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0609: Association Of Southern Women For The Prevention Of Lynching Records [Microfilm], 1930-1942, Marshall University Special Collections
0609: Association Of Southern Women For The Prevention Of Lynching Records [Microfilm], 1930-1942, Marshall University Special Collections
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The papers of the Association of Southern Women for the Prevention of Lynching include correspondence, reports, pamphlets, legislative materials, and meeting minutes that trace the Association’s activities to address the problem of lynching of African Americans through public education rather than federal government intervention. Each format is not divided neatly into series and is available on multiple reels. Also in the collection is a guide covering in more detail what content is on reel, titled, The Commission on Interracial Cooperation papers, 1919-1944 and the Association of Southern Women for the Prevention of Lynching papers, 1930-1942 : a guide to the …
0612: Jim Comstock Collection, 1976, Marshall University Special Collections
0612: Jim Comstock Collection, 1976, Marshall University Special Collections
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This collection is composed of three items: a signed letter to Jim Comstock by Marvin L. Stone, including a request from Comstock for stone to write about Marshall University and Page Pitt, the envelope the letter came in, and a handwritten reminiscence of Huntington in 1940-1945 by John Duncan titled, “We Polished Our Buttons,” which discusses Duncan’s experience in World War II as well as his memories of Huntington during that time.
0611: Virginius R. Moss Papers, 1856-1903, Marshall University Special Collections
0611: Virginius R. Moss Papers, 1856-1903, Marshall University Special Collections
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Cabell Co., West Virginia physician. Bulk of collection consists of receipts for taxes and notes; family and other correspondence; ephemera includes bill of fare from the Greenbrier resort hotel.
0614: Andrew Roseberry Papers, 1857-1995, Marshall University Special Collections
0614: Andrew Roseberry Papers, 1857-1995, Marshall University Special Collections
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Mason County, West Virginia, native, sheriff; later in Lakeland, Florida. Primarily letters written in the 1850s to Violet Dils of Parkersburg, Va. (now West Virginia) who became his wife.