Kendrick-Brooks Family
A Register of Its Papers in the Library of Congress
Prepared by Joseph Kendrick Brooks
Manuscript Division, Library of Congress
Washington, D.C.
2001
Contact information: http://lcweb.loc.gov/rr/mss/address.html
Finding aid encoded by Library of Congress Manuscript Division, 2006
Finding aid URL: http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms006015
Title: Papers of the Kendrick-Brooks Family
Span Dates: 1831-2000
Bulk Dates: (bulk 1912-1989)
ID No.: MSS84736 Creator:
Kendrick Family
Creator: Brooks Family Extent:
11,500 items;
33 containers plus 1 oversize;
13.2 linear feet Language: Collection material in English
Repository:
Manuscript Division, Library of Congress,
Washington, D.C.
Abstract: Club women, civil rights activists, educators, entertainers, and family members. Correspondence, social club records, writings,
scrapbooks, and miscellaneous papers relating primarily to Ruby Moyse Kendrick's activities with the National Association
of Colored Women's Clubs; Hattie Kendrick's civil rights activism in Cairo, Illinois; Antoinette Brooks Mitchell's expatriate
life in England and France with her husband, jazz musician and restaurateur Louis A. Mitchell; and Charlotte Kendrick Brooks's
histories of the Kendrick and Brooks families.
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the Library's online catalog. They are grouped
by name of person or organization, by subject or location, and by occupation and listed alphabetically therein.
Names: Brooks family Kendrick family Andrews, R. P.--Correspondence Baker, Ray Stannard, 1870-1946--Correspondence Blythe, Samuel G. (Samuel George), 1868-1947--Correspondence Brooks, Albert R. Brooks, Lucy Goode Brooks, Walter H. (Walter Henderson), b. 1851--Correspondence Brydie, Edward W.--Correspondence Bustanoby, Louis, d. 1917--Correspondence Castle, Vernon, 1887-1918--Correspondence Clemons, Hervey A.--Correspondence Cobb, Martha Cohen, Octavus Roy, 1891- --Correspondence Gaines, Irene M. (Irene McCoy), 1896-1964--Correspondence Gragg, Rosa Lee Slade, 1904-1989--Correspondence Guttridge, Leonard F.--Correspondence Harrison, Bernie--Correspondence Howard, Charles A.--Correspondence Johnson, F. D.--Correspondence Jones, Julian--Correspondence Kendrick, Swan M., 1885-1923 Kendrick, Webster M. Kildare, Dan, 1879-1920--Correspondence Littlejohn, T. S.--Correspondence Lyells, Ruby Elizabeth Stutts, 1908- --Correspondence Neely, Mabel--Correspondence Pickle, Addie--Correspondence Reese, Mamie B.--Correspondence Rhodes, Harrison, 1871-1929--Correspondence Trawick, A. M. (Arcadius McSwain), 1869- --Correspondence United States. Army--African American troops National Association for the Advancement of Colored People National Association of Colored Women's Clubs (U.S.) Brooks, Charlotte, 1918-1998. Papers of Charlotte Brooks (1831-1999) Kendrick, Hattie, 1894-1989. Papers of Hattie Kendrick (1942-2000) Kendrick, Ruby Moyse, 1886-1986. Papers of Ruby Moyse Kendrick (1892-1995) Mitchell, Antoinette Brooks, 1892-1972. Papers of Antoinette Brooks Mitchell (1894-1974) Mitchell, Louis A., 1885-1957. Papers of Louis A. Mitchell (1894-1974) Mitchell, Louis A., 1914-1972. Papers of Louis A. Mitchell (1912-1972)
Subjects: African American musicians--Europe African American musicians African Americans--Education African Americans--Societies, etc. Baseball--England Baseball--France Civil rights--United States Cotton growing--Mississippi--Bolivar County Education--Illinois--Cairo Education--Mississippi--Greenville Jazz--Europe Lynching Migration, Internal--United States Nightclubs--England Nightclubs--France Nightclubs--United States Press--United States Restaurateurs--England Restaurateurs--France Restaurateurs--United States Riots--United States Slavery--United States Social problems--United States World War, 1914-1918--African Americans World War, 1914-1918--Manpower Bolivar County (Miss.)--History Greenville (Miss.)--Social life and customs United States--Race relations
Provenance:The papers of the Kendrick-Brooks Family were given to the Library of Congress by Walter H. Brooks in 2000-2001. Transfers:Sound recordings of Hattie Kendrick have been transferred to the Library's Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound
Division where they are identified as part of these papers.
Copyright Status:Copyright in the unpublished writings of the Kendrick-Brooks family in these papers and in other collections in the custody
of the Library of Congress has been dedicated to the public, except that copyright in the the correspondence between Ruby
Moyse Kendrick and Swan M. Kendrick is reserved. Consult a reference librarian in the Manuscript Division for further information.
Restrictions:Restriction apply governing the use, photoduplication, or publication of items in this collection. Consult a reference librarian
in the Manuscript Division for information concerning these restrictions.
