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She graduated from Douglass High School in 1947 and went on to attend West Virginia State College, graduating magna cum laude in 1950 with a degree in English.  She was the first full time black student at Marshall University and received her master's degree in English in 1954.  She received her Ed.D. in English from West Virginia University in 1974.  Dr. Bickley was a teacher at all educational levels and was Vice-President for Academic Affairs at West Virginia State College where she retired in 1986.  She continued to research, write, and speak from her retirement home in Florida where she lived with her husband Nelson.  Some of her accolades include the Mountain State Bar Association's Distinguished Citizen Award, 1978; the National Education Association's The Carter G. 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","Subjects include Dr. Bickley's writings, which include plays, speeches, and short stories as well as her historical books, articles and other publications; collected materials from Dr. Bickley's historical research on the history of African Americans in West Virginia; and personal papers. Her research materials include papers grouped sometimes by county, sometimes by individual, sometimes by subject. Subjects of her research include slavery, education, churches, biography and genealogy, literature, and more.  Specific subjects include the Underground Railroad, James McHenry Jones, genealogy, Carter G. Woodson, Mollie Gabe, West Virginia Colored Institute/West Virginia State College, John W. Davis, black high schools, school integration, and more. Counties and their cities with specific focus include Cabell, Kanawha, and Jefferson.  Some documents treating slavery and the Underground Railroad include Ohio from which Cabell County blacks, including Bickley's ancestors, migrated.","Colleagues with whom she corresponded include Judith Stitzel, Nelson Barnett, Maureen Crockett (with whom she co-wrote at least one play), and many more. Of significance is correspondence between Carter G. Woodson and his sister, Bessie Woodson Yancey; and letters and a signed photo from Alex Haley.  ","Writings, research background, and drafts of Dr. Bickley's works found within the collection include:  Memphis Tennessee Garrison: The Remarkable Story of a Black Appalachian Woman , \"Midwifery in West Virginia\" (1990),  Honoring our Past: Proceedings of the First Two Conferences on West Virginia's Black History ,  History of the West Virginia State Teachers' Association  (1979),  In Spite of Obstacles: a History of the West Virginia Schools for the Colored Deaf and Blind, 1926-1955 ,  Our Mount Vernons: historic register listings of sites significant to the Black history of West Virginia , a short story collection \"Turn Left at the Desert,\"  ... to be black in Fayette , and plays:  Two Saint Say ,  Mother Love ,  Tangled Threads  (with Maureen Crockett),  Wade in the Water , and seven  Goldenseal  articles. \nGrant applications and other documents pertaining to her work with the Humanities Council of West Virginia are included in the collection. Other documents describe her work with the Kanawha County Board of Education, EcoTheater, Berea College's Black Mountain Youth Leadership program, and various professional organizations.   \nPersonal papers include material about her husband Nelson R. Bickley and his military career, diplomas, transcripts, photographs of a party she held, and more. ","Addendum of 2017/02/09 (boxes 11 and 12) includes papers of Dr. Ancella R. Bickley, with a few papers of her daughter Ancella Livers. Formats include interview transcripts, correspondence, clippings, typescript writings, publications, cassettes, and more. Most of these materials are transcripts of oral histories pertaining to a collaborative project undertaken by Dr. Bickley and Dr. Rita Wicks-Nelson about black teachers and their memories of school integration in West Virginia in affiliation with the Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Gender in Appalachia at Marshall University.","Abbreviations used in the Contents List: \nAB - Ancella Bickley \nWVSC - West Virginia State College \nNB - Nelson Bickley \nMTG - Memphis Tennessee Garrison \nJMJ - J. McHenry Jones \nNEA - National Education Association \nNCTE - National Council of Teachers of English \nMo So Lit Club - Matrons and Maids Social and Literary Club, McDowell County, WV \nUGRR - Underground Railroad \nMU - Marshall University \nWVU - West Virginia University \nCGW - Carter G. Woodson \nRW-N  - Rita Wicks-Nelson","Includes civic and academic awards and honors, as well as academic milestones such as graduation and Bickley's dissertation. This series includes materials on the celebration of Bickley's retirement from West Virginia State College.","Correspondence from Marshall University regarding AB's commencement address and honorary doctorate; notes of congratulations. Guest list. Photographs of AB delivering address and with others including Soupy Sales. Letter to editor regarding racism of highlighting photograph of Soupy Sales wiping a tear during AB's speech; newspaper clippings. Commencement program. AB's speech.","Honorary Doctorate","Army Commendation Medal (Second Oak Leaf Cluster). AB's Delta Sigma Rho-Tau Kappa Alpha, Hampton Institute, initiation certificate, May 1976","Attendance, reading, scholarships, and other certificates from elementary through college","AB transcript, 1951, from MU. Transcript, WVSC.","Program for the Fourteenth Annual NEA Human and Civil Rights Awards, 1980, when AB won The Carter G. Woodson Memorial Award. Correspondence regarding the award including 2 letters from John W. Davis.","Photograph of WVSC President Thomas Cole and Ancella Bickley at her retirement; labeled \"West Virginia State College, Commencement, May 17, 1986.\"","Master of Arts degree confirmation from Marshall University","Doctor of Education degree confirmation from West Virginia University","Certificate of Appreciation from the Kiwanis Club of Huntington","Note from WVU professor Armand [Singer] regarding missing retirement celebration","Newspaper clipping re: CGW. Photographs of AB and others after a speaking engagement in Fayette County. Service Award certificate from WVSC.","Letter from Maureen Crocket to the Director of the Appalachian Festival re: Tangled Threads. Letter of recommendation from AB for Dr. Elaine Ginsberg. \"Remarks Made upon the Presentation of the 1988 Humanities Award to Ancella Radford Bickley\" by Judith Stitzel. Letter of recommendation for Dr. Bernard L. Allen for the WVU Claude Worthington Benedum Distinguished Scholar Award. Congratulatory letter for appointment [at WVSC]. Request for letter of recommendation from Marc E. Washington at MU; confirmation of receipt of letter. Request for recommendation for Elaine Ginsberg, Trinity University; verification of receipt of letter. Letter of congratulations on retirement from George Parkinson; letter of regrets from Lawrence H. Talley, West Liberty.","Materials re: WV NAACP Harpers Ferry NHP, 1994, including photographs and text of speech. Congratulatory letter for receiving the Distinguished West Virginian Award, 1986. Thank you for copy of Honoring Our Past, 1992. Many other letters and notes re: service and speeches. Request to speak at the New Employment for Women Information \u0026 Referral Center in Logan about black history. Letter from Gaston Caperton, Governor, re: appointment to the Archives and History Commission, 1991. Thank you letter for contribution to Chandler Third Base, 1992. Certificate of recognition for Outstanding Service in Support of 1993 Douglass High School Reunion. Thank you for participating in the United Way Youth Advisory Council's Youth Forum, 1993. Thank you letter re: speech at naturalized citizens ceremony from John T. Copenhaver, 1992. Certificate of appreciation and other materials including a photo re: \"Read to Me\" Day, 1999. Newspaper article re: writing about the West Virginia Schools for the Colored Deaf and Blind and cards of congratulations. Kanawha County Schools Certificate of Recognition and Appreciation, 1991.","Letter of acknowledgement to deliver commencement address and receive an honorary doctorate at MU, 1990. Newspaper clipping and tribute to Minnie Wayne Cooper, 1989. Thank you letter to Matthew Kinsolving, Kanawha County Board of Education, for plaque, 1989. Typed text of \"Remarks Made upon the Presentation of the 1988 Humanities Award to Ancella Radford Bickley.\" Newspaper clipping and congratulatory letter re: WVSC Alumna of the Year, 1988. Letter withdrawing candidacy for the Kanawha County Board of Education, 1988. Thank you letter for receiving the Humanities Foundation Award, 1988; letter of congratulations from A. James Manchin; and Dee Caperton, House of Representatives. Letter of congratulations from Herman G. Canady, Jr., for appointment to Board of Education, 1988. Program for NAACP, Charleston Branch, Annual Freedom Fund Banquet, 1988, with AB as guest speaker. The Trumpet, West Liberty State College student newspaper, with article about AB's lecture on teaching black literature, November 28, 1973. Program, newspaper clipping, flyer, and certificate of recognition for the National Council of Jewish Women, West Virginia Section, Founder's Day, 1991. Correspondence re: speaking invitations, 1991-2001. Letters of thank you for service: The Huntington Club of Negro Business and Professional Women's Clubs, Inc., 2001; Charleston Mayor, G. Kemp Melton, for Charleston Urban Renewal Authority, 1999; Conference program for \"New Approaches to the Humanities and Lifelong Learning,\" 1988, where AB received award. Newspaper clippings for awards and accomplishments. 1987-1988. Newspaper clipping \"Educator Grim on Blacks' Future\" 1985. Thank you letter from Dee Caperton, House of Delegates, for draft of book about Elizabeth Simpson Drewry, 1987. Congratulatory notes, 1988-2002. Resume, ca. 1988. Text of speech for [receiving WVSC Alumna of the Year award, 1988]","Newspaper clippings, 1994-2002. Congratulatory and thank you letters, 1984-1995. Program for Staff Recall, Federal Prison Camp, Alderson, WV, with AB as guest speaker. Program for Induction Ceremony [sic], Phi Sigma Alpha, WVSC, 1995, when AB gave speech on the UGRR. Program for Carter G. Woodson Memorial Foundation Third Annual Memorial Fundraiser Banquet, 1995, AB speaker. Program for MLK birthday event at the WV School of Osteopathic Medicine where AB spoke, 1994. Resume. Photo of the Berlin Wall, May 1963.","Newspaper clippings, 1984-2002. Congratulatory and thank you letters and certificates, 1975-2002. Program for the Fourteenth Annual NEA Human and Civil Rights Awards dinner, 1980, when AB received The Carter G. Woodson Memorial Award. Program for Academy Cultural Awareness Committee Black History Month Program, 2002, where AB presented about MTG. Invitation to reception for Oliver W. Hill Freedom Fighter Award of the Virginia State Conference NAACP, 1999, and invitation to recognition event at the U.S. Capitol. Program for St. Anthony Church and School Community Education Awards where AB received the Gregory Loebach Award, 2002. Text of speech and program for West Virginia's African-American Women of Distinction book introduction by the West Virginia Women's Commission, 2002. Program for The Education Alliance Graduates of Distinction, AB recipient, 2002; text of speech; newspaper clipping; correspondence.","Newspaper clippings, ca. 1972-2002. Congratulatory and thank you letters, certificates and other recognitions, 1975 -2002. Letter of receipt for items given to the West Virginia State College/West Virginia Black Heritage Collection, 1987. Personal note, 3/26/80, discussing various contributions to education. Photograph of AB. Program for The National Association of Negro Business and Professional Women's Clubs banquet and candlelight rededication services, 1988, where AB was the guest speaker. Program for Berkeley County Diversity Committee \"Town Meeting\" with AB conducting interactive workshops at schools, 2002. Program and sketch of AB for [her retirement] 1986. Program for PCC lecture series \"The West Virginia Experience,\" [ca. 1985]. State of WV Teaching Certificate, 1960-1965. Letter of acceptance by NB for offer of teaching positions at WVSC for both NB and AB, 1972. Letter offering employment at WVSC as Associate Professor of English, 1972. Letter to NB offering WVSC position of Director of Guidance and Placement, 1972. Letters of thanks for AB for retirement and awards, 1986. Notification of nomination for President of WVSC, 1987. Correspondence Re: NCTE Orwell conference, 1984. Notification that tapes of censorship series of programs will be housed at the New York Public Library, 1984. Program for the Danforth Associate Program, 1975, for which AB and NB were program chairs. Program for The Women's Study Club Annual Open House, 1984, when AB was named Woman of the Year. Program for \"African Americans in the Appalachian Coalfields\" at the National Mine Health \u0026 Safety Academy when AB gave a lecture, 2000.","Newspaper clippings, 1989-2000. Congratulatory and thank you letters, invitations to speak, certificates of recognition, 1985-2000. Photograph of Douglass High School Y Teens, ca. 1946, including AB. Newspaper articles re: AB as WVSC's May Queen, 1948. Issue of MU's Greenline: a Publication for Alumni and Friends of Marshall University, May-July 1990, in which AB is recognized as commencement speaker; press release; letters of congratulations. Photograph of AB and others after presentation in Morgantown, 1990. Program for WVSC National Alumni Association William L. Lonesome Alumni Awards Dinner-Dance Honoring Dr. Ancella R. Bickley, Class of 1950, 1988 Alumnus of the Year. Dunbar Rotary Club Newsletter with AB as speaker, 1988. Materials from the Second Annual Conference on West Virginia's Black History, 1989. Letter to the editor of the Charleston Gazette re: black athlete, 1988.","Retirement from WVSC, 1986, materials. Correspondence re: ceremony; letters of congratulations; newspaper clippings; photographs; program; WVSC commencement program with AB as retirement honoree.","AB's doctoral dissertation A Study of the Effects of Teaching a Unit on Black Culture to Classes of Predominantly White High School Students, 1974.","Newspaper clippings for Education Alliance Graduates of Distinction, 2002. Materials pertaining to \"From Our Front Porch: Stories about Charleston's Oldest Neighborhood, The East End\": newspaper insert; outline for Appalachian Studies Association presentation; program for play at Roosevelt Wilson High School; the play. \"Testimony of Ancella Radford Bickley, Independent Scholar from West Virginia, on behalf of The State Humanities Program Regarding FY 1989 Appropriations to the National Endowment for the Humanities before the Appropriations Subcommittee on the Interior of the Senate,\" 1988. Congratulatory letters re: selection to the Kanawha Board of Education. Newspaper clippings. Congratulations re: speech's and performance of play in Florida. Commencement program for WVSC, 1950. Text of AB honors. Newspaper clippings re: her writings. Letter of acknowledgement for participation in reading of the names of lynchings victims program, Virginia State University, 2001. News release re: production of Harvest of Dreams by the Charleston Stage Company, 2000. Correspondence re: appointment to the WVU Board of Advisors, 1989. Certificate of appreciation from the City of Beckley for contributions to black history in WV. Thank you note re: women writers, 1994. Thank you letter from James Tolbert re: participation in Black History Month program at Harper's Ferry. Overview of AB accomplishments [introduction?]. Letter acknowledging participation in Kanawha County Public Library Black History Month events, 1993; abstract of talk; resume. Thank you letter for presentation at a Affirmative Action Committee Meeting, 1994; program; brochure listing black employees. Letter acknowledging intent to speak at the WV School of Osteopathic Medicine re: unsung heroes of the Civil Rights Movement and for MLK Day, 1993. Handwritten note of appreciation for a speech. Handwritten note re: missing speech for Black History Month, with attached newspaper clipping, 1994. 1949 Yellow Jacket article with picture of AB as newspaper staff. Clipping re: AB as keynote speaker for MLK Day celebration, 1991. Letter acknowledging a reading at the College Language Association, 1993. Letter acknowledging agreement to moderate a panel on sexual harassment; flyer for the program. Congratulatory letter for receiving the MU Graduate School Distinguished Alumnus, 1993. Program for \"First Annual Forum and Family Recognition Conference\" from the West Virginia Black Family Coalition, 1992, for which Bickley was a moderator. Correspondence and program for Distinguished Graduate Student Award from MU, 1993. Newspaper clipping about the WVSC presidential inaugural ball including description of AB and NB attire, 1974. Letter from Mary Pearl Compton, WV Delegate, re: Union's Historic District. Handwritten card praising AB as a \"liquid god\" able to move among roles, 1995. Resumes.","Senate Resolution honoring AB and Lynda Ann Ewen, 2002. Certificate of recognition as a West Virginia Hero, 2002. Newspaper clippings, 1990-2002. Correspondence re: lecture at Alderson Broaddus College, 1991. Certificate of recognition from the WV National Organization of Women and two 1991 conference programs. Program for \"African-Americans in the Appalachian Coalfields,\" 2000. Letter acknowledging selection at WVSC Alumnus of the Year, 1988. The Humanities Foundation of West Virginia Award Dinner Program, 1988. Issue of People \u0026 Mountains: a Publication of the West Virginia Humanities Council, Summer 2001, with MTG interview excerpt edited by AB and Lynda Ann Ewen. Congratulatory note re: publication of Memphis Tennessee Garrison; lecture on MTG announcement, 2000. Letter from the Indiana Humanities Council re: placement on \"Always a River\" registry, 1991. Letter from Gov. Gaston Caperton recognizing appointment to the Martin Luther King, Jr. State Holiday Commission, 1989. Acknowledgement letters as a speaker, 1990-1999. Acknowledgement of receipt of Our Mount Vernons from a professor at the University of Texas at El Paso, 1997. \"Book Notes\" section of West Virginia History re: Our Mount Vernons, 1997. Letter of re: reappointment to the WV Archives and History Commission, 1997. Letter re: WV Public Radio's Cultural Diversity Radio Project, 1998. Letter re: Mistress of Ceremony for a poetry contest at WVSC, 1995. Letter acknowledging support of the WV Humanities Council programming, 1995.","Special Commendation from the U.S. Dept. of the Interior, National Park Service, for Significant Contributions to the Underground Railroad Study, 1995.","\"West Virginia: a Film History\" recognition as the Historical Advisor for the film project.","State of West Virginia Distinguished West Virginian award, 1986.","Senate Resolution honoring AB and Lynda Ann Ewen, 2002.","Includes newspaper clippings and writings by Ancella Bickley Livers (also called Cill Jr. or Cill). Also includes material by or about Nelson Bickley, Ancella Bickley's husband and prominent Charleston, West Virginia, lawyer. Formats include articles, awards and honors, military records, speeches, research notes, publications, correspondence, newspaper clippings, and more. Subjects include Nelson Bickley's military and teaching careers, his uncle Carter G. Woodson, and more.","Correspondence with James Harlow, WVU President, regarding tenure at WVU, 1969 and 1972. Army records for Nelson Bickley. Various Army regulations, blank forms, and information flyers. Correspondence and forms from the Veterans Administration. Medical records, 1956-1966","Charleston Gazette/Gazette-Mail newspaper clippings about AB and NB, 1999-2003","Text of NB's speech \"CMA's Link to the Late Carter G. Woodson, the 'Father of Negro History'\" at the Chicago Military Academy, program, and certificate of appreciation.","Text of speech given by NB at East Bank High School to Junior ROTC, regarding the benefits of military service.","Military and scholarship commendations, program from WVSC Commencement, 1948.","Military records for Nelson Bickley including his assignment as an Army ROTC instructor at WVU and difficulty of finding Negro housing. Admission to WVU College of Human Resources and Education.","Folder within 16a containing Army medical records for Nelson Bickley, 1957-1966.","Akron Beacon Journal,  December 7, 1982, with article by Ancella Livers which includes brief biography.","\" Brown V. Board of Education  in West Virginia\" by Nelson R. Bickley in the  West Virginia Law Review , Spring 2005.","Text of speech given by NB at the WVU Law School","Correspondence with Congressman Harley Staggers, James G. Harlow, President of WVU, and others regarding Nelson Bickley's retirement. Other military records.","Invitations to the ROTC Cadet Corps Annual Military Ball and the ROTC Awards Day and Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony, 1982. Program for the ROTC Awards Day Ceremony, May 1, 1981. WVSC student newspaper  The Yellow Jacket  with an article about the inductees to the ROTC Hall of Fame including NB. Typed text of NB's acceptance speech about his time in the military. Newspaper with an interview with NB and Belva Clark about Carter G. Woodson, 1987. Program and text of NB speech, with AB edits, at WVSC for Veterans Day, 1992. Newspaper article regarding NB induction into the WVSC ROTC Hall of Fame.","Signed letter from Alex Haley to Colonel and Mrs. Nelson Bickley, March 1, 1973, re: the Bickleys' hospitality after a lecture.","Clippings regarding the Bickleys from  The Villages Daily Sun  (FL) and  The Sunday News-Registe r (Wheeling, WV)","Pamphlet \"The Black Student at WVU,\" 1969/70, 1971/72, which include pictures of AB. Program for Lincoln-Douglas Banquet sponsored by Morning Star Baptist Church, February 12, 1977; includes AB as the speaker. Newspaper articles by and about Ancella Bickley, as well as Nelson. Congratulatory letter regarding AB promotion to Vice President for Administration at WVSC, July 9, 1975. Dunbar High School's publication, Kennel, Feb. 23, 1973 and May, 1974.","Letter regarding AB in WVU classroom. Newspaper article about Ancella, daughter of Ancella and Nelson. Dunbar High School's student newspaper, Kennel, Nov. 1972.","Bachelor of Arts degree confirmation from West Virginia State College","Nelson Bickley's Master of Arts degree confirmation from West Virginia University","Nellie Francisco's Bachelor of Arts in Education degree confirmation from West Virginia State College, 1938","Letter from CGW to Bessie Woodson Yancey, CGW's sister, re: funding Joan's education. Text of the poem \"The Forgotten Boys.\" Invitation to the dedication of the Carter G. Wooson School, New Orleans.","Research materials re: Belva Clark, Carter G. Woodson's niece and Nelson Bickley's mother; note of condolence; funeral program; handwritten [by Mrs. Clark?] obituary and instructions","Articles about NB. Membership certificate to Sigma Pi Phi Fraternity.","Teaching certificate for Nellie Radford Francisco, Bluefield Colored Institute, 1928.","Special Order lists. Legal case notes? Selective Service Act of 1948 memo.","Includes genealogical research material, notes, and charts in print as well as handwritten for these families, mostly from the Huntington, West Virginia area and across the Ohio River: Twyman, Spurlock, Barnett, Payne, Jones, Woodson, Wilson, Johnson, Summers, Smoot, Peters, Radford, Layne/Lane, Jones, Straham, Cabell, and Parker. Additional genealogical information is included in oral history interviews with individuals (see Interviews and Oral History Interviews series); the Others' Works series; the Biography subseries of Research Notes and Collected Materials; and other locations throughout the collections.","Documents pertaining to the Twyman Family. Facsimile of pages from  The Promised Land  by J. Earl Pratt [1964]. Facsimile of newspaper legal notices from T he Ironton Register , Oct. 27 and Dec. 15, 1870.","Letter from Willard H. Radford and Kim Radford regarding a reunion for the Radford-Bickley families.","Correspondence between the Bickleys and Nelson L. Barnett, Jr. regarding Allensworth (CA) State Historical Park, the Spurlock family, the Barnett-Payne-Jones family. Rededication pamphlet, October 10, 1992","Barnett family genealogy compiled by Nelson Barnett, Jr.","Various documents pertaining to Carter G. Woodson and the Barnett family connection. \"A Black History of Huntington\" by Edna Duckworth. Barnett family documents.","Family line charts, photographs, newspapers, family history for the Nelson Barnett line. Program for the First Baptist Church, Huntington, September 25, 1988. Photographs buildings designed by Carl Barnett, architect.","Transcription of Barnett family obituaries.","James and Mary Wilson family genealogy. Facsimiles of portraits. Memorial service programs. Photographs of Mary Wilson Johnson and James Johnson. Photo of family group identified later in file and on facsimile. Obituary for William O. Johnson. Family group photo. Photos of Ida and William Johnson.","Handwritten Cabell Family tree and notes on the Cabell Family in Institute. Transcription of letter from J. S. Cunningham to Governor A.I. Boreman. Facsimile of newspaper ad for sale of slave.","Handwritten notes regarding Summers Family and slaves.","Facsimile of book section and term paper about the Smoot Family written by Marcella L. Pauley Short for WVSC class.","Booklet of genealogy forms.  African-American Genealogy: A Research Guide  compiled by Phyllis Preston Jarrett and Helen Chambers Winston.","Typewritten history of the Smoot Family, Boone County.","Personnel record for Willard Radford. Letter, 1949, certifying marriage of Willard Radford to Lilian Angus in Cuba, 1923.","Handwritten marriage records for Radfords.","Handwritten notes from a phone conversation regarding the Straham-Parker families.","Typed \"Conversation with Nellie Redford Francisco--about 1985.\" Handwritten \"Discussion w/Henry Radford, 1/14/93.\" Radford Family genealogy. Peters Family genealogy. Newspaper articles regarding Negro education in Huntington and Kimball, 1904-1923. Cemetery lot receipts to Willard Radford. Program for Sterberger Elementary School 1999 Graduation Ceremony; Akil Livers listed as student. Funeral service program for Lily Van Sykes Kelly, 1994. Transcribed obituaries for Joseph T. Payne, 1948, and Minnie Bell Powell, 1936.","Research notes on how to do black genealogy.  Black Studies: a Select Catalog of National Archives Microfilm Publications .","The Layne Family Tree and Its Branches . Handwritten tree with Twyman connection.","\"Plat Map, Mt. Pisgah Cemetery, Proctorville, Ohio\" with notes. Request for donation to the Cemetery, 2013.","Handwritten CGW family tree.","Radford family genealogy. Release of note on deed, Radford family, 1952.","This series includes two subseries, General and Black Teachers.","Includes more formal oral history interviews as well as \"discussions\" and other less structured interviews not intended for any historical publication. Formats include handwritten notes, typed notes, and transcripts of interviews as well as background in the form of correspondence and typed and handwritten corrections.","Transcript of interview with Johnnie James. Newspaper article \"THE Man…Johnny James Now Shares Life With God\"","Background research re: changes to social history and oral history.","Notes from discussion with Grover DuBose, Korean War veteran, Sept. 10, 2000.","Transcripts of interviews with black citizens of Huntington, WV; Institute, WV; Guyandotte, WV; and Black Fork, OH. Including Johnnie James, Ms. Bessie Herbert McClain, Chester A. Burris, Henry Pierce, Mildred Loar Williams, Cash Keels, James Thompson, Mrs. Araminta Miller Justice, and James Johnson.","Spiral bound notebook containing notes from oral history interviews with black soldiers, 1945-46. References to color-coded folders. Notes on soldiers' letters, 1943-45. List of themes in interviews. Follow up on specific soldiers, 2005, titled \"Negative behavior of Blk soldiers.\" Diagram of Army organization.","Research notes labeled \"Army Wives Material: Discussion with Carl \u0026 Nancy Johnson Re: Military Experiences; Carl was a Tuskegee Airman. His wife, Nancy, is white\" 2014. Annotated paper \"The WV State Capitol\" with research notes. Emails re: Kimball Wall Memorial Project, 2011. Research notes. Letter to Beverly from AB re: various researchers in the Villages, FL, 2014. Typed notes from interview with Harriet Williams, Lewisburg, WV.","Annotated transcript of oral history interviews with Mrs. Mildred Lore Williams, 1990, re: family history and Cabell County History. Annotated transcript of oral history interviews with Mrs. Bessie Herbert McClain, 1990, re: living in Huntington. Annotated transcript of oral history interviews with Mrs. Suzette Spencer, 1990, re: family and life in Huntington. Mrs. Spencer was a descendant of 37 slaves freed in the south and sent to Ohio. Transcript of oral history interview with Mr. Cash Keels, 1990, re: family history and life in Black Fork, Ohio.","Audiocassettes labeled: \"Joseph C. Peters re: Black High School Athletics - 11/2/95;\" \"Gregory Peters / Reminiscences, 9/22/95, \u0026 Ed Scott #3;\" \"MC (Ref) Edward Greer, 5/10/06;\" and \"Ed Scott / Reminiscences /Korea, 10/20/95\"","Bickley and Rita Wicks-Nelson, as Rockefeller Scholars-in-Residence at Marshall University's Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Gender in Appalachia, interviewed and recorded interviews with older black women teachers from across the state. This subseries contains transcripts of the interviews, corrected transcripts, correspondence with the subjects, and sometimes background information about them.","Typed manuscript for \"Black Education in West Virginia,\" a joint project between Ancella Bickley and Rita Wicks-Nelson. Notes regarding Mrs. T. McDaniel interview; text of interview. Correspondence regarding book on black female teachers. Research notes. Text of speech about black WV schools. List of narrators. Facsimiles of newspaper clippings \"from Mrs. Rayford's Collection\" regarding desegregation of schools, 1955-1956. Newspaper clipping of AB interview regarding MTG.","Handwritten notes of [interview with] Marian Hatcher, WVU English Dept. teacher.","Print out of web page re: Dr. Ancella Bickley and Dr. Rita Wicks-Nelson, 1999 Rockefeller Scholars-in-Residence. Project name: \"Life Experiences of Older, Black, West Virginian Women [Teachers]\"","Demographics of teachers' project. Map showing location of teachers. Narrative overview of the project. Paper \"Mosaic [sic] in Black and White: Black Teachers Remember School Integration in West Virginia\" [by] Ancella Bickley and Rita Wicks-Nelson; paper presented at the Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Gender in Appalachia, MU, 2000. Annotated paper. Draft of paper \"Changing Lives and Potential Leadership: A Study of West Virginian Women Returning to College\" [by] Rita Wicks-Nelson, Lynda Ann Ewen, ca. 1997.","Correspondence between AB and RW-N and others re: book based on teachers' oral history interviews. Paper \"Black Education in West Virginia.\" Text of paper [by AB] \"Read @ WV Sociological Assoc. Annual Mtng. WVSC - Oct. 24, 1997.\" Letter from NB, 2005, asking for addenda to  West Virginia Law Review  paper about  Brown v. Board of Education.  Research notes. \" Fullen  corrected pp, AB,\" 2001. Letter requesting interview with Pearl Swann Carter, 2000.","Release form from Suzanne Slaughter, 1998","Correspondence, edits, research notes with RW-N. Book reviews from The Appalachian journal, 2005. List of women interviewed. Background and summaries for interviewees.","Research materials re: education in WV;  Brown v Board of Education.  Possible participants; call for participants; correspondence with participants Writing retreat brochure and correspondence. Project update to the Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Gender in Appalachia at MU. Draft of summary of results. Summary data forms and interview guide. Schedule of interviews. Letter from parent to teacher, Anna McCright. Flyer announcing talk by AB and RW-N. Luncheon flyer from the Fayette County Black Caucus.","Life stories, some annotated or edited, for Vivian Williams Fleming, Eliza Jane Campbell Dillard, Anna McCright, and Mary Montgomery.","Annotated transcript of oral history interviews with Mrs. Louise Anderson. Newspaper clipping of obituary.","Annotated transcript of oral history interviews with Mrs. Velma Bradshaw. Handwritten notes on folder.","Oral History Review  article, 2001, re: school segregation. Email with list of changes to the transcript. Transcript of oral history interviews with Mrs. Pearl Swann Carter, 2001.","Annotated transcript of oral history interviews with Mrs. Florence Casey, 1997","Transcript of oral history interviews with Mrs. Ottrus Chatman, 1999. Typed and handwritten notes on the interview.","Annotated transcript of oral history interviews with Mrs. Verona Clarke, 1997.","Annotated transcript of oral history interviews with Mrs. E. Jane Dillard, 1999.","Handwritten notes on the interview. Correspondence with Mrs. Elston. Annotated transcript of oral history interviews with Mrs. Mary M. Elston, 1997.","Annotated transcript of oral history interviews with Mrs. Eunice Fleming, 1999.","Annotated transcript of oral history interviews with Mrs. Vivian Williams Fleming, 1997. Handwritten notes.","Annotated transcript of oral history interviews with Mrs. Norma Jean Fullen, 1997.","Handwritten notes. Annotated transcript of oral history interviews with Mrs. Susie Guyton, 1997.","Handwritten notes. Transcript of oral history interviews with Mrs. Willie Hise, 1999.","Typed and handwritten notes. Annotated transcript of oral history interviews with Mrs. Floristine Holland, 1998.","Handwritten notes. Transcript of oral history interviews with Mrs. B'Alma Jones, 1999.","Annotated transcript of oral history interviews with Miss Anna McCright, 1999.","Corrected transcript of oral history interviews with Mrs. Thelma McDaniel, 1999.","Letter to Mrs. McDaniel. Typed notes and pages from the interview. Letter from Norman L. Jones re: Thelma McDaniel and the Price and White families, 2001.","Annotated transcript of oral history interviews with Mrs. Edris Miller, 1998.","Annotated transcript of oral history interviews with Mrs. Mary Montgomery, 1997. Overview for Mrs. Montgomery. Letter to her. Pages of the interview with corrections. List of names and addresses for interviewees.","Annotated transcript of oral history interviews with Ms. Doris Payne, 1999.","Overview for Ruby Brown Reeler. Annotated transcript of oral history interviews with Mrs. Ruby Reeler, 1997. Handwritten transcript of a quote from the interview. Handwritten notes on the folder.","Annotated transcript of oral history interviews with Mrs. Nancie Smith Robinson, 1999.","Transcripts pages of interview with FH [Floristine Holland?] Annotated transcript of oral history interviews with Mrs. Suzanne Slaughter, 1998.","Obituary for Mary Crozier Snow, 2011. Annotated transcript of oral history interviews with Mrs. Mary Snow, 1997. Letter to Mrs. Snow with corrections, 2001.","Transcript of oral history interviews with Mrs. Fannie Ashe Thomas, 1999.","Handwritten notes. Annotated transcript of oral history interviews with Mrs. Velma Twyman, 1997. Letter to Mrs. Twyman re: corrections, 2001.","Includes books, manuscripts, facsimile pages, and other publications not written by Bickley, who was sometimes asked to provide feedback on writing. Forms of writing include family histories, poems, short stories, plays, novels, and both scholarly and popular articles. Other writers include: Sharon M. Draper, Charles Lloyd, Hannah N. Geffert, Peri Lynne Johnson, L. O'B. Thomson, Nelson L. Barnett, J. McHenry Jones, Judith Stitzel, Elizabeth Taylor Brown, and Phyllis Moore.","A Memorial to the Scott, Carter, Mumford Families and the Journey from the Hills of North Carolina to the Beautiful Ohio Shore in the Year 1844  by Edith Dove Bryant, original and one facsimile. Article \"Midwifery in West Virginia\" 1990.","My Dearest Husband: the Letters of Amacetta Laidley Summers to George W. Summers, 1842-1843  by Patricia Clark Bulla. Handwritten genealogy chart for James M. Laidley","Poem \"Old Lady Sady and the Chicken Wings\" c1992 Sharon M. Draper","My Dearest Husband: the Letters of Amacetta Laidley Summers to George W. Summers, 1842-1843  by Patricia Clark Bulla. Laidley-Summers-Quarrier family line","Manuscript for  Aesculapius, Ebony  by Nelson L. Barnett, M.D.","\"…Tryin' to Get Home…\": A Journal,  a compendium of biographies, family histories, community histories, etc. by the John Henry Memorial Committee.","\"The Search for Larry Doby\" by Bob Stitzel in  Sports Collectors Digest , December 1, 1989. Letter from Judith Stitzel critiquing short stories \"The Woman in the Lavender Hat,\" \"Hush Now Child,\" \"Sweets,\" and \"Jones.\" Manuscripts of Stitzel's stories \"My New York Yankees,\" \"Cover-Up,\" \"Hearing Aids,\" \"Unbecoming a Jew.\" Letter from Stitzel regarding order of stories.","Manuscript for book about West Virginia State College.","Correspondence with Phyllis Moore re: WV writers. Annotated stories \"It Ain't Her!,\" \"The Crossing,\" and \"On This Rock,\" short stories by AB. Photo of AB and unidentified woman. \"'Talking about home…': Yes, We Have Authors\" by Phyllis Wilson Moore.","Project overview for Greenbrier Valley African-American life. J. McHenry Jones' novel  Hearts of Gold  with highlighted passages and annotations. Background research materials.","Facsimile of  The Jones Family  by John L. Jones.","Correspondence with Hannah N. Geffert re: Black History Conference and her annotated story \"The Guns of October.\"","\"History of Lakin Hospital: Pulling for the Stars\" by Elizabeth Taylor Brown. Reviewers' comments.","The Plays of Ann Kathryn Flagg  published by Amistad, Inc., Ancella Bickley, Director.","\"Black High Schools in West Virginia\" prepared by R. Charles Byers.","Writings of Peri Lynne Johnson, AB's niece, some with annotations.","Review of \"The History of Lakin State Hospital\" by Elizabeth Brown; manuscript.","Drafts and final papers written by L. O'B. Thompson who taught at WVSC.","Aesculapius, Ebony  by Nelson L. Barnett. Brief biography of Carl Eugene Barnett. Facsimile of photograph of \"Reverend Nelson Barnett, Circa 1900.\"","Paper and letter of transmittal for \"The Peters Sisters: An Historical Omission\" by Norman Jordan. Research notes on the sisters: Ethel and Ada Peters.","Typewritten notes about various novels, movies, and other works. Discussion questions for some.","Inscribed play \"Day to Day: a Drama in One Act\" by Maryat Lee. Article \"'…To Will One Thing: a New Look at Theater\" [by] Maryat Lee, from  Drama Review , 1983. Materials re: EcoTheater including scholarly articles.","Includes black and white historical photographs, slides, and contemporary color photographs. Additional photographs can be found throughout the collection. Most photos are black and white facsimiles of original historical photos of people and places significant to Bickley's research and publications. Subjects include educational institution buildings and students; other institution buildings; the Radford family; Bickley and Bickley with others. The contemporary color photos include ones of the memorial statues on the West Virginia Capitol grounds; Potomac State College campus; Bickley and others; and the social event A Red Hat Party celebrating women.","Photos: graduating class at Bluefield State College; Barnett School Orchestra, Huntington, with Nellie Francisco; school children at Lincoln School, Wheeling, 1912; unidentified football team; buildings at Bluefield State College and West Virginia State College.","Photos, invitation to, and follow up for a birthday celebration for AB, and a Red Hat Party to celebrate older women. Poem about AB.","Photographs of building details; street scenes; two black women [Alberta Coleman]; NB; campus, Potomac State College, buildings including Academy Hall and Duke Anthony Whitmore/Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Academic Achievement Wall.","Photos of statues on the WV State Capitol grounds: prints, proof sheet with numbered descriptions, and a CD. Annotated text to accompany photos and titled \"Statuary on the Grounds of the West Virginia State Capitol.\" Brief history of the Capitol and the state of West Virginia.","\"Honoring Our Past: 1994 Calendar\" produced by the Alliance for the Collection, Preservation and Dissemination of West Virginia's Black History. Calendar includes photos of school bands, Bluefield NAACP chapter, Hopewell barber shop in Martinsburg, and schools.","Copies of group photographs of children and a \"Special Citation Award to Mrs. Harry Gordon\"","Photo of unidentified family, 1901; restored photo and invoice for work, 2005.","Negatives and photos from AB's Red Hat Party","Variety of copies of historical photographs, most not identified, 1912-1918. Note stapled to folder removed, 10/17/1990.","1991 (3), 1993, 1994 calendar \"Honoring Our Past\" from the Alliance for the Collection, Preservation and Dissemination of West Virginia's Black History. 1971 Black History Calendar [by] Raymond W. Lowry.","Facsimiles of photographs of students at WVSC including AB in Delta Sigma Theta Sorority.","Photographs of AB and others at a presentation on CGW at Marshall University, President's Home. February 24, 1988.","Facsimile of undated photo [ca. 1942] of John W. Davis, Charles Rutherford, Austin W. Curtis, L.A. Toney, et al. On back: \"Received from Debby Jackson,  Goldenseal , 4/7/1997. Picture taken during construction of Washington-Carver Camp.\"","Photo of AB with author Alice Walker at the University of Charleston, [1999]. Photo of AB with Ken Sullivan, Executive Director of the WV Humanities Council, 2002.","Includes examples of Bickley's contribution to a number of public service projects both in a professional capacity and as a citizen. Includes these formats:  \nplanning documents,  \ncorrespondence,  \nmeeting notes, and  \nagendas for these organizations:  \n-Amistad, Inc., a publishing company she formed;  \n-West Virginia Humanities Foundation;  \n-Black Mountain Youth Leadership Program, Berea College;  \n-The EcoTheater in Lewisburg, for which she served as board member;  \n-National Council of Teachers of English, for which she was National Director;  \n-West Virginia Archives and History Commission, of which she was a member; and  \n-Marshall University colloquium on black history.","Most notable are the grant applications, programs, and correspondence from her work with the West Virginia Humanities Foundation. Bickley was President of the Board of Directors and wrote a ten-year history of the organization, 1974-1984. The files include background materials for a number of projects for which she or others received grants. For her work with the Kanawha County Board of Education, her files include research materials about minority student achievement, and documents about the Kanawha County Schools Minority Student Achievement Task Force and Maximizing Achievement of African-American Children in Kanawha County (MAAACK). Documenting her work with an organizing committee to clean up the Bethel Cemetery in Huntington, her files include calls for participants, flyers, lists of members, and more. One civic activity with no apparent formal organization includes a meeting with Governor Rockefeller to advocate for affirmative action in West Virginia government. More on Bickley's professional and community activities can be found in the Awards, Honors Series.","\"Notes from Meeting between WV SAC and Governor Rockefeller--June 13\" The SAC [Statistical Analysis Center] asked the governor to authorize another study concerning minority employment in West Virginia with the goal of supporting affirmative action and the employment of more minorities.","Humanities Scholar Resource Forms by Virginia Edwards (2/86), Judith G Stitzel, and Elayne Rapping for the project, \"Reel Visions: A Conference on Women and Film.\" \"Seminar for Professionals Scholar's Statement\" by AB.  The Midwest Quarterl y article \"The Humanities in Public Conversation.\" Publication: \"The Humanities Foundation of West Virginia, 1974-1984, A Decade of Discovery\" which lists awards; AB was President of the Board of Directors.","Brochure for the 15th Year of the EcoTheater founded by Maryat Lee, 1975-1990. Letter of support fro grant to the EcoTheater, February 10, 1990. Business correspondence with members of the Board of Directors.","Notes, membership lists, and correspondence from meetings of the Bethel Memorial Park Interest Group. Various research notes regarding black WV doctors and other topics.","Invitation to Ronald Reagan's inauguration","Correspondence from Cecil H. Underwood and Earl Ray Tomblin regarding appointment to the WV Archives and History Commission, July 11, 2000-September 22, 2000.","Papers and notes from 1975 National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) conferences when AB was National Director. List of attendees. Black history newspaper clippings. NCTE Spring Institutes programs: April 4-8 in Buffalo, New York; and April 25-29 in Santa Barbara, California. Paper by NB \"Mini-Psychological Theory about Black Americans\"","Invitation to Jimmy Carter's inauguration, January 20, 1977.","Certificate of incorporation and other legal documents for Amistad, Inc. Humanities Foundation grant application. Correspondence, agendas for Board meetings, and notes from meetings.","Correspondence with William (Bill) Turner regarding a black history colloquium at Marshall and editing a special issue the  Appalachian Journal. Sojourner: Voice of the Eastern Kentucky Social Clubs , 1989.","Program for MU symposium \"Moving Toward Freedom: Slavery and Resistance.\" WV Humanities Foundation grant materials for \"Fact to Freedom: The Story of Slavery in West Virginia.\" Cost details for recreating a slave auction block. Photograph of 10th and Market in Wheeling, 1895.","Correspondence with Brucella and Norman Jordan re: the African American Heritage Family Tree Museum. Also a Humanities Council Grant, brochures, newspaper clippings, press releases. B. Jordan's curriculum vitia and job description with an appliation.","Materials supporting the proposal for WVSC's The Canty House being placed on the National Register of Historic Places.","Materials for collaboration of Kanawha County Schools Minority Student Achievement Task Force and Achieving Excellence in Learning (AEL). Maximizing Achievement of African-American Children in Kanawha County (MAACK) materials. Data on Kanawha County students.","Readings on teaching minority students, Ebonics. Maximizing Achievement of African-American Children in Kanawha County (MAACK) materials.","Notes and correspondence pertaining to the evaluation of the Black Mountain Youth Leadership Program at Berea College.","Letter from the Governor of Montana. Itineraries. Correspondence re: trip.","Matted print of D. Richardson's drawing of the WV Colored Children's Home.","This series includes eleven subseries which highlight Bickley's research on black history in West Virginia and to a smaller extent black history in general. The subseries include her work on black history for many West Virginia counties with her research being more extensive for Cabell, Jefferson, and Kanawha Counties which have their own subseries. The subseries for Research Notes and Collected Papers are: General, Biography; Cabell County, WV; Jefferson County, WV; Kanawha County, WV; Other WV Counties; Churches, Education; General; Organizations; Slavery; and the Underground Railroad.","Bickley researched a wide range of black history and black culture topics; for example, Aunt Jemima and the statue of a black boy as yard ornament, in addition to persons and events. The research provided background for her writings and was often incorporated into her works of fiction as well as historical accounts. Her papers include research notes and supporting sources on a wide range of topics with reference to black history and West Virginia black history.","Handwritten inventory of boxes with Post-it-Note \"Found AFTER boxing - This drawer-files are out of order so I don't know if it will be helpful. (Plus, my sister has horrible handwriting.\"","Post card from Mabel Hunter with Storer College Brackett Hall dorm room circled (1946). Photo of statue of Carter G. Woodson. 1850 mortality statistics for western section of Virginia.  Bulletin of the West Virginia State Teachers' Association , 1940. Program for the Mountain State Bar Association, Inc. Annual Awards Banquet, June 18, 1988. Partial transcript of \"Interview with Doris Miller, Huntington, WV\" regarding house purported to be on the underground railroad. Marriage records, 1869, Trinity Church, Parkersburg. \"Reading the Names\" program at Virginia Sate University of those lynched, 1868-1935; AB read the WV names, ca. 2011. Handwritten research notes. Notes on census slave records. Proposed black history highway markers, 2001. Newspaper clipping about Huntington Tuskegee Airmen, 2009. Email from Brucella Jordan requesting a recommendation; paragraph regarding the founding of the African American Heritage Family Tree Museum, 2010. Email from David Trobridge invitation to speak at Marshall University, 2011. Facsimile of pages from the Bureau of Negro Welfare and Statistics regarding the Episcopal Church in West Virginia. Roster of Negroes serving in state and local government, ca. 1968. \"The West Virginia Medical Society [Black].\" \"Slavery in Western Virginia\" (notes for an exhibit?)","Correspondence and research notes regarding the black history of Gallipolis, Ohio. Love story by Harry Dolphis Scott, Bidwell, Ohio. Typed lists from Carter G. Woodson's Free Negro Head of Families (1830), Town of Gallipolis.","Newspaper clippings from the Herald-Dispatch, 1981. Brochure: \"Graduates of Distinction: Michael Perry, Ancella Bickley\" from the Education Alliance, 2002","Various articles regarding blues music. Multiple facsimiles of \"Bessie Smith, 1898-1937, A Short Blues Anthology,\" 1971; one with annotations.","Various articles including the legend of Jocko, subject of a lawn ornament, and a 1971 black history calendar by Raymond W. Lowry which highlights achievements.","2 nd Annual John Henry Festival, Clifftop, West Virginia: Herbs and Traditional Medicine [by] Roscoe Leonard.","Typewritten paper about spirituals","Journal, newspaper, and magazine articles about black history, Carter G. Woodson, Nelson Bickley, and the methyl isocyanate leak in Institute, 1984.","Prospective Sites Relating to Black History in Canada  by William N. T. Wylie, June 1994.","Research materials regarding the holiday, Juneteenth, which celebrates the Emancipation Proclamation. Text of two speeches.","\"The Black Literary Tradition of West Virginia: A Bio-Critical Survey\" [by] Leonard J. Deutsch","The booklet (2 copies) \"History of African-American Miners in Appalachian Coal Fields: Black History Month, February, 2000\" Funeral program for Ulysses Grant Carter, teacher at Kimball High School.  A Saga of Service: A History of the Mining Extension Service of West Virginia State College, 1937-1957  by Cecile M. McCormick and U.G. Carter.","Facsimiles of pages from reports from the WV Bureau of Negro Welfare and Statistics.","Correspondence and attached materials from Sara J. Sow re: blacks in Gallia County, Ohio. \"Why We Celebrate Our Culture and Church\" about churches in Lawrence County, Ohio.","Correspondence with and writings of James Fisher, Berkeley County.","Background research notes and materials about Cuba.  National Geographic  article \"Evolution in the Revolution: CUBA.