Papers, 1877-1963.

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Papers, 1877-1963.

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Personal papers from Douglass's tenure as dean, including correspondence, speeches, financial records, reports, catalogs, campus and faculty publications, photos, clippings, and memorabilia, relating to the establishment, development, and history of New Jersey College for Women; material relating to her failing health and resignation as dean, disappearance and death (1933), and discovery and burial of her body (1963); and correspondence of her daughter, Edith Douglass Roth (d. 1948). Includes correspondence with Rutgers University president William H.S. Demarest concerning the establishment of the school and with other colleges and universities concerning women's schools and students, statistical analyses of college programs for women, records of fund raising and building dedications, and interviews with people reminiscing about Douglass.

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Rutgers University

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From July 12 to July 17, 1967, the city of Newark, New Jersey, was wrecked by racial violence. In six days of rioting, 23 people were killed, 725 were injured and nearly 1,500 were arrested. Property damage was estimated at over $10 million. While the riots were still in progress, sixty community leaders formed a Committee of Concern with the following aims: to help restore calm to the city, to study the causes of racial unrest, and to formulate goals for social and economic improve...

Demarest, William H. S. (William Henry Steele), 1863-1956

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Douglass, Mabel Smith, 1877-1933

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Founder and first dean, New Jersey College for Women, later Douglass College, Rutgers University. From the description of Papers, 1877-1963. (Rutgers University). WorldCat record id: 28416436 ...

Roth, Edith Douglass, -1948

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