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Daniel Augustus Powell papers, 1945-1983 (1950-1981).

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Creator: Powell, Daniel Augustus, 1911-1983.
Collection number: 4364
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Abstract: Daniel A. Powell was born on 29 July 1911 in Wilson, N.C. In the 1930s Powell worked as a salesman for the American Circulation Company, the Pacific Mutual Life Read more…

Categories: 20th century, Activism, Alabama, Arkansas, Audio Recordings, Civil Rights, Economic Conditions, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Labor, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, Photographs, Politics, Social Justice, South Carolina, State, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia

Barbara Lau collection, 1979-2004.

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Creator: Lau, Barbara (Barbara A.)
Collection number: 20055
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Abstract: Barbara Lau (1958- ), folklorist and program coordinator, has studied African-American shape-note singing groups in the midwest, coordinated the 1983 Shape-Note Singing Read more…

Categories: 20th century, 21st Century, Audio Recordings, Folklore, Indiana, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, Moving Images, Music, Musicians, Ohio, Photographs

John S. Martin papers, 1840-1864.

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Creator: Martin, John S.
Collection number: 3469-z
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Abstract: Itinerant Methodist minister in northern Virginia, the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, present-day West Virginia, and Baltimore, Md. Included are letters from Martin to his wife, Susan Read more…

Categories: 19th Century, Abolition, Indiana, Maryland, New York, Religion, Slavery, Virginia