Author: Settle, Josiah Thomas, 1850-1915
Title: Papers, 1879-1915
Description: .5 linear ft.
Notes: Afro-American lawyer and one of the first graduates of Howard
University. Correspondence, programs, an autograph album,
a newspaper clipping, and diplomas relating to Settle's
activities at Howard University and as a member of the
Mississippi State Legislature. Correspondents include
Frederick Douglass and Oliver Otis Howard.
Subjects: Afro-American college students -- Washington (D.C.) lcsh
Afro-American legislators -- Mississippi. lcsh
Douglass, Frederick, 1817?-1895, correspondent.
Howard University. Mississippi. Legislature.
Location: Howard University, Moorland-Spingarn Research Center
(Washington, D.C.)
NIDS Fiche #: 4.72.98
NUCMC #: DCLV96-A629
Author: Sidney Hollander Foundation
Title: Records, 1941-1964
Description: 3 linear ft.
Notes: Established 1941. Chiefly records relating to the foundation's
annual award recognizing outstanding contributions toward the
achievement of equal rights and opportunities for blacks in in Maryland, including correspondence, minutes, nominations, speeches of recipients, reports,
press releases, clippings, programs, scrapbook, and recordings
of award presentations; together with clippings and articles
about Sidney Hollander, Sr. (b. 1881), for whom the foundation
was named.
Gift of Sidney Hollander, Jr.
Subjects: Afro-Americans (for all permanent residents of the United States
of black African ancestry); Maryland
Awards; Civil rights
Baltimore, Md.; Civil rights
Civil rights; 20th century; Maryland
Foundations, Charitable and educational; Maryland
Foundations; Sidney Hollander Foundation
Hollander (Sidney) Foundation, Baltimore, Md.
Hollander, Sidney, 1881-1972
Maryland; Civil rights
Race relations; Maryland
Race relations; 20th century; 1940s and after
School integration; Maryland
Sidney Hollander Foundation, Baltimore, Md.
Location: Howard University, Moorland-Spingarn Research Center
(Washington, D.C.)
NIDS Fiche #: 4.72.54
NUCMC #: MS 83-1253
Author: Simms Family
Title: Papers, 1802-1965 (bulk 1830-1930)
Description: 1 linear ft.
Notes: Afro-American residents of Washington, D.C. Biographical
information about John A. Simms, Sr., Martha Ann Simms,
John A. Simms, Jr., and John A. Simms, III; together with
materials documenting the history of the Columbian Harmony
Society, the Union Bethel A.M.E. Church, and the Metropolitan
A.M.E. Church in Washington, D.C. Also contains correspondence
of Franklin Adams and his wife, Harriet Chalmers Adams, the
first woman geographer.
Gift of James W. Jones, 1972.
Subjects: Afro-American churches -- Washington (D.C.)
Columbian Harmony Society.
Metropolitan A.M.E. Church (Washington, D.C.)
Simms, John A., b. 1830. d. 1930.
Simms, John A., 1886-1966.
Simms, Martha Ann, b. 1824.
Union Bethel Church (Washington, D.C.)
Location: Howard University, Moorland-Spingarn Research Center
(Washington, D.C.)
NIDS Fiche #: 4.72.99
NUCMC #: DCLV96-A532
Author: Slowe, Lucy Diggs, 1883-1937
Title: Papers, 1919-1943
Description: 6 linear ft.
Notes: First Dean of Women, Howard University, 1922-1937; civic leader;
previously teacher and principal in Washington public schools.
Correspondence, speeches, writings, class notes, curriculum,
administrative, and organizational material, scrapbooks,
clippings, printed matter, memorabilia, photos, and family and
other papers. Also contains organizational materials about the
Deans and Advisors of Women in Colored Schools, and the National
Association of College Women. Includes obituaries and letters
of condolence on Slowe's death.
Gift of Morgan State College, Baltimore, Md., 1966.
Location: Howard University, Moorland-Spingarn Research Center
(Washington, D.C.)
NIDS Fiche #: 4.72.100
NUCMC #: MS 83-1254
Author: Smith, Gerrit, 1797-1874
Title: Collection, 1843-1871
Description: .5 linear ft.
Notes: Printed circulars written by Smith, a noted philanthropist, social
reformer, and abolitionist, concerning women's suffrage, prison
reform, temperance, the abolitionist movement in the United States,
and the American Colonization Society.
Subjects: Abolitionists -- United States. lcsh
American Colonization Society
Anti-slavery movements -- United States.
Prison reformers -- United States. lcsh
Social reformers -- United States. lcsh
Temperance -- United States. Slavery -- United States.
Women -- Suffrage -- United States. Prisons -- United States.
Location: Howard University, Moorland-Spingarn Research Center
(Washington, D.C.)
NIDS Fiche #: 4.72.101
NUCMC #: DCLV96-A707
Author: Spaulding, Asa T. (Timothy), 1902-1990
Title: Papers, 1954-1983
Description: 1 linear ft.
Notes: Afro-American actuary and businessman; employee and president of
North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company (1933-1968).
Personal and family papers, writings and speeches, biographical
materials, honors, awards, and photographs relating chiefly to
Spaulding's career. Speeches about economics, insurance, politics,
travel, and race relations. Includes material documenting his
wife Elna Spaulding's involvement with Women-in-Action for the
Prevention of Violence and Its Causes, Inc.
Gifts of Asa T. Spaulding, 1970-1980.
Subjects: Actuaries -- North Carolina.
Afro-American executives -- North Carolina.
Afro-Americans in business -- North Carolina.
North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company.
Spaulding, Elna B. (Elna Bridgeforth)
Women-in-Action for the Prevention of Violence and Its Causes, Inc.
Location: Howard University, Moorland-Spingarn Research Center
(Washington, D.C.)
NUCMC #: DCLV96-A843
Author: Spaulding, Myra L.
Title: Papers, 1892-1922
Description: .5 linear ft.
Notes: Afro-American civil servant, educator, and researcher of Washington,
D.C. Correspondence, printed material, and other papers. Also
contains a map of Washington, D.C. indicating church locations.
Related materials filed in the repository's Prints and Photographs
Department.
Subjects: Afro-American women -- Washington (D.C.)
Location: Howard University, Moorland-Spingarn Research Center
(Washington, D.C.)
NIDS Fiche #: 4.72.102
NUCMC #: DCLV96-A531
Author: Spiller, Isabele Taliaferro, 1888-1974
Title: Papers, ca. 1906-1954
Description: 3 linear ft.
Notes: Musician, music educator of New York, N.Y. Papers relating to the
musical activities of Spiller and her husband, William N. Spiller
(1876-1944), including broadsides, programs, and photos, from their
musical group, the Musical Spillers, material relating to their
school of music, and photos documenting Mrs. Spiller's work with
various other music projects, including Federal Music Project,
Harlem Evening School, and Wadleigh High School; together with
biographical material on members of the Taliaferro and Spiller
families. See also Andy Razaf Papers.
Gifts of Mrs. Spiller, 1952-1960.
Subjects: Blacks; Cultural affairs; Music and musical affairs
Concerts; Programs
Continuing and evening education
Federal Music Project; New York, N.Y.
Harlem Evening School, New York, N.Y.
Harlem, New York; Public schools
High schools; New York, N.Y.
Music; Instruction and study; New York City
Music and musical affairs; Blacks
Music and musical affairs; Government programs
Music and musical affairs; New York, N.Y.
Musical Spillers (Musical group)
Musicians; Musical Spillers
New York City; Federal Music Project
New York City; Harlem Evening High School
New York City; Public schools
New York City; Spiller School of Music
New York City; Wadleigh High School
New York, N.Y; Cultural affairs; Music and musical affairs
New York, N.Y; Education; Musical
New York, N.Y; Education; Schools; High schools
Spiller, William N., 1876-1944
Spiller family
Spiller School of Music, New York City
Taliaferro, Isabele
Taliaferro family
Wadleigh High School, New York, N.Y.
