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Curtis Granville Jackson scrapbook and papers relating to the Boy Scouts
Container / Volume:
Box 1 | 1-2
Image Count:
122
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Collection consists of a scrapbook and other papers. The scrapbook, "My Scouting History," contains autograph and typescript entries, photographs, merit badges and awards, correspondence, and printed ephemera documenting Jackson's membership in an African-American boy scout troop, Troop 42 of Camden, New Jersey from 1937 to 1943. Other papers include one letter, photographs, scarves, and printed material, dating from 1946 to 1965, relating chiefly to Jackson's involvement in Troop 43 of the Boy Scouts of America. and Folder 1 of 2 completely digitized.
Description:
Purchased from Swann Galleries on the Jockey Hollow Fund, 2010.
Subject (Geographic):
Camden (N.J.) and Camden County (N.J.)
Subject (Name):
Boy Scouts of America and Jackson, Curtis Granville
Subject (Topic):
African Americans--New Jersey--Camden, Boy Scouts of America--African American membership, and Boy Scouts--New Jersey--Camden
American fiction--20th century, American literature--20th century, Americans--France--History--20th century, and Authors, American--20th century--Archives
Photographs of the occupation of Wounded Knee, South Dakota.
Container / Volume:
Box 1
Image Count:
2
Abstract:
Photographs created by Owen Luck of individuals and events surrounding the armed occupation by Oglala Dakota Indians, American Indian Movement, and their allies of Wounded Knee on the Pine Ridge reservation, South Dakota, 1973. Images document ceremonies and gatherings, men holding rifles and manning roadblocks, the arrival of negotiators from the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America and the federal government, and government military forces. Other images shows a group in the doorway of the courthouse during the arraignment of prisoners and Tom Bad Cobb in the street outside the jail, both in Rapid City, South Dakota.
Description:
Purchased from Owen Luck on the Walter McClintock Memorial Fund, 2001. and Signed by the photographer on verso, often with accompanying manuscript captions.
Subject (Geographic):
Pine Ridge Indian Reservation (S.D.)--Pictorial works and Wounded Knee (S.D.)--History--Indian occupation, 1973
Subject (Name):
American Indian Movement
Subject (Topic):
Indians of North America--Pictorial works and Oglala Indians--Government relations