Wil Lou Gray papers, 1900-1976.

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Wil Lou Gray papers, 1900-1976.

Correspondence, newsletters, reports, circular letters, photographs, and related items re adult education in S.C. Other topics include women's rights, labor conditions, race relations, politics, economic conditions, temperance movement, the American Association of University Women, American Legion Auxiliary, Business and Professional Women's Organization, Cotton Manufacturers Association of South Carolina, Council for the Common Good, Opportunity School, Penn Community Center, Phyllis Wheatley Centers, Senior Citizens of America, Southern Regional Council, and Textile Institute. Correspondents include Bernard Baruch, Lester Bates, Joseph R. Bryson, James F. Byrnes, D.E. Camak, Septima P. Clark, J.H. Easterby, A.C. Flora, Donald Fowler, Ernest F. Hollings, David Bancroft Johnson, Olin D. Johnston, Sam Latimer, Harry M. Lightsey, Isadore Lourie, Burnet Maybank, Howard G. McLain, and J. Rion McKissick. Other correspondencts include Robert E. McNair, R.L. Meriwether, Earl E. Morris, Jr., J.P. Richards, L. Mendel Rivers, Eleanor Roosevelt, Daniel C. Roper, Archibald Rutledge, Alexander Sanders, Modjeska Simkins, LeRoy Springs, Mrs. T.B. Stackhouse, Strom Thurmond, Patterson Wardlaw, John C. West, Ransome J. Williams, and Evelyn Wood. Volumes, 1914-1971, consist of booklets, scrapbooks, and notebooks concerning adult education or illustrating the studies of adult pupils; newspaper clippings on microfilm (R816-817) concern the campaign against illiteracy, layby schools, and opportunity schools and pupils.

45 linear ft. (36 cartons)

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Wil Lou Gray Opportunity School

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Gray, Wil Lou, 1883-1984

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Educator and advocate for adult education; founder of South Carolina Opportunity School (West Columbia, S.C.); native of Laurens County, S.C. From the description of Wil Lou Gray papers, 1900-1976. (University of South Carolina). WorldCat record id: 43454133 ...