Howard High School (Wilmington, Del.)
Organization
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Edith Gerselda Lynch autograph book
Collection
Identifier: MSS 0093-Item 0172
Abstract
This item is a 1935 autograph book that belonged to Edith Gerselda Lynch, a student in the class of 1937 at Howard High School in Wilmington, Delaware. The book contains signatures and messages from Lynch's friends, acquaintances, and family, including a signature from Howard High School teacher and librarian Pauline A. Young. The pages provide a glimpse of student life at a Delaware-based African American high school prior to desegregation.
Dates:
1935
Littleton and Jane Mitchell papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 0629
Abstract
The Littleton and Jane Mitchell papers document the life and career of the Delaware-based civil rights activist and educator Littleton P. Mitchell (1918-2004) and his wife Jane E. Mitchell (1921-2004). The collection contains material relating to his education, activities as a member of the Tuskegee Airmen, his three decades-long leadership of the Delaware NAACP, his career as a teacher and counselor at Governor Bacon Health Center in Delaware City, and his involvement in a number of...
Dates:
1911-2009; Majority of material found within 1950-2000
Additional filters:
- Subject
- 1/4 inch audio tape 1
- Administrators 1
- Affirmative action programs--Delaware 1
- African American churches--Delaware 1
- African American civil rights workers 1
- African Americans--Civil rights--Delaware--History--20th century 1
- African Americans--Delaware 1
- African Americans--Domestic life 1
- African Americans--Education--Delaware--History--20th century 1
- African Americans--Race identity 1
- Audio cassette 1
- Autograph albums 1
- Awards 1
- Bills, Legislative--United States 1
- Brochures 1
- Bullfights--History 1
- Busing for school integration--Law and legislation--Delaware 1
- Buttons (information artifacts) 1
- Calendars 1
- Certificates 1
- Civil rights movements--Delaware--History--20th century 1
- Civil rights movements--United States--History--20th century 1
- Clippings (information artifacts) 1
- Color slides 1
- Correspondence 1
- Credit unions 1
- Delaware 1
- Delaware City (Del.) 1
- Delaware--Race relations--History--20th century 1
- Diaries 1
- Discrimination in housing--Delaware 1
- Ephemera (general) 1
- Film: 16mm 1
- Film: Super 8mm 1
- Fliers (printed matter) 1
- Greeting cards 1
- High school students' writings, American 1
- Ledgers (account books) 1
- Medals 1
- Memorandums 1
- Migrant labor--Delaware 1
- Milford (Del.) 1
- Minutes (administrative records) 1
- Newsletters 1
- Newspaper columns 1
- Nurses 1
- Nursing--Delaware--History--20th century 1
- Phonograph records 1
- Photograph albums 1
- Photographs 1
- Presidents 1
- Psychiatric hospitals--Delaware 1
- Publications (documents) 1
- Realia 1
- School integration--Delaware--History--20th century 1
- Segregation in education--Delaware--History--20th century 1
- Segregation in education--Law and legislation--United States 1
- Segregation--Delaware--History--20th century 1
- Service books (religious texts) 1
- Sheet music 1
- Soldiers 1
- Special education--Delaware 1
- Speeches (documents) 1
- Teachers 1
- Tuskegee Army Air Field (Ala.) 1
- United States. Army--Reserves 1
- VHS 1
- West Chester (Pa.) 1
- Wilmington (Del.) 1
- Wilmington (Del.)--History--20th century 1
- World War, 1939-1945--Participation, African American 1 + ∧ less
∨ more