Prudence Crandall, a white Quaker, opened a teacher-training school for young African-American women in Canterbury, Connecticut in 1833. Local opposition forced the school to close the following year. This collection includes a selection of...
African American women; Education; Women educators
News footage from two local television stations in Roanoke, Virginia. Footage from 1959 offers perspectives on school integration from African American students, white students, a veteran teacher. and Vivian Carter Mason (a founder of the Women's...
Civil rights movements; Race relations; School integration
The 203 items in this collection from the University of Houston Libraries Special Collections are dated from 1866 to 1882, and relate to local affairs, family and friends.
Beginning in 1929, the annual "Birthday Party" fashion show in Weslaco, Texas highlighted agricultural products grown in the Rio Grande Valley. This collection includes hundreds of photographs of models wearing clothing made out of local fruit,...
Clothing and dress; Fashion shows; Societies and clubs;
Elizabeth Smith Miller and her daughter, Anne Fitzhugh Miller, filled seven large scrapbooks with newspaper clippings, ephemera and memorabilia related women's suffrage. The collection not only highlights their work at the local level with the...
This collection of local newsfilm, documentaries and other programs presents 60 years of social and cultural history of the San Francisco Bay Area. A sample of the many relevant films in this collection follows:
Chicano women's rights (1973);...
This collection documents the struggle between church (e.g., Baptist) positions and local, state, and national government. Access documents related to abortion from the subject keyword menu, or browse by subject for the following terms: "Abortion,"...
Abortion; Baptists; Christians; Church and state; Religion
This online collection includes home movies, amateur films, advertisements, local television, industrial and corporate productions, as well as Hollywood and internationally produced moving images of Texas. Highlights include a Girl Scout Picnic...
Social life and customs
United States -- Texas
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