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African American women

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 11 Collections and/or Records:

Louise Boyer scrapbooks

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 14971
Content Description This collection contains the college scrapbook of Louise Boyer who attended the School of Education at the Hampton Institute, now Hampton University, in Hampton, Virginia. Hampton Institute, a historically Black college, was founded in 1868 as the Hampton Agricultural and Industrial School by the American Missionary Association for the education of the formerly enslaved. Also included is an earlier collection of one scrapbook titled "Scrapbook of Louise Boyer at Hampton Institute. This...
Dates: 1925-1936

Cora M. Aldridge scrapbook

 Unprocessed Material — Folder ViU-2025-0098_001: [Barcode: X032762786]
Identifier: ViU-2025-0098

Gamma Chi Omega Chapter Records

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-16856
Dates: 1945 - 1981; Majority of material found within 1950 - 1969

Gamma Chi Omega chapter records

 Unprocessed Material — Multiple Containers
Identifier: ViU-2024-0100
Dates: 1945 - 1981; Majority of material found within 1950 - 1969

Hampton Institute Scrapbook of Louise Boyer, 1925-1936

 Series — Box 1: [Barcode: X032669576], Folder: 1
Scope and Contents This scrapbook has more information about Hampton Institute included with Boyer's own scrapbook pages. There are pressed flowers, progams for music events and track meets, autographs, greeting cards, and newspaper clippings. There is also a poem dedicated to the memory of Hampton administrator Albert Howe.Louise Alberta Boyer of Delaware City, Delaware, attended the Institute for the two-year teaching training matriculation, graduating first in her class in 1932. ...
Dates: 1925-1936

Howard University student diary

 Collection — Folder 1: [Barcode: X032762503]
Identifier: MSS 16847
Content Description This collection contains a diary from an unknown female student attending Howard University in 1915. It measures 9 X 6 inches, and the pages are hole-punched and tied with a ribbon. The diary includes one tipped-in item and twenty-eight leaves with thirty-three of the pages written on. Most of the diary documents the last few days of May 1915, covering the writer's final days at Howard and reminiscing about her time at the university. She discusses attending the annual play by...
Dates: 1915

Langston Hughes photograph with women journalists-addition 1

 Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: MSS 8870
Content Description This addition to MSS 8870, Langston Hughes Collection, contains an 8" x 10" gelatin silver press photograph of Langston Hughes and Anna Land Butler, who is signing a book, surrounded by several Black female journalists. The land is likely signing her first book, "Album of Love Letters Unsent," published in 1952. Included with the picture is a typed caption identifying all the sitters and handwritten annotations indicating those who were deceased. Those identified in the photograph are Janice...
Dates: C. 1952

Locust Street Literary and Athletic Club Constitution

 Item — Box BW 58: [Barcode: X032668462], Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16859
Scope and Contents This collection contains the constitution of the Locust Street Literary and Athletic Club of Hampton, Virginia. The document, dated July 22, 1910, is handwritten in graphite on three pages of lined paper. The preamble to the club's constitution states that they operate "to form a more perfect union, insure order, justice and tranquility and promote the highest intellectual and physical development of ourselves and of our race." This constitution contains 8 Acts: Act I details the structure...
Dates: July 22, 1910

Louise Boyer scrapbook

 Unprocessed Material — Box ViU-2025-0088_001: [Barcode: X032762778]
Identifier: ViU-2025-0088

Madeleine Coleman Roach papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 16869
Content Description This material contains references to offensive and harmful language and crimes involving racism. The purpose of this note is to give users the opportunity to decide whether they need or want to view these materials, or at least, to mentally or emotionally prepare themselves to view the materials. This collection contains photographs, diaries, a memory book, a prayer book, witness reports, scrapbook pages, photographs, certificates, newsletters, telegrams, menus, and ephemera...
Dates: 1942-1945

Maria K. Robinson Scrapbook

 Collection — Flat_box MSS 16842: [Barcode: X032762513]
Identifier: MSS 16842
Content Description Scrapbook assembled by African-American woman, Maria Kathleen Robinson while she was attending historically-Black college Prairie View A&M University in Texas. Maria graduated high school in 1970 and briefly attended junior college in Temple, Texas. She majored in Business Education (accounting) at Prairie View A&M in the early 1970's, pledged to the Zeta Phi Beta sorority, whose Greek letters decorate the cover of the scrapbook. Maria participated in the Blue Dynamics dance line,...
Dates: 1973-1974