ALEXANDER, Booker (1904- ) AEAO 1
Imperial Recorder of the Ancient Egyptian Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine.
Relates the history of his early years growing up in several small towns in Illinois.
Discusses his recruitment by the Masons in Detroit and his 40 year membership in Hiram
Lodge #1. Describes the initiation ceremonies and some of the customs that are typical of
the Masons and Shriners. Provides details of the connection between Masonry and Shrinedom.
Discusses differences between white and Black Shriners, charitable activities, problems
with recruitment and Shrine temples in Alaska and the Bahamas. Bound with transcript is an
abstract of Noble Alexander's June 11, 1976 interview with Dr. Thomas Battle, who was
Curator of Manuscripts at the time.
Interviewer: Elinor Des Verney Sinnette
Date: July 11, 1982
Format: Transcript, 57 pages; tape not available
Tape length:
Restrictions: Standard
DICKERSON, Eugene (1907- ) AEAO 2
Past Imperial Potentate. Recalls his childhood, adolescence, young adulthood and entry
into Masonry in Harrisonburg, Virginia. Describes differences between Masonry and
Shrinedom. Discusses his term of office and achievements. Recounts the events that led the
Shriners to deposit their archives at Moorland-Spingarn Research Center. Discusses the
importance of the Daughters of Isis.
Interviewer: Elinor Des Verney Sinnette
Date: March 21, 1984
Format: Transcript, 52 pages; tape not available
Tape length: Restrictions: Standard
DIXON, Gladys (1901- ) AEAO 4
Past Commandress, Daughters of Isis. Discusses her background, family influences,
education and forty-one year career as a teacher and later principal in the Baltimore City
public school system. Discusses her reasons for joining the Daughters of Isis and the
difference between the Daughters of Isis and the Eastern Star. Recalls the history of the
Daughters of Isis and the achievements of its Commandresses since 1942. Details the
charities it supports, its various programs, and her accomplishments while a member of the
organization, including writing the book Isis Facts and Information.
Interviewer: Elinor Des Verney Sinnette
Date: May 28, 1982
Format: Transcript, 41 pages; tape not available
Tape length:
Restrictions: Standard
ALLEN, CLIFFORD (ca. 1920- ) BMOH 1
Lieutenant Colonel, U. S. Army (Retired) One of six officers who completed training as
part of the Test Platoon of the 555th Parachute Infantry Battalion, known as the
"Triple Nickles", the first group of Black paratroopers in World War II. Recalls
his recruitment for paratrooper school, training at Fort Benning, Georgia, and the
Battalion's assignment to Oregon and northern California to thwart the Japanese threat of
incendiary bomb attacks. Also discusses smoke jumping and forest firefighting duty.
Discusses the role of the Black Press in lobbying for Black pilots, paratroopers and
combat troops. Chronicles his career after World War II.
Interviewer: John Thomas Martin
Date: July 5, 1990
Format: Cassette tape
Tape length: 60 minutes
Restrictions: Standard
BEAVERS, Clarence (1921- ) BMOH 2
One of sixteen enlisted men who completed training as part of the Test Platoon of the
555th Parachute Infantry Battalion, known as the "Triple Nickles", the first
group of Black paratroopers in World War II. Discusses enlistment in the 369th Infantry
Regiment of the National Guard in New York City, an all-Black unit; and describes its
political significance. Describes recruitment for Test Platoon, basic and advanced
paratrooper training, sleeping and eating arrangements and assignment to northwest for
smoke jumper and forest firefighter duty. Comments on problems encountered during
assignment to 555th.
Interviewer: John Thomas Martin
Date: July 6, 1990
Format: Cassette tape
Tape length: 60 minutes
Restrictions: Standard
BIGGS, Bradley (1920- ) BMOH 3
Lieutenant Colonel, U. S. Army (Retired) One of six officers who completed training as
part of the Test Platoon of the 555th Parachute Infantry Battalion, known as the
"Triple Nickles", the first group of Black paratroopers in World War II.
