Papers, 1923-1978.

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Papers, 1923-1978.

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Correspondence of Howard A. Kester and his wife, Alice Harris Kester, together with reports, leaflets, pamphlets, newsletters, organization reports, writings, and other items. Included are materials about Kester's association, beginning in the 1930s, with such organizations as the YMCA, the Fellowship of Reconciliation, the Committee on Economic and Racial Justice, the Fellowship of Southern Churchmen, the Southern Tenant Farmers' Union, the Socialist Pary, and others active in the movement for social change. Also included are materials relating to Kester's work, beginning in the 1940s, with such institutions as the Penn School on Saint Helena Island, S.C., the John C. Campbell Folk School in Brasstown, N.C., and Montreat-Anderson College in Montreat, N.C. There is also material relating to Kester's later work as an educational innovator and about Kester himself and his development as a Christian radical, social reformer, administrator, and teacher. Kester's correspondents include William Ruthrauff Amberson, Olive Dame Campbell, Thomas B. Cowan, Frank Porter Graham, Harry Leland Mitchell, Nelle Morton, Reinhold Niebuhr, Howard Washington Odum, Arthur Franklin Raper, and Norman Thomas.

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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