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Papers. 1936-79.

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Clergyman, educator, and author. Chiefly correspondence, together with articles, book reviews, reports, speeches, autobiographical sketch, teaching contracts, institutional agenda, constitutions, and minutes, lists, programs, clippings, and photos, relating to civil rights struggles in Alabama while Wynn was chaplain and professor of philosophy at Tuskegee Institute, working with Charles Goode Comillion and Tuskegee Civic Association, and to predominantly black church-related colleges for which he was responsible while associate director, Division of Higher Education and Ministry, United Methodist Church, Nashville, Tenn., and his efforts to integrate the division. Includes two letters (1959, 1960) from Martin Luther King, Jr., and one (1975) from Coretta Scott King. Colleges represented include Bennett College, Greensboro, N.C., Bethune-Cookman College, Daytona Beach, Fla., Claflin College, Orangeburg, S.C., Clark College, Atlanta, Ga., Dillard University, New Orleans, La., Huston-Tillotson College, Austin, Tex., Meharry Medical College, Nashville, Tenn., Paine College, Augusta, Ga., Philander Smith College, Little Rock, Ark., Rust College, Holly Springs, Miss., and Wiley College, Marshall, Tex. Correspondents include Allen Knight Chalmers, Ernest Thomas Dixon, Jr., Samuel Lucius Gandy, William Henri Hale, William Asbury McMillan, Hubert Vernon Manning, Jacob C. Oglesby, Richard V. Moore, Julius Samuel Scott, James Samuel Thomas, and Myron Forest Wicke, and other college presidents and Methodist officials.

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