African Americans -- Education
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Anna Belle Watkins papers
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS1277
Scope and Contents
This collection contains papers from Anna Watkins' career in education, her family, and her community involvement. Included are materials that document her career as a teacher such as curriculum materials. In addition there is correspondence, the bulk of which are invitations to graduations from former students. There are also publications and correspondence from universities that she, Dewey Watkins Sr., and Myron Watkins attended, including Clark College and Atlanta University (which later...
Dates:
1923-1978, undated
Bazoline E. Usher papers
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS1239
Scope and Contents
This collection contains papers pertaining to Bazoline Usher’s career in Atlanta Public Schools and her community involvement. Included are two scrapbook, one that documents her retirement; and one with photos and cards from her 100th birthday celebration, awards and certificates, newspaper clippings, Friendship Baptist Church event programs, and information about the Girl Scouts. Of particular note are interviews with Usher saved on cassettes and an oral history transcript from the Black...
Dates:
1921-2005, undated
John Wesley Dobbs letter to Roy D. McClain
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS960f
Scope and Contents
This collection contains a letter written by John Wesley Dobbs on Prince Hall Grand Lodge stationary to Rev. Roy D. McClain. In the letter, Dobbs contests McClain’s sermons that promote racial segregation and limiting African Americans' access to higher education. Dobbs uses the Bible to argue that Black's should have access to higher education not only because they are Americans, but because it would help improve the country's economy and progress. He also contends that integration is a...
Dates:
1956