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Race discrimination -- United States

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 79 Collections and/or Records:

Lent, Arthur

 File — Box 15: Series 2, Folder: 26
Identifier: 2
Content Description From the Collection: This collection documents the research and creation of the film, Riding the Rails, produced by Michael Uys and Lexy Lovell, and the companion book, Riding the Rails: Teenagers on the Move during the Great Depression, by Errol Lincoln Uys. The bulk of the collection includes the questionnaires, letters, notes from telephone interviews, cassette tapes, video home system (VHS) tapes, unpublished manuscripts, and photographs received by...
Dates: 1992 - 1996

Lent, Aurthur C. (b. 1908), 1992

 Item — Box 10: Series 1, Folder: 3
Identifier: 1
Content Description From the Collection: This collection documents the research and creation of the film, Riding the Rails, produced by Michael Uys and Lexy Lovell, and the companion book, Riding the Rails: Teenagers on the Move during the Great Depression, by Errol Lincoln Uys. The bulk of the collection includes the questionnaires, letters, notes from telephone interviews, cassette tapes, video home system (VHS) tapes, unpublished manuscripts, and photographs received by...
Dates: 1992

Letter from Winyah Lodge, No. 40, to Pacific Lodge, No. 45, 1873 June 04

 Item
Identifier: A2018-009-002
Content Description

Letter from Winyah Lodge, No. 40, to Pacific Lodge, No. 45. Dated June 04, 1873. In this letter, Winyah Lodge, No. 40, describes how white Union soldiers of the 15th Maine torched their lodge building in response to being “relieved by a Battalion of United States colored Troops” under the command of Colonel A. J. Willard. Concludes by appealing to Masons for relief in rebuilding their “lost Temple.”

Dates: 1873 June 04

Logan, Robert L. (b. 1919?), 1992

 Item — Box 14: Series 1, Folder: 4
Identifier: 1
Content Description From the Collection: This collection documents the research and creation of the film, Riding the Rails, produced by Michael Uys and Lexy Lovell, and the companion book, Riding the Rails: Teenagers on the Move during the Great Depression, by Errol Lincoln Uys. The bulk of the collection includes the questionnaires, letters, notes from telephone interviews, cassette tapes, video home system (VHS) tapes, unpublished manuscripts, and photographs received by...
Dates: 1992

Lowell Chapter, Order of DeMolay, collection on integration attempt, 1953-1960

 Collection
Identifier: A2011-001
Scope and Contents Collection of letters, one telegram, drafts of letters, and reports concerning the attempt to admit an African-American boy to the Lowell Chapter, Order of DeMolay. The Lowell Chapter took steps to admit an African American boy to membership, although such membership was prohibited by DeMolay. The result was that DeMolay removed the longtime and honored "Dad" Advisor Frank H. Fiske from all duties and connection with the Lowell chapter and the DeMolay movement. Another member of the...
Dates: 1953-1960

Memorial record book for Clara E. Williams, 1938

 Item
Identifier: A2025-003-001
Scope and Contents

Memorial booklet issued in memory of Clara E. Williams, with a page listing Order of the Eastern Star, Acton Chapter, No. 173; Pythian Sisters, Acton Temple, No. 226; and Acton Rebekah Lodge, No. 518 as fraternal orders attending, and a note to "take no part" for Ku Klux Klan Marion County, Court No. 14, Indianapolis. Williams' date of birth is recorded as October 10, 1866 and a patent date of 1904 is printed on the inside cover.

Dates: 1938

Miller, William L. (b. 1917), 1992

 Item — Box 14: Series 1, Folder: 4
Identifier: 1
Content Description From the Collection: This collection documents the research and creation of the film, Riding the Rails, produced by Michael Uys and Lexy Lovell, and the companion book, Riding the Rails: Teenagers on the Move during the Great Depression, by Errol Lincoln Uys. The bulk of the collection includes the questionnaires, letters, notes from telephone interviews, cassette tapes, video home system (VHS) tapes, unpublished manuscripts, and photographs received by...
Dates: 1992

Oliver, Milford M. (b. 1921), undated

 Item — Box 14: Series 1, Folder: 5
Identifier: 1
Content Description From the Collection: This collection documents the research and creation of the film, Riding the Rails, produced by Michael Uys and Lexy Lovell, and the companion book, Riding the Rails: Teenagers on the Move during the Great Depression, by Errol Lincoln Uys. The bulk of the collection includes the questionnaires, letters, notes from telephone interviews, cassette tapes, video home system (VHS) tapes, unpublished manuscripts, and photographs received by...
Dates: undated

Olson, Dennis H., 1992

 Item — Box 3: Series 1, Folder: 9
Identifier: 1
Content Description From the Collection: This collection documents the research and creation of the film, Riding the Rails, produced by Michael Uys and Lexy Lovell, and the companion book, Riding the Rails: Teenagers on the Move during the Great Depression, by Errol Lincoln Uys. The bulk of the collection includes the questionnaires, letters, notes from telephone interviews, cassette tapes, video home system (VHS) tapes, unpublished manuscripts, and photographs received by...
Dates: 1992