Discrimination in housing -- Missouri -- Saint Louis
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:
Joyce Best Papers
Collection
Identifier: A3033
Scope and Contents
The papers are comprised of materials relating to the Greater St. Louis Committee for Freedom of Residence and programs and certificates relating to the posthumous awarding of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Spirit Award to Margaret “Maggie” Dagen by the University City Board of Education. The papers are arranged alphabetically by topic and date from 1961 to 2006 with date gaps from 1967 to 1995 and from 1998 to 2005.
Items documenting the Greater St....
Dates:
1961-2006; Majority of material found within 1962-1966
Andy J. Brown, Jr. Papers
Collection
Identifier: A3031
Scope and Contents
The papers include correspondence, documents, and newspaper clippings relating primarily to the professional and civic activities of Andy J. Brown, Jr., in the City of St. Louis and in his west end neighborhood, presently Visitation Park. There are also a few items from Brown’s parents. The papers are arranged alphabetically by topic and date from 1892 to 2011. The bulk of the papers date from 1952 to 1973. Large date gaps exist from 1907 to 1929, 1942 to 1949, and 1988 to...
Dates:
1892-2011; Majority of material found within 1952-1973
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
I Too Sing America Oral History Project Records
Collection
Identifier: A3076
Scope and Contents
The collection spans from 1949 to 1994 and is arranged alphabetically by interviewee name. It is comprised primarily of project documentation: tape information sheets and tape indexes. The bulk of the collection dates from 1987. Additional materials include a few obituaries, clippings about the interviewees, and only two transcripts (M. Oldham, Williams). The first folder contains a brochure about the exhibition and related programs and clippings about the exhibit.
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Dates:
1949-1994; Majority of material found within 1987-1988
Lewis Place Oral History Project Transcripts
Collection
Identifier: A3174
Scope and Contents
The collection is comprised of ten oral history interview transcripts for interviews with nine individuals conducted by historian Gwen Moore of the Missouri Historical Society for the Lewis Place Oral History Project. The video interviews were conducted between September 2008 and January 2009. The transcripts are arranged alphabetically by name of interviewee.
Moore began each interview with questions about the interviewees’ backgrounds (family...
Dates:
2008-2009
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