1. A House Divided
32 linear ft.

Mostly videotapes of interviews of civil rights leaders and others recorded for possible use in the one-hour documentary about African Americans and race relations in New Orleans politics in the 1960's and '70's, which was narrated by James Earl Jones. Highly important because most of the material was not used in the documentary and a number of the interviewees are now deceased. Also includes correspondence and planning documents. Among the women interviewed are the following: Lindy Boggs, Virgie Castle, Leona Tate Cooper, Elizabeth Downing, Pam Giles, Oretha Castle Haley, Coretta Scott King, Rosa Keller, Iris Kelso, Helen Mervis, Sybil Morial, Sister Valerie Riggs, S.B.S., Elizabeth Rogers, Melissa Shepard, and Alma Woodfork.

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2. African Americans and the Roman Catholic Church
1937-1996.
2.6 linear ft.

Publications and original material relating to Black Catholics, primarily in Louisiana. Also includes information on African American Bishops. Collection includes a tribute to Mother Theresa Maxis Dechewin, foundress and first superior of the Sisters Servants of the Immaculate Heart of Mercy, an article by Margaret Susan Thompson entitled "Philemon's Dilemma: Nuns and the Black Community in Nineteenth-Century America," and material about Barbara C. Harris, the first woman Episcopal Bishop.

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3. African Americans in Warfare
1915-1945
0.4 linear ft.

Collection includes a pamphlet entitled Negro Women War Workers, published in 1945.

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4. African-American Writers
0.4 linear ft.

Primarily advertisements for publications by these authors, but the collection also includes some correspondence. Women writers mentioned are as follows: Angela Benson, Valada Parker Flewellyn, June Jordan, Toni Y. Joseph, Terry L. McMillan, Connie Porter, and Arlena Seneca.

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5. Backlash
ca. late 1980s-1993
1.4 linear ft.

Mostly raw video for a documentary about David Duke and Louisiana politics in the early 1990's produced by Bess Carrick.

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6. Bedou, Arthur P.
1900-1988
0.8 linear ft.

Bedou served as official photographer for Xavier University and traveling photographer for Booker T. Washington on his last speaking tours in the South. Photographs depicting women are: the Sisters of the Holy Family, Xavier music major Mary Townsend's senior recital, and the Goodridge School of Nursing.

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7. Bowman, Sister Thea, F.S.P.A.
1984-1992
0.4 linear ft.

Photocopies of articles about Sister Thea Bowman, first African-American Franciscan Sister of Perpetual Care and a founder of the Institute for Black Catholic Studies at Xavier University, who opened the mass to African and African-American ritual and dance.

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8. Cahn, Dorothea Schlesinger
1940-1982
1.4 linear ft.

Contains programs and press clippings for musical performances in New Orleans, travel information and memorabilia (including from a trip to Israel in 1965), and gardening information.

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9. Cahn, Gladys Freeman
1939-1963
0.6 linear ft.

Contains biographical information. Includes speeches given by Cahn when she served as an officer of the National Urban League (1950-1953) and the New Orleans Urban League (1948-1951), and records of the National Convention of the National Council of Jewish Women (1955-1957), for which she served as National President (1955-1959).

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10. Cahn, Gladys Dena Freeman
1942-1965
45 items

Cahn was a community activist involved in various community organizations, including the National Council of Jewish Women, Urban League, and Save Our Schools. For the most part, the collection is made up of speeches delivered by Cahn. The principal topics of the speeches are social welfare, equal rights for black Americans, and desegregation. One folder contains other writings, biographical data, and press clippings.