Collection. 1906-18.

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Collection. 1906-18.

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Letterbooks, 1907-08; correspondence, 1906-18; writings, notes, speeches, reports, programs, photos, teaching materials, collected materials, and American Missionary Association Publications. The items were generated during the period that Harlan Paul Douglass was executive secretary of American Missionary Association. His personal papers have also been deposited in the Center and complement this collection. Much of the correspondence and all of the reports are about schools operated by the Association and visited by Douglass. The chief correspondent is James W. Cooper, corresponding secretary of the A.M.A. subjects are Afro-Americans -- Education, and the American Missionary Association.

0.8 linear ft.

Tulane University, Amistad Research Center

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SNAC Resource ID: 6953478

Tulane University, Amistad Research Center

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Beam, Lura - Douglass, Harlan Paul., 1906-1918.

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Douglass was a Congregational Clergyman, superintendent of education for the American Missionary Associtation, in charge of seventy-five schools for blacks and mountaineers in the south (1906-10), and corresponding secretary of the Association (1910-18), he later went on to other pursuits. Lura Ella Beam was a teacher at Gregory Institute in Wilmington, North Carolina (1908-10) and LeMoyne Institute in Memphis, Tennessee (1910-11), and assistant superintendent of education for the A...

Beam, Lura, 1887-1978

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Lura Beam was born in Marshfield, Maine, in 1887. She attended the University of California, Berkeley (1904-1906), and graduated from Barnard College in 1908. In 1917, she earned an M.A. from Columbia. She worked at the American Missionary Association (AMA) for three years as a teacher at two schools: the Gregory Normal Institute in Wilmington, North Carolina, and the LeMoyne Normal School in Memphis, Tennessee, before becoming AMA's Assistant Superintendent of Education in charge of the Deep So...

Douglass, H. Paul (Harlan Paul), 1871-1953

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Cooper, James W., 1842-1916.

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American Missionary Association

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Known chiefly for its educational work among African Americans, the American Missionary Association also worked with other ethnic groups. From the description of American Missionary Association records, 1820's-1870's (Detroit Public Library). WorldCat record id: 668992371 ...