African-Americans. SEE ALSO Coal miners - African Americans.
Found in 30 Collections and/or Records:
Marshall County Archives
Monroe County Archives
Court case papers, wills, deeds, surveys and plats, ca.1772-1879, along with bound volumes of court records, deeds, estrays, road and tax records, a register for free blacks, and private account books, 1783-1923. The account books include: records of a U.S. Army post hospital at Union, 1867-1869; oil well drilling, 1886-1890; Union and Fort Spring Stage Line, 1876-1877; newspapers, 1867-1903; taverns, 1815-1872; and Union Lyceum minutes, 1845-1847.
M.P. Smith, Policeman, Letter
An anonymous letter to M.P. Smith, an African-American Clarksburg policeman, warning him to resign from the force.
Pittenger Family Letters
Various Pittenger family members wrote these letters, mostly to other family members. The most frequent correspondent is Abraham Pittenger, a farmer, teacher, and local government official in Hancock County. The letters detail farming and marketing of farm goods, educational developments, affairs of the Presbyterian Church, and family events. The collection also provides significant information about the early Republican party, secession crisis, Civil War and Reconstruction.
Ulysses Grant Carter, Collector, Papers, Photographs, and Movie Films
The collection consists of correspondence, periodicals, pamphlets and other material gathered by Carter concerning black miners in the coalfields of West Virginia, with particular reference to availability of extension courses in safety, foremanship, and engineering.