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Aishah Shahidah Simmons papers, 1937-2023, bulk 1992-2009

39 Linear Feet (22 Paige cartons, 2 Hollinger boxes, 3 half Hollinger boxes, 4 shoeboxes, 8 flat boxes, 1 oversize folder)
Aishah Shahidah Simmons identifies as a Black feminist lesbian writer-filmmaker. She is also an educator and activist. Through her AfroLez® Productions company, she created the films Silence...Broken (1993), In My Father's House (1996), and her feature-length, award-winning NO! The Rape Documentary (2006), which addresses sexual assault in the Black community. Her papers reflect her documentary filmmaking career, her production company AfroLez® Productions, her writings, professional activities, and personal life. The collection contains writings, correspondence, working files, and an extensive collection of audiovisual materials documenting her life and work. Acquired as part of the Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History and Culture, the John Hope Franklin Research Center for African and African American History and Culture, and Duke University's Archive of Documentary Arts.
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El Pueblo, Inc. Records, 1994-2020

21 Linear Feet 265 Gigabytes (192.8 gigabytes transferred from El Pueblo server on a RL-owned external hard drive. Two additional external hard drives were transferred by donor. One contains 63 gigabytes of data. The other contains 9 gigabytes of data)
El Pueblo Inc. is a non-profit organization based in Raleigh, NC that serves and supports the Latin American community of North Carolina through advocacy work, programs in Latino culture, health, public safety, and youth leadership. This collection contains photographs and other media documenting their events, relevant newspaper clippings collected by the organization, and administrative files related to the management and operation of the organization. Acquired as part of the Human Rights Archive.
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North Carolinians Against Racist and Religious Violence records, 1980-1997

18.25 Linear Feet
North Carolinians Against Racist and Religious Violence (NCARRV) was an activist group based in Durham, NC from 1983-1997 that worked to document hate crimes and hate groups including white supremacists, assist victims, raise awareness, and influence public policy across the state, and these records document their work. Collection includes founding documents, bylaws, meeting files, board meeting documents, photographs, audiovisual materials, administrative materials, grants and grant applications, incident reports, publications, subject and extensive newspaper clippings on racist violence and white supremacy movements in North Carolina.
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OutRight records, 1983-1995

5.25 Linear Feet
OutRight is a Triangle-area organization that was founded in 1990 and is now disbanded. OutRight provided support for gay youth and other young people with questions about their sexual orientation. The OutRight records consist of meeting minutes, correspondence, financial records, resources and programs (including clippings, flyers, and pamphlets), and literature on AIDS and sexuality. The materials also include reports on nationwide trends and LGBTQ issues.
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Rob Amberg photographs and papers, 1975-2009

15 Linear Feet 457 Items
The photographs and papers of documentarian Rob Amberg span the years 1975-2009. The gelatin silver prints and pigmented inkjet color prints in the collection represent three bodies of work: The New Road: I-26 and the Footprints of Progress; The Sodom Laurel Album; and The Vanishing Culture of Agriculture. Amberg focuses primarily on the social life and customs of the rural South, especially in the mountains of his home state of North Carolina. Images range from landscape shots taken before and during construction of an interstate highway in the N.C. mountains, to portraits of individuals and families affected by the changes in rural culture. Images also depict agricultural activies such as tobacco cultivation and dairy cattle farming, as well as work in the poultry industry. He has a special concern for documenting the way in which industrial and economic progress seems to be erasing many aspects of rural culture at the turn of the twenty-first century. Amberg's papers account for the rest of the collection and are organized into five series: Correspondence, Printed Materials, Subject Files, and Writings and Research, and Audio. Acquired as part of the Archives of Documentary Arts at Duke University.
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Manbites Dog Theater records, 1987-2018 and undated

