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American Dance Festival Archives

American Dance Festical Archives
P.O. Box 90772
Durham NC 27708-0772

Phone: (919) 684-6402

Fax: (919) 684-5459

Hours: By appointment only

Services: photocopying available

COLLECTIONS

The American Dance Festival Archives document the work of African-American choreographers such as Katherine Dunham, Talley Beatty, Donald McKayle, Eleo Pomare, Pearl Primus, and Bill T. Jones. In 1987 the ADF created the Black Tradition in American Modern Dance project to preserve, celebrate, and enhance public understanding of the significant contributions of African-American choreographers to the development of this indigenous American art form. The ADF archives contain tapes of the panel discussions and performances from this project. The ADF has published two works in conjunction with this project: The Black Tradition in American Modern Dance and African-American Genius in Modern Dance.

Duke University Archives

Duke University Archives
Box 90202
341 Perkins Library
Durham NC 27708-0202

Phone: (919) 684-5637

Fax: (919) 684-2855

E-mail: archives@acpub.duke.edu

Hours: Monday-Friday, 8:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.; please contact the Archives prior to your visit. Access to, and use of, certain types of records is restricted by Federal law and/or University policy. Some records may be in off-site storage and advance notice is required for use.

Services: photocopying available, tape and film duplication on request

MASON CRUM PAPERS, 1885-1974. 8.9 linear ft.

Educator, author, Methodist minister; born Frederick Mason Crum; A. B. Wofford College, 1909; Ph.D., University of South Carolina, 1925; Ll.D, 1950. Professor of Biblical Literature, Duke University, 1930-1957. Author, Gullah: Negro Life in the Carolina Sea Islands (1940) and other works. Correspondence, printed matter, hand- and typewritten manuscripts of books and articles, clippings, photos and glass slides, and video and audio tapes, with the bulk dates being 1931-1959. Dr. Crum was a professor of Biblical literature who had interests in black history, psychology, race relations, and recent Methodist church history. His major area of research was the Gullah communities of Edisto and St. Helena, two of the South Carolina Sea Islands, with the bulk of work here dating from the 1930s. Other areas of interest were moral education, pastoral counseling, and religious pageantry. He taught one of the first black studies courses offered in the South (1954).

W. A. STUMPF PAPERS, [1943]-[1955]. 2.5 linear ft.

Restriction: Access to and use of student records is governed by FERPA. Wippert A. Stumpf was Professor of Education, Duke University, 1948-1968. B.S. Univ. of Illinois, 1922; M.A. Univ. of Chicago, 1934; Ph.D., Univ. of Chicago, 1941. Previously a school teacher and administrator for WPA programs, Stumpf was interested in and published in the areas of educational administration, buildings, integration. Material relating to education in Durham and the surrounding area in the 1950s, including: copies of reports used in Wilmer Wilborne et al. v. H. P. Taylor et al., a 1950 civil rights suit against Washington County (North Carolina) schools; three-page survey forms completed by approximately 500 seniors in Durham, Guilford, and Wake County high schools, ca. 1955. The survey was titled "Plans of High School Seniors," and included questions about their families' economic status and educational background.

DUKE UNIVERSITY. BLACK ON WHITE STEERING COMMITTEE RECORDS, 1988-1989. 0.4 linear ft.

The Committee was appointed by Malcolm Gillis, Vice-Provost for Academic Affairs and Dean of the Graduate School. Correspondence, memoranda, agenda, clippings, final report (February, 1989), and other materials associated with the planning and execution of the Campus-wide Black on White Symposium on Issues Surrounding the Experiences of Black Students on White Campuses, October, 1988.

EDGAR THOMPSON PAPERS, 1915-1985. 5.0 linear ft.

Educator, sociologist, and expert on plantation society in the South, Thompson was Professor of Sociology, Duke University, from 1935 to 1970. B.A., University of South Carolina; M.A., University of Missouri; Ph.D., University of Chicago. Compiler, "The Plantation: An International Bibliography" (1983). Chair, Center for Southern Studies, Duke University, 1965-1968. Hugh le May Fellow, Rhodes University, South Africa. President of the Southern Sociological Society, 1961. This is a valuable collection for someone interested in studying race relations and their scholarly treatment in the mid-1900s. There is also material on the sociology of both the plantation system and the South. The collection includes manuscripts of papers by Thompson and other writers, personal and professional correspondence, printed matter, research notes, reprints, proofs, and other materials relating to the study and teaching of sociology. The bulk dates are 1920 to 1970. The collection includes histories of the Department of Sociology, articles presented in symposia and conferences, correspondence concerning the development, establishment, and activities of the Duke Center for Southern Studies (1965-1969) also, comparative studies of plantations in the South, Hawaii, and in other locations; and papers from the Mayor's Committee on Interracial Affairs of Durham from 1945. Correspondents include Eric Hoffer, Howard Jensen, and Charles Ellwood.

DUKE UNIVERSITY. AFRICAN STUDIES COMMITTEE RECORDS, 1967-1976 bulk). 1.7 linear ft.

The committee was a part of the Commonwealth Studies Center. Correspondence, memoranda, printed matter, grant proposals, financial records, tape-recordings, reports, reprints, and other records. The bulk of the material concerns the African Curriculum Development Project for the North Carolina Public Schools carried out under Gerald Hartwig; the collection also includes an incomplete set of reprints, and the tape recorded sessions of a seminar on developments in Nigeria in 1967.

ALLEN BUILDING TAKEOVER COLLECTION, 1969. 1.3 linear ft.

On 13 February 1969 a group of black students occupied the main administration building at the University. Newspaper clippings, flyers, analyses, and other printed matter, including a chronology of the demonstration.

DUKE VIGIL COLLECTION, 1968. 3.3 linear ft.

