ARTHUR FRANKLIN RAPER PAPERS, #3966, 1913-1979
Correspondence and personal papers and materials of Raper, a rural sociologist, civil
rights activist, and social science analyst both in the United States and abroad. His papers
document his participation in the Commission on Interracial Cooperation, the Myrdal study of
the American Negro, and the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Bureau of Agricultural
Economics. The collection includes correspondence and material about lynching (1925-1942);
and photographs of African Americans in Greene and Macon Counties, Georgia, and in the
"Fourth Ward," a poor black district in Atlanta.