Merl R. Eppse papers, 1927-1961.

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Merl R. Eppse papers, 1927-1961.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/28453442

Business, personal, and professional papers. Chiefly correspondence, but also includes accounts, clippings, legal records, school notebooks, photographs, speeches, and writings. The correspondence focuses on Eppse's business concerns and his roles as an educator and as a leader in the Afro-American Christian Church (Disciples of Christ). Eppse also served as director of Greenwood Cemetery (Nashville, Tenn.) and as a member of the board of directors of the National Educational Publishing Company (an early black-owned publishing company in Nashville, Tenn.). He was chairman of the Dept. of History at Tennessee A & I State College and was heavily involved in various educational societies such as the American Association of Social Science Teachers in Negro Colleges and the American Society for the Study of Negro Life and History. Much information about the early part of the civil rights movement can be gleaned from the papers. Prominent correspondents include W.E.B. Du Bois, Charles S. Johnson, Albert Gore, Carter Woodson, John Hope Franklin, and W.C. Handy. Other correspondents include Princess M. Bowen, William Boyd, Albert N.D. Brooks, George W. Brooks, James C. Dale, Walter S. Davis, Emmett J. Dickson, William K. Fox, George William Gore, William J. Hale, Carl M. Hill, Elsie M. Lewis, William F. Nowlin, Virginia S. Nyabongo, Forrest F. Reed, Horace C. Savage, Mingo Scott, H. Councill Trenholm, Mazie O. Tyson, J.E. Walker, R. Wesley Watson, and Charles H. Wesley.

35 cubic feet.

Tennessee State Library & Archives, TSLA

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