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Men Shaking Hands at a Political Meeting
title
Men Shaking Hands at a Political Meeting
Subject
Men, Meetings, Politics & government, Political elections, Voter registration, Banner
Date created ms
1920, 1950
Abstract
Two men shaking hands at a political meeting or election meeting. There are several other men standing around them. A voter registration poster is on the wall in the corner.
Voter Registration Meeting
title
Voter Registration Meeting
Subject
Meetings, Politics & government, Political elections, Voter registration, Banner
Date created ms
1920, 1950
Abstract
Voter registration meeting in a small room with a low ceiling. The audience is seated and there are several men seated on stage. One man on stage is standing. The banners have pro-democracy and voter registration slogans on them.
Men Shaking Hands at a Political Meeting
title
Men Shaking Hands at a Political Meeting
Subject
Men, Meetings, Politics & government, Political elections, Voter registration
Date created ms
1920, 1950
Abstract
Two men shaking hands at a political or election meeting. There is a large group of people seated in folding chairs in what looks like a basement.
Man and Woman Shaking Hands at a Political Meeting
title
Man and Woman Shaking Hands at a Political Meeting
Subject
Meetings, Politics & government, Political elections, Voter registration, Banner
Date created ms
1920, 1950
Abstract
A man and a woman shake hands at a political meeting or election meeting. There are voter registration and ant-dictatorship posters on the wall. Several men are standing nearby.
Political Meeting
title
Political Meeting
Subject
Meetings, Politics & government, Political elections, Voter registration, Banner
Date created ms
1920, 1950
Abstract
At a political meeting with several politicians and/or government officials. The officials are moving through the audience shaking hands with the attendees.
Jean Baptiste Meullion papers. Folder 01-32, 1867-1885.
title
Jean Baptiste Meullion papers. Folder 01-32, 1867-1885.
Subject
Free African Americans, Louisiana, Saint Landry Parish, Creoles, Louisiana, Saint Landry Parish, African American businesspeople, Louisiana, Saint Landry Parish, Cotton trade, Louisiana, Meullion, Antoine Alphonse, active approximately 1835-1899, Saint Landry Parish (La.), Meullion, Bellazaire, active 1796?-1871, Meullion family, African Americans, Suffrage, Louisiana, Voter registration, Louisiana, Saint Landry Parish, African American families, Louisiana, Saint Landry Parish, African American women, Louisiana, Saint Landry Parish, Death notices, Commission merchants, Louisiana, New Orleans, Lists, Letters, Commercial correspondence
Date created ms
1867, 1885
Abstract
Papers of Jean Baptiste Meullion's descendants include the voter registration certificate of Alphonse Meullion and a letter from Bellocq, Noblon & Company to Belarie Meullion regarding the price of cotton. Other documents comprise a price list published by Beraud and Gibert, commission merchants of New Orleans, as well as the death notice of James Rankin Todd (1804-1885) of Ireland. Letter and price list are in French.
Miles Terrell and family papers. Papers. Folder 01a-01e, 1875-1877.
title
Miles Terrell and family papers. Papers. Folder 01a-01e, 1875-1877.
Subject
Accounts, Certificates, Correspondence, Cotton trade, Louisiana, Rapides Parish, Debtor and creditor, Louisiana, Drafts, Louisiana, Rapides Parish, Free African Americans, African American farmers, Louisiana, Rapides Parish, Cotton farmers, Louisiana, Rapides Parish, Genealogies, Invoices, Promissory, Receipts (Acknowledgments)(Acknowledgments) Shipping records, Summons, Voter registration, Louisiana, Rapides Parish
Date created ms
1875, 1877
Abstract
Materials consist primarily of financial papers relating to Miles Terrell's debt and business transactions. Documents include promissory notes, accounts, drafts for payments, and invoices. A court summons dated January 27, 1875 requires Miles Terrell to appear in court to answer a plaintiff's demand for payment for nursing services. Papers include a receipt showing payment of this debt, dated May 28, 1875. Terrell family genealogy notes, dated 1875, record the births of Miles Terrell's sons, Gloucester and Marion. A note written by Violet Terrell on October 1, 1875 instructs William Deare to pay Miles Terrell for board and use of a horse. A note written by James Hicks on November 14, 1875 asks Grean Richey to pay Miles Terrell.

