Correspondence: Ralph Linton, 1950

This series contains personal and business correspondence. Included are letters related to general matters and her finances and a series of personal communication between Dr. Adams and Ralph Linton, a friend and mentor who had left the Department of Anthropology at Columbia University. Correspondence between Dr. Adams and Dr. Linton make up the bulk of the materials in this series. Correspondence to Dr. Linton focuses on the politics of the anthropology department at Columbia and touches on a communist element within the anthropological community in New York City during the late 1940s. Correspondence concerning school desegregation following the United States Supreme Court decision in Brown vs. the Board of Education in 1954 can be located in folder 16.