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Adams Family papers
Collection
Identifier: 004
Content Description
The family's papers document grandfather Lewis Adams, co-founder of Tuskegee Institute, Charles P. Adams, founder of Grambling State University in Louisiana and other prominent members of the Adams family including author Chester Himes, and sociologist Joseph S. Himes. The items include a copy of the publication Today's Omaha Woman, which features an article on Charles P. Adams, III's sister and niece, JoAnne A. Lofton, and daughter Dhana Chandler. Additional materials consist of a family...
Dates:
Other: 1981-1997
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
Harrietta Harris papers
Collection
Identifier: 440
Scope and Contents
The Harrietta Harris papers provide a documentary source in the field of genealogy, home museums, and turpentine camps in Mississippi in the early twentieth century. Work conditions in such camps were often harsh and considered a form of peonage.The papers contain professional, as well as personal papers documenting Harris' life as a professor, social worker, and author and document Harris' genealogical research and devotion to save her family's history. The papers encompass 0.4...
Dates:
Created: 1845-1992; Other: Majority of material found in 1989-1992; Other: Date acquired: 11/04/1993
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
Ruth Crawford Mitchell papers
Collection
Identifier: 775
Content Description
The Ruth Crawford Mitchell papers consists of Mitchell's personal papers, including correspondence, press clippings, photographs, and collected items, as well as genealogical materials and materials related to her grandfather, Edward Parmalee Smith. Collected materials concern the centenial of Howard University in 1967. Correspondents include: Harriet G. Gilfillan, Mordecai W. Johnson, James T. Babb, Dorothy Porter, Elizabeth Tenney, William H. Armstrong, Mary Gertrude Smith, Hannah C....
Dates:
Other: 1810-1984
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
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