Papers, 1870-1973 (bulk 1915-1973).

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Papers, 1870-1973 (bulk 1915-1973).

Family papers, including material relating to Waring's wife, portraitist Laura Wheeler Waring, including an original watercolor and a printed guide from the Howard University Gallery of Art, as well as school documents, correspondence, legal briefs, and printed material relating to Waring's father, Everett J. Waring, the first African American lawyer in Baltimore; personal papers, including report cards and diplomas, programs, legal and financial material, newsclippings, and photographs; correspondence, including letters to the editor of the Philadelphia Inquirer and letters between Waring and Lucille Paul relating to a Laura Wheeler Waring painting damaged while on loan to the Gay Northeaster's Club; writings by Waring, including poems, essays, word games, travel notes, and reminiscences; organizational material relating to Sigma Pi Phi, including its constitution and by-laws, correspondence, programs, financial material, and issues of Boule Journal; restricted material (articles of incorporation for the Afro-American League, as well as three scrapbooks of newspaper clippings collected and possibly written by Everett Waring, relating to his legal career, racial issues, and African Americans); and oversize material (Everett Waring's diplomas from high school and Howard University).

ca. 2 linear ft.

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Howard University

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Howard University is a private, federally chartered historically black research university in Washington, D.C. Tracing its history to 1867, from its outset Howard has been nonsectarian and open to people of all sexes and races. The institution was named for General Oliver Otis Howard, a Civil War hero who was both the founder of the university and, at the time, commissioner of the Freedmen's Bureau. The U.S. Congress chartered Howard on March 2, 1867 and much of its early funding came from endow...

Sigma Pi Phi

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Warren family.

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Waring, Laura Wheeler, 1887-1948

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Waring, Everett J., 1859-1914

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School District of Philadelphia.

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Gay Northeaster's Club

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Afro-American League of Republican Clubs (Franklin County, Ohio)

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Lincoln University, Pa.

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Ashmun Institute was founded in 1854 by John Miller Dickey, a Presbyterian minister, with the purpose of preparing freedmen to christianize Africa; named after Jehudi Ashmun, the first governor of Liberia, it was the first college established in the U.S. to have as its original purpose the higher education of youth of African descent; interracial and international; renamed Lincoln University in 1866, becoming the first educational institution named for the assassinated president; first recorded ...

Howard University. Gallery of Art

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Waring, Walter E., 1896-

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Educator and writer, of Pennsylvania; d. ca. 1973. From the description of Papers, 1870-1973 (bulk 1915-1973). (Moorland-Spingarn Resource Center). WorldCat record id: 70953384 ...

Waring family.

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Paul, Lucille

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