Greene, Lorenzo J. (Lorenzo Johnston) 1899-1988 creator mixed material monographic eng 46,200 106 9 2 42.8 Chiefly academic files documenting Greene's career as a professor of history and pioneer in the field of African American studies at Lincoln University, Jefferson City, Mo. Academic files include correspondence, memoranda, minutes of meetings, grant proposals, student writings, course and curricula material, bibliographies, news releases, reports, subject files, archival resources on African Americans, drafts of books, statistical files, legal documents, and other research material. Family papers include correspondence, address books, biographical material, legal papers, concert programs, and other papers. The Speeches and Writings file includes speeches; writings by Greene and others including articles, books, dissertations, diaries, poems, and song lyrics; and transcripts of interviews and panel discussions. Also includes files for professional and public interest organizations. Records of Midwest Journal, a periodical emphasizing research in African American studies and writings which Greene edited from 1947 to 1956, include correspondence, manuscript articles, short stories, poems, transcripts, biographical material, galleys, and subscription and circulation lists. Documents Greene's work with Carter G. Woodson and Charles H. Wesley of the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History, Inc.; his publications and research on African Americans in general, particularly in colonial New England; and his role as a consultant to Parting Ways, the Museum of Afro-American Ethnohistory, Plymouth, Mass. Civil rights and community activities documented include sharecroppers' roadside demonstrations in southern Missouri (1939-1940); advocacy for open housing, school desegregation, and multicultural representation in textbooks; and Greene's work with organizations such as the Missouri Advisory Committee to the United States Commission on Civil Rights, Missouri Association for Social Welfare, Missouri Commission on Human Rights, Institute for Drop-Out Prevention and Teacher Orientation, Kansas City, Mo., and Institute to Facilitate Desegregation in the Kansas City, Mo., Public Schools. The concert career of Greene's wife, pianist Thomasina T. Greene, is reflected in the family papers. Correspondents include Marjorie E. Anderson, Herbert Aptheker, Clarence Albert Bacote, Thomas Hart Benton, Cecil A. Blue, Andrew F. Brimmer, Mary E. Brooks, Adelaide M. Cromwell, Gerald L. Davis, Herman Dreer, W. E. B. Du Bois, William L. Dunn, Mervyn M. Dymally, Merl R. Eppse, John E. Fleming, Charles W. Florence, James Frank, John Hope Franklin, Jacqueline Anne Goggin, H. Hadley Hartshorn, J. Noel Heermance, Harvey H. Jackson, Luther Porter Jackson, W. B. Jason, Charles Spurgeon Johnson, Harold J. Jones, Lois Mailou Jones, Peter Kellogg, Charles L. Klotzer, Ulysses Lee, Rayford Whittingham Logan, Wilbur C. McAfee, Paul McStallworth, Louis R. Mehlinger, August Meier, M. Sammye Miller, Edward Alexander Parsons, Benjamin Quarles, Lawrence Dunbar Reddick, Richard E. Risk, William P. Robinson, Patricia W. Romero, George Shepperson, Bert Shulimson, Mabel M. Smythe, Arvarh E. Strickland, Charles W. Thomas, Harcourt A. Tynes, Raleigh Wilson, and Marion Manola Thompson Wright. Restrictions apply. Microfilm edition of U.S. Army Colored Infantry, 18th Regiment records, circa 1863-circa 1865 (reel 1) and Missouri volunteer regiments registers of deaths, 1861-1865 (reel 2), available only on microfilm; no. 20,305. Microfilm of originals in the National Archives and Records Administration (Washington, D.C.) Washington, D.C. National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C. Audio and video recordings transferred to Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division. Photographs transferred to Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. African American historian, educator, editor, and civil rights and social activist. Collection material in English. Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms001016 Anderson, Marjorie E Correspondence Aptheker, Herbert 1915-2003 Correspondence Bacote, Clarence Albert 1906- Correspondence Benton, Thomas Hart 1889-1975 Correspondence Blue, Cecil A Correspondence Brimmer, Andrew F Correspondence Brooks, Mary E Correspondence Cromwell, Adelaide M Correspondence Davis, Gerald L Correspondence Dreer, Herman 1889- Correspondence Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) 1868-1963 Correspondence Dunn, William L 1919- Correspondence Dymally, Mervyn M 1926-2012 Correspondence Eppse, Merl R. (Merl Raymond) 1893- Correspondence Fleming, John E. (John Emory) 1944- Correspondence Florence, Charles W Correspondence Frank, James 1930- Correspondence Franklin, John Hope 1915-2009 Correspondence Goggin, Jacqueline Anne 1953- Correspondence Greene, Thomasina T. (Thomasina Talley) 1913- Hartshorn, H. Hadley (Herbert Hadley) 1909- Correspondence Heermance, J. Noel Correspondence Jackson, Harvey H Correspondence Jackson, Luther Porter 1892-1950 Correspondence Jason, W. B Correspondence Johnson, Charles Spurgeon 1893-1956 Correspondence Jones, Harold J Correspondence Jones, Lois Mailou Correspondence Kellogg, Peter Correspondence Klotzer, Charles L Correspondence Lee, Ulysses Correspondence Logan, Rayford Whittingham 1897-1982 Correspondence McAfee, Wilbur C Correspondence McStallworth, Paul Correspondence Mehlinger, Louis R Correspondence Meier, August 1923- Correspondence Miller, M. Sammye Correspondence Parsons, Edward Alexander 1878-1962 Correspondence Quarles, Benjamin Correspondence Reddick, Lawrence Dunbar 1910- Correspondence Risk, Richard E Correspondence Robinson, William P 1911- Correspondence Romero, Patricia W Correspondence Shepperson, George Correspondence Shulimson, Bert Correspondence Smythe, Mabel M. (Mabel Murphy) Correspondence Strickland, Arvarh E Correspondence Thomas, Charles W 1926- Correspondence Tynes, Harcourt A Correspondence Wesley, Charles H. (Charles Harris) 1891-1987 Wilson, Raleigh Correspondence Woodson, Carter Godwin 1875-1950 Wright, Marion Manola Thompson 1904-1962 Correspondence Association for the Study of Negro Life and History, inc. Institute for Drop-Out Prevention and Teacher Orientation (Kansas City, Mo.) Institute to Facilitate Desegregation in the Kansas City, Mo., Public Schools. Lincoln University (Jefferson City, Mo.) Missouri Association for Social Welfare. Missouri Commission on Human Rights. Parting Ways, the Museum of Afro-American Ethnohistory (Plymouth, Mass.) United States Commission on Civil Rights. Missouri Advisory Committee. African American periodicals African Americans Civil rights African Americans History African Americans New England African Americans Study and teaching Discrimination in housing Dropouts Missouri Kansas City Ethnological museums and collections Massachusetts Plymouth Multiculturalism Pianists School integration Missouri Kansas City Sharecroppers Missouri Civil rights activists Editors Educators Historians Social activists mm 89077480 hdl:loc.mss/eadmss.ms001016 hdl:loc.mss/eadmss.ms001016.3 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms001016 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms001016.3 Restrictions apply. DLC 890816 20260227111723.0 mm 89077480