African American politicians
Subject
Subject Source: Library Of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Harry Sythe Cummings manuscript collection
Collection
Identifier: MS 2961
Abstract
This collection contains the papers of Harry Sythe Cummings (1866-1917), who was a lawyer, fraternal leader, and the first Black councilman in the city of Baltimore, Maryland. The are also materials related to his immediate and extended family.
Dates:
1845-1994
Louise Kerr Hines ephemera collection
Collection
Identifier: MS 3092
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...
Dates:
1942 - 1993