African-American Education Collection Descriptions
Material by or about African-American education. For general information on collections dealing with African-American topics, see the general subject heading African-American. There is also an additional subgenre African-American Music.
Leon Robinson, Agnes Vaughn, & Leepere Harris. From collection C2415 folder 12. Back to the Subject Guide
Benecke Family, Papers, 1816-1989, (C3825)
90.8 linear feet
18 volume(s)
Correspondence, business and law firm records, civic, political, legislative, and personal papers of a German American family of Brunswick, MO. Civil War and military claim agents' records. Records of military and veterans' organizations; the State Federal Soldiers' Home; immigration; the Constitutional Convention, 1943-1944; the Constitutional Convention Association; and U.S. Commissioners. Church and cemetery records. Maps, photographs and glass plate negativesBlair, Henry William (1834-1920), Papers, 1876-1894, (C2224)
0.5 linear feet
Correspondence and other papers of a U.S. Representative and U.S. Senator from New Hampshire. Arranged chronologically.Breckenridge, William Clark, Papers, 1752-1927, (C1036)
MICROFILM
1.6 linear feet
21 volume(s)
Correspondence and miscellaneous papers of W.C. Breckenridge, St. Louis businessman, writer and historian. Two copies of EARLY PRINTING IN MISSOURI, 1808-1849. Scrapbook contains newspaper clippings and illustrations, engravings, letters, and miscellaneous printed materials.Brookfield, Dutton (1917-1979), Papers, 1844-1979, (C2732)
72.4 linear feet
Business, political and personal papers and photographs of Kansas City, MO, community leader. President of Unitog Company (1953-1979), mayoral candidates (1963, 1971), and on boards of numerous corporations and educational and civic organizations. Family papers include letters from the Civil War, World War I and II, and Vietnam.Buse, John J., Jr. (1864-1933), Collection, 1860-1931, (C3884)
MICROFILM
4 linear feet
Photographs, scrapbooks, historical notes, correspondence, and personal reminiscences of a St. Charles, MO, historian and collector. Includes photos by St. Charles photographers Rudolph Goebel, John Gossler, and A. Ruth.Garfield School, Mexico, Missouri, Records, 1910-1975, (C3925)
MICROFILM
Student attendance records of a black elementary and high school in Mexico, MO.Harris Family, Photographs, c. 1880s-1960s, (C2415)
1 linear feet
Photographs of family, friends, employers, church, and schools collected by Julia Warren Harris. Two folders contain postcards, a few letters, and announcements. The collection is a vivid portrait of black family and social life in Boone County, MO.Harris, Althea M., Papers, (WUNP5252)
0.25 linear feet
Scrapbook kept by a University of Missouri-Columbia student during the 1960s and 1970s. Photographs, histories, correspondence, and memorabilia, primarily relating to the Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority.Kingsbury, Lilburn A. (1884-1983), Collection, 1816-1983, (C3724)
14.5 linear feet
The personal papers and collected materials of Lilburn A. Kingsbury of Howard County, MO. Kingsbury was an insurance agent, farmer, orchardist, bank clerk, local historian, writer, genealogist, musician, and antique collector.Land Clearance for Redevelopment Authority, Columbia, Missouri, Papers, 1860s-1962, (C3877)
0.4 linear feet
Minutes, resolutions, maps, reports, and legal documents concerning the urban redevelopment project in Columbia, MO, for the area known as Flat Branch and/or the Douglass School Urban Renewal Area.Lanos, Chyrel, Papers, (WUNP5160)
0.1 linear feet
INVENTORY. Papers relating to the Big Eight Conference on Black Student Government and the University of Missouri Legion of Black Collegians, 1977-1978.Missouri, Columbia, Social and Economic Census of the Colored Population, 1901, (C1082)
MICROFILM
Family reports listing name, age, occupation, weekly earnings and color of husband, wife, children, married children at home, and others living with the family. Reverse side lists date and/or age at marriage, deaths within the year, property owned, a mount owed, housing and sanitary conditions, education, family expenditures, and previous residence. Most questions were answered in full. Arranged alphabetically by family name.Missouri, Greene County. Consolidated School District Number 2, Records, 1907-1935, (C0056)
2.7 linear feet