Work Projects Administration; Federal Music Project; New York City
Location: Howard University, Moorland-Spingarn Research Center
(Washington, D.C.)
NIDS Fiche #: 4.72.103
NUCMC #: MS 83-1255
Author: Spingarn, Arthur Barnett, 1878-1971
Title: Papers, 1914-1971
Description: 13.5 linear ft.
Notes: Afro-American lawyer, scholar, and president of the National
Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Personal
papers, biographical information, legal documents,
correspondence, addresses and writings, newspaper clippings,
brochures, announcements, programs, photographs, book
reviews, and scrapbooks relating to Spingarn's legal career
and social activities in New York, and his involvement with
the NAACP. Includes materials relating to W.E.B. Du Bois,
Zora Hurston, Langston Hughes, Emmett Scott, and Walter
White. Correspondents include Du Bois and Hughes. Also
includes materials relating to the Arthur B. Spingarn
Collection of Negro Authors.
Subjects: Afro-American lawyers -- New York (State) -- New York. lcsh
Afro-Americans -- Civil rights.
Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963.
Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967.
Hurston, Zora Neale.
Legal documents. lcsh
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
Scott, Emmett J. (Emmett Jay), 1873-1957.
White, Walter, 1890?-1965.
Location: Howard University, Moorland-Spingarn Research Center
(Washington, D.C.)
NIDS Fiche #: 4.72.104
NUCMC #: DCLV96-A728
Author: Spingarn, Joel Elias, 1875-1939
Title: Papers
Description: 4 linear ft.
Notes: Scholar, author, publisher, literary critic, philanthropist, and
president of the National Association for the Advancement of
Colored People. Correspondence; bills, lists, reports, pictures
and other material on the Amenia Conference, the military training
camp for black officers in Des Moines, Iowa; NAACP papers;
constitution, declaration, and other papers of the Niagara Movement;
family correspondence; newspaper clippings; and an autograph album.
The material is related to the library's Arthur Spingarn collection.
Card index in the library.
Gift, 1957.
Subjects: Afro-Americans (for all permanent residents of the United States of
black African ancestry); Amenia Conferences
Amenia Conferences
Armed Forces; Afro-Americans
Autograph collections; Albums and books
Blacks; Organizations and societies
Camps (military); Iowa
Du Bois, William Edward Burghardt
Fort Des Moines, Iowa
Frazier, E. Franklin
Gompers, Samuel L.
Grimké, Archibald H.
Hughes, Langston
Johnson, James Weldon
Labor leaders; Gompers, Samuel L.
Mays, Benjamin
McKay, Claude
Miller, Kelly
Moton, Robert Russa
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People; history
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People;
Spingarn, Joel E., chairman of the board
Niagara Movement
Peterkin, Julia (Wood)
Scott, Emmett
Spingarn family
Terrell, Mary Church
Location: Howard University, Moorland-Spingarn Research Center
(Washington, D.C.)
NIDS Fiche #: 4.72.105
NUCMC #: MS 62-4281
Author: Starr, Frederick, 1858-1933
Title: Collection, 1906-1928
Description: .5 linear ft.
Notes: Afro-American anthropologist, college teacher, and author.
Personal papers, correspondence, documents, memorabilia,
and photographs relating chiefly to Starr's travels in
Liberia in 1912. Includes legislative acts, resolutions,
proclamations, and official expressions of support for the
Liberian government; together with materials pertaining to
the political history of Maryland County, Liberia, and the
Grebo people of West Africa.
Gift, ca. 1950.
Subjects: Afro-American anthropologists. lcsh
Afro-American authors. lcsh
Afro-American college teachers. lcsh
Liberia -- Description and travel.
Liberia -- History -- 1847-1944.
Liberia -- Politics and government -- To 1944.
Maryland County (Liberia) Grebo (African people)
Location: Howard University, Moorland-Spingarn Research Center
(Washington, D.C.)
NIDS Fiche #: 4.72.147
NUCMC #: DCLV96-A708
Author: Staupers, Mabel, 1890-1989
Title: Papers, ca. 1937-1970
Description: 1 linear ft.
Notes: Registered nurse; executive secretary and president, National
Association of Colored Graduate Nurses. Correspondence,
reports, and other papers, relating chiefly to Staupers's
efforts to integrate black nurses into the national nursing
profession. Includes material relating to the dissolution
of the National Association of Colored Graduate Nurses and
its absorption into the American Nurses Association.
Chiefly gift of Ms. Staupers, 1963.
Subjects: American Nurses' Association
Armed Forces; Afro-Americans
Blacks; Occupations; Nurses
Colleges and universities; Canada
Journalism; Journalists' papers; 19th century
National Association of Colored Graduate Nurses
Nurses; Staupers, Mabel Keaton
Nurses and nursing; Blacks
Nurses and nursing; Societies
Nursing; Societies, etc.; American Nurses Association
Nursing; Societies, etc.; National Association of Colored Graduate
Nurses
Location: Howard University, Moorland-Spingarn Research Center
(Washington, D.C.)
NIDS Fiche #: 4.72.106
NUCMC #: MS 83-1256
Author: Stewart, Ollie Anderson, 1906-1977
Title: Papers, 1953-1977
Description: 1/4 linear ft.
Notes: Journalist. The first African American war correspondent
to go abroad during World War II. A prolific writer, he
worked for the Afro-American Newspapers, Baltimore,
Maryland. Beginning in 1941 he sent regular columns
covering the African, French, Italian, and German
sectors of the war. His coverage included that of the
all-Black 99th Pursuit Squadron.
After
the war ended, Stewart returned to the United
States. He remained only until 1949 when, because of
his intense dislike of discrimination as well as his
disillusionment with the state of race relations at
home, he returned to Europe and lived in Paris for over
25 years. Stewart continued to contribute to the
Afro-American, but also became a freelance writer.
His
last major project was a biography on the life and
career of his friend Josephine Baker. The collection
contains correspondence from Baker.
Notable among the correspondents from whom he solicited
information was Mercer Cook.
Beginning in 1964 Stewart waged a heated written
trans-Atlantic battle with the Social Security
Administration office in Baltimore to gain what he
believed to be his rightful benefits. It was not until
1969 that the matter was resolved in his favor with a
back payment along with regular monthly checks.
The
papers were transferred to MSRC by a brother
Dr. James W. Stewart in 1977-78.
Location: Howard
University, Moorland-Spingarn Research Center
(Washington, D.C.)
Author: Stewart-Flippin Family
Title: Papers, 1852-1974
Description: 20 linear ft.
Notes: Correspondence and other papers of two black families. Principal
persons represented include T. McCants Stewart (1854-1923),
lawyer, of New York and Brooklyn, N.Y., Honolulu, Hawaii, and
Liberia, England, and the Virgin Islands, and for several years
associate justice of Liberian Supreme Court; his son, McCants
Stewart (1877-1919), lawyer, of Portland, Or.; and Robert
Browning Flippin (1903-1963), McCants Stewart's son-in-law, a
correctional counselor at San Quentin Prison (Calif.), reporter
for the San Francisco Chronicle, and founder, editor, and
publisher of the Spokesman, a black weekly newspaper in San
Francisco. Flippin's papers include material relating to his
work with NAACP, Council for Civic Unity, and Booker T.
Washington Community Center.
Also includes papers of their descendants in Minnesota, Nebraska,
Oregon, California, and Hawaii. Genealogical charts and
biographical notes about family members.
Gift of Katherine (Stewart) Flippin, wife of Robert B. Flippin,
1967.
Subjects: Afro-Americans (for all permanent residents of the United States
of black African ancestry); California Afro-Americans (for all
permanent residents of the United States of black African
ancestry); Hawaii
Afro-Americans (for all permanent residents of the United States
of black African ancestry); Minnesota
Afro-Americans (for all permanent residents of the United States
of black African ancestry); Nebraska
Afro-Americans (for all permanent residents of the United States
of black African ancestry); Oregon
Bay Area Council Against Segregation and Discrimination, California
Blacks; California
Blacks; Mass communication; Newspapers and journalism
Booker T. Washington Center; San Francisco, Calif.
