Hines, Louise Kerr, 1916-

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Calvin Edouard Ward was a professor in the Music and Arts Department at Coppin State College and a Fulbright scholar in Vienna. In this interview, he discusses the Phelps Stokes Fund grant in Kenya; biography he expects to write of Will Marion Cook; experiences playing famous organs in Europe, United States, and Africa; and his collection of 12,000 colored slides.

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L. Olivia Bates was a Baltimore school teacher and counselor, as well as a former Grand Matron of the Order of the Eastern Star. In this interview, she discusses: benefits of membership in Order of the Eastern Star and its social service; projects; experiences as a teacher of history, special education, hygiene and business education at Booker T. Washington junior High School and counselor at Charles Houston junior High School; and travels abroad.

Abstract Louise Kerr Hines (1916-2007) was an active member, volunteer, and office secretary for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), and worked as a school teacher in Baltimore before becoming a reporter for The Baltimore Afro-American. In this oral history interview, Hines discusses her experiences as a reporter and how her involvement with the NAACP led her to that position. She also recounts her and her family's connections with civil rights leader Lillie May...

Abstract The collection consists of two boxes of miscellaneous print ephemera that documents African American civic, political, and religious life in twentieth-century Maryland. This material is organized thematically. The majority of items are publications from Baltimore churches, institutions, schools and colleges, and civic organizations and programs from the funerals of prominent African Americans, including Clarence M. Mitchell and Justice Thurgood Marshall. The political material primarily...