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Box 3

 Container

Contains 14 Results:

Notes on Africa: Nigeria: Zaria (Nigerians) interviews, 1962

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 2
Identifier: Folder 2
Scope and Contents

Typescript and handwritten notes. Emphases include agriculture, education, and politics.

Dates: Created: 1962

Notes on Africa: Notes on Nigeria, 1964

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 3
Identifier: Folder 3
Scope and Contents

Handwritten and typescript field notes on miscellaneous topics.

Dates: Created: 1964

Notes on civil rights in mass media, 1964-1965

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 4
Identifier: Folder 4
Scope and Contents

Includes ephemera from television program "Meet the Press". Also included is transcript from television program "The Temper of the South, 1964"; and a panel discussion "Under Discussion: Civil Rights and the Law," featuring Holmes Alexander, Ivan Allen, Jr., LeRoy Collins, James Farmer, John Lewis, and Bayard Rustin.

Dates: Created: 1964-1965

Notes on educators: Background material, 1954

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 5
Identifier: Folder 5
Scope and Contents

Includes reports and printed ephemera from the Georgia Department of Education.

Dates: Created: 1954

Notes on educators: Negro Educators, 1954

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 6
Identifier: Folder 6
Scope and Contents

Typescript interview notes. Topics include the condition of segregated schools. Notable informants include Hollis Price (president of Lemoyne College) and William Boyd (president of Georgia NAACP).

Dates: Created: 1954

Notes on educators: White educators, 1954

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 7
Identifier: Folder 7
Scope and Contents

Typescript notes from interviews regarding school inequality and potential desegregation stemming from Brown v. Board decision. Notable correspondents include Paul West (superintendent of Fulton County Schools, Georgia), William E. Morland (superintendent of schools in Houston, Texas), and Vincent McClatchey (president of the Board of Education in Atlanta, Georgia).

Dates: Created: 1954

Notes on Montgomery, Alabama:  Interviews, 1956

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 8
Identifier: Folder 8
Scope and Contents

Typed interview transcripts and observational field notes. Informants include bus drivers, cab drivers, policemen, bus passengers, and other members of the community. Collection includes surveys of African American bus passengers. These materials - and related items found in the Preston and Bonita Valien papers - are especially revealing of the types of rumors circulating in Montgomery at the time.

Dates: Created: 1956

Notes on Montgomery, Alabama: Summary of Findings, clippings, and articles, 1956-1957

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 9
Identifier: Folder 9
Scope and Contents From the Series: This series contains background material and field notes relating to her research on a wide variety of topics. The files are arranged alphabetically starting with the notes on Africa. Included are notes dealing with Nigeria, civil rights in mass media, black and white educators, the Montgomery, Alabama, Bus Boycott of 1956, the NAACP Chapter in Nashville, the Tennessee Civil Rights demonstrations of 1964 and the Caribbean island of Trinidad. Her notes on Africa include transcripts of...
Dates: Created: 1956-1957

Notes on NAACP: Nashville, Tennessee, 1952-1953

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 10
Identifier: Folder 10
Scope and Contents

Topics include Tennessee School for the Blind and Nashville radio station WSOK.

Dates: Created: 1952-1953

Notes on NAACP: Nashville, Tennessee, 1954

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 11
Identifier: Folder 11
Scope and Contents

Mostly regarding school integration attempts after Brown decision. Includes interview transcripts, observational notes, and newspaper clippings.

Dates: Created: 1954