Manuscript meeting minutes, 12 March 1900 to 19 March 1902
Description:
African-American women's organization, founded on 12 March 1900 in New Haven, Connecticut, when eighteen members elected officers, including Mrs. John Ross, Jr., President; Mrs. W. B. Johnson, Vice President; Mrs. Carrie Hickman and Mrs. Eugene Hender...
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven
Subject (Name):
Women's 20th Century Club (New Haven, Conn.)
Subject (Topic):
African American women, Societies and clubs, African Americans, Societies, etc, and Women
Autograph letter, in Arabic Maghrabi script, conveying a greeting to Major John Owen in Raleigh, and consisting chiefly of quotations from the Qur'an and from treatises on Arabic grammar. Quotations from the Qur'an include: Sūrat al-Najm (21-23); Sūra...
Description:
Omar ibn Said, also known as Moro or Moreau, was a West African Muslim born and educated in the Futa Toro region on the Senegal River. He was sold into slavery in approximately 1807 and transported to the United States. From approximately 1810 until t...
Subject (Geographic):
North Carolina., Africa., North Carolina, Cape Fear River Region., United States., Cape Fear River Region (N.C.), and United States
Subject (Name):
Key, Francis Scott, 1779-1843., Owen, James, 1784-1865., Owen, John, 1787-1841., Said, Omar ibn, 1770?-1863., Taylor, John Louis, 1769-1829., and American Colonization Society.
Subject (Topic):
African American Muslims, African Americans, Colonization, Arabic language, Grammar, Slavery, Enslaved persons, Enslaved persons' writings, American, and Race relations
Autograph manuscript letter from R. B. Robinson, editor and proprietor of The Kanawha Advance in Charleston, West Virginia, to Benjamin F. Jones, chairman of the Republican National Committee, dated 1884 September 22. Robinson asks for funds to suppor...
Description:
Robert B. Robinson was an African American newspaper owner and editor born in Alexandria, Virginia in 1848, to Reverend Robert H. Robinson (1824-1909) and Mary Ann Warwick Robinson (1832-1899). With his brother Magnus L. Robinson (1852-1918), he found...
Subject (Geographic):
West Virginia., United States, and West Virginia
Subject (Name):
Jones, Benjamin F. 1824-1903. (Benjamin Franklin),, Robinson, R. B. 1848- (Robert B.),, Colored Men of West Virginia., and Republican National Committee (U.S.)
Subject (Topic):
African American newspaper editors, African American newspapers, African Americans, Political activity, Presidents, Election, and Politics and government
