Papers. 1910-1972.

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Papers. 1910-1972.

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Founder of Fisk University Social Science Department, co-founder of National Urban League. Photostatic copies of correspondence at Fisk and writings about him, including correspondence concerning the organization, activities, and staffing of the Committee on Urban Conditions among Afro-Americans as well as its concern with the sociological conditions of Afro-Americans, primarily in New York. Correspondents include Victor G. Flinn, Hortense Bruce, Ruth Baldwin, Samuel H. Bishop, B.F. Lee, Jr., and Booker T. Washington. Attached to one of the letters is a membership list showing union and non-union carpenters, bricklayers, blacksmiths, goldsmiths, etc.

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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 ...

Bishop, Samuel H., 1864-

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Lee, B. F., Jr.

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Bruce, Hortense.

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Baldwin, Ruth.

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Washington, Booker T., 1856-1915

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Booker T. Washington was an African American educator and public figure. Born a slave on a small farm in Hale's Ford, Virginia, he worked his way through the Hampton Institute and became an instructor there. He was the first principal of the Tuskegee Institute, and under his management it became a successful center for practical education. A forceful and charismatic personality, he became a national figure through his books and lectures. Although his conservative views concerned many critics, he...

Committee on Urban Conditions.

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Haynes, George Edmund, 1880-1960

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First African American graduate, New York School of Social Work; first African American Ph.D. recipient, Columbia University; co-founder and first executive director of the National Urban League; organized the Department of Social Science at Fisk University; and author. From the description of George Edmund Haynes papers, 1909-1922. (Fisk University). WorldCat record id: 70972575 Sociologist, leader in religious programs and social work education for blacks. From...

Flinn, Victor G.

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