A silent demonstration at Duke University 5-11 April 1968, following the murder of Dr. Martin Luther King. Posters, handbills, newspapers and newspaper and magazine clippings, press releases, tape-recordings, telegrams of support, and other materials pertaining to the "Silent Vigil," events preceding it, and its aftermath. The collection is still open, and other materials may be added as they come in. It includes folders kept by Vigil organizers, as well as personal recollections by participants, and histories of Local 77, statements by University officials, analyses, and other materials generated by the demonstration and the University's response to it. Professors John O. Blackburn, Kenneth Clark, and John H. Strange, and student David M. Henderson each kept one or more folders of material on the demonstration, and these are included in the collection. There are eleven 7-inch audiotapes made during the course of the Vigil by WDBS, then the campus radio station, and five 7-inch audiotapes made by a student, along with copies of the Duke Chronicle for the period. Restriction: WDBS tapes may "be used only for historical research purposes by qualified students and faculty members of institutions of higher education." Letter, 6 May 1968, R. L. Chapman to John L. Sharpe.

SELECTED RESEARCH PAPERS ON AFRICAN-AMERICAN EXPERIENCES AT DUKE UNIVERSITY AND IN DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA

• Ayanian, John Z., Black Health in Segregated Durham, 1900-1940. In Duke University, Dept. of History, Records, Honors papers, 904.D877.1982-A
• Davies, Merlin, Racial Segregation in Christian Higher Education (paper). In Duke University, Divinity School, Records, A94-30.
• Houck, Thomas H., A Newspaper History of Race Relations in Durham, 1910-1940. In Duke University, Theses and dissertations, A.M. H835
• Howard, Chris D., Keep Your Eyes on the Prize: The Black Struggle for Civic Equality in Durham, North Carolina, 1954-1963. In Duke University, Dept. of History, Records, Honors papers, 904.D877.1983-HO
• Janiewski, Dolores E., From Field to Factory: Race, Class, Sex, and the Woman Worker in Durham, 1880-1940. In Duke University, Theses and dissertations, Ph.D. J33F.1979
• Kotelanski, George, Prolonged and Patient Efforts: The Desegregation of Duke University, 1948-1963. In Duke University, Dept. of History, Records, Honors papers, 904.P964.1990-KO
• Love, Spencie, One Blood—The Charles R. Drew Legend and the Trauma of Race in America. In Duke University, Theses and dissertations, Ph.D. L897O 1990
• McGinnis, James W., A Comparative Socio-Economic Study of Two Negro Churches in Durham, North Carolina. In Duke University, Theses and dissertations, B.D. M14S [1945]
• Perretti, Peter, The Divinity School and Desegregation. In Duke University, Dept. of History, Records, Course papers, 195/96.
• Sindler, Allan P., Youth and the Negro Protest Movement: A Local Case Study of Durham, North Carolina, 1960-1963. In Duke University, Dept. of Political Science, Records, Research papers.
• Yanella, Don, Race Relations at Duke University and the Allen Building Crisis. In Duke University, Dept. of History, Records, Honors papers, 904.D877.1985-YA

Special Collections Library, Duke University

Special Collections Library
Duke University
Box 90185
Durham NC 27708-0185

Phone: (919) 660-5820

Fax: (919) 684-2855

Hours: Fall and Spring Semesters: Monday-Thursday 9:00 a.m.-9:00 p.m.; Friday 9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.; Saturday 1:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m. Remainder of Year: Monday-Friday 9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.; Saturday 1:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m.

Services: photocopying available (with some restrictions)

INTRODUCTION

The Special Collections Library at Duke University contains more than 200,000 printed volumes and upwards of 9,500,000 items in manuscript and archival collections. Among these holdings are a wealth of material concerning African-American history and culture. The library safeguards letters, lists, ledgers, photographs, films, and rare books documenting some three centuries of African-American experience. The collection is especially strong regarding nineteenth century slavery, and African-American life in the post-World War II civil rights era.

Below is a representative, but in no way exhaustive, account of material related to African-American life available at Duke University's Special Collections Library. The account is arranged chronologically and is drawn, often verbatim, from several of the library's manuscript guides: Richard C. Davis and Linda Angle Miller's Guide to the Cataloged Collections in the Manuscript Department of the William R. Perkins Library, Duke University (1986) and Jennifer Morgan and Virginia Daley's Retrieving African-American Women's History: A Methodological Guide to Sources in the Perkins Library Manuscript Department (1989). Parties wishing a more detailed reckoning of African-American materials at Duke are strongly urged to use the Morgan and Daley guide as a starting point. Those desiring information about the Special Collections Library in general should request the library's brochure.

The library is continually working to expand the scope and depth of its African-American holdings. Special Collections is especially interested in documentary materials concerning African-American life in the post-World War II civil rights era and items regarding African-American life in the Jim Crow South (the 1890s through the 1930s).

The address to the library's World Wide Web home page is as follows: http://odyssey.lib.duke.edu

ADDITIONAL COMMENTARIES

• Slavery Period
• Reconstruction Period
• The Age of Jim Crow
• Post-World War II: The Civil Rights Era and Beyond

BEDFORD-STUYVESANT COMMUNITY COOPERATIVE AUDIO TAPES. 33 items

Racially integrated cooperative, the purpose of which was to provide food, generic brand medicines, child care; to ensure local employment; and to provide goods and services at nominal cost. Tapes of meetings, interviews, and car trips to Boston and Washington DC, of various directors and committee members of the cooperative. Issues discussed include internal dissension, employment and firings, theft, the cooperative's finances, local violence and gang fights, drugs, students, and black and white division of labor.

JAMES CHAPLIN BEECHER PAPERS. 2 items and 1 volume

Collection contains the journal of Freedmen's Bureau agent in Charleston, South Carolina, James Beecher. Volume contains summaries of complaints brought to him by various freedmen. Material documents the transition from slave to wage labor undergone by many black southerners.

ARCHIBALD BOYD LETTERS. 46 items

Business correspondence of Lenox Castle County, North Carolina landholder, Archibald Boyd. Included in the collections are letters from slave trader Samuel R. Browning reporting on the health of slaves, the conditions of the market, and the effect of a cholera scare on his sales. One letter describes a woman who gave birth while she was part of one of Browning's coffles.

