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0819: Memphis Tennessee Garrison Papers, 1898-1981, Marshall University Special Collections
0819: Memphis Tennessee Garrison Papers, 1898-1981, Marshall University Special Collections
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This collection contains the personal, religious, educational, and political possessions of Memphis Tennessee Garrison. The collection includes correspondence, photographs, newspaper articles, programs, books, financial documents, publications, newsletters, plaques, certificates, a diary, and a jewelry box. The materials document Garrison’s various roles on the local and national levels of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People as well as her participation in other civil rights activities.
To view materials from this collection that are digitized and available online, search the Memphis Tennessee Garrison Papers, 1898-1981 here.
0639: Huntington Homemakers Papers, 1957-1992, Marshall University Special Collections
0639: Huntington Homemakers Papers, 1957-1992, Marshall University Special Collections
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African-American extension homemakers’ group of Huntington, West Virginia Papers consist of programs of events, correspondence, certificates, photographs, club rosters and newspaper clippings.
0522: Ancella Bickley Collection, 1908-1947, Marshall University Special Collections
0522: Ancella Bickley Collection, 1908-1947, Marshall University Special Collections
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West Virginia educator. Papers consist primarily of programs of events related to African-Americans in West Virginia, especially Douglass High School in Huntington, West Virginia.
0418: Whittaker-Glanville Family Papers, 1856-1985, Marshall University Special Collections
0418: Whittaker-Glanville Family Papers, 1856-1985, Marshall University Special Collections
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Papers consist primarily of diaries, newspaper clippings, correspondence, genealogies and photographs of five families: the Glanville-Carter families of St. Louis, Mo.; the Whittakers of Preble County, Ohio; Dorothy Whittaker Atkins of Huntington, West Virginia.; and the Heacocks of Bucks County, Penna.
A significant part of the collection are the diaries of Annie Heacock, a teacher at the Penn School for freed slaves in Beaufort, South Carolina, 1864-1869. Other diaries include the Civil War diary of John Whittaker, a surgeon in the 81st Ohio Volunteer Infantry.
To view materials from this collection that are digitized and available online, search the Whittaker-Glanville …