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Brawley, Benjamin Griffith, 1882-1939. Papers of Benjamin Griffith Brawley, 1928-1938.

Title: Papers of Benjamin Griffith Brawley, 1928-1938.

Chiefly correspondence with James Hardy Dillard. Other correspondents include Anson Phelps Stokes, Leo M Favrot, and Trevor Arnett. Most of the correspondence concerns Brawley's biography, "Doctor Dillard of the Jeanes Fund." Other topics mentioned include Shaw University, Howard University, the Jeanes and Slater Funds, the General Education Board and Dillard University. Of interest is a letter, 1936 March 3, in which Brawley discusses his collecting of "Negro literature."

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http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/68940733 View

Braithwaite, William Stanley, 1878-1962. Papers of William Stanley Beaumont Braithwaite [manuscript] 1904-1935 (1958).

Title: Papers of William Stanley Beaumont Braithwaite [manuscript] 1904-1935 (1958).

The collection contains manuscripts and some proofs for many of Braithwaite's anthologies: The book of Elizabethan verse, 1906, The book of Georgian verse, 1908, The book of Restoration verse, 1909, Anthologies of magazine verse, 1913-20, 1925-17, & the 1958 issue dedicated to him, The book of modern British verse, 1919, The story of the great war, The great war, 1919, Bay state book of verse: 1630-1930, Our Lady's choir, 1931, and Victory, 1919 together with book reviews, essays, articles and poems. Many of the contracts signed by Braithwaite or Virginia Jackson as presidents of the B.J. Brimmer Co., Boston, a Brimmer Co. ledger, and papers from poetry contests Braithwaite judged are also present. In his professional correspondence Braithwaite discusses his editorial duties for the Brimmer Co., the compilation of his anthologies, and poetry offered him for anthology consideration. Manuscripts offered to him are frequently included with the correspondence. Correspondents include Katherine Lee Bates, Lucius Morris Beebe, Morris Abel Beer, Henry Bellamann, Henry Adams Bellows, William Rose Benet, Ralph Wilhelm Bergengren, John Black, Benjamin Brawley, Herschell Brickell, Robert Bridges, Stanley Burnshaw, Amelia Josephine Burr, Richard Burton, Thomas Caldecott Chubb, Thomas Curtis Clark, Catherine (Cate) Coblentz, Grant Hyde Code, Padraic Celum, Isabel (Fiske) Cenant, Howard Williard Cook, Charles Townsend Copeland, James Gould Cozzens, Nelson Antrim Crawford, Thomas Augustine Daly, Olive (Tilford) Dargan, Julia (Johnson) Davis, Miriam Allen DeFord, Frank Courtenay Dodd, Glen Ward Dresbach, William Edward Burghardt DuBois, Edwin Francis Edgett, Joseph Berg Esenwein, John Chipman Farrar, James Waldo Fawcett, Sarah Bard Field, Mahlon Leonard Fisher, Dudley Eaton Fitts, Clifford Franklin Gessler, Charles Hammond Gibson, Caroline Giltinan, Louis Ginsberg, Vere Goldthwaite, Armistead Churchill Gordon, Herbert Sherman Gorman, Herman Hagedorn, Molly Anderson Haley, Anne Hamilton, Alfred Harcourt, George Wheaton Harrington, Robert Preston Harriss, Henry Harrison, Sara Henderson Hay, Frank Ernest Hill, Robert Hillyer, Charles Beecher Hogan, Helen Hoyt, Eugene Joseph Vincent Huiginn, Arthur Crewe Inman, Oliver Jenkins, Robert Underwood Johnson, Thomas T. Johnston, Thomas Samuel Jones, Burton Kline, Alfred Kreymborg, Oliver La Farge, Vivian (Yeiser) Laramore, Harold Strong Latham, Louis Vernon Ledeux, Lawrence Lee, Sinclair Lewis, Elias Lieberman, Nicholas Vachel Lindsay, William Lindsey, Joseph Wharton Lippincott, Alain Leroy Locke, Percy McKaye, Norman MacLeod, John Macrae, Charles Edward Mann, Dorothea Lawrance Mann, Rosa (Zagnoni) Marineni, Jeanette Augustus Marks, Earl Bowman Marlatt, Joseph Corson Miller, Ruth Comfort Mitchell, Roselle Mercier Montgomery, Merrill Moore, Brookes More, Christopher Darlington Morley, Thomas Bird Mosher, Louise (Chandler) Moulton, Karl Earl Mundt, Benjamin Franklin Musser, Edward Joseph Harrington O'Brien, Seumus O'Brien, John Myers O'Hara, David O'Neil, Curtis Hidden Page, Maxwell Evarts Perkins, Bliss Perry, William Lyon Phelps, Marie Tello Phillips, Frances Dickinson Pinder, Harold Trowbridge Pulsifer, Louise Crenshaw Ray, Cale Young Rice, Belle McDiarmid Ritchey, Jessie Belle Rittenhouse, Corrine (Roosevelt) Robinson, Donald Fay Robinson, Edwin Arlington Robinson, E. Merrill Root, Carolyn Ernestine (Hale) Russ, Charles Edward Russell, Winifred (Brent) Russell, Mary Farley Sanborn, Eugene Francis Saxton, Howard George Schmitt, Jay G. Sigmund, Chard Powers Smith, Lillian (White) Spencer, Leenora (von Stesch) Speyer, Charles Wharton Stork, Muriel Strede, Edith Tatum, Paul Tietjens, Elizabeth Weston Timlow, William G. Tinckom-Fernandez, Frederic Ridgeley Terrence, Albert Edmund Trembly, Carl Van Doren, Nixon Waterman, Tessa (Sweasy) Webb, Amos Russel Wells, James Whaler, John Hall Wheelock, Viola Chittenden White, Mary Brent Whiteside, Marguerite Ogden (Bigelow) Wilkinson, James Southall Wilson, Kathryn Worth, and Willard Huntington Wright.