\" Poems by or translated by Nelson A. Ossorio.","Correspondence with Joan C. Browning re: content for the Henrietta Marie exhibit; white women in the civil rights movement. Biography. Resume. Newspaper clippings; article \"Invisible Revolutionaries: White Women in Civil Rights Historiography.\" Program and other materials for the WVU panel for the Rush Holt History Conference. Commentary from John Raines re: J. Browning and David Mussat's contributions to the RDH Conference; annotated JB paper \"Religion Gave Me Power to Witness\" and David Mussat's paper \"Sticks and Stone: an Interpretation of Power and Religion in the Movement.\"","Research materials on many aspects of WV Black history including newspaper clippings, scholarly articles, meeting programs, and the text of an Odd Fellows speech.","\"Negro Coal Miners in West Virginia, 1875-1925\" from the  Midwest Journal , 1954. Reprint of \"Negro Migration to the Mining Fields of West Virginia\" from the  Proceedings, West Virginia Academy of Sciences , 1936.","Handwritten research notes. Research materials re: WV history. Typed notes on WV black history. 1955 newspaper article re: integration of schools.","Correspondence regarding black WV historical markers. Resignation as a Commissioner for the WV Division of Culture and History. Program for Roosevelt Junior High School Award Assembly, June 2, 2000; Bickley is on the program for the East End History Essay.","Programs for West Virginia Conference on Black History at the First Baptist Church in Charleston, April 22-23, 1988, and the Eighth Annual Conference on West Virginia's Black History at Marshall University, November 10-11, 1995","Web page print out of article about Silas Green in minstrel show.","\"Fifth U.S. Colored Infantry\" by John F. Walter, rev. 1998. Includes information on Ohio and WV blacks.","\"Negro Participants in the Fields of the Theatre and Music Plus Associated Enterprises: Period: 1920-1960\" by Dr. Douglass T. Murray. Booklet for The National [Negro] Opera [Company].","Paper titled \" School Desegregation Since  Brown  (1954): 30-Year Perspective\" by Franklin Parker, WVU Professor of Education, 1984. Two pages of annotated text of a speech about education of black West Virginians, [delivered at WVU].  Daily Athenaeum  article re: interview Nelson Bickley about discrimination in housing in Morgantown, 1971. Program for \"The West Virginia Experience in Higher Education: an Historical Perspective\" at WVU, 1984, when AB was on a panel. Facsimile of the pamphlet \"The Black Student at WVU\" 1971-72. Correspondence from the Ohio University Press re: manuscript review of the book  Memphis Tennessee Garrison  by William H. Turner, 1999. \"History of DuBois High School\" from a book. Map of slave plantations in Wood County, Va. Map of Underground Railroad routes to Canada, 1898.","Email correspondence primarily between AB and her daughter Ancella Livers re: access to WWII Soldiers' letters at the New York Public Library. Email from Della [Hardman?] re: Belle Powell and Ravella Hughes.","Includes biographical material for many people of interested to Bickley. Types of material include correspondence, handwritten notes, clippings and articles, photographs, various facsimiles, and more. Subjects of research notes and collected materials include: Carter G. Woodson, Dick Pointer, Henry Louis \"Skip\" Gates, Memphis Tennessee Garrison, John Henry, Ravella Hughes, John Wesley Harris, Maude Beatrice Bell Plowden, Della Brown Taylor, Bessie Yancey, Mollie Gabe (Mary Elizabeth Johnson), Elizabeth Simpson Drewry, J. McHenry Jones, Stonewall Jackson, Gwen McMillion Bingham, and William Cathay. Additional topics include: blacks in WV literature; black women; Tuskegee Airmen including John L. Whitehead, Jr. and William Lee Hill; and black WV legislators. Biographical information is also included in the Interviews and Oral History Interviews series.","Newspaper clippings. Partial notes [speech] J. McHenry Jones including John R. Clifford, Christopher Payne, and black legislators. Pages from a 1913 Congressional hearing on \"Conditions in the Paint Creek District, West Virginia\" with conditional pardon of Dan Chain highlighted. Memo, 1/18/03, from Alfonzo Dalton regarding interview with Ben Carson who was a Republican candidate for the US President in 2016.","Letter to researcher Sean Duff, November 19, 2012, and attached information regarding J. McHenry Jones and Wheeling. Letter to researcher L. Morris Jones, May 3, 1989. Newspaper clipping of article about  Hearts of Gold  which was written by J. McHenry Jones (JMJ). Various versions of \"James McHenry Jones: a Monologue\" by Ancella R. Bickley. Full and partial \"J. McHenry Jones, 1859-1909.\" Text of newspaper article about JMJ's opposition to the Evans Jim Crow Bill, February 14, 1907. Research notes including Jones family history. Facsimile of pages from  History of the Jones Family  by John L. Jones.","Research notes on Guion Bluford (?). Ed White, sculptor, biography. Facsimile of pages from the children's book  Black Stars in Orbit , [1995]","Correspondence between NB and The Association for the Study of Negro Life and History, Incorporated regarding preservation of the Carter G. Woodson house in Huntington. Correspondence between Carter G. Woodson and his sister, Bessie Woodson Yancey, regarding upkeep of the house.","Research materials on Dick Pointer, black Indian War hero, for an article for the  Journal of the Greenbrier Historical Society ; the article; handwritten notes; various versions of the article. Research notes. Facsimile of a painting by S. Ross Browne, 1993.","Correspondence with Henry Louis \"Skip\" Gates, Jr. Newspaper clipping: MU Commencement.","Correspondence with Adolphus Young regarding black West Virginia women, particularly MTG.","Washington Post  article \"In Quest of the Historical John Henry\" by Hank Burchard, August 24, 1969. Press release by Kyle McCormick, WV Dept. of Archives and History, 1957.  WV Hillbilly , June 23, 1979, \"A Salute to John Henry.\"","Handwritten notes about John Matheus, WVSC professor; his curriculum vitae, ca. 1953; reprint of an article from the  CLA Journal  by him, 1972.","Research notes about Revella Hughes","Research notes about William Hill for  Goldenseal  article about Tuskegee Airmen.","Research on John Brown including materials from the National Parks Service's John Brown Conference, 2000; an annotated Langston Hughes' poem \"October 16;\" and \"A Psychological Examination of John Brown.\"","Two newspaper clippings: one about Fannie Cobb Carter and one about Memphis Tennessee Garrison","Obituary and other information about Major General Charles \"Jackie\" Calvin Rogers. Documents regarding the naming of a United States Army Reserve Center for him. Text of NB's speech.","Goldenseal  article about John Wesley Harris. Facsimile of newspaper clipping about Maude Beatrice Bell Plowden.","Transcript of interview with AB by Ohio State University's WOSU about Della Brown Taylor [Hardman], a graduate of Garnet High School, artist, and teacher at WVSC.","Research notes. Transcript of conversation with Bruce Rogers regarding Aunt Jemima and Bruce Family history. Facsimiles of newspaper articles regarding Aunt Jemima.","Background research about the Sargent School of Physical Education; Sydney Taylor Brown who graduated from there and then WVSC; black women in the American Red Cross; and black women's service in WWII.  American Legacy , Winter 1999. Research notes.","Facsimile of pages from  History of the American Negro,  W.Va. Edition, vol. VII, [edited] by [A. D.] Caldwell.","Print outs of web pages regarding the Tuskegee Airmen. Photograph of monument in Walterboro, SC. Newspaper clippings.","Research materials pertaining to Carter G. Woodson including: journal and magazine articles; facsimile of book pages; newspaper clippings; and a masters degree thesis. Text of speeches and programs for speeches by both AB and NB. Invitation to a reception to honor Sen. and Mrs. John F. Kennedy in Huntington, April 20, 1960.","Poems, correspondence, and other writings by Bessie Yancey, Carter G. Woodson's sister. Photocopies of journal articles and WV Collegiate Institute publications. Special Carter G. Woodson issue of  Community,  published by Friendship House, Winter 1970. Issue of  The Journal of Negro History , July 1968.","Research materials on Mollie Gabe, also known as Mary Elizabeth Johnson, midwife from Falls Mill, Braxton County.","Research materials about John P. Parker, a former slave who was active in the UGRR in Ohio. Parker was also an inventor and a business man.","Research materials about Elizabeth Simpson Drewry, McDowell County representative to the WV House of Delegates.","Letters to Bessie W. Yancey, CGW's sister. Research materials. Poem \"The Forgotten Boys.\" Correspondence re: restoration of the CGW home. Carter G. Woodson Memorial Committee and Foundation materials. Text of speech by AB. CGW stamps. Dedication of statue of CGW. Correspondence re: Ann Eliza Riddle Woodson family property. CGW genealogy prepared by Nelson Barnett, Jr. Letter from CGW to Bessie Woodson Yancey. Text of paper \"Carter G. Woodson: the West Virginia Connection.\" Photographs of CGW and kin.","Correspondence from CGW to Bessie W. Yancey, re: house in Huntington, 1941. Book contract between Bessie W. Yancey for  Echoes in the Hills  and CGW's company, The Associated Publishers, 1939. Letter re: book to CGW from BWY, 1939. Letter from John W. Davis, President WVSC, to BWY, 1945, re: Nelson Bickley. Letter from BWY to Louis R. Mehlinger re: loss of two brothers, 1950. Envelope, no contents, from Joel A Rogers, 1951. Envelope, no contents, from The Associated Publishers, 1958. Photographic negative of BWY.","Research materials including newspaper clippings, correspondence, articles, and research notes on Carter G. Woodson; Bessie W. Yancey; Black History Month; restoration of the Woodson home; and the Woodson family. Annotated copy of the paper \"Carter G. Woodson: the West Virginia Connection.\" Facscimiles of Otis Woodson and CGW photos. Photo of Bessie Woodson Yancey and letter from BWY to CGW re: poetry. Edited entry for CGW from  The Encyclopedia of Black America . List of WV Collegiate Institutue, 1920/21 and 1921/22. Facsimile of correspondence between CGW and BWY re: house.","Research materials on J. McHenry Jones including facsimiles of obituaries; other newspaper clippings; and transcriptions of clippings. Photo of Hazlewood Assembly Hall. Notes [speech?] on JMJ. Timeline with sources. Paper about JMJ by AB. Jones family history.","Pages copied from book  The Hidden Years of Stonewall Jackson  purporting that he fathered a black child. From Merle Moore.","Research materials on Tuskegee Airmen including John L. Whitehead, Jr. and William Lee Hill.","Text of a speech? \"African Americans in the West Virginia Legislature.\" Letter from C.A. Blankenship to  The Negro History Bulletin  adding names of Negroes who served in the WV Legislature, 1964. \"West Virginia's Black Female Legislators\" ca. 1991. Facsimile of photo with caption: \"President Harry S. Truman being shown a copy of America's first Black pictorial magazine. [There is some question which came first  Color  or  Ebony]  Left to right: Sippi Coleman, Pres. Truman, W.VA. Congressman, Dr. I.J.K. Wells Editor and Publisher of Color,\" ca. 1948. Newspaper clipping of article re: female legislators, 1998.","Facsimile of photo of \"Gabriel, Pardoned by VA Governor Tim Kaine, June 26, 2007.\" Research notes. Paper \"Major General Gwen McMillion Bingham,\" ca. 2011 with newspaper clipping. Facsimile of unidentified photograph of woman in uniform. Paper \"'Who Was William Cathay?' adapted from a piece in the St. Louis Daily Times, January 2, 1876.\" Poem \"Cathay Williams,\" 1997. Facsimile of enlarged photo of face of unidentified soldier. Summary/timeline for Cathay Williams/William Cathay.","Draft of \"Elizabeth Simpson Drewry, 1894-1979\"","Covers a wide range of topics on the history of Cabell County; Huntington, WV; and adjacent Ohio counties. Notable are Nelson Barnett's transcriptions of late 19th century Huntington newspaper articles regarding blacks. Also included are newspaper clippings, monographs, photos, biographies, and interviews about veterans, church history, education, organizations, and more.","\"References and Briefs to Miscellaneous Newspaper Articles, [June 15, 1872-October 21, 1898, and June 4, 1922-May 20, 1928]\" compiled by Nelson Barnett, Jr., 1988, from Huntington newspapers.","\"Black Veterans of World War I from Cabell County, W.Va., 1918.\" \"Past Imperfect, 1902: Articles of Interest, [Nov. 13, 1901-Dec. 31, 1901]\" compiled by Nelson Barnett, Jr. from Huntington newspapers.","\"Past-Imperfect, 1901: Articles of Interest, [Jan. 7, 1901-May 28, 1901]\" compiled by Nelson Barnett, Jr. from Huntington newspapers","Resources about blacks in Huntington and Cabell County. Includes a bibliography of  Goldenseal  articles about blacks. Other resources are church histories, listings of names, facsimiles of book chapters and papers, newspaper clippings, interviews, handwritten research notes, and more.","\"Progress of the Huntington Negro\" by Prof. J. W. Scott","\"A Black History of Huntington\" by Edna Duckworth, 1976. Genealogy for Edna Duckworth. \"Biohistrogenetics Project Proposal\" to the Carter G. Woodson Memorial Foundation, 1996-1997; Duckworth is listed as the visionary.","Marriage records, late 19th century, Cabell County.","Correspondence with Clara Knight. Facsimiles of Greenbottom Church, Huntington, records listing black members. Records regarding John Ball freeing his slaves, 1793. Map of Millersport, OH, 1887.","Correspondence with Bill Lindsay re: blacks in Huntington and Pocahontas County","Two newspaper clippings: one about Nellie Fransisco [sic] and AB's research about blacks on the Ohio River.","\"A Black History of Huntington\" by Edna Duckworth, [1976]. Census data for black families in Lawrence County, Ohio; 1850, 1860.","Photos of black workers in C\u0026O shop including Anderson Radford, AB's grandfather. Correspondence; transcription of newspaper articles; research notes; biographical sketches; photos of Goodes; newspaper clippings; church histories and programs; facsimiles of book pages; transcription of interviews; and bibliography.","Research notes. Photos. Paper \"Black People and the Huntington Experience.\" Project, \"A Sojourn for Truth: Revisiting Black History Along the Ohio River,\" overview. Research materials re: Huntington, Cabell County, and parts of Ohio. Transcript of interview with Suzette Spencer. \"The West Virginia Colored Children's Home\" by Ancella R. Bickley. \"Poke Patch/Black Fork, Ohio\"","Research notes on Douglass School. Typewritten notes on Douglass School, 1891-1924. Notes from conversation with Nellie Francisco. Handwritten transcription of article, 1902.","Covers research about blacks in Charlestown and Harpers Ferry as well as other locations in Jefferson County. Materials include obituaries, school histories, correspondence, cemetery records, research notes, and more about school integration, Storer College, slave collars, Fisherman's Hall, and more.","Research materials regarding blacks in Charlestown. Obituary for former slave George Jenkins in Huntington, 1917.","Paper about St. Philip's parochial school by James A. Tolbert. Materials re: Sons of Confederate Veterans tablet in Harper's Ferry. Other research materials re: Jefferson County and Charlestown.","Photos of a slave collar. Correspondence re: acquiring the collar for the Henrietta slave ship exhibit.","Correspondence with James Tolbert re: black CCC camp, McDowell County; Black History Conference; Fisherman's Hall, Charlestown, restoration; Harewood Cemetery, Jefferson County; marker for Martin Delany, Charlestown.","Research materials re: Harpers Ferry, the National Park, and Storer College.","Typewritten text of speech at Shepherd College, 2004. Transcript \"Discussion of Integration of Schools in Jefferson County: Jim Tolbert.\"","Handwritten research notes mostly re: John Brown and Harpers Ferry, ca. 2000.","Covers research about blacks in the WV Capitol, Charleston, and other locations in Kanawha County. Topics covered include slavery in the salt industry, biographies, wine cellars, and buildings. Contents include correspondence, facsimiles of documents, research papers, obituaries, newspaper clippings and more.","Research materials about slavery in West Virginia with focus on Kanawha County and the salt industry","Research materials on black attorney Thomas Gillis Nutter.","Research materials on Charleston, WV including: \"Unpublished Black History in the Early Kanawha Valley\" by William D. Wintz; \"Blacks in Charleston, West Virginia: A Survey of Their Presence in the Community and Occupational and Residential Patterns in the Early 1900s\" by Mary Johnson, WVU student. Research materials regarding Oscar Wayman Holmes, the first African American naval aviator and obituaries for C.H. James, prominent black businessman. Text of speech, \"Black People in Charleston,\" 1994.","Research materials on the Dutch Hollow wine cellars in Dunbar.","Documents regarding Samuel W. Starks and the Starks House in Charleston. Correspondence regarding its being put on the National Register of Historic Places.","Correspondence with Eugene Washington re: Phillis Wheatley School and Albert G. Brown, architect.","Excludes Cabell, Jefferson, and Kanawha Counties which have separate subseries. Includes research materials about slavery, school integration, lynching, historic homes, and more researched by Bickley for these counties: Wayne, McDowell, Harrison, Greenbrier, Hardy, Fayette, Monongalia, Upshur, Wood, and Monroe; as well as the cities of Bluefield, Buckhannon, Keystone, Weirton, Weston, and Wheeling. Research materials include photographs, correspondence, brochures, newspaper clippings, book pages, articles, interviews, and more.","Various documents regarding blacks in Wayne County, WV; the Livisay family; writings by Tim R. Massey, 1981; the Lindsey family; photograph and negatives of a photograph of a black family.","Research materials on McDowell County, WV, with focus on the towns of Keystone and Keystone. Letters and notes from Adolphus A. Young, Jr.","Program for \"Freedom Is a Struggle: Glimpses of African-American Life in the Greenbrier Valley of [West] Virginia.\" Brochure \"Black Historic Sites in Lewisburg, West Virginia.\"","Newspaper clipping about Sarah Hall, black lawyer. Facsimiles of research materials. \"The History of the Negro in McDowell County and in West Virginia Leading Up to and Including the Integration of Schools\" by Dr. Douglass T. Murray. Typewritten notes from Adolphus Young, Jr. Correspondence with Alphonso Dalton, Jr. regarding MTG and black McDowell County families","Facsimile of 1952 newspaper article regarding slaves listed in 1848 Harrison County tax book. Slave owners are listed and includes Nathan Goff.","Paper, author unidentified, regarding lynching in WV. Research materials about slaves in Greenbrier County","Correspondence regarding letter from a slave asking to be purchased by Stump family [1851]. Facsimile of letter.","Research notes and resources regarding Glenwood, historic home in Charleston. Clarksburg newspaper article of reminiscences of a former slave, Ann Freeman and others. Clarksburg newspaper article regarding Union Veterans Association.","Research materials for Fayette County including contacts list, newspaper articles, maps, facsimiles of pages from books, student research paper, church histories, handwritten research notes, and grant applications. Correspondence with and Lucille Meadows and her handwritten reminiscences.","Newspaper articles, facsimiles of historical records. Partial manuscript for  To Be Black in Fayette  and annotated pages. \"Black Politics in Fayette County, West Virginia, 1896-1918\" by Daniel Wright. Text of speech by Daniel Wright. Brochure titled \"Camp Washington-Carver: a Compendium of the First African-American 4-H Camp.\"","Research materials and research notes:  Monongalia Blacks Speak : Women, Part II and Men, Part I, Holland family, schools. Interview with Grace Edwards Waters.","Research materials about Weirton.","Research materials about Upshur County. Facsimiles of articles written by R.H. Ralston, Sr. regarding Buckhannon's black history; newspaper clippings. \"A History of Blacks in Buckhannon: The Recollections of Harriet Warfield,\" an interview with Harriet Warfield, 1977.","Research materials regarding blacks in Wheeling. \"Wheeling's Black Population: A General Perspective\" written and presented by Darryl Clausell, Pat Dudley, with contributors Kathryn Snead and Dorothy Cooper, 1990. Correspondence with Margaret Brennan. Photo of AB, Pat Dudley, Brennan, and Annie Tanks at an Oral History Seminar in Wheeling.","Correspondence regarding Memphis Tennessee Garrison. Research materials on Gary and other McDowell County locales: newspaper clippings,  Goldenseal  article.","Papers by Wheeling Jesuit Students Joel Michael Coulson and Beau Conway.","Research resources regarding blacks in Fayette County, WV, including transcripts of oral history interviews with Lucille Meadows, Mrs. Turner, Charista Davis, Lula Lall Jones, Rosa Roach and Jessie Barrett; correspondence, church histories and programs. Includes Smoot family information.","Transcripts of interviews with Alease Watkins, David W. Turner, Russell Lee Matthews, and Elsie Choice Hopkins. Also, includes research notes, newspaper clippings, a grant application, facsimiles of book pages, and correspondence.","Photo of Lomax Hospital in Bluefield. Brochures for Afro-Appalachian Performance Company. Correspondence with Joseph Bundy re: history alive performances. Research materials about black Bluefield hospitals.","Correspondence with Ray Swick re: blacks in Wood County. Research notes. Correspondence with the Wood County Bicentennial Commission re: speech.","Court record for  Mullens v. County Court , 1932. Facsimile of WV entry from  100 Years of Lynchings  by Ralph Ginzburg. \"The Greenbrier County Lynching: a Study of West Virginian Justices\" by Ancella Bickley Livers. \"'Reading the Names,' Program at Virginia State University.\"","Research notes re: Parkersburg black history. Facsimile of letter and transcription of letter from ex-slave Isaac Fairfax to George Washington Henderson.","Letter from Charles (Charley) Goddard re: Greenbrier County history and Sharlotta Gardner contact information.","Copy of photo and negative of lynching. Photos of black children. Note from Maurice Allman, Hacker's Creek Pioneer Descendants. Transcripts of  Weston Democrat  articles re: 1892 lynching of Edgar Jones. Transcripts re: 1910 lynching. Research notes on these incidents. Application for the Weston Colored School to be placed on the National Register of Historical Places. Research notes re: Weston State Hospital. Correspondence re: dedication of the Central West Virginia Genealogical and Historical Library, formerly the Weston Colored School. Handwritten transcription of interview with Rahleen Gardner who attended the School. Transcript of conversation with Mrs. Joy Gilchrist, 1992.","Transcripts of interviews with Mr. Waldo Lacy and Mrs. Gladys Lacy. Facsimile of newspaper article of speech by T.J. Ferguson, 1870. Research materials on the Sumner School. History of Parkersburg from Bernie Allen. Facsimile of books pages, newspaper articles, and transcription of newspaper articles. Parkersburg Art Center brochure featuring Joseph Eldridge Dodd. Text for slide show (no slides). Typewritten outline of \"Parkersburg Study.\"","Facsimiles of newspaper articles. Correspondence with Ray Swick, Blennerhassett Island State Park. Research materials about blacks in Wood County. Research notes. \"A History of Sumner School\" written by Sally Browning, 1996.  The Island Packet  from the Friends of Blennerhassett Island.","Background research on blacks in Monroe County. Correspondence with Fawn Valentine and Presidents of the Monroe County Historical Society. \"Bishop Matthew W. Clair, Sr.: a Biography\" by Dr. Margaret B. Ballard, 1973.","Includes programs, bulletins, correspondence, research notes, and histories of black West Virginia churches in Fayetteville, Charleston, Charlestown, Fairmont, St. Albans, Parkersburg, Huntington, and Alderson. Also includes a history of churches and lodges in West Virginia as well as histories of the Odd Fellows, Knights of Pythias, and the Galilean Fisherman lodges. Denominations represented include African Methodist Episcopal, Episcopalian, and Baptist.","Correspondence with Lucile S. Meadows regarding help with the Second Baptist Church, Fayetteville, Centennial; racial tolerance in schools","\"125th Anniversary Journal\" First Baptist Church, February 1, 1868-February 28, 1993, Charleston, WV","Time line for black Episcopalians in WV. \"The First Hundred Years: a History of St. Philip's Episcopal Church, Charles Town.\" Research notes and sources. Humanities Foundation of WV grant application by Florita Montgomery to study the history of St. Phillips' Episcopal Church. Information on the Trinity Church in Parkersburg. Photograph including some black congregants.","1907 Weekly Bulletin of Diamond St. M.E. Church in Fairmont","Book titled  Miracle on B Street Continues  about St. Paul Baptist Church's (St. Albans) 131st anniversary.","Letter re: slide presentation at the Young Chapel African American Methodist Episcopal Church. Program for the 94th Church Anniversary. Handwritten time line and other notes. Booklet of photographs, text of Bickley's speech, newspaper clipping.","\"Black Churches and Lodges in West Virginia in Their Infancy, 1865-1900\" by J. Reuben Sheeler. \"History of Bright Hope Lodge #9, F.\u0026A.M. and - P.H.A. Montgomery WV.\" Facsimile of pages \"Introduction and Growth of the Grand United States Order of Odd Fellows in America.\" Notes \"Knights of Pythias of West Virginia History\" researched by James A. Tolbert. Notes about \"Grand United Order of the Galilean Fisherman\" compiled by Ann Wilson.","Email correspondence with Adrienne Belafonte re: a newspaper article about the Shiloh Baptist Church in Alderson. Clipping of the article.","Program for First Baptist Church 125th Anniversary, 1997. Program for installation of Rev. William F. Buchanan, First Baptist Church, 1988.","Includes newspaper clippings, text for presentations, correspondence, research notes, articles, commencement programs, interviews and more about state and national teachers' organizations, historically black WV colleges including West Virginia State College and West Virginia University, integration of schools, histories of specific schools, the Kanawha County textbook controversy, and more.","Newspaper articles: WV Education Association (WVEA) Executive Committee meeting, the National Education Association (NEA) and the need for minority teachers; and recommendations from the Black Caucus,  WV School Journal , December 15, 1973. Photograph of Blacks in auditorium seating, ca. 1950s","Multiple facsimiles of a post card picturing Albert Long, \"Bertie\" -- Aunt Onie's Son. West Virginia State College Commencement Programs: 1948, 1950, 1951","Information sheets and travel plans for trip to Egypt, July 5, 1987, sponsored by WVSC. Passport and Visa information written on folder.","Various versions of text for a multi-media program on the history of West Virginia State College (WVSC) and Institute, WV","Letter to Edmonia Grider from Marjorie [Counts] regarding the Hilltop School, October 7, 1974.","Manuscript discussing integration and black teachers in WV, author unknown. Speech (?) regarding school integration. Research notes. Annotated speech: \"Black Education in West Virginia\" delivered in Shepherdstown.","Research materials on the integration of WV schools: facsimiles of WV newspaper articles regarding integration of schools; \"How Black Students Saw Themselves through the Decades of Change at Bluefield State College (founded in 1895) as It Changed from Predominately Black Institution to a Predominantly White Institution\" by James Worsham","Program for the Alpha Delta Chapter, Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. 19th annual Jabberwock, March 16th, 1949. Dance invitation, 1948. WVSC Commencement program, 1949. Washington Alumni Chapter banquet, 1976, to roast John W. Davis. Newspaper articles","Vocational and Educational Survey for the Kanawha County Negro Schools  by Andrew H. Calloway, 1945.","Correspondence, photos, newsletter, and newspaper clippings regarding the Douglass High School (Huntington) Reunion. Notes on class of 1947. Newspaper clipping regarding NB. Photo YWCA Y-Teens, Douglas High School, Christmas, 1946.","Research notes on schools in Keyser and Piedmont, WV, including a facsimile of book pages from  Howard School: a History, 1877-1955 regarding a black student strike for a better school in 1939. Notes on interview with Alberta Coleman, Piedmont, WV. Notes from interview with Opal Coates Carter, and other research notes, regarding Woolworth Fire, Charleston, WV, [ca. 1964s].","Compilation, by R. Charles Byers, of resources regarding WV black schools.","Annotated pages for \"Integration in West Virginia\"","Bulletin of West Virginia State College , Series 21, no. 1, June 1933. \"Why Choose West Virginia State College\"","Affirmative action statistics for Bluefield State College, 1984. \"Pride and Preservation: West Virginia State College\" seminars which included Alex Haley as a speaker, 1979. Newspaper article re: archives at West Virginia State College, 1979.  Southern Rural Women's Network Newsletter , June, 1983. Photograph of Alex Haley with inscription and signed letter from Alex Haley to NB, 1970.","Research notes and materials for research on education in Mason County, WV","Research materials regarding the Lincoln School in Wheeling, WV","West Virginia State College Bulletin , April 1941, Series 28, No. 2. Handwritten transcription of an article in  The Advocate , 1907.","Program for One Hundred Fifth Commencement, Huntington High School, 1971. Photo of AB, West Virginia State College Commencement, May 17, 1986.","Report of the Twenty-first Annual NEA Conference on Human and Civil Rights in Education , 1983, including paper by AB on the Kanawha County textbook controversy and censorship.","Facsimile of a brief historical sketch of Storer College, 1867-1891, by Kate J. Anthony, 1891.","Newspaper clippings and other sources relating to the West Virginia Seminary and College and the Hilltop Baptist Center.","\"Integration in Reverse at West Virginia State College\" by Elizabeth Duran and James A. Duran, Jr.","Correspondence, interviews, newspaper clippings, and facsimiles of photos re: WVSC's East Hall. Research notes.","WV Humanities Council grant application for a presentation on black education in Parkersburg. Research materials and notes. Handwritten and typed notes from interviews with Mrs. Dorsey, Mr. James Emondson, Mrs. Hattie Gazelle Turner, and Mrs. Elizabeth Mitchell. Particular focus on the Sumner School.","Photo slides of WVSC buildings, presidents, etc. Post cards of WVSC buildings and Institute. Note cards from a lecture. Research materials on all aspects of WVSC history.","Research materials on many aspects of WVSC history including faculty information. Includes these publications: \"ROTC in Review: 40 Years of Tradition;\" \"West Virginia State College Glee Club;\" Alumni Association, Los Angeles Chapter, Scholarship Luncheon program, 1989;","Program for Convocation and Dedication of the Harold Maceo McNeill Physical Facilities Plant, WVSC, 1999.","Letter from AB re: retirement of Justine Gutzmer; retirement announcement for Gerald Cote, Beatrice Dupass, Gutzmer, and Darthulia Jones. Facsimile of WWII death notice of Oliver Johnson to his parents and his obituary. Johnson was Gutzmer's brother.","Booklet of texts and order of ceremonies for the WVSC commencement program, 1985.","Includes background research on the Montgomery Woman's Improvement League, the West Virginia Federation of Colored Women's Clubs, Alpha Omicron Omega Chapter of the Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, the Mountain State Bar Association, and the West Virginia Medical Society. Research materials include a yearbook, programs, correspondence, a members list, and more.","Montgomery Woman's Improvement League Year Book , 1955-56 and 1960-61. Program for West Virginia State Federation of Colored Women's Clubs, Inc. Annual Convention, 1959. Newspaper photojournalism article regarding the College Alumni Club 50th anniversary history booklet. Program for the Annual Debutante Ball sponsored by Alpha Omicron Omega Chapter, Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, 1958. Correspondence with Katherine Atwater regarding resources.","Program for the Annual Meeting and Awards Banquet of the Mountain State Bar Association, 1985. List of members, 1986.","Paper titled \"The West Virginia Medical Society [Black]\" Article: \"Historically Black Medical Colleges: From Scorn to Success\" from  The Boule Journal , 2004.","This subseries includes maps, research papers, newspaper clippings, letters, census data, newspaper articles, facsimiles of historical slave documents, and more. Other materials regarding slavery can be found in county subseries and the Underground Railroad Subseries.","West Virginia map. \"Number of Slaves in Counties Which Became WV\" 1850, 1860. Typescript of  Historical Atlas of West Virginia  by Frank S. Riddel.","Handwritten notes on John Marshall; Marshall and slavery; Marshall and Robin Spurlock, his servant. Typed observations. Resource materials.","Facsimiles of legislation and resolutions to abolish slavery; and a list of representatives at the state convention in Wheeling.","Research materials. Typewritten manuscript[s] by James Oliver Horton. Codes for occupations. Copy of newspaper article.","Newspaper clipping and multiple facsimiles of an article about a slave breeding farm in Greenup, KY.","Research materials about slaves in Ohio Valley plantations and adjacent WV counties. Photocopies of photographs of Mary and plantation sites.","Facsimiles of: newpaper slave ads; Virginia law re: Kanawha Slave Insurance Company; Dunsmore's Proclamation freeing slaves; Va. Law to send slave to Liberia; slaves in Bunker Hill; New York Times article re: slave uprising; and drawing of [Harpers Ferry]. Harpers Ferry National Historical Park Afro-American materials. \"History of Gerrardstown\" in  The Berkeley Journal . Handwritten list of properties, including slave names, of Richard B. Washington, [1864]. Letter of transmittl and facsimile of bill of sale for slave, 18[4]5. Transcription of Rumsey-Polk letters re: slaves.","Handwritten research notes and research materials regarding reparations for slavery; text of NB speech; typewritten notes.","Annotated manuscript \"Compensatory Justice: Over Time and Between Groups\" by Renee A. Hill; text of introduction of a speech about reparations; newsapper clippings; web page print outs; articles.","West Virginia and Regional History Collection Newsletter  with articles re: slave letters.  West Virginia Then and Now  article re: John Brown's letter. Research re: images of blacks in journalism. Research notes.","Facsimile of tables of free Negro listings from 1830 census. \"Researching Virginia's Slave and Free Negro Records\"","Facsimile of newspaper article, 1934, re: Mount Pisgah Church, Proctorville, OH. \"The Way It Was…\" by Betty Burcham, a history of UGRR and Mount Pisgah Church. Facsimile of will of Eliza Goode freeing Sully Smith, her husband and her slave, 1848. Facsimile of two receipts for purchase of slaves, 1852. Research notes re: Ohio slaves and fugitives to WV.","This subseries includes text of a speech made by Bickley, books, slides, photographs, brochures, post cards, correspondence, maps, and more. The materials focus on parts of Ohio across the river from Huntington as well as West Virginia. Some topics are quilt codes, abolitionists, runaway slaves, location of Underground Railroad sites, and more.","Research materials about Serena Wilson and the book  Hidden in Plain View: The Secret Story of Quilts and the Underground Railroad.","Photos \"Trip to Doddridge County to visit Jaco Hill/cave - UGRR Site - w/Karen Nance, Sandra Moats, \u0026 Judy Wilinson, 6/20/01. Other research materials","Research materials on the Underground Railroad with focus on Ohio.","Brochures and post cards regarding the UGRR and the film \"Nightjohn.\" Correspondence with Margaret Brennan, organizer for the UGRR Summit in Wheeling. \"Reflections on the West Virginia UGRR Summit\" by Cathy D. Nelson; photo of AB speaking at the Summit and with Amanda Nelson and Sherry [Sowchuck].","Correspondence from Alicestyne Turley-Adams re: Underground Railroad Network Partnership.","Correspondence with Lucille Deberry and other research materials re: the UGRR, some in West Virginia.","Correspondence with Sandra Moats-Burke re: UGRR in WV counties.  Exploring a Common Past: Researching and Interpreting the Underground Railroad , 1998, 2nd ed. from the National Park Service. List of UGRR sites in WV.","Photograph slides, numbered and identified. Research materials mostly about Ohio. \"Draft Proposal to Establish a National Underground Commemorative, Interpretive, and Research Center, City of Huntington, West Virginia\" 1994. Itinerary for trip to Washington to meet with Interior Dept. officials and Robert C. Byrd's staff.","Book chapter \"In Gallia and Miegs Counties\" from  The Mysteries of Ohio's Underground Railroad  by Wilbur Henry Siebert, 1951. Facsimile of handwritten narrative by an abolitionist, [1892]. Facsimile of letter from R. C. Rankin re: father Rev. John Rankin, 1892. Research notes on WV runaway slaves. Facsimile of letter to Daniel ? to Cyrus Little re: UGRR, 1894. Map of UGRR, 1860. Requests for copies from the Siebert papers. More facsimiles of records.","Background materials on the Underground Railroad in Ohio.","Research materials including newspaper clippings and research notes on the Underground Railroad","Research materials re: the Underground Railroad. Research notes.","Facsimiles of documents pertaining to slaves in Jefferson County, VA. Itinerary for Underground Railroad tours [Ohio?].  The Escape of Jane: a True Story of the Underground Railroad  by Henry Burke \u0026 Dick Croy. Henry Robert Burke correspondence. Brochure on Henderson Hall, Wood County. Dick Croy correspondence and resume. Newspaper articles by Burke. \"Black Cultural Sites in West Virginia\" compiled by Michael Pauley and Peter Jesus, 1990","Correspondence with Sandra Moats-Burke re: UGRR. WV and county maps. Facsimile of pages from \"From the Charles River Shire, 1634-1643, to the Present Day Counties: Harrison, Doddridge, Ritchie, Wood, Pleasants and Tyler\" by Barr Wilson. Research materials on the UGRR. Research notes. \"The Anti-Slavery Movement in West Virginia,\" a speech delivered by Sandra Moats Burke.","Research materials re: quilts and the Underground Railroad, 2001-2011. Notes re: Eliza Farrow, 2005. Paper \"The UGRR Quilt Code\" by Leigh Fellner. Research notes; newspaper clipping; facsimile of web page and transcription of story in an email \"Secret Quilt Code on Exhibit until 10/6,\" 2012; and September 2012 issue of Underground Railroad Free Press.\" Mini-grant for UGRR quilts materials, 2013.","Underground Railroad: Official National Park Handbook .","Includes manuscripts and publications for books; plays and reenactor monologues; short stories; magazine and scholarly articles; and other forms of writing in both print and handwriting. Five subseries encompass the various genres of her writing. Also includes background and research materials for the subjects for her writings, both fiction and non-fiction.","Includes research materials for topics of articles. Subjects and formats treated are: encyclopedia entries in the biographical dictionary African American Architects; drafts and final versions of entries for both people and institutions for the West Virginia Encyclopedia; drafts and final versions of articles about Molly Gabe and Carter G. Woodson for Appalachian Heritage; newspaper articles for the Charleston (WV) Gazette Mail and Village Neighbors (FL) on a number of topics including George Wesley Atkinson, 10th governor of West Virginia, but especially for Black History Month and its founder Carter G. Woodson; Goldenseal articles about a Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) camp, Jessie Moon Thomas, Edward Greer, the Charleston Women's Improvement League, Memphis Tennessee Garrison, and West Virginia's Tuskegee Airmen; contribution to a symposium on diversity and change for Appalachian youth; and a study guide for a Charleston, WV, performance of Zora Neale Hurston's Spunk.","Articles by Ancella Bickley from the  Goldenseal Magazine","Correspondence regarding use of the Goldenseal article \"Camp War: Remembering CCC Company 3538-C\" in an online education guide by the WV State Museum.","Annotated manuscript and research notes for Goldenseal article \"Education and Activism in Gary: a Visit with Jessie Moon Thomas.\" Correspondence with Mrs. Thomas including notes on the Froe and Moon families.","Issue of the journal  Appalachian Heritage  containing AB article \"Profiles: Mollie Gabe\" by Ancilla  [sic]  Bickley.","\"Remembering Carter G. Woodson, the 'Father of Black History'\" in  Village Neighbors , [a publication of the Village in Florida where the Bickley's resided.] Typed notes on Carter G. Woodson. Transcription of letter from Bessie Woodson Yancey, CGW's sister, including text of the poem \"If You Live in West Virginia.\" CGW black history quiz prepared for the Spicy Ladies meeting.","Typed text of autobiographical musings about friendship: likens travel in the south in 1952 to the Underground Railroad travel; and includes details about the move to Morgantown in 1966.","Correspondence with  Goldenseal  regarding \"Edward Greer: First Black General from West Virginia\" and potential story about 1939 black student strike in Piedmont, WV. Manuscripts for Greer article.","Correspondence and drafts of a  Goldenseal  article \"Lifting as We Climb\" about the Charleston Woman's Improvement League. Research materials including facsimiles of photographs. Newspaper article about Judge Irene Berger, McDowell County.","Research materials on Carl Eugene Barnett and Robert Edward Lee Washington for entries in  African American Architects: A Biographical Dictionary, 1865-1945 .","Spiral bound program for  A Different World: Symposium on Diversity, Change, and Appalachian Youth,  2006, where Bickley was a panelist.","Appalachian Heritage , Summer 2008, which includes \"Carter G. Woodson: the West Virginia Connection\" by Ancella Bickley","Appalachian Heritage , Special Issue: Blacks in Appalachia, 1991, which includes Bickley's \"Molly Gabe\" in the Profiles section.","Goldenseal , Winter 2011, containing AB's article \"General Edward Greer: West Virginia's First Black General.\"","Correspondence with Dreck S. Wilson re: contribution to the book  Biographical Dictionary of African-American Architects, 1865-1945.","Research materials about George Wesley Atkinson, tenth governor of WV who attended Howard University. Paper titled \"West Virginia's Tenth Governor and the Black Community\" and newspaper article by AB.","Research materials re: the West Virginia Colored Orphans Home. Newspaper article written by AB. Testimonial for Fannie Cobb Carter. Research notes. Facsimiles of photos. Transcript of interview with Araminta Miller Justice. AB's paper about the Home.","Manuscript drafts and final versions for entries in the West Virginia Encyclopedia. Materials from West Virginia Humanities Council meetings re: the format and content of the Encyclopedia","Appalachian Heritage, Special Issue: Blacks in Appalachia,  Fall 1991, with article by AB in the Profiles Section on Mollie Gabe.","Musings written to friends, 1996. Clipping of \"Commentary: Capable of Thinking, Working…and Paying Her Own Bills,\" 1979, Ancella Bickley Jr.","Processor-created bibliography of Ancella Bickley's writings","Includes books written, complied, or edited by Bickley, and background research materials and drafts of manuscripts. Books Bickley wrote include: a children's book,   LuJay, No-Name, and the Parrot , also titled  Lucia Jean, No Name, and the Parrot  ;   …to be black in fayette  [sic];   History of the West Virginia State Teacher's Association ; and   In Spite of Obstacles: a History of the West Virginia Schools for Colored Deaf and Blind . Books edited by Bickley include:  Honoring Our Past: Proceedings of the First Two Conferences on West Virginia's Black History ;  Memphis Tennessee Garrison: the Remarkable Story of a Black Appalachian Woman ; and   Our Mount Vernons: Historic Register Listing of Sites Significant to the Black History of West Virginia .","Typed manuscripts, 1-14 parts, of 1968 oral history interview with Garrison by Bernard Cleveland, with AB notes and Post-it-Note tabs.","Draft of book introduction; correspondence; photos and negatives for book: MTG and family, Gary WV, mining, Edward O'Toole, facsimiles of photos. Facsimiles of William Garrison's obituary, letter of condolence from Agatha S. Lowe. Program for MTG celebration at Marshall. Personal notes of congratulations on book. Photograph permissions. Facsimile of deed for MTG's grandfather's property, Hollins, VA.","\"The Charleston Stage Company's Study Guide for George C. Wolfe's Adaptation of Zora Neale Hurston's  Spunk \"","Honoring Our Past: Proceedings of the First Two Conferences on West Virginia's Black History  edited by Joe William Trotter, Jr. and Ancella Bickley","Text and illustrations for [children's] book  Lucia Jean, No Name, and the Parrot  as told to Ancella. Original illustrations by S. Ross Browne.","Manuscript for \"Papers from the Conference on West Virginia's Black History, Marshall University, Huntington, West Virginia, September 1991\" Facsimile of a book chapter \"Negro Education and Integration.\" Facsimile of photograph of students at Weston Colored School.","Spiral bound  The Gathering .","Our Mount Vernons: Historic Register Listings of Sites Significant to the Black History of West Virginia  edited by Ancella R. Bickley.","History of the West Virginia State Teachers' Association  by Ancella R. Bickley; program for The Carter G. Woodson Memorial Foundation, Inc. annual banquet, 2006; research notes on  History of Negro Secondary Education in McDowell County, WV.","In Spite of Obstacles: a History of the West Virginia Schools for the Colored Deaf and Blind, 1926-1955  by Ancella Bickley.","Memphis Tennessee Garrison: the Remarkable Story of a Black Appalachian Woman  edited by Ancella R. Bickley and Lynda Ann Ewen.","Our Mount Vernons: Historic Register Listings of Sites Significant to the Black History of West Virginia  edited by Ancella R. Bickley. Program for Second Baptist Church in Fayetteville, 1993","Manuscript for  …to be black in fayette  written and compiled by Ancella R. Bickley for The Centennial Committee of the Second Baptist Church of Fayetteville, West Virginia, and The Fayette County Black Caucus.","Permissions to publish papers in  Honoring Our Past: Procedures of the First Two Conferences on West Virginia's Black History .","Correspondence with Joe William Trotter. Research notes. Materials relating to the Second Annual Conference on West Virginia's Black History and a paper on James McHenry Jones. Trotter's syllabus for a seminar \"The Afro-American Experience.\" \"Blacks in West Virginia: A Critique of the Secondary Literature and Survey of Primary Sources\" by Joe W. Trotter.","Galley proof of the children's book,  LuJay, No-Name, and the Parrot  by Ancella R Bickley, illustrated by S. Ross Browne. Handwritten list of names.","…to be black in fayette  written and compiled by Ancella R. Bickley for The Centennial Committee of the Second Baptist Church of Fayetteville, West Virginia and The Fayette County Black Caucus.","Includes full plays, skits, and historical interpreter scripts depicting characters such as: Ester from the Bible; West Virginia men and women such as Molly Gabe from Braxton County; Deborah Lacks Pullum, daughter of Henrietta Lacks; and many more. Includes manuscripts for a collaboration with Maureen Crocket in writing \"Tangled Threads: a Three Act Play\" and other plays. For \"Two Saint Say,\" a play performed at the Central Florida Community College, materials include an audition announcement, program, newspaper clipping, and correspondence. Also included is a newspaper clipping and details about Bickley's winning the Florida Senior Playwright Festival contest with \"Wade in the Water.\"","Newspaper article about the play  Two Saint Say  and its performance.","\"Historical Information Re: Milly, Enslaved Black Woman on Whom the Character, OAGE, in  Toussaint Say  Is Based\" Handwritten research notes.","Manuscript for \"Wade in the Water: a Play in One Act\" by Ancella R. Bickley. Correspondence regarding performance.","Manuscripts and notes for \"Mother Love: a Three Act Play\" by Ancella Bickley and Maureen Crockett. Annotated text.","Program for performance of  Two Saint Say  at the Central Florida Community College, February-March, [2008] Print of online article from the  Ocala Star Banner  added by processor.","Two Saint Say  and AB typed comments","Annotated \"In the Name of Woman.\" Facsimile of pages from 1909 court docket book, County of Allegheny (PA) and court case upon which the play is based.","Correspondence with Maureen 'Bunny' Crockett and Bobbi (bjslake@comcast.net) regarding changes to the play  Tangled Threads . Typed pages with annotations regarding black history. \"Mother Love: a Three Act Play\" by Ancella Bickley and Maureen Crockett.","Newspaper clipping for \"Villager's Work Winds Playwright Contest.\"\" Congratulatory email for selection of  Wade in the Water  for the Florida Senior Playwright Festival. Email commenting on inspiration for various plays. Lyrics for the spiritual \"Wade in the Water.\"","Scripts for historical interpreters for Deborah Lacks Pullum, Henrietta Lacks' daughter; and Henrietta Lacks. \"It Ain't Her: a One Act Play.\" Script for historical interpreter for Ona \"Oney\" Judge; Robert Smalls, 1839-1915; Callie House; and Percy Julian. Research notes on Dr. James Marion Sims and other projects. Program for WVU Honors College Symposium \"With a Torch in Their Souls: African Americans in the Civil War\"","Script for historical interpreter for Charles Hamilton Houston presented for the African-American Club, 2011; Gabriel; and Henrietta Lacks.","Research notes. Text of play \"And Further She Sayeth Naught.\" Text of play \"Heritage: an Historical Drama in Three Acts\" by Ancella Bickley and Maureen Crockett.","Two Saint Say: A Play in Two Acts . Auditions announcement. Correspondence regarding the production. Proposal to produce the play from the director Bobbi Jordan.","Correspondence regarding Megan Forrest, actress. Double sided card featuring photos of Ms. Forrest and a brief overview of future endeavors.","Brief plays regarding voting issues including: lack of attention to candidates and issues, campaign spending, voter assistance, pay for voting, etc. Unidentified group photograph. Handwritten dialog.","Two Saint Say: a Play in Two Acts  [performed at] Central Florida Community College, Ocala, Florida, February 29-March 1, 2008.","Submission form for  Wade in the Wate r for the Florida Senior Playwright Festival. Manuscript for Wade in the Water. Email update for Festival.","Manuscript for \"The Crossing,\" a play. Photocopied page regarding Mollie Gabe and her time in Braxton County.","Typed manuscript for a play  Tangled Threads .","\"On This Rock,\" a play; one annotated. Handwritten notes on \"A Last Right\" and \"A Good Christian Woman.