Chronicles the history and activities of the 555th from its activation on December 31,
1943 to its integration into the 505th as the third Battalion on November 27, 1947, under
the command of General James Gavin. Comments on the significance of General Gavin's
decision. Discusses his post-War military and civilian career.
Interviewer: John Thomas Martin
Date: July 3, 1990
Format: Cassette tape
Tape length: 90 minutes
Restrictions: Standard
BROWN, Robert A. (n.d.) BMOH 5
Former officer in the 366th all-Black Infantry Regiment which fought in Italy in World
War II. Discusses his tour of duty with the Regiment from March 1941 to its deactivation
in Italy in March 1945. Comments on the leadership of General Ned Almond, Commanding
General of the 92nd Division. Recalls a number of racist incidents that occurred while
serving in Italy.
Interviewer: John Thomas Martin
Date: October 28, 1981
Format: Transcript, 26 pages; tape not available
Tape length:
Restrictions: Standard
CHASE, Hyman Y. (1902-1983) BMOH 6
Colonel, U. S. Army (Retired) Scientist, educator and career Army officer who was
assigned to the 366th Infantry Regiment during World War II. Recalls world events leading
to the outbreak of World War II. Describes the 366th Regiment's training for combat,
stateside assignments, and garrisons in Virginia and Indiana. Details its progress,
assignments and combat performance in the European theatre of operations.
Interviewer: John Thomas Martin
Date: 1982
Format: Transcript, 21 pages; tape not available
Tape length:
Restrictions: Standard
CLARKE, Charles (n.d.) BMOH 7
Memoir of World War II veteran who served in the all-Black 366th Infantry Regiment.
Discusses his military experience.
Recorded by: John Thomas Martin
Date: April 25, 1981
Format: Transcript, 3 pages; tape not available
Tape length:
Restrictions: Standard
Bound in Narratives of World War II Veterans of the 366th Infantry Regiment, 99 pp.
CLARKE, Charles (n.d.) BMOH 8
World War II veteran who served in the 366th Infantry Regiment. Repeats most of earlier
memoir.
Interviewer: John Thomas Martin
Date: May 15, 1982
Format: Transcript, 3 pages; tape not available
Tape length:
Restrictions: Standard
Bound in Comments of 366th Infantry Veterans Attending Their 41st Reunion at Fort
Devens, Massachusetts and The Presentation of the Distinguished Service Cross to Mrs.
Arlene Fox, Widow of Lieutenant John R. Fox, 11 pp.
DABNEY, Forrest (n.d.), joint with BMOH 10
HUBBARD, Hezekiah
World War II veterans who served in the 366th Infantry Regiment, reminisce about their
military experience.
Interviewer: John Thomas Martin
Date: October 9, 1981
Format: Transcript, 12 pages; tape not available
Tape length:
Restrictions: Standard
Bound in Narratives of World War II Veterans of the 366th Infantry Regiment, 99 pp.
DRYDEN, Charles W. (1920- ) BMOH 11
Lieutenant Colonel, U. S. Air Force (Retired) One of the original members of the famed
99th Fighter Squadron trained at Tuskegee Army Air Field. Discusses his Tuskegee
experience and his combat training in North Africa. Recalls incidents of racism during
World War II, particularly the effort of "Negro" pilots to integrate the
Officers' Club at Selfridge Air Force Base, Michigan. Comments on the leadership skills of
Noel Parrish, the commander of Tuskegee Army Air Field, and Benjamin O. Davis Jr. who
commanded the 99th Fighter Squadron and later the 332nd Fighter Group. Discusses military
career up to his retirement in the early 1960s and his civilian career.
Interviewer: Elinor D. Sinnette
Date: March 17, 1982
Format: Transcript, 156 pages; tape not available
Tape length:
Restrictions: Standard
FARMER, William (n.d.) BMOH 7
Memoir of a World War II veteran who served in the 366th Infantry Regiment.
Recorded by: John Thomas Martin
Date: April 25, 1981
Format: Transcript, 3 pages; tape not available
Tape length:
Restrictions: Standard
Bound in Narratives of World War II Veterans of the 366th Infantry Regiment, 99 pp.
