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Contains 55 Results:

The Color Purple, 1984

 File — Box: 7, Folder: 4
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Text of speech, one annotated, about The Color Purple for the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities; handwritten notes.

Dates: 1984

Black Culture, 1987

 File — Box: 7, Folder: 6
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Text of two speeches about black culture with notes for accompanying slides. Note from Charles Davis. Langston Hughes poem with Alex Haley autograph. [No slides in file.]

Dates: 1987

Goldenseal Articles, 1990

 File — Box: 7, Folder: 28
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Goldenseal article about John Wesley Harris. Facsimile of newspaper clipping about Maude Beatrice Bell Plowden.

Dates: 1990

Della Brown Taylor Hardman, 2008

 File — Box: 7, Folder: 31
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Transcript of interview with AB by Ohio State University's WOSU about Della Brown Taylor [Hardman], a graduate of Garnet High School, artist, and teacher at WVSC.

Dates: 2008

Aunt Jemima, 1981–2002

 File — Box: 7, Folder: 36
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Research notes. Transcript of conversation with Bruce Rogers regarding Aunt Jemima and Bruce Family history. Facsimiles of newspaper articles regarding Aunt Jemima.

Dates: 1981–2002

Sydney Taylor Brown, 1919–2003

 File — Box: 7, Folder: 37
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Background research about the Sargent School of Physical Education; Sydney Taylor Brown who graduated from there and then WVSC; black women in the American Red Cross; and black women's service in WWII. American Legacy, Winter 1999. Research notes.

Dates: 1919–2003

Biographies, 1923

 File — Box: 7, Folder: 51
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Facsimile of pages from History of the American Negro, W.Va. Edition, vol. VII, [edited] by [A. D.] Caldwell.

Dates: 1923

Tuskegee Airmen, 2003–2005

 File — Box: 7, Folder: 52
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Print outs of web pages regarding the Tuskegee Airmen. Photograph of monument in Walterboro, SC. Newspaper clippings.

Dates: 2003–2005

Carter G. Woodson, 1919–1991

 File — Box: 7, Folder: 24a
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Research materials pertaining to Carter G. Woodson including: journal and magazine articles; facsimile of book pages; newspaper clippings; and a masters degree thesis. Text of speeches and programs for speeches by both AB and NB. Invitation to a reception to honor Sen. and Mrs. John F. Kennedy in Huntington, April 20, 1960.

Dates: 1919–1991

Carter G. Woodson, 1939–1985

 File — Box: 7, Folder: 24b
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Poems, correspondence, and other writings by Bessie Yancey, Carter G. Woodson's sister. Photocopies of journal articles and WV Collegiate Institute publications. Special Carter G. Woodson issue of Community, published by Friendship House, Winter 1970. Issue of The Journal of Negro History, July 1968.

Dates: 1939–1985