1936 Jesse Owens Olympics Diary
“My Travels Abroad”. A journal kept by Jesse Owens as he traveled by boat to Berlin, Germany for the 1936 Summer Olympics.
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Chester Himes Collection
The Chester Himes Collection contains materials related to Himes’ writings and films adapted from his works that were part of the blaxploitation genre. The materials, dating from 1932 to 1978, include transcripts, screenplays, publicity, correspondence, photographs, and critiques of Himes’ works. The collection includes transcripts of speeches, typescripts of articles by Himes that explore racism in America. The collection also…
John Henry Herrick Papers
The John Henry Herrick Papers contain materials connected with the White House Conference on Education, articles and book reviews, speeches, biographical data, studies of campus planning at other institutions, OSU Alumni meetings, conference files, Kappa Phi Kappa files, correspondence, research notes regarding the history of OSU campus, drawings, and oral history transcripts and audiocassettes. John Henry Herrick (1904-1990) was a…
Photograph Album and Photograph Collection Assembled by an African-American Soldier Serving in Europe
During World War II, near 2.5 million African-American men registered for the draft and almost 1 million of them enlisted in the military. African-American men served in all branches of the military despite unequal treatment and segregation from white soldiers. The Photograph Album and Photograph Collection Assembled by an African-American Soldier Serving in Europe contains photographs of African-American soldiers during…