FRENCH, Lloyd (n.d.) BMOH 8
World War II veteran who served in the 366th Infantry Regiment. Discusses his combat duty
in Italy.
Interviewer: John Thomas Martin
Date: May 15, 1982
Format: Transcript, 5 pages; tape not available
Tape length:
Restrictions: Standard
Bound in Comments of 366th Infantry Veterans Attending Their 41st Reunion at Fort
Devens, Massachusetts and The Presentation of the Distinguished Service Cross to Mrs.
Arlene Fox, Widow of Lieutenant John R. Fox, 11 pp.
HAMILTON, West Alexander (1886-1985) BMOH 12
Colonel, U. S. Army (Retired) The senior Black officer assigned to the 366th Infantry
Regiment in 1941. Discusses the activation of the all-Black Regiment at Fort Devens,
Massachusetts and its assemblage just before the outbreak of World War II. Recalls his
later assignments as a professor of military science at various Black colleges.
Interviewer: John Thomas Martin
Date: 1982
Format: Transcript, 14 pages; tape not available
Tape length:
Restrictions: Standard
HENDERSON, Ernest, Sr. (1917- ) BMOH 13
Flight instructor at Tuskegee Army Air Field. Describes his early years in Laurens County,
South Carolina, his matriculation at Hampton Institute, his selection for the first
Civilian Pilot Training Program at Tuskegee Institute and his employment as a flight
instructor at the facility during World War II. Details the program syllabus, the
equipment, names of colleagues in the flying school and the ground crews. Chronicles his
business and educational careers after returning to South Carolina.
Interviewer: Serena L. Staggers
Dates: February 22-March 22, 1986
Format: Transcript, 81 pages; tape not available
Tape length:
Restrictions: Standard
HOGG, Richard (n.d.) BMOH 7
Memoir of a World War II veteran who served in the 366th Infantry Regiment.
Recorded by: John Thomas Martin
Date: April 25, 1981
Format: Transcript, 3 pages; tape not available
Tape length:
Restrictions: Standard
Bound in Narratives of World War II Veterans of the 366th Infantry Regiment, 99 pp.
HUBBARD, Hezekiah (n.d.), joint with BMOH 10
DABNEY, Forrest
World War II veterans who served in the 366th Infantry Regiment reminisce about their
military experience.
Interviewer: John Thomas Martin
Date: October 9, 1981
Format: Transcript, 12 pages; tape not available
Tape length:
Restrictions: Standard
Bound in Narratives of World War II Veterans of the 366th Infantry Regiment, 99 pp.
JAMISON, Thurston (n.d.) BMOH 16
Lieutenant Colonel, U. S. Army (Retired), Veteran of the 366th Infantry Regiment in World
War II. Recalls his service with the all-Black regiment in Italy. Relates incidents that
occurred during his combat duty, including the one for which Lt. John Fox was posthumously
awarded the Distinguished Service Medal. Discusses his Korean service and the changes that
he experienced after the integration of the Armed Forces in 1948.
Interviewer: Robert A. Brown
Date: April 25, 1981
Format: Transcript, 31 pages; tape not available
Tape length:
Restrictions: Standard
Bound in Narratives of World War II Veterans of the 366th Infantry Regiment, 99 pp.
LEE, Andrew (n.d.) BMOH 7
Memoir of World War II veteran who served in the 366th Infantry Regiment.
Recorded by: John Thomas Martin
Date: April 25, 1981
Format: Transcript, 3 pages; tape not available
Tape length:
Restrictions: Standard
Bound in Narratives of World War II Veterans of the 366th Infantry Regiment, 99 pp.
LEE, James Reynolds (n.d.) BMOH 17
Memoir of a World War II veteran who served with the 366th Infantry Regiment as an
officer. Includes introduction by Lieutenant Colonel Thurston E. Jamison, retired.
Recorded by: Thurston E. Jamison
Date: May 3, 1981
Format: Transcript, 3 pages; tape not available
Tape length:
Restrictions: Standard
Bound in Narratives of World War II Veterans of the 366th Infantry Regiment, 99 pp.