Booker T. Washington Community Center, San Francisco, California
Brooklyn, N.Y; Legal affairs; Lawyers' and judges' papers
California; Legal affairs; Prisoners and prisons
California; Mass communications; Newspapers, periodicals and
journalism
California; Population elements; Blacks
The Chronicle (Newspaper); San Francisco, Calif.
Community centers; California
Council for Civic Unity
Counseling; Prisoners
Courts; 19th and 20th centuries; Liberia
Educators; Lai, Carlotta (Stewart)
Flippin, George A.
Flippin, Robert Browning, 1903-1963
Flippin family
Genealogy; Flippin family
Genealogy; Stewart family
Great Britain; Legal affairs
Hawaii; Legal affairs; Law practice
Honolulu, Hawaii; Lawyers' and judges' papers
Journalism; Blacks
Lai, Carlotta (Stewart)
Lawyers; Stewart, McCants
Lawyers; Stewart, Thomas McCants
Liberia; Legal affairs
Liberia; Legal affairs; Supreme Court
Liberia; Supreme Court; Stewart, Thomas McCants, associate justice
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People;
California
New York, N.Y; Legal affairs; Lawyers' and judges' papers
Newspapers; California
Oregon; Legal affairs; Lawyers' and judges' papers
Physicians; Flippin, George A.
Portland, Oreg.; Legal affairs; Lawyers' and judges' papers
Prisoners and prisons; California; San Quentin
Prisoners and prisons; Counseling
San Francisco Chronicle (Newspaper)
San Francisco, California; Booker T. Washington Community Center
San Francisco, Calif.; Mass communication; Newspapers and journalism
San Francisco, Calif.; Population elements; Blacks
San Quentin State Prison (Calif.)
San Quentin Prison, California; Flippin, Robert B., correctional
counselor
Segregation
Spokesman, San Francisco, Calif. (Newspaper)
Stewart, McCants, 1877-1919
Stewart, Mary (Weir)
Stewart, Thomas McCants, 1854-1923
Stewart family
Stromsburg, Nebraska
Virgin Islands, U.S; Legal affairs; Lawyer' and judges' papers
War work
Washington (Booker T.) Community Center, San Francisco, Calif.
Location: Howard University, Moorland-Spingarn Research Center
(Washington, D.C.)
NIDS Fiche #: 4.72.107
NUCMC #: MS 83-1257
Author: Storer College, Harpers Ferry, W.Va.
Title: Collection, ca. 1917-1955
Description: .5 linear ft. (ca. 40 items)
Notes: Periodicals, brochures, a list of students, and clippings relating
to Storer College, the first higher educational institution for
Afro-Americans in West Virginia, founded at Harpers Ferry in 1867;
together with forms, lists, notes, and correspondence concerning
the Washington, D.C. chapter of the Storer College Alumni
Association and a fund raising campaign.
Gift of the family of Reed Stokes.
Subjects: Afro-American college students -- West Virginia -- Harpers Ferry.
Afro-American universities and colleges -- West Virginia -- Harpers
Ferry.
Educational fund raising -- West Virginia -- Harpers Ferry. Storer
College.
Storer College -- Alumni and alumnae.
Storer College. Alumni Association. Washington, D.C. Chapter
Location: Howard University, Moorland-Spingarn Research Center
(Washington, D.C.)
NIDS Fiche #: 4.72.108
NUCMC #: DCLV96-A626
Author: Strong, Edward E., 1914-1957
Title: Papers, 1924-1956 (bulk 1937-1956)
Description: 3 linear feet
Notes: Afro-American youth organizer. Personal and family papers,
correspondence, writings, biographical materials, documents
concerning organizations with which Strong was affiliated,
and photographs. Includes materials relating to the Communist
Party, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored
People, the National Negro Congress, and the Southern Negro
Youth Congress; together with writings by Strong's wife,
Augusta Jackson Strong, and his associates, Esther V. Cooper
and James E. Jackson.
Gifts of Denise Strong Janha, 1986 and Phillis Strong McKenzie,
1989.
Subjects: Afro-American Communists. lcsh
Afro-American youth -- Societies, etc.
Afro-Americans -- Civil rights.
Afro-Americans -- Societies, etc.
Communist Party of the United States of America.
Cooper, Esther V.
Jackson, James E., 1914-
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
National Negro Congress (U.S.)
Southern Negro Youth Congress.
Strong, Augusta Jackson.
Location: Howard University, Moorland-Spingarn Research Center
(Washington, D.C.)
NUCMC #: DCLV96-A845
Author: Summers, Henry Howard, 1885-?
Title: Papers, 1896-1939
Description: 1 linear ft.
Notes: Methodist minister and educator. Programs of various African
Methodist Episcopal churches which Summers served as pastor
or guest speaker; programs and other papers of Howard
University, Oberlin College, Payne Theological Seminary, and
Wilberforce University; biography of Bishop David Henry Sims
and notes relating to his work; and other papers largely
concerned with Summers' activities as student, minister, and
educator.
Gift of the Summers family.
Subjects: African Methodist Episcopal Church
Afro-Americans (for all permanent residents of the United States of
black African ancestry); Education
Afro-Americans (for all permanent residents of the United States of
black African ancestry); Religion
Colleges and universities; Ohio
Howard University; Students; Summers, Henry Howard
Methodist churches
Methodist churches; Education; Seminaries
Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio
Oberlin College; Students; Summers, Henry Howard
Ohio; Education; Colleges and universities
Ohio; Education; Colleges and universities; Seminaries
Payne Theological Seminary
Payne Theological Seminary; Faculty; Summers, Henry Howard
Sims, David Henry
Theological seminaries; Methodist
Theological seminaries; Ohio
Wilberforce University, Wilberforce, Ohio
Location: Howard University, Moorland-Spingarn Research Center
(Washington, D.C.)
NIDS Fiche #: 4.72.109
NUCMC #: MS 62-4280
Author: Sutton, John Wesley, 1897-1978
Title: Papers, 1943-1977
Description: 1/4 linear ft.
Notes: Agricultural specialist and a science instructor. He was
a protégé of and assistant to Dr. George Washington Carver
at Tuskegee Institute. Dr. Carver selected Sutton to be part
of a contingent of African American scientists to work on
cotton production in the Soviet Union. Sutton lived and worked
in the Soviet Union as an agricultural scientist from 1931 - 1938,
and was recognized by the Soviet government for his contributions.
While serving as a New York City science teacher, Sutton also
developed the Sutton Fund for Educational Development to assist
underprivileged children.
Included in the collection are Sutton’s FBI file, and newspaper
articles about his brother, Percy Sutton, noted New York City
attorney, businessman, and politician.
The John W. Sutton papers were acquired as a gift from John W.
Sutton in 1976.
Location: Howard University, Moorland-Spingarn Research Center
(Washington, D.C.)
Author: Swanson, Gregory H., 1924-
Title: Papers, 1942-1956 (bulk 1950-1951)
Description: 1.5 linear ft.
Notes: Afro-American lawyer and first black student to matriculate from the
University of Virginia. Personal papers, correspondence, and
materials relating to Swanson's lawsuit against the University of
Virginia for admission to its law school in 1950; together with
printed materials concerning Howard University and the University
of Virginia.
Subjects: Afro-American law students -- Virginia. lcsh
Afro-American lawyers -- Virginia. lcsh
Segregation in higher education -- Virginia.
Swanson, Gregory H., 1924- -- Trials, litigation, etc.
University of Virginia -- Trials, litigation, etc.
University of Virginia.
Location: Howard University, Moorland-Spingarn Research Center
(Washington, D.C.)
NIDS Fiche #: 4.72.110
NUCMC #: DCLV96-A557
Author: Tappan, Lewis, 1788-1873
Title: Collection, 1847-1860
Description: 1.5 linear ft.