Preferred Citation:Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: Container number, Kendrick-Brooks Family
Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Ruby Moyse Kendrick
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1886, July 7 |
Born, Greenville, Miss. |
1905 |
Normal school degree, Knoxville College, Knoxville, Tenn. |
1906-ca. 1914 |
Public school teacher, Greenville, Miss. |
1916 |
Married Swan Marshall Kendrick (died 1923) |
ca. 1927-ca. 1974 |
Active with the National Association of Colored Women's Clubs as executive, secretary, director of public relations, and historian |
1942 |
B.A., Howard University, Washington, D.C. |
1986, Oct. 30 |
Died, Washington, D.C. |
Hattie Kendrick
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Event |
1894, Nov. 28 |
Born, Duncan, Miss. |
ca. 1914 |
Normal school degree, Knoxville College, Knoxville, Tenn. |
ca. 1915-ca. 1920 |
Public school teacher, Clarksdale, Miss. |
ca. 1920-1953 |
Teacher, Cairo, Ill. |
1943 |
Filed suit against Cairo, Ill., board of education seeking pay equity; suit won by Thurgood Marshall of the NAACP in 1946. |
1967-ca. 1969 |
Teacher, Illinois Migrant School Eight, Cairo, Ill. |
1973 |
Filed class action suit against city of Cairo, Ill., challenging electoral system; consent degree granted 1980. |
1989, June 11 |
Died, Carbondale, Ill. |
Antoinette Brooks Mitchell
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Event |
1892, Aug. 12 |
Born, Washington, D.C. |
1910 |
Graduated M Street High School, Washington, D.C. |
ca. 1910-ca. 1912 |
Attended Howard University, Washington, D.C. |
1912 |
Married Louis A. Mitchell |
1915-1916 |
Lived with husband in London, England |
1916-1930 |
Lived with husband in Paris, France |
1972, May 31 |
Died, Washington, D.C. |
Louis A. Mitchell
Date |
Event |
1885, Dec. 17 |
Born, Asbury Park, N.J. |
1907 |
Joined Cole & Johnson vaudeville troupe as a singer and actor |
1912 |
Married Antoinette Brooks |
1913-1914 |
Managed Southern Symphony Quintette and played bandoline and drums, Beaux Arts Café, New York, N.Y. |
1914 |
Played Piccadilly Restaurant, London, England |
1914-1915 |
Toured United States with Clef Club orchestra, directed by James Reese Europe |
1915 |
Toured England as part of the Jordan and Mitchell duo Drummer, London Hippodrome, London, England
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1917-1918 |
Organized and directed ragtime and jazz band Seven Spades on tour in England and France |
ca. 1919-ca. 1924 |
Organized and directed Mitchell's Jazz Kings, Casino de Paris, Paris, France |
1924-1930 |
Owned and managed several nightclubs and restaurants in Paris, France |
1930-1957 |
Worked in advertising, public relations, newspaper circulation, beer
distribution, and nightclubs, New York, N.Y., Newark, N.J., Pittsburgh, Pa., and Washington, D.C.
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1957, Sept. 12 |
Died, Washington, D.C. |
Charlotte Kendrick Brooks
Date |
Event |
1918, June 5 |
Born, Washington, D.C., to Ruby Moyse Kendrick |
1939 |
B.A., Howard University, Washington, D.C. Married Walter H. Brooks (1916- )
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1941-1961 |
Teacher, Washington D.C., public schools |
1961-1973 |
Assistant director and director, English department, Washington, D.C., public schools |
1975-1976 |
President, National Council of Teachers of English |
1998, Dec. 7 |
Died, Washington D.C. |
The papers of the Kendrick-Brooks family span the years 1831 to 2000, with the bulk of the collection concentrated in the
period 1912-1989. The papers include correspondence, files related to the National Association of Colored Women's Clubs (NACWC),
transcripts of audiotapes, business records, photographs, scrapbooks, family papers, book drafts, genealogical charts and
research, and printed matter. The collection is arranged in series named for four members of the two African-American families:
Ruby Moyse Kendrick, Hattie Kendrick, Antoinette Brooks Mitchell, and Charlotte Kendrick Brooks. A final series consists of oversize photographs and posters.
Ruby Moyse Kendrick (1886-1986) taught in the public schools of Greenville, Mississippi, before World War I and was active in the black women's
social club movement for more than fifty years after migrating to Washington, D.C., with her husband and fellow Mississippian
Swan M. Kendrick (1885-1923). Hattie Kendrick (1894-1989), Swan M. Kendrick's sister, moved from Mississippi to Cairo, Illinois, where she had a long career as a teacher
and as a civil rights and social activist. Antoinette Brooks Mitchell (1892-1974), daughter of Walter H. Brooks (1851-1945), pastor of the Nineteenth Street Baptist Church in Washington, D.C.,
dropped out of college and eloped with actor and musician Louis A. Mitchell (1885-1957), eventually moving with her husband
to England and France, where he pioneered jazz music during the World War I era and the 1920s. Some of the correspondence,
contracts, and publicity material documenting Louis and Antoinette Mitchell's life in Europe is in French. Charlotte Kendrick Brooks, educator, writer, and daughter of Ruby Moyse and Swan M. Kendrick, married Walter H. Brooks (1916- ), nephew of Antoinette
Brooks Mitchell and grandson of Walter H. Brooks (1851- 1945).