ArchivalResource: 6,000 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647936821 View

Paul Laurence Dunbar collection, 1892-1902.

Title: Paul Laurence Dunbar collection, 1892-1902.

Includes letters written by Dunbar to his literary agent, Paul R. Reynolds, concerning Dunbar's submission of works for publication and related matters. Some letters are written to his wife, Alice Dunbar, his mother, Matilda Dunbar, and a few other individuals. Includes sheet music with lyrics by Paul Laurence Dunbar, correspondence with accompanying inventory from the Schomburg Center Calendar of manuscripts (call no.: Sc Micro R-1543), newspaper clippings, broadsides, two works by P.L. Dunbar: Deliberation of Mr. Dunkin and The lion tamer. Also included are critical works on Paul Laurence Dunbar. Contains typescripts of articles about Paul Laurence Dunbar and his mother, Mathilda J. Dunbar. Also included is material from the P.L. Dunbar Scrapbook located at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture of The New York Public Library.

ArchivalResource: Originals: .8 lin. ft.Copies: 3 microfilm reels.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122615905 View

Houghton Mifflin Company. Houghton Mifflin Company reader reports on manuscripts submitted for publication. 1882-1931.

Title: Houghton Mifflin Company reader reports on manuscripts submitted for publication

Reader reports on manuscripts submitted for review and potential publicationby Houghton Mifflin Company.

ArchivalResource: 103 boxes, 1 volume (130 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01623/catalog View

Phelps-Stokes Fund. Phelps-Stokes Fund records, 1893-1970.

Title: Phelps-Stokes Fund records, 1893-1970.

