Records of the Office of Territories, RG 126. A selected file on Alaska relating to the United Congo Improvement Association [microform], 1935.

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Records of the Office of Territories, RG 126. A selected file on Alaska relating to the United Congo Improvement Association [microform], 1935.

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Correspondence relating to the efforts of the United Congo Improvement Association to establish an Afro-American colony on the Kenai Peninsula. Includes correspondence from Association director Dr. Joe T. Thomas and government representative Ernest Gruening.

100 p. : maps.

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Gruening, Ernest, 1887-1974

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Ernest Henry Gruening (February 6, 1887 – June 26, 1974) was an American journalist and politician. A member of the Democratic Party, Gruening was the Governor of the Alaska Territory from 1939 until 1953 and a United States Senator from Alaska from 1959 until 1969. Born in New York City, Gruening attended The Hotchkiss School, and he graduated from Harvard University in 1907 and from Harvard Medical School in 1912. After completing his studies, he forsook medicine, instead pursuing a career ...

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The Matanuska Valley Colony, one of President Roosevelt's New Deal relief projects, was a cooperative agricultural colony created in Palmer, Territory of Alaska, around 1935. It was created by the Alaska Rural Rehabilitation Corporation, an Alaskan corporation, with funding from the U.S. Federal Emergency Relief Administration through the U.S. Office of Territories. Two-hundred three families, mostly from Michigan, Wisconsin and Minnesota, were invited to join the Colony. They arrived in Palmer ...

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United Congo Improvement Association

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