Morris, J. Kenneth. J. Kenneth Morris papers, 1872-1983.
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J. Kenneth Morris papers, 1872-1983.
Consisting of personal, legal, and institutional materials documenting Morris position at Voorhees College during a period of student activism and social change; research notes re Elizabeth Evelyn Wright and the founding of Voorhees college; and items pertaining to the Episcopal church. Voorhees College items include copy of printed manuscript, 8 Dec. 1967, Vol. I, no 1, of Black Awareness Coordinating Committee Speaks; copy of circular letter, 5 Aug. 1970, to Members of Executive Council of Episcopal Church, re acivites, 1967-1969, of Black Coordinating Committee at VC; letter, 12 Nov. 1970, from Dorothy A. Faber, editor of The Christian Challenge (Austin, Tex.), re Cleveland Sellers, Orangeburg Massacre, and unrest at South Carolina State College. Two manuscript volumes, 1969-1971, re campus demonstrations, etc., incl. legal briefs, broadsides, and minutes, with copy of Classified Roster of Student Dissenters (1970); Morris' notes re trial of seven Vorhees students; and correspondence including letter, 12 Nov. 1970, from Dorothy A. Faber, editor of The Christian Challenge, Austin, Tex., re Cleveland Sellers and the unrest at South Carolina State College. Other correspondents include Harry P. Graham, of Voorhees; Moultire Guerry, of Norfolk, Va., including letter, 15 June 1967, questioning war in Vietnam; copy of letter, 20 June 1967, Morris to Guerry, re his recent visit to the U.N., noting anti-American and anti-Israel rhetoric of the Russian and Syrain ambassadors, lamenting the American impasse in Vietnam, and giving his reaction to revised liturgy and forward altar observed during service at Trinity Church (New York, N.Y.). Letters, clippings, and photos, and 4 volumes, 1872-1983, and research notes for book on Elizabeth Evelyn Wright (1872-1906), founder of Denmark Industrial School in 1897, now known as Voorhees College, with biographical information on Wright, Jessie Dorsey Green and Martin A. Menafee. Wright's correspondents include Booker T. Washington. Persons represented include staff members Jessie Dorsey Green and Martin A. Menafee, and supporters of the school Robert C. Bedford, George W. Kelly, Stanwix G. Mayfield, Almira S. Steele, and Ralph Voorhees.
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