Genealogy

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...

Content Description The Antoinette Harrell papers primarily document Harrell's career as a historian and activist, with collected files from her civil and social activities within New Orleans and Louisiana. The collection is extremely rich on the subjects of African American history in Louisiana and the Mississippi Delta; slavery reparations; and peonage in the South from the 1920s to the 1960s. The Harrell papers contain correspondence, news clippings, photographs, yearbooks, leaflets, genealogical material...

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...

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....

Scope and Contents The papers of Chicago civic and social worker and club woman Philiminia Mehelenna Phillips document her paternal family history's connection to the Zulu people of South Africa. The collection dates from 1883-1970, and includes correspondence, photographs, news clippings, family records, legal papers, certificates, programs, and collected materials. Much of the correspondence documents Phillips' efforts to document her family history and her collection of family materials....