Notes: Abolitionist. Scrapbooks of newspaper clippings and other printed
matter relating to slavery and the anti-slavery movement, with
notes by Tappan. Includes 2 ms. catalogs of books and pamphlets
pertaining to the anti-slavery movement (one dated 1851) and
scrapbook of pious resolutions. Includes materials concerning
the Free Soil Conventions of 1848 and 1852, and the National
Liberty Convention of 1847.
Gift of Mr. Tappan, 1873.
Subjects: Abolitionists; Tappan, Lewis
Bibliography; Antislavery movement
Buffalo, New York; National Liberty Convention, 1847
Free Soil Conventions; 1848
Free Soil Conventions; 1852
National Liberty Conventions; 1847
Slavery and slaves; Antislavery movements; 19th century; 1840s and
after
Slavery in the United States; Anti-slavery movements
Location: Howard University, Moorland-Spingarn Research Center
(Washington, D.C.)
NIDS Fiche #: 4.72.111
NUCMC #: MS 83-1258
Author: Terrell, Mary Church, 1863-1954
Title: Papers, 1888-1976
Description: 17 linear ft.
Notes: Lecturer, author, civil rights activist. Correspondence, clippings,
newspaper articles, pamphlets, broadsides, and other printed matter,
and other papers chiefly relating to the National Association of
Colored Women, of which Mrs. Terrell was first national president.
Documents Terrell's work on behalf of women's rights, and against
racial discrimination. Consists of her writings about peace, women's
rights, black history. Also includes drafts of her autobiography,
A Colored Woman in a White World, and Phyllis Wheatley: A Pageant.
Contains numerous material relating to the Coordinating Committee for
the Enforcement of the D.C. Anti-Discrimination Contains family papers
of R. R. Church, Mrs. Terrell's husband, District of Columbia
Municipal Court Judge Robert H. Terrell, and Phyllis Terrell. Also
includes seven diaries, copies of minutes (1935-36) of the Race
Relations Federation of Churches, and letters addressed to Olivia
Davidson Washington (Mrs. Booker T. Washington) concerning the
International Council of the Women of the Darker Races.
Gift, 1958.
Location: Howard University, Moorland-Spingarn Research Center
(Washington, D.C.)
NIDS Fiche #: 4.72.112; 4.72.148
NUCMC #: MS 62-3874
Author: Thomas Jefferson Genealogical
Title: Collection, 1948
Description: .5 linear ft. (28 items)
Notes: Correspondence among Pearl M. Graham, Lucy Coles Williams, and
Dorothy Porter in 1948 concerning Graham's project, which
involved tracing the ancestry of Afro-Americans who claimed to
be direct descendants of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings,
and the acquisition of memorabilia donated by Williams;
together with articles about Afro-Americans believed to be
descendants of Jefferson, and a photograph of Mary Frances
Coles Kenny.
Subjects: Graham, Pearl M., correspondent.
Hemings, Sally.
Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826.
Kenny, Mary Frances Coles.
Porter, Dorothy Burnett, 1905-1995, correspondent.
Williams, Lucy Coles, correspondent.
Location: Howard University, Moorland-Spingarn Research Center
(Washington, D.C.)
NIDS Fiche #: 4.72.61
NUCMC #: DCLV96-A710
Author: Tibbs, LeRoy
Title: Collection, 1921-1949
Description: .5 linear ft.
Notes: Nightclub pianist, of New York, N.Y. Scrapbooks of correspondence,
telegrams, programs, clippings memorabilia, and photos, documenting
Tibbs's nightclub career and the acting career of his wife, Marie
Young Tibbs.
Gift.
Subjects: Actors and actresses; Tibbs, Marie Young
Actors, actresses and acting; 20th century
Albeville, Ignatius White, marquis d'
Blacks; Cultural affairs; Music and musical affairs
Music and musical affairs; Blacks
New York, N.Y; Business, industry and trade; Night clubs
Night clubs; New York, N.Y.
Pianists; Tibbs, LeRoy
Piano and organ music; Playing
Tibbs, Marie Young
White, Ignatius, marquis d'Albeville, 1626?-1694
Young, Marie
Location: Howard University, Moorland-Spingarn Research Center
(Washington, D.C.)
NIDS Fiche #: 4.72.113
NUCMC #: MS 83-1259
Author: Trenholm, H. (Harper) Councill, 1900-1963
Title: Papers, 1882-1964
Description: 34 linear ft.
Notes: Afro-American educator; president of Alabama State College,
Montgomery, Ala. (1925-1962). Personal and family papers,
correspondence, writings, academic essays and coursework,
materials concerning organizations with which Trenholm was
affiliated, correspondence and other documents relating to
the National Association of Teachers in Colored Schools and
the American Teachers Association, transcriptions of reports
by Alabama superintendents of education (1871-1927), printed
materials relating to Alabama State College (earlier known
during Trenholm's tenure as State Normal School for Colored
Students, State Teachers College, and Alabama State College
for Negroes), financial papers, photographs, diaries and
appointment books, and memorabilia relating chiefly to
Trenholm's academic career and his involvement with numerous
educational organizations, particularly teacher-training
institutes. Includes documents concerning the career of
Trenholm's father, George W. Trenholm, as president of the
State Normal School for Colored Students, together with
materials documenting Trenholm's work with the Alabama State
Teachers Association, the American National Red Cross, the
Association for the Study of Negro Life and History, the
Commission on Interracial Cooperation, the Elks, the Joint
Committee of the National Education Association and the American
Teachers Association, the Prince Hall Masons, the State Fair of
Alabama, and the YMCA of the USA.
Gifts of Portia L. Trenholm, 1963 and 1973.
Subjects: Afro-American college presidents -- Alabama -- Montgomery. lcsh
Afro-American college teachers -- Alabama -- Montgomery. lcsh
Afro-American freemasons -- Alabama -- Montgomery. lcsh
Afro-American teachers -- Training of -- Alabama.
Afro-Americans -- Education (Higher) -- Alabama -- Montgomery.
Afro-Americans -- Professional education -- Alabama -- Montgomery.
Alabama State College.
Alabama State College for Negroes.
Alabama State Fair.
Alabama State Teachers Association.
American National Red Cross.
American Teachers Association.
Association for the Study of Negro Life and History, Inc.
Commission on Interracial Cooperation.
Improved, Benevolent, Protective Order of Elks of the World.
Joint Committee of the National Education Association and the
American Teachers Association.
National Association of Teachers in Colored Schools (U.S.)
Normal School for Colored Students (Montgomery, Ala.)
State Teachers College (Montgomery, Ala.)
Trenholm, George W. (George Washington), d. 1925.
YMCA of the USA.
Location: Howard University, Moorland-Spingarn Research Center
(Washington, D.C.)
NUCMC #: DCLV96-A889
Author: Turner, Edward Walter, 1850-1927
Title: Papers, 1871-1926
Description: .5 linear ft.
Notes: Educator, government official, of Washington, D.C. Correspondence,
programs, reports, resolutions, memorabilia, and other papers,
documenting Turner's association with the Masons and Howard
University; personal diaries, including accounts of expenditures
and description of the unveiling ceremonies of the Lincoln statue
at Lincoln Park in Washington, 1876; and newspaper clippings on
selected individuals, events, institutions, and places.
Gift.
Subjects: Blacks; Organizations and societies
Freemasons; Turner, Edward Walter
Freemasons (Fraternal organization); Blacks
Freemasons (Fraternal organization); Washington, D.C.
Howard University; Students; Turner, Edward Walter
Howard University, Washington, D.C.
Lincoln Park, Washington, D.C.
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865; Statues
Lincoln, Abraham; Monuments and memorials; Washington, D.C.
Monuments and memorials; Lincoln, Abraham; Washington, D.C.
Parks; Washington, D.C.
Statues; Lincoln, Abraham
Teachers and teaching; Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C; Education; Teachers and teaching
Washington, D.C; Natural resources; Parks
Washington, D.C; Organizations and societies
Location: Howard University, Moorland-Spingarn Research Center
(Washington, D.C.)
NIDS Fiche #: 4.72.114
NUCMC #: MS 83-1260
Author: Turner, Henry McNeal, 1931-1915
Title: Papers, 1835-1916
Description: 1 linear ft.
