Amistad is committed to collecting, preserving, and providing open access to original materials that reference the social and cultural importance of America's ethnic and racial history, the African Diaspora, human relations, and civil rights.
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Amistad Thanks 2018 Donors
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We want to thank you for making 2018 a remarkable and fabulous year! From Conversations in Color to celebrating the legacy of Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, you have been with us every step of the way. We appreciate you taking this journey with us and look forward to working with you in 2019. If you have questions about your gift or recognition, please contact us at (504) 862-3222.
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Living Legend: Larry Bagneris
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Nearly six decades after Larry Bagneris began his activist career, the now-retired local and regional LGBTQ pioneer is busy learning meditation.
“I never knew how much this could help!” Bagneris, 72, proclaimed recently from his French Quarter home. “I need it to deal with Trump.”
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Conversations in Color: Rev. Dr. William Barber, II
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To commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Poor People’s Campaign and explain why its work is far from finished, the Rev. Dr. William J. Barber, II will discuss keeping our “Eyes On The Prize” at McAllister Auditorium on Wednesday, Jan. 30, from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.
Barber is president of Repairers of the Breach, national co-chair of the 2018 Poor People’s Campaign. and a 2018 MacArthur Genius Grant recipient. He leads an alliance of more than 200 progressive organizations, known as Moral Monday, to redefine public morality and support state coalitions to address poverty, injustice and inequality.
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This Conversations in Color event is sponsored by Amistad Research Center, Tulane University’s Office of Multicultural Affairs, and the Greater New Orleans Foundation.
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Poor People's Campaign Publicized Poverty In '68
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During a staff retreat of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference in November 1967, King announced the Poor People’s Campaign as “middle ground between riots on the one hand and timid supplications for justice on the other,” according to documents in The Martin Luther King Jr. Research & Education Institute at Stanford University.
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Amistad Research Center Celebrates 50th Anniversary of the Dashiki Project Theatre
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The George and Joyce Wein Jazz and Heritage Center | 1225 North Rampart Street | Friday, February 8, 2019 at 7:00 PM - Saturday, February 9, 2019 at 8:30 PM (CST)
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Founded in New Orleans in 1968, Dashiki Project Theater went on to become one of the nation’s leading community theaters for over two decades. Formed initially by the late director Dr. Ted Gilliam, playwright Norbert R. Davidson, and scenic designer Warren Kenner, Dashiki Project Theater gained local acclaim for the development of its acting corps, including such award winning actors as Carol Sutton, Gwendolyn Foxworth, Patricia Hill-McElveen, Harold Evans, Adella Gautier and Donald Matthews, all of whom are a part of this production. The production is from the arrangement by Roscoe Lee Brown as adapted and directed by Dr. Gilliam. The reality of Dashiki can be summed up, all these many years later, symbolically, in three lines from "Runagate Runagate:"
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Many thousands rise and go,
Many thousands crossing over
Some in silks and some in shackles......
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Highlighting New Orleans’ Role in Civil Rights Movement
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Amistad’s current exhibition documents those who led the fight for equality in New Orleans from the Reconstruction Era through the 1960s and places important events in the city within the framework of the larger Civil Rights Movement. Visit the exhibition anytime during our public hours of Monday-Friday 8:30-4:30 and Saturday 9:00-1:00.
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Land Assistance Fund Feeds Farmers’ Hopes
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Farming is not for the faint of heart. Thank goodness the Federation of Southern Cooperatives Land Assistance Fund is still here, bringing bounty and blessings to those who work the land.
It’s been 52 years since The Federation started helping small and minority farmers through advocacy, the development of farm cooperatives and land retention. According to Wendell Paris, the group’s first director of training, the FSC is first and foremost about the value of strength in numbers.
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Amistad Receives $250,000 CLIR Grant to Digitize Civil Rights Footage
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In 1965 and 1967, filmmakers Ed Pincus and David Neuman documented early attempts to organize and register Black voters and the formation of the self-defense group Deacons for Defense and Justice in Natchez, Mississippi. With funding from the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR), Amistad will digitize and provide access to approximately ninety-hours of rare black and white 16mm footage of the African American community in Natchez at the height of violence, racial tensions, and the fight for civil rights during the 1960s.
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Education Specialist Anastacia Scott conducted an educator workshop for 10 middle school teachers from Plaquemines Parish on January 11. The teachers received training on how to implement Amistad on the Go! (AOTG) in their classrooms. AOTG is an interactive and digital education program designed by the Amistad Research Center to support the Common Core standards of grades 6 through 12 by providing humanities and arts-centered activities on themes such as Slavery & Abolition, the Reconstruction Era, and the modern Civil Rights Movement.
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