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Dent Family papers

 Collection
Identifier: 116
Scope and Contents The Dent Family papers are comprised of the personal, professional and collected papers of Albert Walter Dent (1904-1984) and Ernestine Jessie Covington Dent (1904-2001), as well as a small amount of material related to their son, Tom Dent (1932-1996) and other family members. The collection has six series of files, three of which deal specifically with Albert W. Dent while the remainder deals with Jessie C. Dent and members of the Covington-Dent family. The correspondence (1908-1985)...
Dates: Created: 1897-1985; Other: Date acquired: 01/01/1976

Gabrielle Simon Edgcomb collection

 Collection
Identifier: 141
Content Description This collection consists of 18 audiocassettes containing oral interviews conducted by Gabrielle Simon Edgcomb with German and Jewish refugee scholars who taught at Black colleges during the 1930s and 1940s. Collection also contains one VHS cassette of a symposium entitled "A Fruitful Encounter -- German Jewish Refugee Scholars at Black Colleges" that took place at Howard University in April 1989. Panelists included Dr. Russell L. Adams, Dr. Hartmut Lehmann, and Dr. Max Ticktin, and the...
Dates: Other: 1987-1989