A file relating to the National Association of Colored Women's Clubs, the largest in the Ruby Moyse Kendrick series, documents her activities with the organization from the 1920s through the 1970s. Over those years Kendrick was executive
secretary, director of public relations, historian, and managing editor of the NACWC's official organ, National Notes. The bulk of the NACWC correspondence is concentrated in the 1950s, and correspondents include Irene McCoy Gaines, Rosa
Gragg, Ruby Stutts Lyells, Mabel Neely, and Mamie B. Reese. The Manuscript Division of the Library of Congress holds a microfilm
edition of the records of the National Association of Colored Women's Clubs.
Other files in the Ruby Moyse Kendrick series include correspondence and family papers. Much of the correspondence consists of letters between Ruby Moyse Kendrick
and her husband. The correspondence was at its most voluminous during the couple's long distance courtship and engagement
between 1911 and their wedding in 1916, when Swan M. Kendrick was working as a typist-stenographer and supervisor for the
War Department in Washington, D.C., and Ruby Moyse was teaching elementary school in Greenville, Mississippi. In his letters
to Ruby, Swan shared his hopes, dreams, financial situation, and activities in Washington. He wrote of his government livelihood
and his desire to be his own man by going into business or farming; of his search for a house for them and farmland in Washington,
D.C., Maryland, and Virginia; and about his work as secretary of the Washington, D.C., branch of the National Association
for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), with the alumni association of Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee, and
as a church choir director. Ruby Moyse wrote from Greenville about teaching school, church and civic activities, the black
business and professional community, and what she termed “high colored society.” There is also a file related to this correspondence
in the books file of the Charlotte Kendrick Brooks series, which includes a subject and date index of the letters. Some of Ruby Moyse Kendrick's other correspondents include
her daughters Charlotte Kendrick Brooks and Martha Kendrick Cobb, her son, Webster M. Kendrick, her childhood friend and teaching colleague Addie Pickle, and
businessmen she termed her “beaus,” Edward W. Brydie, Hervey A. Clemons, Charles A. Howard, F. D. Johnson, and T .S. Littlejohn.
General correspondence and material documenting Swan M. Kendrick's career as a clerk and supervisor with the War Department's
office of the chief of ordnance and as an NAACP official can be found in the family papers file of the Ruby Moyse Kendrick series. The NAACP file includes correspondence and other material related to the East St. Louis, Illinois, race riot in
1917.
Swan Kendrick belonged to a correspondents club aimed at combating aspersions against African Americans in public forums,
and letters related to the club constitutes the bulk of the letters in his general correspondence. Some of the correspondence
focused on race and manpower issues in the army during the World War I era. Other correspondence, in letters to R. P. Andrews,
Ray Stannard Baker, Samuel G. Blythe, Octavus Roy Cohen, Harrison Rhodes, and A. M. Trawick, dealt with the representation,
good and bad, of African Americans in newspapers and other popular press.
In 1919, as his daughters were becoming toddlers, Swan Kendrick exchanged letters with the M. A. Donohue publishing company
of Chicago objecting to the inclusion of the “Ten Little Niggers” rhyme in one of their Mother Goose books. He wrote the
governor of Kentucky, Edwin P. Morrow, praising him for preventing a lynching. He excoriated J. M. Cox, president of
Philander Smith College, and Joseph A. Booker, president of Arkansas Baptist College, both in Little Rock, Arkansas, in correspondence
with these local black leaders for not protecting the interests of Robert L. Jackson, an African-American witness and defendant
in a case growing out of the Elaine, Arkansas, riots.
Starting in 1973, Hattie Kendrick (1884-1989) used an audiotape recorder given to her by her niece Charlotte Kendrick Brooks to record her reflections on
topics related to the early history of the Kendrick family, growing up in a cotton farming family on Howden Lake in Bolivar
County, Mississippi, at the turn of the century, and her life and work in Cairo, Illinois. Hattie Kendrick told of racial
violence against her father, Samuel R. Kendrick, and others in Bolivar County and of her role as a plaintiff in lawsuits in
Cairo over such issues as pay equalization for African-American teachers in the 1940s and “at large” versus “ward” systems
in municipal elections during the 1970s. Transcripts of these recordings are available in the collection, while the original
audiotapes are in the custody of the Library's Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound Division. Notes on the Hattie
Kendrick audiotapes and transcripts are available in the book file of the Charlotte Kendrick Brooks series. Most of the correspondence in the Hattie Kendrick series was exchanged with her nieces Charlotte Kendrick Brooks and Martha Kendrick Cobb, and is concentrated in the 1970s,
a time of racial and civic discord in Cairo.
