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Recordings of an oral history interview with Robert S. Browne conducted by Clifton H. Johnson. Browne was the founder of the Black Economics Research Center.

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Includes collected publications, ephemera, correspondence, and sermons of Charles M. Jones and others affiliated with the Community Church of Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Sermons by Charles M. Jones include "The Church and the Supreme Court Decision: What the Church Can Say" from May 1954, "Facing Desegregation: How Religion Helps," and "A Realistic Look at Race Relations in Chapel Hill."

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Two audiocassettes of interviews of Larney Goodkind by Clifton H. Johnson conducted in New York in February 1988. Goodkind was an agent for writers and performing artists. Among the artists who were his clients and about whom he talked during the interviews were Leontyne Price, William Warfield, Ben Radin, and William Steig.

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This small oral history collection provides a portrait of Dr. Clifton H. Johnson historian, American Missionary Association scholar, and founder of the Amistad Research Center in New Orleans. The interview was done with Dr. Johnson in Eugene, Oregon by Librarian and Curator, Rebecca Hankins of the Cushing Library at the Texas A & M University in 2007. A partial transcript of the interview is also available.

Content Description The collection has been divided into four series of correspondence, which includes sub-series for both personal (1944-2003) and professional (1952-2003) correspondence, organizational materials (1985-2003), writings by Dr. Johnson (1993-2001, n.d.) and collected items and oversized materials (1945-2003) including awards, certificates, clippings and ephemera.The collection mainly consists of professional papers, with the bulk documenting the activities of organizations with which...

Content Description In December 1927, the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Memorial, part of the Rockefeller Foundation, sponsored a "Negro Problems Conference" at Yale University. It was attended by an impressive group of Black and White leaders in education, economics, race relations, and religion. Those invited included John Hope, Mordecai Johnson, C.C. Spaulding, Thomas Elsa Jones, Channing Tobias, A. Philip Randolph, Robert E. Jones, Charles S. Johnson, George Edmund Haynes, Eugene Knickle Jones, Arthur Spingarn,...

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The collection includes a typewritten transcript of an interview with George Owens conducted by Clifton H. Johnson in Jackson, Mississippi, in November 2000. Owens discusses his tenure in the army, at Talladega College, and as President of Tougaloo College. He also discusses student sit-ins, protests, and institutional affairs.

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This collection consists of a draft typescript of Samuel M. Strong's book Social Types in the Negro Community of Chicago: An Example of the Social Type Method. The draft consists of 354 leaves, which includes appendeces. The draft includes some hand script revision notes.

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This collection documents the life and career of educator and linguist Juanita V. Williamson.