Penn School Papers, 1862-2004 and undated (bulk 1862-1978)

Moton, Robert Russa, 1867-1940

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Robert Russa Moton (born August 26, 1867, Amelia County, Virginia – died May 31, 1940, Holly Knoll, Virginia), American educator and author. He served as an administrator at Hampton Institute. In 1915 he was named principal of Tuskegee Institute, after the death of founder Booker T. Washington, a position he held for 20 years until retirement in 1935....

Reagon, Bernice Johnson, 1942-

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Born on October 4, 1942, Bernice Johnson Reagon grew up in Albany, Georgia, where she became involved in the civil rights movement. As a student at Albany State College in 1961, Reagon was arrested for participating in a SNCC demonstration. She spent the night in jail singing songs and after her arrest joined the SNCC Freedom Singers to use music as a tool for civic action. Reagon earned her B.A. in history from Spelman College in 1970. In 1973, she founded Sweet Honey in the Rock, an award-winn...

Hampton University (Va.)

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Hampton Institute in Hampton, Virgina, also know as the Normal School, chartered in 1870. From the description of Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute ephemera, 1882-1903 and undated. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 639344721 The Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute was chartered in 1870 in Hampton, Virginia. From the guide to the Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute ephemera, 1882-1903 and undated, (David M. Rubenstein Rare Book ...

Hart, Albert Bushnell, 1854-1943

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Albert Bushnell Hart (1854-1943), American historian, writer, and editor, taught history and government at Harvard University and Radcliffe College from 1883 to 1926. Hart was born on July 1, 1854 in Clarksville, Pennsylvania to physician Albert Gaillard Hart and Mary Crosby Hornell Hart. He had a brother, Hastings Hornell Hart, and two sisters, Helen Marcia Hart and Jeannette M. Hart. The family moved to Ohio in 1860, eventually settling in Cleveland, where Hart graduated from West High Sc...

Peace Corps (U.S.)

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The Peace Corps was established by Executive Order 10924, issued by President John F. Kennedy on March 1, 1961, announced by televised broadcast March 2, 1961, and authorized by Congress on September 22, 1961, with passage of the Peace Corps Act (Public Law 87-293). Since 1961, over 200,000 Americans have joined the Peace Corps and have served in 139 countries. From the guide to the Brown University Peace Corps files, 1965-1967, (John Hay Library Special Collections) The Pea...

Dabbs, Edith M.

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Edith Mitchell Dabbs (November 10, 1906 - 1991) was an American Civil rights activist and writer from South Carolina known for her focus on Saint Helena and Penn Center. She was married to James McBride Dabbs whom she assisted with editing. Dabbs was one of the only authors to write about Saint Helena Island during her time. However, though her books continue to be cited, they were initially dismissed by some historians for not following the best practices of historic scholarship....

Randolph, A. Philip, 1889-1979

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Asa Philip Randolph (born April 15, 1889, Cresent City, Florida-died May 16, 1979, New York City), African-American labor leader and early civil rights spokesman. Influenced by the socialism of Eugene Debs, Randolph began publishing his magazine The Messenger in 1917. He opposed U.S. entry into the first World War. In 1925 he organized the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters. His associations with Bayard Rustin and James Farmer influenced his dedication to nonviolence. Randolph was a founder of ...

Jenkins, Esau, 1910-1972

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Esau Jenkins was born and raised on Johns Island, S.C. in 1910 and lived most of his life there. With very little formal education, he became a businessman and civil rights leader. Jenkins founded the Progressive Club in 1948, which encouraged local African Americans to register to vote, through the aid of Citizenship Schools, a topic he was educated in by his attendance at Highlander Folk Center in Tennessee. In 1959, he organized the Citizens' Committee of Charleston County dedicated to the ec...

Smalls, Robert, 1839-1915

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Robert Smalls (April 5, 1839 – February 23, 1915) was an American politician, publisher, businessman, and naval pilot. Born into slavery in Beaufort, South Carolina, he freed himself, his crew, and their families during the American Civil War by commandeering a Confederate transport ship, CSS Planter, in Charleston harbor, on May 13, 1862, and sailing it from Confederate-controlled waters of the harbor to the U.S. blockade that surrounded it. He then piloted the ship to the Union-controlled encl...

