African Americans

Scope and Contents The collection consists of an 1862 legal petition filed by Philip T. Berry in Washington, DC, for compensation for the emancipation of thirteen formerly enslaved individuals: Nelly Beall, Sandy Beall, Sophy Beall, Susan Beall, Margaret Beall, Kitty Beall, Robert Beall, Alexander Beall, Mary Beall, Henry Thomas, and Ann Thomas. The petition includes descriptions of each of the formerly enslaved individuals. The petition was filed following the passing of the District of Columbia Compensated...

Scope and Contents The Maurice Jackson Papers consist of research files and printed materials produced and collected by Georgetown University history professor Maurice Jackson. A series of subject files maintained by Dr. Jackson include materials concerning the history of Washington, D.C., civil rights, and the Washington, D.C. race massacres of 1919 and 1968. Printed materials included in this collection pertain to African American history, communism, socialism, Marxism, Jewish affairs, the Soviet Union, and...

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The collections consists of the "Report to the Atomic Energy Commission. The Master Plan, Oak Ridge, Tennessee" and the "Report to the Atomic Energy Commission the Preliminary Master Plan, Oak Ridge, Tennessee. New York, Chicago, San - Francisco: Skidmore, Owings & Merrill for the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, 1948."

Also includes photographs and the resume of William R. Ewald, Jr., who was a writer and researcher on this project for Skidmore, Owings & Merrill.

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Collection of printed issues of magazines and journals on Black history, bibliographies, mimeographed speeches by A. Marcel Brown, and typed list of Black newspapers and peridoicals (circa 1943); as well as press realasees, bulletins, and correspondence on the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party and the American Friends Service Committee.