Woodson, Carter Godwin 1875-1950 creator mixed material monographic eng 18,000 54 19 12 21.2 Papers of prominent African Americans, correspondence, writings, research files, business records, and other papers relating to Woodson's leadership of the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History (ASNLH) and to scholarship and publishing in the field of African and African-American history. Part I, 1803-1936 (bulk 1830-1927), was assembled by Woodson who collected and preserved primary sources on African American history as executive director of the ASNLH and editor of its principal organ, the Journal of Negro History. Includes the papers of John T. Clark, officer of the Urban League of Pittsburgh; Whitefield McKinlay, real estate broker and collector of customs, Washington, D.C.; and Benjamin T. Tanner, bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Church; and early papers of Woodson. Consists of correspondence, diaries, addresses, legal documents, newspaper clippings, and other papers concerning African American history, the Journal of Negro History, appointment of African Americans to federal office, race relations, racial discrimination, employment opportunities, state and national politics, and business matters. Also includes addresses, diaries, clippings, records of community organizations and other associations, and primary documents relating to the slavery era such as bills of sale, certificates of freedom and "free colored" ledgers. Persons represented in Part I include John Edward Bruce, George Washington Carver, William Demos Crum, Frederick Douglass, Christian A. Fleetwood, Timothy Thomas Fortune, Richard Theodore Greener, Henry Cabot Lodge, John Roy Lynch, Medill McCormick, Hiram Rhoades Revels, Theodore Roosevelt, Julius Rosenwald, Emmett J. Scott, Robert Smalls, Frederick Starr, Melville Elijah Stone, Booker T. Washington, and Charles Young. Part II, 1856-1974, relates chiefly to operations of the ASNLH and its publishing arm, Associated Publishers. Includes material concerning the Journal of Negro History; Negro History Bulletin; an unpublished Encyclopedia Africana, a comprehensive guide to African peoples, leaders, and luminaries in Africa, the U.S., South America, the Carribean, and worldwide; and W.E.B. Du Bois's project, Encyclopedia of the Negro, funded by the Phelps-Stokes Fund. Also includes primary documents relating to African-American life and history during the slavery, Reconstruction, and "New South" eras. Other subjects include Francis J. Grimké's personal finances and his ministry as pastor of the Fifteenth Street Presbyterian Church in Washington, D.C.; the service of the 368th Regiment during World War I; and efforts of "red caps," railroad service workers, to organize. Correspondents include Horace Mann Bond, Sterling Allen Brown, Wendell Phillips Dabney, Victor Daly, W.E.B. Du Bois, J. Stanley Durkee, John Hope Franklin, Edward Franklin Frazier, Edwin Bancroft Henderson, Luther B. Jackson, Rayford Whittingham Logan, Lewis B. Moore, Jules Rosemond, Francis Butler Simkins, Arthur B. Spingarn, William Warren Sweet, Alrutheus Ambush Taylor, and Charles H. Wesley. Microfilm edition of portions of part II (container 1 through part of container 38 and OV2-OV16) available, no. 22,256; cataloged in record 99016370. Open to research. Restrictions may apply to unprocessed material. Microfilm edition of containers 1-4, Whitefield McKinlay papers, available, no. 16,462. Microfilm edition of part I available, no. 17,071. Microfilm produced from originals in the Manuscript Division. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress Photoduplication Service, 1975-1977. Some maps transferred to Library of Congress Geography and Map Division. Historian, author, and collector. Collection material in English. Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms000014 Part I of the papers of Carter Godwin Woodson was processed in 1968 and revised in 1968 and 1976. This portion of this collection was formerly titled Carter G. Woodson collection of Negro papers and related documents, 1803-1936 (bulk 1830-1927). Bond, Horace Mann 1904-1972 Correspondence Brown, Sterling Allen 1901-1989 Correspondence Bruce, John Edward Carver, George Washington 1864?-1943 Crum, William Demos 1859-1912 Dabney, Wendell Phillips 1865-1952 Correspondence Daly, Victor Correspondence Douglass, Frederick 1818-1895 Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) 1868-1963 Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) 1868-1963 Correspondence Durkee, J. Stanley (James Stanley) 1866-1951 Correspondence Fleetwood, Christian A. (Christian Abraham) 1840-1914 Fortune, Timothy Thomas 1856-1928 Franklin, John Hope 1915-2009 Correspondence Frazier, Edward Franklin 1894-1962 Correspondence Greener, Richard Theodore 1844-1922 Grimké, Francis J. (Francis James) 1850-1937 Henderson, Edwin Bancroft 1883-1977 Correspondence Jackson, Luther B Correspondence Lodge, Henry Cabot 1850-1924 Logan, Rayford Whittingham 1897-1982 Correspondence Lynch, John Roy 1847-1939 McCormick, Medill 1877-1925 Moore, Lewis B. (Lewis Baxter) 1866- Correspondence Revels, Hiram Rhoades 1827?-1901 Roosevelt, Theodore 1858-1919 Rosemond, Jules 1874-1928 Correspondence Rosenwald, Julius 1862-1932 Scott, Emmett J. (Emmett Jay) 1873-1957 Simkins, Francis Butler 1897-1966 Correspondence Smalls, Robert 1839-1915 Spingarn, Arthur B. (Arthur Barnett) 1878-1971 Correspondence Starr, Frederick 1858-1933 Stone, Melville Elijah 1848-1929 Sweet, William Warren 1881-1959 Correspondence Taylor, Alrutheus Ambush Correspondence Washington, Booker T 1856-1915 Wesley, Charles H. (Charles Harris) 1891-1987 Correspondence Young, Charles 1864-1922 United States. Army. Regiment, 368th. African Methodist Episcopal Church. Associated Publishers. Association for the Study of Negro Life and History, inc. Fifteenth Street Presbyterian Church (Washington, D.C.) Phelps-Stokes Fund. Urban League of Pittsburgh. African American periodicals African Americans African Americans Employment African Americans History African Americans Study and teaching Black race Encyclopedias Blacks Blacks Africa Blacks Caribbean Area Blacks South America Customs administration Washington (D.C.) Ports of entry Washington (D.C.) Race discrimination Race relations Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) Railroads Employees Labor unions Real estate business Washington (D.C.) Slavery United States State governments United States World War, 1914-1918 Africa History Southern States History 1865-1877 United States History 1865-1898 United States Officials and employees United States Politics and government United States Politics and government 1865-1900 United States Politics and government 1901-1953 Authors Collectors Historians Clark, John T., 1883-1949 McKinlay, Whitefield, 1857-1941 Tanner, Benj. T. (Benjamin Tucker), 1835-1923 mm 76046342 hdl:loc.mss/eadmss.ms000014 hdl:loc.mss/eadmss.ms000014.3 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms000014 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms000014.3 Open to research. Restrictions may apply to unprocessed material. DLC 761018 20260227111617.0 mm 76046342