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African Americans -- Missouri

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 3 Records:

Hylas Thompkins family papers

 Collection
Call Number: RH PH 551
Overview

The Hylas Thompkins family papers document the lives of a long time Missouri family during the 1940s-1960s.

Dates: 1943 - 1962

Investigation of lynchings in Kansas and Missouri from 1889-1942

 Collection — Folder 1
Call Number: RH MS P276
Overview

A list of blacks lynched in Missouri and Kansas from 1889-1942, with location of the incident, compiled in 1973.

Dates: 1973

Oscar Stark collection of photographs of African Americans

 Collection
Call Number: RH PH 549
Overview

This collection consists of cartes de visite, cabinet cards, paper prints, and other mounted prints of African Americans, many apparently from Missouri and others from other parts of the Midwest and Northwestern United States. Some of the images are identified, many are not. The collection is roughly organized by photographic process and then by identified groups or individuals first, unidentified following.

Dates: approximately 1870s-1920s