Administration records, 1894-1987.

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Administration records, 1894-1987.

Presidents series includes the papers of Leonard Ervin Dawson (1987), George Bell Thomas (1974-1983), Lester B. Brown (1977-1978), Harry P. Graham (1969-1979), John F. Potts (1954-1970), Cecil D. Haliburton (1949-1951), Earl H. McClenney (1945-1950), Joshua E. Blanton (1916-1918), Jesse O. Thomas (1916-1918), Elizabeth E. (Wright) Menafee (1894-1906), Jesse C. (Dorsey) Green (1907-1971), Theodore H. Moore (1941-1961) and includes correspondence, memos, cards, speeches, writings, reports, news clippings, obituaries, and biographical sketches. Topics include inauguration, finances, and testimonial dinner. Elizabeth Wright's correspondents include Booker T. Washington, Ralph Voorhees, and George W. Kelley. Board of Trustees series materials (1918-1984) include correspondence, memos, agendas, minutes, reports, writings, news clippings, and papers of Martin A. Menafee (1919-1924). Board of Trustee's correspondents include Tollie L. Caution of The National Council of Protestant Episcopal Church and M.M. Millikan of American Church Institute for Negroes.

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American Church Institute for Negroes

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Episcopal Church. National Council

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Millikan, M. M.

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Washington, Booker T., 1856-1915

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Booker T. Washington was an African American educator and public figure. Born a slave on a small farm in Hale's Ford, Virginia, he worked his way through the Hampton Institute and became an instructor there. He was the first principal of the Tuskegee Institute, and under his management it became a successful center for practical education. A forceful and charismatic personality, he became a national figure through his books and lectures. Although his conservative views concerned many critics, he...

Voorhees Industrial School

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Denmark Industrial School, a school for blacks, founded 1897 by Elizabeth Evelyn Wright, a Tuskegee Institute graduate, with one teacher, Jessie Dorsey, and fourteen students in a rent free, old store in Denmark, S.C.; M. Ralph Voorhees, a white philanthropist from Clinton, N.J., donated $4500 to buy a plot of land and $500 to erect the first building; in 1902 the school was renamed Voorhees Industrial School in his honor; school became affiliated with the Episcopal Church in 1924; became junior...

Caution, Tollie L. (Tollie Leroy), 1902-

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McClenney, Earl Hampton, 1907-

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Thomas, George B. (George Bell), 1929-

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Blanton, Joshua E. (Joshua Enoch)

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Kelley, George W., active 19th century

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Voorhees School and Junior College

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Moore, Theodore H. (Theodore Harrison)

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Voorhees' teacher of science and math, director of instruction, dean of the High School and Junior College Departments, vice president and interim president of Voorhees Industrial School later Voorhees Normal and Industrial School and Voorhees School and Junior College (1922-1959); retired as dean emeritus and was awarded honorary doctorate by Voorhees in 1972. From the description of Theodore and Catherine W. Moore papers, 1922-1988 (bulk 1928-1931). (Voorhees College). WorldCat rec...

Voorhees College

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Denmark Industrial School, a school for blacks, founded 1897 by Elizabeth Evelyn Wright, a Tuskegee Institute graduate, with one teacher, Jessie Dorsey, and fourteen students in a rent free, old store in Denmark, S.C.; M. Ralph Voorhees, a white philanthropist from Clinton, N.J., donated $4500 to buy a plot of land and $500 to erect the first building; in 1902 the school was renamed Voorhees Industrial School in his honor; school became affiliated with the Episcopal Church in 1924; became junior...

Haliburton, Cecil D.

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Voorhees College. Board of Trustees

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Menafee, Martin A. (Martin Asabee), 1874-1945

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Dawson, Leonard Ervin, 1934-

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Graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Public Health; served as director of the school's clinical field education program, 1960s-1990s. From the description of Leonard H. Dawson papers, 1965-1995 [manuscript]. WorldCat record id: 37785669 Leonard H. Dawson received his MSPH degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Public Health in 1963. After working as a health educator in the Colbert County, Ala., Health Departmen...

Thomas, Jesse O., 1885-

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Wright, Elizabeth Evelyn, 1872-1906

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Voorhees, Ralph, 1838-1907

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Philanthropist, of New Jersey; became blind, 1864-1867; married Elizabeth Nevius Rodman, 1887. From the description of Diary, 1821-1866 (inclusive) 1860 (bulk). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122477892 ...

Denmark Industrial School

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Potts, John Faulkner

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John Foster Potts, Sr., African American educator and author, was born in Hot Springs, Arkansas on April 18, 1908 to Leila Snead and John Moultrie Potts. In 1916, the family relocated to their ancestral home in East Flat Rock, North Carolina. Potts attended Lincoln Academy, Kings Mountain, N.C., and Benedict College's high school division, Columbia, S.C. He received a college degree from Benedict in 1930. Potts began substitute teaching, eventually becoming assistant principal at Columbia's Book...

Brown, Lester B.

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Green, Jessie Dorsey, 1874-

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Voorhees Normal and Industrial School

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