Amistad Research Center

By Amber L. Moore, Project Archivist, Amistad Research Center

Amistad staff are pleased to announce that the guide for the Ronnie Moore Papers is available online.  Ronnie M. Moore is a civil rights activist, community development consultant and photographer from New Orleans.  He was a field secretary in the South for the Congress of Racial Equality (1961-1965) and the executive director of the Scholarship, Education and Defense Fund for Racial Equality, Inc. (1965-1973).

By Amber L. Moore, Project Archivist, Amistad Research Center, Tulane University

Dr. James Egert Allen (1896-1980), educator, community advocate, civil rights activist, and author, was an active promoter of African American studies in New York.  He was the first president of the New York Branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (1933-1938), a longtime public school teacher in New York City (1926-1946), and the author of three books:  The Negro in New York (1964), Black History:  Past and Present (1971) and The Legend of Arthur A. Schomburg (1975).

By Laura J. Thomson, Director of Processing, Amistad Research Center

It is a new era of access for the Amistad Research Center thanks to the Center’s recent implementation of innovative archival collection management software. Archon, a collection management system for archives and manuscripts collections developed at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, has assisted in revealing the richness of Amistad’s holdings, has sparked staff to take on additional preservation projects, and has enhanced public relations in a variety of ways.