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Esther W. Douglass collection

 Collection
Identifier: 130
Content Description This collection consists of photocopies of materials in the Michigan Historical Collections at the University of Michigan. Esther W. Douglass was a teacher and missionary for the American Missionary Association in Virginia, Georgia, North and South Carolina, and Tennessee for 31 years. Included in the collection are 22 outgoing letters to family members, 32 incoming letters from her family and such persons as Booker T. Washington and Billy Sunday. Also present is the biography written by her...
Dates: Other: 1865-1915

Esther W. Douglass papers

 Collection — Container: small collections
Identifier: 2473
Scope and Contents The papers of Esther W. Douglass contain outgoing correspondence and a bound volume containing her life reminiscences written for a family member. They detail her work as a teacher and missionary with the American Missionary Association from 1865 to 1895 in Virginia, Georgia, Tennessee, North Carolina, and South Carolina. The correspondence consists of nine letters and fragments of seven additional letters written by Douglass while in Oaks, North Carolina. Most are addressed to...
Dates: Created: 1887-1909; Other: Date acquired: 01/01/1984

Harlan Paul Douglass papers

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Identifier: 131
Content Description The Harlan Paul Douglass papers consists of approximately 400 items, 3 reels of microfilm, and 4 volumes. The papers include correspondence; clippings; biographical data; family histories by Douglass' mother, Maria Greene Douglass, and father, Truman Orville Douglass; photographs; wills; honors and tributes; an appreciation book; writings; and a scrapbook. The items relate to Douglass' school days, his career with the American Missionary Association and his retirement. Included among the...
Dates: Other: 1889-1966

Dunn-Landry Family papers

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Identifier: 138
Scope and Contents The Dunn-Landry Family Papers encompass 14 linear feet of material covering subject areas of civil rights, African American education, ministerial work, historically black colleges and universities, Louisiana politics and race relations.The collection is arranged into nine series of personal and professional materials. The bulk of the papers are professional in nature with some personal correspondence. The strength of the collection is national and local civic activities, civil rights ...
Dates: Created: 1872-2003; Other: Majority of material found in 1916 -1992; Other: Date acquired: 01/01/1984

Anna Marie Hansen Jamison papers

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Identifier: 196
Content Description The Anna Marie Hansen Jamison papers include correspondence (1919-1972) with students and colleagues of the various American Missionary Association schools in which Jamison taught. Among these schools and colleges were Chandler Normal in Lexington, Kentucky; Ballard Normal School in Macon, Georgia; Tillotson College in Austin, Texas; Tougaloo College in Tougaloo, Mississippi; and Straight University/Dillard University in New Orleans, Louisiana. Other items include greeting cards, news...
Dates: Other: 1919-1972

Marr-McGee Family papers

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Identifier: 246
Scope and Contents The Marr-McGee Family papers document the lives of writer, photographer, and cultural promoter Warren Marr II; his wife, attorney, community activist, and energy consultant Carmel Carrington Marr; and his sister, nurse, and race relations advocate Grace Marr Nugent. The key topics covered in this collection are the founding and administration of the Amistad Research Center; Black arts and theater; community development and relations; historically Black colleges and universities; human rights...
Dates: Created: 1915-2000; Other: Majority of material found in 1961-1985; Other: Date acquired: 02/01/1971

Ruth A. Morton scrapbook

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Identifier: 257
Content Description

This collection consists of a scrapbook assembled by Ruth Morton, former Director of Schools and Community Relations at the American Missionary Association. The scrapbook contains clippings, pamphlets, reports, photographs and other documents mostly related to schools and institutions throughout North Carolina, Georgia, Puerto Rico, Tennessee and Alabama.

Dates: Other: 1934-1950

John A. Rockwell Papers

 Collection
Identifier: 315
Scope and Contents The John A. Rockwell Papers consist of approximately 250 letters, dating from 1865-1867. The letters are from the period when Rockwell served as Superintendent of the American Missionary Association's (AMA) Lincoln School in Macon, Georgia, and record his efforts on behalf of the freedmen population in the area of education. The correspondence deals almost exclusively with the problems of administering and supplying a school for freedmen in the heart of the former Confederacy....
Dates: Created: 1865-1867; Other: Date acquired: 01/01/1970

Joseph E. Roy scrapbook

 Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: 2262
Scope and Contents This 153-page scrapbook is devoted primarily to the career and professional interests of Joseph Edwin Roy. Joseph Roy served as chairman of the World's Congress on Africa at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago and also as Western District Secretary for the American Missionary Association, and the scrapbook documents his career in these two capacities. Materials reflecting Joseph Roy's role as chairman of the 1893 World's Congress on Africa consist entirely of newspaper...
Dates: Created: 1891-1896; Other: Date acquired: 01/01/1970

Margaret Helen Scott papers

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Identifier: 335
Scope and Contents

The Margarett Scott papers contain correspondence, newspaper clippings primarily containing aritlces about Scott, and other collected ephemera. The papers also contain photographic slides of Talledega, Alabama. Other materials include the story of early Richland County, Wisconsin, written by Scott and published weekly in "The Richland Observer" in 1975 and, an article on Lone Rock Congregational Church in the area.

Dates: Created: 1936-1977; Other: Date acquired: 01/01/1975

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