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Yes, Ma'am

The film Yes, Ma’am is a documentary look at the profession of domestic service, race relations, and injustice. Filmed in New Orleans’...

50 Years/50 Collections: The Fannie Lou Hamer Papers, 1981

“Dear fanny lou, we have gust studied some fammouise black leaders it’s hard to explain about how I feel but there [is] one thing I can...

50 Years/50 Collections: “‘Betty Sayes’: Examining Margaret Aurelia Porter v. Reuben Reynolds.”

Author Lauren A. Heintz is currently a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the English Department at Tulane University. I first looked at the...

50 Years/50 Collections: Kim Lacy Rogers and the Voices of the New Orleans Civil Rights Movement

Although our collections richly chronicle the ethnic experience throughout America, visitors to Amistad often assume, because of our...

50 Years/50 Collections: Save Our Schools records

In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, the call to support and maintain free public education seems louder than ever. This call is similar to...

50 Years/50 Collections: The Samuel Ralph Harlow Papers, 1977

As the history of the Amistad Research Center is closely tied to the legacy of the American Missionary Association, the history of...

RELEASE: Kathe Hambrick Appointed The Center's Executive Director, read more...