Notes: Bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Church. Chiefly
biographical material on Turner and family members, manuscripts,
documents, and correspondence related to his activities in the
A.M.E. Church and as Chaplain in the U.S. Army. Addresses,
petitions, announcements, programs, memorials, newspapers,
newspaper clippings, and photos. Card index in the library.
Gift of Charlotte Lankford, 1961.
Subjects: African Methodist Episcopal Church; Clergy; Turner, Henry McNeal
Blacks; Organizations and societies
Chaplains; Military; Turner, Henry McNeal
Freemasons (Fraternal organization); Blacks
Freemasons(Fraternal organization); Washington, D.C.
Howard University, Washington, D.C.
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865; Statues
Lincoln Park, Washington, D.C.
Methodist churches
Parks; Washington, D.C.
Teachers and teaching; Washington, D.C.
Turner, Edward Walter, 1850-1927
Turner family
Washington, D.C; Education; Teachers and teaching
Washington, D.C; Natural resources; Parks
Washington, D.C; Organizations and societies
Location: Howard University, Moorland-Spingarn Research Center
(Washington, D.C.)
NIDS Fiche #: 4.72.115
NUCMC #: MS 62-4279
Author: Turner, Sara A.
Title: Collection, 1866-1901
Description: 1 linear ft. (2 v.)
Notes: Collector of black Americana. Scrapbooks containing poems, prayers,
religious anecdotes, articles, and newspaper clippings relating to
Afro-Americans, with numerous obituaries. Includes information about
the Bethel Literary and Historical Association of Washington, D.C.,
and the National Union Convention held at Philadelphia in 1866.
The repository also has photocopies and microfilm of the collection.
Subjects: Afro-Americans.
Bethel Literary and Historical Association of Washington, D.C.
National Union Convention (1866 : Philadelphia, Pa.)
Obituaries -- United States. lcsh
Location: Howard University, Moorland-Spingarn Research Center
(Washington, D.C.)
NIDS Fiche #: 4.72.116
NUCMC #: DCLV96-A651
Author: Turner, Thomas W., 1877-1978
Title: Papers, 1894-1980
Description: 9.5 linear ft.
Notes: Afro-American biologist, educator, and Catholic activist; professor,
Howard University (1913-1924) and Hampton Institute (1924-1945).
Personal papers; newspaper clippings and biographical materials;
correspondence; writings; documents relating to the Federated
Colored Catholics of the United States (FCC; later known as the
National Catholic Federation for the Promotion of Better Race
Relations), Hampton Institute, and Howard University; organizational
files; memorabilia; printed materials; and photographs relating to
Turner's academic and scientific careers, as well as his extensive
efforts on behalf of justice for Afro-Americans within the Catholic
Church. Correspondents include church officials Pietro Fumasoni-
Biondi, Michael Curley, and J. Cardinal Gibbons, and FCC officials
H.M. Smith, Eugene Clark, and George W. Conrad. Included are his
unpublished memoirs and History and Heritage of the Black Catholic.
Gifts of Thomas Wyatt Turner (1972, 1976) and Lois Broadus (1987).
Microscope removed to the repository's museum.
Subjects: Afro-American Catholics.
Afro-American college teachers -- Virginia -- Hampton. lcsh
Afro-American college teachers -- Washington (D.C.) lcsh
Afro-American scientists -- Virginia -- Hampton. lcsh
Afro-American scientists -- Washington (D.C.) lcsh
Biologists -- Virginia -- Hampton. lcsh
Biologists -- Washington (D.C.) lcsh
Clark, Eugene Augustine, b. 1883, correspondent.
Conrad, George Washington Bryant, 1867, correspondent.
Curley, Michael Joseph, 1879-1947, correspondent.
Federated Colored Catholics of the United States.
Fumasoni-Biondi, Pietro, 1872-1960, correspondent.
Gibbons, James, 1834-1921, correspondent.
Hampton Institute.
Howard University.
National Catholic Federation for the Promotion of Better Race
Relations (U.S.)
Smith, H. M., correspondent.
United States -- Race relations.
Location: Howard University, Moorland-Spingarn Research Center
(Washington, D.C.)
NIDS Fiche #: 4.72.152
NUCMC #: DCLV96-A947
Author: Tyson, James Guy, 1899-1970
Title: Papers, ca. 1907-1970
Description: 8 linear ft.
Notes: Lawyer, civic leader, and athlete, of Washington, D.C. Chiefly
photos, together with correspondence, scrapbooks, and memorabilia,
documenting Tyson's activities at Howard University, his military
service, legal career, membership in bar associations, service on
D.C. Alcoholic Beverage Control Board (1958-1970), work with
American Red Cross in New Guinea and Australia during World War II,
and particularly his participation in sports and athletic
achievements. Consists largely of photographs of sporting events.
Also contains material relating to the Pigskin Club.
Gift.
Subjects: Alcoholic Beverage Control Board; Tyson, James Guy, board member
American National Red Cross; Australia
American National Red Cross; New Guinea
American National Red Cross; Task Force; Tyson, James Guy, member
Athletics
Australia; American National Red Cross
Bar associations; Washington, D.C.
Brown v. Bar Association of District of Columbia
Commonwealth of Virginia v. George Crawford
Crawford, George
District of Columbia Bar Association
Football
Howard University; Law School
Howard University; Students; Tyson, James Guy
Howard University, Washington, D.C.
Law practice; Washington, D.C.
Lawyers; Tyson, James Guy
Liquor (Alcohol); Laws; Washington, D.C.
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
New Guinea; American National Red Cross
New Guinea; World War II
Photographs; Tyson, James Guy
Pigskin Club
Red Cross; American National Red Cross; World War II; Australia
Red Cross; American National Red Cross; World War II; New Guinea
Republican Party; Washington, D.C.
Sports
Sports; Societies, etc.; Pigskin Club
Swimming
Tuskegee Institute; History
Virginia; Commonwealth of Virginia v. George Crawford
War work; American National Red Cross
Washington, D.C; Government; Alcoholic Beverage Control Board
Washington, D.C; Legal affairs; Lawyers' and judges' papers
World War (1914-1918); Service
World War II (1939-1945); Civilian war effort; Red Cross
Location: Howard University, Moorland-Spingarn Research Center
(Washington, D.C.)
NIDS Fiche #: 4.72.117
NUCMC #: MS 83-1261
Author: United States. Adjutant-General's Office.
Title: U.S. Colored Troops in the Civil War clothing account books
collection, 1861-1865
Description: 429 items
Notes: Ledgers containing the names of Afro-American soldiers enlisted
during the Civil War, with financial information about clothing
and equipment allotted to each. These account books which
detail the debits and credits of black soldiers, as well as the
name of enlistees, places of enlistment, ranks, signatures
(usually his mark, x), type of death, prisoner status, and
discharge record. Also includes Regimental Consolidated
Morning Reports, representing daily company statistics on the
number of enlisted men and officers on duty, sick, arrested
or otherwise confined, and the number of transfers and
reenlistments.
Subjects: Account books. lcsh
Afro-American soldiers -- Registers.
United States. Army -- Afro-American troops.
United States. Army -- Equipment. United States. Army -- Uniforms.
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Participation,
Afro-American.
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Equipment and
supplies.
Location: Howard University, Moorland-Spingarn Research Center
(Washington, D.C.)
NIDS Fiche #: 4.72.149
NUCMC #: DCLV96-A738
Author: Van Vechten, Carl, 1880-1964
Title: Collection, 1920-1950s (bulk 1940-1949)
Description: 2.5 linear ft.
Notes: American author, fine arts critic, photographer, bibliophile, and
philanthropist. Catalogs, programs, announcements, and
invitations documenting Afro-American participation in the visual
arts, dance, drama, music, and literature. Includes materials
relating to noted artists Richmond Barthâe, Romare Bearden,
Lois Mailou Jones, Jacob Lawrence, Horace Pippin, and Hale Woodruff;
dancers Josephine Baker, Janet Collins, Katherine Dunham, and
Moncion Francisco; the drama companies Washington Repertory Players,
American Negro Theatre, Rose McClendon Players, Krigwa Players,
Gilpin Players, Karamu House, Howard University Players, and Dillard
University Players Guild; musicians Louis Armstrong, Carol Brice,
Billie Holiday, and Dorothy Maynor; and the writer Langston Hughes.