The Phelps-Stokes Fund Records contain administrative records including trustee and committee minutes, correspondence, memoranda, financial records, legal documents, speeches, reports, occasional papers, and printed material, such as pamphlets, brochures, clippings, articles, press releases and programs. Records concern the early work of the Fund in researching and supporting education for Africans and African Americans and improvement in housing conditions, through study commissions, reports, and project grants, as well as its engagement in contemporary debates concerning the philosophy and policies of Booker T. Washington and W. E. B. Du Bois. To a lesser extent, the Fund provided early support for surveys of American Indian schools and administration, such as the 1928 Lewis Meriam study and the 1939 Navajo Indian study. Later endeavors included administering grants for conferences on race relations, exchange and training programs, cooperative programs with other foundations, government aid programs, and a number of cultural projects. The bulk of the collection contains the office files of the four principal leaders of the Fund, Anson Phelps Stokes (1924-1946), Thomas Jesse Jones (1917-1946), Channing Tobias (1946-1953), and Frederick D. Patterson (1953-1969). Of particular interest is material concerning the Fund's relationships with organizations such as Agricultural Missions; Booker T. Washington Agricultural and Industrial Institute of Liberia, founded by the Fund in 1929; British and Foreign Bible Society; Capahosic (VA) Conferences, where black and white leaders gathered for off-the-record conferences; Carnegie Corporation; Committee on Negro Americans in the Defense Industry; Cooperative College Development Program to assist historically black colleges in coordinating development programs and improving management resources; General Education Board; Harmon Foundation; Highlander Folk School; International Missionary Council; Jeanes and Slater Funds; National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, including its disagreements with Fund policies; Rosenwald Fund; South African Institute of Race Relations; Southern Regional Council; YMCA National Council, including South African Work of the Foreign Committee, as well as historically black schools and colleges, especially Bethune-Cookman, Calhoun, Fisk, Hampton, Manassas, Penn School, Talladega, and Tuskegee. Significant correspondents include diplomats, educators, reformers, and foundation officials, such as Ralph J. Bunche; W. E. B. Dubois, particularly regarding the Encyclopedia of the Negro project and opposition to the Fund in the 1930s and 1940s; NAACP director Walter White, who also disagreed with certain Fund activities; educators James E. K. Aggrey, Will Alexander, Aaron Brown, Nannie Burroughs, James H. Dillard, Clark Foreman, Charles S. Johnson, Guy B. Johnson, Thomas Elsa Jones, Charles L. Loram, Robert R. Moton, Harold Odum, Emmett Scott, Booker T. Washington, Carter G. Woodson, especially his controversy with Thomas Jesse Jones in the 1920s, Thomas J. Woofter, and cultural figures and organizations including ethnomusicologist Laura C. Boulton and the Harmon Foundation. Other significant correspondents include foundation officials Jackson Davis, Emory Ross, Wallace Buttrick, Abraham Flexner, Isaac Newton Phelps Stokes, Oswald Garrison Villard, L. Hollingsworth Wood, George Foster Peabody, and William J. Schiefflein; and journalists Lester Walton and Claude A. Barnett;

ArchivalResource: 52 linear ft., 127 boxes

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/715462601 View

Terrell, Mary Church, 1863-1954. Mary Church Terrell papers, 1851-1962 (inclusive), 1886-1954 (bulk) [microform].

Title: Mary Church Terrell papers, 1851-1962 (inclusive), 1886-1954 (bulk) [microform].

The papers include diaries, correspondence, speeches, writings, and a subject file documenting the career of Mary Church Terrell, educator, lecturer, club woman, writer, and political campaigner.

ArchivalResource: 34 reels.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122333202 View

John F. Slater Fund. James Hardy Dillard correspondence and administrative records, 1904-1940.

Title: James Hardy Dillard correspondence and administrative records, 1904-1940.

The series consists of records of James Hardy Dillard as President of the Negro Rural School Fund, Inc. (also known as the Anna T. Jeanes Foundation) from 1908-1931 and as director of the John F. Slater Fund from 1910-1930, consisting mostly of correspondence generated as a result of his work in both organizations, although records relating to the Negro Rural School Fund far outweigh those of the Slater Fund. Also included in this series are a variety of other types of records amassed due to his service in these organizations and from outside activities. Most of the correspondence consists of incoming letters from members of the Board of Trustees of the Funds, education officials and specialists from Southern States, teachers, executives, and clergy. Among the notable correspondents are Will Alexander, Trevor Arnett, Benjamin Brawley, Virginia Randolph, William A. Slater, and Booker T. Washington. The correspondence and administrative records mostly relate to financial matters of both Funds and educational issues in specific states such as industrial education for African Americans.