Roosevelt, Eleanor, 1884-1962

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Anna Eleanor Roosevelt was the longest-serving First Lady throughout her husband President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s four terms in office (1933-1945). She was an American politician, diplomat, and activist who later served as a United Nations spokeswoman. A shy, awkward child, starved for recognition and love, Eleanor Roosevelt grew into a woman with great sensitivity to the underprivileged of all creeds, races, and nations. Her constant work to improve their lot made her one of the most loved–...

Higginson, Thomas Wentworth, 1823-1911

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Higginson was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on December 22, 1823. He was a descendant of Francis Higginson, a Puritan minister and immigrant to the colony of Massachusetts Bay. His father, Stephen Higginson (born in Salem, Massachusetts, November 20, 1770; died in Cambridge, Massachusetts, February 20, 1834), was a merchant and philanthropist in Boston and steward of Harvard University from 1818 until 1834. His grandfather, also named Stephen Higginson, was a member of the Continental Congre...

Liston Pope

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Helen M. Philbrick

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Temptation Five

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Samuel A. Cooley

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Jr. Choir

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Spelman

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University of North Carolina (1793-1962)

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The University of North Carolina was chartered by the state's General Assembly in 1789. Its first student was admitted in 1795. The governing body of the University, from its founding until 1932, was a forty-member Board of Trustees elected by the General Assembly. The Board met twice a year; at other times the business of the University was carried on by the Board's secretary-treasurer and by the presiding professor (called president beginning in 1804). Other faculty members later assumed the r...

Raymond Fosdick

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Luns C. Richardson

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Wendell Phillips

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Brenie Regan

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Bobby Lawrence

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House, Grace Bigelow, 1877-

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Wilson, Louis R.

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R. H. Hudgens

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Ezekiel Cohen

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Laura Towne

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Friends of the Soil

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Mary Isabel House

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E. C. Branson

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Penn School Club of New York City

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Jim Horton

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Kellogg, Paul U.

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Ben Mack

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Mariah Perry

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Richard Loundes

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James Hardy Dillard

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Joe Arthur Brown

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Philbrick, Edward Southwick, 1827-1889

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Clarence Johnson

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Jennye Dudley

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Arthur Sumner

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Dabney, Charles W.

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Mrs. William R. Wister

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Ebenezer Baptist Church

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Guy B. Johnson

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Edward Milton

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H. L. Mitchell

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St. Joseph Baptist Church

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Trudelle W. Wimbush

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Buck, Pearl S. (Pearl Sydenstricker), 1892-1973

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Pearl S. Buck was the daughter of American missionary parents, and spent the first seventeen years of her life in China. Her third novel, The Good Earth, won the Pulitzer Prize, and a Nobel Prize for literature followed, citing The Good Earth as well as her biographies of her parents. Critical reception for her works has been mixed since these early successes. A prolific and optimistic author, most of her fiction is set in China, and she displays great affection for the place and her characters....

Miller Thompson

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Co-operative Society

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Alfred Collins Maule

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Tugwell, Rexford Guy

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John F. Slater Fund

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The John F. Slater Fund was organized in April 1882 as an educational fund to assist African Americans after Emancipation and the Civil War. Through grants, the Slater Fund helped to develop private black colleges and four-year high schools for blacks, stimulated vocational and industrial training, and originated the idea of county training schools. In 1937, the fund merged with the Negro Rural School Fund, Inc. (also known as the Anna T. Jeanes Foundation) to form the Southern Education Foundat...

James, Arthur Curtiss

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Penn Normal, Industrial and Agricultural School

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Baptist

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Juno Washington

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R. F. Kolb

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Isabella Glen

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Peabody, George Foster, 1852-1938

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George Foster Peabody, banker and philanthropist, was born in Columbus, Ga. in 1852 and died in Warm Springs, Ga. in 1938. He was the son of George Henry and Elvira Canfield Peabody and husband of Katrina N. Trask. From the description of Cherokee Indian language letters, 1907. (University of Georgia). WorldCat record id: 259719021 Banker and philanthropist. From the description of Papers of George Foster Peabody, 1894-1937. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 8410865...

Mrs. James R. Macdonald

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Jenks, Helen C.

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Hooper, Edward William, 1839-1901

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Hooper was treasurer of Harvard College (1876-1898). During the Civil War, he served as additional aide-de-camp on the staff of General Rufus Saxton, Department of the South, and on the staff of General John Adams Dix, Department of the East. From the description of Letters, 1862-1892 (inclusive), 1862-1865 (bulk). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 612367510 From the guide to the Edward William Hooper letters, 1862-1892 (inclusive), 1862-1865 (bulk)., (Houghton Libra...

