Papers, [ca. 1869-1942].

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Papers, [ca. 1869-1942].

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Includes personal and professional correspondence, speeches, notes, photographs, and memorabilia of and relating to Watson and his wife, Hattie Louise Rutherford, to their activities as educators, and to their efforts to promote Afro-American culture in the United States. Also includes printed items and museum objects. Themes treated in correspondence, speeches, and articles in the collection include education of American Blacks; role of the Afro-American woman as Christian homemaker and as community leader in education; land reform (creation of farms and rental of property to poor Blacks); Afro-American business; Negro leadership of the era; Afro-American mission in Africa.

30 linear feet.

Brown University Archives, John Hay Library

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Watson, Hattie Louise Rutherford.

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