MARTIN, John Thomas (1920- ) BMOH 18/19
Colonel, U. S. Army, (Retired) Veteran who served with the 366th Infantry Regiment in
World War II. Provides, in memoir form, a brief introduction to and history of the
all-Black regiment. Recalls the names of several officers and enlisted men who served in
the 366th and went on to distinguished military and civilian careers. In second interview,
details his experience in the 366th. Discusses his assignments in occupied Germany, the
Korean Conflict, the Pentagon, and as Director of Selective Service for the District of
Columbia.
Interviewers: John Thomas Martin, Elinor Des Verney Sinnette
Date: May 19,1981; September 21, 1982
Format: Transcripts, 9 pages; 34 pages; tape not available
Tape length:
Restrictions: Standard
Bound in Oral Recordings of Colonel John Thomas Martin, August 1990.
MORRIS, Walter (1921- ) BMOH 2
One of sixteen enlisted men who completed training as part of the Test Platoon of the
555th Parachute Infantry Battalion, known as the "Triple Nickles". The first
group of Black paratroopers in World War II. Discusses his pre World War II military
service, the attitudes of white officers and his efforts to become a paratrooper. Details
career through separation from the service including graduation from Officers' Candidate
School.
Interviewer: John Thomas Martin
Date: July 6, 1990
Format: Cassette tape
Tape length: 60 minutes
Restrictions: Standard
PARRISH, Noel F. (1909-1987) BMOH 20
Brigadier General, U. S. Air Force Career officer. Third of four commanders of Tuskegee
Army Air Field. Describes his early life, education, military career prior to Tuskegee and
experiences that influenced his racial attitude. Comments on the quality of the flight
cadets, the content of the training program, the controversially high "wash-out"
rate, and the combat successes of program graduates. Discusses his personal opposition to
the Army Air Force's segregation policies and recalls his frustrated attempts to alleviate
them. Details problems he encountered with the Black Press, the local government and
superiors and other base commanders.
Interviewer: Woodrow W. Crockett
Date: May 1982
Format: Transcript, 128 pages; tape not available
Tape length:
Restrictions: Standard
PORTER, William E. (n.d.) BMOH 21
Memoir of a World War II veteran who served in the 366th Infantry Regiment.
Recorded by: John Thomas Martin
Date: April 25, 1981
Format: Transcript, 3 pages; tape not available
Tape length:
Restrictions: Standard
Bound in Narratives of World War II Veterans of the 366th Infantry Regiment, 99 pp.
REDDING, Samuel (n.d.) BMOH 7
Memoir of a veteran of World War II who served in the 366th Infantry Regiment.
Recorded by: John Thomas Martin
Date: April 25, 1981
Format: Transcript, 2 pages; tape not available
Tape length:
Restrictions: Standard
Bound in Narratives of World War II Veterans of the 366th Infantry Regiment, 99 pp.
ROBINSON, Thomas (n.d.), joint with BMOH 24
JAMISON, Thurston
Former Army captain who served with the 366th during World War II. Discusses combat
experience in Italian campaign. Recalls tensions between the 366th Infantry Regiment and
the 92nd Division to which it was assigned. Comments on the deactivation of the 366th and
assignment of its officers and men to the Quartermaster Corps.
Interviewer: Robert A. Brown
Date: April 25, 1981
Format: Transcript, 26 pages; tape not available
Tape length:
Restrictions: Standard
Bound in Narratives of World War II Veterans of the 366th Infantry Regiment, 99 pp.
ROSS, Samuel (n.d.) BMOH 7
Memoir of a World War II veteran who served in the 366th Infantry Regiment.
Recorded by: John Thomas Martin
Date: April 25, 1981
Format: Transcript, 3 pages; tape not available
Tape length:
Restrictions: Standard
Bound in Narratives of World War II Veterans of the 366th Infantry Regiment, 99 pp.
