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African American civil rights and literary sound recordings

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 8488
Scope and content

Sound recordings on vinyl relating to the African-American narrative in the United States, with a focus on the Civil Rights movement. Recordings include those by Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, Angela Davis, Louis Farrakhan, Langston Hughes, Huey P. Newton, James Baldwin, and many more.

Dates: circa 1960s-circa 1980s.

Cornell University Special Trustee Committee on Campus Unrest records

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 2-6-1444
Scope and content

Includes tapes and transcripts of interviews, printouts, financial records, and other materials relating to the Special Trustee Committee on Campus Unrest (Robertson Committee).

Dates: 1969-1971.

Records regarding the takeover, occupation, of Willard Straight Hall

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 35-7-1295
Scope and content Records of the takeover of Willard Straight Hall, Cornell University, by black students, April 19-20, 1969; includes a memorandum regarding damage done, photographs, and clippings; also includes national magazine clippings, Daily Sun coverage, and other paper ephemera from 1969. Includes copies of photographs and timeline of events from a 1989 exhibit on the takeover, a postcard from the 2005 production of "Learning Curve," a play based on the takeover, and March/April 2019 issue of the...
Dates: 1968-1969, 1989.

Eileen Linsner, collector. Sigma Kappa suspension papers

 Collection — Manuscript box 17 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065304283]
Identifier: 37-4-m.538
Scope and content

Correspondence, mimeographed material, and clippings relating to the suspension of the Cornell chapter of Sigma Kappa by the national organization for pledging an African-American girl.

Dates: 1956-1962.

Intersession Program on Women records

 Collection
Identifier: 23-2-1238
Abstract

Transcripts of taped sessions of a conference on "Women Today" sponsored by the New York State College of Human Ecology (then the College of Home Economics), including transcript of a session on "The Black Woman in America"; memoranda; correspondence; schedules; agenda; and summaries and commentary on sessions.

Dates: 1969.

New York State College of Human Ecology Ghana Project records

 Collection
Identifier: 23-2-2703
Abstract

Ghana Project records, including description of the project, reports, correspondence, lists, syllabi, plans, clippings, and photographs and the work done by Professor Kathleen Rhodes.

Dates: 1961-1988.

Nuwaubian Nation publications and VHS tape

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924070572643]
Identifier: 8702
Abstract

Nine books and booklets, one VHS tape, two children’s coloring books, two Tama-Re passport applications, one Church of Karast newspaper, six pieces of ephemera, three downloads from the now defunct “egiptianmysteries” website, and two photocopies of related newspaper articles.

Dates: 1996 - 2001

Evie C. Spencer papers

 Collection
Identifier: 37-5-2880
Abstract

Photographs, correspondence, memorandum booklets, diplomas and certificates, Cornell ephemera, alumni surveys, and other papers of an African-American woman student at Cornell University. Includes letters from Emily and Isabel Howland

Dates: 1909-1968

Frank T. Wood papers

 Collection
Identifier: 4865
Abstract

Correspondence, photographs, topical files, and other material of a Syracuse, New York social welfare leader; also includes family papers and photographs.

Dates: 1930-1993.

John D'Emilio papers

 Collection
Identifier: 7879
Content Description Collection represents the professional and activist life of John D'Emilio from the early 1970s through the 2020s, and include the following: - Correspondence with and other materials on LGBTQ historians, events, research, and networking in the 1970s and 1980s, including correspondence with Stanford historian Estelle Freedman, Carole Vance, Nan Hunter, and independent historian and MacArthur Fellow Allan Berube. - Files reflecting D'Emilio's involvement with LGBTQ...
Dates: 1914 - 2023

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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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