38 Linear Feet
Manbites Dog Theater was a professional non-profit theater company founded in Durham in October 1987. Manbites Dog staged a variety of theatrical productions, with a focus on premieres of new works by working closely with playwrights, directors, actors, and artists. The theater mounted over 130 productions, many of them regional or state premieres. The theater closed in 2018. Collection includes a variety of administrative documents from these productions, including marketing materials, reviews, contracts, and box-office records. Also includes administrative documents from more general theater operations.
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Mary Duke Biddle Trent Semans family papers, 1865-2014, bulk 1920-2012

169.2 Linear Feet (189 boxes, three film cans, and 11 oversize folders.) 33.6 Gigabytes (Born digital electronic records.) 6.5 Terabytes (Digitized audiovisual material.)
Mary Duke Biddle Trent Semans (1920-2012) was the only daughter of Mary Duke and Anthony J. Drexel Biddle Jr. This collection documents her childhood in New York, enrollment at Duke University, and marriages to Josiah C. Trent and James H. Semans. She continued her family's legacy of philanthropy, with a focus on the arts, education, and medicine, and became civically active beginning in the 1950s, espeically in Durham and North Carolina.
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North Carolina Lesbian and Gay Health Project records, 1983-1996

24.7 Linear Feet (18 boxes; 3 oversize boxes; 1 oversize folder)
The North Carolina Lesbian and Gay Health Project was founded in 1982. The records in this collection contain administrative files, case files, board minutes, and newsletters that document the organization, staffing, and activities of the NCLGHP. Subject files provide general information about gay and lesbian health issues, such as AIDS, breast cancer, sexually transmitted diseases, mental health, and substance abuse. Includes some artifacts and ephemeral materials such as T-shirts, pamphlets, and fliers.
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Eva J. Salber papers, 1937-1990

17.1 Linear Feet circa 12,930 Items

The Salber Papers span the years 1937 to 1990, with the bulk of the papers dating from 1967 to 1990. The collection contains correspondence; financial papers; writings and speeches; clippings; photographs, many by Dominic D'Eustachio; reports; minutes; scrapbooks; training manuals; student papers; printed material; and lecture notes chiefly relating to Salber's publications, teaching career, and work as a community health physician. Publications highlighted include Caring and Curing(New York, N.Y., 1975) ; Don't Send Me Flowers When I'm Dead (Durham, N.C., 1983) , containing interviews with the rural elderly in Durham County, N.C.; and The Mind is Not the Heart(Durham, N.C., 1989) . Her work in the community health field is documented primarily in her writings, the papers about the Martha M. Eliot Family Health Center, and the Health Facilitator Program, which was administered through the Duke University Medical Center Department of Community and Family Medicine. Outgrowths of the Health Facilitator Program are featured in the information about the Health and Human Services Program of the General Baptist State Convention of North Carolina. Other topics include smoking research among young people, teacher and student relationships, and the financing of community health service projects. The collection contains few personal papers and little information about Salber prior to 1967. Explanatory notes by Salber scattered throughout the collection offer insights rarely available in manuscript collections.

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Charles DeWitt Watts papers, 1917-2004 and undated

13.6 Linear Feet Approximately 7249 Items
Pioneering African American surgeon who was chief of surgery at Lincoln Hospital, clinical professor of surgery at Duke University, founder of Lincoln Community Health Center, director of student health at North Carolina Central University, and vice president and medical director for North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company, all in Durham, N.C. Spanning the period of 1917 to 2004, the Charles DeWitt Watts Papers contain files related to Watts's education, family, community activities, centered in Durham, N.C., and his career as a surgeon, administrator, and trustee on several boards. There is material on the formation in 1901 of Lincoln Hospital, a medical care facility for African Americans in Durham, N.C.. and other items on the early 20th century history of Durham, but the bulk of the papers relate to the later half of the 20th century. Formats primarily consist of correspondence, reports, notes, speeches, photographs, and print materials. It is organized into the following series: Community Relations, Personal Files, Photographic Materials, and Professional Files. Material in the Medical Records Series have been separated and are currently closed to use. Acquired as part of the John Hope Franklin Research Center for African and African American History and Culture.
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