IVESON L. BROOKES PAPERS. 709 items and 11 volumes

Correspondence of white Baptist preacher and landholder in South Carolina and Georgia. Included in the collection are a contract concerning "Conditions For Hiring Negroes by the Georgia Railroad and Booking Co., 1855," and lists of slaves divided by family groups. Letters discuss slaves and race relations, largely giving insight into white perceptions.

JOHN EMORY BRYANT PAPERS. 1,818 items and 40 volumes

Personal and political papers of John Emory Bryant. Correspondence from his tenure as a solider in the 8th Maine volunteers describes black religious practices and the organization of slaves during an owner's absence. In 1865, Bryant worked as an agent in the Freedmen's Bureau in Augusta, Georgia. His letterbook and his wife's journal of 1865-1866 outline the work of a bureau agent and speak to the chaos and destitution surrounding those ex-slaves who flooded Augusta in the wake of the war. Included in the collection are a series of letters from Henry McNeal Turner, black Republican later noted as a bishop of the African Methodist church and as a staunch emigrationist. Also included are the correspondence, letterbook, and scrapbook of William Anderson Pledger, a black Republican and educator.

ROBERT CARTER PAPERS. 18 volumes

Letterbooks and accounts of prominent Virginia planter Robert Carter. Carter owned and/or administered eighteen plantations. By 1791 he owned about 2,400 slaves. His records reveal a meticulous attention to his various businesses and disclose a great many details of the lives, training, and hiring of his slaves.

WILLIAM HENRY CHAFE INTERVIEWS. 99 items and 28 cassette tapes

Tapes and transcripts of 71 interviews conducted by William Chafe, professor of history at Duke, in preparation for his book on the civil rights movement in Greensboro, North Carolina: Civilities and Civil Rights. Interviewees include various members of Greensboro black community, including teachers and former students of Bennett College and North Carolina A. and T., and others involved in local sit-ins.

CHRISTOPHER (SHIP) PAPERS. 1 volume

Log book of the slave ship Christopher, detailing its journey, 1791-1792, from Liverpool England, to the Congo (now Zaire) river estuary, to Barbados and Dominica, and back to Liverpool. Volume includes instructions to the ship's captain, Charles Molyneux, an invoice of goods on board, crew list with wages, receipts for slave sales, and account of outfitting costs.

FRANCIS PORTEUS CORBIN PAPERS. 719 items

Letters and papers of Francis P. Corbin and his family. From 1828, the content of the collection focuses on Corbin's financial interests, including the maintenance of his Louisiana sugar plantation. Business letters from Paris, where he relocated in 1830, include reports on crops and conditions of slaves. Of particular interest are slave lists, ca. 1712, from the Ripon Hall plantation in York County, Virginia. The lists are extensive, documenting family ties between slaves and listing clothing and supplies distributed to approximately 60 slaves.

CRONLY FAMILY PAPERS. 1,962 items and 66 volumes

Personal and financial papers of the Cronly family of Wilmington, North Carolina. Jane M. Cronly's short stories and memoirs are devoted in large part to her family's relationship with their slaves, both before and after emancipation. Also included are two small volumes dealing with the 1898 Wilmington race riot.

HENRY DANIELS PAPERS. 1 volume

Records of Freedmen's Bureau in Brunswick County, Virginia, including lists of former slaves who worked on a government farm and drew federal assistance. The collection also contains contracts between black workers and white employers.

GRIFFITH J. DAVIS PAPERS. 475 items

Films and photographs of Atlantan Griffith J. Davis, U.S. Technical Assistant to Liberia and agent to the Liberian Ministry of Information and Broadcasting. Among the negatives, films, and videotapes that form the core of this collection are images of Charlotte Hawkins Brown and the Palmer Memorial Institute, a private junior and senior high school for blacks in Sedalia, North Carolina. Also included are documentary and personal films shot in Liberia in the 1950s; among them a birthday party for the daughter of a middle-class family, a film on Liberian industry and life narrated by Sidney Poitier and funded by the U.S. Point IV program, and shots of Liberian masquerades and stilt dancers. Collection also contains Griffith's recording of William Tubman's presidential inaugural. Contact sheets feature Liberian masks—many from the Dan—and stills of Liberian men and women. (Complemented by the library's George Way Harley Papers and the Duke Museum of Art's Harley collection of Liberian Art.)

DEVEREAUX FAMILY PAPERS. 454 items and 4 volumes

Papers of a prominent and wealthy white family. The majority of the collection falls between 1839 and 1900, and is primarily correspondence concerned with personal and family affairs. There are comments on slavery and manumission, as Thomas P. Devereaux (1793-1869) was a lawyer and planter who owned more than 1000 slaves. A volume in the collection contains the accounts for three plantations; included are extensive slave lists.

DUKE UNIVERSITY ORAL HISTORY PROGRAM PAPERS. 600 items, including approximately 325 tapes

Audio cassette tapes and transcripts, chiefly concerning the civil rights movement in North Carolina during the 1950s and 1960s, including sit-ins in Durham. Other tapes focus on race relations in Oklahoma during the Tulsa race riot of 1921. Interviews conducted between 1973 and 1978.

HELEN GREY EDMONDS PAPERS. 4,000 items

Correspondence and printed material of Helen Grey Edmonds, professor of history at North Carolina Central University in Durham. The two largest groups of papers concern her activities as a member of the Republican Party from the 1950s into the 1970s, and her work as an alternate delegate to the United nations General Assembly in 1970.

KATE FOSTER DIARY. 1 item and 1 volume

Diary of Kate Foster, Adams County, Mississippi. Approximately two-thirds of the entries date from the latter half of 1863 and concern the Civil War, with attention to the effect of the war on her home and on local blacks. The diary provides rich illustrations of slave desertion, many of the absconders being women with children.

SAMUEL FUQUA ACCOUNT BOOK. 1 volume

An executor's records of settlements of estates, household expenses, and labor. Includes a written agreement between a Virginia planter and his slaves regarding their continued service after the general emancipation. Briefly noted are former slaves—both men and women—who had "absented themselves" from the plantation without permission.

