Box 10
Container
Contains 41 Results:
Black WV Legislators, 1948–1998
File — Box: 10, Folder: 28
Scope and Contents
Text of a speech? "African Americans in the West Virginia Legislature." Letter from C.A. Blankenship to The Negro History Bulletin adding names of Negroes who served in the WV Legislature, 1964. "West Virginia's Black Female Legislators" ca. 1991. Facsimile of photo with caption: "President Harry S. Truman being shown a copy of America's first Black pictorial magazine. [There is some question which came first ...
Dates:
1948–1998
Black Women in Military, William Cathay, 1876–2011
File — Box: 10, Folder: 31
Scope and Contents
Facsimile of photo of "Gabriel, Pardoned by VA Governor Tim Kaine, June 26, 2007." Research notes. Paper "Major General Gwen McMillion Bingham," ca. 2011 with newspaper clipping. Facsimile of unidentified photograph of woman in uniform. Paper "'Who Was William Cathay?' adapted from a piece in the St. Louis Daily Times, January 2, 1876." Poem "Cathay Williams," 1997. Facsimile of enlarged photo of face of unidentified soldier. Summary/timeline for Cathay Williams/William Cathay.
Dates:
1876–2011
John Brown, c.2000
File — Box: 10, Folder: 36
Scope and Contents
Handwritten research notes mostly re: John Brown and Harpers Ferry, ca. 2000.
Dates:
c.2000
National Negro Opera, 1946-c.2000
File — Box: 10, Folder: 3
Scope and Contents
"Negro Participants in the Fields of the Theatre and Music Plus Associated Enterprises: Period: 1920-1960" by Dr. Douglass T. Murray. Booklet for The National [Negro] Opera [Company].
Dates:
1946-c.2000
Desegregation, WVU Documents, DuBois High School, Slavery, etc., 1898–1999
File — Box: 10, Folder: 30
Scope and Contents
Paper titled " School Desegregation Since Brown (1954): 30-Year Perspective" by Franklin Parker, WVU Professor of Education, 1984. Two pages of annotated text of a speech about education of black West Virginians, [delivered at WVU]. Daily Athenaeum article re: interview Nelson Bickley about discrimination in housing in Morgantown, 1971. Program for "The West Virginia Experience in Higher Education: an Historical...
Dates:
1898–1999
Congratulatory Letters, 1975–2006
File — Box: 10, Folder: 9
Scope and Contents
Letter from Maureen Crocket to the Director of the Appalachian Festival re: Tangled Threads. Letter of recommendation from AB for Dr. Elaine Ginsberg. "Remarks Made upon the Presentation of the 1988 Humanities Award to Ancella Radford Bickley" by Judith Stitzel. Letter of recommendation for Dr. Bernard L. Allen for the WVU Claude Worthington Benedum Distinguished Scholar Award. Congratulatory letter for appointment [at WVSC]. Request for letter of recommendation from Marc E. Washington at...
Dates:
1975–2006
Congratulatory Letters, Certificates, & Thank Yous, 1986–1994
File — Box: 10, Folder: 12
Scope and Contents
Materials re: WV NAACP Harpers Ferry NHP, 1994, including photographs and text of speech. Congratulatory letter for receiving the Distinguished West Virginian Award, 1986. Thank you for copy of Honoring Our Past, 1992. Many other letters and notes re: service and speeches. Request to speak at the New Employment for Women Information & Referral Center in Logan about black history. Letter from Gaston Caperton, Governor, re: appointment to the Archives and History Commission, 1991. Thank...
Dates:
1986–1994
Speeches & Correspondence, 1973–2002
File — Box: 10, Folder: 13
Scope and Contents
Letter of acknowledgement to deliver commencement address and receive an honorary doctorate at MU, 1990. Newspaper clipping and tribute to Minnie Wayne Cooper, 1989. Thank you letter to Matthew Kinsolving, Kanawha County Board of Education, for plaque, 1989. Typed text of "Remarks Made upon the Presentation of the 1988 Humanities Award to Ancella Radford Bickley." Newspaper clipping and congratulatory letter re: WVSC Alumna of the Year, 1988. Letter withdrawing candidacy for the Kanawha...
Dates:
1973–2002
Speeches, Congratulatory Letters, 1963–2002
File — Box: 10, Folder: 14
Scope and Contents
Newspaper clippings, 1994-2002. Congratulatory and thank you letters, 1984-1995. Program for Staff Recall, Federal Prison Camp, Alderson, WV, with AB as guest speaker. Program for Induction Ceremony [sic], Phi Sigma Alpha, WVSC, 1995, when AB gave speech on the UGRR. Program for Carter G. Woodson Memorial Foundation Third Annual Memorial Fundraiser Banquet, 1995, AB speaker. Program for MLK birthday event at the WV School of Osteopathic Medicine where AB spoke, 1994. Resume. Photo of the...
Dates:
1963–2002
Speeches, Congratulations, Awards, 1984–2002
File — Box: 10, Folder: 15
Scope and Contents
Newspaper clippings, 1984-2002. Congratulatory and thank you letters and certificates, 1975-2002. Program for the Fourteenth Annual NEA Human and Civil Rights Awards dinner, 1980, when AB received The Carter G. Woodson Memorial Award. Program for Academy Cultural Awareness Committee Black History Month Program, 2002, where AB presented about MTG. Invitation to reception for Oliver W. Hill Freedom Fighter Award of the Virginia State Conference NAACP, 1999, and invitation to recognition event...
Dates:
1984–2002