Most material in the Antoinette Brooks Mitchell series relates to her husband, musician, entertainer, and restaurateur Louis A. Mitchell (1885-1957), including two scrapbooks
spanning the years 1908-1911 and 1910-1939. The first volume documents the earlier part of Mitchell's show business career,
when he was touring the United States with Bob Cole (1868-1911) and J. Rosamond Johnson's ( 1873-1954) black vaudeville troupe
as an actor and singer and managing his own acts and theaters in Washington, D.C., and other cities. The scrapbook for 1910-1939
covers Mitchell's career as musician and band leader in New York and as a musician, band leader, restaurateur, and nightclub
owner in England and France during World War I and the 1920s. In New York before the war, Mitchell managed and played bandoline
and drums for the Southern Symphony Quintette, mainly at Louis Bustanby's Beaux Arts Café. Groups led by Mitchell in Europe
during the World War I era and the 1920s included the Seven Spades and the Jazz Kings. During this period, Louis Mitchell
was billed as “the world's greatest trap drummer.” Louis Mitchell compiled the 1910-1939 scrapbook in part to establish his
claim to be the first to introduce jazz music to Europe and to document his participation in the Military Hospital Baseball
League in Great Britain as an ace pitcher in 1917 and his managing and play with the Clef Club team of the Paris-American
Baseball League in France in 1918. The Clef Club was an organization of African-American musicians.
Both scrapbooks include newspaper clippings, photographs, programs, contracts, playbills, advertisements, and correspondence.
Much of the unbound material relating to Louis A. Mitchell in business records, correspondence, newspaper and newspaper clippings,
photographs, and programs files was once part of the scrapbooks but became detached over the years. Most correspondence related
to Louis A. Mitchell's show business and nightclub career is in the scrapbooks or in business records. The correspondence
file in the Antoinette Brooks Mitchell series contains correspondence of the entire Mitchell family, including Antoinette Brooks Mitchell, Louis A. Mitchell (1885-1957),
and their son, “Jack,” another Louis A. Mitchell (1912-1972). “Jack” Mitchell compiled a scrapbook and a file of photographs
that, besides including material on his parents, documents his childhood in France, family and community activities in France
and the United States, and the nightclub and celebrity scene in Washington, D.C., and other cities.
Correspondents in various parts of the Antoinette Brooks Mitchell series include Walter H. Brooks (1851-1945), Louis Bustanoby, Vernon Castle, Victor Emmanuel, Leonard F. Guttridge, Bernie
Harrison, Julian Jones, and Daniel Kildare.
The bulk of the Charlotte Kendrick Brooks series contains the research files she used in writing two family histories, A Brooks Chronicle: The Lives and Times of an African-American Family (1989), and The Kendrick Kin: An African-American Family Saga (1993). A Brooks Chronicle follows the family from the antebellum period in Richmond, Virginia, through the 1940s in Washington, D.C. Prominent in
the research files are Albert R. Brooks, slave and entrepreneur, his wife Lucy Goode Brooks, and their son, Walter H. Brooks,
the father of Antoinette Brooks Mitchell. The Kendrick Kin follows the Kendrick and related families as slaves in Alabama and Mississippi through their migration to Washington, D.C.,
Cairo, Illinois, and other northern cities.
The collection is arranged in five series:
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Ruby Moyse Kendrick, 1879-1995, n.d.
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Hattie Kendrick, 1942-2000, n.d.
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Antoinette Brooks Mitchell, 1894-1974, n.d.
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Charlotte Kendrick Brooks, 1831-1999, n.d.
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Oversize, 1909-1924, n.d.
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BOX 1-18
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Correspondence, women's club records, family files, subject files, photographs, printed matter, and miscellaneous material. |
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Arranged alphabetically by type of material, name of person or subject, and thereunder chronologically. |
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BOX 19-22
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Correspondence, writings, transcripts of audiotape recordings, subject files, photographs, printed matter, and miscellaneous
material.
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Arranged alphabetically by type of material or subject and thereunder chronologically. |
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BOX 22-26
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Scrapbooks, correspondence, business papers, photographs, writings, newspaper clippings, posters, printed matter, and miscellaneous
material.
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Arranged alphabetically by name of person or type of material and thereunder chronologically. |
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BOX 26-33
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Writings, research files, genealogical material, notes, photographs, printed matter, and miscellaneous material. |
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Arranged alphabetically by book project or subject and thereunder chronologically. |
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BOX OV 1
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Photographs and posters. |
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Arranged and described according to the series and folders from which the items were removed. |
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BOX 1-18
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Ruby Moyse Kendrick, 1879-1995, n.d.