GEORGE GAGE PAPERS. 2 items and 4 volumes

Letterbooks of George Gage and the journal of his wife Sarah Marshall Ely Gage. Sarah Gage's journal contains minutes of the Freedmen's Home Relief Association of Lambertville, New Jersey, for which Sarah was secretary in 1864. The journal also described Sarah's journey south to teach at a Freedmen's Bureau school in Beaufort, South Carolina (1866-1867).

GEORGIA SUPERIOR COURT SLAVE IMPORTATION REGISTER. 1 volume (microfilm)

Records of slave imports to the state of Georgia—contains descriptions, including name, age, and sometimes occupation and physical characteristics of slaves.

WILLIAM GIBBONS JR. PAPERS. 807 items and 1 volume

Correspondence and financial papers of William Gibbons Jr., wealthy rice planter and justice of the peace in Chatham County, Georgia. The bulk of the collection begins in the 1750s and describes life on some of Georgia's early large plantations. Papers document the management of a large low country plantation, including a series of comments on the purchase, management, and sale of slaves.

TYRE GLEN PAPERS. 1,261 items

The letters and papers of Tyre Glenn—planter, constable and slave trader who entered the business in the early 1820s. Collection contains many receipts for slaves sales, as well as information on profit margins and overhead. Correspondence sheds light on the business of slave trading, and the character and life of the trader.

MILO GUTHRIE PAPERS. 3,993 items and 1 volume

The papers of white commercial artist and social activist contains publications from left wing political parties and organizations. Included among them are publications from black activist organizations: The African World (1973), Black Ink (1969), The Black Liberator (1969), and others. The collection contains a three-year run of The Black Panther (1969-1971), the organ of the Black Panther Party.

GORDON BLAINE HANCOCK PAPERS. 525 items

Papers of clergyman, educator, journalist, and civil rights spokesman of Richmond, Virginia, Gordon Blaine Hancock (1884-1970). Hancock was professor of economics and sociology at Virginia Union University in Richmond where he taught one of the nation's first race relation courses and helped to organize the Torrance School of Race Relations in 1931. The Bulk of the collection consists of photocopies of Hancock's newspaper column, "Between the Lines", which he wrote from 1928 to 1965 and was syndicated to some 114 black newspapers. In the column, Hancock addressed black social, economic, political and education concerns. Some material relates to the Southern Regional Council and its 1942 meeting in North Carolina where members published their post-war demands as the "Durham Manifesto." Among Hancock's correspondents were Benjamin E. Mays, Guy B. Johnson and Jessie Daniel Ames. Materials in the collection were compiled by Duke Professor Raymond Gavins for his study The Perils and Prospects of Southern Black Leadership.

ELIZABETH JOHNSON HARRIS MEMOIR. 1 item

Memoir of Elizabeth Johnson Harris, born in 1867 of ex-slave parents in Augusta, Georgia. The memoir provides information on the black community in Augusta as connected to the Rock of Ages African Methodist Episcopal Church (A.M.E.) and the Church of the Good Shepherd, a white church that provided Sunday school instruction for black children. Harris also writes about her trip to Boston in the 1920s, chronicling visits to black churches there. Journal reflects attitudes and community connections of black middle class. Also included are copies of Johnson poems that were published in local newspapers.

RENCHER NICHOLAS HARRIS PAPERS.2,085 items and 27 volumes

Papers of Rencher Nicholas Harris (1900-1965), a business executive of Durham, North Carolina who held positions with the Banker's Fire Insurance Company, and who was first black city councilman as well as the first black member of the local Board of Education. The collection is probably most valuable for those papers related to Harris's career in Durham politics in the 1950s and early 1960s, especially concerning such matters as race relations and civil rights. Of particular interest is his infrequent correspondence with Carla Myerson Eugster, a political activist in the local civil rights movement who appears to have influenced Harris's decision to enter politics.

THADDEUS ELLIS HARRIS PAPERS. 219 items 1916-1933

Correspondence, legal, and financial papers of attorney in McDowell County, West Virginia. Legal and financial papers include insurance policies, deeds, receipts, promissory notes, and petitions for divorce and parole. There are also several warm and affectionate letters from Ellis's wife Mary which include references to the couple's teenage daughter as well as domestic chores and community relations.

ISAAC BROOKS HEADEN PAPERS. 1 volume

Account book of a white physician in Chatham County, North Carolina. Book includes numerous entries concerning the treatment of slaves. Only rarely are the records specific about gender of patient or the treatment prescribed. They do, however, document the frequency of illness on specific plantations.

BENJAMIN SHERWOOD HEDRICK PAPERS. 6,033 items and four volumes

Personal and business correspondence of Benjamin Sherwood Hedrick, professor of chemistry at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1854-1856, and examiner in the U.S. Patent Office, Washington D.C., 1861-1886. University officials expelled Hedrick for his views on slavery and he was forced to leave the state in 1856. Included in the collection are the letters of Mary Ellen Thompson, Hedrick's wife, who writes to him describing the state of affairs in Chapel Hill following the Civil War. She notes the self-activity of black women and men as it concerned party politics, suffrage, and the Ku Klux Klan.

CHRIS D. HOWARD PAPERS. 524 items and 29 audio cassettes

Materials collected by Chris Howard while researching undergraduate honors thesis: "Keep Your Eyes on the Prize: The Black Struggle for Civil Equality in Durham, North Carolina, 1954-1963." Mainly, material consists of research notes and interviews with local informants, including Floyd McKissick, Joycelyn McKissick, W. G. Pearson, Vivian McCoy, Mary Trent Semans, and Ruth Dailey.

CHARLES N. HUNTER PAPERS. 2,944 items and 18 volumes

Personal and professional papers of Charles N. Hunter of Raleigh, North Carolina (ca. 1851-1931)—educator and editor who was prominent in the effort to provide better educational facilities for black students and who was instrumental in winning the construction of several schools for black children. Professional correspondence includes letters from black women seeking employment as teachers. Personal correspondence includes letters home from his daughters while they were attending school. One daughter writes of her academic and social life at Hampton (Hampton, Virginia) during the 1890s. In addition to correspondence concerning Hunter's family life and personal finances, the collection includes 17 scrapbooks containing clippings and other items on race relations and the social, political, and economic affairs of black Americans—included, for example, is material on temperance and the challenges faced by blacks following the Civil War.