\" Recommended edits to Bickley's writing? Short stories, \"The User\" and \"Feelin' the Heat\" by Charles Lloyd.","Traditions: A Journal of West Virginia Folk Culture and Educational Awareness , 1996, which includes Bickley's \"The Baby Catcher\"","Spiral bound  Two Saint Say: a Play in Two Acts  by Ancella Bickley","Research and performance notes for  Tangled Threads: A Three Act Play  by Ancella R. Bickley and Maureen Crockett. Lists of guests who read parts, 2014. Comments from readers.","Annotated  Tangled Threads , 2008.","Tangled Threads  labeled \"Work Copy\"","Tangled Threads","Annotated \"I-John,\" a play.","Table of contents for Skit of Ester, 2010. Web page re: Esther. Typed page re: Haman, Mordecai, and Esther. Chapter summaries. Typed paper about Queen Vashti. Two typewritten pages from larger document. Letter to Jerome re: return of skit manuscript. Letter to Jerome re: transmittal of skit text and masks for players. Handwritten, not AB's handwriting, notes. Three \"masks,\" made from paper fans, and for 6 characters.","Includes manuscripts and edited manuscripts for many stories and a collection of short stories,  Turn Left at the Desert  . Bickley's stories are mostly historical character studies and include themes such as faith and community. One highlight is a critical review of Bickley's short story \"Martha,\" a part of the anthology  Appalachian Love Stories  .","Manuscripts: \"Gabe,\" \"Turn Left at the Desert: Verbal 'Snapshots' from a Black Community\" contents, \"Jones,\" \"The Church on the Corner,\" and \"Sister Angelica.\"","Annotated story manuscripts. \"'Jones': Manuscript Submitted for Workshop, Women Writers Conference\" and reviewed by Faith [Holsart?]","Annotated manuscript for the story \"On This Rock;\" the play  Tangled Threads ; and the story \"It Ain't Her\"","Correspondence regarding writing critiques. Text of \"Mr. Adams,\" \"The Church on the Corner,\" \"Gabe,\" \"Angie's Uncle Robert,\" three versions of \"Mr. Abe Jackson,\" \"The Battle of the Bottle,\" \"DoeDoe,\" \"Addie,\" \"Lesey, Who Was Black, But Comely,\" \"The Lavender Hat,\" and \"A Day in the Park.\" AB commentary on stories.","Review of \"Martha.\" Text of \"Martha.\"","Manuscripts and notes for \"It Ain't Her,\" \"Belli: 'Momma Raised Me Up Special',\" The Battle of the Bottle,\" \"Bertha,\" \"Friends,\" and \"Martha.\"","Manuscript for stories for Turn Left at the Desert","Manuscript for stories for Turn Left at the Desert: \"It Ain't Her,\" \"Hush Now, Child\"","Excerpt from a review of AB's story, [\"Martha\"], in  Appalachian Love Stories .","Short stories for  Turn Left at the Desert.","Annotated manuscript for \"Bertha,\" a short story.","Appalachian Love Stories  compiled and edited by James M. Gifford, Edwina Pendarvis; includes \"Martha\" by Ancella Bickley.","Parts of  Turn Left at the Desert: Verbal \"Snapshots\" from a Black Community.","Handwritten beginning of a story","Handwritten pieces of writing","Typewritten contents for \"Turn Left at the Desert: Verbal 'Snapshots' from a Black Community\"","Typed manuscripts for various short stories.","Bickley was a prolific speaker; speeches cover a wide range of topics including faith, WV black history, black history and pride, West Virginia State College, education, black literature, and more. The majority of the speeches are typewritten.","Program for \"Mending an Era: a Slave Ship Speaks: the Wreck of the Henrietta Marie.\" Typed text, pages 6-7, of a speech (?) about slaves, Anderson Radford, Cassie Thomas Carter, and MTG's mother.","Text of 2 speeches about Alice Walker's novel  The Color Purple:  \"The Uses of Literature: 1984 \u0026 The Color Purple, Panel Discussion at the Tenth Anniversary Program of the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities,\" September, 1984; and one at Richard Bland Community College, October 7, 1985. Research notes on  The Color Purple . Research notes on Alice Walker's short stories \"1955\" and \"In Love and Trouble\"","Correspondence, schedule, lecture series program with AB's lecture on the Underground Railroad. Typed notes from Guyandotte presentation 11/9/91, and the Guyandotte Civil War Days. Program for Guyandotte Civil War Days, October 12-November 4, 1992 with listing of AB lecture \"Local Black Settlement.\" List of sources by Alan Gould, Marshall University. Invitation to present at the 1993 Civil War Days.","T he West Virginia and Regional History Collection Newsletter , Summer 1989, which includes a speech by AB at an education in WV forum.","Annotated text of a speech by both AB and NB about their time at WVU. WVU program \"A Celebration: Integration of Sports on the WVU Campus\" Correspondence with Dana Brooks regarding participation","Article regarding speech about  The Color Purple  at the West Virginia Alliance for Women's Studies meeting. Text of paper \"Black Education in WV\" read at WVU 6/20/89 for West Virginia Day.","Text of speech about black history in West Virginia and after-dinner remarks regarding social history. Email, travel itinerary, newspaper clipping, and correspondence.","Paper about the slave ship Amistad.","Text of speech re: the Underground Railroad. Newspaper article re: decree of freedom from slavery 150 years after.","Handwritten speech to Mo So Lit Club in McDowell County regarding the history of education of blacks, April 1983. WVSC Fall Convocation program, September 8, 1983; two texts of AB's welcome.","Handwritten poem \"Scamp\" [by Paul Laurence Dunbar]. Two handwritten speeches to the WVSC student government regarding importance of citizenship and service, and the history of WVSC. Invitation to speak to the Student Government Association, April 16, 1982. Newspaper article about black newspapers. Program for the Student Government Association Annual Inauguration Dinner, April 13, 1980. Speech for the Honors Convocation, 1985. \"Remarks prepared for State Senator Marie Redd for Blk History Month-2/4/99\" regarding black history and WV black history.","Correspondence regarding invitation to speak at the West Virginia State Baptist Convention. WVSC new student orientation schedule with remarks scheduled for AB. Text of speech, 1984 and 1985, including a brief history of WVSC and Institute.","First page of WVSC Honors Convocation Speech","Program for \"Building Leadership for Educational Excellence: NEA Mid-Atlantic Regional Leadership Conference, November 1-3, 1985 - Greenbrier Hotel, White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia.\" Annotated text of speech \"A Response to the New Right's Agenda for Public Education.\" Other speeches regarding education","Annotated text, some handwritten, of speech to the Mo So Lit Club, McDowell County, WV. Program for The Matrons and Maids Social and Literary Club (Ma-So-Lit), 50th Anniversary, April 17, 1983. Program and text of introduction of Ethel O. Davie for the WVSC Graduate Dinner, 1984.","Program and text of speech for \"Rewriting History\" panel at the \"Premonitions and Perspectives from 1984: Has the Orwellian World Arrived?\" Wisconsin Intellectual Freedom 6th Annual Conference in Milwaukee, March 1-3, 1984. Program, including full text of AB's speech for a panel on \"Perspectives on Censorship: A Discussion\" at the Twenty-First Annual NEA Conference on Human and Civil Rights in Education, February 25-27, 1983. Correspondence regarding invitations to speak at these conferences.","A speech about  The Color Purple  possibly delivered at a Virginia Humanities Conference.","Text of speech for WVSC Convocation and an outline of speech to women students.","Speeches about Carter G. Woodson, WV black history, her life and experiences, and MLK Day.","Speeches about WV black history, historical research, community service, her life and experiences, importance of black organizations, her faith, black women, race, and black education. Programs from presentations at churches. Letter confirming appointment to the Danforth Associate Program.","Speeches about black education; being a role model; leadership; church missionary work; Martin Luther King, Jr.; taking control; the college experience; community service; honoring Alan Gould; Our Mount Vernons; and black history. Corresponence re: speaking at churches.","Speeches about Black History Month; civil rights; Kwanzaa; women's rights; Martin Luther King, Jr.; the Underground Railroad; MTG; The Color Purple; black culture; Alice Walker; Carter G. Woodson; and WV black history.","Slides for WV black history speech. Research materials on WV black institutions. First two pages of speech. Handwritten text on various institutions.","\"Go with God: Remembering All of Us…,\" Commencement address at MU, 1990. Photograph of unidentified black men singing in church. The program for the 1975 NCTE Spring Institutes: \"Teaching Minority Literatures at All Levels.\"","Text of speech, one annotated, about  The Color Purple  for the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities; handwritten notes.","Text of two speeches about black culture with notes for accompanying slides. Note from Charles Davis. Langston Hughes poem with Alex Haley autograph. [No slides in file.]","Booklet presented to AB after she made a speech for the Army Corps of Engineers in Huntington.","Correspondence with NEA re: participation in panel \"Perspectives on Censorship: A Discussion.\" Handwritten speech on censoring literature by blacks and women in the context of the Kanawha County textbook controversy.","Background materials, correspondence, and text of speech \"Multiculturalism in West Virginia\" at the Governor's Honors Academy.","Newspaper clipping about AB Commencement address at Marshall University, 1990. \"And Further She Sayeth Naught: a Play in Three Acts\" by Maureen \"Bunny\" Crocket and Ancella Bickley. [Speech] re: education in WV.","Text of speech about Martha Toler Spencer. Outline for [speech] about black women. Handwritten text of speech in Virginia, Longwood College, about black women. Notes.","\"Go with God: Remember All of Us\" AB's commencement address at MU, 1994.","Typed text of speech for the National Education Association.","Edited paper about the mission of West Virginia State College and changes for the future.","Items not held in the WVRHC collection which were sent to the Rare Books Curator:\n \n1969/70 edition of \"The Black Student at WVU\"  \nBulletin of West Virginia State College, Series 21, no. 1, June 1933. \"Why Choose West Virginia State College\" \nBickley, A. R., Carter, G. W. M. F. I., \u0026 Marshall University, H. W. V. D. A. (1997).  Our Mount Vernons: historic register listings of sites significant to the Black history of West Virginia . [Huntington, WV] : [Carter G. Woodson Memorial Foundation of Huntington and the Drinko Academy at Marshall University]. \nBooklet, \"History of African-American Miners in Appalachian Coal Fields: Black History Month, February, 2000\"","Permission to publish or reproduce is required from the copyright holder. For more information, please see the  Permissions and Copyright page  on the West Virginia and Regional History Center website.","West Virginia and Regional History Center / West Virginia University / 1549 University Avenue / P.O. Box 6069 / Morgantown, WV 26506-6069 / Phone: 304-293-3536  / URL: https://wvrhc.lib.wvu.edu/","West Virginia and Regional History Center","West Virginia State College (Institute, W. 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She graduated from Douglass High School in 1947 and went on to attend West Virginia State College, graduating magna cum laude in 1950 with a degree in English.  She was the first full time black student at Marshall University and received her master's degree in English in 1954.  She received her Ed.D. in English from West Virginia University in 1974.  Dr. Bickley was a teacher at all educational levels and was Vice-President for Academic Affairs at West Virginia State College where she retired in 1986.  She continued to research, write, and speak from her retirement home in Florida where she lived with her husband Nelson.  Some of her accolades include the Mountain State Bar Association's Distinguished Citizen Award, 1978; the National Education Association's The Carter G. Woodson Memorial Award, 1980; West Virginia Woman of the Year, 1984; the West Virginia State College Alumnus of the Year, 1988; and was a Rockefeller Foundation Scholar at Marshall University in 1999.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eDr. Bickley was a prolific speaker and in addtion to the speeches, she authored many stories, plays, and articles.  In 1997, she published \u003ctitle\u003eOur Mount Vernons\u003c/title\u003e to identify sites significant to West Virginia black history.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eWith Lynda Ann Ewen, she co-edited \u003ctitle\u003eMemphis Tennessee Garrison: The Remarkable Story of a Black Appalachian Woman\u003c/title\u003e, published by Ohio University Press. She has written stories and articles for publications including West Virginia cultural magazine, \u003ctitle\u003eGoldenseal\u003c/title\u003e. She wrote a history of the West Virginia Schools for the Colored Deaf and Blind.\u003c/p\u003e"],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical Note"],"bioghist_tesim":["Dr. Ancella Radford Bickley, author, historian, and educator, grew up in segregated Huntington, West Virginia, where she was born in 1930.  She graduated from Douglass High School in 1947 and went on to attend West Virginia State College, graduating magna cum laude in 1950 with a degree in English.  She was the first full time black student at Marshall University and received her master's degree in English in 1954.  She received her Ed.D. in English from West Virginia University in 1974.  Dr. Bickley was a teacher at all educational levels and was Vice-President for Academic Affairs at West Virginia State College where she retired in 1986.  She continued to research, write, and speak from her retirement home in Florida where she lived with her husband Nelson.  Some of her accolades include the Mountain State Bar Association's Distinguished Citizen Award, 1978; the National Education Association's The Carter G. Woodson Memorial Award, 1980; West Virginia Woman of the Year, 1984; the West Virginia State College Alumnus of the Year, 1988; and was a Rockefeller Foundation Scholar at Marshall University in 1999.","Dr. Bickley was a prolific speaker and in addtion to the speeches, she authored many stories, plays, and articles.  In 1997, she published  Our Mount Vernons  to identify sites significant to West Virginia black history.","With Lynda Ann Ewen, she co-edited  Memphis Tennessee Garrison: The Remarkable Story of a Black Appalachian Woman , published by Ohio University Press. She has written stories and articles for publications including West Virginia cultural magazine,  Goldenseal . She wrote a history of the West Virginia Schools for the Colored Deaf and Blind."],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003e[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], Ancella Bickley, Historian, Research Papers regarding African-Americans, A\u0026amp;M 4208, West Virginia and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e"],"prefercite_tesim":["[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], Ancella Bickley, Historian, Research Papers regarding African-Americans, A\u0026M 4208, West Virginia and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia."],"relatedmaterial_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eBickley, Ancella Collection. Materials relating to African-American history including annual West Virginia Conferences on Black History, 1908-1996. 3 boxes. Ms2003-182, at the West Virginia State Archives.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eMarshall University Oral History Collection, Accession Number 1973/01.0064, also includes the oral history transcripts in this collection's addendum of 2017/02/09.\u003c/p\u003e"],"relatedmaterial_heading_ssm":["Related Materials"],"relatedmaterial_tesim":["Bickley, Ancella Collection. Materials relating to African-American history including annual West Virginia Conferences on Black History, 1908-1996. 3 boxes. Ms2003-182, at the West Virginia State Archives.","Marshall University Oral History Collection, Accession Number 1973/01.0064, also includes the oral history transcripts in this collection's addendum of 2017/02/09."],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThis collection documents the research, public service, and life of Ancella Bickley, writer, educator, speaker, and historian. Includes writings, research materials, and more, focusing on the history of African Americans in West Virginia and the black experience in West Virginia. Collected research materials are predominantly facsimiles.  Printed formats include correspondence, clippings, interview transcripts, typescript writings, publications, pamphlets, ephemera, speeches, articles, military records, and more.  Other formats include photographs, slides, and audiocassettes. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eSubjects include Dr. Bickley's writings, which include plays, speeches, and short stories as well as her historical books, articles and other publications; collected materials from Dr. Bickley's historical research on the history of African Americans in West Virginia; and personal papers. Her research materials include papers grouped sometimes by county, sometimes by individual, sometimes by subject. Subjects of her research include slavery, education, churches, biography and genealogy, literature, and more.  Specific subjects include the Underground Railroad, James McHenry Jones, genealogy, Carter G. Woodson, Mollie Gabe, West Virginia Colored Institute/West Virginia State College, John W. Davis, black high schools, school integration, and more. Counties and their cities with specific focus include Cabell, Kanawha, and Jefferson.  Some documents treating slavery and the Underground Railroad include Ohio from which Cabell County blacks, including Bickley's ancestors, migrated.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eColleagues with whom she corresponded include Judith Stitzel, Nelson Barnett, Maureen Crockett (with whom she co-wrote at least one play), and many more. Of significance is correspondence between Carter G. Woodson and his sister, Bessie Woodson Yancey; and letters and a signed photo from Alex Haley.  \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eWritings, research background, and drafts of Dr. Bickley's works found within the collection include: \u003ctitle\u003eMemphis Tennessee Garrison: The Remarkable Story of a Black Appalachian Woman\u003c/title\u003e, \"Midwifery in West Virginia\" (1990), \u003ctitle\u003eHonoring our Past: Proceedings of the First Two Conferences on West Virginia's Black History\u003c/title\u003e, \u003ctitle\u003eHistory of the West Virginia State Teachers' Association\u003c/title\u003e (1979), \u003ctitle\u003eIn Spite of Obstacles: a History of the West Virginia Schools for the Colored Deaf and Blind, 1926-1955\u003c/title\u003e, \u003ctitle\u003eOur Mount Vernons: historic register listings of sites significant to the Black history of West Virginia\u003c/title\u003e, a short story collection \"Turn Left at the Desert,\" \u003ctitle\u003e... to be black in Fayette\u003c/title\u003e, and plays: \u003ctitle\u003eTwo Saint Say\u003c/title\u003e, \u003ctitle\u003eMother Love\u003c/title\u003e, \u003ctitle\u003eTangled Threads\u003c/title\u003e (with Maureen Crockett), \u003ctitle\u003eWade in the Water\u003c/title\u003e, and seven \u003ctitle\u003eGoldenseal\u003c/title\u003e articles. \nGrant applications and other documents pertaining to her work with the Humanities Council of West Virginia are included in the collection. Other documents describe her work with the Kanawha County Board of Education, EcoTheater, Berea College's Black Mountain Youth Leadership program, and various professional organizations.   \nPersonal papers include material about her husband Nelson R. Bickley and his military career, diplomas, transcripts, photographs of a party she held, and more. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eAddendum of 2017/02/09 (boxes 11 and 12) includes papers of Dr. Ancella R. Bickley, with a few papers of her daughter Ancella Livers. Formats include interview transcripts, correspondence, clippings, typescript writings, publications, cassettes, and more. Most of these materials are transcripts of oral histories pertaining to a collaborative project undertaken by Dr. Bickley and Dr. Rita Wicks-Nelson about black teachers and their memories of school integration in West Virginia in affiliation with the Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Gender in Appalachia at Marshall University.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eAbbreviations used in the Contents List:\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nAB - Ancella Bickley\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nWVSC - West Virginia State College\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nNB - Nelson Bickley\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nMTG - Memphis Tennessee Garrison\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nJMJ - J. McHenry Jones\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nNEA - National Education Association\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nNCTE - National Council of Teachers of English\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nMo So Lit Club - Matrons and Maids Social and Literary Club, McDowell County, WV\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nUGRR - Underground Railroad\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nMU - Marshall University\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nWVU - West Virginia University\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nCGW - Carter G. Woodson\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nRW-N  - Rita Wicks-Nelson\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes civic and academic awards and honors, as well as academic milestones such as graduation and Bickley's dissertation. This series includes materials on the celebration of Bickley's retirement from West Virginia State College.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence from Marshall University regarding AB's commencement address and honorary doctorate; notes of congratulations. Guest list. Photographs of AB delivering address and with others including Soupy Sales. Letter to editor regarding racism of highlighting photograph of Soupy Sales wiping a tear during AB's speech; newspaper clippings. Commencement program. AB's speech.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHonorary Doctorate\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eArmy Commendation Medal (Second Oak Leaf Cluster). AB's Delta Sigma Rho-Tau Kappa Alpha, Hampton Institute, initiation certificate, May 1976\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAttendance, reading, scholarships, and other certificates from elementary through college\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAB transcript, 1951, from MU. Transcript, WVSC.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eProgram for the Fourteenth Annual NEA Human and Civil Rights Awards, 1980, when AB won The Carter G. Woodson Memorial Award. Correspondence regarding the award including 2 letters from John W. Davis.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePhotograph of WVSC President Thomas Cole and Ancella Bickley at her retirement; labeled \"West Virginia State College, Commencement, May 17, 1986.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMaster of Arts degree confirmation from Marshall University\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDoctor of Education degree confirmation from West Virginia University\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCertificate of Appreciation from the Kiwanis Club of Huntington\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNote from WVU professor Armand [Singer] regarding missing retirement celebration\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNewspaper clipping re: CGW. Photographs of AB and others after a speaking engagement in Fayette County. Service Award certificate from WVSC.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter from Maureen Crocket to the Director of the Appalachian Festival re: Tangled Threads. Letter of recommendation from AB for Dr. Elaine Ginsberg. \"Remarks Made upon the Presentation of the 1988 Humanities Award to Ancella Radford Bickley\" by Judith Stitzel. Letter of recommendation for Dr. Bernard L. Allen for the WVU Claude Worthington Benedum Distinguished Scholar Award. Congratulatory letter for appointment [at WVSC]. Request for letter of recommendation from Marc E. Washington at MU; confirmation of receipt of letter. Request for recommendation for Elaine Ginsberg, Trinity University; verification of receipt of letter. Letter of congratulations on retirement from George Parkinson; letter of regrets from Lawrence H. Talley, West Liberty.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMaterials re: WV NAACP Harpers Ferry NHP, 1994, including photographs and text of speech. Congratulatory letter for receiving the Distinguished West Virginian Award, 1986. Thank you for copy of Honoring Our Past, 1992. Many other letters and notes re: service and speeches. Request to speak at the New Employment for Women Information \u0026amp; Referral Center in Logan about black history. Letter from Gaston Caperton, Governor, re: appointment to the Archives and History Commission, 1991. Thank you letter for contribution to Chandler Third Base, 1992. Certificate of recognition for Outstanding Service in Support of 1993 Douglass High School Reunion. Thank you for participating in the United Way Youth Advisory Council's Youth Forum, 1993. Thank you letter re: speech at naturalized citizens ceremony from John T. Copenhaver, 1992. Certificate of appreciation and other materials including a photo re: \"Read to Me\" Day, 1999. Newspaper article re: writing about the West Virginia Schools for the Colored Deaf and Blind and cards of congratulations. Kanawha County Schools Certificate of Recognition and Appreciation, 1991.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter of acknowledgement to deliver commencement address and receive an honorary doctorate at MU, 1990. Newspaper clipping and tribute to Minnie Wayne Cooper, 1989. Thank you letter to Matthew Kinsolving, Kanawha County Board of Education, for plaque, 1989. Typed text of \"Remarks Made upon the Presentation of the 1988 Humanities Award to Ancella Radford Bickley.\" Newspaper clipping and congratulatory letter re: WVSC Alumna of the Year, 1988. Letter withdrawing candidacy for the Kanawha County Board of Education, 1988. Thank you letter for receiving the Humanities Foundation Award, 1988; letter of congratulations from A. James Manchin; and Dee Caperton, House of Representatives. Letter of congratulations from Herman G. Canady, Jr., for appointment to Board of Education, 1988. Program for NAACP, Charleston Branch, Annual Freedom Fund Banquet, 1988, with AB as guest speaker. The Trumpet, West Liberty State College student newspaper, with article about AB's lecture on teaching black literature, November 28, 1973. Program, newspaper clipping, flyer, and certificate of recognition for the National Council of Jewish Women, West Virginia Section, Founder's Day, 1991. Correspondence re: speaking invitations, 1991-2001. Letters of thank you for service: The Huntington Club of Negro Business and Professional Women's Clubs, Inc., 2001; Charleston Mayor, G. Kemp Melton, for Charleston Urban Renewal Authority, 1999; Conference program for \"New Approaches to the Humanities and Lifelong Learning,\" 1988, where AB received award. Newspaper clippings for awards and accomplishments. 1987-1988. Newspaper clipping \"Educator Grim on Blacks' Future\" 1985. Thank you letter from Dee Caperton, House of Delegates, for draft of book about Elizabeth Simpson Drewry, 1987. Congratulatory notes, 1988-2002. Resume, ca. 1988. Text of speech for [receiving WVSC Alumna of the Year award, 1988]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNewspaper clippings, 1994-2002. Congratulatory and thank you letters, 1984-1995. Program for Staff Recall, Federal Prison Camp, Alderson, WV, with AB as guest speaker. Program for Induction Ceremony [sic], Phi Sigma Alpha, WVSC, 1995, when AB gave speech on the UGRR. Program for Carter G. Woodson Memorial Foundation Third Annual Memorial Fundraiser Banquet, 1995, AB speaker. Program for MLK birthday event at the WV School of Osteopathic Medicine where AB spoke, 1994. Resume. Photo of the Berlin Wall, May 1963.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNewspaper clippings, 1984-2002. Congratulatory and thank you letters and certificates, 1975-2002. Program for the Fourteenth Annual NEA Human and Civil Rights Awards dinner, 1980, when AB received The Carter G. Woodson Memorial Award. Program for Academy Cultural Awareness Committee Black History Month Program, 2002, where AB presented about MTG. Invitation to reception for Oliver W. Hill Freedom Fighter Award of the Virginia State Conference NAACP, 1999, and invitation to recognition event at the U.S. Capitol. Program for St. Anthony Church and School Community Education Awards where AB received the Gregory Loebach Award, 2002. Text of speech and program for West Virginia's African-American Women of Distinction book introduction by the West Virginia Women's Commission, 2002. Program for The Education Alliance Graduates of Distinction, AB recipient, 2002; text of speech; newspaper clipping; correspondence.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNewspaper clippings, ca. 1972-2002. Congratulatory and thank you letters, certificates and other recognitions, 1975 -2002. Letter of receipt for items given to the West Virginia State College/West Virginia Black Heritage Collection, 1987. Personal note, 3/26/80, discussing various contributions to education. Photograph of AB. Program for The National Association of Negro Business and Professional Women's Clubs banquet and candlelight rededication services, 1988, where AB was the guest speaker. Program for Berkeley County Diversity Committee \"Town Meeting\" with AB conducting interactive workshops at schools, 2002. Program and sketch of AB for [her retirement] 1986. Program for PCC lecture series \"The West Virginia Experience,\" [ca. 1985]. State of WV Teaching Certificate, 1960-1965. Letter of acceptance by NB for offer of teaching positions at WVSC for both NB and AB, 1972. Letter offering employment at WVSC as Associate Professor of English, 1972. Letter to NB offering WVSC position of Director of Guidance and Placement, 1972. Letters of thanks for AB for retirement and awards, 1986. Notification of nomination for President of WVSC, 1987. Correspondence Re: NCTE Orwell conference, 1984. Notification that tapes of censorship series of programs will be housed at the New York Public Library, 1984. Program for the Danforth Associate Program, 1975, for which AB and NB were program chairs. Program for The Women's Study Club Annual Open House, 1984, when AB was named Woman of the Year. Program for \"African Americans in the Appalachian Coalfields\" at the National Mine Health \u0026amp; Safety Academy when AB gave a lecture, 2000.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNewspaper clippings, 1989-2000. Congratulatory and thank you letters, invitations to speak, certificates of recognition, 1985-2000. Photograph of Douglass High School Y Teens, ca. 1946, including AB. Newspaper articles re: AB as WVSC's May Queen, 1948. Issue of MU's Greenline: a Publication for Alumni and Friends of Marshall University, May-July 1990, in which AB is recognized as commencement speaker; press release; letters of congratulations. Photograph of AB and others after presentation in Morgantown, 1990. Program for WVSC National Alumni Association William L. Lonesome Alumni Awards Dinner-Dance Honoring Dr. Ancella R. Bickley, Class of 1950, 1988 Alumnus of the Year. Dunbar Rotary Club Newsletter with AB as speaker, 1988. Materials from the Second Annual Conference on West Virginia's Black History, 1989. Letter to the editor of the Charleston Gazette re: black athlete, 1988.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRetirement from WVSC, 1986, materials. Correspondence re: ceremony; letters of congratulations; newspaper clippings; photographs; program; WVSC commencement program with AB as retirement honoree.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAB's doctoral dissertation A Study of the Effects of Teaching a Unit on Black Culture to Classes of Predominantly White High School Students, 1974.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNewspaper clippings for Education Alliance Graduates of Distinction, 2002. Materials pertaining to \"From Our Front Porch: Stories about Charleston's Oldest Neighborhood, The East End\": newspaper insert; outline for Appalachian Studies Association presentation; program for play at Roosevelt Wilson High School; the play. \"Testimony of Ancella Radford Bickley, Independent Scholar from West Virginia, on behalf of The State Humanities Program Regarding FY 1989 Appropriations to the National Endowment for the Humanities before the Appropriations Subcommittee on the Interior of the Senate,\" 1988. Congratulatory letters re: selection to the Kanawha Board of Education. Newspaper clippings. Congratulations re: speech's and performance of play in Florida. Commencement program for WVSC, 1950. Text of AB honors. Newspaper clippings re: her writings. Letter of acknowledgement for participation in reading of the names of lynchings victims program, Virginia State University, 2001. News release re: production of Harvest of Dreams by the Charleston Stage Company, 2000. Correspondence re: appointment to the WVU Board of Advisors, 1989. Certificate of appreciation from the City of Beckley for contributions to black history in WV. Thank you note re: women writers, 1994. Thank you letter from James Tolbert re: participation in Black History Month program at Harper's Ferry. Overview of AB accomplishments [introduction?]. Letter acknowledging participation in Kanawha County Public Library Black History Month events, 1993; abstract of talk; resume. Thank you letter for presentation at a Affirmative Action Committee Meeting, 1994; program; brochure listing black employees. Letter acknowledging intent to speak at the WV School of Osteopathic Medicine re: unsung heroes of the Civil Rights Movement and for MLK Day, 1993. Handwritten note of appreciation for a speech. Handwritten note re: missing speech for Black History Month, with attached newspaper clipping, 1994. 1949 Yellow Jacket article with picture of AB as newspaper staff. Clipping re: AB as keynote speaker for MLK Day celebration, 1991. Letter acknowledging a reading at the College Language Association, 1993. Letter acknowledging agreement to moderate a panel on sexual harassment; flyer for the program. Congratulatory letter for receiving the MU Graduate School Distinguished Alumnus, 1993. Program for \"First Annual Forum and Family Recognition Conference\" from the West Virginia Black Family Coalition, 1992, for which Bickley was a moderator. Correspondence and program for Distinguished Graduate Student Award from MU, 1993. Newspaper clipping about the WVSC presidential inaugural ball including description of AB and NB attire, 1974. Letter from Mary Pearl Compton, WV Delegate, re: Union's Historic District. Handwritten card praising AB as a \"liquid god\" able to move among roles, 1995. Resumes.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSenate Resolution honoring AB and Lynda Ann Ewen, 2002. Certificate of recognition as a West Virginia Hero, 2002. Newspaper clippings, 1990-2002. Correspondence re: lecture at Alderson Broaddus College, 1991. Certificate of recognition from the WV National Organization of Women and two 1991 conference programs. Program for \"African-Americans in the Appalachian Coalfields,\" 2000. Letter acknowledging selection at WVSC Alumnus of the Year, 1988. The Humanities Foundation of West Virginia Award Dinner Program, 1988. Issue of People \u0026amp; Mountains: a Publication of the West Virginia Humanities Council, Summer 2001, with MTG interview excerpt edited by AB and Lynda Ann Ewen. Congratulatory note re: publication of Memphis Tennessee Garrison; lecture on MTG announcement, 2000. Letter from the Indiana Humanities Council re: placement on \"Always a River\" registry, 1991. Letter from Gov. Gaston Caperton recognizing appointment to the Martin Luther King, Jr. State Holiday Commission, 1989. Acknowledgement letters as a speaker, 1990-1999. Acknowledgement of receipt of Our Mount Vernons from a professor at the University of Texas at El Paso, 1997. \"Book Notes\" section of West Virginia History re: Our Mount Vernons, 1997. Letter of re: reappointment to the WV Archives and History Commission, 1997. Letter re: WV Public Radio's Cultural Diversity Radio Project, 1998. Letter re: Mistress of Ceremony for a poetry contest at WVSC, 1995. Letter acknowledging support of the WV Humanities Council programming, 1995.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSpecial Commendation from the U.S. Dept. of the Interior, National Park Service, for Significant Contributions to the Underground Railroad Study, 1995.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"West Virginia: a Film History\" recognition as the Historical Advisor for the film project.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eState of West Virginia Distinguished West Virginian award, 1986.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSenate Resolution honoring AB and Lynda Ann Ewen, 2002.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes newspaper clippings and writings by Ancella Bickley Livers (also called Cill Jr. or Cill). Also includes material by or about Nelson Bickley, Ancella Bickley's husband and prominent Charleston, West Virginia, lawyer. Formats include articles, awards and honors, military records, speeches, research notes, publications, correspondence, newspaper clippings, and more. Subjects include Nelson Bickley's military and teaching careers, his uncle Carter G. Woodson, and more.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence with James Harlow, WVU President, regarding tenure at WVU, 1969 and 1972. Army records for Nelson Bickley. Various Army regulations, blank forms, and information flyers. Correspondence and forms from the Veterans Administration. Medical records, 1956-1966\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCharleston Gazette/Gazette-Mail newspaper clippings about AB and NB, 1999-2003\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eText of NB's speech \"CMA's Link to the Late Carter G. Woodson, the 'Father of Negro History'\" at the Chicago Military Academy, program, and certificate of appreciation.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eText of speech given by NB at East Bank High School to Junior ROTC, regarding the benefits of military service.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMilitary and scholarship commendations, program from WVSC Commencement, 1948.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMilitary records for Nelson Bickley including his assignment as an Army ROTC instructor at WVU and difficulty of finding Negro housing. Admission to WVU College of Human Resources and Education.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFolder within 16a containing Army medical records for Nelson Bickley, 1957-1966.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eAkron Beacon Journal,\u003c/emph\u003e December 7, 1982, with article by Ancella Livers which includes brief biography.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eBrown V. Board of Education\u003c/emph\u003e in West Virginia\" by Nelson R. Bickley in the \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eWest Virginia Law Review\u003c/emph\u003e, Spring 2005.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eText of speech given by NB at the WVU Law School\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence with Congressman Harley Staggers, James G. Harlow, President of WVU, and others regarding Nelson Bickley's retirement. Other military records.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eInvitations to the ROTC Cadet Corps Annual Military Ball and the ROTC Awards Day and Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony, 1982. Program for the ROTC Awards Day Ceremony, May 1, 1981. WVSC student newspaper \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eThe Yellow Jacket\u003c/emph\u003e with an article about the inductees to the ROTC Hall of Fame including NB. Typed text of NB's acceptance speech about his time in the military. Newspaper with an interview with NB and Belva Clark about Carter G. Woodson, 1987. Program and text of NB speech, with AB edits, at WVSC for Veterans Day, 1992. Newspaper article regarding NB induction into the WVSC ROTC Hall of Fame.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSigned letter from Alex Haley to Colonel and Mrs. Nelson Bickley, March 1, 1973, re: the Bickleys' hospitality after a lecture.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eClippings regarding the Bickleys from \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eThe Villages Daily Sun\u003c/emph\u003e (FL) and \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eThe Sunday News-Registe\u003c/emph\u003er (Wheeling, WV)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePamphlet \"The Black Student at WVU,\" 1969/70, 1971/72, which include pictures of AB. Program for Lincoln-Douglas Banquet sponsored by Morning Star Baptist Church, February 12, 1977; includes AB as the speaker. Newspaper articles by and about Ancella Bickley, as well as Nelson. Congratulatory letter regarding AB promotion to Vice President for Administration at WVSC, July 9, 1975. Dunbar High School's publication, Kennel, Feb. 23, 1973 and May, 1974.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter regarding AB in WVU classroom. Newspaper article about Ancella, daughter of Ancella and Nelson. Dunbar High School's student newspaper, Kennel, Nov. 1972.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBachelor of Arts degree confirmation from West Virginia State College\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNelson Bickley's Master of Arts degree confirmation from West Virginia University\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNellie Francisco's Bachelor of Arts in Education degree confirmation from West Virginia State College, 1938\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter from CGW to Bessie Woodson Yancey, CGW's sister, re: funding Joan's education. Text of the poem \"The Forgotten Boys.\" Invitation to the dedication of the Carter G. Wooson School, New Orleans.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eResearch materials re: Belva Clark, Carter G. Woodson's niece and Nelson Bickley's mother; note of condolence; funeral program; handwritten [by Mrs. Clark?] obituary and instructions\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eArticles about NB. Membership certificate to Sigma Pi Phi Fraternity.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTeaching certificate for Nellie Radford Francisco, Bluefield Colored Institute, 1928.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSpecial Order lists. Legal case notes? Selective Service Act of 1948 memo.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes genealogical research material, notes, and charts in print as well as handwritten for these families, mostly from the Huntington, West Virginia area and across the Ohio River: Twyman, Spurlock, Barnett, Payne, Jones, Woodson, Wilson, Johnson, Summers, Smoot, Peters, Radford, Layne/Lane, Jones, Straham, Cabell, and Parker. Additional genealogical information is included in oral history interviews with individuals (see Interviews and Oral History Interviews series); the Others' Works series; the Biography subseries of Research Notes and Collected Materials; and other locations throughout the collections.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDocuments pertaining to the Twyman Family. Facsimile of pages from \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eThe Promised Land\u003c/emph\u003e by J. Earl Pratt [1964]. Facsimile of newspaper legal notices from T\u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003ehe Ironton Register\u003c/emph\u003e, Oct. 27 and Dec. 15, 1870.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter from Willard H. Radford and Kim Radford regarding a reunion for the Radford-Bickley families.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence between the Bickleys and Nelson L. Barnett, Jr. regarding Allensworth (CA) State Historical Park, the Spurlock family, the Barnett-Payne-Jones family. Rededication pamphlet, October 10, 1992\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBarnett family genealogy compiled by Nelson Barnett, Jr.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eVarious documents pertaining to Carter G. Woodson and the Barnett family connection. \"A Black History of Huntington\" by Edna Duckworth. Barnett family documents.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFamily line charts, photographs, newspapers, family history for the Nelson Barnett line. Program for the First Baptist Church, Huntington, September 25, 1988. Photographs buildings designed by Carl Barnett, architect.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTranscription of Barnett family obituaries.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJames and Mary Wilson family genealogy. Facsimiles of portraits. Memorial service programs. Photographs of Mary Wilson Johnson and James Johnson. Photo of family group identified later in file and on facsimile. Obituary for William O. Johnson. Family group photo. Photos of Ida and William Johnson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHandwritten Cabell Family tree and notes on the Cabell Family in Institute. Transcription of letter from J. S. Cunningham to Governor A.I. Boreman. Facsimile of newspaper ad for sale of slave.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHandwritten notes regarding Summers Family and slaves.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFacsimile of book section and term paper about the Smoot Family written by Marcella L. Pauley Short for WVSC class.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBooklet of genealogy forms. \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eAfrican-American Genealogy: A Research Guide\u003c/emph\u003e compiled by Phyllis Preston Jarrett and Helen Chambers Winston.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTypewritten history of the Smoot Family, Boone County.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePersonnel record for Willard Radford. Letter, 1949, certifying marriage of Willard Radford to Lilian Angus in Cuba, 1923.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHandwritten marriage records for Radfords.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHandwritten notes from a phone conversation regarding the Straham-Parker families.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTyped \"Conversation with Nellie Redford Francisco--about 1985.\" Handwritten \"Discussion w/Henry Radford, 1/14/93.\" Radford Family genealogy. Peters Family genealogy. Newspaper articles regarding Negro education in Huntington and Kimball, 1904-1923. Cemetery lot receipts to Willard Radford. Program for Sterberger Elementary School 1999 Graduation Ceremony; Akil Livers listed as student. Funeral service program for Lily Van Sykes Kelly, 1994. Transcribed obituaries for Joseph T. Payne, 1948, and Minnie Bell Powell, 1936.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eResearch notes on how to do black genealogy. \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eBlack Studies: a Select Catalog of National Archives Microfilm Publications\u003c/emph\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eThe Layne Family Tree and Its Branches\u003c/emph\u003e. Handwritten tree with Twyman connection.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Plat Map, Mt. Pisgah Cemetery, Proctorville, Ohio\" with notes. Request for donation to the Cemetery, 2013.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHandwritten CGW family tree.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRadford family genealogy. Release of note on deed, Radford family, 1952.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes two subseries, General and Black Teachers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes more formal oral history interviews as well as \"discussions\" and other less structured interviews not intended for any historical publication. Formats include handwritten notes, typed notes, and transcripts of interviews as well as background in the form of correspondence and typed and handwritten corrections.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTranscript of interview with Johnnie James. Newspaper article \"THE Man…Johnny James Now Shares Life With God\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBackground research re: changes to social history and oral history.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNotes from discussion with Grover DuBose, Korean War veteran, Sept. 10, 2000.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTranscripts of interviews with black citizens of Huntington, WV; Institute, WV; Guyandotte, WV; and Black Fork, OH. Including Johnnie James, Ms. Bessie Herbert McClain, Chester A. Burris, Henry Pierce, Mildred Loar Williams, Cash Keels, James Thompson, Mrs. Araminta Miller Justice, and James Johnson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSpiral bound notebook containing notes from oral history interviews with black soldiers, 1945-46. References to color-coded folders. Notes on soldiers' letters, 1943-45. List of themes in interviews. Follow up on specific soldiers, 2005, titled \"Negative behavior of Blk soldiers.\" Diagram of Army organization.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eResearch notes labeled \"Army Wives Material: Discussion with Carl \u0026amp; Nancy Johnson Re: Military Experiences; Carl was a Tuskegee Airman. His wife, Nancy, is white\" 2014. Annotated paper \"The WV State Capitol\" with research notes. Emails re: Kimball Wall Memorial Project, 2011. Research notes. Letter to Beverly from AB re: various researchers in the Villages, FL, 2014. Typed notes from interview with Harriet Williams, Lewisburg, WV.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAnnotated transcript of oral history interviews with Mrs. Mildred Lore Williams, 1990, re: family history and Cabell County History. Annotated transcript of oral history interviews with Mrs. Bessie Herbert McClain, 1990, re: living in Huntington. Annotated transcript of oral history interviews with Mrs. Suzette Spencer, 1990, re: family and life in Huntington. Mrs. Spencer was a descendant of 37 slaves freed in the south and sent to Ohio. Transcript of oral history interview with Mr. Cash Keels, 1990, re: family history and life in Black Fork, Ohio.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAudiocassettes labeled: \"Joseph C. Peters re: Black High School Athletics - 11/2/95;\" \"Gregory Peters / Reminiscences, 9/22/95, \u0026amp; Ed Scott #3;\" \"MC (Ref) Edward Greer, 5/10/06;\" and \"Ed Scott / Reminiscences /Korea, 10/20/95\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBickley and Rita Wicks-Nelson, as Rockefeller Scholars-in-Residence at Marshall University's Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Gender in Appalachia, interviewed and recorded interviews with older black women teachers from across the state. This subseries contains transcripts of the interviews, corrected transcripts, correspondence with the subjects, and sometimes background information about them.