Grigsby family papers, circa 1918-2002.

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Grigsby family papers, circa 1918-2002.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/460724239

The Grigsby family papers consist of correspondence and invitations, funeral and school materials, newspaper clippings and other printed biographical material, photographs, and other materials documenting the Grigsby family, especially publicist, civil rights activist, and editor Snow F. Grigsby, artist and art educator J. Eugene Grigsby (Gene), school principal J. E. Grigsby and school teacher Purry Leone Dixon Grigsby, and the family of teacher Miriam Grigsby Bates. Educational achievement is the central theme of the collection, in evidence in transcripts, diplomas, and photographs of family members receiving degrees. Other education-related materials include a letter from one Grigsby generation to the next providing personal insights on Langston Hughes for a research paper; a 1938 photograph of Purry Leone Dixon Grigsby teaching in a Biddleville (Charlotte, N.C.) elementary school classroom; and a small amount of material relating to the School Workers Federal Credit Union, which was founded in 1941 in Charlotte, N.C., by J. E. Grigsby, for African American teachers and employees of the public school system. Also of note are a 1942 living letter recorded at a USO Club; a 1980 letter that included a then-confidential list of the Detroit chapter of Tuskegee Airmen; a copy of a 1980 letter from Snow F. Grigsby to fellow Republican Strom Thurmond on racism, politics, and the economy; a CORE sit-in songs (Congress of Racial Equality) booklet; and the 1942 program for the women's West End Book Club of Charlotte, N.C.

About 100 items (1.0 linear feet).

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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SNAC Resource ID: 7561197

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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Grigsby family.

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The Grigsby family of North Carolina and South Carolina; New Haven, Conn.; Detroit, Mich.; and Phoenix, Ariz., descend from Fred Grigsby (b. 1867), the son of a former slave. From the description of Grigsby family papers, circa 1918-2002. WorldCat record id: 460724239 ...

Grigsby, J. E. (Jefferson Eugene), -1975

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Grigsby, Snow F., -1981

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African-American writer. From the description of Oral history interview with Snow F. Grigsby, 1967. (Wayne State University, Archives of Labor & Urban). WorldCat record id: 32321533 ...

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Bates family.

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School Workers Federal Credit Union.

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Grigsby, J. Eugene (Jefferson Eugene), 1918-2013

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Jefferson Eugene Grigsby Jr., African American artist and art educator, was born in Greensboro, N.C., on 17 October 1918. Grigsby attended Johnson C. Smith University in Charlotte, N.C., then Morehouse College in Atlanta, Ga., graduating with a degree in art in 1938. During this time, he studied under the painter Hale Woodruff. From 1938 to 1939, he studied at the American Artists School in New York, where he met prominent African American artists including Jacob Lawrence and Romare Bearden. In ...