STEVENSON, Dudley Wardell (n.d.) BMOH 25
Colonel, U. S. Air Force (Retired) Career officer who serve with both the 99th Fighter
Squadron and the 332nd Fighter Group in World War II. Recalls experiences in training at
Chanute Air Force Base, Rantoul, Illinois and as a Communications Officer who served with
both the 99th Fighter Squadron and 332nd Fighter Group in Italy during World War II.
Discusses his post-War assignment to Lockbourne Air Force Base, Columbus, Ohio under the
command of then Colonel Benjamin O. Davis Jr.
Interviewer: John Thomas Martin
Date: August 3, 1982
Format: Transcript, 69 pages; tape not available
Tape length:
Restrictions: Standard
THOMPSON, Sidney (n.d.) BMOH 7
Memoir of a World War II veteran who served in the 366th Infantry Regiment.
Recorded by: John Thomas Martin
Date: April 25, 1981
Format: Transcript, 5 pages; tape not available
Tape length:
Restrictions: Standard
Bound in Narratives of World War II Veterans of the 366th Infantry Regiment, 99 pp.
TUCKER, Samuel W. (n.d.) BMOH 21
Memoir of a World War II veteran who served in the 366th Infantry Regiment.
Recorded by: John Thomas Martin
Date: April 25, 1981
Format: Transcript, 4 pages; tape not available
Tape length:
Restrictions: Standard
Bound in Narratives of World War II Veterans of the 366th Infantry Regiment, 99 pp.
"AMERICAN BLACKS IN AVIATION" BMOH 27
Recorded symposium held at the National Air and Space Museum February 25, 1983,
focusing on the years 1939 to 1949.
Recorded by: The National Air and Space Museum
Date: February 25, 1983
Format: Cassette tapes
Tape length: 240 minutes
Restrictions: Reproduction of tapes prohibited
DAVIS, Benjamin O., Jr. BMOH 28
Brigadier General, U. S. Army (Retired) Oral history memoir recorded for the Nonprint
Media Department of Adelphi University. Recorded by: Adelphi University, Garden City, New
York
Interviewer: J. Clay Smith
Date: March 18, 1980
Format: Cassette tape
Tape length: 90 minutes
Restrictions: Reproduction of tape prohibited
FOX, John R. ( -1944) BMOH 8
Lieutenant, U. S. Army Member of Cannon Company, 366th Infantry Regiment, 92nd Division
who was killed in combat on 26 December 1944. Recorded military ceremony in which Lt. Fox
was posthumously awarded the Distinguished Service Cross for exhibiting extraordinary
heroism against the enemy which precipitated his death.
Date: May 15, 1982
Format: Transcript, 2 pages; tape not available
Tape length:
Restrictions: Standard
Bound in Comments of 366th Infantry Veterans Attending Their 41st Reunion at Fort
Devens, Massachusetts and The Presentation of the Distinguished Service Cross to Mrs.
Arlene Fox, Widow of Lieutenant John R. Fox, 11 pp.
GRAVELY, Samuel BMOH 30
Vice Admiral, U. S. Navy (Retired) Speech recorded at the Washington Navy Yard on February
6, 1990.
Recorded by: Scott W. Baker
Date: February 6, 1990
Format: Cassette tape
Tape length: 60 minutes
Restrictions: No Duplication
"ORIGINAL BLACK MILITARY" BMOH 28
Ceremony to install the Diary of Colonel Wendell T. Derricks and the memoirs of the
Black Military Oral History Project at the Moorland-Spingarn Research Center.
Recorded by: Moorland-Spingarn Research Center
Date: March 22, 1985
Format: Cassette tapes
Tape length: 120 minutes
Restrictions: Standard
CARTER, Arthur (Art) (1911-1988) BPOH 1
Editor and publisher of the Washington Afro-American, founder and past president of
the Capital Press Club and one of the country's few Black war correspondents during World
War II. Discusses racial discrimination in journalism during the 1930s, '40s and '50s; the
effect of the civil rights movement in improving employment opportunities in the 1960s and
in contributing to the decline of the Black Press. Recalls the various positive influences
in his life. Describes his life as a war correspondent. Discusses William O. Walker of the
Cleveland Call & Post.
