Box 7
Contains 55 Results:
Sydney Taylor Brown, 1919–2003
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.
Biographies, 1923
Facsimile of pages from History of the American Negro, W.Va. Edition, vol. VII, [edited] by [A. D.] Caldwell.
Tuskegee Airmen, 2003–2005
Print outs of web pages regarding the Tuskegee Airmen. Photograph of monument in Walterboro, SC. Newspaper clippings.
Carter G. Woodson, 1919–1991
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.
WV Black History, 1917–1987
Research materials on many aspects of WV Black history including newspaper clippings, scholarly articles, meeting programs, and the text of an Odd Fellows speech.
Coal Miners in West Virginia, 1936–1954
"Negro Coal Miners in West Virginia, 1875-1925" from the Midwest Journal, 1954. Reprint of "Negro Migration to the Mining Fields of West Virginia" from the Proceedings, West Virginia Academy of Sciences, 1936.
WV Black History, 1900–2001
Handwritten research notes. Research materials re: WV history. Typed notes on WV black history. 1955 newspaper article re: integration of schools.
WV Historical Markers, 2000–2003
Correspondence regarding black WV historical markers. Resignation as a Commissioner for the WV Division of Culture and History. Program for Roosevelt Junior High School Award Assembly, June 2, 2000; Bickley is on the program for the East End History Essay.
WV Black History Conferences, 1988–1995
Programs for West Virginia Conference on Black History at the First Baptist Church in Charleston, April 22-23, 1988, and the Eighth Annual Conference on West Virginia's Black History at Marshall University, November 10-11, 1995
Carter G. Woodson, 1939–1985
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.