Papers. 1935-1974.

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Papers. 1935-1974.

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Graduate of Straight University and the University of Michigan, principal of Valena C. Jones School (1921-1954), a public school that set new standards for education among Afro-Americans in New Orleans. Items also relate to Williams participation in educational and civic affairs after her retirement. Collection includes correspondence, programs, certificates, biographical sketches by Lucille Hutton, photographs and other printed material; including photographs of New Orleans' women active in the black community. Also, photographs of Valena C. Jones School faculties, and correspondence from Mack J. Spears, principal of McDonough #35 High School, Karl H. Berns, Assistant Executive Secretary, Field Operations of the National Education Association, and Samuel DuBois Cook, president of Dillard University, year books of Valena C. Jones Normal School and Practice School, photos of Y activities, and clippings. Persons included in the collection are Eola Lyons Baker, Sadie Belle Barrow, Emily Bickham, Jessie W. Cook, Maxine Holtry Daniels, Lucille Hutton, Elizabeth Jones, Ora Lee Baranco Mitchell, Pearl Tasker, gertrude Geddes Willis.

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Tulane University, Amistad Research Center

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Valena C. Jones Normal and Practice School.

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Cook, Samuel DuBois, 1927-

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Baker, Eola Lyons.

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Williams, Fannie C., 1882-1980.

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Spears, Mack J.

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Daniels, Maxine Holtry.

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Jones, Elizabeth, 1871-1952.

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Educator, Bismarck, North Dakota. From the description of Mss., 1925. (State Historical Society of North Dakota State Archives). WorldCat record id: 17799494 ...

Berns, Karl H.

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Willis, Gertrude Geddes.

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Dillard University

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Mitchell, Ora Lee Baranco.

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Cook, Jessie

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Barrow, Sadie Belle.

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Tasker, Pearl.

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Hutton, Lucille.

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Bickham, Emily.

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