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Correspondence, women's club records, family files, subject files, photographs, printed matter, and miscellaneous material. |
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Arranged alphabetically by type of material, name of person or subject, and thereunder chronologically. |
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BOX 1
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Association for the Study of Negro Life and History, 1942, 1967, n.d. |
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Civic and community associations |
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Pleasant Plains Citizens' Association and other Washington, D.C., organizations, 1935-1938, 1960, 1967, 1986, n.d. |
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Progressive Art and Civic Club, Greenville, Miss., 1969-1970 |
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Springvale Terrace, Silver Spring, Md., 1971-1974, n.d. |
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Colleges and universities |
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Drury College, Springfield, Mo., 1928 |
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Fisk University, Nashville, Tenn., 1911, 1936-1938, 1970, 1982, n.d.
See also Container 7, same heading, and Oversize
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Howard University, Washington, D.C., 1902, 1910, 1935-1946, 1959-1973, n.d. |
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(3 folders)
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Knoxville College, Knoxville, Tenn., 1903-1905
See also Container 16, same heading |
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BOX 2
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Talladega College, Talladega, Ala., 1973 |
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Tougaloo College, Jackson, Miss., 1968-1969 |
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Correspondence |
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Family |
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Brooks, Charlotte Kendrick (daughter), 1930-1932, 1950-1953, 1960-1974, n.d. |
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Cobb, Martha Kendrick (daughter), 1930-1932, 1939, 1945-1954, 1965-1974, n.d. |
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(2 folders)
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Kendrick, Swan M. (husband)
See also Container 31, Kendrick, Ruby Moyse and Swan M..., notes on correspondence
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Originals |
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1911, June 11-1913, June 14 |
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(4 folders)
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BOX 3
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1913, July 3-1914, Dec. 22 |
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(10 folders)
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BOX 4
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1915, Jan. 17-1923, July 20 |
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(11 folders)
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BOX 5
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Undated |
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Transcriptions and copies |
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1911, June 11-1916, Sept. 8 |
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(6 folders)
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BOX 6
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1917, Mar. 13-1922, Mar. 4 |
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Kendrick, Webster M. (son) and Alimay (daughter-in-law), 1943, 1971 |
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Miscellany, 1915, 1970, n.d. |
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General |
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Originals, 1909-1970, n.d. |
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(7 folders)
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Transcriptions with attached notes by Charlotte Kendrick Brooks, 1909-1915, n.d. |
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BOX 7
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Postcards and greeting cards |
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Copies, 1902, 1909-1922, n.d. |
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Originals, 1909-1922, 1965, n.d. |
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(3 folders)
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Death and funeral, 1986 |
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Family papers |
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Cobb, Martha Kendrick (daughter), 1917, 1939-1942, 1962, 1971-1975, n.d. |
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Kendrick, Swan M. (husband) |
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Death and funeral, 1923 |
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(2 folders)
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Fisk University, Nashville, Tenn., 1905-1920
See also Container 1, same heading
See also Oversize
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BOX 8
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General correspondence, 1908-1909, 1915-1923, n.d. |
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(2 folders)
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Hampton, N.J., farm operations, 1921-1922, n.d. |
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Lincoln, Md., and other real estate, 1915-1918, 1924, n.d. |
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Marriage to Ruby Moyse, 1916 |
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Miscellany, 1914-1920, n.d. |
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NAACP, 1913-1919 |
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War Department, Office of the Chief of Ordnance, 1911-1921, n.d.
See also Oversize
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Kendrick, Webster M. (son), 1919, 1923, 1943-1945, 1971-1972, 1983 |
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Moyse family, 1879, 1900, 1910, 1940, 1954-1955, 1962-1990, n.d. |
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Lane, Katherine, 1955 |
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Miscellany, 1914-1919, 1942, 1968, 1986, n.d. |
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National Business League and National Bankers Association., 1961-1963 |
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BOX 9
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National Association of Colored Women's Clubs (NACWC) |
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American Negro Emancipation Centennial Authority, 1963 |
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Board of directors meeting, 1962 |
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Certificates and awards, 1954, 1962-1973 |
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Constitution and bylaws, 1939, 1958, 1961-1966, n.d. |
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Conventions |
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Minutes, 1937-1948, 1956, 1962, 1966 |
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(6 folders)
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BOX 10
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Miscellany, 1948, 1954-1974, n.d. |
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Programs, 1916, 1926-1928, 1948-1954, 1960-1974 |
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(5 folders)
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BOX 11
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Reports, 1958-1970 |
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Correspondence, 1938, 1948, 1953-1971, 1986, n.d. |
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(6 folders)
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Directories and mailing lists, 1926, 1959-1964, n.d. |
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Financial papers, 1935, 1954-1958, 1966, n.d. |