WILLIAM HORTON PEACE JENKINS PAPERS. 2,417 items and 10 volumes

Predominately, collection of public school records for Granville County, North Carolina where Jenkins was Superintendent of Public Instruction from 1881 through 1895. Records provide a wealth of information on conditions in the schools. Teacher and pupil lists, attendance records, teacher salaries, average length of school term, and number of school-aged children broken down by race and gender are some of the data included. There are also written reports and memos by black teachers and superintendents.

ALICE J. CUTRIGHT KAINE PAPERS. 305 items

Correspondence, writings, printed materials, and photographs chiefly concerning Kaine's administrative work at Tuskeegee Institute (Tuskeegee, Alabama) during the 1890s. During her tenure at the school, Kaine developed close ties with Booker T. Washington, Washington's wife Margaret, and the couple's children. Kaine's letters home to Milwaukee describe Washington's management style and educational philosophy, Kaine's interaction with the Washington children, and her numerous forays into the homes and churches of Tuskeegee. Also included are letters to Kaine from Margaret Washington after the former's return to Wisconsin, ca. 1900-1910.

JOHN RICHARDSON KILBY PAPERS. 39,489 items and 19 volumes

Business and personal papers of John Richardson Kilby (1819-1878) and Wilbur John Kilby (1850-1878), father and son lawyers of Suffolk, Virginia. Correspondence is dotted with numerous references to the African Colonization Society. Included is a letter from a former Kilby slave detailing the conditions and activities of the family's former slaves now settled in Liberia.

EDWARD W. KINSLEY PAPERS. 109 items

Letters of a Boston businessman during and after the Civil War. Kinsley discusses black troops stationed in the South, particularly the 55th Massachusetts regiment in South Carolina and Georgia, but with mention of the 54th Massachusetts and the 35th. One item touches on reactions to a black public safety officer in Orangeburg, South Carolina.

LOUIS MANIGAULT PAPERS. 2,038 items and four volumes

Personal and business papers of Louis Manigault and the Manigault family who began to acquire rice-planting land in the mid-eighteenth century, and by 1850 owned several plantations. The papers concerning their plantations begin in 1837 and continue through 1883. There are work schedules, slave lists, and instructions to overseers on the care of slaves and the management of plantations. One of the volumes in the collection is an 1852 prescription book concerning the medical treatment of plantation slaves.

J. B. MATHEWS PAPERS. 307,000 items

Papers of J. B. Matthews, white Methodist missionary, college professor, and prominent conservative spokesman. The bulk of the collection falls between the 1930s and the 1960s, and includes correspondence, memoranda, speeches, clippings, broadsides, newsletters, and other printed materials. The principal focus of the collection relates to Mathew's work and research in the area of anticommunism after he had completed his tenure as Director of Research for the Special Committee on Un-American Activities. Organizations and personalities touched on in his work include the following: the Black Panther Party, the National Negro Labor Council, the Ku Klux Klan, the Afro-American Research Institute, the Harlem Community Council for Housing, the NAACP, Ralph Abernathy, Jessie Jackson, Coretta Scott King and James Baldwin.

WILLIAM GEORGE MATTON PAPERS. 4 items

Papers of English-born Methodist minister William George Matton. After the Civil War, Matton moved to North Carolina from New York to further the ministry of the Methodist Church North. Among other things, his detailed memoirs comment on relations between black and white church members, speak of a visit to Charlotte's black Calvary church, and describe the ordination of a black minister.

WINFIELD HENRI MIXON PAPERS. 10 items and 7 volumes

Papers of Winfield Mixon, official with the African Methodist Episcopal Church, and the organizer of an 1895 African-American women's conference in Nashville, Tennessee. In addition to scattered clippings concerning the conference, the collection includes travel journals kept sporadically from 1895 to 1915 that contain the names of community members Mixon worked and lodged with as he carried out his duties as a church elder. Papers contain scattered references to Masonry and Payne University in Selma, Alabama.

NEGRO THEATRICAL COLLECTION

Mostly advertisements for minstrel shows, plays, and musicals. With few exceptions, black actors and actresses comprise show casts.

NORTH CAROLINA. ANSON COUNTY TAX LISTS

Tax records for towns in Anson County list county, state, school and road taxes paid by whites and blacks. Full data entered in separate columns comprise a 4-year series, 1903-1906.

RANKIN-PARKER COLLECTION. 3 items

The collection contains the autobiography of the Reverend John Rankin and the biography of John Parker, an ex-slave who Rankin worked with on the Underground Railroad. Parker was born in slavery and bought his freedom in 1845. Included in the Parker biography is the story of one Eliza's escape to freedom by crossing the Ohio. Supposedly, Harriet Beecher Stowe appropriated the story for her Uncle Tom's Cabin.

ROCKINGHAM PLANTATION JOURNAL. 1 volume

Daily record of work done by slaves on plantation in Hampton County, South Carolina from 2 February 1828 through 13 July 1829. The journal author notes which slaves are out sick and which have run away. The volume illustrates the division of labor on a medium sized plantation.

FANNIE B. ROSSER PAPERS. ca. 750 items, including many photographs

Personal and business papers of Fannie B. Rosser, secretary for the North Carolina Mutual Insurance Company in Durham, North Carolina, and property owner in Durham and Lynchburg, Virginia. To the 1950s, the bulk of the papers concern Rosser's business ventures: property maintenance, loans tendered, and investments made. Material from the 1960s tend to be more personal, consisting of Rosser's correspondence with her daughter Mattie and with her niece June. Nevertheless, items from this later period contain scattered references to the NAACP and other civil rights matters.

WILLIAM C. RUSSEL PAPERS. 29 items

Papers of a Massachusetts abolitionists. In 1864 Russel moved his family to Tennessee to manage a plantation run by former slaves. The letters of Russel's daughter Lucy describe her experiences teaching former slaves in her new home.

