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Papers. 1881-1971.

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Papers of Henry Hugh and Adeline L. (Davis) Proctor, 1881-1971. Congregational clergyman, author, and lecturer. Personal and business correspondence, notebooks, minutes, accounts, articles, sermons, speeches, programs, reports, directories, lists, membership cards, news releases, clippings, scrapbooks, and photos, relating to Dr. Proctor's ministerial and committee duties, pastorates at First Congregational Church, Atlanta, Ga., and Nazarene Congregational Church, Brooklyn, N.Y., his work with the National Convention of Congregational Workers Among the Colored People, and his activities as an alumnus and trustee of Fisk University, Nashville, Tenn. Includes Dr. Proctor's autobiography, Up From the South, articles on Afro-American migration from the Southk, correspondence and minutes (1920's) relating to student demonstrations at Fisk during the presidency of Fayette Avery McKenzie and speech (1910) by Theodore roosevelt upon visiting the First Congregational Church, Atlanta. Papers of Dr. Proctor's wife, Adeline Lillian (Davis) Proctor (1870-1945) include correspondence (chiefly after 1933) relating to business affairs after her husband's death and Fisk University alumni cativities, pamphlet by her, entitled Negro Womanhood: Its Present, and letters to her from her son, Henry H. Proctor, Jr., while he was in officer's training camp and in France during World War I. Correspondencts include Augustus Field Beard, Charlotte Hawkins Brown, Frederick Leslie Brownlee, Samuel Parkes Cadman, Ambrose Caliver, Oscar De Priest, W.E.B. DuBois, Thomas Elsa Jones, Henry Curtis McDowell, William Stuart Nelson, William Pickens, John D. Rockefeller, Jr., Julius Rosenwald, Channing Tobias, Booker T. Washington, Walter White, Will Winton, L. Hollingsworth Wood, Richard R. Wright, and Nathan B. Young.

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