EUGENE CUNNINGHAM BRANSON PAPERS, #2610, 1895-1933
Professional correspondence and writings of Branson, educator, author, editor, president of
the state Normal School of Georgia and head of its Department of Rural Economics and
Sociology; and founder and head of the Rural Social Economics Program at the University of
North Carolina. Letters discuss race relations in Orange County, North Carolina, and
elsewhere (1914, 1916-1917, 1920); lynchings (1915-1921); African-American land owners (1915); schools for African Americans (1917-1918); the northern migration of African Americans (1917); the University Commission on Race Relations (1918);
the search for an African-American "draft dodger" (1918); the work
of the Southern Publicity Committee for better race relations (1918); wages of African-American workers (1919); civil
rights (1919); meetings of the Inter-Racial Committee (1919); recommendations for interracial work with the YMCA (1920); the increase of racial prejudice in the South (1921); attitudes toward the Ku Klux Klan (1922);
fundamentalism and the Klan (1926); and the voting of southern
African Americans (1927). The collection also includes addresses
and essays on the ownership of farms by African Americans in Georgia (1886-1913); "The Negro Working out His Own Salvation" (1913); surveys of the African- American population in Georgia (1911); information about African- American churches in Georgia (1913); and statistics on slave ownership in North Carolina (1915).
