Papers, 1893-1963 (inclusive).

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Papers, 1893-1963 (inclusive).

Correspondence, articles, book reviews, notes, reports, printed material, clippings, photographs, and case studies of families observed reflect Court's concern with family life, race relations, religious training, and child development. Included are reports of parent education in Tennessee, notes and drafts for an unfinished comparative study of child development and family relations, discussion guides for home and parent-teacher work, outlines for Lesley courses, questionnaires for the Age center of New England, a scrapbook of clippings on race relations, and Court's class notes, graduate transcripts, genealogies, and autobiographical notes. There are reminiscences of her early life, but no early papers except photographs.

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Court, William, 1869-1920.

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In 1845, as a result of the North-South tensions, the Methodist Episcopal Church conferences in the Southern states withdrew to form the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. In 1874 at the General Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South held in Louisville, Kentucky, a Board of Commissioners was appointed to meet with a similar board from the Methodist Episcopal Church (MEC). The Board was empowered to begin talks the MEC board that would resolve differences between the two denomination...

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