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Clear All Contributing Institution David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library

Description:: Documents related to the February 13, 1969 occupation of Duke University's main administration building by students belonging to the school's Afro-American Society.
Date of Original:: 1969/2002
Contributing Institution:: David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library

Description:: Contains the records of Duke University's Black Student Alliance and materials belonging to Duke University student groups that pertain to the African diaspora, race relations at Duke University, and related activities in the local community.
Date of Original:: 1969/2006
Contributing Institution:: David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library

Description:: Collection of correspondence, by-laws, meeting agendas and minutes, budgets, articles of incorporation belonging to this non-profit, interracial organization founded in Durham, N.C. in September 1968.
Date of Original:: 1968/1998
Contributing Institution:: David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library

Date of Original:: 1966/1981
Contributing Institution:: David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library

Description:: Materials document the lifelong involvement of African American civic leaders Asa and Edna Spaulding in the business, political, educational, religious, and social life of Durham, N.C.; the Spauldings were active in a broad range of political bodies, businesses, civic groups, and activist organizations.
Date of Original:: 1909/1997
Contributing Institution:: David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library

Description:: History of African American life during the age of Jim Crow, roughly the period from the 1890s to the 1950s.
Date of Original:: 1890/1959
Contributing Institution:: David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library

Description:: Correspondence and materials relating to issues of national importance during the 1960s, including civil rights legislation, from congressional files belonging to Basil Lee Whitener (1915-1989), a U.S. Representative from Gastonia, N.C.
Date of Original:: 1889/1968
Contributing Institution:: David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library

Description:: Papers of Durham, North Carolina civic leader Rencher Nicholas Harris, the first African American city councilman in Durham, and the first African American man to sit on the Durham County Board of Education; Harris' service to Durham spanned the period following the Brown school desegregation decision of 1954 and continued throughout the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s.
Date of Original:: 1851/1965
Contributing Institution:: David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library

Description:: Materials belonging to African American educator, journalist, and reformer Charles N. Hunter from Raleigh, North Carolina that discuss and illuminate the problems experienced by emancipated African Americans during Reconstruction and into the early 20th century, encompassing agriculture, business, race relations, reconstruction, education, politics, voting rights, and economic improvement.
Date of Original:: 1850/1932
Contributing Institution:: David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library

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