Race discrimination -- Missouri -- Saint Louis
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 7 Collections and/or Records:
George Winston Cloyd Papers
Collection
Identifier: A0302
Scope and Contents
Private papers, correspondence, newsletter, printed matter, and newsclippings related to the career of Judge Cloyd, especially his civic activities in connection with the St. Louis Council on Human Relations and the early stages of desegregation of St. Louis swimming pools, 1950-1951. Also includes materials relating to student activities, military service, legal and judicial career and other civic involvements, 1938-1984.
Dates:
1938-1984
Mabel B. Curtis Files Regarding the People's Art Center
Collection
Identifier: A0353
Scope and Contents
The Mabel B. Curtis Files consist mainly of papers regarding the People’s Art Center. The primary focus of these papers is the years of direct involvement by Mrs. Curtis in her capacity as executive director from 1950 to 1963. The collection also includes papers from the founding of the People’s Art Center in 1942. Most of the materials from the 1940s are from Elizabeth Green.
The primary focus of this collection is on the difficulties the People’s Art...
Dates:
1941-1968; 1989
Frankie Muse Freeman Papers
Collection
Identifier: A3023
Scope and Contents
The papers date from 1947 to 2018 and are arranged alphabetically by topic. The papers contain awards, speeches, small amounts of correspondence and law office documents, and a scrapbook prepared to celebrate Mrs. Freeman’s 80th birthday.
Freeman’s appointments were national and local. She served on the Metropolitan Zoological Park and Museum District Board beginning in 1994. There are three certificates of appointment to national positions: Civil Rights Commission in 1964...
Dates:
1947-2018
Mary T. Hall Papers
Collection
Identifier: A2132
Scope and Contents
The Mary T. Hall Papers consist of correspondence, minutes, reports, flyers, pamphlets, newspaper clippings, and other types of material that document her work with various social welfare and world peace organizations. The papers from the Missouri Children's Code Commission document the formation of the group, the recommended bills, the final report, and the efforts to pass all the bills. The collection also includes papers regarding Child Welfare Services and the Board of Children's...
Dates:
1888-2003
Moorlands Addition Board of Agents Covenant Correspondence
Collection
Identifier: A3129
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of two letters, a report, and an invoice. On October 1, 1947, Robert C. Powell, secretary of the Moorlands Addition Board of Agents, wrote to the other two members of the board (Edward A. Simon, chairman; and T.J. Hargadon, treasurer) enclosing the two letters, report, and invoice.
The matter under discussion is the noncompliance of apartment building owners with one of the subdivision’s racial restrictions, or covenants, which stated that no person “not...
Dates:
1947 Oct 1
Charles and Marian Oldham Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: A3186
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of materials relating to the civic and personal lives of Charles and Marian Oldham and their families. The collection is divided into five series: Family, Civil Rights, University of Missouri, Marian Oldham Scholarship Fund, and The Oaks. The collection spans from circa 1900 to 2006 with the bulk of the materials dating from 1989 to 2006....
Dates:
1900-2006; Majority of material found within 1989-2006
Strong Seed Planted Oral History Collection
Collection
Identifier: A3072
Scope and Contents
The collection is arranged alphabetically by interviewee name and dates from 1963 to 1994. It is comprised of project documentation such as tape information sheets and indexes to the taped interviews, background clippings relating to the interviewees and their civil rights activities, a few obituaries, a program brochure, and letters from Missouri Historical Society staff regarding the project. There are some partial transcripts and 15 full transcripts for the 23 interviews included in...
Dates:
1958-1994; Majority of material found within 1988-1990