1. Abbot, Elizabeth Lee
1873-1976 and n.d.
12 items

Correspondence, minutes, proceedings, biographical and other historical notes about missions among Chinese-Americans.

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2. Acox, Etheline Jones
1890-1984 and n.d.
1 ft.

Officer of Friends of Amistad. Items about the reunion of 1931 at McDonogh Public High School No. 35 and other items.

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3. Adams, Inez
1914-1968 and n.d.
5.2 ft.

Materials concerning her work as an anthropologist and scholar of African, Caribbean, and U.S. human relations.

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4. Adams, Lewis and Sullie, Family
1987 and n.d.
12 items

Family members include Martha Adams, wife of Charles P. Adams, founder of Grambling State University, and Joseph S. Himes, sociologist. Includes family chart and photographs.

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5. Allan, Harold Egbert
1923-ca. 1974 and n.d.
0.4 ft.

Jamaican business, professional, and civic leader. Includes information about trade unions, elections, the Jamaican Federation of Women. Also includes information about his wife.

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6. American Home Missionary Society
1816-1936
1,000,000 items

Founded as an interdenominational organization, the Society carried on missionary activities of the Congregationalists and Presbyterians under the Plan of Union. Archives chiefly consist of correspondence, including letters and reports from missionaries in the field and letters from Society supporters. The material reflects conditions on the frontiers and includes information on slavery; the Civil War and northern churches; and economic, social and political problems. Also includes biographical material. The Society primarily carried on its work west of the Appalachian Mountains, but correspondence includes items throughout the U.S. A published guide to the collection exists.

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7. American Missionary Association
1821-1891, and 1869-
84.4 ft., and 137 ft. and 175 boxes

The American Missionary Association originated in response to the Amistad Incident (1839), and underwent major changes as a result of the merger of white and black abolitionist groups (1846). The organization supported frontier antislavery efforts, established hundreds of schools and churches among Freedmen and other members of ethnic minority groups, and was originally multi-denominational. The original collection deposit, which covers the association's activities through 1882, consists overwhelmingly of correspondence and is elaborately indexed. An addendum, which primarily postdates the 1920s, is included in the collection.

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8. Amistad Schooner Case
1830 - mid 20th century
6 rolls of microfilm

The collected documents relating to the Amistad Schooner Case of 1839 provide an insight into the progress of the nineteenth century anti-slavery movement. Included are news items and other writings from the time of the trial, and subsequent writings of historians concerning the case. It was filmed in various archives and libraries during the 1960s and 1970s by William Peters.

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9. Amos, Geraldine Odester
1925, 1958
2 items

This collection is about Baptist and educational meetings involving the Dillard University (New Orleans) Library.

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10. Bacon Family
1824-1879
0.4 ft.

Photocopies. Includes correspondence of American Missionary Association teacher, Rebecca Bacon. Topics include American Colonization Society, Amistad Africans, and the Hampton Institute.