Box 10

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Newspaper clipping about AB Commencement address at Marshall University, 1990. "And Further She Sayeth Naught: a Play in Three Acts" by Maureen "Bunny" Crocket and Ancella Bickley. [Speech] re: education in WV.

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Text of speech about Martha Toler Spencer. Outline for [speech] about black women. Handwritten text of speech in Virginia, Longwood College, about black women. Notes.

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"Go with God: Remember All of Us" AB's commencement address at MU, 1994.

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Spiral bound notebook containing notes from oral history interviews with black soldiers, 1945-46. References to color-coded folders. Notes on soldiers' letters, 1943-45. List of themes in interviews. Follow up on specific soldiers, 2005, titled "Negative behavior of Blk soldiers." Diagram of Army organization.

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Research notes labeled "Army Wives Material: Discussion with Carl & Nancy Johnson Re: Military Experiences; Carl was a Tuskegee Airman. His wife, Nancy, is white" 2014. Annotated paper "The WV State Capitol" with research notes. Emails re: Kimball Wall Memorial Project, 2011. Research notes. Letter to Beverly from AB re: various researchers in the Villages, FL, 2014. Typed notes from interview with Harriet Williams, Lewisburg, WV.

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 ...

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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.

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Handwritten research notes mostly re: John Brown and Harpers Ferry, ca. 2000.

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Facsimiles of newspaper articles. Correspondence with Ray Swick, Blennerhassett Island State Park. Research materials about blacks in Wood County. Research notes. "A History of Sumner School" written by Sally Browning, 1996. The Island Packet from the Friends of Blennerhassett Island.

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Background research on blacks in Monroe County. Correspondence with Fawn Valentine and Presidents of the Monroe County Historical Society. "Bishop Matthew W. Clair, Sr.: a Biography" by Dr. Margaret B. Ballard, 1973.