Vivian Wilson Henderson Papers. 1940-1976.

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Vivian Wilson Henderson Papers. 1940-1976.

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The Vivian Wilson Henderson Papers document his life and career. They include family, personal, and business correspondence, reports, minutes, speeches, writings by him and others, photographs, honors, awards, audio and video tapes. There are teaching materials and administrative files from his career at Fisk University. The Clark College files include correspondence, reports, printed materials, and documentation on campus events. There are research notes for his books and articles, drafts and typescripts of speeches and writings by him and others. The largest groups of materials document his involvement with organizations and events such as the White House Conference "To Fulfill These Rights", the National Advisory Commission on Rural Poverty, the Commission on the Future of the South, Tennessee and Georgia's Advisory Committee on the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, Governor Jimmy Carter's Goal for Georgia Program, Atlanta Mayor Maynard Jackson's Atlanta Reorganization Task Force, the National Urban Coalition, Southern Regional Council, Ford Foundation, and Bendix Corporation.

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Atlanta University Center, Robert W. Woodruff Library

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Atlanta University Center, Robert W. Woodruff Library

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Fisk University

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Established as Fisk Free Colored School in Nashville, Tenn., in Dec. 1865 by John Ogden, Rev. Erastus Milo Caravath, and Rev. Edward P. Smith; named in honor of Gen. Clinton B. Fisk, assistant commissioner of the Freedmen's Bureau for Tennessee and Kentucky, who provided the new institution with facilities and contributed over $30,000 to the school; opened on 9 Jan. 1866 with almost two hundred students of all ages; incorporated as Fisk University on 22 Aug. 1867 after its curriculum shifted to ...

Henderson, Vivian Wilson, -1976

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Vivian Wilson Henderson (b. 1923 d.1976) nationally recognized economist, educator, and civil rights leader, served as the 18th President of Clark College (Atlanta, Ga.) from 1965 until his death in 1976. Henderson received a bachelor's degree in economics from North Carolina College and his master's and doctorate degrees from University of Iowa. Henderson taught at Prairie View A & M College in Texas, and at North Carolina College. He accepted an appointment at Fisk University in 1952 and w...

Clark College

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Atlanta University Center (Ga.)

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The Atlanta University Financial Records are a part of the Atlanta University Presidential Records series. The charter establishing Atlanta University was approved October 16, 1867. The University was part of the movement to educate Negroes at the end of the Civil War, and an extension of educational efforts spearheaded by freedmen and abolitionists, and was supported by black and white churches and organizations such as the American Missionary Association and the Freedmen's Bureau. The first st...

Ford foundation

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Philanthropic organization established in 1936 by Henry and Edsel Ford from profits of the Ford Motor Company. From the description of Grant files, [ca. 1936-1986]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155532303 ...