Gift of Carl Van Vechten, 1946.
The Rose McClendon memorial collection of photographs of celebrated
Negroes, also donated by Carl Van Vechten, is in the repository's
Prints and Photographs Department.
Subjects: Afro-American artists.
Afro-American authors.
Afro-American dancers.
Afro-American musicians.
Afro-American photographers.
Afro-American theater.
Afro-American women artists.
Afro-Americans -- Music.
Afro-Americans in the performing arts.
American Negro Theatre.
Armstrong, Louis, 1900-1971.
Baker, Josephine, 1906-1975.
Barthâe, Richmond, 1901-1989.
Beardon, Romare, 1911-1988.
Brice, Carol, 1916-1985.
Collins, Janet.
Dillard University.
Dunham, Katherine.
Francisco, Moncion.
Gilpin Players.
Holiday, Billie, 1915-1959.
Howard University Players.
Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967.
Jones, Lois Mailou.
Karamu House.
Krigwa Players.
Lawrence, Jacob, 1917-
Maynor, Dorothy.
Photographers -- United States. lcsh
Pippin, Horace, 1888-1946.
Players Guild.
Programs. aat
Rose McClendon Players.
Theatrical companies -- United States.
Washington Repertory Players.
Women dancers -- United States.
Woodruff, Hale, 1900-
Location: Howard University, Moorland-Spingarn Research Center
(Washington, D.C.)
NIDS Fiche #: 4.72.150
NUCMC #: DCLV96-A702
Author: Walker, William O., 1896–1981
Title: Papers, 1915-1981
Description: 25 linear ft.
Notes: Journalist and politician. The papers present a wide range of writings that document his activities
within those two arenas. The bulk of this collection is correspondence, which spans the entire
career of Walker. They consist of information pertaining to the founding of the National
Newspaper Publishers Association, of which Walker was a co-founder, as well as,
information pertaining to state and national Republican Party activities. William O. Walker
contributed greatly to the advancement of the Black Press. His activities concerning the Black
Press are documented throughout his long career beginning in 1921 when he joined the Murray
Brothers Printing Company, in Washington D.C. Walker briefly left the newspaper industry,
then returned in 1932, when he took over the Cleveland Call & Post. Under his direction the
Call & Post developed into one of the country’s leading Black newspapers.
Author: Ware, Charles Pickard, 1840-1921
Title: Papers, ca. 1862-1907
Description: 1 linear ft.
Notes: Abolitionist and educator of Boston, MA; and civilian administrator
in the Union Army-occupied Sea Islands, South Carolina, the first
Confederate territory to be brought under Northern control.
Correspondence, plantation records, and documents relating to
Ware's work as a supervisor of freedmen on plantations at Port
Royal, South Carolina during the Civil War. Correspondents
include Edward S. Philbrick and Ware's sisters, Emma Ware and
Harriet Ware.
Gift of Caroline F. Ware, 1961.
Subjects: Afro-Americans -- Sea Islands.
Freedmen -- South Carolina -- Port Royal -- Government policy.
Philbrick, Edward Southwick, 1827-1889, correspondent.
Plantations -- South Carolina -- Port Royal. Port Royal (S.C.) --
History.
South Carolina -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865.
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Afro-Americans.
Ware, Emma Forbes, 1838-1898, correspondent.
Ware, Harriet, 1834-1920, correspondent.
Location: Howard University, Moorland-Spingarn Research Center
(Washington, D.C.)
NIDS Fiche #: 4.72.118
NUCMC #: DCLV96-A574
Author: Waring, Julius Waties, 1880-1968
Title: Papers, 1841-1964
Description: 33 linear ft.
Notes: Federal judge, of South Carolina, civil rights activist; wrote
several important civil rights decisions. Correspondence of
Waring and his second wife, Elizabeth Avery Waring, and writings,
legal case files, organizational material, photos, and 72
scrapbooks of clippings relating to Waring's rulings in civil
rights cases in South Carolina and his career as a federal
district judge, 1942-1952, and to civil rights activities of the
time; together with transcript of interview by Columbia
University's Oral History Office and other biographical material.
Gift.
Subjects: Afro-Americans (for all permanent residents of the United States of
black African ancestry); Education; South Carolina
Afro-Americans (for all permanent residents of the United States of
black African ancestry); Politics and suffrage
Avery, Elizabeth
Baldwin, James
Brown v. Baskin
Civil rights
Civil rights; 20th century
Civil rights workers; Waring, Elizabeth (Avery)
Civil rights workers; Waring, Julius Waties
Clarendon, South Carolina
Communism
Elmore v. Rice
Equal pay for equal work
Hate mail
Judges; 20th century; South Carolina
King, Martin Luther, Jr.
Ku Klux Klan
Lawyers; Waring, Julius Waties
Mays, Benjamin
Naturalization
Oral histories; Waring, Julius Waties
Rowan, Carl T.
Segregation
South Carolina; Civil rights
South Carolina; Legal affairs; Lawyers' and judges' papers;
19th and 20th centuries
Suffrage
United States District Court; South Carolina (eastern district);
Waring, Julius Waties, judge
Waring, Elizabeth Avery (b. Elizabeth Avery)
Wrighten, John H.
Wrighten v. Board of Trustees of South Carolina
Location: Howard University, Moorland-Spingarn Research Center
(Washington, D.C.)
NIDS Fiche #: 4.72.119
NUCMC #: MS 83-1263
Author: Waring, Walter E., 1896-197?
Title: Papers, 1870-1973 (bulk 1915-1973).
Description: ca. 2 linear ft.
Notes: Educator and writer, of Pennsylvania; d. ca.
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). Topics include Walter Waring's
activities as a writer, a teacher in the Philadelphia Public
School District, and a French teacher at Lincoln University
in Pennsylvania.
Donated by Nora (Walter Waring's sister), 1978.
Access restricted in part.
Finding aid in the repository.
Subjects: Afro-American authors -- Pennsylvania. lcsh
Afro-American college teachers -- Pennsylvania.
lcsh
Afro-American lawyers -- Maryland -- Baltimore.
lcsh
Afro-American poets -- Pennsylvania. lcsh
Afro-American teachers -- Pennsylvania --
Philadelphia. lcsh
French teachers -- Pennsylvania. lcsh
Portrait painters -- Pennsylvania. lcsh
Diplomas -- United States. aat
Essays. lcsh
Afro-Americans.
Afro-Americans -- Travel.
Greek letter societies -- United States.
Portrait painting, American.
Practice of law -- Maryland -- Baltimore.
Paul, Lucille -- Correspondence.
Waring family.
Warren family.
Afro-American League of Republican Clubs
(Franklin County, Ohio)
Gay Northeaster's Club.
Howard University.
Howard University. Gallery of Art.
Lincoln University (Pa.)
School District of Philadelphia.
Sigma Pi Phi.
Boule journal.
Philadelphia inquirer.
Other authors: Waring, Everett J., 1859-1914.
Waring, Laura Wheeler, 1887-1948.
Location: Howard University, Moorland-Spingarn Research
Center (Washington, D.C.) (Collection 180).
Control No.: DCLV98-A3681
Author: Washington, Booker Taliaferro, 1856-1915
Title: Collection, 1885-1914
Description: .5 linear ft.
Notes: Afro-American educator, social reformer, and president of Tuskegee
Institute, Alabama. Letters written by Washington; together with
three ms. articles about Washington written by Ruth Rugby.
Correspondents include George Washington Cable, Louis C. Cramton,
and Judson Lyons.
Subjects: Afro-American college presidents -- Alabama -- Tuskegee. lcsh
Cable, George Washington, 1844-1925, correspondent.
