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Davis, Jackson, 1882-1947. Papers of Jackson Davis, 1910-1947.

Title: Papers of Jackson Davis, 1910-1947.

Papers of Jackson Davis, include correspondence, photographs and travel journals, and pertain chiefly to his travels and his work with the General Education Board and the Virginia State Board of Education. Papers from the General Education Board include Davis's 1946 address at the unveiling of a bust of Booker T. Washington at New York University; and statistical summaries on Alabama counties. Davis's diaries/travel journals, 1911, 1913, as state agent for Negro Schools for the Virginia State Board of Education describe his tours through Virginia visiting African American schools and colleges, and discuss the education of African-Americans. Among the schools discussed are Hampton Institute and Virginia Union University. Among the people mentioned are John Stewart Bryan, Wallace Buttrick, A.B. Chandler, Jr., Caroline Preston Davis, K.C. Davis, J. Hardy Dillard, Joseph Dupuy Eggleston, Hollis Burke Frissell, John Manuel Gandy, Leslie Pinckney Hill, George Rice Hovey, Joseph Leonard Jarman, Charles W. Kent, Charles Gilmore Maphis, Edwin Mims, Samuel Chiles Mitchell, Bruce Ryburn Payne, George Foster Peabody, Virginia Randolph, Wickliffe Rose, R.C. Stearnes, and Willis Duke Weatherford. Letters from Davis, 1942-1945, describes travels in Colombia, Peru, Nigeria, Belgian Congo, and Liberia. Specific topics include mission work, war-time Liberia, Achimota College, native "pagan" customs, and Islamic influence. Thomas White Young is mentioned. With these is a journal from the 1942 trip to South America to consider educational opportunities and needs in Chile, Peru, and Colombia. Photographs depict Davis, G.E.B. members, the Jackson Davis Elementary school, Charles E. Diehl and Sir William Beveridge. The collection also contains a series of letters to Helen M. Davis, 1926, describing a European tour; the travel journal of Corrine M. Davis, 1935, describing a voyage to the Canary Islands, around the coast of Africa to Palestine and across the Mediterranean to Italy and France; and a letter fragment from Jackson Davis discussing parts of the voyage. With these is a genealogical chart of the Davis family given by Joseph T. Davis. There are also essays by Alan Gregg "Future in Europe," 1940, predicting political and economic outcomes of the Second World War, and "Statement on Social Medicine," 1943, advocating socialized medicine. The collection also contains letters of condolence on his death and clippings regarding him, chiefly obituaries.

ArchivalResource: 100 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/50863160 View

Phillips, J. J., 1944-. J.J. Phillips family papers, 1900-2001.

Title: J.J. Phillips family papers, 1900-2001.

The collection consists of the papers of J.J. Phillips, 1900-2001, including correspondence, writings, printed material, photographs, and audiovisual material. The writings include typescripts and proofs of MOJO HAND, THE PASSION OF JOAN PAUL II: A PASQUINADE, and drafts of Phillips' published and unpublished poetry and other writings. The collection also includes photographs and genealogical information for the Phillips family, in addition to the family of Florence Russell Phillips, J.J. Phillips' mother. Printed material consists of programs and other material from the Virginia Normal and Industrial Institute.

ArchivalResource: 3.5 linear ft. (4 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/79463115 View

Eason, William R.,. Papers of the Yancey family, 1899, 1904-1953.

Title: Papers of the Yancey family, 1899, 1904-1953.

The collection consist of papers relating to the Yancey family, B.F. Yancey, and the Esmont Colored School, Scottsville, Va., which he founded. These papers include letters, photographs, school records, clippings, greeting cards and invitations, memoranda books and financial and legal papers. There are also papers pertaining to the Improved Order Shepherds & Daughters of Bethlehem, the Sons of Esmont Lodge No. 7444 of the Grand United Order of Odd Fellows, and the New Hope Baptist Church, Esmont, Va. A scrapbook is filled with clippings pertaining to African-Americans. Major correspondents in the collection include B.F. Yancey; his wife Harriet Yancey; their children Roger Yancey a student at the Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute and the Christiansburg Normal and Industrial Institute and later a lawyer in Plainfield, N.J.; Benjamin Franklin Yancey, Jr., a student at the Virginia Technical School and College, Lynchburg; and May Yancey, a student at the Virginia Normal and Industrial Institute, Petersburg; and grandchildren william R. Eason, and Roger M. Yancey, Jr., in the 3703rd Training Squadron, Lackland Air Force Base, San Antonio.

ArchivalResource: 1000 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/50722480 View