mixed material monographic eng 2,000 6 2.2 Correspondence, topical files, financial records, printed matter, photographs, and other papers of businesswoman and church worker Pattie Gresham and her three husbands; insurance executive William L. Busby, Baptist minister and Masonic activist John Benjamin Green, and Baptist minister and grocery store owner William M. Driver. Documents African-American middle class, business, and church life in the American South during the Jim Crow era. Subjects include the activities of John Benjamin Green, especially his role as field secretary for the women's Masonic organization African American Heroines of Jericho, and of William M. Driver as an official of the Colored Knights of Phythias, also known as the Knights of Pythias of North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Africa and Australia. Miscellaneous items include Gresham's Duval County, Fla., 1938 voter registration certificate; business cards for her Africana Beauty Parlor in Jacksonville, Fla.; and her Cobb County, Ga., "pistol toters' license from 1920. Correspondents include Viktor Lowenfeld. Includes correspondence and miscellaneous papers of artist Annabelle Baker whose education at Hampton Institute, Hampton, Va., Gresham sponsored during the early 1940s, relating chiefly to the controversy at the school concerning Baker's pioneering "natural" hairstyle. Also includes a brochure and prospectus published by African-American inventor and automobile manufacturer L.A. Headen's Headen Motor Company. Open to research. Collection material in English. Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room. Headen, L. A Lowenfeld, Viktor Correspondence Driver family Green family Africana Beauty Parlor. Hampton Institute Students Headen Motor Company. Knights of Pythias of North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Africa and Australia. African American business enterprises African American business enterprises Southern States African American Heroines of Jericho African American women Societies and clubs African Americans Social life and customs African Americans Societies, etc African Americans Southern States African Americans Segregation Southern States Automobile industry and trade United States Baptists Southern States Beauty shops Florida Jacksonville Firearms Licenses Georgia Cobb County Freemasonry Hairdressing of African Americans Voter registration Florida Duval County Southern States History 1865-1951 Southern States Race relations Southern States Social life and customs Baker, Annabelle Busby, William L., died 1919 Driver, William M., died 1943 Green, John Benjamin, died 1934 Gresham, Pattie, 1882-1960 mm2011085597 Open to research. DLC 110725 20260227111732.0 mm2011085597 eng