Other items include an invoice for drugs (dated 1876), an order for sewing supplies and fabric (dated 1877), and a shipping document for the sale and shipment of cotton (dated 1877).
Miles Terrell and family papers. Papers. Folder 01a-01c, 1870-1872.
title
Miles Terrell and family papers. Papers. Folder 01a-01c, 1870-1872.
Subject
Free African Americans, African American women, Louisiana, Rapides Parish, African American farmers, Louisiana, Rapides Parish, Cotton farmers, Louisiana, Rapides Parish, Voter registration, Louisiana, Rapides Parish, Debtor and creditor, Certificates, Accounts, Summons, Receipts (Acknowledgments)(Acknowledgments), Correspondence, Promissory, Invoices, Receipts (Acknowledgments)(Acknowledgments)
Date created ms
1870, 1872
Abstract
Material consists mostly of invoices, promissory notes and receipts relating to purchases and small loans made by Miles Terrell, including the purchase of a heifer from James Hicks, dated September 9, 1871. In a letter to Miles Terrell, dated October 14, 1871, James Hicks requests that he give a bale of cotton to Milton Gorum. Violet Terrell receipt shows payment for a patent she received in Vernon Parish on May 31, 1872. Of note is a August 30, 1872 legal summons issued to Miles Terrell to appear before the justice of the peace to answer a plaintiff's demand for payment.
Accusation published in a New Orleans newspaper that the Jackson Party purchased several lots of ground in the fauxbourg St. Mary and parcelled them out to three hundred of their adherents to qualify them as voters in the upcoming election in 1828.
title
Accusation published in a New Orleans newspaper that the Jackson Party purchased several lots of ground in the fauxbourg St. Mary and parcelled them out to three hundred of their adherents to qualify them as voters in the upcoming election in 1828.
Subject
United States. Works Progress Administration of Louisiana, Law & legal affairs, Corruption, Political elections, Land tenure, Voting, Voter registration, Suffrage
Date Issued
1828-06-07
Abstract
Text, June 7, 1828. Communication. Accusation published in a New Orleans newspaper that the Jackson Party purchased several lots of ground in the fauxbourg St. Mary and parceled them out to three hundred of their adherents to qualify them as voters in the upcoming election. The remainder of the article discusses the moral repercussions of this type of corruption within the city. Published in the Argus.
Elector certificate
title
Elector certificate
Subject
Voter registration, Louisiana, New Orleans
Date created ms
1865-06-30
Abstract
M.J. Guerin's certificate as an "elector."
Have the people a right to be heard?
title
Have the people a right to be heard?
Subject
Louisiana, Politics and government, 1865-1950, Populism, Louisiana, Electioneering, United States, Louisiana, Voter registration, Louisiana, Broadsides
Date created ms
1931
Abstract
Broadside by Huey Long urging citizens to register to vote for him in the U.S. Senate election.
Voter registration certificate of Thomas Donnelly]
title
Voter registration certificate of Thomas Donnelly]
Subject
Voter registration, Donnelly, Thomas
Date created ms
1864-05-25
Abstract
Official document registering Donnelly as an elector of New Orleans by William Baker, Register.
Miles Terrell and family papers. Papers. Folder 01a-01d, 1873-1877.
title
Miles Terrell and family papers. Papers. Folder 01a-01d, 1873-1877.