Interviewer: Keith Andrew Pittman
Date: November 9, 1981
Format: Transcript, 61 pages; tape not available
Tape length:
Restrictions: Standard
COLEMAN, Milton BPOH 2
Editor of the Metro section of The Washington Post. Interviewed in 1981 when he was
City editor for the paper. Discusses his life and career to that point. Chronicles his
early years, education and aspirations for a career in musicology. Recalls the events that
altered these plans and precipitated his entry into the field of journalism, explores his
motivation for moving from the Black to the white press and explains his reluctance to
advance from reporter to editor when the City editor position was offered. Comments on the
subject of racism in the newsroom, discusses the responsibility of a Black reporter/editor
to the Black community, and briefly reviews the Janet Cooke episode, placing it in
perspective.
Interviewer: Freddie A. Brown Jr.
Date: October 20, 1981
Format: Transcript, 19 pages; tape not available
Tape Length:
Restrictions: Standard
LEWIS, MATTHEW (1930- ) BPOH 3
Assistant Managing Editor of Photography, the Washington Post. Discusses his family
background, early life, education and employment before becoming a photographer.
Chronicles his efforts to work full time as a photojournalist, and the people who
influenced his work. Discusses the highlights of his career at the Post. Transcript
includes several photographs from Mr. Lewis' collection.
Interviewer: Carroll Gibbs
Date: March 1986
Format: Transcript, 42 pages; tape not available
Tape length:
Restrictions: Standard for the transcript; photographs may not be duplicated.
COLEMAN, Sarah Williamson (1899-1986) DOH 1
Missionary, teacher and counselor to senior citizens. Chronicles her genealogy,
beginning with her paternal great-grandfather who, born a slave, purchased freedom for
himself and his wife. Discusses her efforts to finance an undergraduate education and her
passionate ambition to become an African missionary in spite of her youth. Recounts her
adventures as a missionary in Liberia including sending herself back to the United States
C.O.D. Discusses her fundraising efforts on behalf of the Foreign Mission Board of the
National Baptist Convention. Transcript includes photographs of family, friends and
missionary experience.
Interviewer: E. Pauline Myers
Date: October 1984
Format: Transcript, 88 pages; tape not available
Tape length:
Restrictions: Standard
EGYPT, Ophelia Settle (1903-1984) DOH 3
Educator, sociologist, social worker, community worker, author and pioneer in oral history
research. Recalls her early childhood in Texas, adolescence in Colorado and college days
at Howard University, Washington, D. C. Discusses her several careers including her work
(1928-1933) conducting oral history interviews for Dr. Charles Johnson, a Black
sociologist at Fisk University. In 1945, a selection of these interviews was published by
the Social Science Institute at Fisk University, as Unwritten History of Slavery:
Autobiographical Accounts of Negro Ex-Slaves. Reminisces about her many friends; among
them Dr. Inabel Burns Lindsay, Sterling Brown and his wife Daisy, Langston Hughes, Richard
Wright and Glenn Carrington.
Interviewer: Elinor DesVerney Sinnette
Date: 1981-1982
Format: Transcript, 211 pages; tape not available
Tape length:
Restrictions: Standard
LINDSAY, Arnett Grant (1897- ) DOH 5
Businessman and Howard University alumnus. Discusses his early life as the son of a
Methodist minister, his efforts to escape his rigorous religious upbringing, his
matriculation at Howard Academy in 1914 and later at Howard University and the many
campus-based businesses he developed in order to finance his education. Describes campus
life during his six years at Howard which included competitions between classes, town/gown
rivalries, student strikes, and academic feuds. Reminisces about memorable professors and
other personalities who contributed to campus life of the period, such as President S. W.
Newhouse, Deans Kelly Miller and L. Baxter Moore, Professors Carl Murphy, Charles Houston,
Alain Leroy Locke, and Ernest Just. Chronicles his multi-faceted careers in finance,
newspaper publishing, academia, real estate.
