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AfAm. African-Americans

 Topic Guide
Identifier: AfAm
This classification groups manuscript and small collections on the topic of African-Americans.

Found in 31 Collections and/or Records:

"My Little Black Lamb" by Paul Laurence Dunbar (SC-86)

 Collection
Identifier: SC-86
Scope and Contents

Original voice and piano score for song written by Paul Laurence Dunbar.

Dates: 1922

Kent Organ Dayton School Desegregation Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS-299
Abstract

The Kent Organ Dayton School Desegregation Papers consist primarily of the final report of the Ad Hoc Committee to the Dayton Citizens Advisory Board on the Dayton School Desegregation Plan. The report was submitted to Judge Carl B. Rubin in August 1977 after being approved by the Dayton Citizens Advisory Board. Kent Organ was chairman of the Ad Hoc Committee.

Dates: 1977-2004

Paul Laurence Dunbar Newspaper Clippings (SC-149)

 Collection
Identifier: SC-149
Scope and Contents

The collection contains seven newspaper clippings concerning the death and funeral of Paul Laurence Dunbar, as well as his mother, Matilda Dunbar. Two of these include poems written by Paul Laurence Dunbar.

Dates: 1934

Paul Laurence Dunbar Poem, "To Anna C." (SC-168)

 Collection
Identifier: SC-168
Scope and Contents

Original handwritten and typed version of a poem, "To Anna C." written by Paul Laurence Dunbar. The poem is believed to have been written between 1900 and 1906. It was written for Anna Coons who lived in Dunbar’s neighborhood.

Dates: circa 1900

Rain Songs: Poems by Paul Laurence Dunbar (SC-243)

 Collection
Identifier: SC-243
Scope and Contents

This collection contains one copy of "Rain Songs: Poems by Paul Laurence Dunbar," Selected and Illustrated by Emily Burkman, printed by Apiary Press, Northampton, Massachusetts, 2009. This copy is number 7 of fifteen.

Dates: 2009

Register of Black and Mulatto Persons Records (MFM-6)

 Collection
Identifier: MFM-6
Scope and Contents

Records of freed blacks from Greene, Logan, Miami, and Montgomery counties. Information usually includes name, age, birthdate, place and date of freedom, name of former owner, and a short physical description.

Dates: 1804-1856

Springfield Urban League Records

 Collection
Identifier: MS-39
Abstract

Records include constitution and by-laws, Board of Directors' minutes, reports, correspondence, financial records, subject files, news releases, clippings and other related materials of this chapter of the National Urban League.

Dates: 1915-1970; Majority of material found within 1961-1970

Dr. Arthur E. Thomas, President Emeritus, Central State University, Collection (MS-667)

 Collection
Identifier: MS-667
Abstract

The collection contains personal papers, legal documents and court proceedings, photographs, audio and video recordings, news clippings, awards and certificates, correspondence, and other materials relating to Dr. Thomas’s life and career in education and civil rights activism. The collection includes a significant amount of analog audiovisual material, including recordings of most episodes of Thomas’s interview program “Like It Is.”

Dates: circa 1920 - 2020; Majority of material found within 1969 - 2000

Unidentified World War I Soldier's Letter

 Collection
Identifier: SC-30
Scope and Contents The collection contains a two-page letter typed by a World War I soldier returning by ship to the United States from Europe. The letter describes the conditions and activities aboard the transport ship U.S.S. Aeolus, on which he is travelling, as well as the writer’s duties while he is aboard. The author writes about the people he would like to see once he reaches the United States. He also offers insight into race relations in a segregated army. Additionally, the collection contains a...
Dates: 1919

"Who Knows?" by Paul Laurence Dunbar (SC-103)

 Collection
Identifier: SC-103
Scope and Contents

Sheet music and RCA phonograph recording of "Who Knows".

Dates: 1915