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Albert M. Bender Papers,

 Collection
Identifier: FWO.001
Scope and Content

The archive consists mainly of correspondence to Albert M. Bender; generally there are no carbons or copies of his letters.

Dates: 1920-1941
Found in: F. W. Olin Library

Boys and Girls Clubs of Boston, Inc. records

 Collection
Identifier: M103
Overview The first clubhouse of the Boys and Girls Clubs of Boston (BGCB) was founded in Charlestown in 1893. The club was meant to be a refuge and alternative space for young boys whose home life and education were not conducive to their development into productive citizens. Over a century later, the BGCB serves more than 8,000 urban youths, largely from disadvantaged circumstances, in its five clubhouses in Charlestown, Chelsea, Dorchester, Roxbury and South Boston. In 1981, girls were admitted to...
Dates: 1893-2004; Majority of material found within 1950s-1980s
Found in: Snell Library

Elma Ina Lewis papers

 Collection
Identifier: M038
Overview

Elma Lewis was born on September 15, 1921 in Boston, Mass. She taught dance, drama, and speech therapy, and established the Elma Lewis School of Fine Arts in 1950, the National Center of Afro-American Artists in 1968, and the Museum of the National Center of Afro-American Artists in 1969.



Dates: 1917-1998
Found in: Snell Library

Elma Lewis School of Fine Arts records

 Collection
Identifier: M043
Overview

Founded by Elma Lewis in 1950, the Elma Lewis School of Fine Arts was established to meet the social, cultural, and artistic needs of Boston's African American community. Lewis's goal was to foster the arts, not only in the local Roxbury-Dorchester community, but also in the African American community at large. The Elma Lewis School of Fine Arts offered education in art, dance, drama, music, and costuming to pre-school children, school-aged children and adults.



Dates: 1954-1992
Found in: Snell Library

Freedom House, Inc. records

 Collection
Identifier: M016
Overview Freedom House was founded in 1949 by African American social workers Otto P. and Muriel S. Snowden.  It grew out of their initial community organizing with the Council on Community Affairs of Upper Roxbury (1947-1949).  The initial goal of Freedom House was to centralize community activism in the fight for neighborhood improvement, good schools, and harmony among racial, ethnic, and religious groups in Roxbury, Massachusetts.  Otto Snowden was the Director of St. Mark Social Center when he...
Dates: 1941-2004 (bulk 1949-1986)
Found in: Snell Library

Beate Sirota Gordon Papers

 Collection
Identifier: FWO.003
Scope and Content of Collection Series in the collection are as follows: Record Group 1: Papers Series 1: Personal Subseries 1.1: Sirota Family Subseries 1.2: American School in Japan Subseries 1.3: Mills College Subseries 1.4: Programs Subseries 1.5: Miscellaneous Subseries 1.6: Travel Subseries 1.7: After Death Series 2: Constitution Series 3: Asia Society Series 4: Other Professional Activities Subseries 4.1: Speaking Engagements Subseries 4.2: Speeches and Lectures Subseries 4.3: Columbia Oral History Subseries 4.4:...
Dates: 1924-2020
Found in: F. W. Olin Library

J. William Bordeau Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MMC.009
Overview MMC.009 consists of the personal collection of J. William Bordeau, a professor of theatre (acting and directing) at Suffolk Community College in the mid-1960s and at Marymount Manhattan College from 1969 to 1999. Materials include clippings, correspondence, photographs, programs, promotional items, video of one production, and small amounts of other sorts of ephemera. The collection documents developments in Catholic higher education, education in the performing arts, and activism in the...
Dates: 1959-2006
Found in: T. J. Shanahan Library

Maureen Anderman Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MMC.007
Overview MMC.007 consists of the professional papers of Maureen Anderman, an actress who between the 1970s and 2010s appeared in motion pictures and television, but especially on stage, on Broadway, off Broadway, and in regional theatre. The collection includes advertisements, clippings, correspondence, photographs, playbills, posters, programs, scripts, and ephemera, such as costume sketches. The collection documents classic plays from Shakespeare and Shaw, American standards by Moss Hart and George...
Dates: 1962-2010
Found in: T. J. Shanahan Library

Museum of the National Center of Afro-American Artists records

 Collection
Identifier: M044
Overview

Established in 1969 as a division of the National Center of Afro-American Artists, the Museum of the National Center of Afro-American Artists is an art museum dedicated to the education, promotion, exhibition, and collection of African, Caribbean, and Afro-American fine arts worldwide.



Dates: 1966-1998
Found in: Snell Library

National Center of Afro-American Artists records

 Collection
Identifier: M042
Overview

The National Center of Afro-American Artists was founded by Elma Ina Lewis in Dorchester, Massachusetts in 1968. The Center's founding was a response to concerns over a lack of a comprehensive, national institutional center for African American artists.



Dates: 1924-1998
Found in: Snell Library

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African Americans women political activists -- Massachusetts -- Boston 1
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Japan -- Description and travel. 1
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Meditation. 1
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Oliveros, Pauline, 1932- -- Works. 1
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Prison theater -- Massachusetts -- Boston 1
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Names
Bender, Albert M. (Albert Maurice), 1866-1941 1
Recht, Raymond C. 1
Reinhardt, Aurelia Henry, 1877-1948 1
Sampan 1
 

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