African American Documentary Resources
Enhancing African American Documentary Resources in the Southern Historical Collection at UNC-Chapel Hill
Creator: Wasmuth, Edward, fl. 1865.
Collection number: 3571-z
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Abstract: Diary, 4 April-19 May 1865, of the Rev. Edward Wasmuth, an Illinois Methodist minister who worked as an agent of the U.S. Christian Commission among soldiers and black and Continue reading “Edward Wasmuth diary, 1865.”
Creator: Jones, Calvin, 1775-1846.
Collection number: 921
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Abstract: Calvin Jones, who moved to Smithfield, N.C., in 1795, was a physician; officer in the North Carolina militia; editor of the “Star,” a Raleigh, N.C., newspaper; and owner of a plantation Continue reading “Calvin Jones papers, 1783-1929, 2000.”
Creator: Bumpas family.
Collection number: 1031
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Abstract: The collection includes diaries, scattered correspondence, and writings of a family of Methodist ministers and editors of church publications of North Carolina. Among other volumes are the diary, 1838-1844, and autobiography, 1842, of Continue reading “Bumpas family papers, 1838-1933; 1946.”
Creator: Highlander Research and Education Center.
Collection number: 20361
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Abstract: Myles Horton founded the Highlander Folk School in 1932 as an adult education institution based on the principle of empowerment. Horton and other School members worked towards mobilizing labor unions in the 1930s Continue reading “Highlander Research and Education Center collection, 1937-1938 and undated.”
Creator: Kennedy, Mary Hunter.
Collection number: 3242
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Abstract: Correspondence; legal and financial papers; genealogical material; student notebooks, account books, and other volumes; pictures; and other papers of members of the Continue reading “Mary Hunter Kennedy papers, 1759-1955.”
Creator: Killebrew, J. B. (Joseph Buckner), 1831-1906.
Collection number: 3373
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Abstract: Autobiography of Joseph Buckner Killebrew consisting of the personal, social, professional, and political memoirs of his early life and schooling in Montgomery County, Tenn.; Continue reading “Recollections of my life, ca. 1898.”
Creator: Carney, Kate S., b. 1842.
Collection number: 139-z
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Abstract: Kate S. Carney was the daughter of a merchant of Murfreesboro, Tenn. The collection is a diary (chiefy 1859-1862) of Kate S. Carney describing antebellum life in Murfreesboro, Tenn.; Continue reading “Kate S. Carney diary, 1859-1876 (bulk 1859-1862).”
Creator: Oral histories of low income and minority women, 1970s-1992.
Collection number: 4608
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Abstract: Transcriptions of interviews in the Oral Histories of Low Income and Minority Women project of the Southwest Institute for Research on Women at the University of Arizona in collaboration with the Schlesinger Library Continue reading “Oral histories of low income and minority women, 1970s-1992.”
Creator: Lenoir family.
Collection number: 426
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Abstract: Lenoir family members include William Lenoir, Revolutionary War general and N.C. politician of Fort Defiance, Caldwell County, N.C.; Lenoir’s friend and father-in-law of two of Continue reading “Lenoir family papers, 1763-1936, 1969-1975 (general abstract).”
Creator: Caruthers, R. L. (Robert Looney), 1800-1882.
Collection number: 1416
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Abstract: Robert Looney Caruthers was a Lebanon, Tenn., lawyer, state legislator, Whig politician, founder and professor of law at Cumberland University, United States Representative, Continue reading “R. L. Caruthers papers, 1823-1870.”