Baez

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Wright, Marion A. (Marion Allan), 1894-1983

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South Carolina attorney who practiced law in Conway, S.C. and elsewhere; native of Marion; retired to Linville Falls, N.C., ca. 1950; died 1983; Wright was an advocate of public libraries as a tool to improve literacy during the 1930s and 1940s. From the description of Marion A. Wright papers, 1936-1982. (University of South Carolina). WorldCat record id: 30679833 Marion Allan Wright (1894-1983) of South Carolina was an attorney, author, member of the board of directors of t...

Methodist

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Albert Schweitzer

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James H. Hope

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Ike Coleman

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Paul Brown, Jr.

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Orange Grove Baptist Church

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Rev. Coke

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Jenks, Robert Darrah

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Burns, Elizabeth Jacoway

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J. LaBruce Ward

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Willie Pickney

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James Johnson

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Carrie Atkins

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Traveling Soul

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Dick Gregory

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Rev. Marion Newton

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Saint Helena Island Credit Union

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Dabbs, James McBride, 1896-1970

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James McBride Dabbs (1896-1970) was a professor of English at the University of South Carolina and Coker College, Presbyterian churchman, writer, civil rights leader, Penn School Community Services trustee, Southern Regional Council president, and farmer of Mayesville, S.C. He also worked with the South Carolina Council on Human Relations, the Fellowship of Southern Churchmen, the Committee of Southern Churchmen, the Council on Church and Society, and the Delta Ministry. From the des...

Ira De A. Reid

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Gertrude Green

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Carnegie Corporation

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Fred L. Brownlee

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A. D. Beittel

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Winold Reiss

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Mabel Carney

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Henry Lowndes

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King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968

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Martin Luther King, Jr. (b. January 15, 1929, Atlanta, Georgia –d. April 4, 1968, Memphis, Tennessee) was an American Baptist minister and activist who was a leader in the Civil Rights Movement. He is best known for his role in the advancement of civil rights using nonviolent civil disobedience. King helped to organize the 1963 March on Washington, where he delivered his famous "I Have a Dream" speech. In 1964, King received the Nobel Peace Prize and in 1965, he helped to organize the Selma to M...

Melvin Gadson

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James C. Derieux

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Ethel Bailey

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Courtney Siceloff

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Margaret Noyes

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Jewett, Sarah Orne, 1849-1909

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Sarah Orne Jewett was one of America's foremost regional writers. She produced novels, stories, and sketches, generally concerned with the lives and traditions of women in the rural areas of coastal New England. Her gentle, well-observed, respectful style transcends the limitations of genre and continue to make her work relevant. From the description of Sarah Orne Jewett letter to Loulie, ca. 1890. (Pennsylvania State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 54429003 ...

Sr. Choir

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Rebecca Mattis

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Susan Caprich

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Miner, Leigh Richmond, 1864-1935

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Frissell, Hollis Burke, 1851-1917

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Johnson, Guion Griffis, 1900-1989

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Historian; interviewee married Guy B. Johnson. From the description of Reminiscences of Guion Griffis Johnson : oral history, 1967. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122376707 From the description of Reminiscences of Guion Griffis Johnson : oral history, 1974. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122620334 Guion Griffis Johnson of Chapel Hill, N.C., was a professor, author, scholar, journalist, women's a...

Stokes, Anson Phelps, 1838-1913

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Ursula Niebuhr

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Rosenwald, Julius, 1862-1932

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Businessman and philanthropist. Born, Springfield, IL, 1862. President, Rosenwald and Weil, 1885-1906. Vice-president and treasurer, Sears, Roebuck and Company, 1910-1925; president and chairman of the board, 1925-1932. Founder, Julius Rosenwald Fund, 1917. Founder, Museum of Science and Industry, 1929. Trustee, University of Chicago, Tuskegee Institute, Rockefeller Foundation, Hull House, Art Institute of Chicago, and the Baron de Hirsch Fund. From the description of Papers, 1905-19...

Evelena Glover

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Faith Memorial Baptist Church

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McCulloch, Margaret C. (Margaret Callender), 1901-1996

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Hubbard and Mix

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Victoria Mitchell

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Gregg, James E.

