Skip to main content Skip to search results

Showing Collections: 1 - 4 of 4

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

Frank E. and Anna Hayes Owens family papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0680
Abstract

The Frank E. and Anna Hayes Owens family papers comprises 14.3 linear feet of materials, spanning the dates between 1900 and 2011, and includes correspondence, manuscripts, photographs, travel brochures, reel-to-reel tapes, magazines, fanzines, and other materials documenting intergenerational American family life in Delaware.

Dates: circa 1900-2011

Robert H. Richards, Jr., Delaware oral history collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0179
Abstract

The Delaware Oral History collection was a project of the University of Delaware History Department, directed by Dr. John Munroe and funded by Robert H. Richards, Jr.. Interviews with 317 Delawareans conducted between 1966 and 1978 cover topics including the following: educators, immigrants, journalism, politics, and the University of Delaware, Delaware in the Depression, and the 1950s relocation of Long Island and New Jersey potato farmers to Delaware.

Dates: 1955-1981, 2012, 2020; Majority of material found within 1966-1978

University of Delaware audio recordings of poetry readings

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0696
Abstract This collection features audiotape recordings of poetry readings and performances by American poets and University of Delaware professors. The collection contains poetry readings dating from 1953 to 1960 by Robert Hillyer, an influential poet and professor at the University of Delaware. There are also recordings of poetry readings, some broadcast by Delaware radio stations, by Wilbur Owen Sypherd, professor and administrator at the University of Delaware. The collection also features a...
Dates: circa 1953-1964

Filtered By

  • Names: University of Delaware X
  • Subject: 1/4 inch audio tape X

Filter Results

Additional filters:

Subject
Clippings (information artifacts) 2
Correspondence 2
Delaware 2
Phonograph records 2
Photographs 2
∨ more
School integration--Delaware--History--20th century 2
Activists 1
Actors (performing artists) 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--20th century--Interviews 1
African Americans--Domestic life 1
African Americans--Education--Delaware--History--20th century 1
African Americans--Race identity 1
Art, American--Delaware--20th century 1
Artists--Delaware--20th century--Interviews 1
Audio cassette 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
Civil rights--Delaware--History--20th century 1
Color slides 1
Credit unions 1
Delaware City (Del.) 1
Delaware--History--20th century 1
Delaware--Politics and government--1865-1950 1
Delaware--Politics and government--1951- 1
Delaware--Race relations--History--20th century 1
Depressions--1929--Delaware 1
Diaries 1
Diplomas 1
Disc jockey radio programs 1
Disc jockeys 1
Discrimination in housing--Delaware 1
Dramatic readings 1
Educators--Delaware--History--20th century 1
Educators--Interviews 1
Ephemera (general) 1
Essays 1
Fanzines 1
Film: 16mm 1
Film: Super 8mm 1
Fliers (printed matter) 1
Greeting cards 1
Immigrants--Delaware--History--20th century 1
Immigrants--Delaware--Interviews 1
Interviews 1
Jazz audiences--United States 1
Jazz radio programs 1
Jazz--1921-1930--Analysis, appreciation 1
Jazz--1931-1940 1
Journalism--Delaware--History--20th century 1
Ledgers (account books) 1
Literary readings (Radio programs) 1
Manuscripts (documents) 1
Medals 1
Memorandums 1
Migrant labor--Delaware 1
Milford (Del.) 1
Minutes (administrative records) 1
Newark (Del.)--History--20th century 1
Newsletters 1
Newspaper columns 1
Notes 1
Nurses 1
Nursing--Delaware--History--20th century 1
Obituaries 1
Oral History--Delaware--20th century 1
Oral histories (document genres) 1
Photograph albums 1
Poetry readings (Sound recordings) 1
Poetry--Study and teaching--United States 1
Poets 1
Politics, Practical--Delaware--History--20th century 1
Presidents 1
Professors (teacher) 1
Psychiatric hospitals--Delaware 1
Publications (documents) 1
Radio programs--United States--History--20th century 1
Realia 1
Scrapbooks 1
Secretaries (clerical workers) 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
+ ∧ less
 
Names
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Delaware State Conference of Branches 2
Boyce, Doris Lee Jolls, 1920- 1
Boyle, Kay, 1902-1992 1
Boyle, Kay, 1902-1992--Correspondence 1
Brown v. Board of Education 50th Anniversary Commission 1