Jonas Odum papers, 1919-1957 (bulk 1921-1923).

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Jonas Odum papers, 1919-1957 (bulk 1921-1923).

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The collection contains the personal papers of Jonas Odum, primarily from the period 1919 to 1923. The material includes correspondence, printed material, and legal papers. The correspondence mostly concerns the collection of a loan from Mercer Addison with the help of his white half-cousin Robert Benton Odum (who was a lawyer in Newton, Georgia). Jonas Odum also received correspondence during this period from the Universal Negro Improvement Association and the Marcus Garvey Defense Fund asking for donations. There are a number of solicitation letters in the collection from various companies (probably sent to many farmers in rural Georgia during the 1920s) that include advertisements for farming products, methods to fight the boll weevil, and medicinal remedies. A small number of pamphlets published by these companies concerning the boll weevil in Georgia, Alabama, and South Carolina, and a number of cotton bale tags from the Georgia Cotton Growers Co-Operative Association are included in the collection as well. The remainder of the Odum papers contains the legal records of Jonas Odum, including his will, fire and life insurance policies, and final estate audit upon his death.

.5 linear ft. (1 box)

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Emory University. Special Collections and Archives

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Universal negro improvement association

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International black fraternal and philanthropic organization founded in 1914 by Marcus Garvey. Originally designed to promote Pan-Africanism, it later developed into a radical political organization which advocated the repatriation of blacks to Africa. From the description of Records 1921-1986. (Rhinelander District Library). WorldCat record id: 17975241 The Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League (UNIA) was founded in Jamaica on August 1, 1914...

Garvey, Marcus, 1887-1940

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Georgia Cotton Growers Co-Operative Association.

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Odum, Jonas.

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Jonas Odum, probably born October 21, 1878, was a farmer who lived in Baker County, Georgia. Born to a domestic African American mother and wealthy white landowner of the Odom family, he worked as an overseer of a large plantation in the Beech Grove area in northwest Baker County. In 1889 he married Harriet Jane Mills, with whom he had seven children: Ethel, Jonas, Ennie, Joel, Johny, Ezel, and Joktan. In 1904 his wife died in childbirth. Odum saved his money and in 1906 purchased a 250-acre far...