Interviewer: Harold Logan
Date: December 5, 1982
Format: Transcript, 80 pages; tape not available
Tape length:
Restrictions: Standard
LINDSAY, Dr. Inabel Burns (1900-1983) DOH 6
Dean of the Howard University School of Social Work, professor, Howard alumna.
Describes student life in Washington
D. C. and on Howard's campus in the late teens when she matriculated. Discusses her return
to teach at the School of Social Work in 1937, the strained relations she encountered with
the university's Administration when she became Dean of Social Work. Also discusses her
concerns as "career woman" in the 1940s, her feelings about race relations in
the United States and her personal philosophy and early experiences with color prejudice.
Interviewer: Harold Logan
Date: June 29, 1982
Format: Transcript, 40 pages; tape not available
Tape length:
Restrictions: Standard
PARKS, Lillian Rogers (1897- ) DOH 9
Author of My Thirty Years Backstairs at the White House, which chronicled her three
decades (1929-1960) as a White House seamstress and maid. Discusses her life and times
from approximately the age of four, including many visits made to the White House while
her mother was in service there. Recalls her struggles to overcome the crippling effects
of polio, her training as a seamstress, her employment by the Hoover, Roosevelt, Truman
and Eisenhower first-families. Describes Black life in Washington in the first half of the
Twentieth century, recreating the feel of segregated life in the Capital City. Recounts
the effect of the 1919 Flu epidemic on Washington, D. C. Discusses the notoriety that
followed the publication of her autobiography and the mini-series that was adapted from
the book.
Interviewer: Marie Bourgeois
Date: May - June, 1983
Format: Transcript, 229 pages; tape not available
Tape length:
Restrictions: Standard
STAUPERS, Mabel Keaton (1890-1989) DOH 11
Nurse, medical social worker, author and Executive Secretary and later President of the
National Association of Graduate Colored Nurses (NAGCN). Recalls her personal life from
approximately the age of four. Discusses her succession of successful careers; focuses
particularly on her seventeen years of advocacy and organizing on behalf of the NAGCN.
Describes work in tuberculosis prevention and education. Comments on her several awards
and achievements. Reminisces about colleagues, family and friends.
Interviewer: Marie Bourgeois
Date: November 1982 - January 1983
Format: Transcript, 207 pages; tape not available
Tape length:
Restrictions: Standard
WILSON, Clint C., Sr. (1914- ) DOH 14
Political cartoonist and staff artist for the Los Angeles Sentinel for more than 35 years.
Describes his youth in Texas and his early efforts to draw and sketch the world around
him. Recalls the people who encouraged his talent and others who influenced his life.
Discusses his lengthy career and the various kinds of newspapers--Black, military,
student-published and religious--that printed his work. Relates his philosophy for
becoming a successful cartoonist.
Interviewer: Clint C. Wilson II
Date: October 15, 1990
Format: Transcript, 30 pages; tape not available
Tape length:
Restrictions: Standard
OPHELIA SETTLE EGYPT INSTALLATION CEREMONY DOH 12
Ceremony celebrating the official installation of the Papers of Ophelia Settle Egypt
and her oral history memoir in the Manuscript Division of the Moorland-Spingarn Research
Center. Remarks by Mr. Clifford Muse, Acting Center Director, Dr. Gerald Lucas, Director
of the Office of Civil Rights for the U. S. Department of Commerce, Dr. Elinor Sinnette,
Oral History Librarian, Lester Egypt, Mrs. Egypt's son, and Dr. Michael Winston, Vice
President for Academic Affairs, Howard University. Recorded by: Moorland-Spingarn Research
Center
Date: February 20, 1985
Format: Cassette tape
Tape length: 60 minutes
Restrictions: Standard
SINNETTE, E. D. - Ophelia S. Egypt: Oral History Pioneer DOH 13
Separately recorded remarks by Dr. Elinor DesVerney Sinnette for ceremony installing
the Ophelia Settle Egypt papers and oral history memoir. Summarizes the year long oral
history project which resulted in the transcribed interview.
Recorded by: Elinor DesVerney Sinnette
Date: February 20, 1985
Format: Cassette Tape
Tape length: 30 minutes
Restrictions: Standard
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