Kendrick-Brooks FamilyPapers 1831-2000 (bulk 1912-1989)

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Kendrick-Brooks FamilyPapers 1831-2000 (bulk 1912-1989)

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Club women, civil rights activists, educators, entertainers, and family members. Correspondence, social club records, writings, scrapbooks, and miscellaneous papers relating primarily to Ruby Moyse Kendrick's activities with the National Association of Colored Women's Clubs; Hattie Kendrick's civil rights activism in Cairo, Illinois; Antoinette Brooks Mitchell's expatriate life in England and France with her husband, jazz musician and restaurateur Louis A. Mitchell; and Charlotte Kendrick Brooks's histories of the Kendrick and Brooks families.

11,500 items; 33 containers plus 1 oversize; 13.2 linear feet

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Library of Congress. Manuscript Division

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SNAC Resource ID: 6356235

Library of Congress. Manuscript Division

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Bustanoby, Louis, d. 1917

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Johnson, F. D. (Floyd Daniel), 1905-

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Jones, Julian

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Brooks family.

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Harrison, Bernie

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Kendrick family.

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National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

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Organizational History and List of Officers Organizational History 1909 Issued the “Call,” a statement calling for a conference to protest discrimination and violence against African Americans Convened the National Negro Conference on May 31 and June 1, New York, N.Y. E...

United States. Army

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Brooks Family

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Biographical Note Ruby Moyse Kendrick 1886, July 7 Born, Greenville, Miss. 1905 Normal school degree, Knoxville College, Knoxville, Tenn. 1906 circa 1914 ...

Gaines, Irene M. (Irene McCoy), 1896-1964

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Civic leader and civil rights worker; b. Irene McCoy, married Harris B. Gaines. From the description of Papers of Irene M. and Harris B. Gaines, 1913-1970. (University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign). WorldCat record id: 28421879 ...

Kendrick Family

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Biographical Note Ruby Moyse Kendrick 1886, July 7 Born, Greenville, Miss. 1905 Normal school degree, Knoxville College, Knoxville, Tenn. 1906 circa 1914 ...

Brydie, Edward W.

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Bustanoby, Louis, d. 1917-

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Reese, Mamie B.

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Trawick, A. M. (Arcadius McSwain), 1869-

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Castle, Vernon, 1887-1918

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Clemons, Hervey A.

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Littlejohn, T. S.

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Howard, Charles A.

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Mitchell, Antoinette Brooks, 1892-1972

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Brooks, Lucy Goode, 1818-1900

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Lucy Goode Brooks was born a slave in Virginia. When her master died in 1838, she became the property of a man named Sublett; shortly after he allowed her to marry another slave, Albert Royal Brooks. When Sublett died in 1858, his heirs threatened to sell Lucy and her children to different masters. She was able to negotiate with merchants who purchased her children and allowed them to live with her as long as they showed up for work daily. Her new master, Daniel Von Groning, who also owned her t...

Jones, Julian

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Johnson, F. D.

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Gragg, Rosa Lee Slade, 1904-1989

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Founder of the Slade-Gragg Academy of Practical Arts, the first black vocational school in Detroit. As a black activist who promoted the interests of women she served as advisor to three U.S. presidents, Roosevelt, Kennedy and Johnson, was president of the National Association of Colored Women's Clubs and vice president of the International Council of Women of the World. From the description of Rosa L. Gragg papers, 1800-1971 (bulk 1940-1967). (Detroit Public Library). WorldCat recor...

Mitchell, Louis A., 1885-1957

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Brooks, Albert R.

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Kendrick, Ruby Moyse, 1886-1986

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Cobb, Martha

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Brooks, Charlotte, 1918-1998.

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Charlotte Brooks (1918-1998), photographer, author, editor and educator, worked for the Farm Security Administration during the Great Depression. From the description of Brooks, Charlotte, 1918-1998 (U.S. National Archives and Records Administration). naId: 10583139 ...

Rhodes, Harrison, 1871-1929

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American playwright, author of novels and travel books. From the description of Letters to E.C. Ranck, 1913. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 50997880 ...

Baker, Ray Stannard, 1870-1946

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Neely, Mabel

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National Association of Colored Women's Clubs (U.S.)

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Organized in Washington, D.C. on July 21, 1896 by the merger of National Federation of Afro-American Women, the Women's Era Club of Boston and Colored Women's League of Washington, D.C. The NACWC is the oldest African Amerian secular organization in existence. The club works to promote the education and protect the rights of women and children and to promote interracial understanding. From the description of Records, 2003. (Denver Public Library). WorldCat record id: 61111160 ...

Harrison, Bernie

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Kendrick, Swan M., 1885-1923

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Kildare, Dan, 1879-1920

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Lyells, Ruby Elizabeth Stutts, 1908-

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Kendrick, Hattie, 1894-1989

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Pickle, Addie

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Kendrick, Webster M.

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Blythe, Samuel G. (Samuel George), 1868-1947

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Cohen, Octavus Roy, 1891-1959

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Mitchell, Louis A., 1914-1972

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Guttridge, Leonard F.

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Andrews, R. P.

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Brooks, Walter H. (Walter Henderson), b. 1851

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