Delores Walters Papers

Honor certificate for scholarship, attendance service to school from P.S. 107 Bronx

James K. Kieran Junior High School honors certificates for excellence in citizenship, service, attendance, and punctuality. The folder also includes Walters's report cards and diploma from Junior High School P.S. 123, Borough of Bronx.

James Monroe High School honors certificates for excellence in citizenship, service, attendance, and punctuality. The folder also includes Walters's senior picture

The folder contain materials from Walters's Master's program at The City University of New York. Materials include commenencement program, transcript, essays and Walters's Masters project.

The folder contains material from Walter's Bachelor's in Nursing at Columbia University. Materials in the folder include the Department of Nursing junior class, dedication book, graduation Program, and Invitation.

Yearbook from the City College of New York where Walters attended for undergraduate

Yearbook from Walters second year at Columbia University Department of Nursing

The folder contains various materials from Walters's research on Yemen, including the dissertation workshop and the Yemen Studies program.

The folder contains Letters from the Yemen Center for Research and Studies in Sana’a, the capital, about the researcher and her research on the ostracized group called the akhdam, and for allowing Walters to be accompanied by her partner, Lee Maher. The folder also contains Arabic language vocab guide and a drawing of the villahe where she conducted research. Translation: The person carrying this [letter] is the American researcher, Delores Walters, who is conducting research on Al-Akhdam in Yemen. [She will be working in] the Governorates of Taiz, Hodeida and Hajja. YCRS requests that responsible officials and citizens aid her in her project. This researcher has a U.S. Passport no: xxxxxxx. (Signed) by the head of the Center, Muhammad Ahmad al-Ru’adi.

Album #5F --Travels in South Yemen, mid 1990s. In the 1980s, when Walters first went to Yemen, travel to the then People’s Democratic Republic of Yemen, a former British protectorate (Aden) and socialist country, was not permitted for anyone with an American passport. Travel companions: Janine Clark, Lucine Taminian, and Ria Ellis, former executive director of American Institute for Yemeni Studies (AIYS) in PA.

The folder contains letters from disseration advisors

Album #5A-Photos in the album take you from Sana’a, Yemen’s capital, and Bab al-Yemen (Door of Yemen) – entrance to the lively market and the extremely dire living conditions of the akhdam, who were the focus of Walters’s study. The village, where Walters and her partner, Lee Maher, lived for about a year, was called Wadi Dhabab (or Dabab). It was located several hours south of the capital but just outside the large city of Taizz.

Yemen Field Research Reports, [Folder #1]

Album #5C -- Photos in the album are of Walters’s return to Yemen in 1994 & 1998. It also includes Sana’a and Taizz, the village of Wadi Dhabab, its market (suq), village life, people, and travel to places in the area like Yufrus, taken in 1982/3.

Album #5B --Photos in the album includes the relocation to the Tihama (coastal plains) town of `Abs. The house that Walters and Lee rented afforded them much more privacy, a shower, and bathroom enclosure, instead of the make-shift outhouse surrounded by sorghum bushes that Walters had dug in the village. They also experienced a significant change in diet, especially since fish was readily available. This album includes photos of the pair’s early encounter with ‘Abs in 1983-84 and Walters’s return in the mid-1990s to become acquainted with the amazing primary health care providers called murshidat.

Yemen Field Research Reports, [Folder #2]

Yemen Field Research Reports, [folder #3]

The folder contains three-month intervals, the third and fourth interim reports, and the summary and final report on Walters's research: The Elusive Shadow: Images of Social Inequality in North Yemen

Album #5G --Travels in South Yemen, mid 1990s In 1998, Dr. Walters returned to Yemen to give the Murshidat video to the murshidat. She also showed the video at AIYS in Sana’a to various scholars, community workers as well as to a class at Sana’a University. Pictured are a graduate student, Barbara Michael, Ph.D., & Dr. Walters A Yemeni scholar, Dr. Mahyoub Anaam, completed his PhD. at Syracuse University while Walters was in residence. Dr. Walters was an advisor. He, in turn, was an advisor on the Murshidat video. In 1994, Mahyoub was part of a delegation of Yemeni educators studying educational systems at SU. Dr. Walters met with the group, joining them for lunch.

The folder contains various articles and book reviews on Yemen

The folder contains materials from Walters's film Murshidat: Female Primary Healthcare Workers Transforming Society in Yemen.

Feminism & Antiracism: International Struggle for Justice edited by France Winddance Twine and Kathleen M. Blee. The book contains a chapter written by Walters, "Women, Healthcare, and Social Reform in Yemen."

Album #1 --Photos in the album are from Walters' Military Service, Travel, Graduate & Post Graduate work/life

The folder contains items from Walters's time in the US Air Force. Items include promotion, nursing preformation evaluations, and an honorable discharge certificate.

The Folder contains various licenses from driver's, nursing, to military.

Album #5D -- The photos in the album focus on the women who had become trained as midwives and primary healthcare providers, the murshidat, some of whom Walters had known in the 1980s when the Maternal and Child Health Clinic was barely in use. In the 1990s, the murshidat ran a thriving MCHC and went on home visits. Their health services extended to the ostracized group of akhdam (now known as Muhamasheen) who were the focus of Walters’s dissertation research ten years earlier. Walters videotaped, Murshidat: Female Primary Health Workers Transforming Society in Yemen in 1997. Then used editing facilities at Colgate University and Incorporated students in the voiceovers. After its completion, Walters returned to Yemen in 1998 to deliver the video to the murshidat for their use for training and recruitment. Harvard’s Tozzer Anthropology Library holds the master copy. For the past 10 years, Doctors Without Borders (MSF) has been operating in `Abs. Since 2015, under the MSF, what had largely been a dormant facility in the 1980s, coming to life under the care of the murshidat in the 1990s, has become a general hospital with well over 200 beds serving one million people, and conducting thousands of deliveries annually.

