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Davis, John W. (John Warren), 1888-1980. Papers, 1905-1979.

Title: Papers, 1905-1979.

Personal and family papers, correspondence, speeches, writings by Davis and others, documents concerning organizations with which Davis was affiliated, subject files, photographs, memorabilia, artifacts, and audiotapes relating to Davis's activities on behalf of African American education, civil rights, and international cooperation.

ArchivalResource: 28 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70941390 View

Davis, John W. (John Warren), 1888-1980. Reminiscences of John Warren Davis : oral history, 1976.

Title: Reminiscences of John Warren Davis : oral history, 1976.

Georgia childhood; University of Chicago; YMCA administrator, 1917-19; history of black colleges in Atlanta; evolution of segregated land-grant colleges in West Virginia; President, West Virginia State College, 1919-50: faculty recruitment, building program, establishment in North Central Association, 1926, Reserve Officers Training Corps for black colleges; black masonic lodges; first black member of National Education Association; American technical assistance to Liberia, role of Firestone in diplomatic relations; National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Legal Defense and Educational Fund, 1954- : impressions of Ralph Bunche, Mary McLeod Bethune, Roy Wilkins, Whitney Young, Carter Woodson, Harry S. Truman, Thurgood Marshall.

ArchivalResource: Transcript: 629 leaves.Tape: 6 reels.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/309732114 View

West Virginia State College (Institute, W. Va.). Correspondence to Van Wyck Brooks, 1944.

Title: Correspondence to Van Wyck Brooks, 1944.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 leaf)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/190863725 View

Simons Family Papers, 1887-1982, (bulk 1918-1945)

Title: Simons Family Papers 1887-1982 (bulk 1918-1945)

Members of the Simons (Simmons) family, an African-American family centered in South Carolina and Washington, D.C., especially William H. Simons (1881-1938), Baptist missionary and Young Men's Christian Association official, and members of the allied Garrett and Nicholson families. Correspondence, diaries and diary notes, and miscellaneous material relating chiefly to William H. Simons and his career with the YMCA in Burma, East Africa, and India and as a Baptist missionary in Nigeria.

ArchivalResource: 3,850 items; 16 containers; 6.4 linear feet

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms007057 View