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTyped manuscript for \"Black Education in West Virginia,\" a joint project between Ancella Bickley and Rita Wicks-Nelson. Notes regarding Mrs. T. McDaniel interview; text of interview. Correspondence regarding book on black female teachers. Research notes. Text of speech about black WV schools. List of narrators. Facsimiles of newspaper clippings \"from Mrs. Rayford's Collection\" regarding desegregation of schools, 1955-1956. Newspaper clipping of AB interview regarding MTG.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHandwritten notes of [interview with] Marian Hatcher, WVU English Dept. teacher.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePrint out of web page re: Dr. Ancella Bickley and Dr. Rita Wicks-Nelson, 1999 Rockefeller Scholars-in-Residence. Project name: \"Life Experiences of Older, Black, West Virginian Women [Teachers]\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDemographics of teachers' project. Map showing location of teachers. Narrative overview of the project. Paper \"Mosaic [sic] in Black and White: Black Teachers Remember School Integration in West Virginia\" [by] Ancella Bickley and Rita Wicks-Nelson; paper presented at the Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Gender in Appalachia, MU, 2000. Annotated paper. Draft of paper \"Changing Lives and Potential Leadership: A Study of West Virginian Women Returning to College\" [by] Rita Wicks-Nelson, Lynda Ann Ewen, ca. 1997.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence between AB and RW-N and others re: book based on teachers' oral history interviews. Paper \"Black Education in West Virginia.\" Text of paper [by AB] \"Read @ WV Sociological Assoc. Annual Mtng. WVSC - Oct. 24, 1997.\" Letter from NB, 2005, asking for addenda to \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eWest Virginia Law Review\u003c/emph\u003e paper about \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eBrown v. Board of Education. \u003c/emph\u003eResearch notes. \"\u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eFullen\u003c/emph\u003e corrected pp, AB,\" 2001. Letter requesting interview with Pearl Swann Carter, 2000.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRelease form from Suzanne Slaughter, 1998\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence, edits, research notes with RW-N. Book reviews from The Appalachian journal, 2005. List of women interviewed. Background and summaries for interviewees.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eResearch materials re: education in WV; \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eBrown v Board of Education. \u003c/emph\u003ePossible participants; call for participants; correspondence with participants Writing retreat brochure and correspondence. Project update to the Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Gender in Appalachia at MU. Draft of summary of results. Summary data forms and interview guide. Schedule of interviews. Letter from parent to teacher, Anna McCright. Flyer announcing talk by AB and RW-N. Luncheon flyer from the Fayette County Black Caucus.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLife stories, some annotated or edited, for Vivian Williams Fleming, Eliza Jane Campbell Dillard, Anna McCright, and Mary Montgomery.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAnnotated transcript of oral history interviews with Mrs. Louise Anderson. Newspaper clipping of obituary.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAnnotated transcript of oral history interviews with Mrs. Velma Bradshaw. Handwritten notes on folder.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eOral History Review \u003c/emph\u003earticle, 2001, re: school segregation. Email with list of changes to the transcript. Transcript of oral history interviews with Mrs. Pearl Swann Carter, 2001.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAnnotated transcript of oral history interviews with Mrs. Florence Casey, 1997\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTranscript of oral history interviews with Mrs. Ottrus Chatman, 1999. Typed and handwritten notes on the interview.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAnnotated transcript of oral history interviews with Mrs. Verona Clarke, 1997.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAnnotated transcript of oral history interviews with Mrs. E. Jane Dillard, 1999.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHandwritten notes on the interview. Correspondence with Mrs. Elston. Annotated transcript of oral history interviews with Mrs. Mary M. Elston, 1997.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAnnotated transcript of oral history interviews with Mrs. Eunice Fleming, 1999.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAnnotated transcript of oral history interviews with Mrs. Vivian Williams Fleming, 1997. Handwritten notes.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAnnotated transcript of oral history interviews with Mrs. Norma Jean Fullen, 1997.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHandwritten notes. Annotated transcript of oral history interviews with Mrs. Susie Guyton, 1997.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHandwritten notes. Transcript of oral history interviews with Mrs. Willie Hise, 1999.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTyped and handwritten notes. Annotated transcript of oral history interviews with Mrs. Floristine Holland, 1998.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHandwritten notes. Transcript of oral history interviews with Mrs. B'Alma Jones, 1999.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAnnotated transcript of oral history interviews with Miss Anna McCright, 1999.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrected transcript of oral history interviews with Mrs. Thelma McDaniel, 1999.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter to Mrs. McDaniel. Typed notes and pages from the interview. Letter from Norman L. Jones re: Thelma McDaniel and the Price and White families, 2001.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAnnotated transcript of oral history interviews with Mrs. Edris Miller, 1998.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAnnotated transcript of oral history interviews with Mrs. Mary Montgomery, 1997. Overview for Mrs. Montgomery. Letter to her. Pages of the interview with corrections. List of names and addresses for interviewees.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAnnotated transcript of oral history interviews with Ms. Doris Payne, 1999.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOverview for Ruby Brown Reeler. Annotated transcript of oral history interviews with Mrs. Ruby Reeler, 1997. Handwritten transcript of a quote from the interview. Handwritten notes on the folder.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAnnotated transcript of oral history interviews with Mrs. Nancie Smith Robinson, 1999.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTranscripts pages of interview with FH [Floristine Holland?] Annotated transcript of oral history interviews with Mrs. Suzanne Slaughter, 1998.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eObituary for Mary Crozier Snow, 2011. Annotated transcript of oral history interviews with Mrs. Mary Snow, 1997. Letter to Mrs. Snow with corrections, 2001.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTranscript of oral history interviews with Mrs. Fannie Ashe Thomas, 1999.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHandwritten notes. Annotated transcript of oral history interviews with Mrs. Velma Twyman, 1997. Letter to Mrs. Twyman re: corrections, 2001.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes books, manuscripts, facsimile pages, and other publications not written by Bickley, who was sometimes asked to provide feedback on writing. Forms of writing include family histories, poems, short stories, plays, novels, and both scholarly and popular articles. Other writers include: Sharon M. Draper, Charles Lloyd, Hannah N. Geffert, Peri Lynne Johnson, L. O'B. Thomson, Nelson L. Barnett, J. McHenry Jones, Judith Stitzel, Elizabeth Taylor Brown, and Phyllis Moore.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eA Memorial to the Scott, Carter, Mumford Families and the Journey from the Hills of North Carolina to the Beautiful Ohio Shore in the Year 1844\u003c/emph\u003e by Edith Dove Bryant, original and one facsimile. Article \"Midwifery in West Virginia\" 1990.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eMy Dearest Husband: the Letters of Amacetta Laidley Summers to George W. Summers, 1842-1843 \u003c/emph\u003eby Patricia Clark Bulla. Handwritten genealogy chart for James M. Laidley\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePoem \"Old Lady Sady and the Chicken Wings\" c1992 Sharon M. Draper\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eMy Dearest Husband: the Letters of Amacetta Laidley Summers to George W. Summers, 1842-1843\u003c/emph\u003e by Patricia Clark Bulla. Laidley-Summers-Quarrier family line\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eManuscript for \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eAesculapius, Ebony \u003c/emph\u003eby Nelson L. Barnett, M.D.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003e\"…Tryin' to Get Home…\": A Journal, \u003c/emph\u003ea compendium of biographies, family histories, community histories, etc. by the John Henry Memorial Committee.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"The Search for Larry Doby\" by Bob Stitzel in \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eSports Collectors Digest\u003c/emph\u003e, December 1, 1989. Letter from Judith Stitzel critiquing short stories \"The Woman in the Lavender Hat,\" \"Hush Now Child,\" \"Sweets,\" and \"Jones.\" Manuscripts of Stitzel's stories \"My New York Yankees,\" \"Cover-Up,\" \"Hearing Aids,\" \"Unbecoming a Jew.\" Letter from Stitzel regarding order of stories.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eManuscript for book about West Virginia State College.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence with Phyllis Moore re: WV writers. Annotated stories \"It Ain't Her!,\" \"The Crossing,\" and \"On This Rock,\" short stories by AB. Photo of AB and unidentified woman. \"'Talking about home…': Yes, We Have Authors\" by Phyllis Wilson Moore.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eProject overview for Greenbrier Valley African-American life. J. McHenry Jones' novel \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eHearts of Gold\u003c/emph\u003e with highlighted passages and annotations. Background research materials.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFacsimile of \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eThe Jones Family\u003c/emph\u003e by John L. Jones.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence with Hannah N. Geffert re: Black History Conference and her annotated story \"The Guns of October.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"History of Lakin Hospital: Pulling for the Stars\" by Elizabeth Taylor Brown. Reviewers' comments.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eThe Plays of Ann Kathryn Flagg\u003c/emph\u003e published by Amistad, Inc., Ancella Bickley, Director.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Black High Schools in West Virginia\" prepared by R. Charles Byers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWritings of Peri Lynne Johnson, AB's niece, some with annotations.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReview of \"The History of Lakin State Hospital\" by Elizabeth Brown; manuscript.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDrafts and final papers written by L. O'B. Thompson who taught at WVSC.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eAesculapius, Ebony\u003c/emph\u003e by Nelson L. Barnett. Brief biography of Carl Eugene Barnett. Facsimile of photograph of \"Reverend Nelson Barnett, Circa 1900.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePaper and letter of transmittal for \"The Peters Sisters: An Historical Omission\" by Norman Jordan. Research notes on the sisters: Ethel and Ada Peters.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTypewritten notes about various novels, movies, and other works. Discussion questions for some.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eInscribed play \"Day to Day: a Drama in One Act\" by Maryat Lee. Article \"'…To Will One Thing: a New Look at Theater\" [by] Maryat Lee, from\u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003e Drama Review\u003c/emph\u003e, 1983. Materials re: EcoTheater including scholarly articles.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes black and white historical photographs, slides, and contemporary color photographs. Additional photographs can be found throughout the collection. Most photos are black and white facsimiles of original historical photos of people and places significant to Bickley's research and publications. Subjects include educational institution buildings and students; other institution buildings; the Radford family; Bickley and Bickley with others. The contemporary color photos include ones of the memorial statues on the West Virginia Capitol grounds; Potomac State College campus; Bickley and others; and the social event A Red Hat Party celebrating women.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePhotos: graduating class at Bluefield State College; Barnett School Orchestra, Huntington, with Nellie Francisco; school children at Lincoln School, Wheeling, 1912; unidentified football team; buildings at Bluefield State College and West Virginia State College.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePhotos, invitation to, and follow up for a birthday celebration for AB, and a Red Hat Party to celebrate older women. Poem about AB.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePhotographs of building details; street scenes; two black women [Alberta Coleman]; NB; campus, Potomac State College, buildings including Academy Hall and Duke Anthony Whitmore/Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Academic Achievement Wall.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePhotos of statues on the WV State Capitol grounds: prints, proof sheet with numbered descriptions, and a CD. Annotated text to accompany photos and titled \"Statuary on the Grounds of the West Virginia State Capitol.\" Brief history of the Capitol and the state of West Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Honoring Our Past: 1994 Calendar\" produced by the Alliance for the Collection, Preservation and Dissemination of West Virginia's Black History. Calendar includes photos of school bands, Bluefield NAACP chapter, Hopewell barber shop in Martinsburg, and schools.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCopies of group photographs of children and a \"Special Citation Award to Mrs. Harry Gordon\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePhoto of unidentified family, 1901; restored photo and invoice for work, 2005.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNegatives and photos from AB's Red Hat Party\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eVariety of copies of historical photographs, most not identified, 1912-1918. Note stapled to folder removed, 10/17/1990.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1991 (3), 1993, 1994 calendar \"Honoring Our Past\" from the Alliance for the Collection, Preservation and Dissemination of West Virginia's Black History. 1971 Black History Calendar [by] Raymond W. Lowry.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFacsimiles of photographs of students at WVSC including AB in Delta Sigma Theta Sorority.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePhotographs of AB and others at a presentation on CGW at Marshall University, President's Home. February 24, 1988.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFacsimile of undated photo [ca. 1942] of John W. Davis, Charles Rutherford, Austin W. Curtis, L.A. Toney, et al. On back: \"Received from Debby Jackson, \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eGoldenseal\u003c/emph\u003e, 4/7/1997. Picture taken during construction of Washington-Carver Camp.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePhoto of AB with author Alice Walker at the University of Charleston, [1999]. Photo of AB with Ken Sullivan, Executive Director of the WV Humanities Council, 2002.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes examples of Bickley's contribution to a number of public service projects both in a professional capacity and as a citizen. Includes these formats: \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nplanning documents, \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\ncorrespondence, \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nmeeting notes, and \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nagendas for these organizations: \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\n-Amistad, Inc., a publishing company she formed; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\n-West Virginia Humanities Foundation; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\n-Black Mountain Youth Leadership Program, Berea College; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\n-The EcoTheater in Lewisburg, for which she served as board member; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\n-National Council of Teachers of English, for which she was National Director; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\n-West Virginia Archives and History Commission, of which she was a member; and \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\n-Marshall University colloquium on black history.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eMost notable are the grant applications, programs, and correspondence from her work with the West Virginia Humanities Foundation. Bickley was President of the Board of Directors and wrote a ten-year history of the organization, 1974-1984. The files include background materials for a number of projects for which she or others received grants. For her work with the Kanawha County Board of Education, her files include research materials about minority student achievement, and documents about the Kanawha County Schools Minority Student Achievement Task Force and Maximizing Achievement of African-American Children in Kanawha County (MAAACK). Documenting her work with an organizing committee to clean up the Bethel Cemetery in Huntington, her files include calls for participants, flyers, lists of members, and more. One civic activity with no apparent formal organization includes a meeting with Governor Rockefeller to advocate for affirmative action in West Virginia government. More on Bickley's professional and community activities can be found in the Awards, Honors Series.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Notes from Meeting between WV SAC and Governor Rockefeller--June 13\" The SAC [Statistical Analysis Center] asked the governor to authorize another study concerning minority employment in West Virginia with the goal of supporting affirmative action and the employment of more minorities.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHumanities Scholar Resource Forms by Virginia Edwards (2/86), Judith G Stitzel, and Elayne Rapping for the project, \"Reel Visions: A Conference on Women and Film.\" \"Seminar for Professionals Scholar's Statement\" by AB. \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eThe Midwest Quarterl\u003c/emph\u003ey article \"The Humanities in Public Conversation.\" Publication: \"The Humanities Foundation of West Virginia, 1974-1984, A Decade of Discovery\" which lists awards; AB was President of the Board of Directors.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBrochure for the 15th Year of the EcoTheater founded by Maryat Lee, 1975-1990. Letter of support fro grant to the EcoTheater, February 10, 1990. Business correspondence with members of the Board of Directors.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNotes, membership lists, and correspondence from meetings of the Bethel Memorial Park Interest Group. Various research notes regarding black WV doctors and other topics.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eInvitation to Ronald Reagan's inauguration\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence from Cecil H. Underwood and Earl Ray Tomblin regarding appointment to the WV Archives and History Commission, July 11, 2000-September 22, 2000.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePapers and notes from 1975 National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) conferences when AB was National Director. List of attendees. Black history newspaper clippings. NCTE Spring Institutes programs: April 4-8 in Buffalo, New York; and April 25-29 in Santa Barbara, California. Paper by NB \"Mini-Psychological Theory about Black Americans\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eInvitation to Jimmy Carter's inauguration, January 20, 1977.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCertificate of incorporation and other legal documents for Amistad, Inc. Humanities Foundation grant application. Correspondence, agendas for Board meetings, and notes from meetings.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence with William (Bill) Turner regarding a black history colloquium at Marshall and editing a special issue the \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eAppalachian Journal.\u003c/emph\u003e \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eSojourner: Voice of the Eastern Kentucky Social Clubs\u003c/emph\u003e, 1989.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eProgram for MU symposium \"Moving Toward Freedom: Slavery and Resistance.\" WV Humanities Foundation grant materials for \"Fact to Freedom: The Story of Slavery in West Virginia.\" Cost details for recreating a slave auction block. Photograph of 10th and Market in Wheeling, 1895.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence with Brucella and Norman Jordan re: the African American Heritage Family Tree Museum. Also a Humanities Council Grant, brochures, newspaper clippings, press releases. B. Jordan's curriculum vitia and job description with an appliation.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMaterials supporting the proposal for WVSC's The Canty House being placed on the National Register of Historic Places.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMaterials for collaboration of Kanawha County Schools Minority Student Achievement Task Force and Achieving Excellence in Learning (AEL). Maximizing Achievement of African-American Children in Kanawha County (MAACK) materials. Data on Kanawha County students.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReadings on teaching minority students, Ebonics. Maximizing Achievement of African-American Children in Kanawha County (MAACK) materials.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNotes and correspondence pertaining to the evaluation of the Black Mountain Youth Leadership Program at Berea College.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter from the Governor of Montana. Itineraries. Correspondence re: trip.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMatted print of D. Richardson's drawing of the WV Colored Children's Home.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes eleven subseries which highlight Bickley's research on black history in West Virginia and to a smaller extent black history in general. The subseries include her work on black history for many West Virginia counties with her research being more extensive for Cabell, Jefferson, and Kanawha Counties which have their own subseries. The subseries for Research Notes and Collected Papers are: General, Biography; Cabell County, WV; Jefferson County, WV; Kanawha County, WV; Other WV Counties; Churches, Education; General; Organizations; Slavery; and the Underground Railroad.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBickley researched a wide range of black history and black culture topics; for example, Aunt Jemima and the statue of a black boy as yard ornament, in addition to persons and events. The research provided background for her writings and was often incorporated into her works of fiction as well as historical accounts. Her papers include research notes and supporting sources on a wide range of topics with reference to black history and West Virginia black history.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHandwritten inventory of boxes with Post-it-Note \"Found AFTER boxing - This drawer-files are out of order so I don't know if it will be helpful. (Plus, my sister has horrible handwriting.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePost card from Mabel Hunter with Storer College Brackett Hall dorm room circled (1946). Photo of statue of Carter G. Woodson. 1850 mortality statistics for western section of Virginia. \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eBulletin of the West Virginia State Teachers' Association\u003c/emph\u003e, 1940. Program for the Mountain State Bar Association, Inc. Annual Awards Banquet, June 18, 1988. Partial transcript of \"Interview with Doris Miller, Huntington, WV\" regarding house purported to be on the underground railroad. Marriage records, 1869, Trinity Church, Parkersburg. \"Reading the Names\" program at Virginia Sate University of those lynched, 1868-1935; AB read the WV names, ca. 2011. Handwritten research notes. Notes on census slave records. Proposed black history highway markers, 2001. Newspaper clipping about Huntington Tuskegee Airmen, 2009. Email from Brucella Jordan requesting a recommendation; paragraph regarding the founding of the African American Heritage Family Tree Museum, 2010. Email from David Trobridge invitation to speak at Marshall University, 2011. Facsimile of pages from the Bureau of Negro Welfare and Statistics regarding the Episcopal Church in West Virginia. Roster of Negroes serving in state and local government, ca. 1968. \"The West Virginia Medical Society [Black].\" \"Slavery in Western Virginia\" (notes for an exhibit?)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence and research notes regarding the black history of Gallipolis, Ohio. Love story by Harry Dolphis Scott, Bidwell, Ohio. Typed lists from Carter G. Woodson's Free Negro Head of Families (1830), Town of Gallipolis.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNewspaper clippings from the Herald-Dispatch, 1981. Brochure: \"Graduates of Distinction: Michael Perry, Ancella Bickley\" from the Education Alliance, 2002\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eVarious articles regarding blues music. Multiple facsimiles of \"Bessie Smith, 1898-1937, A Short Blues Anthology,\" 1971; one with annotations.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eVarious articles including the legend of Jocko, subject of a lawn ornament, and a 1971 black history calendar by Raymond W. Lowry which highlights achievements.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e2\u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003end Annual John Henry Festival, Clifftop, West Virginia: Herbs and Traditional Medicine\u003c/emph\u003e[by] Roscoe Leonard.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTypewritten paper about spirituals\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJournal, newspaper, and magazine articles about black history, Carter G. Woodson, Nelson Bickley, and the methyl isocyanate leak in Institute, 1984.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eProspective Sites Relating to Black History in Canada\u003c/emph\u003e by William N. T. Wylie, June 1994.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eResearch materials regarding the holiday, Juneteenth, which celebrates the Emancipation Proclamation. Text of two speeches.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"The Black Literary Tradition of West Virginia: A Bio-Critical Survey\" [by] Leonard J. Deutsch\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe booklet (2 copies) \"History of African-American Miners in Appalachian Coal Fields: Black History Month, February, 2000\" Funeral program for Ulysses Grant Carter, teacher at Kimball High School. \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eA Saga of Service: A History of the Mining Extension Service of West Virginia State College, 1937-1957\u003c/emph\u003e by Cecile M. McCormick and U.G. Carter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFacsimiles of pages from reports from the WV Bureau of Negro Welfare and Statistics.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence and attached materials from Sara J. Sow re: blacks in Gallia County, Ohio. \"Why We Celebrate Our Culture and Church\" about churches in Lawrence County, Ohio.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence with and writings of James Fisher, Berkeley County.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBackground research notes and materials about Cuba. \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eNational Geographic\u003c/emph\u003e article \"Evolution in the Revolution: CUBA.\" Poems by or translated by Nelson A. Ossorio.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence with Joan C. Browning re: content for the Henrietta Marie exhibit; white women in the civil rights movement. Biography. Resume. Newspaper clippings; article \"Invisible Revolutionaries: White Women in Civil Rights Historiography.\" Program and other materials for the WVU panel for the Rush Holt History Conference. Commentary from John Raines re: J. Browning and David Mussat's contributions to the RDH Conference; annotated JB paper \"Religion Gave Me Power to Witness\" and David Mussat's paper \"Sticks and Stone: an Interpretation of Power and Religion in the Movement.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eResearch materials on many aspects of WV Black history including newspaper clippings, scholarly articles, meeting programs, and the text of an Odd Fellows speech.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Negro Coal Miners in West Virginia, 1875-1925\" from the \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eMidwest Journal\u003c/emph\u003e, 1954. Reprint of \"Negro Migration to the Mining Fields of West Virginia\" from the \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eProceedings, West Virginia Academy of Sciences\u003c/emph\u003e, 1936.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHandwritten research notes. Research materials re: WV history. Typed notes on WV black history. 1955 newspaper article re: integration of schools.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence regarding black WV historical markers. Resignation as a Commissioner for the WV Division of Culture and History. Program for Roosevelt Junior High School Award Assembly, June 2, 2000; Bickley is on the program for the East End History Essay.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePrograms for West Virginia Conference on Black History at the First Baptist Church in Charleston, April 22-23, 1988, and the Eighth Annual Conference on West Virginia's Black History at Marshall University, November 10-11, 1995\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWeb page print out of article about Silas Green in minstrel show.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Fifth U.S. Colored Infantry\" by John F. Walter, rev. 1998. Includes information on Ohio and WV blacks.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Negro Participants in the Fields of the Theatre and Music Plus Associated Enterprises: Period: 1920-1960\" by Dr. Douglass T. Murray. Booklet for The National [Negro] Opera [Company].\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePaper titled \" School Desegregation Since \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eBrown\u003c/emph\u003e (1954): 30-Year Perspective\" by Franklin Parker, WVU Professor of Education, 1984. Two pages of annotated text of a speech about education of black West Virginians, [delivered at WVU]. \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eDaily Athenaeum \u003c/emph\u003earticle re: interview Nelson Bickley about discrimination in housing in Morgantown, 1971. Program for \"The West Virginia Experience in Higher Education: an Historical Perspective\" at WVU, 1984, when AB was on a panel. Facsimile of the pamphlet \"The Black Student at WVU\" 1971-72. Correspondence from the Ohio University Press re: manuscript review of the book \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eMemphis Tennessee Garrison\u003c/emph\u003e by William H. Turner, 1999. \"History of DuBois High School\" from a book. Map of slave plantations in Wood County, Va. Map of Underground Railroad routes to Canada, 1898.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEmail correspondence primarily between AB and her daughter Ancella Livers re: access to WWII Soldiers' letters at the New York Public Library. Email from Della [Hardman?] re: Belle Powell and Ravella Hughes.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes biographical material for many people of interested to Bickley. Types of material include correspondence, handwritten notes, clippings and articles, photographs, various facsimiles, and more. Subjects of research notes and collected materials include: Carter G. Woodson, Dick Pointer, Henry Louis \"Skip\" Gates, Memphis Tennessee Garrison, John Henry, Ravella Hughes, John Wesley Harris, Maude Beatrice Bell Plowden, Della Brown Taylor, Bessie Yancey, Mollie Gabe (Mary Elizabeth Johnson), Elizabeth Simpson Drewry, J. McHenry Jones, Stonewall Jackson, Gwen McMillion Bingham, and William Cathay. Additional topics include: blacks in WV literature; black women; Tuskegee Airmen including John L. Whitehead, Jr. and William Lee Hill; and black WV legislators. Biographical information is also included in the Interviews and Oral History Interviews series.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNewspaper clippings. Partial notes [speech] J. McHenry Jones including John R. Clifford, Christopher Payne, and black legislators. Pages from a 1913 Congressional hearing on \"Conditions in the Paint Creek District, West Virginia\" with conditional pardon of Dan Chain highlighted. Memo, 1/18/03, from Alfonzo Dalton regarding interview with Ben Carson who was a Republican candidate for the US President in 2016.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter to researcher Sean Duff, November 19, 2012, and attached information regarding J. McHenry Jones and Wheeling. Letter to researcher L. Morris Jones, May 3, 1989. Newspaper clipping of article about \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eHearts of Gold\u003c/emph\u003e which was written by J. McHenry Jones (JMJ). Various versions of \"James McHenry Jones: a Monologue\" by Ancella R. Bickley. Full and partial \"J. McHenry Jones, 1859-1909.\" Text of newspaper article about JMJ's opposition to the Evans Jim Crow Bill, February 14, 1907. Research notes including Jones family history. Facsimile of pages from \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eHistory of the Jones Family \u003c/emph\u003eby John L. Jones.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eResearch notes on Guion Bluford (?). Ed White, sculptor, biography. Facsimile of pages from the children's book \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eBlack Stars in Orbit\u003c/emph\u003e, [1995]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence between NB and The Association for the Study of Negro Life and History, Incorporated regarding preservation of the Carter G. Woodson house in Huntington. Correspondence between Carter G. Woodson and his sister, Bessie Woodson Yancey, regarding upkeep of the house.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eResearch materials on Dick Pointer, black Indian War hero, for an article for the \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eJournal of the Greenbrier Historical Society\u003c/emph\u003e; the article; handwritten notes; various versions of the article. Research notes. Facsimile of a painting by S. Ross Browne, 1993.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence with Henry Louis \"Skip\" Gates, Jr. Newspaper clipping: MU Commencement.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence with Adolphus Young regarding black West Virginia women, particularly MTG.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eWashington Post\u003c/emph\u003e article \"In Quest of the Historical John Henry\" by Hank Burchard, August 24, 1969. Press release by Kyle McCormick, WV Dept. of Archives and History, 1957. \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eWV Hillbilly\u003c/emph\u003e, June 23, 1979, \"A Salute to John Henry.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHandwritten notes about John Matheus, WVSC professor; his curriculum vitae, ca. 1953; reprint of an article from the \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eCLA Journal\u003c/emph\u003e by him, 1972.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eResearch notes about Revella Hughes\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eResearch notes about William Hill for \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eGoldenseal\u003c/emph\u003e article about Tuskegee Airmen.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eResearch on John Brown including materials from the National Parks Service's John Brown Conference, 2000; an annotated Langston Hughes' poem \"October 16;\" and \"A Psychological Examination of John Brown.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTwo newspaper clippings: one about Fannie Cobb Carter and one about Memphis Tennessee Garrison\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eObituary and other information about Major General Charles \"Jackie\" Calvin Rogers. Documents regarding the naming of a United States Army Reserve Center for him. Text of NB's speech.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eGoldenseal \u003c/emph\u003earticle about John Wesley Harris. Facsimile of newspaper clipping about Maude Beatrice Bell Plowden.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTranscript of interview with AB by Ohio State University's WOSU about Della Brown Taylor [Hardman], a graduate of Garnet High School, artist, and teacher at WVSC.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eResearch notes. Transcript of conversation with Bruce Rogers regarding Aunt Jemima and Bruce Family history. Facsimiles of newspaper articles regarding Aunt Jemima.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBackground research about the Sargent School of Physical Education; Sydney Taylor Brown who graduated from there and then WVSC; black women in the American Red Cross; and black women's service in WWII. \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eAmerican Legacy\u003c/emph\u003e, Winter 1999. Research notes.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFacsimile of pages from \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eHistory of the American Negro,\u003c/emph\u003e W.Va. Edition, vol. VII, [edited] by [A. D.] Caldwell.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePrint outs of web pages regarding the Tuskegee Airmen. Photograph of monument in Walterboro, SC. Newspaper clippings.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eResearch materials pertaining to Carter G. Woodson including: journal and magazine articles; facsimile of book pages; newspaper clippings; and a masters degree thesis. Text of speeches and programs for speeches by both AB and NB. Invitation to a reception to honor Sen. and Mrs. John F. Kennedy in Huntington, April 20, 1960.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePoems, correspondence, and other writings by Bessie Yancey, Carter G. Woodson's sister. Photocopies of journal articles and WV Collegiate Institute publications. Special Carter G. Woodson issue of \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eCommunity, \u003c/emph\u003epublished by Friendship House, Winter 1970. Issue of \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eThe Journal of Negro History\u003c/emph\u003e, July 1968.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eResearch materials on Mollie Gabe, also known as Mary Elizabeth Johnson, midwife from Falls Mill, Braxton County.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eResearch materials about John P. Parker, a former slave who was active in the UGRR in Ohio. Parker was also an inventor and a business man.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eResearch materials about Elizabeth Simpson Drewry, McDowell County representative to the WV House of Delegates.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters to Bessie W. Yancey, CGW's sister. Research materials. Poem \"The Forgotten Boys.\" Correspondence re: restoration of the CGW home. Carter G. Woodson Memorial Committee and Foundation materials. Text of speech by AB. CGW stamps. Dedication of statue of CGW. Correspondence re: Ann Eliza Riddle Woodson family property. CGW genealogy prepared by Nelson Barnett, Jr. Letter from CGW to Bessie Woodson Yancey. Text of paper \"Carter G. Woodson: the West Virginia Connection.\" Photographs of CGW and kin.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence from CGW to Bessie W. Yancey, re: house in Huntington, 1941. Book contract between Bessie W. Yancey for \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eEchoes in the Hills \u003c/emph\u003eand CGW's company, The Associated Publishers, 1939. Letter re: book to CGW from BWY, 1939. Letter from John W. Davis, President WVSC, to BWY, 1945, re: Nelson Bickley. Letter from BWY to Louis R. Mehlinger re: loss of two brothers, 1950. Envelope, no contents, from Joel A Rogers, 1951. Envelope, no contents, from The Associated Publishers, 1958. Photographic negative of BWY.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eResearch materials including newspaper clippings, correspondence, articles, and research notes on Carter G. Woodson; Bessie W. Yancey; Black History Month; restoration of the Woodson home; and the Woodson family. Annotated copy of the paper \"Carter G. Woodson: the West Virginia Connection.\" Facscimiles of Otis Woodson and CGW photos. Photo of Bessie Woodson Yancey and letter from BWY to CGW re: poetry. Edited entry for CGW from \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eThe Encyclopedia of Black America\u003c/emph\u003e. List of WV Collegiate Institutue, 1920/21 and 1921/22. Facsimile of correspondence between CGW and BWY re: house.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eResearch materials on J. McHenry Jones including facsimiles of obituaries; other newspaper clippings; and transcriptions of clippings. Photo of Hazlewood Assembly Hall. Notes [speech?] on JMJ. Timeline with sources. Paper about JMJ by AB. Jones family history.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePages copied from book \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eThe Hidden Years of Stonewall Jackson \u003c/emph\u003epurporting that he fathered a black child. From Merle Moore.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eResearch materials on Tuskegee Airmen including John L. Whitehead, Jr. and William Lee Hill.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eText of a speech? \"African Americans in the West Virginia Legislature.\" Letter from C.A. Blankenship to \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eThe Negro History Bulletin\u003c/emph\u003e adding names of Negroes who served in the WV Legislature, 1964. \"West Virginia's Black Female Legislators\" ca. 1991. Facsimile of photo with caption: \"President Harry S. Truman being shown a copy of America's first Black pictorial magazine. [There is some question which came first \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eColor\u003c/emph\u003e or \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eEbony]\u003c/emph\u003e Left to right: Sippi Coleman, Pres. Truman, W.VA. Congressman, Dr. I.J.K. Wells Editor and Publisher of Color,\" ca. 1948. Newspaper clipping of article re: female legislators, 1998.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFacsimile of photo of \"Gabriel, Pardoned by VA Governor Tim Kaine, June 26, 2007.\" Research notes. Paper \"Major General Gwen McMillion Bingham,\" ca. 2011 with newspaper clipping. Facsimile of unidentified photograph of woman in uniform. Paper \"'Who Was William Cathay?' adapted from a piece in the St. Louis Daily Times, January 2, 1876.\" Poem \"Cathay Williams,\" 1997. Facsimile of enlarged photo of face of unidentified soldier. Summary/timeline for Cathay Williams/William Cathay.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDraft of \"Elizabeth Simpson Drewry, 1894-1979\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCovers a wide range of topics on the history of Cabell County; Huntington, WV; and adjacent Ohio counties. Notable are Nelson Barnett's transcriptions of late 19th century Huntington newspaper articles regarding blacks. Also included are newspaper clippings, monographs, photos, biographies, and interviews about veterans, church history, education, organizations, and more.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"References and Briefs to Miscellaneous Newspaper Articles, [June 15, 1872-October 21, 1898, and June 4, 1922-May 20, 1928]\" compiled by Nelson Barnett, Jr., 1988, from Huntington newspapers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Black Veterans of World War I from Cabell County, W.Va., 1918.\" \"Past Imperfect, 1902: Articles of Interest, [Nov. 13, 1901-Dec. 31, 1901]\" compiled by Nelson Barnett, Jr. from Huntington newspapers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Past-Imperfect, 1901: Articles of Interest, [Jan. 7, 1901-May 28, 1901]\" compiled by Nelson Barnett, Jr. from Huntington newspapers\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eResources about blacks in Huntington and Cabell County. Includes a bibliography of \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eGoldenseal \u003c/emph\u003earticles about blacks. Other resources are church histories, listings of names, facsimiles of book chapters and papers, newspaper clippings, interviews, handwritten research notes, and more.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Progress of the Huntington Negro\" by Prof. J. W. Scott\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"A Black History of Huntington\" by Edna Duckworth, 1976. Genealogy for Edna Duckworth. \"Biohistrogenetics Project Proposal\" to the Carter G. Woodson Memorial Foundation, 1996-1997; Duckworth is listed as the visionary.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMarriage records, late 19th century, Cabell County.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence with Clara Knight. Facsimiles of Greenbottom Church, Huntington, records listing black members. Records regarding John Ball freeing his slaves, 1793. Map of Millersport, OH, 1887.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence with Bill Lindsay re: blacks in Huntington and Pocahontas County\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTwo newspaper clippings: one about Nellie Fransisco [sic] and AB's research about blacks on the Ohio River.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"A Black History of Huntington\" by Edna Duckworth, [1976]. Census data for black families in Lawrence County, Ohio; 1850, 1860.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePhotos of black workers in C\u0026amp;O shop including Anderson Radford, AB's grandfather. Correspondence; transcription of newspaper articles; research notes; biographical sketches; photos of Goodes; newspaper clippings; church histories and programs; facsimiles of book pages; transcription of interviews; and bibliography.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eResearch notes. Photos. Paper \"Black People and the Huntington Experience.\" Project, \"A Sojourn for Truth: Revisiting Black History Along the Ohio River,\" overview. Research materials re: Huntington, Cabell County, and parts of Ohio. Transcript of interview with Suzette Spencer. \"The West Virginia Colored Children's Home\" by Ancella R. Bickley. \"Poke Patch/Black Fork, Ohio\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eResearch notes on Douglass School. Typewritten notes on Douglass School, 1891-1924. Notes from conversation with Nellie Francisco. Handwritten transcription of article, 1902.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCovers research about blacks in Charlestown and Harpers Ferry as well as other locations in Jefferson County. Materials include obituaries, school histories, correspondence, cemetery records, research notes, and more about school integration, Storer College, slave collars, Fisherman's Hall, and more.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eResearch materials regarding blacks in Charlestown. Obituary for former slave George Jenkins in Huntington, 1917.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePaper about St. Philip's parochial school by James A. Tolbert. Materials re: Sons of Confederate Veterans tablet in Harper's Ferry. Other research materials re: Jefferson County and Charlestown.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePhotos of a slave collar. Correspondence re: acquiring the collar for the Henrietta slave ship exhibit.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence with James Tolbert re: black CCC camp, McDowell County; Black History Conference; Fisherman's Hall, Charlestown, restoration; Harewood Cemetery, Jefferson County; marker for Martin Delany, Charlestown.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eResearch materials re: Harpers Ferry, the National Park, and Storer College.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTypewritten text of speech at Shepherd College, 2004. Transcript \"Discussion of Integration of Schools in Jefferson County: Jim Tolbert.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHandwritten research notes mostly re: John Brown and Harpers Ferry, ca. 2000.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCovers research about blacks in the WV Capitol, Charleston, and other locations in Kanawha County. Topics covered include slavery in the salt industry, biographies, wine cellars, and buildings. Contents include correspondence, facsimiles of documents, research papers, obituaries, newspaper clippings and more.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eResearch materials about slavery in West Virginia with focus on Kanawha County and the salt industry\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eResearch materials on black attorney Thomas Gillis Nutter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eResearch materials on Charleston, WV including: \"Unpublished Black History in the Early Kanawha Valley\" by William D. Wintz; \"Blacks in Charleston, West Virginia: A Survey of Their Presence in the Community and Occupational and Residential Patterns in the Early 1900s\" by Mary Johnson, WVU student. Research materials regarding Oscar Wayman Holmes, the first African American naval aviator and obituaries for C.H. James, prominent black businessman. Text of speech, \"Black People in Charleston,\" 1994.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eResearch materials on the Dutch Hollow wine cellars in Dunbar.