CLYDIE FULLWOOD SCARBOROUGH PAPERS. 950 items

Chiefly personal and professional papers of Clydie Scarborough, manager of the Scarborough Nursery School in Durham for over fifty years. Included are clippings, printed material, and photographs relating to the nursery school. Also included are letters from Scarborough's mother and correspondence from her husband—founder of the Durham's Scarborough-Hargett Funeral Home—John Clarence (1877-1972). Collection contains family photographs and genealogical information about the family of Scarborough's father, the Fullwoods.

MRS. SMITH DIARY. 1 volume

Journal of Mrs. Smith describing a voyage from Boston, Massachusetts to Savannah, Georgia, in 1793. In the first third of the journal, the author makes numerous observations concerning the work and religion of the slaves there. Smith notes, for example, that slaves have a black religious leader and that whites sometimes attend black religious services for entertainment or out of curiosity.

WILLIAM SMITH PAPERS. 327 items

The papers of William Smith, member of Parliament, relate chiefly to the movement in England to abolish slavery. There are letters from planters in Jamaica, St. Vincent, Bermuda, Nevis, Barbados, and Berbice discussing the condition of slaves and slavery on the islands. Extensive printed and miscellaneous papers include research notes on the number of ships involved in the slave trade, the rate of death on slave ships, methods of obtaining slaves, eyewitness accounts of slave treatment, an illustration of how space is allotted on slave ships, and runaway statistics from various islands.

SOCIALIST PARTY OF AMERICA PAPERS. 215,262 items and 33 volumes

Correspondence, minutes, speeches, convention proceedings, and organizers' reports of the Socialist Party of America. The papers chronicle the activities of American Socialists both within their party and in their contacts with other individuals, organizations, and movements during the 20th century. Beginning in the 1930s, with the party's organization of the Southern Tenant Farmer's Union—a biracial, sharecropper's organization— there is consistent overlap and interaction between the Socialist Party and the civil rights movement. The work of black activists Baynard Rustin, A. Phillip Randolph, Norman Hill, and Arthur Parker emerges from the collection at various points. The party had state chapters that were involved in activities organized by local civil rights groups.

ASA TIMOTHY SPAULDING PAPERS. 36,500 items

Personal and professional correspondence, printed material, legal and other papers relating to Asa Spaulding's many business, religious, civic, educational and political interests, including his involvement with two prominent Durham establishments: the North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company and the Mechanics and Farmers Bank. Elna Bridgeforth Spaulding's personal and professional papers are also part of the collection, including materials pertaining to her tenure as a Durham County Commissioner (1980-1984). Restricted Collection.

EDWARD TELFAIR PAPERS. 906 items and five volumes

Papers of a merchant, governor of Georgia, and delegate to the Continental Congress. Telfair's mercantile firm dealt in slaves, among other things, and the correspondence includes discussions of the management of slaves, purchase and sale of slaves, the problem of runaway slaves, slave mortality rates, the difficulty of selling closely related slaves, and the relations between whites and free blacks.

ELLA GERTRUDE CLANTON THOMAS DIARY. 13 volumes

Civil War-era journal of Ella Thomas, who lived with her husband on the Belmont plantation in Richmond County, Georgia. The Thomases owned ninety slaves and often went to a black church to hear black preachers. The diary comments on slave weddings and revivals, reviews Uncle Tom's Cabin, and discusses relationships among black women and white men. Of particular interest are two letters from a former Thomas slave dated the early 1900s.

AMBER ARTHUN WARBURTON PAPERS. 31,400 items

Papers and records of Amber Arthun Warburton (1898-1976): teacher, librarian, New Deal administrator, and executive secretary and director for research for the Alliance for Guidance of Rural Youth. Her records include documents generated while teaching economics as Spellman College (Atlanta, Georgia) in 1929. Included are student autobiographies and economic surveys of some of Atlanta's black neighborhoods.

HENRY WATSON JR. PAPERS. 3,797 items and 18 volumes

Personal and business papers of Greensboro, Alabama, lawyer and planter Henry Watson. Among them is information concerning the establishment of the Planter's Insurance Company, fear of a slave insurrection in 1860, slave impressment during the Civil War, and postwar labor contracts between blacks and their former masters. Volumes include plantation accounts, 1834-1866, and records of black laborers, slave and free, 1843-1866.

MANCHESTER WARD WELD PAPERS. 1 item and 1 volume

Volume contains a compendium of lawsuits and cases aired before agents of the Freedmen's Bureau, 1865-1868. Among the disputes are the suits of black men to recover their wives from ex-slaveholders who refuse to set the women free.

WOMEN-IN-ACTION FOR THE PREVENTION OF VIOLENCE RECORDS. 3,100 items

Records of Women-In-Action for the Prevention of Violence and Its Causes, a nonprofit, interracial organization organized in Durham in 1968. Elna Spaulding was the group's founder and first president. The records reflect the organization's primary goals of easing racial tensions and smoothing the way for court ordered school desegregation in 1970. Restricted.

SLAVERY PERIOD

Over the past 30 years historians have coaxed sensitive and compelling histories of African-American slave life from materials authored by those other than slaves themselves. From plantation journals, estate accounts, diaries and slave lists, scholars have reconstructed black family life, religious culture, work patterns, and social structure. The collections listed below reflect the importance of non-slave sources in the writing of slave history.

Special Collections holds much more material on African-American life during slavery than can be listed here, including a number of accounts generated by former slaves. The library's rare book holdings include more than 20 autobiographical works by former slaves from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries; among them The address of Abraham Johnstone (1797), Memoir of Old Elizabeth, a colored women (1866), and A narrative of the most remarkable particulars in the life of James Albert Ukawsaw, an African prince (1770). Moreover, though not always noted below, letters from slaves manumitted to Liberia emerge in the collection at several points. They can be located using the subject file of the Special Collections card catalog. See, for example, the letter dated 2 August 1857 in the Malone Ellis papers. The library also holds an important collection of broadsides, pamphlets, circulars, and other printed materials that allow insight into African-American life during slavery. See, for example, The Road and Patrol Laws of Georgia (1863), Religious Instruction of the Negro (1861), and An Account of the late intended insurrection among a portion of the blacks of this city (Charleston 1822).