ArchivalResource: 3 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/38727712 View

Benjamin Griffith Brawley Collection, 1917-1936

Title: Benjamin Griffith Brawley Collection 1917-1936

ArchivalResource: 1.0 Box

http://lgdata.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com/docs/1534/1083011/Brawley__Benjamin_Griffith.pdf View

Stokes, Anson Phelps, 1874-1958. Anson Phelps Stokes family papers, 1761-1960 (inclusive), 1892-1958 (bulk).

Title: Anson Phelps Stokes family papers, 1761-1960 (inclusive), 1892-1958 (bulk).

The papers consist of correspondence, writings, subject files, memorabilia, photographs, financial records, and other papers detailing the professional career and personal life of Anson Phelps Stokes and family members, including Olivia, Caroline and Helen Stokes. Papers relating to Anson Phelps Stokes document his work with prominent educators, reformers, religious leaders, businessmen, and politicians. Stokes's work on behalf of black education, social issues, and the Phelps-Stokes Fund are detailed. His religious activities, Yale University work, and family interests are also represented, as are Stokes's work on behalf of the Portsmouth Treaty of 1905 and the Yale-China Association. Papers relating to Helen Phelps Stokes include material relating to the Socialist Party and the National Civil Liberties Bureau.

ArchivalResource: 132 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/702154920 View

James Weldon Johnson and Grace Nail Johnson papers, circa 1850-2005, 1900-1976

Title: James Weldon Johnson and Grace NailJohnson papers circa 1850-2005 1900-1976

The James Weldon Johnson and GraceNail Johnson Papers provide evidence of the personal and professional lives ofJames Weldon Johnson, Grace Nail Johnson, and to a lesser degree, the Johnsonand Nail families, spanning the years 1850 to 2005, with the bulk of materialdating between 1900 and 1976. The papers chronicle Johnson’s writing career andinvolvement in education, politics, and cultural affairs and consist of avariety of documents, including correspondence, writings, personal papers,scrapbooks, photographs, artwork, objects, and audiovisual materials. Johnsonwas involved in a number of significant movements and organizations during hislifetime, and, as a result, the Papers also provide insight into broader topicsin American and African-American history during the twentieth century.

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http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.jwj View

Braithwaite, William Stanley, 1878-1962. William Stanley Braithwaite collection, 1899-1939.

Title: William Stanley Braithwaite collection, 1899-1939.

Collection consists primarily of literary and personal correspondence, manuscripts, and clippings.

ArchivalResource: 2250 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70965233 View

Dillard, Avarene Lippincott. Papers of the Dillard family, 1717-1964.

Title: Papers of the Dillard family, 1717-1964.

The collection centers on the Southern black education efforts of James Hardy Dillard. Contents include correspondence (1905-1935) of Dillard, his diaries and journals (1919-1926), speeches and articles. There is considerable material regarding the Negro Rural School Fund, the Phelps-Stokes Fund, Washington, D.C. (also known as the Anna T. Jeanes Fund), the John F. Slater Fund, the Southern Education Board, and the General Education Board, as well as Dillard University, New Orleans, and William and Mary College, Williamsburg, where Dillard served as Rector (1917-1940). Other topics of interest are the Education Commission to East Africa (1923-1924), the University Commission on Southern Race Relations (1912-1927), and the Scottsboro case (1931-1933). The collection also contains personal and business papers of his second wife, Avarene Lippincott Budd Dillard, and their son, Hardy Cross Dillard. Published works by Dillard and genealogical information are also included. Among the correspondents are: Ray Stannard Baker, Stringfellow Barr, Mary McLeod Bethune, Benjamin Griffith Brawley, Wallace Buttrick, George Herbert Clarke, Philander Priestley Claxton, Virginius Dabney, Charles William Dabney, Jackson Davis, Westmoreland Davis, W.E.B. Du Bois, James Aloysius Farley, Francis Pendleton Gaines, Grace Elizabeth King, John La Farge, Arthur Selden Lloyd, Rayford W. Logan, Dumas Malone, Lucy Randolph Mason, Edwin Mims, Samuel Chiles Mitchell, Josiah Morse, Robert Russa Moton, Edgar Garner Murphy, Nelson Olsen Nelson, John Lloyd Newcomb, Albert Jay Nock, Edward Washington Odum, Robert Curtis Ogden, Rosewell Page, Walter Hines Page, Robert William Patton, George Foster Peabody, Paul Norton Pearson, John Garland Pollard, John Davison Rockefeller, Wickliffe Rose, Julius Rosenwald, Josiah Ryce, Albert Shaw, Anson Phelps Stikes, William Howard Taft, Booker T. Washington, James Southall Wilson, and Carter G. Woodson.