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDocuments regarding Samuel W. Starks and the Starks House in Charleston. Correspondence regarding its being put on the National Register of Historic Places.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence with Eugene Washington re: Phillis Wheatley School and Albert G. Brown, architect.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eExcludes Cabell, Jefferson, and Kanawha Counties which have separate subseries. Includes research materials about slavery, school integration, lynching, historic homes, and more researched by Bickley for these counties: Wayne, McDowell, Harrison, Greenbrier, Hardy, Fayette, Monongalia, Upshur, Wood, and Monroe; as well as the cities of Bluefield, Buckhannon, Keystone, Weirton, Weston, and Wheeling. Research materials include photographs, correspondence, brochures, newspaper clippings, book pages, articles, interviews, and more.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eVarious documents regarding blacks in Wayne County, WV; the Livisay family; writings by Tim R. Massey, 1981; the Lindsey family; photograph and negatives of a photograph of a black family.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eResearch materials on McDowell County, WV, with focus on the towns of Keystone and Keystone. Letters and notes from Adolphus A. Young, Jr.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eProgram for \"Freedom Is a Struggle: Glimpses of African-American Life in the Greenbrier Valley of [West] Virginia.\" Brochure \"Black Historic Sites in Lewisburg, West Virginia.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNewspaper clipping about Sarah Hall, black lawyer. Facsimiles of research materials. \"The History of the Negro in McDowell County and in West Virginia Leading Up to and Including the Integration of Schools\" by Dr. Douglass T. Murray. Typewritten notes from Adolphus Young, Jr. Correspondence with Alphonso Dalton, Jr. regarding MTG and black McDowell County families\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFacsimile of 1952 newspaper article regarding slaves listed in 1848 Harrison County tax book. Slave owners are listed and includes Nathan Goff.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePaper, author unidentified, regarding lynching in WV. Research materials about slaves in Greenbrier County\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence regarding letter from a slave asking to be purchased by Stump family [1851]. Facsimile of letter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eResearch notes and resources regarding Glenwood, historic home in Charleston. Clarksburg newspaper article of reminiscences of a former slave, Ann Freeman and others. Clarksburg newspaper article regarding Union Veterans Association.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eResearch materials for Fayette County including contacts list, newspaper articles, maps, facsimiles of pages from books, student research paper, church histories, handwritten research notes, and grant applications. Correspondence with and Lucille Meadows and her handwritten reminiscences.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNewspaper articles, facsimiles of historical records. Partial manuscript for \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eTo Be Black in Fayette \u003c/emph\u003eand annotated pages. \"Black Politics in Fayette County, West Virginia, 1896-1918\" by Daniel Wright. Text of speech by Daniel Wright. Brochure titled \"Camp Washington-Carver: a Compendium of the First African-American 4-H Camp.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eResearch materials and research notes: \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eMonongalia Blacks Speak\u003c/emph\u003e: Women, Part II and Men, Part I, Holland family, schools. Interview with Grace Edwards Waters.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eResearch materials about Weirton.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eResearch materials about Upshur County. Facsimiles of articles written by R.H. Ralston, Sr. regarding Buckhannon's black history; newspaper clippings. \"A History of Blacks in Buckhannon: The Recollections of Harriet Warfield,\" an interview with Harriet Warfield, 1977.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eResearch materials regarding blacks in Wheeling. \"Wheeling's Black Population: A General Perspective\" written and presented by Darryl Clausell, Pat Dudley, with contributors Kathryn Snead and Dorothy Cooper, 1990. Correspondence with Margaret Brennan. Photo of AB, Pat Dudley, Brennan, and Annie Tanks at an Oral History Seminar in Wheeling.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence regarding Memphis Tennessee Garrison. Research materials on Gary and other McDowell County locales: newspaper clippings, \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eGoldenseal\u003c/emph\u003e article.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePapers by Wheeling Jesuit Students Joel Michael Coulson and Beau Conway.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eResearch resources regarding blacks in Fayette County, WV, including transcripts of oral history interviews with Lucille Meadows, Mrs. Turner, Charista Davis, Lula Lall Jones, Rosa Roach and Jessie Barrett; correspondence, church histories and programs. Includes Smoot family information.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTranscripts of interviews with Alease Watkins, David W. Turner, Russell Lee Matthews, and Elsie Choice Hopkins. Also, includes research notes, newspaper clippings, a grant application, facsimiles of book pages, and correspondence.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePhoto of Lomax Hospital in Bluefield. Brochures for Afro-Appalachian Performance Company. Correspondence with Joseph Bundy re: history alive performances. Research materials about black Bluefield hospitals.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence with Ray Swick re: blacks in Wood County. Research notes. Correspondence with the Wood County Bicentennial Commission re: speech.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCourt record for \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eMullens v. County Court\u003c/emph\u003e, 1932. Facsimile of WV entry from \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003e100 Years of Lynchings\u003c/emph\u003e by Ralph Ginzburg. \"The Greenbrier County Lynching: a Study of West Virginian Justices\" by Ancella Bickley Livers. \"'Reading the Names,' Program at Virginia State University.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eResearch notes re: Parkersburg black history. Facsimile of letter and transcription of letter from ex-slave Isaac Fairfax to George Washington Henderson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter from Charles (Charley) Goddard re: Greenbrier County history and Sharlotta Gardner contact information.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCopy of photo and negative of lynching. Photos of black children. Note from Maurice Allman, Hacker's Creek Pioneer Descendants. Transcripts of \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eWeston Democrat\u003c/emph\u003e articles re: 1892 lynching of Edgar Jones. Transcripts re: 1910 lynching. Research notes on these incidents. Application for the Weston Colored School to be placed on the National Register of Historical Places. Research notes re: Weston State Hospital. Correspondence re: dedication of the Central West Virginia Genealogical and Historical Library, formerly the Weston Colored School. Handwritten transcription of interview with Rahleen Gardner who attended the School. Transcript of conversation with Mrs. Joy Gilchrist, 1992.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTranscripts of interviews with Mr. Waldo Lacy and Mrs. Gladys Lacy. Facsimile of newspaper article of speech by T.J. Ferguson, 1870. Research materials on the Sumner School. History of Parkersburg from Bernie Allen. Facsimile of books pages, newspaper articles, and transcription of newspaper articles. Parkersburg Art Center brochure featuring Joseph Eldridge Dodd. Text for slide show (no slides). Typewritten outline of \"Parkersburg Study.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFacsimiles of newspaper articles. Correspondence with Ray Swick, Blennerhassett Island State Park. Research materials about blacks in Wood County. Research notes. \"A History of Sumner School\" written by Sally Browning, 1996. \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eThe Island Packet\u003c/emph\u003e from the Friends of Blennerhassett Island.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBackground research on blacks in Monroe County. Correspondence with Fawn Valentine and Presidents of the Monroe County Historical Society. \"Bishop Matthew W. Clair, Sr.: a Biography\" by Dr. Margaret B. Ballard, 1973.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes programs, bulletins, correspondence, research notes, and histories of black West Virginia churches in Fayetteville, Charleston, Charlestown, Fairmont, St. Albans, Parkersburg, Huntington, and Alderson. Also includes a history of churches and lodges in West Virginia as well as histories of the Odd Fellows, Knights of Pythias, and the Galilean Fisherman lodges. Denominations represented include African Methodist Episcopal, Episcopalian, and Baptist.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence with Lucile S. Meadows regarding help with the Second Baptist Church, Fayetteville, Centennial; racial tolerance in schools\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"125th Anniversary Journal\" First Baptist Church, February 1, 1868-February 28, 1993, Charleston, WV\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTime line for black Episcopalians in WV. \"The First Hundred Years: a History of St. Philip's Episcopal Church, Charles Town.\" Research notes and sources. Humanities Foundation of WV grant application by Florita Montgomery to study the history of St. Phillips' Episcopal Church. Information on the Trinity Church in Parkersburg. Photograph including some black congregants.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1907 Weekly Bulletin of Diamond St. M.E. Church in Fairmont\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBook titled \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eMiracle on B Street Continues\u003c/emph\u003e about St. Paul Baptist Church's (St. Albans) 131st anniversary.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter re: slide presentation at the Young Chapel African American Methodist Episcopal Church. Program for the 94th Church Anniversary. Handwritten time line and other notes. Booklet of photographs, text of Bickley's speech, newspaper clipping.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Black Churches and Lodges in West Virginia in Their Infancy, 1865-1900\" by J. Reuben Sheeler. \"History of Bright Hope Lodge #9, F.\u0026amp;A.M. and - P.H.A. Montgomery WV.\" Facsimile of pages \"Introduction and Growth of the Grand United States Order of Odd Fellows in America.\" Notes \"Knights of Pythias of West Virginia History\" researched by James A. Tolbert. Notes about \"Grand United Order of the Galilean Fisherman\" compiled by Ann Wilson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEmail correspondence with Adrienne Belafonte re: a newspaper article about the Shiloh Baptist Church in Alderson. Clipping of the article.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eProgram for First Baptist Church 125th Anniversary, 1997. Program for installation of Rev. William F. Buchanan, First Baptist Church, 1988.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes newspaper clippings, text for presentations, correspondence, research notes, articles, commencement programs, interviews and more about state and national teachers' organizations, historically black WV colleges including West Virginia State College and West Virginia University, integration of schools, histories of specific schools, the Kanawha County textbook controversy, and more.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNewspaper articles: WV Education Association (WVEA) Executive Committee meeting, the National Education Association (NEA) and the need for minority teachers; and recommendations from the Black Caucus, \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eWV School Journal\u003c/emph\u003e, December 15, 1973. Photograph of Blacks in auditorium seating, ca. 1950s\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMultiple facsimiles of a post card picturing Albert Long, \"Bertie\" -- Aunt Onie's Son. West Virginia State College Commencement Programs: 1948, 1950, 1951\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eInformation sheets and travel plans for trip to Egypt, July 5, 1987, sponsored by WVSC. Passport and Visa information written on folder.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eVarious versions of text for a multi-media program on the history of West Virginia State College (WVSC) and Institute, WV\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter to Edmonia Grider from Marjorie [Counts] regarding the Hilltop School, October 7, 1974.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eManuscript discussing integration and black teachers in WV, author unknown. Speech (?) regarding school integration. Research notes. Annotated speech: \"Black Education in West Virginia\" delivered in Shepherdstown.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eResearch materials on the integration of WV schools: facsimiles of WV newspaper articles regarding integration of schools; \"How Black Students Saw Themselves through the Decades of Change at Bluefield State College (founded in 1895) as It Changed from Predominately Black Institution to a Predominantly White Institution\" by James Worsham\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eProgram for the Alpha Delta Chapter, Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. 19th annual Jabberwock, March 16th, 1949. Dance invitation, 1948. WVSC Commencement program, 1949. Washington Alumni Chapter banquet, 1976, to roast John W. Davis. Newspaper articles\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eVocational and Educational Survey for the Kanawha County Negro Schools\u003c/emph\u003e by Andrew H. Calloway, 1945.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence, photos, newsletter, and newspaper clippings regarding the Douglass High School (Huntington) Reunion. Notes on class of 1947. Newspaper clipping regarding NB. Photo YWCA Y-Teens, Douglas High School, Christmas, 1946.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eResearch notes on schools in Keyser and Piedmont, WV, including a facsimile of book pages from \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eHoward School: a History, 1877-1955\u003c/emph\u003eregarding a black student strike for a better school in 1939. Notes on interview with Alberta Coleman, Piedmont, WV. Notes from interview with Opal Coates Carter, and other research notes, regarding Woolworth Fire, Charleston, WV, [ca. 1964s].\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCompilation, by R. Charles Byers, of resources regarding WV black schools.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAnnotated pages for \"Integration in West Virginia\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eBulletin of West Virginia State College\u003c/emph\u003e, Series 21, no. 1, June 1933. \"Why Choose West Virginia State College\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAffirmative action statistics for Bluefield State College, 1984. \"Pride and Preservation: West Virginia State College\" seminars which included Alex Haley as a speaker, 1979. Newspaper article re: archives at West Virginia State College, 1979. \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eSouthern Rural Women's Network Newsletter\u003c/emph\u003e, June, 1983. Photograph of Alex Haley with inscription and signed letter from Alex Haley to NB, 1970.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eResearch notes and materials for research on education in Mason County, WV\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eResearch materials regarding the Lincoln School in Wheeling, WV\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eWest Virginia State College Bulletin\u003c/emph\u003e, April 1941, Series 28, No. 2. Handwritten transcription of an article in \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eThe Advocate\u003c/emph\u003e, 1907.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eProgram for One Hundred Fifth Commencement, Huntington High School, 1971. Photo of AB, West Virginia State College Commencement, May 17, 1986.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eReport of the Twenty-first Annual NEA Conference on Human and Civil Rights in Education\u003c/emph\u003e, 1983, including paper by AB on the Kanawha County textbook controversy and censorship.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFacsimile of a brief historical sketch of Storer College, 1867-1891, by Kate J. Anthony, 1891.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNewspaper clippings and other sources relating to the West Virginia Seminary and College and the Hilltop Baptist Center.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Integration in Reverse at West Virginia State College\" by Elizabeth Duran and James A. Duran, Jr.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence, interviews, newspaper clippings, and facsimiles of photos re: WVSC's East Hall. Research notes.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWV Humanities Council grant application for a presentation on black education in Parkersburg. Research materials and notes. Handwritten and typed notes from interviews with Mrs. Dorsey, Mr. James Emondson, Mrs. Hattie Gazelle Turner, and Mrs. Elizabeth Mitchell. Particular focus on the Sumner School.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePhoto slides of WVSC buildings, presidents, etc. Post cards of WVSC buildings and Institute. Note cards from a lecture. Research materials on all aspects of WVSC history.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eResearch materials on many aspects of WVSC history including faculty information. Includes these publications: \"ROTC in Review: 40 Years of Tradition;\" \"West Virginia State College Glee Club;\" Alumni Association, Los Angeles Chapter, Scholarship Luncheon program, 1989;\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eProgram for Convocation and Dedication of the Harold Maceo McNeill Physical Facilities Plant, WVSC, 1999.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter from AB re: retirement of Justine Gutzmer; retirement announcement for Gerald Cote, Beatrice Dupass, Gutzmer, and Darthulia Jones. Facsimile of WWII death notice of Oliver Johnson to his parents and his obituary. Johnson was Gutzmer's brother.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBooklet of texts and order of ceremonies for the WVSC commencement program, 1985.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes background research on the Montgomery Woman's Improvement League, the West Virginia Federation of Colored Women's Clubs, Alpha Omicron Omega Chapter of the Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, the Mountain State Bar Association, and the West Virginia Medical Society. Research materials include a yearbook, programs, correspondence, a members list, and more.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eMontgomery Woman's Improvement League Year Book\u003c/emph\u003e, 1955-56 and 1960-61. Program for West Virginia State Federation of Colored Women's Clubs, Inc. Annual Convention, 1959. Newspaper photojournalism article regarding the College Alumni Club 50th anniversary history booklet. Program for the Annual Debutante Ball sponsored by Alpha Omicron Omega Chapter, Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, 1958. Correspondence with Katherine Atwater regarding resources.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eProgram for the Annual Meeting and Awards Banquet of the Mountain State Bar Association, 1985. List of members, 1986.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePaper titled \"The West Virginia Medical Society [Black]\" Article: \"Historically Black Medical Colleges: From Scorn to Success\" from \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eThe Boule Journal\u003c/emph\u003e, 2004.\u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003e \u003c/emph\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis subseries includes maps, research papers, newspaper clippings, letters, census data, newspaper articles, facsimiles of historical slave documents, and more. Other materials regarding slavery can be found in county subseries and the Underground Railroad Subseries.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWest Virginia map. \"Number of Slaves in Counties Which Became WV\" 1850, 1860. Typescript of \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eHistorical Atlas of West Virginia \u003c/emph\u003eby Frank S. Riddel.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHandwritten notes on John Marshall; Marshall and slavery; Marshall and Robin Spurlock, his servant. Typed observations. Resource materials.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFacsimiles of legislation and resolutions to abolish slavery; and a list of representatives at the state convention in Wheeling.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eResearch materials. Typewritten manuscript[s] by James Oliver Horton. Codes for occupations. Copy of newspaper article.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNewspaper clipping and multiple facsimiles of an article about a slave breeding farm in Greenup, KY.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eResearch materials about slaves in Ohio Valley plantations and adjacent WV counties. Photocopies of photographs of Mary and plantation sites.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFacsimiles of: newpaper slave ads; Virginia law re: Kanawha Slave Insurance Company; Dunsmore's Proclamation freeing slaves; Va. Law to send slave to Liberia; slaves in Bunker Hill; New York Times article re: slave uprising; and drawing of [Harpers Ferry]. Harpers Ferry National Historical Park Afro-American materials. \"History of Gerrardstown\" in \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eThe Berkeley Journal\u003c/emph\u003e. Handwritten list of properties, including slave names, of Richard B. Washington, [1864]. Letter of transmittl and facsimile of bill of sale for slave, 18[4]5. Transcription of Rumsey-Polk letters re: slaves.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHandwritten research notes and research materials regarding reparations for slavery; text of NB speech; typewritten notes.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAnnotated manuscript \"Compensatory Justice: Over Time and Between Groups\" by Renee A. Hill; text of introduction of a speech about reparations; newsapper clippings; web page print outs; articles.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eWest Virginia and Regional History Collection Newsletter \u003c/emph\u003ewith articles re: slave letters. \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eWest Virginia Then and Now \u003c/emph\u003earticle re: John Brown's letter. Research re: images of blacks in journalism. Research notes.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFacsimile of tables of free Negro listings from 1830 census. \"Researching Virginia's Slave and Free Negro Records\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFacsimile of newspaper article, 1934, re: Mount Pisgah Church, Proctorville, OH. \"The Way It Was…\" by Betty Burcham, a history of UGRR and Mount Pisgah Church. Facsimile of will of Eliza Goode freeing Sully Smith, her husband and her slave, 1848. Facsimile of two receipts for purchase of slaves, 1852. Research notes re: Ohio slaves and fugitives to WV.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis subseries includes text of a speech made by Bickley, books, slides, photographs, brochures, post cards, correspondence, maps, and more. The materials focus on parts of Ohio across the river from Huntington as well as West Virginia. Some topics are quilt codes, abolitionists, runaway slaves, location of Underground Railroad sites, and more.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eResearch materials about Serena Wilson and the book \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eHidden in Plain View: The Secret Story of Quilts and the Underground Railroad.\u003c/emph\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePhotos \"Trip to Doddridge County to visit Jaco Hill/cave - UGRR Site - w/Karen Nance, Sandra Moats, \u0026amp; Judy Wilinson, 6/20/01. Other research materials\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eResearch materials on the Underground Railroad with focus on Ohio.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBrochures and post cards regarding the UGRR and the film \"Nightjohn.\" Correspondence with Margaret Brennan, organizer for the UGRR Summit in Wheeling. \"Reflections on the West Virginia UGRR Summit\" by Cathy D. Nelson; photo of AB speaking at the Summit and with Amanda Nelson and Sherry [Sowchuck].\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence from Alicestyne Turley-Adams re: Underground Railroad Network Partnership.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence with Lucille Deberry and other research materials re: the UGRR, some in West Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence with Sandra Moats-Burke re: UGRR in WV counties. \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eExploring a Common Past: Researching and Interpreting the Underground Railroad\u003c/emph\u003e, 1998, 2nd ed. from the National Park Service. List of UGRR sites in WV.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePhotograph slides, numbered and identified. Research materials mostly about Ohio. \"Draft Proposal to Establish a National Underground Commemorative, Interpretive, and Research Center, City of Huntington, West Virginia\" 1994. Itinerary for trip to Washington to meet with Interior Dept. officials and Robert C. Byrd's staff.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBook chapter \"In Gallia and Miegs Counties\" from \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eThe Mysteries of Ohio's Underground Railroad\u003c/emph\u003e by Wilbur Henry Siebert, 1951. Facsimile of handwritten narrative by an abolitionist, [1892]. Facsimile of letter from R. C. Rankin re: father Rev. John Rankin, 1892. Research notes on WV runaway slaves. Facsimile of letter to Daniel ? to Cyrus Little re: UGRR, 1894. Map of UGRR, 1860. Requests for copies from the Siebert papers. More facsimiles of records.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBackground materials on the Underground Railroad in Ohio.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eResearch materials including newspaper clippings and research notes on the Underground Railroad\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eResearch materials re: the Underground Railroad. Research notes.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFacsimiles of documents pertaining to slaves in Jefferson County, VA. Itinerary for Underground Railroad tours [Ohio?]. \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eThe Escape of Jane: a True Story of the Underground Railroad\u003c/emph\u003e by Henry Burke \u0026amp; Dick Croy. Henry Robert Burke correspondence. Brochure on Henderson Hall, Wood County. Dick Croy correspondence and resume. Newspaper articles by Burke. \"Black Cultural Sites in West Virginia\" compiled by Michael Pauley and Peter Jesus, 1990\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence with Sandra Moats-Burke re: UGRR. WV and county maps. Facsimile of pages from \"From the Charles River Shire, 1634-1643, to the Present Day Counties: Harrison, Doddridge, Ritchie, Wood, Pleasants and Tyler\" by Barr Wilson. Research materials on the UGRR. Research notes. \"The Anti-Slavery Movement in West Virginia,\" a speech delivered by Sandra Moats Burke.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eResearch materials re: quilts and the Underground Railroad, 2001-2011. Notes re: Eliza Farrow, 2005. Paper \"The UGRR Quilt Code\" by Leigh Fellner. Research notes; newspaper clipping; facsimile of web page and transcription of story in an email \"Secret Quilt Code on Exhibit until 10/6,\" 2012; and September 2012 issue of Underground Railroad Free Press.\" Mini-grant for UGRR quilts materials, 2013.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eUnderground Railroad: Official National Park Handbook\u003c/emph\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes manuscripts and publications for books; plays and reenactor monologues; short stories; magazine and scholarly articles; and other forms of writing in both print and handwriting. Five subseries encompass the various genres of her writing. Also includes background and research materials for the subjects for her writings, both fiction and non-fiction.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes research materials for topics of articles. Subjects and formats treated are: encyclopedia entries in the biographical dictionary African American Architects; drafts and final versions of entries for both people and institutions for the West Virginia Encyclopedia; drafts and final versions of articles about Molly Gabe and Carter G. Woodson for Appalachian Heritage; newspaper articles for the Charleston (WV) Gazette Mail and Village Neighbors (FL) on a number of topics including George Wesley Atkinson, 10th governor of West Virginia, but especially for Black History Month and its founder Carter G. Woodson; Goldenseal articles about a Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) camp, Jessie Moon Thomas, Edward Greer, the Charleston Women's Improvement League, Memphis Tennessee Garrison, and West Virginia's Tuskegee Airmen; contribution to a symposium on diversity and change for Appalachian youth; and a study guide for a Charleston, WV, performance of Zora Neale Hurston's Spunk.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eArticles by Ancella Bickley from the \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eGoldenseal Magazine\u003c/emph\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence regarding use of the Goldenseal article \"Camp War: Remembering CCC Company 3538-C\" in an online education guide by the WV State Museum.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAnnotated manuscript and research notes for Goldenseal article \"Education and Activism in Gary: a Visit with Jessie Moon Thomas.\" Correspondence with Mrs. Thomas including notes on the Froe and Moon families.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIssue of the journal \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eAppalachian Heritage \u003c/emph\u003econtaining AB article \"Profiles: Mollie Gabe\" by Ancilla \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003e[sic] \u003c/emph\u003eBickley.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Remembering Carter G. Woodson, the 'Father of Black History'\" in \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eVillage Neighbors\u003c/emph\u003e, [a publication of the Village in Florida where the Bickley's resided.] Typed notes on Carter G. Woodson. Transcription of letter from Bessie Woodson Yancey, CGW's sister, including text of the poem \"If You Live in West Virginia.\" CGW black history quiz prepared for the Spicy Ladies meeting.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTyped text of autobiographical musings about friendship: likens travel in the south in 1952 to the Underground Railroad travel; and includes details about the move to Morgantown in 1966.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence with \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eGoldenseal\u003c/emph\u003e regarding \"Edward Greer: First Black General from West Virginia\" and potential story about 1939 black student strike in Piedmont, WV. Manuscripts for Greer article.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence and drafts of a \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eGoldenseal\u003c/emph\u003e article \"Lifting as We Climb\" about the Charleston Woman's Improvement League. Research materials including facsimiles of photographs. Newspaper article about Judge Irene Berger, McDowell County.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eResearch materials on Carl Eugene Barnett and Robert Edward Lee Washington for entries in \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eAfrican American Architects: A Biographical Dictionary, 1865-1945\u003c/emph\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSpiral bound program for\u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003e A Different World: Symposium on Diversity, Change, and Appalachian Youth,\u003c/emph\u003e 2006, where Bickley was a panelist.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eAppalachian Heritage\u003c/emph\u003e, Summer 2008, which includes \"Carter G. Woodson: the West Virginia Connection\" by Ancella Bickley\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eAppalachian Heritage\u003c/emph\u003e, Special Issue: Blacks in Appalachia, 1991, which includes Bickley's \"Molly Gabe\" in the Profiles section.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eGoldenseal\u003c/emph\u003e, Winter 2011, containing AB's article \"General Edward Greer: West Virginia's First Black General.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence with Dreck S. Wilson re: contribution to the book \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eBiographical Dictionary of African-American Architects, 1865-1945.\u003c/emph\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eResearch materials about George Wesley Atkinson, tenth governor of WV who attended Howard University. Paper titled \"West Virginia's Tenth Governor and the Black Community\" and newspaper article by AB.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eResearch materials re: the West Virginia Colored Orphans Home. Newspaper article written by AB. Testimonial for Fannie Cobb Carter. Research notes. Facsimiles of photos. Transcript of interview with Araminta Miller Justice. AB's paper about the Home.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eManuscript drafts and final versions for entries in the West Virginia Encyclopedia. Materials from West Virginia Humanities Council meetings re: the format and content of the Encyclopedia\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eAppalachian Heritage, Special Issue: Blacks in Appalachia, \u003c/emph\u003eFall 1991, with article by AB in the Profiles Section on Mollie Gabe.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMusings written to friends, 1996. Clipping of \"Commentary: Capable of Thinking, Working…and Paying Her Own Bills,\" 1979, Ancella Bickley Jr.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eProcessor-created bibliography of Ancella Bickley's writings\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes books written, complied, or edited by Bickley, and background research materials and drafts of manuscripts. Books Bickley wrote include: a children's book, \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003e LuJay, No-Name, and the Parrot\u003c/emph\u003e, also titled \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eLucia Jean, No Name, and the Parrot\u003c/emph\u003e ; \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003e …to be black in fayette\u003c/emph\u003e [sic]; \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003e History of the West Virginia State Teacher's Association\u003c/emph\u003e; and \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003e In Spite of Obstacles: a History of the West Virginia Schools for Colored Deaf and Blind\u003c/emph\u003e. Books edited by Bickley include: \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eHonoring Our Past: Proceedings of the First Two Conferences on West Virginia's Black History\u003c/emph\u003e; \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eMemphis Tennessee Garrison: the Remarkable Story of a Black Appalachian Woman\u003c/emph\u003e; and \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003e Our Mount Vernons: Historic Register Listing of Sites Significant to the Black History of West Virginia\u003c/emph\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTyped manuscripts, 1-14 parts, of 1968 oral history interview with Garrison by Bernard Cleveland, with AB notes and Post-it-Note tabs.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDraft of book introduction; correspondence; photos and negatives for book: MTG and family, Gary WV, mining, Edward O'Toole, facsimiles of photos. Facsimiles of William Garrison's obituary, letter of condolence from Agatha S. Lowe. Program for MTG celebration at Marshall. Personal notes of congratulations on book. Photograph permissions. Facsimile of deed for MTG's grandfather's property, Hollins, VA.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"The Charleston Stage Company's Study Guide for George C. Wolfe's Adaptation of Zora Neale Hurston's \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eSpunk\u003c/emph\u003e\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eHonoring Our Past: Proceedings of the First Two Conferences on West Virginia's Black History\u003c/emph\u003e edited by Joe William Trotter, Jr. and Ancella Bickley\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eText and illustrations for [children's] book \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eLucia Jean, No Name, and the Parrot\u003c/emph\u003e as told to Ancella. Original illustrations by S. Ross Browne.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eManuscript for \"Papers from the Conference on West Virginia's Black History, Marshall University, Huntington, West Virginia, September 1991\" Facsimile of a book chapter \"Negro Education and Integration.\" Facsimile of photograph of students at Weston Colored School.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSpiral bound \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eThe Gathering\u003c/emph\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eOur Mount Vernons: Historic Register Listings of Sites Significant to the Black History of West Virginia\u003c/emph\u003e edited by Ancella R. Bickley.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eHistory of the West Virginia State Teachers' Association\u003c/emph\u003e by Ancella R. Bickley; program for The Carter G. Woodson Memorial Foundation, Inc. annual banquet, 2006; research notes on \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eHistory of Negro Secondary Education in McDowell County, WV.\u003c/emph\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eIn Spite of Obstacles: a History of the West Virginia Schools for the Colored Deaf and Blind, 1926-1955\u003c/emph\u003e by Ancella Bickley.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eMemphis Tennessee Garrison: the Remarkable Story of a Black Appalachian Woman\u003c/emph\u003e edited by Ancella R. Bickley and Lynda Ann Ewen.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eOur Mount Vernons: Historic Register Listings of Sites Significant to the Black History of West Virginia\u003c/emph\u003e edited by Ancella R. Bickley. Program for Second Baptist Church in Fayetteville, 1993\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eManuscript for \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003e…to be black in fayette\u003c/emph\u003e written and compiled by Ancella R. Bickley for The Centennial Committee of the Second Baptist Church of Fayetteville, West Virginia, and The Fayette County Black Caucus.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePermissions to publish papers in \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eHonoring Our Past: Procedures of the First Two Conferences on West Virginia's Black History\u003c/emph\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence with Joe William Trotter. Research notes. Materials relating to the Second Annual Conference on West Virginia's Black History and a paper on James McHenry Jones. Trotter's syllabus for a seminar \"The Afro-American Experience.\" \"Blacks in West Virginia: A Critique of the Secondary Literature and Survey of Primary Sources\" by Joe W. Trotter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGalley proof of the children's book, \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eLuJay, No-Name, and the Parrot \u003c/emph\u003eby Ancella R Bickley, illustrated by S. Ross Browne. Handwritten list of names.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003e…to be black in fayette\u003c/emph\u003e written and compiled by Ancella R. Bickley for The Centennial Committee of the Second Baptist Church of Fayetteville, West Virginia and The Fayette County Black Caucus.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes full plays, skits, and historical interpreter scripts depicting characters such as: Ester from the Bible; West Virginia men and women such as Molly Gabe from Braxton County; Deborah Lacks Pullum, daughter of Henrietta Lacks; and many more. Includes manuscripts for a collaboration with Maureen Crocket in writing \"Tangled Threads: a Three Act Play\" and other plays. For \"Two Saint Say,\" a play performed at the Central Florida Community College, materials include an audition announcement, program, newspaper clipping, and correspondence. Also included is a newspaper clipping and details about Bickley's winning the Florida Senior Playwright Festival contest with \"Wade in the Water.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNewspaper article about the play \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eTwo Saint Say\u003c/emph\u003e and its performance.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Historical Information Re: Milly, Enslaved Black Woman on Whom the Character, OAGE, in \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eToussaint Say\u003c/emph\u003e Is Based\" Handwritten research notes.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eManuscript for \"Wade in the Water: a Play in One Act\" by Ancella R. Bickley. Correspondence regarding performance.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eManuscripts and notes for \"Mother Love: a Three Act Play\" by Ancella Bickley and Maureen Crockett. Annotated text.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eProgram for performance of \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eTwo Saint Say\u003c/emph\u003e at the Central Florida Community College, February-March, [2008] Print of online article from the \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eOcala Star Banner\u003c/emph\u003e added by processor.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eTwo Saint Say\u003c/emph\u003e and AB typed comments\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAnnotated \"In the Name of Woman.\" Facsimile of pages from 1909 court docket book, County of Allegheny (PA) and court case upon which the play is based.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence with Maureen 'Bunny' Crockett and Bobbi (bjslake@comcast.net) regarding changes to the play \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eTangled Threads\u003c/emph\u003e. Typed pages with annotations regarding black history. \"Mother Love: a Three Act Play\" by Ancella Bickley and Maureen Crockett.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNewspaper clipping for \"Villager's Work Winds Playwright Contest.\"\" Congratulatory email for selection of \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eWade in the Water\u003c/emph\u003e for the Florida Senior Playwright Festival. Email commenting on inspiration for various plays. Lyrics for the spiritual \"Wade in the Water.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScripts for historical interpreters for Deborah Lacks Pullum, Henrietta Lacks' daughter; and Henrietta Lacks. \"It Ain't Her: a One Act Play.\" Script for historical interpreter for Ona \"Oney\" Judge; Robert Smalls, 1839-1915; Callie House; and Percy Julian. Research notes on Dr. James Marion Sims and other projects. Program for WVU Honors College Symposium \"With a Torch in Their Souls: African Americans in the Civil War\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScript for historical interpreter for Charles Hamilton Houston presented for the African-American Club, 2011; Gabriel; and Henrietta Lacks.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eResearch notes. Text of play \"And Further She Sayeth Naught.\" Text of play \"Heritage: an Historical Drama in Three Acts\" by Ancella Bickley and Maureen Crockett.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eTwo Saint Say: A Play in Two Acts\u003c/emph\u003e. Auditions announcement. Correspondence regarding the production. Proposal to produce the play from the director Bobbi Jordan.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence regarding Megan Forrest, actress. Double sided card featuring photos of Ms. Forrest and a brief overview of future endeavors.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBrief plays regarding voting issues including: lack of attention to candidates and issues, campaign spending, voter assistance, pay for voting, etc. Unidentified group photograph. Handwritten dialog.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eTwo Saint Say: a Play in Two Acts \u003c/emph\u003e[performed at] Central Florida Community College, Ocala, Florida, February 29-March 1, 2008.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSubmission form for \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eWade in the Wate\u003c/emph\u003er for the Florida Senior Playwright Festival. Manuscript for Wade in the Water. Email update for Festival.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eManuscript for \"The Crossing,\" a play. Photocopied page regarding Mollie Gabe and her time in Braxton County.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTyped manuscript for a play \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eTangled Threads\u003c/emph\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"On This Rock,\" a play; one annotated. Handwritten notes on \"A Last Right\" and \"A Good Christian Woman.\" Recommended edits to Bickley's writing? Short stories, \"The User\" and \"Feelin' the Heat\" by Charles Lloyd.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eTraditions: A Journal of West Virginia Folk Culture and Educational Awareness\u003c/emph\u003e, 1996, which includes Bickley's \"The Baby Catcher\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSpiral bound \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eTwo Saint Say: a Play in Two Acts\u003c/emph\u003e by Ancella Bickley\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eResearch and performance notes for \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eTangled Threads: A Three Act Play\u003c/emph\u003e by Ancella R. Bickley and Maureen Crockett. Lists of guests who read parts, 2014. Comments from readers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAnnotated \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eTangled Threads\u003c/emph\u003e, 2008.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eTangled Threads\u003c/emph\u003e labeled \"Work Copy\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eTangled Threads\u003c/emph\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAnnotated \"I-John,\" a play.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTable of contents for Skit of Ester, 2010. Web page re: Esther. Typed page re: Haman, Mordecai, and Esther. Chapter summaries. Typed paper about Queen Vashti. Two typewritten pages from larger document. Letter to Jerome re: return of skit manuscript. Letter to Jerome re: transmittal of skit text and masks for players. Handwritten, not AB's handwriting, notes. Three \"masks,\" made from paper fans, and for 6 characters.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes manuscripts and edited manuscripts for many stories and a collection of short stories, \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eTurn Left at the Desert\u003c/emph\u003e . Bickley's stories are mostly historical character studies and include themes such as faith and community. One highlight is a critical review of Bickley's short story \"Martha,\" a part of the anthology \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eAppalachian Love Stories\u003c/emph\u003e .\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eManuscripts: \"Gabe,\" \"Turn Left at the Desert: Verbal 'Snapshots' from a Black Community\" contents, \"Jones,\" \"The Church on the Corner,\" and \"Sister Angelica.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAnnotated story manuscripts. \"'Jones': Manuscript Submitted for Workshop, Women Writers Conference\" and reviewed by Faith [Holsart?]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAnnotated manuscript for the story \"On This Rock;\" the play \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eTangled Threads\u003c/emph\u003e; and the story \"It Ain't Her\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence regarding writing critiques. Text of \"Mr. Adams,\" \"The Church on the Corner,\" \"Gabe,\" \"Angie's Uncle Robert,\" three versions of \"Mr. Abe Jackson,\" \"The Battle of the Bottle,\" \"DoeDoe,\" \"Addie,\" \"Lesey, Who Was Black, But Comely,\" \"The Lavender Hat,\" and \"A Day in the Park.\" AB commentary on stories.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReview of \"Martha.\" Text of \"Martha.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eManuscripts and notes for \"It Ain't Her,\" \"Belli: 'Momma Raised Me Up Special',\" The Battle of the Bottle,\" \"Bertha,\" \"Friends,\" and \"Martha.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eManuscript for stories for Turn Left at the Desert\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eManuscript for stories for Turn Left at the Desert: \"It Ain't Her,\" \"Hush Now, Child\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eExcerpt from a review of AB's story, [\"Martha\"], in \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eAppalachian Love Stories\u003c/emph\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eShort stories for \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eTurn Left at the Desert.\u003c/emph\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAnnotated manuscript for \"Bertha,\" a short story.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eAppalachian Love Stories\u003c/emph\u003e compiled and edited by James M. Gifford, Edwina Pendarvis; includes \"Martha\" by Ancella Bickley.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eParts of \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eTurn Left at the Desert: Verbal \"Snapshots\" from a Black Community.\u003c/emph\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHandwritten beginning of a story\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHandwritten pieces of writing\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTypewritten contents for \"Turn Left at the Desert: Verbal 'Snapshots' from a Black Community\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTyped manuscripts for various short stories.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBickley was a prolific speaker; speeches cover a wide range of topics including faith, WV black history, black history and pride, West Virginia State College, education, black literature, and more. The majority of the speeches are typewritten.