THE RECONSTRUCTION PERIOD

Though not as vast as Special Collections material on black life during slavery, items at Duke concerning African-American life during Reconstruction are also too voluminous to list here. The material listed below touches on major themes from the period, suggesting the shape of the collection as a whole. Black mobility, African-American political activity, the transition to wage and contract labor, white violence and black response are a few of the areas represented in the collections. The Davis and Miller guide cites many other relevant materials.

THE AGE OF JIM CROW

The library contains a good mix of first- and third-person accounts of black life during the age of Jim Crow. Personal memoirs and correspondence, organizational records, and pertinent government material are each represented in the collection. Interviews are also prevalent. See, for example, the material on the Tulsa race riot of 1921 in the papers of the Duke University Oral History Program.

Over the next few years, the library hopes for substantial growth in materials related to African-American life in the Jim Crow South. Special Collections has been selected as the primary repository for an extensive, South-wide collection of interviews concerning the period: "Behind the Veil: African-American Life in the Jim Crow South" (The project is being conducted by the Duke University Center for Documentary Studies and has been made possible by funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities). We hope to supplement this future deposit with as much personal correspondence, material culture, photographs, business data, educational material, and organizational records as is possible.

As with material listed under other time periods, the collections listed are only representative. Interested parties will profit from consulting the aforementioned collection guides. The library's Rare Book Room, for example, contains a copy of The Negro Directory of Raleigh, Franklinton, Durham, and Henderson (1922?). Also, materials listed in this survey as "Post-World War II" are sometimes relevant to the Jim Crow era as well, most notably the Fannie B. Rosser Papers, the Clydie Fullwood Scarborough Papers, the Asa Timothy Spaulding Papers, and the Gordon Blaine Hancock papers.

POST-WORLD WAR II: THE CIVIL RIGHTS ERA AND BEYOND

The library holds a good number of materials on black life in the civil rights era. The collection is especially strong in documenting the life and labors of Durham's prominent black middle class.

James E. Shepard Memorial Library

James E. Shepherd Memorial Library
1801 Fayetteville Street
North Carolina Central University
Durham NC 27707

Phone: (919) 560-6473

Fax: (919) 560-6055

Hours: Monday-Friday, 8:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.

Services: photocopying available

AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES COLLECTION

15,000 basic books on the life and history of African Americans (Reference, Reserve and General Collection).

ANTI-SLAVERY PROPAGANDA PAMPHLET COLLECTION

2,500 microfiche cards, primarily American Anti-Slavery Propaganda published before 1863. (Lost Cause Press microfiche edition of pamphlets from the "Collection of Anti-Slavery Propaganda" in the Oberlin College Library)

BLACK BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARIES, 1790-1950

Nineteen microfiche cards providing biographical information on outstanding African Americans from 1790 to 1950. (Chadwyck-Healey Inc., Alexandria, Virginia)

BLACK CULTURE COLLECTION

Four microfiche cards that trace the history of African Americans from the Colonization of Africa to the United States. (Bell & Howell, Atlanta University)

BLACK NEWSPAPERS/PERIODICAL COLLECTION

Early American newspapers/periodicals collection on microfilm. Includes:Afro-American 1898-Present, Atlanta Independent 1904-1928, Chicago Defender 1960-Present, The Crisis 1910-Present, Freedom's Journal ——, Journal and Guide 1916-Present, The Liberator 1834-1865, National Anti-Slavery Standard 1840-1891, Opportunity, Journal of Negro Life 1930-1949, Pittsburg Courier, 1923-1987, and Underground Railroad Newspaper Collection ——.

THE LIFE AND WORKS OF PAUL LAWRENCE DUNBAR

Nine reels of microfilm consisting of poems, short stories, novels, sheet music, manuscripts, scrapbook, reviews, and periodical articles from leading literary magazines. (New York Public Library Collection, New York)

MARCUS GARVEY INVESTIGATION FILE

One microfilm reel of the FBI file on Marcus Garvey that was released under the provision of the Freedom of Information Act. The files reflect the activities of Marcus Garvey and the Universal Negro Improvement Association. (Scholarly Resources Inc., Wilmington, Delaware)

MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. ASSASSINATION FILE

Twenty microfilm reels of the FBI file on the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. by James Earl Ray released under the provision of the Freedom of Information Act. The files reveal and trace the early background criminal records of James Earl Ray through the investigation on the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. (Scholarly Resources, Wilmington, Delaware)

MALCOLM X SURVEILLANCE FILES

One microfilm reel of the Federal Bureau of Investigation file on Malcolm X (1953-1964) which was released under the provision of the Freedom of Information Act. The files and records are in the exact order in which they were received from the FBI. The files chronicle the life of Malcolm X including correspondence. Individual sections are identified by the FBI's filing nomenclature. (Scholarly Resources Inc., Wilmington, Delaware)

THE CHARLES D. MARTIN COLLECTION

Collection of books by and about African Americans in America, South America, Africa, and the West Indies purchased by North Carolina Central University in March 1950. The collection was assembled by the late Dr. Charles Douglas Martin, a West Indian Moravian minister. The collection includes numerous works during the Slavery period in the United States, many of the works are written by slaves and ex-slaves. Other items in the collection include antislavery pamphlets, old newspapers, first editions of novels by William Wells Brown, and selections from Paul Lawrence Dunbar, Phyllis Wheatley, Charles W. Chestnutt, W. E. B. Du Bois, and Countee Cullen. In addition, representative works of many southern writers of the last century are also among the books in this collection.

THE CHARLES DOUGLAS MARTIN PAPERS

The papers of Dr. Charles Douglas Martin (1873-1942), consisting of correspondence, postcards, and pictures.