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Frederick Douglas Memorial Home, Washington, D.C., 1900, 1935, 1942-1952, 1961-1973, n.d. |
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BOX 12
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Handbooks, 1952, 1964 |
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Health and education programs, 1955, n.d. |
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Miscellany, 1897, 1904, 1920-1924, 1935, 1957, 1962-1972, n.d. |
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NACWC Bulletin, 1949-1954
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National Notes
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1927-1931, 1947-1959 |
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(6 folders)
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BOX 13
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1960-1974 |
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(3 folders)
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Newspaper clippings, 1946, 1957, 1964-1967, 1995, n.d. |
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Notes, n.d. |
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Officers and luminaries |
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Directories and lists, 1933, 1956-1968 |
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Kendrick, Ruby Moyse, n.d. |
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Hunt, Ida Gibbs, 1914, 1921, n.d. |
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Miscellany, 1949, 1955, 1964-1974, n.d. |
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Terrell, Mary Church, 1900-1904, 1926-1954, 1964-1968, n.d. |
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Organizational histories and organization charts, 1946, 1952, 1984, n.d. |
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BOX 14
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Other women's organizations |
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Miscellany, 1892, 1944-1948, 1955-1957, 1963-1971, n.d. |
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National Housewives League of America, 1958, 1964-1965, n.d. |
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National Woman's Party, 1943, 1957-1959, 1966-1973, n.d. |
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Phyllis Wheatley Young Women's Christian Association, 1934-1937, 1971 |
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Women's Service Club, Boston, Mass., 1939, 1945, n.d. |
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Photographs, 1947, 1954-1969, n.d. |
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(2 folders)
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Public relations, 1947-1962, n.d. |
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Regional affiliates |
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Miscellany, 1957, 1965-1967, n.d. |
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North Carolina Federation of Negro Women's Clubs, 1966 |
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Northeastern Federation of Women's Clubs, 1957-1972 |
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South Carolina Federation of Colored Women's Clubs, 1959-1962 |
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Southwest Regional District of the National Association of Colored Women's Clubs, n.d. |
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Virginia State Federation of Colored Women's Clubs, 1953-1959, n.d. |
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BOX 15
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Washington and Vicinity Federation of Women's Clubs, 1948, 1957-1974 |
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Reports, 1945, 1952-1962 |
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Songs, poems, and prayers, 1953, n.d. |
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Speeches and statements, 1945, 1956, 1970, n.d. |
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Todd, Tomlison D., interview with Ruby Moyse Kendrick and other material, 1947-1949
For additional material see Container 33, Brooks, Charlotte Kendrick, and family
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Tuesday Evening Club of Social Workers, 1957-1960, 1968 |
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Young Adult Department, manual, 1963 |
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National Negro Opera Foundation, 1959, n.d. |
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Nickerson, Camille L., 1953, n.d. |
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Photographs |
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Kendrick, Ruby Moyse, ca. 1902-ca. 1923, n.d. |
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(3 folders)
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BOX 16
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Kendrick, Swan M. (husband), 1906-1909, n.d.
See also Oversize
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(2 folders)
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Kendrick, Webster M. (son) and family, 1964-1966, n.d. |
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Knoxville College, Knoxville, Tenn., ca. 1905
See also Container 1, same heading
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(2 folders)
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Miscellany, 1915, 1955, n.d. |
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Moyse family |
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Miscellany, n.d. |
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Moyse, Lester, n.d. |
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Unidentified studio portraits |
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Boston, Mass., n.d. |
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Cairo, Ill., n.d. |
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Dermott, Ark., n.d. |
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BOX 17
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Detroit, Mich., n.d. |
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Miscellany, n.d. |
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(2 folders)
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Mississippi, n.d. |
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Nashville, Tenn., n.d. |
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New Orleans, La., n.d. |
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Washington, D.C., 1904, n.d. |
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(4 folders)
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BOX 18
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Premier News Service |
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Handy, W. C., 1947, n.d. |
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Miscellany, 1952-1965, n.d. |
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Photographs, n.d. |
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President's Committee on Government Contracts, Minority Community Resources Conference, 1958 |
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Price, Cyril, “On Drugs and the Doctor Habit,” n.d. |
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Printed matter |
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Miscellany, 1912, 1946, 1952-1971, n.d. |
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(2 folders)
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Popular periodicals |
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Flash, 1937
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Negro Woman's World, 1934
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Public schools, Greenville, Miss., 1901-1914, 1924, 1969, n.d. |
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Tibbs, Roy W., 1919, 1927-1930, n.d. |
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Writings, n.d. |
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BOX 19-22
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Hattie Kendrick, 1942-2000, n.d.
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Correspondence, writings, transcripts of audiotape recordings, subject files, photographs, printed matter, and miscellaneous
material.