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eProgram for \"Mending an Era: a Slave Ship Speaks: the Wreck of the Henrietta Marie.\" Typed text, pages 6-7, of a speech (?) about slaves, Anderson Radford, Cassie Thomas Carter, and MTG's mother.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eText of 2 speeches about Alice Walker's novel \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eThe Color Purple: \u003c/emph\u003e\"The Uses of Literature: 1984 \u0026amp; The Color Purple, Panel Discussion at the Tenth Anniversary Program of the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities,\" September, 1984; and one at Richard Bland Community College, October 7, 1985. Research notes on \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eThe Color Purple\u003c/emph\u003e. Research notes on Alice Walker's short stories \"1955\" and \"In Love and Trouble\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence, schedule, lecture series program with AB's lecture on the Underground Railroad. Typed notes from Guyandotte presentation 11/9/91, and the Guyandotte Civil War Days. Program for Guyandotte Civil War Days, October 12-November 4, 1992 with listing of AB lecture \"Local Black Settlement.\" List of sources by Alan Gould, Marshall University. Invitation to present at the 1993 Civil War Days.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eT\u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003ehe West Virginia and Regional History Collection Newsletter\u003c/emph\u003e, Summer 1989, which includes a speech by AB at an education in WV forum.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAnnotated text of a speech by both AB and NB about their time at WVU. WVU program \"A Celebration: Integration of Sports on the WVU Campus\" Correspondence with Dana Brooks regarding participation\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eArticle regarding speech about \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eThe Color Purple\u003c/emph\u003e at the West Virginia Alliance for Women's Studies meeting. Text of paper \"Black Education in WV\" read at WVU 6/20/89 for West Virginia Day.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eText of speech about black history in West Virginia and after-dinner remarks regarding social history. Email, travel itinerary, newspaper clipping, and correspondence.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePaper about the slave ship Amistad.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eText of speech re: the Underground Railroad. Newspaper article re: decree of freedom from slavery 150 years after.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHandwritten speech to Mo So Lit Club in McDowell County regarding the history of education of blacks, April 1983. WVSC Fall Convocation program, September 8, 1983; two texts of AB's welcome.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHandwritten poem \"Scamp\" [by Paul Laurence Dunbar]. Two handwritten speeches to the WVSC student government regarding importance of citizenship and service, and the history of WVSC. Invitation to speak to the Student Government Association, April 16, 1982. Newspaper article about black newspapers. Program for the Student Government Association Annual Inauguration Dinner, April 13, 1980. Speech for the Honors Convocation, 1985. \"Remarks prepared for State Senator Marie Redd for Blk History Month-2/4/99\" regarding black history and WV black history.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence regarding invitation to speak at the West Virginia State Baptist Convention. WVSC new student orientation schedule with remarks scheduled for AB. Text of speech, 1984 and 1985, including a brief history of WVSC and Institute.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFirst page of WVSC Honors Convocation Speech\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eProgram for \"Building Leadership for Educational Excellence: NEA Mid-Atlantic Regional Leadership Conference, November 1-3, 1985 - Greenbrier Hotel, White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia.\" Annotated text of speech \"A Response to the New Right's Agenda for Public Education.\" Other speeches regarding education\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAnnotated text, some handwritten, of speech to the Mo So Lit Club, McDowell County, WV. Program for The Matrons and Maids Social and Literary Club (Ma-So-Lit), 50th Anniversary, April 17, 1983. Program and text of introduction of Ethel O. Davie for the WVSC Graduate Dinner, 1984.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eProgram and text of speech for \"Rewriting History\" panel at the \"Premonitions and Perspectives from 1984: Has the Orwellian World Arrived?\" Wisconsin Intellectual Freedom 6th Annual Conference in Milwaukee, March 1-3, 1984. Program, including full text of AB's speech for a panel on \"Perspectives on Censorship: A Discussion\" at the Twenty-First Annual NEA Conference on Human and Civil Rights in Education, February 25-27, 1983. Correspondence regarding invitations to speak at these conferences.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA speech about \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eThe Color Purple\u003c/emph\u003e possibly delivered at a Virginia Humanities Conference.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eText of speech for WVSC Convocation and an outline of speech to women students.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSpeeches about Carter G. Woodson, WV black history, her life and experiences, and MLK Day.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSpeeches about WV black history, historical research, community service, her life and experiences, importance of black organizations, her faith, black women, race, and black education. Programs from presentations at churches. Letter confirming appointment to the Danforth Associate Program.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSpeeches about black education; being a role model; leadership; church missionary work; Martin Luther King, Jr.; taking control; the college experience; community service; honoring Alan Gould; Our Mount Vernons; and black history. Corresponence re: speaking at churches.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSpeeches about Black History Month; civil rights; Kwanzaa; women's rights; Martin Luther King, Jr.; the Underground Railroad; MTG; The Color Purple; black culture; Alice Walker; Carter G. Woodson; and WV black history.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSlides for WV black history speech. Research materials on WV black institutions. First two pages of speech. Handwritten text on various institutions.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Go with God: Remembering All of Us…,\" Commencement address at MU, 1990. Photograph of unidentified black men singing in church. The program for the 1975 NCTE Spring Institutes: \"Teaching Minority Literatures at All Levels.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eText of speech, one annotated, about \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eThe Color Purple\u003c/emph\u003e for the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities; handwritten notes.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eText of two speeches about black culture with notes for accompanying slides. Note from Charles Davis. Langston Hughes poem with Alex Haley autograph. [No slides in file.]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBooklet presented to AB after she made a speech for the Army Corps of Engineers in Huntington.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence with NEA re: participation in panel \"Perspectives on Censorship: A Discussion.\" Handwritten speech on censoring literature by blacks and women in the context of the Kanawha County textbook controversy.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBackground materials, correspondence, and text of speech \"Multiculturalism in West Virginia\" at the Governor's Honors Academy.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNewspaper clipping about AB Commencement address at Marshall University, 1990. \"And Further She Sayeth Naught: a Play in Three Acts\" by Maureen \"Bunny\" Crocket and Ancella Bickley. [Speech] re: education in WV.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eText of speech about Martha Toler Spencer. Outline for [speech] about black women. Handwritten text of speech in Virginia, Longwood College, about black women. Notes.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Go with God: Remember All of Us\" AB's commencement address at MU, 1994.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTyped text of speech for the National Education Association.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEdited paper about the mission of West Virginia State College and changes for the future.\u003c/p\u003e"],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope 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Contents"],"scopecontent_tesim":["This collection documents the research, public service, and life of Ancella Bickley, writer, educator, speaker, and historian. Includes writings, research materials, and more, focusing on the history of African Americans in West Virginia and the black experience in West Virginia. Collected research materials are predominantly facsimiles.  Printed formats include correspondence, clippings, interview transcripts, typescript writings, publications, pamphlets, ephemera, speeches, articles, military records, and more.  Other formats include photographs, slides, and audiocassettes. ","Subjects include Dr. Bickley's writings, which include plays, speeches, and short stories as well as her historical books, articles and other publications; collected materials from Dr. Bickley's historical research on the history of African Americans in West Virginia; and personal papers. Her research materials include papers grouped sometimes by county, sometimes by individual, sometimes by subject. Subjects of her research include slavery, education, churches, biography and genealogy, literature, and more.  Specific subjects include the Underground Railroad, James McHenry Jones, genealogy, Carter G. Woodson, Mollie Gabe, West Virginia Colored Institute/West Virginia State College, John W. Davis, black high schools, school integration, and more. Counties and their cities with specific focus include Cabell, Kanawha, and Jefferson.  Some documents treating slavery and the Underground Railroad include Ohio from which Cabell County blacks, including Bickley's ancestors, migrated.","Colleagues with whom she corresponded include Judith Stitzel, Nelson Barnett, Maureen Crockett (with whom she co-wrote at least one play), and many more. Of significance is correspondence between Carter G. Woodson and his sister, Bessie Woodson Yancey; and letters and a signed photo from Alex Haley.  ","Writings, research background, and drafts of Dr. Bickley's works found within the collection include:  Memphis Tennessee Garrison: The Remarkable Story of a Black Appalachian Woman , \"Midwifery in West Virginia\" (1990),  Honoring our Past: Proceedings of the First Two Conferences on West Virginia's Black History ,  History of the West Virginia State Teachers' Association  (1979),  In Spite of Obstacles: a History of the West Virginia Schools for the Colored Deaf and Blind, 1926-1955 ,  Our Mount Vernons: historic register listings of sites significant to the Black history of West Virginia , a short story collection \"Turn Left at the Desert,\"  ... to be black in Fayette , and plays:  Two Saint Say ,  Mother Love ,  Tangled Threads  (with Maureen Crockett),  Wade in the Water , and seven  Goldenseal  articles. \nGrant applications and other documents pertaining to her work with the Humanities Council of West Virginia are included in the collection. Other documents describe her work with the Kanawha County Board of Education, EcoTheater, Berea College's Black Mountain Youth Leadership program, and various professional organizations.   \nPersonal papers include material about her husband Nelson R. Bickley and his military career, diplomas, transcripts, photographs of a party she held, and more. ","Addendum of 2017/02/09 (boxes 11 and 12) includes papers of Dr. Ancella R. Bickley, with a few papers of her daughter Ancella Livers. Formats include interview transcripts, correspondence, clippings, typescript writings, publications, cassettes, and more. Most of these materials are transcripts of oral histories pertaining to a collaborative project undertaken by Dr. Bickley and Dr. Rita Wicks-Nelson about black teachers and their memories of school integration in West Virginia in affiliation with the Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Gender in Appalachia at Marshall University.","Abbreviations used in the Contents List: \nAB - Ancella Bickley \nWVSC - West Virginia State College \nNB - Nelson Bickley \nMTG - Memphis Tennessee Garrison \nJMJ - J. McHenry Jones \nNEA - National Education Association \nNCTE - National Council of Teachers of English \nMo So Lit Club - Matrons and Maids Social and Literary Club, McDowell County, WV \nUGRR - Underground Railroad \nMU - Marshall University \nWVU - West Virginia University \nCGW - Carter G. Woodson \nRW-N  - Rita Wicks-Nelson","Includes civic and academic awards and honors, as well as academic milestones such as graduation and Bickley's dissertation. This series includes materials on the celebration of Bickley's retirement from West Virginia State College.","Correspondence from Marshall University regarding AB's commencement address and honorary doctorate; notes of congratulations. Guest list. Photographs of AB delivering address and with others including Soupy Sales. Letter to editor regarding racism of highlighting photograph of Soupy Sales wiping a tear during AB's speech; newspaper clippings. Commencement program. AB's speech.","Honorary Doctorate","Army Commendation Medal (Second Oak Leaf Cluster). AB's Delta Sigma Rho-Tau Kappa Alpha, Hampton Institute, initiation certificate, May 1976","Attendance, reading, scholarships, and other certificates from elementary through college","AB transcript, 1951, from MU. Transcript, WVSC.","Program for the Fourteenth Annual NEA Human and Civil Rights Awards, 1980, when AB won The Carter G. Woodson Memorial Award. Correspondence regarding the award including 2 letters from John W. Davis.","Photograph of WVSC President Thomas Cole and Ancella Bickley at her retirement; labeled \"West Virginia State College, Commencement, May 17, 1986.\"","Master of Arts degree confirmation from Marshall University","Doctor of Education degree confirmation from West Virginia University","Certificate of Appreciation from the Kiwanis Club of Huntington","Note from WVU professor Armand [Singer] regarding missing retirement celebration","Newspaper clipping re: CGW. Photographs of AB and others after a speaking engagement in Fayette County. Service Award certificate from WVSC.","Letter from Maureen Crocket to the Director of the Appalachian Festival re: Tangled Threads. Letter of recommendation from AB for Dr. Elaine Ginsberg. \"Remarks Made upon the Presentation of the 1988 Humanities Award to Ancella Radford Bickley\" by Judith Stitzel. Letter of recommendation for Dr. Bernard L. Allen for the WVU Claude Worthington Benedum Distinguished Scholar Award. Congratulatory letter for appointment [at WVSC]. Request for letter of recommendation from Marc E. Washington at MU; confirmation of receipt of letter. Request for recommendation for Elaine Ginsberg, Trinity University; verification of receipt of letter. Letter of congratulations on retirement from George Parkinson; letter of regrets from Lawrence H. Talley, West Liberty.","Materials re: WV NAACP Harpers Ferry NHP, 1994, including photographs and text of speech. Congratulatory letter for receiving the Distinguished West Virginian Award, 1986. Thank you for copy of Honoring Our Past, 1992. Many other letters and notes re: service and speeches. Request to speak at the New Employment for Women Information \u0026 Referral Center in Logan about black history. Letter from Gaston Caperton, Governor, re: appointment to the Archives and History Commission, 1991. Thank you letter for contribution to Chandler Third Base, 1992. Certificate of recognition for Outstanding Service in Support of 1993 Douglass High School Reunion. Thank you for participating in the United Way Youth Advisory Council's Youth Forum, 1993. Thank you letter re: speech at naturalized citizens ceremony from John T. Copenhaver, 1992. Certificate of appreciation and other materials including a photo re: \"Read to Me\" Day, 1999. Newspaper article re: writing about the West Virginia Schools for the Colored Deaf and Blind and cards of congratulations. Kanawha County Schools Certificate of Recognition and Appreciation, 1991.","Letter of acknowledgement to deliver commencement address and receive an honorary doctorate at MU, 1990. Newspaper clipping and tribute to Minnie Wayne Cooper, 1989. Thank you letter to Matthew Kinsolving, Kanawha County Board of Education, for plaque, 1989. Typed text of \"Remarks Made upon the Presentation of the 1988 Humanities Award to Ancella Radford Bickley.\" Newspaper clipping and congratulatory letter re: WVSC Alumna of the Year, 1988. Letter withdrawing candidacy for the Kanawha County Board of Education, 1988. Thank you letter for receiving the Humanities Foundation Award, 1988; letter of congratulations from A. James Manchin; and Dee Caperton, House of Representatives. Letter of congratulations from Herman G. Canady, Jr., for appointment to Board of Education, 1988. Program for NAACP, Charleston Branch, Annual Freedom Fund Banquet, 1988, with AB as guest speaker. The Trumpet, West Liberty State College student newspaper, with article about AB's lecture on teaching black literature, November 28, 1973. Program, newspaper clipping, flyer, and certificate of recognition for the National Council of Jewish Women, West Virginia Section, Founder's Day, 1991. Correspondence re: speaking invitations, 1991-2001. Letters of thank you for service: The Huntington Club of Negro Business and Professional Women's Clubs, Inc., 2001; Charleston Mayor, G. Kemp Melton, for Charleston Urban Renewal Authority, 1999; Conference program for \"New Approaches to the Humanities and Lifelong Learning,\" 1988, where AB received award. Newspaper clippings for awards and accomplishments. 1987-1988. Newspaper clipping \"Educator Grim on Blacks' Future\" 1985. Thank you letter from Dee Caperton, House of Delegates, for draft of book about Elizabeth Simpson Drewry, 1987. Congratulatory notes, 1988-2002. Resume, ca. 1988. Text of speech for [receiving WVSC Alumna of the Year award, 1988]","Newspaper clippings, 1994-2002. Congratulatory and thank you letters, 1984-1995. Program for Staff Recall, Federal Prison Camp, Alderson, WV, with AB as guest speaker. Program for Induction Ceremony [sic], Phi Sigma Alpha, WVSC, 1995, when AB gave speech on the UGRR. Program for Carter G. Woodson Memorial Foundation Third Annual Memorial Fundraiser Banquet, 1995, AB speaker. Program for MLK birthday event at the WV School of Osteopathic Medicine where AB spoke, 1994. Resume. Photo of the Berlin Wall, May 1963.","Newspaper clippings, 1984-2002. Congratulatory and thank you letters and certificates, 1975-2002. Program for the Fourteenth Annual NEA Human and Civil Rights Awards dinner, 1980, when AB received The Carter G. Woodson Memorial Award. Program for Academy Cultural Awareness Committee Black History Month Program, 2002, where AB presented about MTG. Invitation to reception for Oliver W. Hill Freedom Fighter Award of the Virginia State Conference NAACP, 1999, and invitation to recognition event at the U.S. Capitol. Program for St. Anthony Church and School Community Education Awards where AB received the Gregory Loebach Award, 2002. Text of speech and program for West Virginia's African-American Women of Distinction book introduction by the West Virginia Women's Commission, 2002. Program for The Education Alliance Graduates of Distinction, AB recipient, 2002; text of speech; newspaper clipping; correspondence.","Newspaper clippings, ca. 1972-2002. Congratulatory and thank you letters, certificates and other recognitions, 1975 -2002. Letter of receipt for items given to the West Virginia State College/West Virginia Black Heritage Collection, 1987. Personal note, 3/26/80, discussing various contributions to education. Photograph of AB. Program for The National Association of Negro Business and Professional Women's Clubs banquet and candlelight rededication services, 1988, where AB was the guest speaker. Program for Berkeley County Diversity Committee \"Town Meeting\" with AB conducting interactive workshops at schools, 2002. Program and sketch of AB for [her retirement] 1986. Program for PCC lecture series \"The West Virginia Experience,\" [ca. 1985]. State of WV Teaching Certificate, 1960-1965. Letter of acceptance by NB for offer of teaching positions at WVSC for both NB and AB, 1972. Letter offering employment at WVSC as Associate Professor of English, 1972. Letter to NB offering WVSC position of Director of Guidance and Placement, 1972. Letters of thanks for AB for retirement and awards, 1986. Notification of nomination for President of WVSC, 1987. Correspondence Re: NCTE Orwell conference, 1984. Notification that tapes of censorship series of programs will be housed at the New York Public Library, 1984. Program for the Danforth Associate Program, 1975, for which AB and NB were program chairs. Program for The Women's Study Club Annual Open House, 1984, when AB was named Woman of the Year. Program for \"African Americans in the Appalachian Coalfields\" at the National Mine Health \u0026 Safety Academy when AB gave a lecture, 2000.","Newspaper clippings, 1989-2000. Congratulatory and thank you letters, invitations to speak, certificates of recognition, 1985-2000. Photograph of Douglass High School Y Teens, ca. 1946, including AB. Newspaper articles re: AB as WVSC's May Queen, 1948. Issue of MU's Greenline: a Publication for Alumni and Friends of Marshall University, May-July 1990, in which AB is recognized as commencement speaker; press release; letters of congratulations. Photograph of AB and others after presentation in Morgantown, 1990. Program for WVSC National Alumni Association William L. Lonesome Alumni Awards Dinner-Dance Honoring Dr. Ancella R. Bickley, Class of 1950, 1988 Alumnus of the Year. Dunbar Rotary Club Newsletter with AB as speaker, 1988. Materials from the Second Annual Conference on West Virginia's Black History, 1989. Letter to the editor of the Charleston Gazette re: black athlete, 1988.","Retirement from WVSC, 1986, materials. Correspondence re: ceremony; letters of congratulations; newspaper clippings; photographs; program; WVSC commencement program with AB as retirement honoree.","AB's doctoral dissertation A Study of the Effects of Teaching a Unit on Black Culture to Classes of Predominantly White High School Students, 1974.","Newspaper clippings for Education Alliance Graduates of Distinction, 2002. Materials pertaining to \"From Our Front Porch: Stories about Charleston's Oldest Neighborhood, The East End\": newspaper insert; outline for Appalachian Studies Association presentation; program for play at Roosevelt Wilson High School; the play. \"Testimony of Ancella Radford Bickley, Independent Scholar from West Virginia, on behalf of The State Humanities Program Regarding FY 1989 Appropriations to the National Endowment for the Humanities before the Appropriations Subcommittee on the Interior of the Senate,\" 1988. Congratulatory letters re: selection to the Kanawha Board of Education. Newspaper clippings. Congratulations re: speech's and performance of play in Florida. Commencement program for WVSC, 1950. Text of AB honors. Newspaper clippings re: her writings. Letter of acknowledgement for participation in reading of the names of lynchings victims program, Virginia State University, 2001. News release re: production of Harvest of Dreams by the Charleston Stage Company, 2000. Correspondence re: appointment to the WVU Board of Advisors, 1989. Certificate of appreciation from the City of Beckley for contributions to black history in WV. Thank you note re: women writers, 1994. Thank you letter from James Tolbert re: participation in Black History Month program at Harper's Ferry. Overview of AB accomplishments [introduction?]. Letter acknowledging participation in Kanawha County Public Library Black History Month events, 1993; abstract of talk; resume. Thank you letter for presentation at a Affirmative Action Committee Meeting, 1994; program; brochure listing black employees. Letter acknowledging intent to speak at the WV School of Osteopathic Medicine re: unsung heroes of the Civil Rights Movement and for MLK Day, 1993. Handwritten note of appreciation for a speech. Handwritten note re: missing speech for Black History Month, with attached newspaper clipping, 1994. 1949 Yellow Jacket article with picture of AB as newspaper staff. Clipping re: AB as keynote speaker for MLK Day celebration, 1991. Letter acknowledging a reading at the College Language Association, 1993. Letter acknowledging agreement to moderate a panel on sexual harassment; flyer for the program. Congratulatory letter for receiving the MU Graduate School Distinguished Alumnus, 1993. Program for \"First Annual Forum and Family Recognition Conference\" from the West Virginia Black Family Coalition, 1992, for which Bickley was a moderator. Correspondence and program for Distinguished Graduate Student Award from MU, 1993. Newspaper clipping about the WVSC presidential inaugural ball including description of AB and NB attire, 1974. Letter from Mary Pearl Compton, WV Delegate, re: Union's Historic District. Handwritten card praising AB as a \"liquid god\" able to move among roles, 1995. Resumes.","Senate Resolution honoring AB and Lynda Ann Ewen, 2002. Certificate of recognition as a West Virginia Hero, 2002. Newspaper clippings, 1990-2002. Correspondence re: lecture at Alderson Broaddus College, 1991. Certificate of recognition from the WV National Organization of Women and two 1991 conference programs. Program for \"African-Americans in the Appalachian Coalfields,\" 2000. Letter acknowledging selection at WVSC Alumnus of the Year, 1988. The Humanities Foundation of West Virginia Award Dinner Program, 1988. Issue of People \u0026 Mountains: a Publication of the West Virginia Humanities Council, Summer 2001, with MTG interview excerpt edited by AB and Lynda Ann Ewen. Congratulatory note re: publication of Memphis Tennessee Garrison; lecture on MTG announcement, 2000. Letter from the Indiana Humanities Council re: placement on \"Always a River\" registry, 1991. Letter from Gov. Gaston Caperton recognizing appointment to the Martin Luther King, Jr. State Holiday Commission, 1989. Acknowledgement letters as a speaker, 1990-1999. Acknowledgement of receipt of Our Mount Vernons from a professor at the University of Texas at El Paso, 1997. \"Book Notes\" section of West Virginia History re: Our Mount Vernons, 1997. Letter of re: reappointment to the WV Archives and History Commission, 1997. Letter re: WV Public Radio's Cultural Diversity Radio Project, 1998. Letter re: Mistress of Ceremony for a poetry contest at WVSC, 1995. Letter acknowledging support of the WV Humanities Council programming, 1995.","Special Commendation from the U.S. Dept. of the Interior, National Park Service, for Significant Contributions to the Underground Railroad Study, 1995.","\"West Virginia: a Film History\" recognition as the Historical Advisor for the film project.","State of West Virginia Distinguished West Virginian award, 1986.","Senate Resolution honoring AB and Lynda Ann Ewen, 2002.","Includes newspaper clippings and writings by Ancella Bickley Livers (also called Cill Jr. or Cill). Also includes material by or about Nelson Bickley, Ancella Bickley's husband and prominent Charleston, West Virginia, lawyer. Formats include articles, awards and honors, military records, speeches, research notes, publications, correspondence, newspaper clippings, and more. Subjects include Nelson Bickley's military and teaching careers, his uncle Carter G. Woodson, and more.","Correspondence with James Harlow, WVU President, regarding tenure at WVU, 1969 and 1972. Army records for Nelson Bickley. Various Army regulations, blank forms, and information flyers. Correspondence and forms from the Veterans Administration. Medical records, 1956-1966","Charleston Gazette/Gazette-Mail newspaper clippings about AB and NB, 1999-2003","Text of NB's speech \"CMA's Link to the Late Carter G. Woodson, the 'Father of Negro History'\" at the Chicago Military Academy, program, and certificate of appreciation.","Text of speech given by NB at East Bank High School to Junior ROTC, regarding the benefits of military service.","Military and scholarship commendations, program from WVSC Commencement, 1948.","Military records for Nelson Bickley including his assignment as an Army ROTC instructor at WVU and difficulty of finding Negro housing. Admission to WVU College of Human Resources and Education.","Folder within 16a containing Army medical records for Nelson Bickley, 1957-1966.","Akron Beacon Journal,  December 7, 1982, with article by Ancella Livers which includes brief biography.","\" Brown V. Board of Education  in West Virginia\" by Nelson R. Bickley in the  West Virginia Law Review , Spring 2005.","Text of speech given by NB at the WVU Law School","Correspondence with Congressman Harley Staggers, James G. Harlow, President of WVU, and others regarding Nelson Bickley's retirement. Other military records.","Invitations to the ROTC Cadet Corps Annual Military Ball and the ROTC Awards Day and Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony, 1982. Program for the ROTC Awards Day Ceremony, May 1, 1981. WVSC student newspaper  The Yellow Jacket  with an article about the inductees to the ROTC Hall of Fame including NB. Typed text of NB's acceptance speech about his time in the military. Newspaper with an interview with NB and Belva Clark about Carter G. Woodson, 1987. Program and text of NB speech, with AB edits, at WVSC for Veterans Day, 1992. Newspaper article regarding NB induction into the WVSC ROTC Hall of Fame.","Signed letter from Alex Haley to Colonel and Mrs. Nelson Bickley, March 1, 1973, re: the Bickleys' hospitality after a lecture.","Clippings regarding the Bickleys from  The Villages Daily Sun  (FL) and  The Sunday News-Registe r (Wheeling, WV)","Pamphlet \"The Black Student at WVU,\" 1969/70, 1971/72, which include pictures of AB. Program for Lincoln-Douglas Banquet sponsored by Morning Star Baptist Church, February 12, 1977; includes AB as the speaker. Newspaper articles by and about Ancella Bickley, as well as Nelson. Congratulatory letter regarding AB promotion to Vice President for Administration at WVSC, July 9, 1975. Dunbar High School's publication, Kennel, Feb. 23, 1973 and May, 1974.","Letter regarding AB in WVU classroom. Newspaper article about Ancella, daughter of Ancella and Nelson. Dunbar High School's student newspaper, Kennel, Nov. 1972.","Bachelor of Arts degree confirmation from West Virginia State College","Nelson Bickley's Master of Arts degree confirmation from West Virginia University","Nellie Francisco's Bachelor of Arts in Education degree confirmation from West Virginia State College, 1938","Letter from CGW to Bessie Woodson Yancey, CGW's sister, re: funding Joan's education. Text of the poem \"The Forgotten Boys.\" Invitation to the dedication of the Carter G. Wooson School, New Orleans.","Research materials re: Belva Clark, Carter G. Woodson's niece and Nelson Bickley's mother; note of condolence; funeral program; handwritten [by Mrs. Clark?] obituary and instructions","Articles about NB. Membership certificate to Sigma Pi Phi Fraternity.","Teaching certificate for Nellie Radford Francisco, Bluefield Colored Institute, 1928.","Special Order lists. Legal case notes? Selective Service Act of 1948 memo.","Includes genealogical research material, notes, and charts in print as well as handwritten for these families, mostly from the Huntington, West Virginia area and across the Ohio River: Twyman, Spurlock, Barnett, Payne, Jones, Woodson, Wilson, Johnson, Summers, Smoot, Peters, Radford, Layne/Lane, Jones, Straham, Cabell, and Parker. Additional genealogical information is included in oral history interviews with individuals (see Interviews and Oral History Interviews series); the Others' Works series; the Biography subseries of Research Notes and Collected Materials; and other locations throughout the collections.","Documents pertaining to the Twyman Family. Facsimile of pages from  The Promised Land  by J. Earl Pratt [1964]. Facsimile of newspaper legal notices from T he Ironton Register , Oct. 27 and Dec. 15, 1870.","Letter from Willard H. Radford and Kim Radford regarding a reunion for the Radford-Bickley families.","Correspondence between the Bickleys and Nelson L. Barnett, Jr. regarding Allensworth (CA) State Historical Park, the Spurlock family, the Barnett-Payne-Jones family. Rededication pamphlet, October 10, 1992","Barnett family genealogy compiled by Nelson Barnett, Jr.","Various documents pertaining to Carter G. Woodson and the Barnett family connection. \"A Black History of Huntington\" by Edna Duckworth. Barnett family documents.","Family line charts, photographs, newspapers, family history for the Nelson Barnett line. Program for the First Baptist Church, Huntington, September 25, 1988. Photographs buildings designed by Carl Barnett, architect.","Transcription of Barnett family obituaries.","James and Mary Wilson family genealogy. Facsimiles of portraits. Memorial service programs. Photographs of Mary Wilson Johnson and James Johnson. Photo of family group identified later in file and on facsimile. Obituary for William O. Johnson. Family group photo. Photos of Ida and William Johnson.","Handwritten Cabell Family tree and notes on the Cabell Family in Institute. Transcription of letter from J. S. Cunningham to Governor A.I. Boreman. Facsimile of newspaper ad for sale of slave.","Handwritten notes regarding Summers Family and slaves.","Facsimile of book section and term paper about the Smoot Family written by Marcella L. Pauley Short for WVSC class.","Booklet of genealogy forms.  African-American Genealogy: A Research Guide  compiled by Phyllis Preston Jarrett and Helen Chambers Winston.","Typewritten history of the Smoot Family, Boone County.","Personnel record for Willard Radford. Letter, 1949, certifying marriage of Willard Radford to Lilian Angus in Cuba, 1923.","Handwritten marriage records for Radfords.","Handwritten notes from a phone conversation regarding the Straham-Parker families.","Typed \"Conversation with Nellie Redford Francisco--about 1985.\" Handwritten \"Discussion w/Henry Radford, 1/14/93.\" Radford Family genealogy. Peters Family genealogy. Newspaper articles regarding Negro education in Huntington and Kimball, 1904-1923. Cemetery lot receipts to Willard Radford. Program for Sterberger Elementary School 1999 Graduation Ceremony; Akil Livers listed as student. Funeral service program for Lily Van Sykes Kelly, 1994. Transcribed obituaries for Joseph T. Payne, 1948, and Minnie Bell Powell, 1936.","Research notes on how to do black genealogy.  Black Studies: a Select Catalog of National Archives Microfilm Publications .","The Layne Family Tree and Its Branches . Handwritten tree with Twyman connection.","\"Plat Map, Mt. Pisgah Cemetery, Proctorville, Ohio\" with notes. Request for donation to the Cemetery, 2013.","Handwritten CGW family tree.","Radford family genealogy. Release of note on deed, Radford family, 1952.","This series includes two subseries, General and Black Teachers.","Includes more formal oral history interviews as well as \"discussions\" and other less structured interviews not intended for any historical publication. Formats include handwritten notes, typed notes, and transcripts of interviews as well as background in the form of correspondence and typed and handwritten corrections.","Transcript of interview with Johnnie James. Newspaper article \"THE Man…Johnny James Now Shares Life With God\"","Background research re: changes to social history and oral history.","Notes from discussion with Grover DuBose, Korean War veteran, Sept. 10, 2000.","Transcripts of interviews with black citizens of Huntington, WV; Institute, WV; Guyandotte, WV; and Black Fork, OH. Including Johnnie James, Ms. Bessie Herbert McClain, Chester A. Burris, Henry Pierce, Mildred Loar Williams, Cash Keels, James Thompson, Mrs. Araminta Miller Justice, and James Johnson.","Spiral bound notebook containing notes from oral history interviews with black soldiers, 1945-46. References to color-coded folders. Notes on soldiers' letters, 1943-45. List of themes in interviews. Follow up on specific soldiers, 2005, titled \"Negative behavior of Blk soldiers.\" Diagram of Army organization.","Research notes labeled \"Army Wives Material: Discussion with Carl \u0026 Nancy Johnson Re: Military Experiences; Carl was a Tuskegee Airman. His wife, Nancy, is white\" 2014. Annotated paper \"The WV State Capitol\" with research notes. Emails re: Kimball Wall Memorial Project, 2011. Research notes. Letter to Beverly from AB re: various researchers in the Villages, FL, 2014. Typed notes from interview with Harriet Williams, Lewisburg, WV.","Annotated transcript of oral history interviews with Mrs. Mildred Lore Williams, 1990, re: family history and Cabell County History. Annotated transcript of oral history interviews with Mrs. Bessie Herbert McClain, 1990, re: living in Huntington. Annotated transcript of oral history interviews with Mrs. Suzette Spencer, 1990, re: family and life in Huntington. Mrs. Spencer was a descendant of 37 slaves freed in the south and sent to Ohio. Transcript of oral history interview with Mr. Cash Keels, 1990, re: family history and life in Black Fork, Ohio.","Audiocassettes labeled: \"Joseph C. Peters re: Black High School Athletics - 11/2/95;\" \"Gregory Peters / Reminiscences, 9/22/95, \u0026 Ed Scott #3;\" \"MC (Ref) Edward Greer, 5/10/06;\" and \"Ed Scott / Reminiscences /Korea, 10/20/95\"","Bickley and Rita Wicks-Nelson, as Rockefeller Scholars-in-Residence at Marshall University's Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Gender in Appalachia, interviewed and recorded interviews with older black women teachers from across the state. This subseries contains transcripts of the interviews, corrected transcripts, correspondence with the subjects, and sometimes background information about them.","Typed manuscript for \"Black Education in West Virginia,\" a joint project between Ancella Bickley and Rita Wicks-Nelson. Notes regarding Mrs. T. McDaniel interview; text of interview. Correspondence regarding book on black female teachers. Research notes. Text of speech about black WV schools. List of narrators. Facsimiles of newspaper clippings \"from Mrs. Rayford's Collection\" regarding desegregation of schools, 1955-1956. Newspaper clipping of AB interview regarding MTG.","Handwritten notes of [interview with] Marian Hatcher, WVU English Dept. teacher.","Print out of web page re: Dr. Ancella Bickley and Dr. Rita Wicks-Nelson, 1999 Rockefeller Scholars-in-Residence. Project name: \"Life Experiences of Older, Black, West Virginian Women [Teachers]\"","Demographics of teachers' project. Map showing location of teachers. Narrative overview of the project. Paper \"Mosaic [sic] in Black and White: Black Teachers Remember School Integration in West Virginia\" [by] Ancella Bickley and Rita Wicks-Nelson; paper presented at the Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Gender in Appalachia, MU, 2000. Annotated paper. Draft of paper \"Changing Lives and Potential Leadership: A Study of West Virginian Women Returning to College\" [by] Rita Wicks-Nelson, Lynda Ann Ewen, ca. 1997.","Correspondence between AB and RW-N and others re: book based on teachers' oral history interviews. Paper \"Black Education in West Virginia.\" Text of paper [by AB] \"Read @ WV Sociological Assoc. Annual Mtng. WVSC - Oct. 24, 1997.\" Letter from NB, 2005, asking for addenda to  West Virginia Law Review  paper about  Brown v. Board of Education.  Research notes. \" Fullen  corrected pp, AB,\" 2001. Letter requesting interview with Pearl Swann Carter, 2000.","Release form from Suzanne Slaughter, 1998","Correspondence, edits, research notes with RW-N. Book reviews from The Appalachian journal, 2005. List of women interviewed. Background and summaries for interviewees.","Research materials re: education in WV;  Brown v Board of Education.  Possible participants; call for participants; correspondence with participants Writing retreat brochure and correspondence. Project update to the Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Gender in Appalachia at MU. Draft of summary of results. Summary data forms and interview guide. Schedule of interviews. Letter from parent to teacher, Anna McCright. Flyer announcing talk by AB and RW-N. Luncheon flyer from the Fayette County Black Caucus.","Life stories, some annotated or edited, for Vivian Williams Fleming, Eliza Jane Campbell Dillard, Anna McCright, and Mary Montgomery.","Annotated transcript of oral history interviews with Mrs. Louise Anderson. Newspaper clipping of obituary.","Annotated transcript of oral history interviews with Mrs. Velma Bradshaw. Handwritten notes on folder.","Oral History Review  article, 2001, re: school segregation. Email with list of changes to the transcript. Transcript of oral history interviews with Mrs. Pearl Swann Carter, 2001.","Annotated transcript of oral history interviews with Mrs. Florence Casey, 1997","Transcript of oral history interviews with Mrs. Ottrus Chatman, 1999. Typed and handwritten notes on the interview.","Annotated transcript of oral history interviews with Mrs. Verona Clarke, 1997.","Annotated transcript of oral history interviews with Mrs. E. Jane Dillard, 1999.","Handwritten notes on the interview. Correspondence with Mrs. Elston. Annotated transcript of oral history interviews with Mrs. Mary M. Elston, 1997.","Annotated transcript of oral history interviews with Mrs. Eunice Fleming, 1999.","Annotated transcript of oral history interviews with Mrs. Vivian Williams Fleming, 1997. Handwritten notes.","Annotated transcript of oral history interviews with Mrs. Norma Jean Fullen, 1997.","Handwritten notes. Annotated transcript of oral history interviews with Mrs. Susie Guyton, 1997.","Handwritten notes. Transcript of oral history interviews with Mrs. Willie Hise, 1999.","Typed and handwritten notes. Annotated transcript of oral history interviews with Mrs. Floristine Holland, 1998.","Handwritten notes. Transcript of oral history interviews with Mrs. B'Alma Jones, 1999.","Annotated transcript of oral history interviews with Miss Anna McCright, 1999.","Corrected transcript of oral history interviews with Mrs. Thelma McDaniel, 1999.","Letter to Mrs. McDaniel. Typed notes and pages from the interview. Letter from Norman L. Jones re: Thelma McDaniel and the Price and White families, 2001.","Annotated transcript of oral history interviews with Mrs. Edris Miller, 1998.","Annotated transcript of oral history interviews with Mrs. Mary Montgomery, 1997. Overview for Mrs. Montgomery. Letter to her. Pages of the interview with corrections. List of names and addresses for interviewees.","Annotated transcript of oral history interviews with Ms. Doris Payne, 1999.","Overview for Ruby Brown Reeler. Annotated transcript of oral history interviews with Mrs. Ruby Reeler, 1997. Handwritten transcript of a quote from the interview. Handwritten notes on the folder.","Annotated transcript of oral history interviews with Mrs. Nancie Smith Robinson, 1999.","Transcripts pages of interview with FH [Floristine Holland?] Annotated transcript of oral history interviews with Mrs. Suzanne Slaughter, 1998.","Obituary for Mary Crozier Snow, 2011. Annotated transcript of oral history interviews with Mrs. Mary Snow, 1997. Letter to Mrs. Snow with corrections, 2001.","Transcript of oral history interviews with Mrs. Fannie Ashe Thomas, 1999.","Handwritten notes. Annotated transcript of oral history interviews with Mrs. Velma Twyman, 1997. Letter to Mrs. Twyman re: corrections, 2001.","Includes books, manuscripts, facsimile pages, and other publications not written by Bickley, who was sometimes asked to provide feedback on writing. Forms of writing include family histories, poems, short stories, plays, novels, and both scholarly and popular articles. Other writers include: Sharon M. Draper, Charles Lloyd, Hannah N. Geffert, Peri Lynne Johnson, L. O'B. Thomson, Nelson L. Barnett, J. McHenry Jones, Judith Stitzel, Elizabeth Taylor Brown, and Phyllis Moore.","A Memorial to the Scott, Carter, Mumford Families and the Journey from the Hills of North Carolina to the Beautiful Ohio Shore in the Year 1844  by Edith Dove Bryant, original and one facsimile. Article \"Midwifery in West Virginia\" 1990.","My Dearest Husband: the Letters of Amacetta Laidley Summers to George W. Summers, 1842-1843  by Patricia Clark Bulla. Handwritten genealogy chart for James M. Laidley","Poem \"Old Lady Sady and the Chicken Wings\" c1992 Sharon M. Draper","My Dearest Husband: the Letters of Amacetta Laidley Summers to George W. Summers, 1842-1843  by Patricia Clark Bulla. Laidley-Summers-Quarrier family line","Manuscript for  Aesculapius, Ebony  by Nelson L. Barnett, M.D.","\"…Tryin' to Get Home…\": A Journal,  a compendium of biographies, family histories, community histories, etc. by the John Henry Memorial Committee.","\"The Search for Larry Doby\" by Bob Stitzel in  Sports Collectors Digest , December 1, 1989. Letter from Judith Stitzel critiquing short stories \"The Woman in the Lavender Hat,\" \"Hush Now Child,\" \"Sweets,\" and \"Jones.\" Manuscripts of Stitzel's stories \"My New York Yankees,\" \"Cover-Up,\" \"Hearing Aids,\" \"Unbecoming a Jew.\" Letter from Stitzel regarding order of stories.","Manuscript for book about West Virginia State College.","Correspondence with Phyllis Moore re: WV writers. Annotated stories \"It Ain't Her!,\" \"The Crossing,\" and \"On This Rock,\" short stories by AB. Photo of AB and unidentified woman. \"'Talking about home…': Yes, We Have Authors\" by Phyllis Wilson Moore.","Project overview for Greenbrier Valley African-American life. J. McHenry Jones' novel  Hearts of Gold  with highlighted passages and annotations. Background research materials.","Facsimile of  The Jones Family  by John L. Jones.","Correspondence with Hannah N. Geffert re: Black History Conference and her annotated story \"The Guns of October.\"","\"History of Lakin Hospital: Pulling for the Stars\" by Elizabeth Taylor Brown. Reviewers' comments.","The Plays of Ann Kathryn Flagg  published by Amistad, Inc., Ancella Bickley, Director.","\"Black High Schools in West Virginia\" prepared by R. Charles Byers.","Writings of Peri Lynne Johnson, AB's niece, some with annotations.","Review of \"The History of Lakin State Hospital\" by Elizabeth Brown; manuscript.","Drafts and final papers written by L. O'B. Thompson who taught at WVSC.","Aesculapius, Ebony  by Nelson L. Barnett. Brief biography of Carl Eugene Barnett. Facsimile of photograph of \"Reverend Nelson Barnett, Circa 1900.\"","Paper and letter of transmittal for \"The Peters Sisters: An Historical Omission\" by Norman Jordan. Research notes on the sisters: Ethel and Ada Peters.","Typewritten notes about various novels, movies, and other works. Discussion questions for some.","Inscribed play \"Day to Day: a Drama in One Act\" by Maryat Lee. Article \"'…To Will One Thing: a New Look at Theater\" [by] Maryat Lee, from  Drama Review , 1983. Materials re: EcoTheater including scholarly articles.","Includes black and white historical photographs, slides, and contemporary color photographs. Additional photographs can be found throughout the collection. Most photos are black and white facsimiles of original historical photos of people and places significant to Bickley's research and publications. Subjects include educational institution buildings and students; other institution buildings; the Radford family; Bickley and Bickley with others. The contemporary color photos include ones of the memorial statues on the West Virginia Capitol grounds; Potomac State College campus; Bickley and others; and the social event A Red Hat Party celebrating women.","Photos: graduating class at Bluefield State College; Barnett School Orchestra, Huntington, with Nellie Francisco; school children at Lincoln School, Wheeling, 1912; unidentified football team; buildings at Bluefield State College and West Virginia State College.","Photos, invitation to, and follow up for a birthday celebration for AB, and a Red Hat Party to celebrate older women. Poem about AB.","Photographs of building details; street scenes; two black women [Alberta Coleman]; NB; campus, Potomac State College, buildings including Academy Hall and Duke Anthony Whitmore/Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Academic Achievement Wall.","Photos of statues on the WV State Capitol grounds: prints, proof sheet with numbered descriptions, and a CD. Annotated text to accompany photos and titled \"Statuary on the Grounds of the West Virginia State Capitol.\" Brief history of the Capitol and the state of West Virginia.","\"Honoring Our Past: 1994 Calendar\" produced by the Alliance for the Collection, Preservation and Dissemination of West Virginia's Black History. Calendar includes photos of school bands, Bluefield NAACP chapter, Hopewell barber shop in Martinsburg, and schools.","Copies of group photographs of children and a \"Special Citation Award to Mrs. Harry Gordon\"","Photo of unidentified family, 1901; restored photo and invoice for work, 2005.","Negatives and photos from AB's Red Hat Party","Variety of copies of historical photographs, most not identified, 1912-1918. Note stapled to folder removed, 10/17/1990.","1991 (3), 1993, 1994 calendar \"Honoring Our Past\" from the Alliance for the Collection, Preservation and Dissemination of West Virginia's Black History. 1971 Black History Calendar [by] Raymond W. Lowry.","Facsimiles of photographs of students at WVSC including AB in Delta Sigma Theta Sorority.","Photographs of AB and others at a presentation on CGW at Marshall University, President's Home. February 24, 1988.","Facsimile of undated photo [ca. 1942] of John W. Davis, Charles Rutherford, Austin W. Curtis, L.A. Toney, et al. On back: \"Received from Debby Jackson,  Goldenseal , 4/7/1997. Picture taken during construction of Washington-Carver Camp.