Papers, 1850-1991 (bulk 1930-1940).

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Papers, 1850-1991 (bulk 1930-1940).

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Correspondence, memoranda, minutes, reports, printed materials, and other papers, relating chiefly to efforts in the 1930s by the Motons to promote educational and economic opportunities for African Americans and to improve race relations. Documents Robert Moton's work with African American businesses and institutions and civil rights organizations, including the Colored Merchants Association, Commission on Interracial Cooperation, Hampton Institute, National Negro Business League, National Urban League, Negro Rural School Fund, Phelps-Stokes Fund, Tuskegee Institute, Veterans Administration Hospital (Tuskegee, Ala.), and Colored Work Dept. of the National Council of the Young Men's Christian Associations of the United States of America; Jennie Moton's activities as field agent for the U.S. Agricultural Adjustment Administration's southern division, as president of the National Association of Colored Women, and as director of women's industries at Tuskegee Institute; and Charlotte Moton Hubbard's service as U.S. deputy assistant secretary of state for public affairs. Correspondents include Will Winton Alexander, Jessie Daniel Ames, Tom M. Blanton, Susie V. Bouldin, Thomas M. Campbell, George Washington Carver, Jackson Davis, Ada B. DeMent, Helen M. Hewlett, Albon L. Holsey, Bertha L. Johnson, Eugene Kinckle Jones, Thomas Jesse Jones, R. Hayne King, Frederick D. Patterson, C.C. Spaulding, Ella P. Stewart, Sallie W. Stewart, Anson Phelps Stokes, Lyman Beecher Stowe, Robert R. Taylor, Jesse O. Thomas, Channing H. Tobias, Mary F. Waring, Walter Francis White, L. Hollingsworth Wood, and Arthur D. Wright.

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Carver, George Washington, 1864?-1943

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Agricultural scientist, teacher, humanitarian, artist, and Iowa State alumnus (1894, 1896). George Washington Carver was born ca. 1864, the son of slaves on the Moses Carver plantation near Diamond Grove, Missouri. He lost his father in infancy, and at the age of 6 months was stolen along with his mother by raiders, but was later found and traded back to his owner for a $300 race horse. He enrolled in Simpson College, Indianola, Iowa in 1890 studying music and art. Etta Budd, his art instructor ...

Stewart, Sallie W. (Sallie Wyatt), 1881-

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Jones, Eugene Kinckle, 1885-1954

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Ames, Jessie Daniel, 1883-1972

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North Carolina resident (Polk County) and general field secretary of the Commission on Interracial Cooperation. From the description of Papers, 1902-1946. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 31311677 From the description of Papers, 1920-1946. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 122525094 Jessie Daniel Ames, civil rights worker of Atlanta, Ga., Georgetown, Tex., and Tryon, N.C. Beginning in 1922, Ames served separate roles as secretary and vice-...

Moton family.

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Family members represented include Robert Russa Moton (1867-1940) and his wife, Jennie Dee Booth Moton (1880-1942), African American educators and community leaders, and their daughter, Charlotte Moton Hubbard (b. 1911), government official. From the description of Papers, 1850-1991 (bulk 1930-1940). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 31816499 ...

Hewlett, Helen M. (Helen Mable)

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Bouldin, Susie Vera, 1888-

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Stowe, Lyman Beecher, 1880-1963

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Spaulding, C. C. (Charles Clinton), 1874-1952

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President of North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company, 1923-1952, located in Durham (Durham Co.), N.C. The company is the oldest African-American life insurance company. From the description of Papers, 1905-1985. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 45279802 From the description of Papers, 1905-1985. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 80056304 ...

Campbell, Thomas M. (Thomas Monroe), 1883-1956

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First black demonstration agent and Negro Field Representative of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Southern Region, 1906-1953. Popularized the concept of the "moveable school." From the description of Papers, 1916-1946. (Auburn University). WorldCat record id: 28358846 ...

Davis, Jackson, 1882-1947

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Jackson Davis, an educator and school administrator in Virginia, became the first state agent for rural schools for Blacks in Virginia (1909-1915). He served as general field agent for the General Education Board (1915-1933), and its assistant director (1929-1933), associate director (1933-1946), and director (1946-1947). He was als osecretary of the International Education BOard (1923-1938). From the description of Papers, 1898-1947. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122535409 ...

DeMent, Ada B. (Ada Belle)

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Alexander, Will Winton, 1884-1956

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Agriculturist, authority on race relations, educator. From the description of Oral history interview with Will Winton Alexander, 1952. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 309722753 ...

Johnson, Bertha LaBranche, 1882-

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Physician, sister-in-law of Benjamin Tucker. From the description of Correspondence, with Agnes Inglis, 1933-1951. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 34368185 Physician. Bertha F. Johnson graduated from medical school in 1905. She was married to a farmer and had no children. Her great-grandparents, Daniel Lightner and Polly Seward were abolitionists in Indiana. From the description of Papers, 1879-1957. (Smith College). WorldCa...

Holsey, Albon L., 1883-

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King, R. Hayne (Richard Hayne), 1878-1941

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Blanton, Tom M.

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Patterson, Frederick D. (Frederick Douglass), 1901-1988

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African American educational administrator and advocate. From the description of Frederick D. Patterson papers, 1861-1988 (bulk 1965-1988). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71132581 African American educator. From the description of Papers, 1861-1988 (bulk 1965-1988). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 28424351 College president. From the description of Reminiscences of Frederick Douglass Patterson : oral history, 1980. (Columbia University In the ...

Stokes, Anson Phelps, 1874-1958

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Anson Phelps Stokes was born on April 13, 1874, in New Brighton, Staten Island, New York. He received degrees from Yale University (B.A., 1896) and the Episcopal Theological School (B.D., 1900). He served as Secretary of Yale University (1899-1921) and was active on several University committees and organizations. Phelps also served as Canon of the Cathedral of St. Peter and St. Paul, Washington, D.C. (1924-1939) and was active on a variety of educational commissions and as a trustee of the Phel...

Jones, Thomas Jesse, 1873-1950

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Stewart, Ella P. (Ella Phillips), 1893-1987

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Active civic leader who played leading roles in the National Association of Colored Women's Clubs and the Ohio Association of Colored Women's Clubs. Also served as an advisor to the United States Department of Labor and UNESCO. Participant in many Toledo (Ohio) area social welfare clubs. Noted as the first African-American woman to graduate from the University of Pittsburgh College of Pharmacy. From the description of Papers, 1922-1987. (University of Toledo)...