Ellen Lawson and Marlene Merrill Research Collection.

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Ellen Lawson and Marlene Merrill Research Collection.

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Research files assembled in the process of gathering source material from repositories nationwide for a study of antebellum black women students at Oberlin College. (The resulting study was The Antebellum talented thousandth: black college students at Oberlin before the Civil War, published in the Journal of Negro Education, Spring 1983). Includes photocopies of letters and other documents; correspondence; articles, and drafts of articles; and photographs and slides of Oberlin College and town residents.

3 linear ft.

Oberlin College Library

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Oberlin College Library

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