University of Virginia Library

BUMPAS FAMILY PAPERS AND BOOKS, #1031, 1838-1972

Diaries, correspondence, and writings of a family of North Carolina Methodist ministers and editors of church publications. Materials include information concerning racial violence in Tennessee in 1946 collected by Paul F. Bumpas. A diary of Sidney D. Bumpas contains an account of the mistreatment of free black Lunsford Lane in Raleigh, North Carolina (1842).