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A Negro settlement in Kansas; and newspaper clippings
African American history clippings
The African American history clippings collection covers a range of topics related to African American history, with some of the material relating specifically to Kansas and the Kansas City area.
Afrikan Culture Society records
The Afrikan Culture Society records are those of a Leavenworth Penitentiary, Leavenworth, Kansas based group attempting to raise awareness of African American history and cultural, social, and political problems.
Austin-Frey family papers
The Austin-Frey family papers document a family whose members came to reside in Osage City and Lawrence, Kansas from the late 1800s to the late 1900s.
Autobiographies of a man and woman, Oskaloosa, Kansas, late 19th century
Two separate autobiographies, the first by a farmer born near Oskaloosa, Kansas, and the second by a woman, possibly his wife.
Benjamin Day papers
Benjamin Day served as an educator and principal in the Leavenworth, Kansas, school system for thirty one years before becoming a City Council member and the city's first African American mayor. The collection contains material relating to his service to the city, as well as his involvment in other community organizations.
Benjamin LeRoy "Roy" Love collection
The Benjamin LeRoy “Roy” Love collection includes videos of storyteller, songwriter, and farmer Roy Love of Kickapoo, Kansas, who lived to be 104. Stories include old farming practices, his segregated schooling, and his father’s enslavement by his own white father. The papers in the collection are memories of neighbors and photocopies of historical documents gathered by the grandson of a neighbor, Michael-Lee O’Brien Brockhouse, as well as a song and some letters written by Roy Love.
Billy Q. McCray papers
The Billy Q. McCray papers are those of a long time Kansas resident who served in both the Kansas House of Representatives and the Kansas Senate before becoming director of the Kansas Department of Economic Development Office of Minority Business. This collection of McCray's papers includes correspondence from constituents, documents generated by the Education and the Ways and Means Committees, legislation introduced by McCray, and papers of the Kansas Legislature's Minority Caucus.
Bowers and Bryant Families papers
The Bowers and Bryant Families Papers are those of long time Kansas residents, especially in Lawrence, Kansas and especially focusing on the first half of the twentieth century.
Charles F. McAfee papers
The Charles F. McAfee papers are those of a long time Kansas resident who began an award-winning Wichita, Kansas architecture firm.
Cheryl Brown Henderson campaign papers
The Cheryl Brown Henderson Campaign Papers are those of one of the three 1996 U.S. House of Representatives, Kansas Second District Republican candidates and candidate for the Kansas House of Representatives 55th District during the 1998 election.
Chester Lewis oral history collection
The Chester Lewis oral history collection was compiled by the Sedgwick County Historical Museum of Wichita, Kansas with support by the Kansas Humanities Council, for use in a museum exhibit entitled "Chester I. Lewis: a Civil Rights Legacy".
Chester Owens collection
This collection consists of materials Chester Owens has gathered about the Kansas City, Kansas region and the history of African Americans in the region, as well as materials regarding his own political career as a Kansas City, Kansas city councilman. Much of the collection concerns H.W. Sewing, businessman and founder of Douglass State Bank.
Clarence Love papers
Clarence Love was a member of the Kansas House of Representatives, representing the Wyandotte County 35th District from 1966 until his retirement in 1988. The collection reflects his legislative activities during his entire 22 years of service.
Collection of photographs and postcards of race relations in Kansas and Oklahoma
Collection of photographic prints and postcards showing race relations in Kansas and Oklahoma at the end of the 19th century through the first half of the 20th century. These images were bought in sets by Kenneth Spencer Research Library and compiled into a single collection. The collection also includes some images from the 1908 Springfield, Illinois race war.
Cooper-Sheppard-Cox family papers
The Cooper-Sheppard-Cox Family Papers are those of an African American family whose members resided in Topeka, Kansas from the late 1800s to the 1970s. The papers document the family line of W. D. (William Damascus) and Mary M. (Overton) Brinkley Cooper, and include papers of Sheppard and Cox family members who married descendants of W. D. and Mary Cooper.
Coordinating Committee of the Black Community scrapbook
The Coordinating Committee of the Black Community scrapbook chronicles the Topeka, Kansas based organization's meetings and activities.
David Beard photographs
Dorothy L. Hayes papers
The Dorothy L. Hayes papers are those of a native Kansan and document her life in the first half of the twentieth century.
Earline Clairborne papers
The Earline Clairborne Papers are those of a native Coffeyville, Kansas resident who was an active community member there.
Ella Bowers scrapbook
The Ella Bowers scrapbook documents Mrs. Bowers' social activities as a Lawrence, Kansas resident and member of the African American community.
Ella Mae Jackson papers
This collection contains miscellaneous papers concerning Ella Mae Jackson's role in the African-American community's struggle for school integration in Kansas City, Kansas in the 1960s; including newspaper clippings and certificates of her sons' school achievements, and a 1973 souvenir booklet of her cousins', Arthur and Martha Williams, 50th wedding anniversary.
Elvin J. Bailey Papers
The Elvin J. Bailey Papers are those of a long time Kansas resident who was mayor of Abilene, Kansas and, later, the owner of Bailey Truck Line Company.
Ethel Moore family papers
Ethel Johnson Moore was a long-time resident of Lawrence, Kansas, along with several other members of her family. Her father became one of the first African American members of the Lawrence school board in the 1890s when he filled an unexpired term of another board member. This collection primarily reflects the activities of the women of the family, including Ethel Moore, her sister Lois Johnson Branch, her mother Lulu Johnson Irving, and her granddaughter Alice Fowler.
Eugene Anderson papers
The papers of Eugene Anderson are those of a long-time resident of Witchita, Kansas who served in both the State House of Representatives (from the 83rd District) and the State Senate (from the 29th District).