Box 4274.01

Scope and Contents This file contains a single handbill soliciting contributions towards the establishment of S. and R. M. Lowery's Industrial Academy in Huntsville, Alabama, the purpose of which was to educate "the colored industrial classes of the state" to the "Industrial, Educational, mental, and moral, as well as the Christian instruction of the youth of both sexes, to properly qualify them for the highest civil duties of life. Agriculture, Horticulture, Mechanical Arts, and the growth and manipulation of...

Scope and Contents This file contains a contract between landowner Margaret Pearson and a person who had been freed from slavery named Witehard or Whitehard (his name is spelled "Witehard" in the text of the document, but "Whitehard" next to his mark), from Macon County, Georgia. In the contract, Witehard agrees to a sharecropping arrangement by which the crop is to be divided half and half between the two, Witehard first having to repair the fence around the property, clear as much land as he can, and build a...

Scope and Contents This file contains letters primarily to the members of the W. B. Matthews family. One letter written in 1904, from W. E. B. Du Bois, is a letter of recommendation on behalf of Mr. W. B. Matthews, recommending Matthews for any position in a public school system. Du Bois writes of his seven-year acquaintance with Matthews and his family and speaks very highly of Matthews, both personally and professionally. There is also a letter from Robert Russa Moton, principal of the Tuskegee Normal and...

Scope and Contents This file contains eleven receipts issued between 1847 and 1858 to a free black man named Joseph Daugherty, from a variety of merchants and individuals, for buying, selling, or leasing items ranging from cotton and corn to pasturage to a coffee pot. None of the receipts provides any indication of where Daugherty lived. They do however, reveal that he was illiterate, signing an "X" beside his name, and that many of the individuals with whom he did business were barely literate.

Scope and Contents This file contains two newspaper articles relative to Autherine Lucy's enrollment at The University of Alabama in 1956. One, from a German newspaper, is annotated "Heidelberg, February 1956." The other is an Associated Press story, annotated "C-J (presumably the Louisville Courier-Journal), 9 May 1992," and relates to the establishment of an endowed scholarship at The University of Alabama in her name.

Scope and Contents This file contains a single envelope addressed to Mrs. Mary Galda, in Detroit, written by George Galda from Ft. Bragg, North Carolina, postmarked September 30, 1944. The envelope bears a picture of Booker T. Washington, the caption of which states: "famous American educator."

Scope and Contents This collection contains four items related to African American education: a commencement program for Central Colored High School in Louisville, Kentucky; a ticket to commencement exercises at Central Colored High School in Louisville, Kentucky; a program for a recital at Howard Female College; and an envelope and stamps celebrating the Centennial of Booker T. Washington,, depicting images of the Tuskegee Institute.

Scope and Contents This file contains the December 1940 issue of The Crisis, a magazine published by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).