The reminiscences of Will W. Alexander [microform]. [1952]

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The reminiscences of Will W. Alexander [microform]. [1952]

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Authority on race relations. Topics include: childhood and education; Vanderbilt University; ministry, Methodist Church South, 1901-17; WWI; race riots; beginning work in race relations, Commission on Interracial Cooperation, 1919-30; lynching; Ku Klux Klan; Atlanta University merger; Dillard University, acting president, 1931-35; Resettlement Administration, 1935-36; Greenbelt towns; Great Plains; subsistence homesteads; Bankhead-Jones Farm Tenant Act, Farm Security Administration, 1937; Julius Rosenwald Fund; Fair Employment Practices Committee; organizing the American Council on Race Relations; impressions of C.B. Baldwin, John Fischer, Sidney Hillman, President and Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, Julius Rosenwald, Frank Tannenbaum, Mr. and Mrs. Rexford G. Tugwell, Henry Wallace, and others.

733 leaves.

University of Houston, Clear Lake, Alfred R. Neumann Library

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University of Houston, Clear Lake, Alfred R. Neumann Library

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