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Temple Collection (Mss 55), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Temple Collection (Mss 55), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 55. Correspondence, 1931-1970 (33 items), chiefly of William Montgomery Temple, originally of Bowling Green, Kentucky, an autograph collector; his collection of papers of Kentucky governors, 1805-1951 (50); other autograph letters, 1715-1941 (17); and articles about Bowling Green, etc., (23).
"Carry Me Back To Old Virginny" : Virginia And The Bonus March Of 1932, Steven Patrick Schultz
"Carry Me Back To Old Virginny" : Virginia And The Bonus March Of 1932, Steven Patrick Schultz
Master's Theses
On 6 May 1932 the Ways and Means Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives declined to pass along for a full vote in the House a bill that would have provided for immediate and complete payment of the Soldiers' Bonus, a small sum of money due in 1945 to veterans of World War I. In doing so it set in motion a chain of events that led to one of the most sordid affairs in American history, the Bonus March of 1932, when tens of thousands of World War I veterans traveled to Washington to ask their government for …
Underwood, Henry Lewis, 1848-1925 (Mss 72), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Underwood, Henry Lewis, 1848-1925 (Mss 72), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 72. Photocopies of correspondence, diary, legal papers, speeches, poems, photographs, and newspaper clippings of the Underwood family of Warren County, Kentucky, chiefly concerning Henry Lewis Underwood.
Wilson, Fredonia Francis, 1821-1850 (Sc 1679), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Wilson, Fredonia Francis, 1821-1850 (Sc 1679), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1679. Letter, 9 March 1846, from Fredonia F. Wilson, Campbell County, Virginia, to her uncle Dr. Thomas T. Watson, Empire Iron Works, Trigg County, Kentucky. She provides information about family members and urges him to come to Virginia for a visit.
Sons Of The American Revolution - Applications (Sc 1665), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Sons Of The American Revolution - Applications (Sc 1665), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid for Manuscripts Small Collection 1665. Applications (42) for membership in the Sons of the American Revolution from individuals in far eastern Kentucky and far western Virginia. To see a list of the applicants click on "Additional Files" below.
Jones, Edwina Chandler, 1911-2002 (Sc 1661), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Jones, Edwina Chandler, 1911-2002 (Sc 1661), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1661. Correspondence between Edwina Chandler Jones and Betty Boyd Lyne, chiefly related to their families and mutual friends, Jones's travel and church activities, and her move from Bowling Green to Lakewood Manor Baptist Retirement Home in Richmond, Virginia.
Helm, John, 1741-1825 (Sc 1648), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Helm, John, 1741-1825 (Sc 1648), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1648. Copy of John Helm's appointment as Second Lieutenant in the Bedford County, Virginia militia. Signed 22 November 1779 in Williamsburg, Virginia by Governor Thomas Jefferson.
Clark Family Papers (Sc 1619), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Clark Family Papers (Sc 1619), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1619. Clark family correspondence, chiefly 1864-1865 letters from Confederate soldier Philip G. Clark, serving with the 28th Virginia Infantry, to his wife, Sarah, and children, near Roanoke, Virginia, commenting on the hardships faced by the troops and his desire to return home. Also, 1867 letter to Sarah Clark from her brother, George A. Mullen.
Warner, Sarah (Sc 22), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Warner, Sarah (Sc 22), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 22. Letter written by Sarah Warner, Hanover, Virginia, to her brother, Mansfield Warner, Shelbyville, Kentucky, containing family news only.
Phillips, William B. (Sc 24), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Phillips, William B. (Sc 24), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 24. Typed copy of letter written by Phillips, Maysville, Kentucky, to William Tompkins, Kanawha Saline, Virginia, concerning salt contracts, 1834, and a letter, 1934, containing information about the 1834 letter.
Lafferty, John Aker, 1832-1905 (Sc 1617), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Lafferty, John Aker, 1832-1905 (Sc 1617), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1617. Civil War reminiscences of John Aker Lafferty, Harrison County, Kentucky, recounted in 1905 to his son W.T. Lafferty. John A. Lafferty served with the 1st Kentucky Cavalry and later with the 9th Kentucky Cavalry. W.T. Lafferty adds an account of his family's lives as Confederate sympathizers in Harrison County during the war.
Jefferson, Thomas, 1677?-1731 (Sc 1), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Jefferson, Thomas, 1677?-1731 (Sc 1), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1. Typed copy of the will of Captain Thomas Jefferson, Henrico County, Virginia, the grandfather of President Jefferson.
Woods, Elizabeth Moseley, 1865-1967 (Mss 25), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Woods, Elizabeth Moseley, 1865-1967 (Mss 25), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 25. Correspondence related to travel of Elizabeth Moseley Woods (1865-1967). Also includes Woods family correspondence, 100th birthday congratulations, Woods and Hall families genealogies, a household account book kept by Woods on a stay in Paris, 1901, and a script of a 1938 radio broadcast related to a South American cruise taken by Woods. Also includes clippings related to the retirement of Dr. John D. Woods as editor of the "Glasgow Times." An original and two copies of 1862 Civil letters (Confederate) are also included.
Ferguson, Champ, 1821-1865 (Mss 1), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Ferguson, Champ, 1821-1865 (Mss 1), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 1. An account of Ferguson's military trial for murders committed during the Civil War by him and his band of outlaws, held at Nashville, Tennessee. Transcript compiled from official records by Frank R. McGlasson, U.S. Army surgeon.
"Keep On Keeping On": African Americans And The Implementation Of Brown V. Board Of Education In Virginia, Brian J. Daugherity
"Keep On Keeping On": African Americans And The Implementation Of Brown V. Board Of Education In Virginia, Brian J. Daugherity
History Publications
This chapter examines African American efforts to implement the Brown decision in Virginia. While considering how government officials, segregationist organizations, and white supporters influenced the implementation process, this study focuses on how the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and its supporters in Virginia sought to bring about school desegregation in the state. Blending African American, southern, legal, and civil rights history, the story sheds new light on the school desegregation process and the early years of the civil rights movement in Virginia.
Education For All: The Freedmen's Bureau Schools In Richmond And Petersburg, 1865 - 1870, Scott Britton Hansen
Education For All: The Freedmen's Bureau Schools In Richmond And Petersburg, 1865 - 1870, Scott Britton Hansen
Theses and Dissertations
This study examines the development of Freedmen's Bureau schools in Central Virginia at the end of the Civil War. Under the watchful eye of Ralza Manly, Superintendent of the Virginia Freedmen's Bureau education division, establishing schools for freed slaves faced innumerable challenges ranging from inadequate financial resources to hostile southern whites who opposed northern intervention into local affairs. Nevertheless, northern benevolent societies and hundreds of altruistic, yet paternalistic, educational missionaries converged on Richmond and Petersburg determined that education was essential if blacks were to achieve true freedom and become self-reliant and independent. While the Bureau devoted much of its energy …
How Cultural Factors Hastened The Population Decline Of The Powhatan Indians, Julia Ruth Beckley
How Cultural Factors Hastened The Population Decline Of The Powhatan Indians, Julia Ruth Beckley
Theses and Dissertations
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