African Americans
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 3 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