21. Congregational Church Extension Boards
1928-1936
15,000 items

This collection consists primarily of the Correspondence of the Boards, which were established in 1928 through the merger of the Congregational Home Missionary Society and the Congregational Sunday School Extension Society.

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22. Congregational Home Missionary Society
1894-1928
150,000 items

Consists of correspondence of the Congregational Home Missionary Society, formerly the American Home Missionary Society. In 1928 it become part of the Congregational Church Extension Boards.

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23. Cook, Celestine Shannon Strode
ca. 1931-1985
9.2 ft., 1 box, 10 items

Includes correspondence, photographs, a scrapbook, and other collected printed items of this New Orleans community leader.

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24. Cook, Jesse
1943-1982 and n.d.
.8 ft.

The collection is composed primarily of correspondence about this New Orleans civic leader's activities in the Republican Party.

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25. Cooper, Ellis
n.d.
1 item

Script of Tine Lee, a television play about Leontyne Price.

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26. Cooper, Ida Mae Roberson Cullen
1928-1986 and n.d.
2.4 ft. and 16 audiocassettes

Principle topics are Ida Cooper and her first and second husbands, Countee Cullen, an author; and Robert Loeb Cooper, a New York social worker. Mrs. Cullen, later Cooper, was the co-owner of the Afro-Arts Bazaar, which sold imported jewelry and artifacts. She carried on her husband's interests in the publication of On These I Stand (1947). Includes correspondence, photographs, collected printed items, audiocassettes concerned with literary rights to Cullen's works, the Countee Cullen Foundation, and other business matters.

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27. Cottles, Alma
ca. 1956-1971
0.4 ft.

Photostatic copies mostly about the children of this New Orleans woman.

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28. Cullen, Countee
1921-1969
8 ft. and 7 microfilm rolls

Countee Cullen (1903-1946) was a lyric poet, playwright and novelist and a leading figure of the Harlem Renaissance. The collection consists of correspondence with Zora Neale Hurston, Sadie Alexander, Anna Alexander, Florence Adams Allen, Grace I. Alston, M. Margaret Anderson, Helen Keller, Helene Johnson, Dorothy Peterson, Leah Salisbury, Dorothy West, and many others. Also included are a fragmentary diary, writings, scrapbooks, teaching plan books, clippings, and other records.

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29. Dent, Albert Walter and Jessie Covington
1908-1985
6.8 ft.

Albert W. Dent was Director of Flint-Goodridge Hospital in New Orleans (1932-1935), its business manager (1935-1941), and also President of the American Missionary Association's Dillard University (1941-1969). He was one of the founders of the United Negro College Fund and served on boards and as president of many national organizations in health, education, and race relations. He was a charter director of the Amistad Research Center. Mrs. Dent won four Julliard Foundation fellowships, and received an M.A. degree from Oberlin Conservatory of Music (1934). Her professional music career as a concert pianist spanned 1924-1951. She initiated the ongoing Ebony Fashion Show with Chicago publisher John Johnson (1957), and was the first recipient of the Amistad Fine Arts Award (1985). The collection includes correspondence, writings, reports, photographs, and collected printed items. The Center also holds some unprocessed material.

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30. DeSpelder, Nellie
1895-1899
1 item

Photostatic copy from her tenure as an American Missionary Association teacher in the Daniel Hand Preparatory School of Straight University.