ArchivalResource: ca. 19,400 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/67292750 View

Sadie P. Delaney papers, 1921-1958

Title: Sadie P. Delaney papers 1921-1958

Incoming letters from W.E.B. Du Bois, Leigh Whipper, Mary McLeod Bethune, Langston Hughes, Ralph J. Bunche, James Weldon Johnson, Fannie Hurst, Booker T. Washington, Franz Boas, Benjamin Brawley, Countee Cullen, and others. Other letters from librarians and other professionals at black institutions; letters of congratulations on achievements, 1948-1950; and additional letters of a personal and professional content. Papers include programs, articles, text of a speech given at a commencement banquet, and minutes of the Bi-Racial Committee in which the motion to establish a separate Alabama Negro Library Association was passed, 1952. Several photographic portraits of Delaney are included in the collection.

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http://archives.nypl.org/scm/20693 View

Mary Church Terrell Papers, 1851-1962, (bulk 1886-1954)

Title: Mary Church Terrell Papers 1851-1962 (bulk 1886-1954)

African-American civil rights leader, lecturer, and educator. Correspondence, diaries, printed material, clippings, speeches and writings, and other papers focusing primarily on Terrell's career as an advocate of women's rights and equal treatment for African Americans.

ArchivalResource: 13,000 items; 51 containers plus 1 oversize; 22.5 linear feet; 34 microfilm reels

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms009311 View

Richard Gaither Walser Papers, 1918-1988

Title: Richard Gaither Walser Papers, 1918-1988

Richard Gaither Walser (1908-1988) was a professor of English at North Carolina State University in Raleigh and author of numerous works, chiefly relating to North Carolina's literary heritage. The collection contains correspondence, clippings, photographs, and other materials chiefly relating to North Carolina' literary heritage. Files on individual authors and literary subjects dominate, with special emphasis on the life and works of Thomas Wolfe. Other authors represented in the collection include Doris Betts, Helen Bevington, James Boyd, Richard Chase, Jonathan Daniels, Wilma Dykeman, Charles Edward Eaton, John Ehle, Paul Green, Bernice Kelly Harris, George Moses Horton, Gerald W. Johnson, Frederick H. Koch, Guy Owen, Robert C. Ruark, Wilbur D. Steele, Hardin E. Taliaferro, and Jonathan Williams. There is also material on North Carolina folklore and other topics not directly connected to literature. A small number of items relate to Walser's life as a student at the University of North Carolina and to his service with the United States Naval Reserve during World War II.

ArchivalResource: About 27,800 items (32.5 linear feet)

https://finding-aids.lib.unc.edu/04168/ View

Brawley, Benjamin Griffith, 1882-1939. Benjamin Griffith Brawley papers, 1917-1936.

Title: Benjamin Griffith Brawley papers, 1917-1936.

Chiefly notes, clippings, and printed matter, relating to Brawley's research interests; together with correspondence, writings, and other papers.

ArchivalResource: 0.5 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/741693799 View

Sadie P. Delaney papers, 1921-1958.

Title: Sadie P. Delaney papers, 1921-1958.

