -- Los Angeles 1
African American men -- Diseases -- Alabama -- Macon County -- History. 1
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Names
Cornell University 33
Muller, Steven, 1927-2013. 6
Cornell University. Africana Studies and Research Center 5
Perkins, James Alfred, 1911-1998 4
no primary creator 4
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Cornell University. Board of Trustees 3
Corson, Dale R. 3
Kennedy, Wilbert Keith, 1919- 3
Sigma Kappa Sorority 3
Sigma Kappa Sorority. Alpha Zeta Chapter (Cornell University) 3
Adams, Morton, 1910- 2
Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity. Alpha Chapter (Cornell University) 2
American Council on Education 2
Association of Colleges and Universities of the State of New York 2
Baldwin, James, 1924-1987. 2
Barlow, Mark, 1925-2012. 2
Black, Max, 1909-1988. 2
Carnegie Corporation of New York 2
Clark, Van Alan. 2
Cornell Aeronautical Laboratory 2
Cornell United Religious Work 2
Cornell University-New York Hospital School of Nursing 2
Cornell University. Afro-American Studies Program 2
Cornell University. Constituent Assembly 2
Cornell University. Department of Economics 2
Cornell University. Division of Biological Sciences 2
Cornell University. Library 2
Cornell University. Medical College 2
Cornell University. Office of the President 2
Cornell University. University Faculty 2
Dean, Arthur H. 2
Donlon, Mary H., 1893-1977. 2
Edwards, Harry, 1942- 2
Ford Foundation 2
Guerlac, Henry. 2
Johnson, Herbert F. (Herbert Fisk), 1899-1978. 2
Kahn, Alfred E. (Alfred Edward.) 2
Leigh, Wilhelmina 2
Linowitz, Sol M., 1913-2005. 2
Long, Franklin A., 1910-1999. 2
Malott, Deane W. (Deane Waldo), 1898-1996. 2
Miller, R. D. (Robert Demorest), 1919-2011. 2
Morse, Chandler. 2
National Collegiate Athletic Association 2
New York State College of Human Ecology 2
Newman, Floyd R. (Floyd Roy), 1890-1990. 2
Noyes, Jansen. 2
Olin, John M. 2
Olin, Spencer T. 2
Palm, Charles Edmund, 1911-1996. 2
Penney, Norman. 2
Purcell, Robert W. 2
Shakur, Tupac, 1971-1996. 2
Sproull, Robert L. 2
State University of New York 2
Students for a Democratic Society 2
Thomas, Sarah Ethel. 2
Tobin, Thomas L. 2
Turner, James E. 2
United States Commission on Civil Rights 2
United States. Army 2
Adams, Charles Kendall, 1835-1902. 1
African Americans 1
African Methodist Episcopal Church 1
Afrika Bambaataa, 1957- 1
Agree, Peter. 1
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation 1
Allen, James E., Jr., 1911-1971. 1
Alpha Phi Alpha 1
Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity. Kappa Xi Lambda Chapter (Wall Street Alphas) 1
Ambler, W. E. 1
American Association of University Professors 1
American Baptist Home Mission Society 1
American Colonization Society 1
American Field Service 1
Amherst College 1
Anderson, Carl A. 1
Anderson, Charles N. 1
Appuzo, Virginia. 1
Archibald, Douglas N. 1
Armstead, Siobhan. 1
Ashby, Eric, 1904-1992. 1
BWMT/NY 1
Barboza, Anthony, 1944- 1
Barlow, J. Robert. 1
Battle, Juan (Juan Jose.) (Title of work: Say it loud: I\'m Black and I\'m proud..) 1
Bemis, Edward Webster, 1860-1930. 1
Benson, LeGrace G. 1
Berrigan, Daniel. 1
Berrill, Kevin. 1
Bickel, Gary William. 1
Bixby, George (Collector) 1
Black Literary Society of Cornell University. 1
Black, Max. 1
Blunt, Jeffrey. 1
Bok, Derek Curtis. 1
Booker T. Washington Club (Ithaca, N.Y.) 1
Boyer, Ernest L. 1
Brauner, Robert 1
Brewster, Kingman, Jr., 1919-1988. 1
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