African American women educators

Content Description The papers include correspondence, photographs, financial records, and collected items. One group of letters are those written by Perry from New York where she attended one of Madame C. J. Walker's schools. Also of interest are letters written from Augusta, Georgia, when she was a teacher at Haines Institute, directed by Lucy Laney. Several items of correspondence relate to her work with the Race Relations Department at Fisk University. Correspondents include Thelma Allison, Lewis Copeland,...