African Americans -- Education
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Emily Howland papers
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-1164
Overview
The collection consists of correspondence between the administrator of Emily Howland's estate, Richard C.S. Drummond, and representatives of 39 mostly southern African American educational institutions, as beneficiaries of her will.
Dates:
1926-1975
The New York Colored Mission records
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-1123
Overview
The records of a Quaker organization from the mid-19th to the mid-20th centuries, with social and training offerings in New York, particularly to the African American community, and based on the principle of obtaining jobs and decent housing for African Americans.
Dates:
1865-1964
L. Hollingsworth Wood papers
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-1175
Overview
Primarily correspondence related to Wood's activities in areas of peace, civil rights, African American education, and Quaker education. Wood was founding member of American Civil Liberties Union, American Friends Service Committee, and National Urban League. He was president of the Urban League for 26 years; elected in 1917 to Fisk University Board of Trustees; and a member of Haverford College Board of Managers. Correspondents include Jane Addams, Roger N. Baldwin, W. E. B. DuBois, Rufus...
Dates:
1903-1953
