11. Canonge, L. Placide
1842-1887
3 items

Letters (in French) from Canonge, a composer, to Leona Queyrouze, a Creole writer.

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12. Christian, Ollie, Civil Rights
1964-1975
0.4 linear ft.

Dr. Christian, former Professor of Sociology at Xavier University, collected these press clippings about racial desegregation and civil rights in Louisiana.

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13. The Creole Controversy
1989
1.6 linear ft.

Mostly raw video for a show produced by Peggy Scott Laborde for WYES-TV, New Orleans, about the meaning of the word "Creole" in Louisiana. Among the women interviewed are Florence Borders, former head of the library at the Amistad Research Center at Tulane University.

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14. Desdunes Family New Orleans Crusader
1891-1915
1 linear ft.

Mostly press clippings from the extremely rare newspaper of the group that brought the Plessy v. Ferguson case. Though there were no female members of the committee, there was a Ladies Auxiliary which helped raise money for the work of the group. Among the women about which Desdunes editorialized was Mother Katherine, whom Desdunes criticized for opening segregated schools to blacks.

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15. Drexel, St. Katharine
1976-2001
1.4 linear ft.

Materials relate to the cause for sainthood for the foundress of the Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament and Xavier University of Louisiana.

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16. Heartman, Charles F.
1724-1897
9.5 linear ft.

A miscellany consisting mostly of government records about enslaved and free black people in Louisiana. The collection contains much information about women.

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17. I've Known Rivers, Inc. Records

Mostly design materials and planning documents of the corporation, headed by Sybil Morial, that sponsored the Afro-American Pavilion at the 1984 Louisiana World Exposition in New Orleans.

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18. Jackson, David Joseph, Press Clippings
1925-1978
4.8 linear ft.

Clippings from the African-American press, formerly in a vertical file established by the head of the Negro History Department at Xavier University of Louisiana in the 1930's. The vertical file, now kept archivally, was maintained in later years by the staff of the University Library and has material about African-American women throughout. Of particular note are folders on the singers Marian Anderson, Carol Brice, Lena Horne, and Dorothy Maynor. Other folders cover "Medicine, Nurses, Nurse Training Schools," "Medicine, Nurses, Other," "Woman's Work," and "Women Civic and Educational Leaders in New Orleans."

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19. Kein, Sybil
1972-1996
5.4 linear ft.

Kein, Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Michigan, is a Creole scholar, writer, and singer. The papers include manuscripts, primarily poetry, and notes for other projects.

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20. Keyes, Frances Parkinson
1940-1946
1 storage box

Composition books containing drafts or correspondence, financial accounts, drawings, poetry, a train schedule, as well as the text for Crescent Carnival. This collection is part of the Treasury Department War Bond Literary Collection, awarded to Xavier during World War II for selling the most war bonds of any United Negro College Fund member institution.