John Wesley Work papers.

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John Wesley Work papers.

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The John Wesley Work papers consist of a speech, photographs, glass plate negatives, holograph manuscript, and memorabilia, all undated. The speech is in both holograph and typescript carbon form and pays tribute to Joel Chandler Harris, Howard Weeden, and discusses the characteristics of "Negro" folk songs and spirituals. Photographs, made from glass plate negatives, are of a woman and child and a woman and three children. There is no identification, but they may depict John Wesley Work as a child with his mother Samuella Boyd Work. The holograph manuscript is an apparently unpublished work authored by Work entitled "Comrades, or Friends at Fisk." Work was professor of history and Latin at Fisk (1904-1923?). The memorabilia item ia a calendar from Fisk.

1 oversized papers box.

Emory University. Special Collections and Archives

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Emory University. Special Collections and Archives

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Fisk University

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Established as Fisk Free Colored School in Nashville, Tenn., in Dec. 1865 by John Ogden, Rev. Erastus Milo Caravath, and Rev. Edward P. Smith; named in honor of Gen. Clinton B. Fisk, assistant commissioner of the Freedmen's Bureau for Tennessee and Kentucky, who provided the new institution with facilities and contributed over $30,000 to the school; opened on 9 Jan. 1866 with almost two hundred students of all ages; incorporated as Fisk University on 22 Aug. 1867 after its curriculum shifted to ...

Harris, Joel Chandler, 1848-1908

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Author and journalist, of Eatonton and Atlanta, Ga. From the description of Papers, 1858-1978 (bulk 1880-1908). (Emory University). WorldCat record id: 28418453 "Joel Chandler Harris gained national prominence for his numerous volumes of Uncle Remus folktales. Harris's long-standing legacy as a "progressive conservative" New South journalist, folklorist, fiction writer, and children's author continues to influence our society today." - "Joel Chandler Harris." New Georgia Enc...

Weeden, Howard, 1847-1905

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Work, John Wesley, 1873-1925

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John Wesley Work (1873-1925), African American composer and university professor from Nashville, Tennessee. From the description of John Wesley Work papers. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 173863190 ...