Subject
Free African Americans, African American farmers, Louisiana, Rapides Parish, Cotton farmers, Louisiana, Rapides Parish, Voter registration, Louisiana, Rapides Parish, Clothing and dress, Louisiana, Debtor and creditor, Certificates, Accounts, Summons, Receipts (Acknowledgments)(Acknowledgments) Correspondence, Promissory notes, Invoices
Date created ms
1873, 1877
Abstract
Chiefly financial papers that include accounts, invoices, and receipts documenting the sale of cotton, household goods, food, tobacco, farm equipment, whiskey, and quinine. Receipts also document payments on debt. Promissory notes relate to loans and payment for cotton. In a May 4, 1874 letter to M. Miars, Cornelius, Bryans orders fabric, sewing supplies and shoes to be delivered by way of Miles Terrell. Receipts, a promissory note, and a letter fragment document Miles Terrell's business transactions with A. J. Marshall. The letter fragment (October 6, 1873) written by Marshall concerns Terrell's debt to him and the seizure of Terrell's property. Also represented is Miles Terrell's voter registration certificate, dated September 14, 1874.
Voter registration certificate of Thomas Donnelly]
title
Voter registration certificate of Thomas Donnelly]
Subject
Voter registration, Donnelly, Thomas
Date Issued
1864-05-25
Abstract
Official document registering Donnelly as an elector of New Orleans by William Baker, Register.
Clearing up the rubble of Pleasant Grove Baptist Church
title
Clearing up the rubble of Pleasant Grove Baptist Church
Subject
African American women, Arson, Baptist churches, Domestic terrorism, Voter registration
Date created ms
1965-01-31, 1965-01-31
Abstract
Label reads: "Jonesboro , La. January 31, 1965. A member of the congregation of Pleasant Grove Baptist Church works at clearing up the rubble that remained after racists burned the church for Housing Voter Registration and CORE."
North Carolina - Charlotte: Harvey Gantt:
title
North Carolina - Charlotte: Harvey Gantt
Subject
African Americans, Desegregation, Education, Race relations, Senate, Voter registration
Date created ms
1991-04-25, 1991-04-25
Name
Gantt, Harvey
Abstract
Tom Dent interviews Harvey Gantt in Charlotte, North Carolina. They discuss Gantt's recent unsuccessful Senate run against Jesse Helms, whose election tactics were designed to be divisive and racist. Gantt talks about why he decided to run and the importance of people of color running for office. There was an educational process necessary within the Black community during the election campaign. Gantt discusses the differences between North Carolina and South Carolina and between the cities of North Carolina. He talks about his decision to leave Charleston, South Carolina for college at Iowa State University and why he returned to the South to become the first African American student to attend Clemson University. He discusses his life as an architect and a politician.
Voter registration card
title
Voter registration card
Subject
Authors, Correspondence, Literature, Voter registration
Date created ms
1958-12-30, 1958-12-30
Name
Toole, John Kennedy, 1937-1969
Abstract
Notification of voter registration sent to J.K. Toole with his registration information: #908, Ward 14, Precinct 10. Reigistration was sent officially by Louis Knop, Jr., Registrar of Voters, City Hall, 1300 Perdido St. New Orleans, La.
Rev. M.L. Kirkland in front of Neshoba County courthouse
title
Rev. M.L. Kirkland in front of Neshoba County courthouse
Subject
African Americans, Civil rights workers, Public service organizations, Voter registration, Voting, Workshops
Date created ms
1964-10, 1964-10
Abstract
Label reads: "Philadelphia, Mississippi, October 1964. James Collier, CORE task force worker and Rev. M.L. Kirkland in front of Neshoba County courthouse. Rev. Kirkland was the first Black registered in the registration drive (making a total of 5 in the county). He had taken the registration test 5 times since 1952, but had never passed. Collier is pinning "I am Registered" pin on Rev. Kirkland."
Voter registration class
title
Voter registration class
Subject
African Americans, Civil rights workers, Men, Public service organizations, Voter registration, Voting, Workshops
Date created ms
1964-10, 1964-10
Abstract
Label reads: "Philadelphia, Mississippi, October 1964. Voter registration class. Standing in the back: CORE task force worker, George Smith and Mississippi volunteer Tom Foner."
Williamsburg County, South Carolina
title
Williamsburg County, South Carolina
Subject
African Americans, Civil rights workers, Voting, Voter registration
Date created ms
1965-07, 1965-07
Abstract
Canvassers speaking with woman in Williamsburg County, South Carolina. Don Rhoads at right.

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