\"","Photo of AB with author Alice Walker at the University of Charleston, [1999]. Photo of AB with Ken Sullivan, Executive Director of the WV Humanities Council, 2002.","Includes examples of Bickley's contribution to a number of public service projects both in a professional capacity and as a citizen. Includes these formats:  \nplanning documents,  \ncorrespondence,  \nmeeting notes, and  \nagendas for these organizations:  \n-Amistad, Inc., a publishing company she formed;  \n-West Virginia Humanities Foundation;  \n-Black Mountain Youth Leadership Program, Berea College;  \n-The EcoTheater in Lewisburg, for which she served as board member;  \n-National Council of Teachers of English, for which she was National Director;  \n-West Virginia Archives and History Commission, of which she was a member; and  \n-Marshall University colloquium on black history.","Most notable are the grant applications, programs, and correspondence from her work with the West Virginia Humanities Foundation. Bickley was President of the Board of Directors and wrote a ten-year history of the organization, 1974-1984. The files include background materials for a number of projects for which she or others received grants. For her work with the Kanawha County Board of Education, her files include research materials about minority student achievement, and documents about the Kanawha County Schools Minority Student Achievement Task Force and Maximizing Achievement of African-American Children in Kanawha County (MAAACK). Documenting her work with an organizing committee to clean up the Bethel Cemetery in Huntington, her files include calls for participants, flyers, lists of members, and more. One civic activity with no apparent formal organization includes a meeting with Governor Rockefeller to advocate for affirmative action in West Virginia government. More on Bickley's professional and community activities can be found in the Awards, Honors Series.","\"Notes from Meeting between WV SAC and Governor Rockefeller--June 13\" The SAC [Statistical Analysis Center] asked the governor to authorize another study concerning minority employment in West Virginia with the goal of supporting affirmative action and the employment of more minorities.","Humanities Scholar Resource Forms by Virginia Edwards (2/86), Judith G Stitzel, and Elayne Rapping for the project, \"Reel Visions: A Conference on Women and Film.\" \"Seminar for Professionals Scholar's Statement\" by AB.  The Midwest Quarterl y article \"The Humanities in Public Conversation.\" Publication: \"The Humanities Foundation of West Virginia, 1974-1984, A Decade of Discovery\" which lists awards; AB was President of the Board of Directors.","Brochure for the 15th Year of the EcoTheater founded by Maryat Lee, 1975-1990. Letter of support fro grant to the EcoTheater, February 10, 1990. Business correspondence with members of the Board of Directors.","Notes, membership lists, and correspondence from meetings of the Bethel Memorial Park Interest Group. Various research notes regarding black WV doctors and other topics.","Invitation to Ronald Reagan's inauguration","Correspondence from Cecil H. Underwood and Earl Ray Tomblin regarding appointment to the WV Archives and History Commission, July 11, 2000-September 22, 2000.","Papers and notes from 1975 National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) conferences when AB was National Director. List of attendees. Black history newspaper clippings. NCTE Spring Institutes programs: April 4-8 in Buffalo, New York; and April 25-29 in Santa Barbara, California. Paper by NB \"Mini-Psychological Theory about Black Americans\"","Invitation to Jimmy Carter's inauguration, January 20, 1977.","Certificate of incorporation and other legal documents for Amistad, Inc. Humanities Foundation grant application. Correspondence, agendas for Board meetings, and notes from meetings.","Correspondence with William (Bill) Turner regarding a black history colloquium at Marshall and editing a special issue the  Appalachian Journal. Sojourner: Voice of the Eastern Kentucky Social Clubs , 1989.","Program for MU symposium \"Moving Toward Freedom: Slavery and Resistance.\" WV Humanities Foundation grant materials for \"Fact to Freedom: The Story of Slavery in West Virginia.\" Cost details for recreating a slave auction block. Photograph of 10th and Market in Wheeling, 1895.","Correspondence with Brucella and Norman Jordan re: the African American Heritage Family Tree Museum. Also a Humanities Council Grant, brochures, newspaper clippings, press releases. B. Jordan's curriculum vitia and job description with an appliation.","Materials supporting the proposal for WVSC's The Canty House being placed on the National Register of Historic Places.","Materials for collaboration of Kanawha County Schools Minority Student Achievement Task Force and Achieving Excellence in Learning (AEL). Maximizing Achievement of African-American Children in Kanawha County (MAACK) materials. Data on Kanawha County students.","Readings on teaching minority students, Ebonics. Maximizing Achievement of African-American Children in Kanawha County (MAACK) materials.","Notes and correspondence pertaining to the evaluation of the Black Mountain Youth Leadership Program at Berea College.","Letter from the Governor of Montana. Itineraries. Correspondence re: trip.","Matted print of D. Richardson's drawing of the WV Colored Children's Home.","This series includes eleven subseries which highlight Bickley's research on black history in West Virginia and to a smaller extent black history in general. The subseries include her work on black history for many West Virginia counties with her research being more extensive for Cabell, Jefferson, and Kanawha Counties which have their own subseries. The subseries for Research Notes and Collected Papers are: General, Biography; Cabell County, WV; Jefferson County, WV; Kanawha County, WV; Other WV Counties; Churches, Education; General; Organizations; Slavery; and the Underground Railroad.","Bickley researched a wide range of black history and black culture topics; for example, Aunt Jemima and the statue of a black boy as yard ornament, in addition to persons and events. The research provided background for her writings and was often incorporated into her works of fiction as well as historical accounts. Her papers include research notes and supporting sources on a wide range of topics with reference to black history and West Virginia black history.","Handwritten inventory of boxes with Post-it-Note \"Found AFTER boxing - This drawer-files are out of order so I don't know if it will be helpful. (Plus, my sister has horrible handwriting.\"","Post card from Mabel Hunter with Storer College Brackett Hall dorm room circled (1946). Photo of statue of Carter G. Woodson. 1850 mortality statistics for western section of Virginia.  Bulletin of the West Virginia State Teachers' Association , 1940. Program for the Mountain State Bar Association, Inc. Annual Awards Banquet, June 18, 1988. Partial transcript of \"Interview with Doris Miller, Huntington, WV\" regarding house purported to be on the underground railroad. Marriage records, 1869, Trinity Church, Parkersburg. \"Reading the Names\" program at Virginia Sate University of those lynched, 1868-1935; AB read the WV names, ca. 2011. Handwritten research notes. Notes on census slave records. Proposed black history highway markers, 2001. Newspaper clipping about Huntington Tuskegee Airmen, 2009. Email from Brucella Jordan requesting a recommendation; paragraph regarding the founding of the African American Heritage Family Tree Museum, 2010. Email from David Trobridge invitation to speak at Marshall University, 2011. Facsimile of pages from the Bureau of Negro Welfare and Statistics regarding the Episcopal Church in West Virginia. Roster of Negroes serving in state and local government, ca. 1968. \"The West Virginia Medical Society [Black].\" \"Slavery in Western Virginia\" (notes for an exhibit?)","Correspondence and research notes regarding the black history of Gallipolis, Ohio. Love story by Harry Dolphis Scott, Bidwell, Ohio. Typed lists from Carter G. Woodson's Free Negro Head of Families (1830), Town of Gallipolis.","Newspaper clippings from the Herald-Dispatch, 1981. Brochure: \"Graduates of Distinction: Michael Perry, Ancella Bickley\" from the Education Alliance, 2002","Various articles regarding blues music. Multiple facsimiles of \"Bessie Smith, 1898-1937, A Short Blues Anthology,\" 1971; one with annotations.","Various articles including the legend of Jocko, subject of a lawn ornament, and a 1971 black history calendar by Raymond W. Lowry which highlights achievements.","2 nd Annual John Henry Festival, Clifftop, West Virginia: Herbs and Traditional Medicine [by] Roscoe Leonard.","Typewritten paper about spirituals","Journal, newspaper, and magazine articles about black history, Carter G. Woodson, Nelson Bickley, and the methyl isocyanate leak in Institute, 1984.","Prospective Sites Relating to Black History in Canada  by William N. T. Wylie, June 1994.","Research materials regarding the holiday, Juneteenth, which celebrates the Emancipation Proclamation. Text of two speeches.","\"The Black Literary Tradition of West Virginia: A Bio-Critical Survey\" [by] Leonard J. Deutsch","The booklet (2 copies) \"History of African-American Miners in Appalachian Coal Fields: Black History Month, February, 2000\" Funeral program for Ulysses Grant Carter, teacher at Kimball High School.  A Saga of Service: A History of the Mining Extension Service of West Virginia State College, 1937-1957  by Cecile M. McCormick and U.G. Carter.","Facsimiles of pages from reports from the WV Bureau of Negro Welfare and Statistics.","Correspondence and attached materials from Sara J. Sow re: blacks in Gallia County, Ohio. \"Why We Celebrate Our Culture and Church\" about churches in Lawrence County, Ohio.","Correspondence with and writings of James Fisher, Berkeley County.","Background research notes and materials about Cuba.  National Geographic  article \"Evolution in the Revolution: CUBA.\" Poems by or translated by Nelson A. Ossorio.","Correspondence with Joan C. Browning re: content for the Henrietta Marie exhibit; white women in the civil rights movement. Biography. Resume. Newspaper clippings; article \"Invisible Revolutionaries: White Women in Civil Rights Historiography.\" Program and other materials for the WVU panel for the Rush Holt History Conference. Commentary from John Raines re: J. Browning and David Mussat's contributions to the RDH Conference; annotated JB paper \"Religion Gave Me Power to Witness\" and David Mussat's paper \"Sticks and Stone: an Interpretation of Power and Religion in the Movement.\"","Research materials on many aspects of WV Black history including newspaper clippings, scholarly articles, meeting programs, and the text of an Odd Fellows speech.","\"Negro Coal Miners in West Virginia, 1875-1925\" from the  Midwest Journal , 1954. Reprint of \"Negro Migration to the Mining Fields of West Virginia\" from the  Proceedings, West Virginia Academy of Sciences , 1936.","Handwritten research notes. Research materials re: WV history. Typed notes on WV black history. 1955 newspaper article re: integration of schools.","Correspondence regarding black WV historical markers. Resignation as a Commissioner for the WV Division of Culture and History. Program for Roosevelt Junior High School Award Assembly, June 2, 2000; Bickley is on the program for the East End History Essay.","Programs for West Virginia Conference on Black History at the First Baptist Church in Charleston, April 22-23, 1988, and the Eighth Annual Conference on West Virginia's Black History at Marshall University, November 10-11, 1995","Web page print out of article about Silas Green in minstrel show.","\"Fifth U.S. Colored Infantry\" by John F. Walter, rev. 1998. Includes information on Ohio and WV blacks.","\"Negro Participants in the Fields of the Theatre and Music Plus Associated Enterprises: Period: 1920-1960\" by Dr. Douglass T. Murray. Booklet for The National [Negro] Opera [Company].","Paper titled \" School Desegregation Since  Brown  (1954): 30-Year Perspective\" by Franklin Parker, WVU Professor of Education, 1984. Two pages of annotated text of a speech about education of black West Virginians, [delivered at WVU].  Daily Athenaeum  article re: interview Nelson Bickley about discrimination in housing in Morgantown, 1971. Program for \"The West Virginia Experience in Higher Education: an Historical Perspective\" at WVU, 1984, when AB was on a panel. Facsimile of the pamphlet \"The Black Student at WVU\" 1971-72. Correspondence from the Ohio University Press re: manuscript review of the book  Memphis Tennessee Garrison  by William H. Turner, 1999. \"History of DuBois High School\" from a book. Map of slave plantations in Wood County, Va. Map of Underground Railroad routes to Canada, 1898.","Email correspondence primarily between AB and her daughter Ancella Livers re: access to WWII Soldiers' letters at the New York Public Library. Email from Della [Hardman?] re: Belle Powell and Ravella Hughes.","Includes biographical material for many people of interested to Bickley. Types of material include correspondence, handwritten notes, clippings and articles, photographs, various facsimiles, and more. Subjects of research notes and collected materials include: Carter G. Woodson, Dick Pointer, Henry Louis \"Skip\" Gates, Memphis Tennessee Garrison, John Henry, Ravella Hughes, John Wesley Harris, Maude Beatrice Bell Plowden, Della Brown Taylor, Bessie Yancey, Mollie Gabe (Mary Elizabeth Johnson), Elizabeth Simpson Drewry, J. McHenry Jones, Stonewall Jackson, Gwen McMillion Bingham, and William Cathay. Additional topics include: blacks in WV literature; black women; Tuskegee Airmen including John L. Whitehead, Jr. and William Lee Hill; and black WV legislators. Biographical information is also included in the Interviews and Oral History Interviews series.","Newspaper clippings. Partial notes [speech] J. McHenry Jones including John R. Clifford, Christopher Payne, and black legislators. Pages from a 1913 Congressional hearing on \"Conditions in the Paint Creek District, West Virginia\" with conditional pardon of Dan Chain highlighted. Memo, 1/18/03, from Alfonzo Dalton regarding interview with Ben Carson who was a Republican candidate for the US President in 2016.","Letter to researcher Sean Duff, November 19, 2012, and attached information regarding J. McHenry Jones and Wheeling. Letter to researcher L. Morris Jones, May 3, 1989. Newspaper clipping of article about  Hearts of Gold  which was written by J. McHenry Jones (JMJ). Various versions of \"James McHenry Jones: a Monologue\" by Ancella R. Bickley. Full and partial \"J. McHenry Jones, 1859-1909.\" Text of newspaper article about JMJ's opposition to the Evans Jim Crow Bill, February 14, 1907. Research notes including Jones family history. Facsimile of pages from  History of the Jones Family  by John L. Jones.","Research notes on Guion Bluford (?). Ed White, sculptor, biography. Facsimile of pages from the children's book  Black Stars in Orbit , [1995]","Correspondence between NB and The Association for the Study of Negro Life and History, Incorporated regarding preservation of the Carter G. Woodson house in Huntington. Correspondence between Carter G. Woodson and his sister, Bessie Woodson Yancey, regarding upkeep of the house.","Research materials on Dick Pointer, black Indian War hero, for an article for the  Journal of the Greenbrier Historical Society ; the article; handwritten notes; various versions of the article. Research notes. Facsimile of a painting by S. Ross Browne, 1993.","Correspondence with Henry Louis \"Skip\" Gates, Jr. Newspaper clipping: MU Commencement.","Correspondence with Adolphus Young regarding black West Virginia women, particularly MTG.","Washington Post  article \"In Quest of the Historical John Henry\" by Hank Burchard, August 24, 1969. Press release by Kyle McCormick, WV Dept. of Archives and History, 1957.  WV Hillbilly , June 23, 1979, \"A Salute to John Henry.\"","Handwritten notes about John Matheus, WVSC professor; his curriculum vitae, ca. 1953; reprint of an article from the  CLA Journal  by him, 1972.","Research notes about Revella Hughes","Research notes about William Hill for  Goldenseal  article about Tuskegee Airmen.","Research on John Brown including materials from the National Parks Service's John Brown Conference, 2000; an annotated Langston Hughes' poem \"October 16;\" and \"A Psychological Examination of John Brown.\"","Two newspaper clippings: one about Fannie Cobb Carter and one about Memphis Tennessee Garrison","Obituary and other information about Major General Charles \"Jackie\" Calvin Rogers. Documents regarding the naming of a United States Army Reserve Center for him. Text of NB's speech.","Goldenseal  article about John Wesley Harris. Facsimile of newspaper clipping about Maude Beatrice Bell Plowden.","Transcript of interview with AB by Ohio State University's WOSU about Della Brown Taylor [Hardman], a graduate of Garnet High School, artist, and teacher at WVSC.","Research notes. Transcript of conversation with Bruce Rogers regarding Aunt Jemima and Bruce Family history. Facsimiles of newspaper articles regarding Aunt Jemima.","Background research about the Sargent School of Physical Education; Sydney Taylor Brown who graduated from there and then WVSC; black women in the American Red Cross; and black women's service in WWII.  American Legacy , Winter 1999. Research notes.","Facsimile of pages from  History of the American Negro,  W.Va. Edition, vol. VII, [edited] by [A. D.] Caldwell.","Print outs of web pages regarding the Tuskegee Airmen. Photograph of monument in Walterboro, SC. Newspaper clippings.","Research materials pertaining to Carter G. Woodson including: journal and magazine articles; facsimile of book pages; newspaper clippings; and a masters degree thesis. Text of speeches and programs for speeches by both AB and NB. Invitation to a reception to honor Sen. and Mrs. John F. Kennedy in Huntington, April 20, 1960.","Poems, correspondence, and other writings by Bessie Yancey, Carter G. Woodson's sister. Photocopies of journal articles and WV Collegiate Institute publications. Special Carter G. Woodson issue of  Community,  published by Friendship House, Winter 1970. Issue of  The Journal of Negro History , July 1968.","Research materials on Mollie Gabe, also known as Mary Elizabeth Johnson, midwife from Falls Mill, Braxton County.","Research materials about John P. Parker, a former slave who was active in the UGRR in Ohio. Parker was also an inventor and a business man.","Research materials about Elizabeth Simpson Drewry, McDowell County representative to the WV House of Delegates.","Letters to Bessie W. Yancey, CGW's sister. Research materials. Poem \"The Forgotten Boys.\" Correspondence re: restoration of the CGW home. Carter G. Woodson Memorial Committee and Foundation materials. Text of speech by AB. CGW stamps. Dedication of statue of CGW. Correspondence re: Ann Eliza Riddle Woodson family property. CGW genealogy prepared by Nelson Barnett, Jr. Letter from CGW to Bessie Woodson Yancey. Text of paper \"Carter G. Woodson: the West Virginia Connection.\" Photographs of CGW and kin.","Correspondence from CGW to Bessie W. Yancey, re: house in Huntington, 1941. Book contract between Bessie W. Yancey for  Echoes in the Hills  and CGW's company, The Associated Publishers, 1939. Letter re: book to CGW from BWY, 1939. Letter from John W. Davis, President WVSC, to BWY, 1945, re: Nelson Bickley. Letter from BWY to Louis R. Mehlinger re: loss of two brothers, 1950. Envelope, no contents, from Joel A Rogers, 1951. Envelope, no contents, from The Associated Publishers, 1958. Photographic negative of BWY.","Research materials including newspaper clippings, correspondence, articles, and research notes on Carter G. Woodson; Bessie W. Yancey; Black History Month; restoration of the Woodson home; and the Woodson family. Annotated copy of the paper \"Carter G. Woodson: the West Virginia Connection.\" Facscimiles of Otis Woodson and CGW photos. Photo of Bessie Woodson Yancey and letter from BWY to CGW re: poetry. Edited entry for CGW from  The Encyclopedia of Black America . List of WV Collegiate Institutue, 1920/21 and 1921/22. Facsimile of correspondence between CGW and BWY re: house.","Research materials on J. McHenry Jones including facsimiles of obituaries; other newspaper clippings; and transcriptions of clippings. Photo of Hazlewood Assembly Hall. Notes [speech?] on JMJ. Timeline with sources. Paper about JMJ by AB. Jones family history.","Pages copied from book  The Hidden Years of Stonewall Jackson  purporting that he fathered a black child. From Merle Moore.","Research materials on Tuskegee Airmen including John L. Whitehead, Jr. and William Lee Hill.","Text of a speech? \"African Americans in the West Virginia Legislature.\" Letter from C.A. Blankenship to  The Negro History Bulletin  adding names of Negroes who served in the WV Legislature, 1964. \"West Virginia's Black Female Legislators\" ca. 1991. Facsimile of photo with caption: \"President Harry S. Truman being shown a copy of America's first Black pictorial magazine. [There is some question which came first  Color  or  Ebony]  Left to right: Sippi Coleman, Pres. Truman, W.VA. Congressman, Dr. I.J.K. Wells Editor and Publisher of Color,\" ca. 1948. Newspaper clipping of article re: female legislators, 1998.","Facsimile of photo of \"Gabriel, Pardoned by VA Governor Tim Kaine, June 26, 2007.\" Research notes. Paper \"Major General Gwen McMillion Bingham,\" ca. 2011 with newspaper clipping. Facsimile of unidentified photograph of woman in uniform. Paper \"'Who Was William Cathay?' adapted from a piece in the St. Louis Daily Times, January 2, 1876.\" Poem \"Cathay Williams,\" 1997. Facsimile of enlarged photo of face of unidentified soldier. Summary/timeline for Cathay Williams/William Cathay.","Draft of \"Elizabeth Simpson Drewry, 1894-1979\"","Covers a wide range of topics on the history of Cabell County; Huntington, WV; and adjacent Ohio counties. Notable are Nelson Barnett's transcriptions of late 19th century Huntington newspaper articles regarding blacks. Also included are newspaper clippings, monographs, photos, biographies, and interviews about veterans, church history, education, organizations, and more.","\"References and Briefs to Miscellaneous Newspaper Articles, [June 15, 1872-October 21, 1898, and June 4, 1922-May 20, 1928]\" compiled by Nelson Barnett, Jr., 1988, from Huntington newspapers.","\"Black Veterans of World War I from Cabell County, W.Va., 1918.\" \"Past Imperfect, 1902: Articles of Interest, [Nov. 13, 1901-Dec. 31, 1901]\" compiled by Nelson Barnett, Jr. from Huntington newspapers.","\"Past-Imperfect, 1901: Articles of Interest, [Jan. 7, 1901-May 28, 1901]\" compiled by Nelson Barnett, Jr. from Huntington newspapers","Resources about blacks in Huntington and Cabell County. Includes a bibliography of  Goldenseal  articles about blacks. Other resources are church histories, listings of names, facsimiles of book chapters and papers, newspaper clippings, interviews, handwritten research notes, and more.","\"Progress of the Huntington Negro\" by Prof. J. W. Scott","\"A Black History of Huntington\" by Edna Duckworth, 1976. Genealogy for Edna Duckworth. \"Biohistrogenetics Project Proposal\" to the Carter G. Woodson Memorial Foundation, 1996-1997; Duckworth is listed as the visionary.","Marriage records, late 19th century, Cabell County.","Correspondence with Clara Knight. Facsimiles of Greenbottom Church, Huntington, records listing black members. Records regarding John Ball freeing his slaves, 1793. Map of Millersport, OH, 1887.","Correspondence with Bill Lindsay re: blacks in Huntington and Pocahontas County","Two newspaper clippings: one about Nellie Fransisco [sic] and AB's research about blacks on the Ohio River.","\"A Black History of Huntington\" by Edna Duckworth, [1976]. Census data for black families in Lawrence County, Ohio; 1850, 1860.","Photos of black workers in C\u0026O shop including Anderson Radford, AB's grandfather. Correspondence; transcription of newspaper articles; research notes; biographical sketches; photos of Goodes; newspaper clippings; church histories and programs; facsimiles of book pages; transcription of interviews; and bibliography.","Research notes. Photos. Paper \"Black People and the Huntington Experience.\" Project, \"A Sojourn for Truth: Revisiting Black History Along the Ohio River,\" overview. Research materials re: Huntington, Cabell County, and parts of Ohio. Transcript of interview with Suzette Spencer. \"The West Virginia Colored Children's Home\" by Ancella R. Bickley. \"Poke Patch/Black Fork, Ohio\"","Research notes on Douglass School. Typewritten notes on Douglass School, 1891-1924. Notes from conversation with Nellie Francisco. Handwritten transcription of article, 1902.","Covers research about blacks in Charlestown and Harpers Ferry as well as other locations in Jefferson County. Materials include obituaries, school histories, correspondence, cemetery records, research notes, and more about school integration, Storer College, slave collars, Fisherman's Hall, and more.","Research materials regarding blacks in Charlestown. Obituary for former slave George Jenkins in Huntington, 1917.","Paper about St. Philip's parochial school by James A. Tolbert. Materials re: Sons of Confederate Veterans tablet in Harper's Ferry. Other research materials re: Jefferson County and Charlestown.","Photos of a slave collar. Correspondence re: acquiring the collar for the Henrietta slave ship exhibit.","Correspondence with James Tolbert re: black CCC camp, McDowell County; Black History Conference; Fisherman's Hall, Charlestown, restoration; Harewood Cemetery, Jefferson County; marker for Martin Delany, Charlestown.","Research materials re: Harpers Ferry, the National Park, and Storer College.","Typewritten text of speech at Shepherd College, 2004. Transcript \"Discussion of Integration of Schools in Jefferson County: Jim Tolbert.\"","Handwritten research notes mostly re: John Brown and Harpers Ferry, ca. 2000.","Covers research about blacks in the WV Capitol, Charleston, and other locations in Kanawha County. Topics covered include slavery in the salt industry, biographies, wine cellars, and buildings. Contents include correspondence, facsimiles of documents, research papers, obituaries, newspaper clippings and more.","Research materials about slavery in West Virginia with focus on Kanawha County and the salt industry","Research materials on black attorney Thomas Gillis Nutter.","Research materials on Charleston, WV including: \"Unpublished Black History in the Early Kanawha Valley\" by William D. Wintz; \"Blacks in Charleston, West Virginia: A Survey of Their Presence in the Community and Occupational and Residential Patterns in the Early 1900s\" by Mary Johnson, WVU student. Research materials regarding Oscar Wayman Holmes, the first African American naval aviator and obituaries for C.H. James, prominent black businessman. Text of speech, \"Black People in Charleston,\" 1994.","Research materials on the Dutch Hollow wine cellars in Dunbar.","Documents regarding Samuel W. Starks and the Starks House in Charleston. Correspondence regarding its being put on the National Register of Historic Places.","Correspondence with Eugene Washington re: Phillis Wheatley School and Albert G. Brown, architect.","Excludes Cabell, Jefferson, and Kanawha Counties which have separate subseries. Includes research materials about slavery, school integration, lynching, historic homes, and more researched by Bickley for these counties: Wayne, McDowell, Harrison, Greenbrier, Hardy, Fayette, Monongalia, Upshur, Wood, and Monroe; as well as the cities of Bluefield, Buckhannon, Keystone, Weirton, Weston, and Wheeling. Research materials include photographs, correspondence, brochures, newspaper clippings, book pages, articles, interviews, and more.","Various documents regarding blacks in Wayne County, WV; the Livisay family; writings by Tim R. Massey, 1981; the Lindsey family; photograph and negatives of a photograph of a black family.","Research materials on McDowell County, WV, with focus on the towns of Keystone and Keystone. Letters and notes from Adolphus A. Young, Jr.","Program for \"Freedom Is a Struggle: Glimpses of African-American Life in the Greenbrier Valley of [West] Virginia.\" Brochure \"Black Historic Sites in Lewisburg, West Virginia.\"","Newspaper clipping about Sarah Hall, black lawyer. Facsimiles of research materials. \"The History of the Negro in McDowell County and in West Virginia Leading Up to and Including the Integration of Schools\" by Dr. Douglass T. Murray. Typewritten notes from Adolphus Young, Jr. Correspondence with Alphonso Dalton, Jr. regarding MTG and black McDowell County families","Facsimile of 1952 newspaper article regarding slaves listed in 1848 Harrison County tax book. Slave owners are listed and includes Nathan Goff.","Paper, author unidentified, regarding lynching in WV. Research materials about slaves in Greenbrier County","Correspondence regarding letter from a slave asking to be purchased by Stump family [1851]. Facsimile of letter.","Research notes and resources regarding Glenwood, historic home in Charleston. Clarksburg newspaper article of reminiscences of a former slave, Ann Freeman and others. Clarksburg newspaper article regarding Union Veterans Association.","Research materials for Fayette County including contacts list, newspaper articles, maps, facsimiles of pages from books, student research paper, church histories, handwritten research notes, and grant applications. Correspondence with and Lucille Meadows and her handwritten reminiscences.","Newspaper articles, facsimiles of historical records. Partial manuscript for  To Be Black in Fayette  and annotated pages. \"Black Politics in Fayette County, West Virginia, 1896-1918\" by Daniel Wright. Text of speech by Daniel Wright. Brochure titled \"Camp Washington-Carver: a Compendium of the First African-American 4-H Camp.\"","Research materials and research notes:  Monongalia Blacks Speak : Women, Part II and Men, Part I, Holland family, schools. Interview with Grace Edwards Waters.","Research materials about Weirton.","Research materials about Upshur County. Facsimiles of articles written by R.H. Ralston, Sr. regarding Buckhannon's black history; newspaper clippings. \"A History of Blacks in Buckhannon: The Recollections of Harriet Warfield,\" an interview with Harriet Warfield, 1977.","Research materials regarding blacks in Wheeling. \"Wheeling's Black Population: A General Perspective\" written and presented by Darryl Clausell, Pat Dudley, with contributors Kathryn Snead and Dorothy Cooper, 1990. Correspondence with Margaret Brennan. Photo of AB, Pat Dudley, Brennan, and Annie Tanks at an Oral History Seminar in Wheeling.","Correspondence regarding Memphis Tennessee Garrison. Research materials on Gary and other McDowell County locales: newspaper clippings,  Goldenseal  article.","Papers by Wheeling Jesuit Students Joel Michael Coulson and Beau Conway.","Research resources regarding blacks in Fayette County, WV, including transcripts of oral history interviews with Lucille Meadows, Mrs. Turner, Charista Davis, Lula Lall Jones, Rosa Roach and Jessie Barrett; correspondence, church histories and programs. Includes Smoot family information.","Transcripts of interviews with Alease Watkins, David W. Turner, Russell Lee Matthews, and Elsie Choice Hopkins. Also, includes research notes, newspaper clippings, a grant application, facsimiles of book pages, and correspondence.","Photo of Lomax Hospital in Bluefield. Brochures for Afro-Appalachian Performance Company. Correspondence with Joseph Bundy re: history alive performances. Research materials about black Bluefield hospitals.","Correspondence with Ray Swick re: blacks in Wood County. Research notes. Correspondence with the Wood County Bicentennial Commission re: speech.","Court record for  Mullens v. County Court , 1932. Facsimile of WV entry from  100 Years of Lynchings  by Ralph Ginzburg. \"The Greenbrier County Lynching: a Study of West Virginian Justices\" by Ancella Bickley Livers. \"'Reading the Names,' Program at Virginia State University.\"","Research notes re: Parkersburg black history. Facsimile of letter and transcription of letter from ex-slave Isaac Fairfax to George Washington Henderson.","Letter from Charles (Charley) Goddard re: Greenbrier County history and Sharlotta Gardner contact information.","Copy of photo and negative of lynching. Photos of black children. Note from Maurice Allman, Hacker's Creek Pioneer Descendants. Transcripts of  Weston Democrat  articles re: 1892 lynching of Edgar Jones. Transcripts re: 1910 lynching. Research notes on these incidents. Application for the Weston Colored School to be placed on the National Register of Historical Places. Research notes re: Weston State Hospital. Correspondence re: dedication of the Central West Virginia Genealogical and Historical Library, formerly the Weston Colored School. Handwritten transcription of interview with Rahleen Gardner who attended the School. Transcript of conversation with Mrs. Joy Gilchrist, 1992.","Transcripts of interviews with Mr. Waldo Lacy and Mrs. Gladys Lacy. Facsimile of newspaper article of speech by T.J. Ferguson, 1870. Research materials on the Sumner School. History of Parkersburg from Bernie Allen. Facsimile of books pages, newspaper articles, and transcription of newspaper articles. Parkersburg Art Center brochure featuring Joseph Eldridge Dodd. Text for slide show (no slides). Typewritten outline of \"Parkersburg Study.\"","Facsimiles of newspaper articles. Correspondence with Ray Swick, Blennerhassett Island State Park. Research materials about blacks in Wood County. Research notes. \"A History of Sumner School\" written by Sally Browning, 1996.  The Island Packet  from the Friends of Blennerhassett Island.","Background research on blacks in Monroe County. Correspondence with Fawn Valentine and Presidents of the Monroe County Historical Society. \"Bishop Matthew W. Clair, Sr.: a Biography\" by Dr. Margaret B. Ballard, 1973.","Includes programs, bulletins, correspondence, research notes, and histories of black West Virginia churches in Fayetteville, Charleston, Charlestown, Fairmont, St. Albans, Parkersburg, Huntington, and Alderson. Also includes a history of churches and lodges in West Virginia as well as histories of the Odd Fellows, Knights of Pythias, and the Galilean Fisherman lodges. Denominations represented include African Methodist Episcopal, Episcopalian, and Baptist.","Correspondence with Lucile S. Meadows regarding help with the Second Baptist Church, Fayetteville, Centennial; racial tolerance in schools","\"125th Anniversary Journal\" First Baptist Church, February 1, 1868-February 28, 1993, Charleston, WV","Time line for black Episcopalians in WV. \"The First Hundred Years: a History of St. Philip's Episcopal Church, Charles Town.\" Research notes and sources. Humanities Foundation of WV grant application by Florita Montgomery to study the history of St. Phillips' Episcopal Church. Information on the Trinity Church in Parkersburg. Photograph including some black congregants.","1907 Weekly Bulletin of Diamond St. M.E. Church in Fairmont","Book titled  Miracle on B Street Continues  about St. Paul Baptist Church's (St. Albans) 131st anniversary.","Letter re: slide presentation at the Young Chapel African American Methodist Episcopal Church. Program for the 94th Church Anniversary. Handwritten time line and other notes. Booklet of photographs, text of Bickley's speech, newspaper clipping.","\"Black Churches and Lodges in West Virginia in Their Infancy, 1865-1900\" by J. Reuben Sheeler. \"History of Bright Hope Lodge #9, F.\u0026A.M. and - P.H.A. Montgomery WV.\" Facsimile of pages \"Introduction and Growth of the Grand United States Order of Odd Fellows in America.\" Notes \"Knights of Pythias of West Virginia History\" researched by James A. Tolbert. Notes about \"Grand United Order of the Galilean Fisherman\" compiled by Ann Wilson.","Email correspondence with Adrienne Belafonte re: a newspaper article about the Shiloh Baptist Church in Alderson. Clipping of the article.","Program for First Baptist Church 125th Anniversary, 1997. Program for installation of Rev. William F. Buchanan, First Baptist Church, 1988.","Includes newspaper clippings, text for presentations, correspondence, research notes, articles, commencement programs, interviews and more about state and national teachers' organizations, historically black WV colleges including West Virginia State College and West Virginia University, integration of schools, histories of specific schools, the Kanawha County textbook controversy, and more.","Newspaper articles: WV Education Association (WVEA) Executive Committee meeting, the National Education Association (NEA) and the need for minority teachers; and recommendations from the Black Caucus,  WV School Journal , December 15, 1973. Photograph of Blacks in auditorium seating, ca. 1950s","Multiple facsimiles of a post card picturing Albert Long, \"Bertie\" -- Aunt Onie's Son. West Virginia State College Commencement Programs: 1948, 1950, 1951","Information sheets and travel plans for trip to Egypt, July 5, 1987, sponsored by WVSC. Passport and Visa information written on folder.","Various versions of text for a multi-media program on the history of West Virginia State College (WVSC) and Institute, WV","Letter to Edmonia Grider from Marjorie [Counts] regarding the Hilltop School, October 7, 1974.","Manuscript discussing integration and black teachers in WV, author unknown. Speech (?) regarding school integration. Research notes. Annotated speech: \"Black Education in West Virginia\" delivered in Shepherdstown.","Research materials on the integration of WV schools: facsimiles of WV newspaper articles regarding integration of schools; \"How Black Students Saw Themselves through the Decades of Change at Bluefield State College (founded in 1895) as It Changed from Predominately Black Institution to a Predominantly White Institution\" by James Worsham","Program for the Alpha Delta Chapter, Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. 19th annual Jabberwock, March 16th, 1949. Dance invitation, 1948. WVSC Commencement program, 1949. Washington Alumni Chapter banquet, 1976, to roast John W. Davis. Newspaper articles","Vocational and Educational Survey for the Kanawha County Negro Schools  by Andrew H. Calloway, 1945.","Correspondence, photos, newsletter, and newspaper clippings regarding the Douglass High School (Huntington) Reunion. Notes on class of 1947. Newspaper clipping regarding NB. Photo YWCA Y-Teens, Douglas High School, Christmas, 1946.","Research notes on schools in Keyser and Piedmont, WV, including a facsimile of book pages from  Howard School: a History, 1877-1955 regarding a black student strike for a better school in 1939. Notes on interview with Alberta Coleman, Piedmont, WV. Notes from interview with Opal Coates Carter, and other research notes, regarding Woolworth Fire, Charleston, WV, [ca. 1964s].","Compilation, by R. Charles Byers, of resources regarding WV black schools.","Annotated pages for \"Integration in West Virginia\"","Bulletin of West Virginia State College , Series 21, no. 1, June 1933. \"Why Choose West Virginia State College\"","Affirmative action statistics for Bluefield State College, 1984. \"Pride and Preservation: West Virginia State College\" seminars which included Alex Haley as a speaker, 1979. Newspaper article re: archives at West Virginia State College, 1979.  Southern Rural Women's Network Newsletter , June, 1983. Photograph of Alex Haley with inscription and signed letter from Alex Haley to NB, 1970.","Research notes and materials for research on education in Mason County, WV","Research materials regarding the Lincoln School in Wheeling, WV","West Virginia State College Bulletin , April 1941, Series 28, No. 2. Handwritten transcription of an article in  The Advocate , 1907.","Program for One Hundred Fifth Commencement, Huntington High School, 1971. Photo of AB, West Virginia State College Commencement, May 17, 1986.","Report of the Twenty-first Annual NEA Conference on Human and Civil Rights in Education , 1983, including paper by AB on the Kanawha County textbook controversy and censorship.","Facsimile of a brief historical sketch of Storer College, 1867-1891, by Kate J. Anthony, 1891.","Newspaper clippings and other sources relating to the West Virginia Seminary and College and the Hilltop Baptist Center.","\"Integration in Reverse at West Virginia State College\" by Elizabeth Duran and James A. Duran, Jr.","Correspondence, interviews, newspaper clippings, and facsimiles of photos re: WVSC's East Hall. Research notes.","WV Humanities Council grant application for a presentation on black education in Parkersburg. Research materials and notes. Handwritten and typed notes from interviews with Mrs. Dorsey, Mr. James Emondson, Mrs. Hattie Gazelle Turner, and Mrs. Elizabeth Mitchell. Particular focus on the Sumner School.","Photo slides of WVSC buildings, presidents, etc. Post cards of WVSC buildings and Institute. Note cards from a lecture. Research materials on all aspects of WVSC history.","Research materials on many aspects of WVSC history including faculty information. Includes these publications: \"ROTC in Review: 40 Years of Tradition;\" \"West Virginia State College Glee Club;\" Alumni Association, Los Angeles Chapter, Scholarship Luncheon program, 1989;","Program for Convocation and Dedication of the Harold Maceo McNeill Physical Facilities Plant, WVSC, 1999.","Letter from AB re: retirement of Justine Gutzmer; retirement announcement for Gerald Cote, Beatrice Dupass, Gutzmer, and Darthulia Jones. Facsimile of WWII death notice of Oliver Johnson to his parents and his obituary. Johnson was Gutzmer's brother.","Booklet of texts and order of ceremonies for the WVSC commencement program, 1985.","Includes background research on the Montgomery Woman's Improvement League, the West Virginia Federation of Colored Women's Clubs, Alpha Omicron Omega Chapter of the Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, the Mountain State Bar Association, and the West Virginia Medical Society. Research materials include a yearbook, programs, correspondence, a members list, and more.","Montgomery Woman's Improvement League Year Book , 1955-56 and 1960-61. Program for West Virginia State Federation of Colored Women's Clubs, Inc. Annual Convention, 1959. Newspaper photojournalism article regarding the College Alumni Club 50th anniversary history booklet. Program for the Annual Debutante Ball sponsored by Alpha Omicron Omega Chapter, Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, 1958. Correspondence with Katherine Atwater regarding resources.","Program for the Annual Meeting and Awards Banquet of the Mountain State Bar Association, 1985. List of members, 1986.","Paper titled \"The West Virginia Medical Society [Black]\" Article: \"Historically Black Medical Colleges: From Scorn to Success\" from  The Boule Journal , 2004.","This subseries includes maps, research papers, newspaper clippings, letters, census data, newspaper articles, facsimiles of historical slave documents, and more. Other materials regarding slavery can be found in county subseries and the Underground Railroad Subseries.","West Virginia map. \"Number of Slaves in Counties Which Became WV\" 1850, 1860. Typescript of  Historical Atlas of West Virginia  by Frank S. Riddel.","Handwritten notes on John Marshall; Marshall and slavery; Marshall and Robin Spurlock, his servant. Typed observations. Resource materials.","Facsimiles of legislation and resolutions to abolish slavery; and a list of representatives at the state convention in Wheeling.","Research materials. Typewritten manuscript[s] by James Oliver Horton. Codes for occupations. Copy of newspaper article.","Newspaper clipping and multiple facsimiles of an article about a slave breeding farm in Greenup, KY.","Research materials about slaves in Ohio Valley plantations and adjacent WV counties. Photocopies of photographs of Mary and plantation sites.","Facsimiles of: newpaper slave ads; Virginia law re: Kanawha Slave Insurance Company; Dunsmore's Proclamation freeing slaves; Va. Law to send slave to Liberia; slaves in Bunker Hill; New York Times article re: slave uprising; and drawing of [Harpers Ferry]. Harpers Ferry National Historical Park Afro-American materials. \"History of Gerrardstown\" in  The Berkeley Journal . Handwritten list of properties, including slave names, of Richard B. Washington, [1864]. Letter of transmittl and facsimile of bill of sale for slave, 18[4]5. Transcription of Rumsey-Polk letters re: slaves.","Handwritten research notes and research materials regarding reparations for slavery; text of NB speech; typewritten notes.","Annotated manuscript \"Compensatory Justice: Over Time and Between Groups\" by Renee A. Hill; text of introduction of a speech about reparations; newsapper clippings; web page print outs; articles.","West Virginia and Regional History Collection Newsletter  with articles re: slave letters.  West Virginia Then and Now  article re: John Brown's letter. Research re: images of blacks in journalism. Research notes.","Facsimile of tables of free Negro listings from 1830 census. \"Researching Virginia's Slave and Free Negro Records\"","Facsimile of newspaper article, 1934, re: Mount Pisgah Church, Proctorville, OH. \"The Way It Was…\" by Betty Burcham, a history of UGRR and Mount Pisgah Church. Facsimile of will of Eliza Goode freeing Sully Smith, her husband and her slave, 1848. Facsimile of two receipts for purchase of slaves, 1852. Research notes re: Ohio slaves and fugitives to WV.","This subseries includes text of a speech made by Bickley, books, slides, photographs, brochures, post cards, correspondence, maps, and more. The materials focus on parts of Ohio across the river from Huntington as well as West Virginia. Some topics are quilt codes, abolitionists, runaway slaves, location of Underground Railroad sites, and more.","Research materials about Serena Wilson and the book  Hidden in Plain View: The Secret Story of Quilts and the Underground Railroad.","Photos \"Trip to Doddridge County to visit Jaco Hill/cave - UGRR Site - w/Karen Nance, Sandra Moats, \u0026 Judy Wilinson, 6/20/01. Other research materials","Research materials on the Underground Railroad with focus on Ohio.","Brochures and post cards regarding the UGRR and the film \"Nightjohn.\" Correspondence with Margaret Brennan, organizer for the UGRR Summit in Wheeling. \"Reflections on the West Virginia UGRR Summit\" by Cathy D. Nelson; photo of AB speaking at the Summit and with Amanda Nelson and Sherry [Sowchuck].","Correspondence from Alicestyne Turley-Adams re: Underground Railroad Network Partnership.","Correspondence with Lucille Deberry and other research materials re: the UGRR, some in West Virginia.","Correspondence with Sandra Moats-Burke re: UGRR in WV counties.  Exploring a Common Past: Researching and Interpreting the Underground Railroad , 1998, 2nd ed. from the National Park Service. List of UGRR sites in WV.","Photograph slides, numbered and identified. Research materials mostly about Ohio. \"Draft Proposal to Establish a National Underground Commemorative, Interpretive, and Research Center, City of Huntington, West Virginia\" 1994. Itinerary for trip to Washington to meet with Interior Dept. officials and Robert C. Byrd's staff.","Book chapter \"In Gallia and Miegs Counties\" from  The Mysteries of Ohio's Underground Railroad  by Wilbur Henry Siebert, 1951. Facsimile of handwritten narrative by an abolitionist, [1892]. Facsimile of letter from R. C. Rankin re: father Rev. John Rankin, 1892. Research notes on WV runaway slaves. Facsimile of letter to Daniel ? to Cyrus Little re: UGRR, 1894. Map of UGRR, 1860. Requests for copies from the Siebert papers. More facsimiles of records.","Background materials on the Underground Railroad in Ohio.","Research materials including newspaper clippings and research notes on the Underground Railroad","Research materials re: the Underground Railroad. Research notes.","Facsimiles of documents pertaining to slaves in Jefferson County, VA. Itinerary for Underground Railroad tours [Ohio?].  The Escape of Jane: a True Story of the Underground Railroad  by Henry Burke \u0026 Dick Croy. Henry Robert Burke correspondence. Brochure on Henderson Hall, Wood County. Dick Croy correspondence and resume. Newspaper articles by Burke. \"Black Cultural Sites in West Virginia\" compiled by Michael Pauley and Peter Jesus, 1990","Correspondence with Sandra Moats-Burke re: UGRR. WV and county maps. Facsimile of pages from \"From the Charles River Shire, 1634-1643, to the Present Day Counties: Harrison, Doddridge, Ritchie, Wood, Pleasants and Tyler\" by Barr Wilson. Research materials on the UGRR. Research notes. \"The Anti-Slavery Movement in West Virginia,\" a speech delivered by Sandra Moats Burke.","Research materials re: quilts and the Underground Railroad, 2001-2011. Notes re: Eliza Farrow, 2005. Paper \"The UGRR Quilt Code\" by Leigh Fellner. Research notes; newspaper clipping; facsimile of web page and transcription of story in an email \"Secret Quilt Code on Exhibit until 10/6,\" 2012; and September 2012 issue of Underground Railroad Free Press.\" Mini-grant for UGRR quilts materials, 2013.","Underground Railroad: Official National Park Handbook .","Includes manuscripts and publications for books; plays and reenactor monologues; short stories; magazine and scholarly articles; and other forms of writing in both print and handwriting. Five subseries encompass the various genres of her writing. Also includes background and research materials for the subjects for her writings, both fiction and non-fiction.","Includes research materials for topics of articles. Subjects and formats treated are: encyclopedia entries in the biographical dictionary African American Architects; drafts and final versions of entries for both people and institutions for the West Virginia Encyclopedia; drafts and final versions of articles about Molly Gabe and Carter G. Woodson for Appalachian Heritage; newspaper articles for the Charleston (WV) Gazette Mail and Village Neighbors (FL) on a number of topics including George Wesley Atkinson, 10th governor of West Virginia, but especially for Black History Month and its founder Carter G. Woodson; Goldenseal articles about a Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) camp, Jessie Moon Thomas, Edward Greer, the Charleston Women's Improvement League, Memphis Tennessee Garrison, and West Virginia's Tuskegee Airmen; contribution to a symposium on diversity and change for Appalachian youth; and a study guide for a Charleston, WV, performance of Zora Neale Hurston's Spunk.","Articles by Ancella Bickley from the  Goldenseal Magazine","Correspondence regarding use of the Goldenseal article \"Camp War: Remembering CCC Company 3538-C\" in an online education guide by the WV State Museum.","Annotated manuscript and research notes for Goldenseal article \"Education and Activism in Gary: a Visit with Jessie Moon Thomas.\" Correspondence with Mrs. Thomas including notes on the Froe and Moon families.","Issue of the journal  Appalachian Heritage  containing AB article \"Profiles: Mollie Gabe\" by Ancilla  [sic]  Bickley.","\"Remembering Carter G. Woodson, the 'Father of Black History'\" in  Village Neighbors , [a publication of the Village in Florida where the Bickley's resided.] Typed notes on Carter G. Woodson. Transcription of letter from Bessie Woodson Yancey, CGW's sister, including text of the poem \"If You Live in West Virginia.\" CGW black history quiz prepared for the Spicy Ladies meeting.","Typed text of autobiographical musings about friendship: likens travel in the south in 1952 to the Underground Railroad travel; and includes details about the move to Morgantown in 1966.","Correspondence with  Goldenseal  regarding \"Edward Greer: First Black General from West Virginia\" and potential story about 1939 black student strike in Piedmont, WV. Manuscripts for Greer article.","Correspondence and drafts of a  Goldenseal  article \"Lifting as We Climb\" about the Charleston Woman's Improvement League. Research materials including facsimiles of photographs. Newspaper article about Judge Irene Berger, McDowell County.","Research materials on Carl Eugene Barnett and Robert Edward Lee Washington for entries in  African American Architects: A Biographical Dictionary, 1865-1945 .","Spiral bound program for  A Different World: Symposium on Diversity, Change, and Appalachian Youth,  2006, where Bickley was a panelist.","Appalachian Heritage , Summer 2008, which includes \"Carter G. Woodson: the West Virginia Connection\" by Ancella Bickley","Appalachian Heritage , Special Issue: Blacks in Appalachia, 1991, which includes Bickley's \"Molly Gabe\" in the Profiles section.","Goldenseal , Winter 2011, containing AB's article \"General Edward Greer: West Virginia's First Black General.