Grace Davis collection, 1948-1969

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Grace Davis collection, 1948-1969

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Papers of Alma Powell consist primarily of newspaper and magazine clippings about African Americans from the 1930s to the 1960s with local, state and national perspectives, organized into the following categories: Grace Davis and Alma Powel biographical information; commercials and advertisements; art and artist association organizations; biographies of African American athletes, scholars, artists, religious leaders, politicians and musicians; church and religion; civil rights; communism; specific cases of discrimination; editorials and letters to the editor; entertainment; health; labor; Kalamazoo Council on Human Relations, 1948-1959; personal correspondence; pictures; politics and voting; press and journalism; public opion; race relations such as housing, urbanization and realtor pamphlets; race riots; recognition and special observances; the South; World War II.

2.5 cu. ft.

Western Michigan University, Dwight B. Waldo Library

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Western Michigan University, Dwight B. Waldo Library

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