Letters of congratulations and awards related to Yeman and Fulbright

The folder contains programs, power points and resources from Cultural Competence URI workshops.

The folder contains an assignment from Women in Community Development Implementation for Change course at the University of the Pacific

The folder contains items from Walters's time as Director ALANA Cultural Center Colgate University. As an administrator at Colgate, Walters engaged students and the broader community in local history, including the Underground Railroad; the start of the Freedom Trail Commission in Madison County; Community Service Learning at a local medical center; and various programs based in the Center. Murshidat Video: Colgate students provided voice-overs and were also involved in other aspects of video production.

Album #2 --Photos in the album are from COLGATE UNIV., ALANA CULTURAL CENTER, director, UGRR Faces, Mural, Community Course in Central New York

Album #2A -- Photos in the album are a continuation of Album #2

Album# 2B --Photos in the album are a continuation of Album #2

The folder contains Walters’s Commentary as Discussant on Papers Presented by three scholars on the topic: Migrations of Race: Relocations and Identities in the Middle East at the American Ethnological Society (AES) Conference. The folder also contains materials regarding NKU- NURFC Teaching at Northern Kentucky University in a joint position with the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center. Resulted in Walters’s presentation on diversity, equity & inclusion for the Kentucky Pretrial Service 30th Anniversary and Conference; the incorporation of the Ohio-Kentucky Borderlands story of Margaret Garner into classes and programs, as well as her serving as researcher/ historian for the opera, Margaret Garner

The folder contains materials from Walters's tenure as Program Director at the National Council for Research on Women. The materials include Walters's cover letter and offer letter, as well as the Ford Foundation grant focused on increasing the diversity of Women’s Studies Centers in colleges and universities around the country.

The folder contains items from The University of Rhode Island College of Nursing Pathways to Nursing.

Album #3 --Photos in the album are from NORTHERN KENTUCKY UNIV.; NATIONAL UNDERGROUND RAILROAD FREEDOM CENTER (NURFC), Cincinnati, OH, Fieldtrips & Community Workshops

Photo box #4A --Box contains photos from Walters's relocation to Cincinnati & Kentucky to NKU; Class activities (Mock Trial), Community activities (Mock Trial); The Margaret Garner Opera; Community Workshops for NURFC. Other activities in Cincinnati OH; African Burial Ground, NYC 1990s- Eastside Neighbors in Partnership (ENIP) in CNY, and community course with migrant laborers in Stockton, CA, while at University of the Pacific (UOP) #4B contains photos from conferences, various, PROVIDENCE, URI, FRIENDS IN RI, Syracuse, CA, Social Life, Lesbian partner, FAMILY

The folder contains materials from Walters's early research on Margaret Garner. Materials include Research in Boone County, church records, death certificates, maps, and more.

Calendar of Events for Latin American Festival, which included the Gendered Resistance Symposium, Miami University: The Center for American and World Cultures. The folder also includes various materials, such as Mark Your Calendar, Registration Form, Flyer, Bookmark, and programs from events held at Miami University. Also included is related Information to the Healing Passage, Dancing Beloved Nallah Randall-Bellinger and Roots Uprising

The folder contains items from Opera Margaret Garner in Detroit, New York, and Cincinnati

Letter to symposium presenters following the Gendered Resistance Symposium explaining the guidelines for contributing to the Gendered Resistance anthology from Walters and Frederickson, Miami University. Thematic Overview: Excerpted Notes: Gendered Resistance Witnessing Slavery and Sexual Violence. Anthology Outline: Gendered Resistance Women Opposing Slavery and Sexual Violence in Historical Contemporary and Global Contexts. Emails and letters from the Editors regarding language/ wording and agreement used in manuscript, Darlene Clark Hine, on receiving the prospectus and on writing the foreword for GR. Also included in this folder is Walters’s Introduction to Gendered Resistance: “Re(Dis)Covering and Recreating the Cultural Milieu of Margaret Garner.” The folder also includes flyers from the University of Illinois Press Gendered Resistance Women Slavery and the Legacy of Margaret Garner.

The folder contains materials from Margaret Garner Libretto Book. Walters contributed a chapter to Margaret Garner: The Premiere Performances of the Toni Morrison’s Libretto, LaVinia Delois Jennings, ed., U. of Virginia, 2016. Her chapter entitled, “Rendering Margaret Garner Accessible: The Preproduction Outreach Campaign” captured the outstanding work of the pre-production Margaret Garner Steering Committee.

Gendered Resistance: Women, Slavery, and the Legacy of Margaret Garner edited by Mary E. Fredrickson and Delores Walters

The folder contains materials from an unfinished essay Black Women Representation in Art?

A standing ovation for our Margaret Garner community partners! includes Names The Cincinnati Opera’s Margaret Garner Steering Committee of which Walters was a part

Flyers from presentations given by Walters's on Margaret Garner

Thank you letters for speaking at Vanderbilt Elementary School, including that of my nephew, Nat Walters (Jr.)

Journal articles on Thomas Satterwhite Noble's

presentations given by Walters's on Margaret Garner

Material related to African Venus

Flyers from Genealogy workshops Walters's conducted in various locations and organizations

The folder contains items from Understanding Our Past, Creating Our Future, an Oral History Project that featured storytellers, spoken word artists and performers telling the history of Rhode Island from the perspective of persons of color and women. It started as a pilot presentation with the Year Up students. This resulted in a video on YouTube and was funded by the RI Council for the Humanities (RICH). Presented at various venues in RI.

Black Women Rise Conference was a multigenerational, multiracial conference coalition held over two consecutive years in which Walters was an organizer and presenter while in FL