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Mitchell, Samuel Chiles, 1864-1948

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Samuel Chiles Mitchell was born in Coffeeville, Mississippi on 24 December 1864. A noted educator, Mitchell received an M.A. from Georgetown (Tennessee) College in 1888. From 1889-1891, Mitchell taught history and Greek at Mississippi College, then returned to his alma mater in 1892 to teach Latin. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1899. Mitchell first became associated with Richmond, Virginia after 1895 where he taught history at the University of Richmond. Mitchell becomes ...

Christina Pope

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Charles T. Loram

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Virginia D. Anderson

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King, Martin Luther, 1899-1984

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Martin Luther King, Sr. (1899-1984) was the father of civil rights activist Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968). From the description of King, Martin Luther, 1899-1984 (U.S. National Archives and Records Administration). naId: 10567674 ...

Ella Mae Williams

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Penn School

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A. J. Brown

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Thompson, Edgar T. (Edgar Tristram), 1900-1989

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Edgar Tristram Thompson taught Sociology at Duke University from 1937 until his retirement in 1970. From the description of Edgar Tristram Thompson papers, 1915-1985. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 52444813 Edgar Tristram Thompson received his instruction in sociology and education from the University of South Carolina and the University of Chicago. Thompson was a Professor of Sociology at Duke University from 1935 to 1970 and founder and chair of the Center ...

Knapp, Seaman Ashahel, 1833-1911

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Seaman A. Knapp, a native of New York, attended the Troy Conference Academy (Green Mountain College) at Poultney, Vermont, where he met his wife, Maria Elizabeth Hotchkiss. He graduated from Union College in 1856 and after his marriage, he and his wife taught at Fort Edward Collegiate Institute. Mr. Knapp then became Vice President (1856-1863) at Fort Edward and then Assistant Manager (1864-1865) of the Ripley Female College. In 1866, Knapp and his family came to Iowa, where he served as a Metho...

Louise H. Mason

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Jackson Davis

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Rossa Cooley

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Agnes Sherman

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Clarence C. Pickett

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Mrs. Sherman

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Alfred R. Stern

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South Carolina Advisory Committee

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Rev. Dan Bodison

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Foote, Henry Wilder, 1838-1889

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Towne, Laura M. (Laura Matilda), 1825-1901

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South Carolina State College

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Ku Klux Klan

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Cooley, Rossa B. (Rossa Belle), 1873-

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Rosa Johnson

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Harold Lourdes

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Ellick Smalls

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Grace House

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Scottville Baptist Church

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Calvin Coolidge

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Wingate Prep

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Walter White

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Hollingsworth Wood

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Wood, L. Hollingsworth (Levi Hollingsworth), 1874-1956

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L. Hollingsworth Wood was a Quaker attorney, born at Mt. Kisco, N.Y., the son of James and Emily (Hollingsworth) Wood. His sister was Carolena Wood (1871-1936). Wood graduated from Haverford College (1896) and Columbia University Law School (1899). He worked actively in the areas of peace, civil rights, and African American and Quaker education. From the description of Prison Reform Papers, 1913-1937. (Swarthmore College). WorldCat record id: 56362168 L. Hollingsworth Wood, ...

Harriet Ware

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Annie Heacock

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Dewitt, Wallace

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Emory Ross

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Towne, Frederick Tallmadge, 1872-1906

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Woofter, Thomas Jackson, 1893-1972

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Thomas J. Woofter was born in Macon, Ga. in 1893. He graduated from Columbia University in 1920 with a Ph.D. in sociology. From 1920 to 1927 he served on the Commission on Interracial Cooperation. Much of his career after this period was devoted to doing work for the federal government. Some of the agencies for which he worked include the Works Progress Administration, the Farm Security Administration, the Federal Security Administration, and the Central Intelligence Agency. From the...

J. P. King

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Ralph S. Rounds

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Ezekiel Green

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Male Chorus

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Rural Teachers Institute

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William Channing Gannett

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Macdonald, J.R. (James Reid), 1918-

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Phelps-Stokes Fund

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The Phelps and Stokes families had long been associated with a variety of philanthropic enterprises in the 19th and 20th centuries. The Phelps-Stokes Fund was created in 1911 as a non-profit foundation under the will of Caroline Phelps Stokes. Its original objectives were to improve housing for the poor in New York City, and the "education of Negroes, both in Africa and the United States, North American Indians, and needy and deserving white students." The contacts maintained by the staff and tr...