Cramton, Louis C. (Louis Convers), b. 1875, correspondent.
Lyons, Judson Whitlocke, 1860-1924, correspondent.
Rugby, Ruth.
Location: Howard University, Moorland-Spingarn Research Center
(Washington, D.C.)
NIDS Fiche #: 4.72.120
NUCMC #: DCLV96-A711
Author: Washington Conservatory of Music, Washington, D.C.
Title: Records, 1887-1966
Description: 26 linear ft.
Notes: Founded 1903 by Harriet Gibbs Marshall (1869-1941) and black
musicians; closed 1960. Correspondence; organizational and
administrative records; student, teacher, veteran, and
financial records; sheet music, periodicals, programs,
clippings, scrapbooks, and photos; biographical information
on black musicians; papers of persons associated with the
conservatory; and other records. Includes extensive
correspondence with prominent black musicians, intellectuals,
and public figures, in the early years of the school;
correspondence of Harriet Gibbs Marshall relating to her book,
The Story of Haiti (1930), and other information on Haiti;
biographical information on Marshall; correspondence (in French
and English) of Napoleon B. Marshall (d. 1933), U.S. Army officer,
relating to his academic activities and military tenure in Haiti;
and records of National Negro Music Centre, founded by Marshall in
1937, and National Association of Negro Musicians. Other persons
represented include Victoria Josephine Muse (d. 1960). Gift of
Geneva Turner, president of board of trustees, 1960 and 1967.
Also includes Conservatory correspondence, financial papers, legal
files, school proceedings, teacher reports, student records,
notebooks, scrapbooks, artifacts, programs, photographs, and printed
material.
Location: Howard University, Moorland-Spingarn Research Center
(Washington, D.C.)
NIDS Fiche #: 4.72.121
NUCMC #: MS 83-1264
Author: Waters, Enoch P., 1909-1987
Title: Papers, 1924-1988
Description: 6 linear ft.
Notes: Afro-American journalist, foreign correspondent, and editor;
d. 1987. Personal papers, correspondence, writings,
printed materials, photographs, and memorabilia. Includes
news articles and reports written for the Associated Negro
Press concerning African independence movements in the early
1960's, press releases for the Equal Employment Opportunity
Commission in 1968, and materials prepared between 1965 and
1968 when Waters served as United Nations foreign correspondent
in Africa for the Continental Press Service.
Gift of George D. Monroe, 1993.
Subjects: Africa -- Politics and government -- 1960-
Afro-American journalists. lcsh
Afro-Americans -- Employment.
Afro-Americans in the newspaper industry.
Anti-imperialist movements -- Africa.
Associated Negro Press.
Continental Press.
Foreign correspondents -- Africa. lcsh
Newspaper editors. lcsh
United States. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
Location: Howard University, Moorland-Spingarn Research Center
(Washington, D.C.)
NUCMC #: DCLV96-A846
Author: West, Charles, 1868-1935
Title: Papers, ca. 1880-ca. 1920
Description: .5 linear ft.
Notes: Afro-American physician and professor of anatomy at Howard
University. Personal papers, printed materials, newsclippings,
and a photograph album in two sections. The first part relates
to West's travels around the world with the U.S. Navy (1887-1891),
and includes photographs of his ship, the Enterprise, along with
historic landmarks. The second section documents the early history
of the Freedmen's Hospital in Washington, D.C. and the Howard
University Medical School, and includes photographs of students
attending anatomy classes and faculty members.
Gift of Marea Ogle, 1973, 1975.
Subjects: Afro-American college students -- Washington (D.C.) -- Photographs.
Afro-American college teachers -- Washington (D.C.) lcsh
Afro-American college teachers -- Washington (D.C.) -- Photographs.
Afro-American physicians -- Washington (D.C.) lcsh
Afro-American sailors. lcsh
Anatomists -- Washington (D.C.) lcsh
Anatomy -- Study and teaching -- Washington (D.C.)
Freedmen's Hospital (Washington, D.C.)
Howard University. Medical College.
Medical colleges -- Washington (D.C.) -- Faculty.
Medical students -- Washington (D.C.) -- Photographs.
Navy -- Afro-Americans. Enterprise (Ship : 1874-1909)
Photograph albums. lcsh
Photographs. lcsh
Voyages and travels. United States.
Location: Howard University, Moorland-Spingarn Research Center
(Washington, D.C.)
NIDS Fiche #: 4.72.122
NUCMC #: DCLV96-A575
Author: Whipper, Leigh R., 1877-1975
Title: Papers, 1852-1965
Description: 3.5 linear ft.
Notes: Afro-American actor, playwright, and founder of Negro Actors Guild.
Personal and family papers, correspondence, printed material,
biographical information, photographs, and programs relating
chiefly to Afro-American entertainers; together with legal
documents belonging to Whipper's father, William J. Whipper.
Includes material about the Negro Actors Guild of America and
the Screen Actors Guild.
Gift of Leigh R. Whipper, 1952-1953.
Subjects: Afro-American actors. lcsh
Afro-American dramatists. lcsh
Afro-American entertainers.
Afro-American motion pictures actors and actresses.
Negro Actors Guild of America.
Screen Actors Guild.
Trade-unions -- Actors -- United States.
Trade-unions -- Afro-American membership.
Whipper, William J., 1852-1906.
Location: Howard University, Moorland-Spingarn Research Center
(Washington, D.C.)
NIDS Fiche #: 4.72.123
NUCMC #: DCLV96-A581
Author: White, Jacob C.
Title: Collection, 1857-1914
Description: 2 linear ft.
Notes: Educator and Negro leader. Correspondence and memorabilia.
Comprised mostly of correspondence relating to political
and social issues in Philadelphia. Also includes material
about the Robert Vaux School. Correspondents include Jonathan
C. Gibbs, Richard T. Greener, Chester T. Morris, William
Nesbit, and George B. Vashon. Card index in the library.
Gift, 1958.
Location: Howard University, Moorland-Spingarn Research Center
(Washington, D.C.)
NIDS Fiche #: 4.72.124
NUCMC #: MS 62-4278
Author: Williams, Daniel Hale, 1856-1931
Title: Collection, 1803-1970
Description: 11.5 linear ft.
Notes: Photocopies of originals in: National Archives and Records Service,
Washington, D.C. Surgeon; founder of Provident Hospital, Chicago,
Ill.; first surgeon to successfully perform heart surgery. Papers
of and about Williams collected by Helen Buckler in preparation of
the biography, Doctor Dan: Pioneer in American Surgery (1954),
revised as Daniel Hale Williams: Negro Surgeon (1968); together
with Buckler's correspondence relating to the book, research notes,
and drafts. Collected papers include copies of Williams's
correspondence, transcripts of congressional testimony regarding his
tenure as chief surgeon at Freedmen's Hospital, Washington, D.C.,
clippings, and photos. Research notes include genealogical material
relating to the Williams-Price Family. Also contains copies of
correspondence of Williams, Alice D. Johnson, Booker T. Washington,
and Emmett J. Scott.
Gift of Mrs. Buckler, ca. 1954.
Subjects: Afro-Americans (for all permanent residents of the United States of
black African ancestry); Physicians
Blacks; Medical affairs; Hospitals; Physicians
Bontemps, Arna
Buckler, Helen
Chicago, Ill.; Medical affairs; Facilities; Hospitals
Cobb, W. Montague
Daniel Hale Williams: Negro Surgeon
Du Bois, William Edward Burghardt
Freedmen's Hospital, Washington, D.C.
Genealogy; Williams family
Heart; Surgery
Hospitals; Illinois
Hospitals; Washington, D.C.
Kenney, John A.
Physicians; Afro-Americans
Physicians; Williams, Daniel Hale
Provident Hospital, Chicago, III
Roberts, Carl Glennis
Scott, Emmett
Surgeons
Surgery; Heart
United States; Congress; Investigations
Washington, Booker Taliaferro
Washington, D.C.; Hospitals; Freedmen's Hospital
Washington, D.C; Medical affairs; Hospitals
Williams, Alice Darling Johnson
Location: Howard University, Moorland-Spingarn Research Center
(Washington, D.C.)