PAPERS OF THE NAACP

Twenty microfilm reels of personal correspondence and records of selected NAACP officials 1919-1934. (University Publications of America, Frederick, Maryland)

VERTICAL FILES

The Reference Department of the James E. Shepard Memorial Library houses, memorabilia, and newspaper clippings of presidents/chancellors, faculty, and staff. Among the library's manuscripts are the following collections of note:

• Dr. Donna Jean Benson (1954-), interim chancellor of North Carolina Central University (1992-1993).
• Mary Bohanon (1948-1975), founded the Drama Department at North Carolina Central University.
• Attorney Julius Chambers (1936-), fourth chancellor of North Carolina Central University (1993-).
• Diana S. Dent (1938-1960), first chair of the Home Economics Department at North Carolina Central University.
• Wayne Dunn (1977-1979), counselor in the Academic Skills Center at North Carolina Central University.
• Helen G. Edmonds (1911-), Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, University's Interior Committee, and Professor Emeritus (1941-1977).
• Dr. Ruth C. Edwards (1931-1957), chair of the Department of Music at North Carolina Central University.
• Dr. Alfonso Elder (1898-1974), second college president of North Carolina Central University (1948-1963).
• Dr. William E. Farrison, chair of the English Department at North Carolina Central University (1939-1970).
• Dr. John Hope Franklin (1915-), professor of history at North Carolina Central University.
• Dr. C. G. O'Kelly, professor at North Carolina Central University and instructor of extension groups throughout the state.
• Dr. Octavia B. Bowers Knight, professor of education at North Carolina Central University (1961-1982).
• Dean Louise Latham (1948-1968), Dean of Women at North Carolina Central University.
• Dr. Samuel Proctor Massie (1919), third college president (1964-1966).
• Dr. Helen S. Miller, chair of Nursing Department (1956-1982).
• Pauline F. Newton (1924-1963), English professor at North Carolina Central University.
• Dr. Tyronza R. Richmond (1940-), third chancellor and sixth leader of North Carolina Central University (1986-1991).
• Herman Riddick (1945-1968) coach at North Carolina Central University.
• Dr. James Edward Shepard (1875-1947), founder and president of the National Training School and Chautauqua (1910-1947),now known as North Carolina Central University.
• Dr. James Taylor (1926-1970), Dean of Men, professor of psychology, and Executive Director of the James E. Shepard Memorial Foundation.
• Dr. Albert Turner, Dean of the School of Law at North Carolina Central University (1942-1965).
• Dr. Leroy Walker, second chancellor of North Carolina Central University (1983-1986).
• Dr. Albert N. Whiting (1917-), fourth president and first chancellor of North Carolina Central University (1967-1984).
• Dr. Carroll T. Willis (1923-), chair of the Department of Commerce at North Carolina Central University.

African-American Resources Program, School of Library and Information Sciences, North Carolina Central University

African-American Resources Program
School of Library and Information Sciences
North Carolina Central University
1801 Fayetteville Street
Durham NC 27707

Phone: (919) 560-5213/6485

Fax: (919) 560-6402

Hours: By appointment

Services: Photocopying at cost. Duplication of photos, when permissible, at cost.

INTRODUCTION

The William Tucker Collection of Black Authors and Illustrators is made up of 11 separate collections. The Collection's emphasis is children's literature and is named for William Tucker, the first known black child to be born in America. The collection consists of notes, working drafts, sketches, typescripts, galleys, correspondence, and autographed books.

ASHLEY F. BRYAN PAPERS

Papers of children's books author and illustrator with a particular interest in the re-telling of African and West Indian folktales. Includes proofs from his first book, Walk Together Children.

ALEXIS DE VEAUX PAPERS

Papers of the former poetry editor for Essence magazine. Includes materials relating to the publication of her book, A Song of Billie Holiday.

ELTON C. FAX PAPERS

Papers of the Baltimore-born artist, illustrator, biographer, and art historian. Includes brush and ink illustrations and dust jacket drawings relating to Taiwo and Her Twin, Sitting Bull, Cotton for Jim, and others.

TOM FEELINGS PAPERS

The papers of the Brooklyn, New York, illustrator and author include correspondence, sketches, and clippings for the book Black Child and the biographical film Head and Heart.

LORENZ BELL GRAHAM PAPERS

Papers of the former missionary, probation officer, and award- winning children's author. Includes materials pertaining to North Town, and John Brown: A Cry for Freedom.

ELOISE GREENFIELD PAPERS

Papers of the Parmele, North Carolina, native who became part of the Washington D.C. Black Writers Workshop. Includes materials pertaining to her book, Bubbles.

JESSE JACKSON PAPERS

Papers of author whose books focus on African-American teenagers. Includes materials pertaining to eight of his books.

SHARON BELL MATHIS PAPERS

Papers of author whose work focuses on the African-American community, including materials pertaining to the production of Listen for the Fig Tree.

DOROTHY W. ROBINSON PAPERS

Selected papers of the Chicago children's librarian and author containing items related to her book, The Legend of Africana.

CHARLEMAE HILL ROLLINS PAPERS

Papers of the former Chicago children's librarian and author whose work centered on eliminating stereotypical portrayals of African Americans in literature. The collection includes materials on segregation, Head Start, and African-American bibliography as well as documentation of her writings.

BETH PIERRE WILSON PAPERS

Selected papers of a children's book author who has written biographies of Martin Luther King Jr., Muhammed Ali, and Stevie Wonder.

Stanford L. Warren Branch Library

Stanford L. Warren Branch Library
1201 Fayetteville Street
Durham NC 27707

Phone: (919) 560-0270

Fax: (919) 560-0271

Hours: Monday-Thursday 9:00 a.m.-9:00 p.m.; Friday 9:30 a.m.-6:00 p.m.; Saturday 9:30 a.m.-6 p.m.

Services: photocopying available

SELENA WARREN WHEELER COLLECTION:

The Collection contains a range of historical and contemporary materials on the history and culture of blacks in America; historical and contemporary materials on African history and culture as they directly relate to the black experience in America; and rare and irreplaceable volumes of the black experience. The Collection covers the entire spectrum of the black experience: philosophy, religion, social sciences, technology, the arts, literature, history, biography, fiction, and reference. The collection also contains 54 oral history interviews conducted with library staff, community leaders, friends of the library, and library patrons to celebrate 77 years of public service at the Stanford L. Warren Branch Library.