Frances Butler

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Baker, Ray Stannard, 1870-1946

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American journalist. From the description of Letter : to the Cosmos Club, 1910 Mar. 31. (Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center (HRC); University of Texas at Austin). WorldCat record id: 122545959 American journalist and author who also wrote under the name David Grayson. From the description of [Notebooks] [microform]. 1880-1946. WorldCat record id: 36820111 American author and journalist. He is also known by the pseudonym David Grayson. Fr...

Isabella Curtis

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Francis Cope

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Lisa Dore

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Maggie Smalls

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Edward Hooper

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C. B. Byrd

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Thomas Doyle

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John A. Silver

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Helena Jr. High School

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Friendship Baptist Church

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Mary E. Langford

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Robert Grant

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Josephine Green

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Cope, Francis Reeve, 1821-

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Alice Lathrop

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Savannah State College Concert Choir and Gospel Choir

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Louise Wildy

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Solomon Heywood

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W. D. Weatherford

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Penn Center

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Rev. David Grant

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Cadbury, William Edward, 1909-

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Broadus Mitchell

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WTMA

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Fred Chaplin, Sr.

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Second Ebenezer Baptist Church

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Jerry Alston

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Sherman, S.

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Frederick M. Keppel

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Benjamin Mays

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Bruce, Roscoe Conkling, 1879-1950

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Assistant superintendent of public schools, Washington, D.C. From the description of Roscoe Conkling Bruce papers, 1897-1924. (Moorland-Spingarn Resource Center). WorldCat record id: 761697471 Sources: Marquis' Who's Who in America, 1919 The Afro-American, August 26, 1950 (obituary). After retirement in 1922, Bruce served as principal of a high school in West Virginia, as manager of the Dunbar Apartments in New York City, and engaged in various Real ...

John Ferguson

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W. H. Mills

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Leroy Adams

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Howard Kester

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Harold Loundes

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John Silver

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W. C. Gannett

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Harold Evans

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Circle for Negro War Relief.

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Annie Chaplin

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A. C. Reynolds

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General Education Board (New York, N.Y.)

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The General Education Board was established in 1903 by John D. Rockefeller to aid education in the United States "without distinction of race, sex or creed." The program included grants for endowment and general budgetary support of colleges and universities, support for special programs, fellowships and scholarships assistanceto state school systems at all levels, and development of social and economic resources as a route to improved educaitonal systems. All major colleges and universities in ...

Saint Helena Cooperative Credit Union

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Esty, Edward T.

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Jasper Green

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American Red Cross

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On December 2, 1905, Mrs. Tunis G. Bergen brought together a group of Brooklyn residents at the Barnard Club House on Remsen Street to form New York City's first borough-based Red Cross organization. With an initial membership roster of 300, the Brooklyn Chapter of the American Red Cross embarked on its first major campaign to aid victims of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, collecting over $100,000 and thousands of articles of clothing to contribute to the relief effort. From this point on, th...

W. W. Brierley

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Lewis W. Hine

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Julia Horton

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Dave Burgess

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Walter Sikes

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Ethel Paine

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Rosenwald Fund

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Saint Helena Co-operative Society

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Blanton, Joshua E. (Joshua Enoch)

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Franklin Holmes

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Alice Frank Merriam

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Trevor Arnett

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United States. Commission on Civil Rights

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Nancy Green

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American friends service committee

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Quaker organization formed to promote peace and reconciliation through its social service and relief programs. From the description of American Friends Service Committee records, 1933-1988 (bulk 1933-1938). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70983753 The American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) was organized in June 1917 as an outgrowth of and coordination point for the anti-war and relief activities of various bodies of the Religious Society of Friends in the United States. A ...

Sumners Pringle

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Daniel Watson

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S. C. Armstrong

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T. J. Woofter

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Alden Trust

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Emanuel Alston

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Reinhold Niebuhr

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Gregorio Torres Quintero

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Perry, Geneva

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John Gadsen, Sr.

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Jenks, Robert Darrah

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Joseph Clark

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Rachell Holmes

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Fordham

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J. H. Dillard

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Weatherford, Willis D. (Willis Duke), 1875-1970

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Willis D. Weatherford of Black Mountain, N.C., was president of the Blue Ridge Assembly, Black Mountain, N.C., 1906-1944; president of the Y.M.C.A. Graduate School, Nashville, Tenn., 1919-1946; trustee of Berea College, Berea, Ky., 1916-ca. 1962; faculty member of Fisk University, 1936-1946; director of the Southern Appalachian Studies Project, 1956-1968; and lifelong student of race relations in the South. From the description of Willis D. Weatherford papers, 1911-1969. WorldCat rec...

