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Black Panther Party news sheets

 Collection
Identifier: 7116
Abstract A collection of five mimeographed communications from the Black Panther Party from 1968 to 1973. Between issues of The Black Panther newspaper, the Black Panther Party would issue mimeographed news sheets locally. The format, with its quick turnaround and low production cost, enabled the Black Panthers to address events within days or hours of their occurrence. Unlike the newspaper, which eventually was distributed in several cities, these mimeographed...
Dates: 1968 - 1973
Found in: USC Libraries Special Collections

Buffalo Soldiers photographs

 Collection — Pamphlet-Binder: 1
Identifier: 7150
Scope and Contents A collection of five photographs of African American Buffalo soldiers. One of the frequent assignments of Buffalo Soldiers was to assist the early frontiers of the Western United States. These African American soldiers contributed greatly to pathfinding, road and trail construction, building telegraph lines, and mapping out much of the frontier for homesteaders. The collection includes a photographic postcard depicting Buffalo Soldiers alongside white soldiers escorting a wagon train; a...
Dates: 1890 - 1910
Found in: USC Libraries Special Collections

Yvonne Brathwaite Burke papers: California State Assembly, U.S. Congress, Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors, and California Attorney General campaign

 Collection
Identifier: 0218-1
Abstract

The Yvonne Brathwaite Burke papers contain the records of the political activities of Yvonne Brathwaite Burke, University of Southern California Gould Law School alumna, state and federal legislator, and county official. Included are records from Burke's tenure in the California Assembly (1966-1972), U.S. Congress (1973-1978), and the Los Angeles Angeles County Board of Supervisor (1979-1980). Records also include her campaign for California State Attorney General (1978).

Dates: 1959 - 1980; Majority of material found within 1966 - 1980
Found in: USC Libraries Special Collections

Yvonne Brathwaite Burke papers: Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors

 Collection
Identifier: 0218-2
Abstract

The Yvonne Brathwaite Burke papers contain the records of the political activities of Yvonne Brathwaite Burke, University of Southern California Gould Law School alumna, state and federal legislator, and county official. Included in this collection are the records from Burke's second tenure on the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors (1992-2008).

Dates: 1968 - 2008; Majority of material found within 1991 - 2008
Found in: USC Libraries Special Collections

Clifton O. Dummett papers

 Collection
Identifier: 925-001
Abstract

This collection contains the papers of Dr. Clifton O. Dummett (1919-2011), an African-American pioneer in the field of dentistry and a professor at the University of Southern California.

Dates: 1941 - 2013
Found in: Jennifer Ann Wilson Dental Library & Learning Center, HSC Library

B. Kwaku Duren papers

 Collection
Identifier: 7022
Abstract B. Kwaku Duren is a lawyer and long-time political, social and community activist in the Los Angeles area. He has served various institutions, among them the South-Central Office of the Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles (LAFLA), the Union of Legal Services Workers of Los Angeles. He served as head of the Southern California Chapter of the Black Panther Party and chairman of the New Panther Vanguard Movement. He was co-editor-in-chief of The Black Panther International News Service. As a...
Dates: 1964 - 2012
Found in: USC Libraries Special Collections

Robert Lewis family papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 7151
Scope and Contents The Robert Lewis family papers comprise a multigenerational archive of a family of Black military servicemen who served in World War I, World War II, and the Korean War. The collection holds documents relating to the Lewis family's military service, as well as documents relating to the Lewis Family's East Texas cotton farm in Naples, Texas. Material in the collection dates from 1893 through the 1970s. Robert Lewis, the main subject of the collection, served as a Private in the U.S. Army for...
Dates: 1893 - 1979
Found in: USC Libraries Special Collections

Frank Milton McCoy papers

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: Coll2014-002
Abstract

Writings, correspondence, clippings, photographs, organizational records, flyers, notes, and other personal papers, 1946-1997, from African-American writer, musician, and educator Frank Milton McCoy. Materials in the collection document his career as a concert pianist and music educator in Los Angeles. Included is McCoy's book, Black Tomorrow (Vantage Press, 1976), which examines the evolution and influence of music in African-American culture.

Dates: 1946 - 1997
Found in: ONE Archives at the USC Libraries, University of Southern California

Minorities in America films and sound recordings

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 0083
Abstract

One- and two-reel, 16 mm. films in cans (35 different titles) on American minorities (Mexican-American, Japanese-American, African-American, and native American); "Minority Report," 1957 radio broadcast (KNX) on six LP recordings in a box.

Dates: circa 1957
Found in: USC Libraries Special Collections

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Black Panther Party 2
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King, Martin Luther, Jr. 1
Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles 1
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Lewis, Harold (1930) 1
Lewis, Robert (1895) 1
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McCoy, Frank Milton 1
National Coalition of Blacks for Reparations in America 1
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