991. LUTHER PORTER JACKSON, SR., PAPERS
ca. 20,000 items, (1772)-1910-1960
Personal, business, and academic papers
of this Afro-American historian and professor of history at Virginia State University. Among the correspondents
are John Hope Franklin, W. E. B. DuBois, Hugh Smythe, Helen
Edmonds, P. Bernard Young, E. Franklin
Frazier, Charles S. Johnson, Rayford Logan, Alrutheus
Taylor, Lorenzo J. Green, and Carter G. Woodson. In the collection are papers of
black families collected by Jackson for his work, among them the Butler,
Layton, and Wooldridge families, and an 1881-82 handwritten diary belonging to Samuel T. Miller, a
missionary in South Africa, 1881-82.
(Acc. 0052-1)