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Collection
Identifier: MSS 513 small
Scope and Contents
The Committee to Free Moses Mayekiso records includes meeting minutes, mailings, correspondence, petitions, ledgers, invoices, and newspaper clippings.
Dates:
1987-1989
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: Serial-01008
Collection
Identifier: MSS 341 large
Scope and Contents
The Cora Weiss papers contain materials from the African American Student Foundation, 1959-1963, including hundreds of letters from students wishing to come to America for college; fundraising letters; financial letters; newspaper clippings on the impact of this unusual initiative; and memos, reports, and letters reflecting the extraordinary tension and political attacks showing the apparent threat this effort was causing.
Dates:
1957-2009
Collection
Identifier: MSS 94 large
Scope and Contents
Samuel Teleki led an expedition to East Africa, 1886-1889, during which he discovered Lakes Rudolf and Stephanie in Kenya and Ethiopia. He also led a second tour of East Africa, 1893. The papers include two diaries of Teleki's East African expeditions of 1886-89, photographs, and microcopies from the Vienna Staatsarchiv of Teleki's letters and reports from Africa about the expedition of 1886-1889, sent to Crown Prince Rudolf. The diary is in Hungarian, German, and Swahili, and a full...
Dates:
1886-1895; 1961-1965
Collection
Identifier: UA-17.345
Scope and Contents
The David J. Campbell faculty papers contain research material, lectures and class material, maps, and articles written by Campbell. The material centers around Africa and the Kajiado, land use, desertification, semi-arid land, Sahei Niger, Cameroon, and Rwanda/Burundi.The materials in the series A.2014.0028 were minimally processed. Folder titles in brackets were created by the archivist who inventoried the materials, and are based on the folder contents. All other titles are...
Dates:
1967 - 2007
Collection
Identifier: MSS 350 large
Scope and Contents
The David Robinson collection on Western Sudan consists of materials collected by David Robinson (History and African Studies, Michigan State University) while doing research in francophone West Africa and France on the Haal-Pulaar people, especially those in Futa Toro (the middle valley of the Senegal River) and along their paths of migration into Mali, with a focus on the movement organized by Umar Tal. Over the course of 40 years of research, these materials were invaluable in preparing...
Dates:
approximately 1960-2009
Collection
Identifier: MSS 415 large
Scope and Contents
The Douglas Wachholz collection on the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law Africa Project includes extensive material related to the case American Committee on Africa v. The New York Times which for Wachholz served as the lead lawyer for the American Committee on Africa (ACOA) and other plaintiffs, a position he continued after leaving the staff of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law (LCCRUL).
Dates:
1970 - 1977
Collection
Identifier: MSS 442 large
Scope and Contents
The Ed Ferguson Oregon Anti-Apartheid collection contains material on the anti-apartheid struggle in the state of Oregon from 1975 through 1985. These struggles took place because of existing links between Oregon and Apartheid South Africa.It is organized according to three activities designed to break those links. The first activity was to get Oregon State University to honor the international sports boycott of Apartheid South Africa. The second was to pressure the state...
Dates:
1957 - 2009; Majority of material found within 1975 - 1985
Collection
Identifier: MSS 291 large
Scope and Contents
The Educators Against Racism and Apartheid records includes original and copied correspondence (for example with Oliver Tambo and young American children from the 1980s, and to President Reagan), organization publications (such as Apartheid Is Wrong: A Curriculum for Young People, and its Newsletter), anti-apartheid petitions, filmstrip, flyers, buttons, photographs, and videocassettes of sponsored events and performances (including a children's play and a school class) from 1990 to 1993.
Dates:
1985-1994
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MSS 484
Scope and Contents
This collections comes from the activist papers of Elizabeth Landis, focusing on work related to the Episcopal Churchmen for South Africa (ECSA) from the 1960s through 1990, an organization located in New York City. Additional materials to the ECSA documentation include notes and notebooks on a trip to Johannesburg, South Africa, publications from the American Committee and teh Lawyer's Committee for Civil Rights under Law, and Congressional committee presentations from 1970 to 2000....
Dates:
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