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_cDLC
_dDLC
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245 0 0 _aGreen-Driver collection,
_f1896-1969
_g(bulk 1902-1948).
300 _a2,000
_fitems.
300 _a6
_fcontainers.
300 _a2.2
_flinear feet.
351 _aArranged in 2 series. Series 1: Name File, 1896-1969; and Series 2: Miscellany, 1902-1964.
506 0 _aOpen to research.
520 8 _aCorrespondence, 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.
520 8 _aIncludes 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.
546 _aCollection material in English.
555 8 _aFinding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room.
600 1 0 _aHeaden, L. A.
600 1 0 _aLowenfeld, Viktor
_vCorrespondence.
600 3 0 _aDriver family.
600 3 0 _aGreen family.
610 2 0 _aAfricana Beauty Parlor.
610 2 0 _aHampton Institute
_xStudents.
610 2 0 _aHeaden Motor Company.
610 2 0 _aKnights of Pythias of North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Africa and Australia.
650 0 _aAfrican American business enterprises.
650 0 _aAfrican American business enterprises
_zSouthern States.
650 0 _aAfrican American Heroines of Jericho.
650 0 _aAfrican American women
_xSocieties and clubs.
650 0 _aAfrican Americans
_xSocial life and customs.
650 0 _aAfrican Americans
_xSocieties, etc.
650 0 _aAfrican Americans
_zSouthern States.
650 0 _aAfrican Americans
_xSegregation
_zSouthern States.
650 0 _aAutomobile industry and trade
_zUnited States.
650 0 _aBaptists
_zSouthern States.
650 0 _aBeauty shops
_zFlorida
_zJacksonville.
650 0 _aFirearms
_xLicenses
_zGeorgia
_zCobb County.
650 0 _aFreemasonry.
650 0 _aHairdressing of African Americans.
650 0 _aVoter registration
_zFlorida
_zDuval County.
651 0 _aSouthern States
_xHistory
_y1865-1951.
651 0 _aSouthern States
_xRace relations.
651 0 _aSouthern States
_xSocial life and customs.
700 1 _aBaker, Annabelle
_tAnnabelle Baker papers.
700 1 _aBusby, William L.,
_ddied 1919
_tWilliam L. Busby papers.
700 1 _aDriver, William M.,
_ddied 1943
_tWilliam M. Driver papers.
700 1 _aGreen, John Benjamin,
_ddied 1934.
_tJohn Benjamin Green papers.
700 1 _aGresham, Pattie,
_d1882-1960.
_tPattie Gresham papers.
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_d44864