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Arranged alphabetically by type of material or subject and thereunder chronologically. |
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BOX 19
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Address books and radio lists, 1983-1985, n.d. |
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Audiotape recordings, transcripts, nos. 1-26, ca. 1974
See also Container 31, Kendrick, Hattie, notes on audiotapes
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(5 folders)
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BOX 20
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Awards and certificates, 1965, 1974-1981, n.d. |
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Civil rights and social activism, 1955, 1966-1973, 1980-1984 |
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Correspondence |
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Family, 1963, 1969-1989, n.d. |
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(9 folders)
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General, 1950, 1965-1991, n.d. |
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BOX 21
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Death and funeral |
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Cairo Citizen, obituary, 1989
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Correspondence, 1989-1990 |
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Miscellany, 1989 |
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Photographs, 1989 |
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Ford Foundation grant application, ca. 1972 |
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Illinois Migrant Council, Illinois Migrant School Eight, Cairo, Ill., ca. 1969, n.d. |
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Illinois Women: Seventy-Five Years of the Right to Vote, biographical sketch, 1995
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Land of Lincoln Legal Assistance Foundation, Cairo, Ill., ca. 1977, 1984 |
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Miscellany, 1946, 1963, n.d. |
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Newspapers and newspaper clippings, 1976-1987, n.d. |
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Photographs, ca. 1945, 1980, n.d. |
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Public schools, Cairo, Ill., 1942-1955 |
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Real estate, 1984-1990 |
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Speeches and statements, ca. 1978, n.d. |
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Ward Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church, Cairo, Ill., 1950, 1965, 1976-1977, n.d. |
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BOX 22
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Ward, Kathryn, Ann Herda, and Noralee Frankel, social movement leader studies, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, Ill.,
1990-2000
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(2 folders)
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Writings |
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Holographic |
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Civil rights and social activism in Cairo, Ill., n.d. |
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(2 folders)
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Family histories, n.d. |
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(2 folders)
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Typescripts, fragmentary, n.d. |
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BOX 22-26
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Antoinette Brooks Mitchell, 1894-1974, n.d.
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Scrapbooks, correspondence, business papers, photographs, writings, newspaper clippings, posters, printed matter, and miscellaneous
material.
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Arranged alphabetically by name of person or type of material and thereunder chronologically. |
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BOX 22
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Correspondence, 1919, 1929, 1938-1960, 1970-1973, n.d. |
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Death and funeral, 1974 |
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BOX 23
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Family and personal papers, 1910, 1926-1930, 1942, 1948-1952, 1962-1967, n.d. |
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Mitchell, Louis A. (husband) (1885-1957) |
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Business records, 1911, 1917-1929, 1954-1955 |
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“The Darktown Corporation,” n.d. |
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Newspapers and newspaper clippings, 1930, 1939-1940, 1947-1960, 1970-1974, n.d. |
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Passport and order of restoration of legal status, 1920-1921, 1953 |
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Photographs, 1894-1912, 1949, 1957, n.d. |
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Programs, 1914-1919, 1928, 1957, n.d. |
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Scrapbooks |
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Copies |
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1913-1970 |
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(3 folders)
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BOX 24
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Undated |
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Originals |
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1908-1911, n.d. |
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(7 folders)
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1910-1939 |
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pp. 1-75
See also Oversize
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(5 folders)
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BOX 25
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pp. 75-112
See also Oversize
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(2 folders)
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Mitchell, Louis A. “Jack” (son) (1912-1972) |
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Death and funeral, 1972 |
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Miscellany, 1912, 1926, 1937-1947, 1962, 1972, n.d. |
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Photographs, 1915, 1946, 1971, n.d. |
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Scrapbooks, 1919-ca. 1950 |
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(2 folders)
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Tattler, “Down Memory Lane in D.C.,” magazine column, n.d.
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Photographs |
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1917-1930, 1971 |
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BOX 26
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Undated |
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“Reflections,” account of living in London, England, during World War I, n.d. |
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BOX 26-33
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Charlotte Kendrick Brooks, 1831-1999, n.d.
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Writings, research files, genealogical material, notes, photographs, printed matter, and miscellaneous material. |
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Arranged alphabetically by book project or subject and thereunder chronologically. |
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BOX 26
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Books |
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A Brooks Chronicle: The Lives and Times of an African-American Family
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Brooks, Albert N. D., 1964, 1999 |
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Brooks, Albert R., 1865, 1890, 1991, n.d. |
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Brooks, Joseph Kendrick (son), notes and research material, 1989-1991 |
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(4 folders)
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Brooks, Lucy Goode, 1862, 1900, 1993, n.d. |
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Brooks, Margaret Ann, n.d, |
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Brooks, Robert Peel, 1882, 1987, n.d. |
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Brooks, Walter H. (1851-1945) |
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Biographical material, 1925, 1938-1941, n.d. |
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Carolina, R .I., 1976, 1989, n.d. |
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Clippings, 1935-1939, n.d. |
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Death and funeral, 1945 |
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Family histories, 1935, n.d. |
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BOX 27
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Lincoln University, Chester County, Pa. |
