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African Americans

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:

Al Stewart Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS 067
Abstract

Al Stewart was a businessman and physicist who joined the faculty in the School of Business at WestConn in 1987 after a long career mostly at Union Carbide. The collection includes personal papers, objects, art and miscellanea from Stewart's estate.

Dates: 1960s-2016

Margaret Slater Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS 061
Abstract

Margaret and William Slater were long-time Fairfield County residents and collected journals, publications, clippings, and books related to African-Americans, African-American issues and history.

Dates: 1920-2001

Segregation Photoprints

 Collection
Identifier: MS 042
Abstract This collection is comprised of black-and-white, 8 x 10" photoprints most presumably ordered from the Library of Congress in 1972. Most of the images are part of the Farm Security Administration-Office of War Information Collection and show African Americans in urban and rural settings during the Great Depression and World War II. Many of the images are available digitally from the American Memory collection at the Library of Congress: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/fsahtml/fahome.html. The...
Dates: 1860-1972

Series II: Manuscript

 Series
Dates: 1725-1997, (Bulk 1940-1997); Majority of material found within 1940 - 1997