Records of rural schools in a 34 square-mile area around Strafford. Information pertains to Lamb, Potter, Flint Hill, Strafford, Danforth, and a black school (primary grades) and Strafford High School. Includes school board minutes, financial reco rds, voter lists, election tallies, correspondence, teacher applications and contracts, and pupil records.National Assoc. for the Advancement of Colored People re: Craton Liddell, et al., v. the......, (WUNP5263)
66 linear feet
INVENTORY. Records associated with the educational desegregation case from the 1970s and 1980s.Pawley, Thomas D. III, Papers, (WUNP5546)
RESTRICTED
22 linear feet
INVENTORY. Papers of a professor of speech and theater at Lincoln University, poet, and playwright; member of Missouri Arts Council, Missouri Humanities Council, Mid-America Arts Alliance, and other organizations. Includes manuscripts, correspondence, organizational records, teaching materials and miscellaneous.Rehkop, Leonard D. and Marie H., Collection of Algert T. Peterson Glass Plate Negatives, 1860-1939, (C3888)
MICROFILM
The collection consists of studio portraits of groups, families and individuals; and scenes of the Higginsville and Concordia areas in western Missouri.Rollins, James H. (1940- ), Papers, 1961-1980, (C3056)
0.8 linear feet
Papers of James Henry (Jimmy) Rollins, a black civil rights activist and University of Missouri law student convicted of dispensing marijuana in 1968, who jumped bail to avoid prosecution, and was subsequently imprisoned in 1974 for that and other crimes. Papers consist of correspondence from the imprisoned Rollins, notes, news clippings and printed material relating to his case and political and racial conditions in Columbia and at the University of Missouri, 1960s-1970s.Schrader, William Henry (1844-1921), Reminiscences, n.d., (C1519)
1 folder(s)
Slavery in Missouri: treatment of slaves, punishment, education, desire for freedom, fugitives; character sketches of individual slaves. Kansas-Missouri border conflicts, Civil War in Missouri, bushwhackers, Claiborne Fox Jackson. 1856 and 1860 pres idential campaigns, German immigrants, Missouri Republicans, and Linneus and Brunswick, MO.Starr, Frederick, Jr. (1826-1867), Papers, 1850-1863, (C2073)
20 folder(s)
Starr was a colonizationist, free soiler, and Presbyterian clergyman in Weston, MO, 1852-1855. Correspondence, broadsides, pamphlets, and clippings on settlement of the Kansas-Nebraska Territories, border conflicts, abolitionism vs. slavery, local politics, Indian affairs, public land sales, claims, and prices, popular sovereignty, squatters' rights, and religion on the frontier.Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, Archives, 1756-1930, (C3636)
MICROFILM
French colonial, and territorial records of the District of Ste. Genevieve. Ste. Genevieve County records and court records. A third of the documents are dated 1756-1804; the remainder date from 1805 to 1930. An inventory accompanies the microfilm. Original documents are in the possession of the Ste. Genevieve County Court.Strickland, Arvarh E., Papers, (WUNP4995)
31.5 linear feet
INVENTORY. Personal and professional papers of historian, educator, and University of Missouri administrator.Tolson, Fannie Marie (1911-2005), Papers, 1890s-2005, (C1704)
2.3 linear feet
Fannie Marie Tolson was the first African-American educator to teach in the desegregated schools of Fayette, Missouri. Her papers include family correspondence and photographs, memorabilia from Lincoln University, Jefferson City, Missouri, teaching aids, documents concerning St. Paul's Methodist Church in Fayette, and recordings of two interviews conducted with Tolson.University of Missouri, Legion of Black Collegians, Ephemera, (WUNP5329)
1 folder(s)
Miscellaneous flyers and announcements of campus activities sponsored by the Legion of Black Collegians during the 1980s. Also includes a copy of PERSPECTIVES IN BLACK: GETTING TO KNOW UMC for 1984-1985.University of Missouri, Reports to U.S. Bureau of Education, 1892-1900, (C3329)
1 folder(s)
Three types of reports: 1) reports listing expenditures, number of faculty and students, value of property/equipment, and library holdings; 2) scholastic reports giving breakdown of students into various fields, kinds of degrees offered, and University's income; and 3) supplementary statistical reports. Reports for University and School of Mines.