Incoming letters from W.E.B. Du Bois, Leigh Whipper, Mary McLeod Bethune, Langston Hughes, Ralph J. Bunche, James Weldon Johnson, Fannie Hurst, Booker T. Washington, Franz Boas, Benjamin Brawley, Countee Cullen, and others. Other letters from librarians and other professionals at black institutions; letters of congratulations on achievements, 1948-1950; and additional letters of a personal and professional content. Papers include programs, articles, text of a speech given at a commencement banquet, and minutes of the Bi-Racial Committee in which the motion to establish a separate Alabama Negro Library Association was passed, 1952. Several photographic portraits of Delaney are included in the collection.

ArchivalResource: 1 lin. ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122615898 View

Anson Phelps Stokes family papers, 1761-1960, 1892-1958

Title: Anson Phelps Stokes family papers 1761-1960 1892-1958

The papers consist of correspondence, writings, subject files, memorabilia, photographs, financial records, and other papers detailing the professional career and personal life of Anson Phelps Stokes and family members, including Olivia, Caroline and Helen Stokes. Papers relating to Anson Phelps Stokes document his work with prominent educators, reformers, religious leaders, businessmen, and politicians. Stokes's work on behalf of black education, social issues, and the Phelps-Stokes Fund are detailed. His religious activities, Yale University work, and family interests are also represented, as are Stokes's work on behalf of the Portsmouth Treaty of 1905 and the Yale-China Association. Papers relating to Helen Phelps Stokes include material relating to the Socialist Party and the National Civil Liberties Bureau.

ArchivalResource: 145.25 linear feet (321 boxes, 4 folios)

http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/mssa.ms.0299 View

John and Lugenia Hope papers, 1888-1947.

Title: John and Lugenia Hope papers, 1888-1947.

The collection consists of the personal papers of John and Lugenia Burns Hope from 1888-1947. The bulk of the collection consists of official and personal correspondence (1886-1945) concerning the Hopes' lives in Atlanta, Georgia, while Hope was president of Morehouse College and Atlanta University and Mrs. Hope was engaged in civic and social service. The collection reflects the Hopes' involvement with organizations such as the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History, Commission on Interracial Cooperation, Federal Council of Churches, NAACP, National Association of Teachers in Colored Schools, and the YMCA. The collection reflects Mrs. Hope's involvement with the Neighborhood Union, the National Council of Negro Women and other civil rights, church, and civic organizations. The Hopes numbered among their personal correspondents almost all of the major black educational, political and civil rights figures of the early nineteenth century including Mary McLeod Bethune, George Haynes, J.E. Moorland, Robert R. Moton, Benjamin Brawley, John W. Davis, W.E.B. Du Bois, Mordecai Johnson, Thomas Jesse James, Channing Tobias, and W.T.B. Williams. The collection also contains official records (1915-1939) and financial records (1928-1930) of Morehouse College and Atlanta University; personal financial records (1931-1940) including tax records, property records, and some savings and checking statements; and articles and essays published by Hope and speeches and addresses given by Hope and his wife. The entire collection provides insight into such topics as black education, civil rights and social services, politics, religion, social activities and attitudes, economic conditions, and the black press.

ArchivalResource: 19 linear ft.21 microfilm reels ; 35 mm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/38477184 View

Phelps-Stokes Fund records, 1893-1970

Title: Phelps-Stokes Fund records 1893-1970

The Phelps-Stokes Fund Records contain administrative records including trustee and committee minutes, correspondence, memoranda, financial records, legal documents, speeches, reports, occasional papers, and printed material, such as pamphlets, brochures, clippings, articles, press releases and programs. Records concern the early work of the Fund in researching and supporting education for Africans and African Americans and improvement in housing conditions, through study commissions, reports, and project grants, as well as its engagement in contemporary debates concerning the philosophy and policies of Booker T. Washington and W. E. B. Du Bois. To a lesser extent, the Fund provided early support for surveys of American Indian schools and administration, such as the 1928 Lewis Meriam study and the 1939 Navajo Indian study. Later endeavors included administering grants for conferences on race relations, exchange and training programs, cooperative programs with other foundations, government aid programs, and a number of cultural projects.

ArchivalResource: 52 linear ft., 127 boxes

http://archives.nypl.org/scm/20936 View