Collection, 1915-1985.

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Collection, 1915-1985.

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The collection contains personal and professional correspondence; medical lecture notes and case studies; materials concerning Flanner House and the Herman G. Morgan Health Center; medical advertisements and publications; and information on African American nurses. Personal correspondence includes items to and from his wife, Willa Mack Maddux, and his mother, Dora Maddux Younger. There are also photographs of Maddux, his wife, and mother; the University of Chicago, Howard University, and Boston; and photos taken in Ashburn, Ga. Maddux's tax records, 1940-1947, are also included. Materials concerning Flanner House and the Herman G. Morgan Health Center include lecture notes, case studies, and records pertaining to other social and health organizations. Also contained is information about African American nurses, including material on the National Association of Colored Graduate Nurses, reflecting Willa Maddux's training as a nurse.

Manuscript Materials: 3 boxes.Visual Materials: 1 box of photographs, 1 OVA photograph folder, 2 120 mm color negatives.

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Howard University

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Howard University is a private, federally chartered historically black research university in Washington, D.C. Tracing its history to 1867, from its outset Howard has been nonsectarian and open to people of all sexes and races. The institution was named for General Oliver Otis Howard, a Civil War hero who was both the founder of the university and, at the time, commissioner of the Freedmen's Bureau. The U.S. Congress chartered Howard on March 2, 1867 and much of its early funding came from endow...

Flanner House (Indianapolis, Ind.)

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Flanner House, a social service center for the Indianapolis, Indiana African-American community, promotes the social, moral, and physical welfare of African-Americans, particularly youth. It was established in 1903 by Frank Flanner, a local mortician, under the name of Flanner Guild and was the first settlement house for African-Americans in the city. Programs and activities have included a day nursery, training for men and women, self-help projects such as housing construction, and public healt...

Younger, Dora Maddux.

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Maddux, Willa Mack.

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University of Chicago.

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Most of the records in the collection pertain to the $400,000 raised by the American Baptist Education Society in 1889-1890 in order to obtain a 600,000 grant from John D. Rockefeller for the creation of an endowment for the University of Chicago. The first volume in the inventory, Record of Pledges for the University of Chicago, contains an alphabetical numbered listing of subscribers, amounts pledged, and payments made through 1906. The subscription forms and letters (1:4-13) are numbered to c...

Maddux, Walter H., ca. 1892-1978.

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Maddux, a native of Kansas City, Kansas, was a physician who spent his last 35 years in Indianapolis. After training at the University of Kansas and the University of Chicago, Maddux held several jobs in public health and taught at Meharry Medical College and the Howard University School of Medicine. In the early 1940s he came to Flanner House, a social service agency in Indianapolis, where he helped found the Herman G. Morgan Health Center. In 1975 Maddux was honored for outstanding community s...

Maddux family.

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Herman G. Morgan Health Center (Indianapolis, Ind.)

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National Association of Colored Graduate Nurses

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Organized in 1908 to achieve higher professional standards, end discriminatory practices against black nurses, and develop leadership among black nurses. Dissolved in 1951. From the description of National Association of Colored Graduate Nurses records, 1908-1958. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122686937 Founded in 1908; disbanded in 1951. From the description of National Association of Colored Graduate Nurses records, 1908-1951 [microform]. (Unknown). WorldCat r...

Maddux, Walter H., 1915-1985.

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