DAVID J. GILMER PAPERS, #4337, 1937-1945
Correspondence, writings, and other materials of Gilmer, African Methodist Episcopal Zion
minister and director of the Trinity Mission, Greensboro, North Carolina, a shelter for the
destitute in the 1930s and 1940s. The collection contains many "letters to the
editor" for publication in the Greensboro Daily News in which Gilmer discusses racism, the
treatment of mulattoes, interracial cooperation, social welfare, and other concerns about
African Americans in Greensboro (1937-1945).
Gilmer's other writings address immortality, race relations, and African-American education
(1940-1944).