Willie Lee Rose

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Maria

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Gerome Miller

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Florence E. Rivers

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Jerry M. Alston

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Ellen Murray

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Joshua Blanton

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Will, Alexander

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Walter Taylor

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Margaret McCulloch

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Arthur Kornickey

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Williams Sisters

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Penn Community Services

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David Mebane

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Bill Clement

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Cope, Francis Reeve, 1821-

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David Lilienthal

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Towne, John Henry, 1818-1875

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Willard Uphaus

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Nina Hartshorn

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Minnie Jenkins

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McAllister, Jane Ellen, 1899-

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Alice Kester

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Johnson, Mordecai W.

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African American minister and educator; president of Howard University (1926-1960). From the description of Papers, 1913-1976. (Moorland-Spingarn Resource Center). WorldCat record id: 70941398 1890 January 12 Born to Carolyn Freeman and Wyatt Johnson in Paris, Tennessee 1911 Received Bachelor of Arts degree from Atlanta Baptist [later Morehous...

Kiser, Clyde V.

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Penn School (Saint Helena Island, S.C.)

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The Penn School on Saint Helena Island, S.C., was founded during the Civil War by northern philanthropists and missionaries for former plantation slaves in an area occupied by the United States Army. Over the years, with continuing philanthropic support, it served as school, health agency, and cooperative society for rural African Americans of the Sea Islands. The first principals were Laura M. Towne and Ellen Murray, followed around 1908 by Rossa B. Cooley and Grace B. House, and in 1944 by How...

Sam Gadsen

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Francis Cope, Jr.

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James Dombrowski

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Benjamin Barnwell

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Paul Green

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Lester, Robert M. (Robert MacDonald), 1889-1969

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Teacher; foundation administrator and consultant. From the description of Robert Lester papers, 1879-1969. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 32520383 Robert MacDonald Lester (1889-1969) was an author, teacher and employee of the Carnegie Institute of New York. His published works include Forty Years of Carnegie Giving (1941). Lester was also the recording secretary of the Council of Southern Universities and executive director of the Southern Fellowships Fund. ...

Anna Milton

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Gunnar Myrdal

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Saint Helena Cooperative Society

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Embree, Edwin R. (Edwin Rogers), 1883-1950

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Foundation executive and author. From the description of Edwin R. Embree collection, [undated]. (Fisk University). WorldCat record id: 70971646 Edwin Embree was secretary (1917-1924), director of the Division of Stusies (1924-1927), and vice-president (1927) of The Rockefeller Foundation, president of the Rosenwald Fund (1927-1948), and president of the Liberian Foundation. From the description of Papers, 1925-1930. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122628995 ...

Florence Polite

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Albert Major

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Amanda Bradley

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Keith Fund

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Helen Heyward

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William H. Mills

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Countee Cullen

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First African Baptist Church

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Melish, William Howard, 1910-

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John Howard Melish was born in Milford, Ohio in 1874; attended the University of Cincinnati, Harvard Divinity School, and the Episcopal Theological School in Cambridge, Mass.; became associate rector of Christ Church in Cincinnati in 1900; and came to Brooklyn to serve as the rector for the Church of the Holy Trinity in 1904. In 1915-16, he gained some fame within the church for his efforts to give women the right to vote in the annual parish meetings of the Episcopal Church. He was...

Fellowship of Southern Churchmen

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The Fellowship of Southern Churchmen was an interdenominational, interracial group of southern church people (lay and clergy) interested in race relations, anti-Semitism, rural dependency, labor conditions, and other social issues. From the description of Fellowship of Southern Churchmen records, 1937-1986. WorldCat record id: 26380368 The Fellowship of Southern Churchmen, originally known as the Younger Churchmen of the South, called its first meeting at Montea...

Blanche Washington

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Mary Grant

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Kirby Page

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Mays, Benjamin E. (Benjamin Elijah), 1894-1984

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Educator. From the description of Reminiscences of Benjamin E. Mays : oral history, 1980. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122527874 Benjamin E. Mays (1895- ), president of Morehouse College during the Atlanta 1960-1961 sit-ins. From the description of Benjamin Elijah Mays oral history interview, 1978 Nov. 29. (Georgia State University). WorldCat record id: 38727125 President of Morehouse College, Atlanta, Ga., from 1940...

Victoria Polite

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Sam Polite

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Blanton, Joseph E. (Joseph Edwin)

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Macavine Miller

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