DescriptionThis dissertation illuminates the participation of ordinary Black and white women in the Civil Rights Movement by examining an antipoverty program called The Mississippi Box Project. Founded in 1962...
DescriptionThis dissertation examines African American women’s anti-rape activism and
advocacy from 1974 to 1994, as the feminist movement against sexual violence grew
increasingly intertwined with the U.S....
DescriptionThis scrapbook includes clippings about Count Basie and photographs of Count Basie as a band leader, the Count Basie Orchestra, and many performers and others associated with Count Basie.
Description"'To Capture a Vision Fair:' Black Sorority Women and the Shift from Respectability Politics to Public Policy, 1935-1975," illuminates the ways in which Black women reworked existing traditions and...
DescriptionThis dissertation, which spans the period between the 1820s and the Civil War, uses debates about slavery and citizenship to explore how and to what end African Americans incorporated quantification...
DescriptionThis scrapbook commemorates the proclamation of "Basie Day" in Kansas City on September 30, 1977 and henceforth, and includes clippings, photographs, a drawing of Count Basie, and correspondence.
DescriptionThis file includes loose scrapbook pages collated with unrelated materials when the Institute of Jazz Studies acquired the Count Basie family papers and artifacts. Pages include clippings, greeting...
DescriptionThis album contains photographs of Count Basie, Catherine Basie, and others. 43 blank pages were removed from the end of the album when the collection was processed in 2022.
DescriptionThis scrapbook includes photographs of Count Basie in performance and candid shots, Catherine Basie, a few members of the Basie extended family, musicians, dancers, comedians, and others, as well as...
DescriptionThis scrapbook contains clippings, photographs, awards, correspondence, and ephemera (including full programs) related to Count Basie and the Count Basie Orchestra, a complete copy of the July 1946...