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Blacks -- Segregation

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Here are entered works related to the racial segregation and desegregation of black communities in the United States. Also referred to as "Jim Crowism".

Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:

Purdue University Black Cultural Center records

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: UA 176
Scope and Contents The materials in this collection document the programs, activities, and community created by and surrounding the Purdue University Black Cultural Center (BCC) from its inception in 1969 up until the present day. It includes publications about the African American community; newspaper clippings and marketing material created by or with the subject of the BCC; photographs of the BCC, its events, students, and staff; speeches delivered by or about the BCC; correspondence between members of the...
Dates: 1969 - 2023; Majority of material found within 1970 - 2000
Found in: Purdue University Archives and Special Collections

John Norberg collection

 Unprocessed Material — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 2022-018
Dates: Issued: 1899 - 2019
Found in: Purdue University Archives and Special Collections

League of Women Voters of Greater Lafayette records

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSP 55
Scope and Contents

The League of Women Voters of Greater Lafayette records document the history and administrative actions of various League of Women Voters organizations in the Greater Lafayette area.  Types of materials include correspondence, photographs, news clippings, administrative records, printed ephemera, programs, financial records, and websites. Links to the archived website can be found in "External Documents".

Dates: Majority of material found within 1965 - 2000; 1920 - 2019
Found in: Purdue University Archives and Special Collections

Bernice Roberts Moreland Wells papers

 Collection — Box Communal Collections 44, Placement: 03
Identifier: MSF 451
Scope and Contents

Wells, Bernice Roberts Moreland Wells (1988). A Quilt: An Autobiography.

Dates: 1988
Found in: Purdue University Archives and Special Collections

Helen Bass Williams papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSP 310
Abstract

This collection includes documents, correspondence, published materials, photographs, and audio recordings collected and created by Helen Bass Williams that document her personal life, education, and her work as a civil rights activist in the South, educator, and counselor and professor at Purdue University.

Dates: 1915 - 2004; Majority of material found within circa 1960s and 1970s
Found in: Purdue University Archives and Special Collections