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Correspondence, 1929-1945 |
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Miscellany, 1922, 1934-1935, n.d. |
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Miscellany, 1865, 1876, 1903-1905, 1926, 1932-1939, 1945, 1987, n.d. |
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Nineteenth Street Baptist Church, Washington, D.C.,1936-1939, 1975, 1989, n.d. |
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Census sheets, 1850-1920 |
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Correspondence, 1989-1993, n.d. |
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Drafts, notes, and research material |
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Chapters 1-8, 1860, 1974, n.d. |
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(8 folders)
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BOX 28
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Miscellany, 1986-1987, n.d. |
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(3 folders)
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Family histories and charts, ca. 1930, n.d. |
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Frazier, Lucille, and Leah V. Lewis, 1982-1984, n.d. |
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(2 folders)
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Henderson, Peggy, 1831-1839 |
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Holmes, James H., 1868, 1888-1892, 1901, 1921, n.d. |
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Lonesome, William L., 1983 |
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Miscellany, 1989, 1993, n.d. |
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Mitchell, John R., n.d. |
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BOX 29
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Paul, Robert A., 1885 |
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Photographs, n.d. |
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Printed matter, 1910, 1940, 1989, n.d. |
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Richmond, Va. |
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Cemeteries, 1988-1989, n.d. |
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First African Baptist Church and First Baptist Church, 1855, 1880, 1991, n.d. |
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Graduates, Colored High and Normal School, 1872-1873, n.d. |
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Miscellany, 1865, 1987-1989, n.d. |
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Virginia Union University, 1874-1876, 1883-1887, 1895, 1910, 1965, 1981, n.d. |
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Slave-owning families |
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Batte family, 1955, 1986, 1992, n.d. |
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Cox family, 1833, 1989, n.d. |
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BOX 30
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Duval family, 1850, n.d. |
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Sublett family, 1993, n.d. |
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Winfree family, 1937, 1982, n.d. |
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Smyth, John Henry, 1838, 1887, n.d. |
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The Kendrick Kin: An African-American Family Saga, 1993
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Alabama, ca. 1991 |
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Bible records, ca. 1884 |
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“Brief Summary,” n.d. |
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Brooks, Joseph Kendrick (son), research reports, 1989-1992 |
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Brown, Holden, Shelby, and Vaughn families, 1970, 1984-1993, n.d. |
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Census sheets, 1850-1910 |
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Charts and maps, n.d. |
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Distribution of the finished book , 1993 |
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Funeral service programs, 1946-1986 |
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BOX 31
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Kendrick, Charlotte Swan (grandmother), 1881-1885, 1910, 1963, n.d. |
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Kendrick, Samuel R. (grandfather), 1884, 1900, n.d. |
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Miscellany, 1987, 1990, n.d. |
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Moyse, Percy, 1918, 1986, 1994, n.d. |
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Notes and drafts |
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Chapter 1, n.d. |
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Kendrick, Hattie, notes on audiotapes, 1986, 1993, n.d.
See also Container 19, Audiotape recordings, transcripts
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Kendrick, Ruby Moyse and Swan M. Kendrick, notes on correspondence, n.d.
See also Containers 2-6, Kendrick, Swan M.
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Miscellany, 1987-1993, n.d. |
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Photographs, n.d. |
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Remembering: Stories and Poems About the Brooks and Kendrick Families, 1994
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Brooks family reunions |
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Los Angeles, Calif., 1996 |
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BOX 32
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Washington, D.C., and Richmond, Va. |
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Correspondence, 1989 |
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Friends Association for Children, Lucy Brooks Foundation of Friends, Richmond, Va., 1985-1994, n.d. |
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Miscellany, 1989 |
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Brooks, Joseph Kendrick (son), family history book project |
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Brooks, Evelyn Holmes, 1912, ca. 1991 |
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Chapter outline and overview, ca. 1991 |
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Chronologies, ca. 1991 |
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Drafts |
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Holographs, ca. 1991 |
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(2 folders)
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Typescripts, ca. 1991 |
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BOX 33
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Research progress reports, 1989-1992 |
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Washington, D.C., 1919 race riot, 1989 |
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Brooks, Walter H. (1916- ) (husband), 1916, ca. 1943, n.d.
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Correspondence, 1961, 1980, 1992-1993, n.d. |
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Miscellany, 1918, 1991-1995, n.d. |
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Photographs |
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Brooks, Charlotte, and her family, 1925, 1938, 1949-1952, 1963, n.d. |
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Cobb, Martha Kendrick (sister), and her family, n.d. |
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Remembering “U” Street: There Was a Time, exhibit, Washington, D.C., 1994
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BOX OV 1
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Oversize, 1909-1924, n.d.
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Photographs and posters. |
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Arranged and described according to the series and folders from which the items were removed. |
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BOX OV 1
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Ruby Moyse Kendrick |
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Colleges and universities |
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Fisk University, Nashville, Tenn., n.d. (Container 1)
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Family papers |
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Kendrick, Swan M.
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Fisk University, Nashville, Tenn., 1909 (Container 7)
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War Department, Office of the Chief of Ordnance, 1921 (Container 8)
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Photographs |
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Kendrick, Swan M., n.d. (Container 16)
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Antoinette Brooks Mitchell |
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Mitchell, Louis A. (husband) (1885-1957) |
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Scrapbooks |
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Originals, 1915-1917, 1924 (Containers 24-25)
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