NIDS Fiche #: 4.72.125
NUCMC #: MS 83-1265
Author: Woodson, Carter Godwin, 1875-1950
Title: Papers, 1922-1941
Description: .5 linear ft.
Notes: Educator, historian, and founder of the Association for the Study
of Negro Life and History. Chiefly correspondence between Woodson
and his sister, Bessie W. Yancey, and with business correspondents,
concerning the purchase and upkeep of a house in Huntington, W. Va.;
together with statements, clippings, and other papers, relating
to black life and history.
Gift.
Subjects: Afro-Americans (for all permanent residents of the United States of
black African ancestry); History
Afro-Americans (for all permanent residents of the United States of
black African ancestry); Societies, etc.
Association for the Study of Negro Life and History
Blacks; History
Historians; Papers; 20th century
History; Societies; Association for the Study of Negro Life and
History
Howard University; Faculty; Woodson, Carter G.
Huntington, W. Va.
West Virginia; Family and personal papers
Woodson, Bessie
Woodson family
Yancey, Bessie Woodson, b. 1882 (b. Bessie Woodson)
Location: Howard University, Moorland-Spingarn Research Center
(Washington, D.C.)
NIDS Fiche #: 4.72.126
NUCMC #: MS 83-1266
Author: Works Progress Administration
Title: Collection, 1934-1951
Description: 8 linear ft.
Notes: Chiefly transcripts (typewritten). Records from the office of
Alfred Edgar Smith, Jr. (b. 1903), administrative assistant
and race relations officer, 1934-1943, relating chiefly to
the status and participation of blacks in the WPA; and other
correspondence and writings of Smith. Bulk of the collection
consists of letters to WPA administrators including Smith and
Harry L. Hopkins, and to President and Mrs. Roosevelt. Other
material includes WPA press releases, annual and monthly reports,
other statistical data, writings by Smith on blacks and relief,
unemployment, and other topics, and letters to Smith while a
correspondent and columnist for the Chicago Defender.
Also contains correspondence to Charlie Cherokee, Alfred
Smith's pseudonym for his columns in the Chicago Defender.
Gift of Mr. Smith, 1960.
Subjects: 'Adventures in Race Relations'
Afro-Americans (for all permanent residents of the United States of
black African ancestry); Employment
Blacks; Charitable and social work; Public welfare
Blacks; Employment and unemployment
Blacks; Mass communication; Newspapers and journalism
Blacks; New Deal period
Chicago Defender, Ill. (Newspaper)
Defender, Chicago, Ill. (Newspaper)
'Grapevine'
Hopkins, Harry, 1890-1946 (b. Harry Lloyd Hopkins)
Journalism; Blacks
Negro Press Digest
New Deal; Blacks
Newspapers; Illinois
Newspapers; Sections, columns, etc.; 'Adventures in Race Relations'
Newspapers; Sections, columns, etc.; 'Grapevine'
Public welfare; Blacks
Race relations; 20th century; 1930s and after
Roosevelt, Eleanor, 1884-1962 (b. Anna Eleanor Roosevelt);
Letters to
Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945; Letters to
Smith, Alfred Edgar, b. 1903
Unemployed and unemployment; Blacks
Unemployment; Work Projects Administration
United States; Work Projects Administration; Blacks
Work Projects Administration; Records
Location: Howard University, Moorland-Spingarn Research Center
(Washington, D.C.)
NIDS Fiche #: 4.72.127
NUCMC #: MS 83-1262
Author: Wright, James Cornelius, ?1936
Title: Papers, 1899-1936
Description: 2.5 linear ft.
Notes: Teacher, of Washington, D.C. Papers relating to educational and
civic projects undertaken by Wright during his 37-year teaching
career, including a great deal of material he collected documenting
the history of black schools (particularly high schools) in
Washington. Includes correspondence from school administrators
Garnet C. Wilkerson and Roscoe C. Bruce. Also includes drafts and
published articles by Wright on history of Dunbar High School;
typescript compilation (134 p.) of information on Dunbar graduates,
1918-1927; other statistical lists on the school and its graduates;
commencement programs and year-books of Dunbar, Armstrong Manual
Training School, and Cardoza High School; 2 pamphlets on the history
of Washington's black schools (1901, 1917); and articles about Wright
and his activities.
Gift of Mary G. Hundley, 1963.
Subjects: Armstrong Manual Training School, Washington, D.C.
Blacks; Education; Schools; Washington
Cardoza High School, Washington, D.C.
Dunbar High School, Washington, D.C.; History
Education; Washington, D.C.
Educators; Wright, James C.
High schools; Washington, D.C.
Industry; Education; Washington, D.C.
Joiner, William A.
Teachers and teaching; Washington, D.C.
Terrell, Mary Church
Washington, D.C; Civic and community affairs
Washington, D.C.; Education; Blacks
Washington, D.C.; Education; History
Washington, D.C.; Education; Teachers and teaching
Washington, D.C.; Public schools; Armstrong Manual Training School
Washington, D.C.; Public schools; Cardozo High School
Washington, D.C.; Public schools; Dunbar High School
Wright, James C.
Location: Howard University, Moorland-Spingarn Research Center
(Washington, D.C.)
NIDS Fiche #: 4.72.130
NUCMC #: MS 83-1267
Author: Wright, Louis T. (Tompkins), 1895-1952
Title: Papers, 1878-1952
Description: 10 linear ft.
Notes: Afro-American physician, director of surgery at Harlem Hospital,
and chairman of the board of the National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People. Family and personal papers,
reprints of published medical articles by Wright and other
Afro-American physicians, texts of speeches and addresses,
book reviews, and printed material concerning Afro-American
physicians and Afro-American medical organizations.
Gift of Corinne Wright, 1955.
Subjects: Afro-American physicians.
Afro-American physicians -- New York (State) -- New York. lcsh
Blacks in medicine -- United States.
Medicine -- United States -- Societies, etc.
Location: Howard University, Moorland-Spingarn Research Center
(Washington, D.C.)
NIDS Fiche #: 4.72.128
NUCMC #: DCLV96-A725
Author: Writers Club, Inc.
Title: Papers, 1941-1966
Description: 2.5 linear ft.
Notes: The papers of The Writers Club, Inc. reflect the more
than twenty-five year history of an organization of
Washington, D.C. African American literati. Founded
by a small group of five local writers, the club
dedicated itself to "stimulating more creative writing
among those who have had their writings accepted by
periodicals or publishers of note."
The Writers Club, Inc. served a critical need in
providing encouragement, support, and visibility to a
group of talented and creative African Americans often
ignored by mainstream publishers and other media. In
addition, the organization presented to the public some
of the finest African American writers and scholars of
the day.
Location: Howard University, Moorland-Spingarn Research Center
(Washington, D.C.)
Author: Young, Ralph J. (Jonathan), 1893-1968
Title: Papers, 1902-1970s
Description: 6 linear ft.
Notes: Afro-American physician and civil rights leader, of Baltimore, Md.
Personal and family papers, correspondence, biographical materials,
awards and certificates, writings, and photographs relating to
Young's medical and civic work on behalf of Afro-Americans in
the East Baltimore community. Includes materials relating to
segregation in medicine, education, and recreation.
Gift of Lois Young, 1975.
Subjects: Afro-American civil rights workers -- Maryland -- Baltimore. lcsh
Afro-American physicians -- Maryland -- Baltimore. lcsh
Afro-Americans -- Civil rights -- Maryland -- Baltimore.
Afro-Americans -- Education -- Maryland -- Baltimore.
Afro-Americans -- Medical care -- Maryland -- Baltimore.
Afro-Americans -- Recreation -- Maryland -- Baltimore.
Afro-Americans -- Segregation -- Maryland -- Baltimore.
Baltimore (Md.) -- Race relations.
Location: Howard University, Moorland-Spingarn Research Center
(Washington, D.C.)
NIDS Fiche #: 4.72.129
NUCMC #: DCLV96-A576
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