Grace McSpadden Overholser papers, 1971-1972 and undated.

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Grace McSpadden Overholser papers, 1971-1972 and undated.

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The collection contains memoranda, letters, notes, writings, course syllabi, and other items chiefly relating to Grace McSpadden Overholser's tenure at Saint Andrew's Presbyterian College. Materials include an article that Overholser wrote regarding Richard Wright; letters to the editor of New Letters, a journal at the University of Missouri in which Overholser's Richard Wright article was published; a schedule and participant list of the 1971 Afro-American Institute at the University of Iowa; letters to the director of the Afro-American Institute; an essay regarding the Amistad Research Center at Tulane University; several pages of Overholser's notes and course syllabi; and other materials.

About 25 items.

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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Saint Andrews Presbyterian College (Laurinburg, N.C.)

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Overholser, Grace McSpadden, d. 1971.

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Before her marriage to Dub White, Grace McSpadden Overholser was married to James Overholser and, at some point, worked as a reporter. Later in life, she taught English and African American studies and served as dean at Saint Andrew's Presbyterian College in Laurinburg, N.C. From the description of Grace McSpadden Overholser papers, 1971-1972 and undated. WorldCat record id: 713023220 Before her marriage to Dub White, Grace McSpadden Overholser was married to Ja...

Wright, Richard, 1908-1960

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Richard Nathaniel Wright was born September 4, 1908 near Natchez, Mississippi, to Ella Wilson Wright, a schoolteacher, and Nathan Wright, a sharecropper. The story of Richard Wright's childhood, with its harrowing episodes of abandonment by his father, his temporary consignment to an orphanage after his mother became ill, and his short-lived schooling under the harsh guardianship of his grandmother have been detailed in his autobiography, Black Boy (published in 1945 by Harper & Row)....