MORRIS RANDOLPH MITCHELL PAPERS, #3832, 1898-1976
Correspondence, writings, pictures, and other materials of Mitchell, pacifist and educator
who founded Macedonia Cooperative Community (Clarkesville, Georgia) in the 1940s; served as
director of the Putney Grange Graduate School (Putney, Vermont); and was president of Friends
World College (Glen Head, New York). Letters discuss a black revival meeting in Ellerbe,
North Carolina (1920); a black school in Ellerbe (1927, 1937); incidents of racial
discrimination at Putney Graduate School (1951); and executive action in desegregation
(1956). The collection also includes a review of Harry S. Ashmore's book The Negro and
the Schools (1954); information concerning the possibility of opening an interracial
camp near Green Bay, Wisconsin (1956); and references to a recording of Uncle Remus stories
that Morris was planning to make (1959). Partially restricted.
