TY  - GEN
AU  - Curtis,Joseph O.
AU  - Garrett,Naomi Mills
AU  - Simons,Alfred E.
AU  - Simons,William H.
AU  - Simons,William H.
TI  - Simons family papers,
KW  - Garrett family.
KW  - Nicholson family.
KW  - Simmons family.
KW  - Benedict College
KW  - Gordon College (Wenham, Mass.)
KW  - United States
KW  - Army
KW  - Corps of Engineers
KW  - Regiment, 357th
KW  - Virginia Union University (Richmond, Va.)
KW  - West Virginia State College (Institute, W. Va.)
KW  - African American families
KW  - South Carolina
KW  - Washington (D.C.)
KW  - African American universities and colleges
KW  - Baptists
KW  - Missions
KW  - Nigeria
KW  - Bands (Music)
KW  - Buddhism
KW  - Hinduism
KW  - Jazz
KW  - Quartermasters
KW  - Railroads
KW  - Employees
KW  - Training of
KW  - Africa, East
KW  - Romance languages
KW  - Study and teaching
KW  - West Virginia
KW  - Rural schools
KW  - Schools, British
KW  - Swing (Music)
KW  - Teachers
KW  - Telegraph
KW  - World War, 1939-1945
KW  - Europe
KW  - Haiti
KW  - Music and the war
KW  - Participation, African American
KW  - Young Men's Christian associations
KW  - Burma
KW  - India
KW  - Durban (South Africa)
KW  - Race relations
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - German East Africa
N1  - Open to research; Restrictions may apply to unprocessed material
N2  - Correspondence, diaries and diary notes (1918-1922), receipts, subject files, programs, printed matter, and clippings comprising the papers (1902-1940) of William H. Simons.  The papers document Simons's career as secretary of the international committee of the YMCA (Young Men's Christian Association) in Burma, East Africa, and India and as a Baptist missionary teacher in Nigeria.  Topics include racial and social conditions in Durban, South Africa; schools organized by the British to teach telegraphy and other railroading skills to Africans to further the British campaign against the Germans in East Africa; and Hindu and Buddhist religious practices.  Correspondents include family members, friends, and fellow students and colleagues at Benedict College, Columbia, S.C., Gordon College, Wenham, Mass., and Virginia Union University (Richmond); Correspondence, subject files, financial records, printed matter, and other material comprise the papers of other Garrett, Nicholson, and Simons family members.  Many papers relate to the World War II military service of Albert E. Simons, Jr., organizer of a jazz/swing band for the 357th Engineers Regiment during the war; William H. Simons (b. 1924), who served in Europe; and Joseph O. Curtis (not a family member), junior quartermaster officer in Europe.  The correspondence of Naomi Mills Garrett reflects her experiences as a teacher in rural South Carolina from the 1910s to the 1930s, in Haiti during World War II, and as a professor of romance languages at West Virginia State College through the 1960s
UR  - http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms007057
UR  - http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms007057.3
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