Diaries

Scope and Contents This collection consists primarily of outgoing and incoming correspondence.  Primary correspondents include John Hope, Frank S. Horne, Mary W. Ovington, William Pickens, the Rev. Adam Clayton Powell Sr., John J. Tigert, Walter White, Roy Wilkins, and Plummer Bernard Young. The correspondence is chiefly invitations to speak and letters of congratulations to Bethune after being named the recipient of the 21st Joel E. Spingarn Medal. This includes a congratulatory telegram from Herbert Hoover,...

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)...