\"","Correspondence with Dreck S. Wilson re: contribution to the book  Biographical Dictionary of African-American Architects, 1865-1945.","Research materials about George Wesley Atkinson, tenth governor of WV who attended Howard University. Paper titled \"West Virginia's Tenth Governor and the Black Community\" and newspaper article by AB.","Research materials re: the West Virginia Colored Orphans Home. Newspaper article written by AB. Testimonial for Fannie Cobb Carter. Research notes. Facsimiles of photos. Transcript of interview with Araminta Miller Justice. AB's paper about the Home.","Manuscript drafts and final versions for entries in the West Virginia Encyclopedia. Materials from West Virginia Humanities Council meetings re: the format and content of the Encyclopedia","Appalachian Heritage, Special Issue: Blacks in Appalachia,  Fall 1991, with article by AB in the Profiles Section on Mollie Gabe.","Musings written to friends, 1996. Clipping of \"Commentary: Capable of Thinking, Working…and Paying Her Own Bills,\" 1979, Ancella Bickley Jr.","Processor-created bibliography of Ancella Bickley's writings","Includes books written, complied, or edited by Bickley, and background research materials and drafts of manuscripts. Books Bickley wrote include: a children's book,   LuJay, No-Name, and the Parrot , also titled  Lucia Jean, No Name, and the Parrot  ;   …to be black in fayette  [sic];   History of the West Virginia State Teacher's Association ; and   In Spite of Obstacles: a History of the West Virginia Schools for Colored Deaf and Blind . Books edited by Bickley include:  Honoring Our Past: Proceedings of the First Two Conferences on West Virginia's Black History ;  Memphis Tennessee Garrison: the Remarkable Story of a Black Appalachian Woman ; and   Our Mount Vernons: Historic Register Listing of Sites Significant to the Black History of West Virginia .","Typed manuscripts, 1-14 parts, of 1968 oral history interview with Garrison by Bernard Cleveland, with AB notes and Post-it-Note tabs.","Draft of book introduction; correspondence; photos and negatives for book: MTG and family, Gary WV, mining, Edward O'Toole, facsimiles of photos. Facsimiles of William Garrison's obituary, letter of condolence from Agatha S. Lowe. Program for MTG celebration at Marshall. Personal notes of congratulations on book. Photograph permissions. Facsimile of deed for MTG's grandfather's property, Hollins, VA.","\"The Charleston Stage Company's Study Guide for George C. Wolfe's Adaptation of Zora Neale Hurston's  Spunk \"","Honoring Our Past: Proceedings of the First Two Conferences on West Virginia's Black History  edited by Joe William Trotter, Jr. and Ancella Bickley","Text and illustrations for [children's] book  Lucia Jean, No Name, and the Parrot  as told to Ancella. Original illustrations by S. Ross Browne.","Manuscript for \"Papers from the Conference on West Virginia's Black History, Marshall University, Huntington, West Virginia, September 1991\" Facsimile of a book chapter \"Negro Education and Integration.\" Facsimile of photograph of students at Weston Colored School.","Spiral bound  The Gathering .","Our Mount Vernons: Historic Register Listings of Sites Significant to the Black History of West Virginia  edited by Ancella R. Bickley.","History of the West Virginia State Teachers' Association  by Ancella R. Bickley; program for The Carter G. Woodson Memorial Foundation, Inc. annual banquet, 2006; research notes on  History of Negro Secondary Education in McDowell County, WV.","In Spite of Obstacles: a History of the West Virginia Schools for the Colored Deaf and Blind, 1926-1955  by Ancella Bickley.","Memphis Tennessee Garrison: the Remarkable Story of a Black Appalachian Woman  edited by Ancella R. Bickley and Lynda Ann Ewen.","Our Mount Vernons: Historic Register Listings of Sites Significant to the Black History of West Virginia  edited by Ancella R. Bickley. Program for Second Baptist Church in Fayetteville, 1993","Manuscript for  …to be black in fayette  written and compiled by Ancella R. Bickley for The Centennial Committee of the Second Baptist Church of Fayetteville, West Virginia, and The Fayette County Black Caucus.","Permissions to publish papers in  Honoring Our Past: Procedures of the First Two Conferences on West Virginia's Black History .","Correspondence with Joe William Trotter. Research notes. Materials relating to the Second Annual Conference on West Virginia's Black History and a paper on James McHenry Jones. Trotter's syllabus for a seminar \"The Afro-American Experience.\" \"Blacks in West Virginia: A Critique of the Secondary Literature and Survey of Primary Sources\" by Joe W. Trotter.","Galley proof of the children's book,  LuJay, No-Name, and the Parrot  by Ancella R Bickley, illustrated by S. Ross Browne. Handwritten list of names.","…to be black in fayette  written and compiled by Ancella R. Bickley for The Centennial Committee of the Second Baptist Church of Fayetteville, West Virginia and The Fayette County Black Caucus.","Includes full plays, skits, and historical interpreter scripts depicting characters such as: Ester from the Bible; West Virginia men and women such as Molly Gabe from Braxton County; Deborah Lacks Pullum, daughter of Henrietta Lacks; and many more. Includes manuscripts for a collaboration with Maureen Crocket in writing \"Tangled Threads: a Three Act Play\" and other plays. For \"Two Saint Say,\" a play performed at the Central Florida Community College, materials include an audition announcement, program, newspaper clipping, and correspondence. Also included is a newspaper clipping and details about Bickley's winning the Florida Senior Playwright Festival contest with \"Wade in the Water.\"","Newspaper article about the play  Two Saint Say  and its performance.","\"Historical Information Re: Milly, Enslaved Black Woman on Whom the Character, OAGE, in  Toussaint Say  Is Based\" Handwritten research notes.","Manuscript for \"Wade in the Water: a Play in One Act\" by Ancella R. Bickley. Correspondence regarding performance.","Manuscripts and notes for \"Mother Love: a Three Act Play\" by Ancella Bickley and Maureen Crockett. Annotated text.","Program for performance of  Two Saint Say  at the Central Florida Community College, February-March, [2008] Print of online article from the  Ocala Star Banner  added by processor.","Two Saint Say  and AB typed comments","Annotated \"In the Name of Woman.\" Facsimile of pages from 1909 court docket book, County of Allegheny (PA) and court case upon which the play is based.","Correspondence with Maureen 'Bunny' Crockett and Bobbi (bjslake@comcast.net) regarding changes to the play  Tangled Threads . Typed pages with annotations regarding black history. \"Mother Love: a Three Act Play\" by Ancella Bickley and Maureen Crockett.","Newspaper clipping for \"Villager's Work Winds Playwright Contest.\"\" Congratulatory email for selection of  Wade in the Water  for the Florida Senior Playwright Festival. Email commenting on inspiration for various plays. Lyrics for the spiritual \"Wade in the Water.\"","Scripts for historical interpreters for Deborah Lacks Pullum, Henrietta Lacks' daughter; and Henrietta Lacks. \"It Ain't Her: a One Act Play.\" Script for historical interpreter for Ona \"Oney\" Judge; Robert Smalls, 1839-1915; Callie House; and Percy Julian. Research notes on Dr. James Marion Sims and other projects. Program for WVU Honors College Symposium \"With a Torch in Their Souls: African Americans in the Civil War\"","Script for historical interpreter for Charles Hamilton Houston presented for the African-American Club, 2011; Gabriel; and Henrietta Lacks.","Research notes. Text of play \"And Further She Sayeth Naught.\" Text of play \"Heritage: an Historical Drama in Three Acts\" by Ancella Bickley and Maureen Crockett.","Two Saint Say: A Play in Two Acts . Auditions announcement. Correspondence regarding the production. Proposal to produce the play from the director Bobbi Jordan.","Correspondence regarding Megan Forrest, actress. Double sided card featuring photos of Ms. Forrest and a brief overview of future endeavors.","Brief plays regarding voting issues including: lack of attention to candidates and issues, campaign spending, voter assistance, pay for voting, etc. Unidentified group photograph. Handwritten dialog.","Two Saint Say: a Play in Two Acts  [performed at] Central Florida Community College, Ocala, Florida, February 29-March 1, 2008.","Submission form for  Wade in the Wate r for the Florida Senior Playwright Festival. Manuscript for Wade in the Water. Email update for Festival.","Manuscript for \"The Crossing,\" a play. Photocopied page regarding Mollie Gabe and her time in Braxton County.","Typed manuscript for a play  Tangled Threads .","\"On This Rock,\" a play; one annotated. Handwritten notes on \"A Last Right\" and \"A Good Christian Woman.\" Recommended edits to Bickley's writing? Short stories, \"The User\" and \"Feelin' the Heat\" by Charles Lloyd.","Traditions: A Journal of West Virginia Folk Culture and Educational Awareness , 1996, which includes Bickley's \"The Baby Catcher\"","Spiral bound  Two Saint Say: a Play in Two Acts  by Ancella Bickley","Research and performance notes for  Tangled Threads: A Three Act Play  by Ancella R. Bickley and Maureen Crockett. Lists of guests who read parts, 2014. Comments from readers.","Annotated  Tangled Threads , 2008.","Tangled Threads  labeled \"Work Copy\"","Tangled Threads","Annotated \"I-John,\" a play.","Table of contents for Skit of Ester, 2010. Web page re: Esther. Typed page re: Haman, Mordecai, and Esther. Chapter summaries. Typed paper about Queen Vashti. Two typewritten pages from larger document. Letter to Jerome re: return of skit manuscript. Letter to Jerome re: transmittal of skit text and masks for players. Handwritten, not AB's handwriting, notes. Three \"masks,\" made from paper fans, and for 6 characters.","Includes manuscripts and edited manuscripts for many stories and a collection of short stories,  Turn Left at the Desert  . Bickley's stories are mostly historical character studies and include themes such as faith and community. One highlight is a critical review of Bickley's short story \"Martha,\" a part of the anthology  Appalachian Love Stories  .","Manuscripts: \"Gabe,\" \"Turn Left at the Desert: Verbal 'Snapshots' from a Black Community\" contents, \"Jones,\" \"The Church on the Corner,\" and \"Sister Angelica.\"","Annotated story manuscripts. \"'Jones': Manuscript Submitted for Workshop, Women Writers Conference\" and reviewed by Faith [Holsart?]","Annotated manuscript for the story \"On This Rock;\" the play  Tangled Threads ; and the story \"It Ain't Her\"","Correspondence regarding writing critiques. Text of \"Mr. Adams,\" \"The Church on the Corner,\" \"Gabe,\" \"Angie's Uncle Robert,\" three versions of \"Mr. Abe Jackson,\" \"The Battle of the Bottle,\" \"DoeDoe,\" \"Addie,\" \"Lesey, Who Was Black, But Comely,\" \"The Lavender Hat,\" and \"A Day in the Park.\" AB commentary on stories.","Review of \"Martha.\" Text of \"Martha.\"","Manuscripts and notes for \"It Ain't Her,\" \"Belli: 'Momma Raised Me Up Special',\" The Battle of the Bottle,\" \"Bertha,\" \"Friends,\" and \"Martha.\"","Manuscript for stories for Turn Left at the Desert","Manuscript for stories for Turn Left at the Desert: \"It Ain't Her,\" \"Hush Now, Child\"","Excerpt from a review of AB's story, [\"Martha\"], in  Appalachian Love Stories .","Short stories for  Turn Left at the Desert.","Annotated manuscript for \"Bertha,\" a short story.","Appalachian Love Stories  compiled and edited by James M. Gifford, Edwina Pendarvis; includes \"Martha\" by Ancella Bickley.","Parts of  Turn Left at the Desert: Verbal \"Snapshots\" from a Black Community.","Handwritten beginning of a story","Handwritten pieces of writing","Typewritten contents for \"Turn Left at the Desert: Verbal 'Snapshots' from a Black Community\"","Typed manuscripts for various short stories.","Bickley was a prolific speaker; speeches cover a wide range of topics including faith, WV black history, black history and pride, West Virginia State College, education, black literature, and more. The majority of the speeches are typewritten.","Program for \"Mending an Era: a Slave Ship Speaks: the Wreck of the Henrietta Marie.\" Typed text, pages 6-7, of a speech (?) about slaves, Anderson Radford, Cassie Thomas Carter, and MTG's mother.","Text of 2 speeches about Alice Walker's novel  The Color Purple:  \"The Uses of Literature: 1984 \u0026 The Color Purple, Panel Discussion at the Tenth Anniversary Program of the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities,\" September, 1984; and one at Richard Bland Community College, October 7, 1985. Research notes on  The Color Purple . Research notes on Alice Walker's short stories \"1955\" and \"In Love and Trouble\"","Correspondence, schedule, lecture series program with AB's lecture on the Underground Railroad. Typed notes from Guyandotte presentation 11/9/91, and the Guyandotte Civil War Days. Program for Guyandotte Civil War Days, October 12-November 4, 1992 with listing of AB lecture \"Local Black Settlement.\" List of sources by Alan Gould, Marshall University. Invitation to present at the 1993 Civil War Days.","T he West Virginia and Regional History Collection Newsletter , Summer 1989, which includes a speech by AB at an education in WV forum.","Annotated text of a speech by both AB and NB about their time at WVU. WVU program \"A Celebration: Integration of Sports on the WVU Campus\" Correspondence with Dana Brooks regarding participation","Article regarding speech about  The Color Purple  at the West Virginia Alliance for Women's Studies meeting. Text of paper \"Black Education in WV\" read at WVU 6/20/89 for West Virginia Day.","Text of speech about black history in West Virginia and after-dinner remarks regarding social history. Email, travel itinerary, newspaper clipping, and correspondence.","Paper about the slave ship Amistad.","Text of speech re: the Underground Railroad. Newspaper article re: decree of freedom from slavery 150 years after.","Handwritten speech to Mo So Lit Club in McDowell County regarding the history of education of blacks, April 1983. WVSC Fall Convocation program, September 8, 1983; two texts of AB's welcome.","Handwritten poem \"Scamp\" [by Paul Laurence Dunbar]. Two handwritten speeches to the WVSC student government regarding importance of citizenship and service, and the history of WVSC. Invitation to speak to the Student Government Association, April 16, 1982. Newspaper article about black newspapers. Program for the Student Government Association Annual Inauguration Dinner, April 13, 1980. Speech for the Honors Convocation, 1985. \"Remarks prepared for State Senator Marie Redd for Blk History Month-2/4/99\" regarding black history and WV black history.","Correspondence regarding invitation to speak at the West Virginia State Baptist Convention. WVSC new student orientation schedule with remarks scheduled for AB. Text of speech, 1984 and 1985, including a brief history of WVSC and Institute.","First page of WVSC Honors Convocation Speech","Program for \"Building Leadership for Educational Excellence: NEA Mid-Atlantic Regional Leadership Conference, November 1-3, 1985 - Greenbrier Hotel, White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia.\" Annotated text of speech \"A Response to the New Right's Agenda for Public Education.\" Other speeches regarding education","Annotated text, some handwritten, of speech to the Mo So Lit Club, McDowell County, WV. Program for The Matrons and Maids Social and Literary Club (Ma-So-Lit), 50th Anniversary, April 17, 1983. Program and text of introduction of Ethel O. Davie for the WVSC Graduate Dinner, 1984.","Program and text of speech for \"Rewriting History\" panel at the \"Premonitions and Perspectives from 1984: Has the Orwellian World Arrived?\" Wisconsin Intellectual Freedom 6th Annual Conference in Milwaukee, March 1-3, 1984. Program, including full text of AB's speech for a panel on \"Perspectives on Censorship: A Discussion\" at the Twenty-First Annual NEA Conference on Human and Civil Rights in Education, February 25-27, 1983. Correspondence regarding invitations to speak at these conferences.","A speech about  The Color Purple  possibly delivered at a Virginia Humanities Conference.","Text of speech for WVSC Convocation and an outline of speech to women students.","Speeches about Carter G. Woodson, WV black history, her life and experiences, and MLK Day.","Speeches about WV black history, historical research, community service, her life and experiences, importance of black organizations, her faith, black women, race, and black education. Programs from presentations at churches. Letter confirming appointment to the Danforth Associate Program.","Speeches about black education; being a role model; leadership; church missionary work; Martin Luther King, Jr.; taking control; the college experience; community service; honoring Alan Gould; Our Mount Vernons; and black history. Corresponence re: speaking at churches.","Speeches about Black History Month; civil rights; Kwanzaa; women's rights; Martin Luther King, Jr.; the Underground Railroad; MTG; The Color Purple; black culture; Alice Walker; Carter G. Woodson; and WV black history.","Slides for WV black history speech. Research materials on WV black institutions. First two pages of speech. Handwritten text on various institutions.","\"Go with God: Remembering All of Us…,\" Commencement address at MU, 1990. Photograph of unidentified black men singing in church. The program for the 1975 NCTE Spring Institutes: \"Teaching Minority Literatures at All Levels.\"","Text of speech, one annotated, about  The Color Purple  for the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities; handwritten notes.","Text of two speeches about black culture with notes for accompanying slides. Note from Charles Davis. Langston Hughes poem with Alex Haley autograph. [No slides in file.]","Booklet presented to AB after she made a speech for the Army Corps of Engineers in Huntington.","Correspondence with NEA re: participation in panel \"Perspectives on Censorship: A Discussion.\" Handwritten speech on censoring literature by blacks and women in the context of the Kanawha County textbook controversy.","Background materials, correspondence, and text of speech \"Multiculturalism in West Virginia\" at the Governor's Honors Academy.","Newspaper clipping about AB Commencement address at Marshall University, 1990. \"And Further She Sayeth Naught: a Play in Three Acts\" by Maureen \"Bunny\" Crocket and Ancella Bickley. [Speech] re: education in WV.","Text of speech about Martha Toler Spencer. Outline for [speech] about black women. Handwritten text of speech in Virginia, Longwood College, about black women. Notes.","\"Go with God: Remember All of Us\" AB's commencement address at MU, 1994.","Typed text of speech for the National Education Association.","Edited paper about the mission of West Virginia State College and changes for the future."],"separatedmaterial_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eItems not held in the WVRHC collection which were sent to the Rare Books Curator:\n\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\n1969/70 edition of \"The Black Student at WVU\" \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nBulletin of West Virginia State College, Series 21, no. 1, June 1933. \"Why Choose West Virginia State College\"\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nBickley, A. R., Carter, G. W. M. F. I., \u0026amp; Marshall University, H. W. V. D. A. (1997). \u003ctitle\u003eOur Mount Vernons: historic register listings of sites significant to the Black history of West Virginia\u003c/title\u003e. [Huntington, WV] : [Carter G. 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She graduated from Douglass High School in 1947 and went on to attend West Virginia State College, graduating magna cum laude in 1950 with a degree in English.  She was the first full time black student at Marshall University and received her master's degree in English in 1954.  She received her Ed.D. in English from West Virginia University in 1974.  Dr. Bickley was a teacher at all educational levels and was Vice-President for Academic Affairs at West Virginia State College where she retired in 1986.  She continued to research, write, and speak from her retirement home in Florida where she lived with her husband Nelson.  Some of her accolades include the Mountain State Bar Association's Distinguished Citizen Award, 1978; the National Education Association's The Carter G. Woodson Memorial Award, 1980; West Virginia Woman of the Year, 1984; the West Virginia State College Alumnus of the Year, 1988; and was a Rockefeller Foundation Scholar at Marshall University in 1999.","Dr. Bickley was a prolific speaker and in addtion to the speeches, she authored many stories, plays, and articles.  In 1997, she published  Our Mount Vernons  to identify sites significant to West Virginia black history.","With Lynda Ann Ewen, she co-edited  Memphis Tennessee Garrison: The Remarkable Story of a Black Appalachian Woman , published by Ohio University Press. She has written stories and articles for publications including West Virginia cultural magazine,  Goldenseal . She wrote a history of the West Virginia Schools for the Colored Deaf and Blind.","Bickley, Ancella Collection. Materials relating to African-American history including annual West Virginia Conferences on Black History, 1908-1996. 3 boxes. Ms2003-182, at the West Virginia State Archives.","Marshall University Oral History Collection, Accession Number 1973/01.0064, also includes the oral history transcripts in this collection's addendum of 2017/02/09.","This collection documents the research, public service, and life of Ancella Bickley, writer, educator, speaker, and historian. Includes writings, research materials, and more, focusing on the history of African Americans in West Virginia and the black experience in West Virginia. Collected research materials are predominantly facsimiles.  Printed formats include correspondence, clippings, interview transcripts, typescript writings, publications, pamphlets, ephemera, speeches, articles, military records, and more.  Other formats include photographs, slides, and audiocassettes. ","Subjects include Dr. Bickley's writings, which include plays, speeches, and short stories as well as her historical books, articles and other publications; collected materials from Dr. Bickley's historical research on the history of African Americans in West Virginia; and personal papers. Her research materials include papers grouped sometimes by county, sometimes by individual, sometimes by subject. Subjects of her research include slavery, education, churches, biography and genealogy, literature, and more.  Specific subjects include the Underground Railroad, James McHenry Jones, genealogy, Carter G. Woodson, Mollie Gabe, West Virginia Colored Institute/West Virginia State College, John W. Davis, black high schools, school integration, and more. Counties and their cities with specific focus include Cabell, Kanawha, and Jefferson.  Some documents treating slavery and the Underground Railroad include Ohio from which Cabell County blacks, including Bickley's ancestors, migrated.","Colleagues with whom she corresponded include Judith Stitzel, Nelson Barnett, Maureen Crockett (with whom she co-wrote at least one play), and many more. Of significance is correspondence between Carter G. Woodson and his sister, Bessie Woodson Yancey; and letters and a signed photo from Alex Haley.  ","Writings, research background, and drafts of Dr. Bickley's works found within the collection include:  Memphis Tennessee Garrison: The Remarkable Story of a Black Appalachian Woman , \"Midwifery in West Virginia\" (1990),  Honoring our Past: Proceedings of the First Two Conferences on West Virginia's Black History ,  History of the West Virginia State Teachers' Association  (1979),  In Spite of Obstacles: a History of the West Virginia Schools for the Colored Deaf and Blind, 1926-1955 ,  Our Mount Vernons: historic register listings of sites significant to the Black history of West Virginia , a short story collection \"Turn Left at the Desert,\"  ... to be black in Fayette , and plays:  Two Saint Say ,  Mother Love ,  Tangled Threads  (with Maureen Crockett),  Wade in the Water , and seven  Goldenseal  articles. \nGrant applications and other documents pertaining to her work with the Humanities Council of West Virginia are included in the collection. Other documents describe her work with the Kanawha County Board of Education, EcoTheater, Berea College's Black Mountain Youth Leadership program, and various professional organizations.   \nPersonal papers include material about her husband Nelson R. Bickley and his military career, diplomas, transcripts, photographs of a party she held, and more. ","Addendum of 2017/02/09 (boxes 11 and 12) includes papers of Dr. Ancella R. Bickley, with a few papers of her daughter Ancella Livers. Formats include interview transcripts, correspondence, clippings, typescript writings, publications, cassettes, and more. Most of these materials are transcripts of oral histories pertaining to a collaborative project undertaken by Dr. Bickley and Dr. Rita Wicks-Nelson about black teachers and their memories of school integration in West Virginia in affiliation with the Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Gender in Appalachia at Marshall University.","Abbreviations used in the Contents List: \nAB - Ancella Bickley \nWVSC - West Virginia State College \nNB - Nelson Bickley \nMTG - Memphis Tennessee Garrison \nJMJ - J. McHenry Jones \nNEA - National Education Association \nNCTE - National Council of Teachers of English \nMo So Lit Club - Matrons and Maids Social and Literary Club, McDowell County, WV \nUGRR - Underground Railroad \nMU - Marshall University \nWVU - West Virginia University \nCGW - Carter G. Woodson \nRW-N  - Rita Wicks-Nelson","Includes civic and academic awards and honors, as well as academic milestones such as graduation and Bickley's dissertation. This series includes materials on the celebration of Bickley's retirement from West Virginia State College.","Correspondence from Marshall University regarding AB's commencement address and honorary doctorate; notes of congratulations. Guest list. Photographs of AB delivering address and with others including Soupy Sales. Letter to editor regarding racism of highlighting photograph of Soupy Sales wiping a tear during AB's speech; newspaper clippings. Commencement program. AB's speech.","Honorary Doctorate","Army Commendation Medal (Second Oak Leaf Cluster). AB's Delta Sigma Rho-Tau Kappa Alpha, Hampton Institute, initiation certificate, May 1976","Attendance, reading, scholarships, and other certificates from elementary through college","AB transcript, 1951, from MU. Transcript, WVSC.","Program for the Fourteenth Annual NEA Human and Civil Rights Awards, 1980, when AB won The Carter G. Woodson Memorial Award. Correspondence regarding the award including 2 letters from John W. Davis.","Photograph of WVSC President Thomas Cole and Ancella Bickley at her retirement; labeled \"West Virginia State College, Commencement, May 17, 1986.\"","Master of Arts degree confirmation from Marshall University","Doctor of Education degree confirmation from West Virginia University","Certificate of Appreciation from the Kiwanis Club of Huntington","Note from WVU professor Armand [Singer] regarding missing retirement celebration","Newspaper clipping re: CGW. Photographs of AB and others after a speaking engagement in Fayette County. Service Award certificate from WVSC.","Letter from Maureen Crocket to the Director of the Appalachian Festival re: Tangled Threads. Letter of recommendation from AB for Dr. Elaine Ginsberg. \"Remarks Made upon the Presentation of the 1988 Humanities Award to Ancella Radford Bickley\" by Judith Stitzel. Letter of recommendation for Dr. Bernard L. Allen for the WVU Claude Worthington Benedum Distinguished Scholar Award. Congratulatory letter for appointment [at WVSC]. Request for letter of recommendation from Marc E. Washington at MU; confirmation of receipt of letter. Request for recommendation for Elaine Ginsberg, Trinity University; verification of receipt of letter. Letter of congratulations on retirement from George Parkinson; letter of regrets from Lawrence H. Talley, West Liberty.","Materials re: WV NAACP Harpers Ferry NHP, 1994, including photographs and text of speech. Congratulatory letter for receiving the Distinguished West Virginian Award, 1986. Thank you for copy of Honoring Our Past, 1992. Many other letters and notes re: service and speeches. Request to speak at the New Employment for Women Information \u0026 Referral Center in Logan about black history. Letter from Gaston Caperton, Governor, re: appointment to the Archives and History Commission, 1991. Thank you letter for contribution to Chandler Third Base, 1992. Certificate of recognition for Outstanding Service in Support of 1993 Douglass High School Reunion. Thank you for participating in the United Way Youth Advisory Council's Youth Forum, 1993. Thank you letter re: speech at naturalized citizens ceremony from John T. Copenhaver, 1992. Certificate of appreciation and other materials including a photo re: \"Read to Me\" Day, 1999. Newspaper article re: writing about the West Virginia Schools for the Colored Deaf and Blind and cards of congratulations. Kanawha County Schools Certificate of Recognition and Appreciation, 1991.","Letter of acknowledgement to deliver commencement address and receive an honorary doctorate at MU, 1990. Newspaper clipping and tribute to Minnie Wayne Cooper, 1989. Thank you letter to Matthew Kinsolving, Kanawha County Board of Education, for plaque, 1989. Typed text of \"Remarks Made upon the Presentation of the 1988 Humanities Award to Ancella Radford Bickley.\" Newspaper clipping and congratulatory letter re: WVSC Alumna of the Year, 1988. Letter withdrawing candidacy for the Kanawha County Board of Education, 1988. Thank you letter for receiving the Humanities Foundation Award, 1988; letter of congratulations from A. James Manchin; and Dee Caperton, House of Representatives. Letter of congratulations from Herman G. Canady, Jr., for appointment to Board of Education, 1988. Program for NAACP, Charleston Branch, Annual Freedom Fund Banquet, 1988, with AB as guest speaker. The Trumpet, West Liberty State College student newspaper, with article about AB's lecture on teaching black literature, November 28, 1973. Program, newspaper clipping, flyer, and certificate of recognition for the National Council of Jewish Women, West Virginia Section, Founder's Day, 1991. Correspondence re: speaking invitations, 1991-2001. Letters of thank you for service: The Huntington Club of Negro Business and Professional Women's Clubs, Inc., 2001; Charleston Mayor, G. Kemp Melton, for Charleston Urban Renewal Authority, 1999; Conference program for \"New Approaches to the Humanities and Lifelong Learning,\" 1988, where AB received award. Newspaper clippings for awards and accomplishments. 1987-1988. Newspaper clipping \"Educator Grim on Blacks' Future\" 1985. Thank you letter from Dee Caperton, House of Delegates, for draft of book about Elizabeth Simpson Drewry, 1987. Congratulatory notes, 1988-2002. Resume, ca. 1988. Text of speech for [receiving WVSC Alumna of the Year award, 1988]","Newspaper clippings, 1994-2002. Congratulatory and thank you letters, 1984-1995. Program for Staff Recall, Federal Prison Camp, Alderson, WV, with AB as guest speaker. Program for Induction Ceremony [sic], Phi Sigma Alpha, WVSC, 1995, when AB gave speech on the UGRR. Program for Carter G. Woodson Memorial Foundation Third Annual Memorial Fundraiser Banquet, 1995, AB speaker. Program for MLK birthday event at the WV School of Osteopathic Medicine where AB spoke, 1994. Resume. Photo of the Berlin Wall, May 1963.","Newspaper clippings, 1984-2002. Congratulatory and thank you letters and certificates, 1975-2002. Program for the Fourteenth Annual NEA Human and Civil Rights Awards dinner, 1980, when AB received The Carter G. Woodson Memorial Award. Program for Academy Cultural Awareness Committee Black History Month Program, 2002, where AB presented about MTG. Invitation to reception for Oliver W. Hill Freedom Fighter Award of the Virginia State Conference NAACP, 1999, and invitation to recognition event at the U.S. Capitol. Program for St. Anthony Church and School Community Education Awards where AB received the Gregory Loebach Award, 2002. Text of speech and program for West Virginia's African-American Women of Distinction book introduction by the West Virginia Women's Commission, 2002. Program for The Education Alliance Graduates of Distinction, AB recipient, 2002; text of speech; newspaper clipping; correspondence.","Newspaper clippings, ca. 1972-2002. Congratulatory and thank you letters, certificates and other recognitions, 1975 -2002. Letter of receipt for items given to the West Virginia State College/West Virginia Black Heritage Collection, 1987. Personal note, 3/26/80, discussing various contributions to education. Photograph of AB. Program for The National Association of Negro Business and Professional Women's Clubs banquet and candlelight rededication services, 1988, where AB was the guest speaker. Program for Berkeley County Diversity Committee \"Town Meeting\" with AB conducting interactive workshops at schools, 2002. Program and sketch of AB for [her retirement] 1986. Program for PCC lecture series \"The West Virginia Experience,\" [ca. 1985]. State of WV Teaching Certificate, 1960-1965. Letter of acceptance by NB for offer of teaching positions at WVSC for both NB and AB, 1972. Letter offering employment at WVSC as Associate Professor of English, 1972. Letter to NB offering WVSC position of Director of Guidance and Placement, 1972. Letters of thanks for AB for retirement and awards, 1986. Notification of nomination for President of WVSC, 1987. Correspondence Re: NCTE Orwell conference, 1984. Notification that tapes of censorship series of programs will be housed at the New York Public Library, 1984. Program for the Danforth Associate Program, 1975, for which AB and NB were program chairs. Program for The Women's Study Club Annual Open House, 1984, when AB was named Woman of the Year. Program for \"African Americans in the Appalachian Coalfields\" at the National Mine Health \u0026 Safety Academy when AB gave a lecture, 2000.","Newspaper clippings, 1989-2000. Congratulatory and thank you letters, invitations to speak, certificates of recognition, 1985-2000. Photograph of Douglass High School Y Teens, ca. 1946, including AB. Newspaper articles re: AB as WVSC's May Queen, 1948. Issue of MU's Greenline: a Publication for Alumni and Friends of Marshall University, May-July 1990, in which AB is recognized as commencement speaker; press release; letters of congratulations. Photograph of AB and others after presentation in Morgantown, 1990. Program for WVSC National Alumni Association William L. Lonesome Alumni Awards Dinner-Dance Honoring Dr. Ancella R. Bickley, Class of 1950, 1988 Alumnus of the Year. Dunbar Rotary Club Newsletter with AB as speaker, 1988. Materials from the Second Annual Conference on West Virginia's Black History, 1989. Letter to the editor of the Charleston Gazette re: black athlete, 1988.","Retirement from WVSC, 1986, materials. Correspondence re: ceremony; letters of congratulations; newspaper clippings; photographs; program; WVSC commencement program with AB as retirement honoree.","AB's doctoral dissertation A Study of the Effects of Teaching a Unit on Black Culture to Classes of Predominantly White High School Students, 1974.","Newspaper clippings for Education Alliance Graduates of Distinction, 2002. Materials pertaining to \"From Our Front Porch: Stories about Charleston's Oldest Neighborhood, The East End\": newspaper insert; outline for Appalachian Studies Association presentation; program for play at Roosevelt Wilson High School; the play. \"Testimony of Ancella Radford Bickley, Independent Scholar from West Virginia, on behalf of The State Humanities Program Regarding FY 1989 Appropriations to the National Endowment for the Humanities before the Appropriations Subcommittee on the Interior of the Senate,\" 1988. Congratulatory letters re: selection to the Kanawha Board of Education. Newspaper clippings. Congratulations re: speech's and performance of play in Florida. Commencement program for WVSC, 1950. Text of AB honors. Newspaper clippings re: her writings. Letter of acknowledgement for participation in reading of the names of lynchings victims program, Virginia State University, 2001. News release re: production of Harvest of Dreams by the Charleston Stage Company, 2000. Correspondence re: appointment to the WVU Board of Advisors, 1989. Certificate of appreciation from the City of Beckley for contributions to black history in WV. Thank you note re: women writers, 1994. Thank you letter from James Tolbert re: participation in Black History Month program at Harper's Ferry. Overview of AB accomplishments [introduction?]. Letter acknowledging participation in Kanawha County Public Library Black History Month events, 1993; abstract of talk; resume. Thank you letter for presentation at a Affirmative Action Committee Meeting, 1994; program; brochure listing black employees. Letter acknowledging intent to speak at the WV School of Osteopathic Medicine re: unsung heroes of the Civil Rights Movement and for MLK Day, 1993. Handwritten note of appreciation for a speech. Handwritten note re: missing speech for Black History Month, with attached newspaper clipping, 1994. 1949 Yellow Jacket article with picture of AB as newspaper staff. Clipping re: AB as keynote speaker for MLK Day celebration, 1991. Letter acknowledging a reading at the College Language Association, 1993. Letter acknowledging agreement to moderate a panel on sexual harassment; flyer for the program. Congratulatory letter for receiving the MU Graduate School Distinguished Alumnus, 1993. Program for \"First Annual Forum and Family Recognition Conference\" from the West Virginia Black Family Coalition, 1992, for which Bickley was a moderator. Correspondence and program for Distinguished Graduate Student Award from MU, 1993. Newspaper clipping about the WVSC presidential inaugural ball including description of AB and NB attire, 1974. Letter from Mary Pearl Compton, WV Delegate, re: Union's Historic District. Handwritten card praising AB as a \"liquid god\" able to move among roles, 1995. Resumes.","Senate Resolution honoring AB and Lynda Ann Ewen, 2002. Certificate of recognition as a West Virginia Hero, 2002. Newspaper clippings, 1990-2002. Correspondence re: lecture at Alderson Broaddus College, 1991. Certificate of recognition from the WV National Organization of Women and two 1991 conference programs. Program for \"African-Americans in the Appalachian Coalfields,\" 2000. Letter acknowledging selection at WVSC Alumnus of the Year, 1988. The Humanities Foundation of West Virginia Award Dinner Program, 1988. Issue of People \u0026 Mountains: a Publication of the West Virginia Humanities Council, Summer 2001, with MTG interview excerpt edited by AB and Lynda Ann Ewen. Congratulatory note re: publication of Memphis Tennessee Garrison; lecture on MTG announcement, 2000. Letter from the Indiana Humanities Council re: placement on \"Always a River\" registry, 1991. Letter from Gov. Gaston Caperton recognizing appointment to the Martin Luther King, Jr. State Holiday Commission, 1989. Acknowledgement letters as a speaker, 1990-1999. Acknowledgement of receipt of Our Mount Vernons from a professor at the University of Texas at El Paso, 1997. \"Book Notes\" section of West Virginia History re: Our Mount Vernons, 1997. Letter of re: reappointment to the WV Archives and History Commission, 1997. Letter re: WV Public Radio's Cultural Diversity Radio Project, 1998. Letter re: Mistress of Ceremony for a poetry contest at WVSC, 1995. Letter acknowledging support of the WV Humanities Council programming, 1995.","Special Commendation from the U.S. Dept. of the Interior, National Park Service, for Significant Contributions to the Underground Railroad Study, 1995.","\"West Virginia: a Film History\" recognition as the Historical Advisor for the film project.","State of West Virginia Distinguished West Virginian award, 1986.","Senate Resolution honoring AB and Lynda Ann Ewen, 2002.","Includes newspaper clippings and writings by Ancella Bickley Livers (also called Cill Jr. or Cill). Also includes material by or about Nelson Bickley, Ancella Bickley's husband and prominent Charleston, West Virginia, lawyer. Formats include articles, awards and honors, military records, speeches, research notes, publications, correspondence, newspaper clippings, and more. Subjects include Nelson Bickley's military and teaching careers, his uncle Carter G. Woodson, and more.","Correspondence with James Harlow, WVU President, regarding tenure at WVU, 1969 and 1972. Army records for Nelson Bickley. Various Army regulations, blank forms, and information flyers. Correspondence and forms from the Veterans Administration. Medical records, 1956-1966","Charleston Gazette/Gazette-Mail newspaper clippings about AB and NB, 1999-2003","Text of NB's speech \"CMA's Link to the Late Carter G. Woodson, the 'Father of Negro History'\" at the Chicago Military Academy, program, and certificate of appreciation.","Text of speech given by NB at East Bank High School to Junior ROTC, regarding the benefits of military service.","Military and scholarship commendations, program from WVSC Commencement, 1948.","Military records for Nelson Bickley including his assignment as an Army ROTC instructor at WVU and difficulty of finding Negro housing. Admission to WVU College of Human Resources and Education.","Folder within 16a containing Army medical records for Nelson Bickley, 1957-1966.","Akron Beacon Journal,  December 7, 1982, with article by Ancella Livers which includes brief biography.","\" Brown V. Board of Education  in West Virginia\" by Nelson R. Bickley in the  West Virginia Law Review , Spring 2005.","Text of speech given by NB at the WVU Law School","Correspondence with Congressman Harley Staggers, James G. Harlow, President of WVU, and others regarding Nelson Bickley's retirement. Other military records.","Invitations to the ROTC Cadet Corps Annual Military Ball and the ROTC Awards Day and Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony, 1982. Program for the ROTC Awards Day Ceremony, May 1, 1981. WVSC student newspaper  The Yellow Jacket  with an article about the inductees to the ROTC Hall of Fame including NB. Typed text of NB's acceptance speech about his time in the military. Newspaper with an interview with NB and Belva Clark about Carter G. Woodson, 1987. Program and text of NB speech, with AB edits, at WVSC for Veterans Day, 1992. Newspaper article regarding NB induction into the WVSC ROTC Hall of Fame.","Signed letter from Alex Haley to Colonel and Mrs. Nelson Bickley, March 1, 1973, re: the Bickleys' hospitality after a lecture.","Clippings regarding the Bickleys from  The Villages Daily Sun  (FL) and  The Sunday News-Registe r (Wheeling, WV)","Pamphlet \"The Black Student at WVU,\" 1969/70, 1971/72, which include pictures of AB. Program for Lincoln-Douglas Banquet sponsored by Morning Star Baptist Church, February 12, 1977; includes AB as the speaker. Newspaper articles by and about Ancella Bickley, as well as Nelson. Congratulatory letter regarding AB promotion to Vice President for Administration at WVSC, July 9, 1975. Dunbar High School's publication, Kennel, Feb. 23, 1973 and May, 1974.","Letter regarding AB in WVU classroom. Newspaper article about Ancella, daughter of Ancella and Nelson. Dunbar High School's student newspaper, Kennel, Nov. 1972.","Bachelor of Arts degree confirmation from West Virginia State College","Nelson Bickley's Master of Arts degree confirmation from West Virginia University","Nellie Francisco's Bachelor of Arts in Education degree confirmation from West Virginia State College, 1938","Letter from CGW to Bessie Woodson Yancey, CGW's sister, re: funding Joan's education. Text of the poem \"The Forgotten Boys.\" Invitation to the dedication of the Carter G. Wooson School, New Orleans.","Research materials re: Belva Clark, Carter G. Woodson's niece and Nelson Bickley's mother; note of condolence; funeral program; handwritten [by Mrs. Clark?] obituary and instructions","Articles about NB. Membership certificate to Sigma Pi Phi Fraternity.","Teaching certificate for Nellie Radford Francisco, Bluefield Colored Institute, 1928.","Special Order lists. Legal case notes? Selective Service Act of 1948 memo.","Includes genealogical research material, notes, and charts in print as well as handwritten for these families, mostly from the Huntington, West Virginia area and across the Ohio River: Twyman, Spurlock, Barnett, Payne, Jones, Woodson, Wilson, Johnson, Summers, Smoot, Peters, Radford, Layne/Lane, Jones, Straham, Cabell, and Parker. Additional genealogical information is included in oral history interviews with individuals (see Interviews and Oral History Interviews series); the Others' Works series; the Biography subseries of Research Notes and Collected Materials; and other locations throughout the collections.","Documents pertaining to the Twyman Family. Facsimile of pages from  The Promised Land  by J. Earl Pratt [1964]. Facsimile of newspaper legal notices from T he Ironton Register , Oct. 27 and Dec. 15, 1870.","Letter from Willard H. Radford and Kim Radford regarding a reunion for the Radford-Bickley families.","Correspondence between the Bickleys and Nelson L. Barnett, Jr. regarding Allensworth (CA) State Historical Park, the Spurlock family, the Barnett-Payne-Jones family. Rededication pamphlet, October 10, 1992","Barnett family genealogy compiled by Nelson Barnett, Jr.","Various documents pertaining to Carter G. Woodson and the Barnett family connection. \"A Black History of Huntington\" by Edna Duckworth. Barnett family documents.","Family line charts, photographs, newspapers, family history for the Nelson Barnett line. Program for the First Baptist Church, Huntington, September 25, 1988. Photographs buildings designed by Carl Barnett, architect.","Transcription of Barnett family obituaries.","James and Mary Wilson family genealogy. Facsimiles of portraits. Memorial service programs. Photographs of Mary Wilson Johnson and James Johnson. Photo of family group identified later in file and on facsimile. Obituary for William O. Johnson. Family group photo. Photos of Ida and William Johnson.","Handwritten Cabell Family tree and notes on the Cabell Family in Institute. Transcription of letter from J. S. Cunningham to Governor A.I. Boreman. Facsimile of newspaper ad for sale of slave.","Handwritten notes regarding Summers Family and slaves.","Facsimile of book section and term paper about the Smoot Family written by Marcella L. Pauley Short for WVSC class.","Booklet of genealogy forms.  African-American Genealogy: A Research Guide  compiled by Phyllis Preston Jarrett and Helen Chambers Winston.","Typewritten history of the Smoot Family, Boone County.","Personnel record for Willard Radford. Letter, 1949, certifying marriage of Willard Radford to Lilian Angus in Cuba, 1923.","Handwritten marriage records for Radfords.","Handwritten notes from a phone conversation regarding the Straham-Parker families.","Typed \"Conversation with Nellie Redford Francisco--about 1985.\" Handwritten \"Discussion w/Henry Radford, 1/14/93.\" Radford Family genealogy. Peters Family genealogy. Newspaper articles regarding Negro education in Huntington and Kimball, 1904-1923. Cemetery lot receipts to Willard Radford. Program for Sterberger Elementary School 1999 Graduation Ceremony; Akil Livers listed as student. Funeral service program for Lily Van Sykes Kelly, 1994. Transcribed obituaries for Joseph T. Payne, 1948, and Minnie Bell Powell, 1936.","Research notes on how to do black genealogy.  Black Studies: a Select Catalog of National Archives Microfilm Publications .","The Layne Family Tree and Its Branches . Handwritten tree with Twyman connection.","\"Plat Map, Mt. Pisgah Cemetery, Proctorville, Ohio\" with notes. Request for donation to the Cemetery, 2013.","Handwritten CGW family tree.","Radford family genealogy. Release of note on deed, Radford family, 1952.","This series includes two subseries, General and Black Teachers.","Includes more formal oral history interviews as well as \"discussions\" and other less structured interviews not intended for any historical publication. Formats include handwritten notes, typed notes, and transcripts of interviews as well as background in the form of correspondence and typed and handwritten corrections.","Transcript of interview with Johnnie James. Newspaper article \"THE Man…Johnny James Now Shares Life With God\"","Background research re: changes to social history and oral history.","Notes from discussion with Grover DuBose, Korean War veteran, Sept. 10, 2000.","Transcripts of interviews with black citizens of Huntington, WV; Institute, WV; Guyandotte, WV; and Black Fork, OH. Including Johnnie James, Ms. Bessie Herbert McClain, Chester A. Burris, Henry Pierce, Mildred Loar Williams, Cash Keels, James Thompson, Mrs. Araminta Miller Justice, and James Johnson.","Spiral bound notebook containing notes from oral history interviews with black soldiers, 1945-46. References to color-coded folders. Notes on soldiers' letters, 1943-45. List of themes in interviews. Follow up on specific soldiers, 2005, titled \"Negative behavior of Blk soldiers.\" Diagram of Army organization.","Research notes labeled \"Army Wives Material: Discussion with Carl \u0026 Nancy Johnson Re: Military Experiences; Carl was a Tuskegee Airman. His wife, Nancy, is white\" 2014. Annotated paper \"The WV State Capitol\" with research notes. Emails re: Kimball Wall Memorial Project, 2011. Research notes. Letter to Beverly from AB re: various researchers in the Villages, FL, 2014. Typed notes from interview with Harriet Williams, Lewisburg, WV.","Annotated transcript of oral history interviews with Mrs. Mildred Lore Williams, 1990, re: family history and Cabell County History. Annotated transcript of oral history interviews with Mrs. Bessie Herbert McClain, 1990, re: living in Huntington. Annotated transcript of oral history interviews with Mrs. Suzette Spencer, 1990, re: family and life in Huntington. Mrs. Spencer was a descendant of 37 slaves freed in the south and sent to Ohio. Transcript of oral history interview with Mr. Cash Keels, 1990, re: family history and life in Black Fork, Ohio.","Audiocassettes labeled: \"Joseph C. Peters re: Black High School Athletics - 11/2/95;\" \"Gregory Peters / Reminiscences, 9/22/95, \u0026 Ed Scott #3;\" \"MC (Ref) Edward Greer, 5/10/06;\" and \"Ed Scott / Reminiscences /Korea, 10/20/95\"","Bickley and Rita Wicks-Nelson, as Rockefeller Scholars-in-Residence at Marshall University's Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Gender in Appalachia, interviewed and recorded interviews with older black women teachers from across the state. This subseries contains transcripts of the interviews, corrected transcripts, correspondence with the subjects, and sometimes background information about them.","Typed manuscript for \"Black Education in West Virginia,\" a joint project between Ancella Bickley and Rita Wicks-Nelson. Notes regarding Mrs. T. McDaniel interview; text of interview. Correspondence regarding book on black female teachers. Research notes. Text of speech about black WV schools. List of narrators. Facsimiles of newspaper clippings \"from Mrs. Rayford's Collection\" regarding desegregation of schools, 1955-1956. Newspaper clipping of AB interview regarding MTG.","Handwritten notes of [interview with] Marian Hatcher, WVU English Dept. teacher.","Print out of web page re: Dr. Ancella Bickley and Dr. Rita Wicks-Nelson, 1999 Rockefeller Scholars-in-Residence. Project name: \"Life Experiences of Older, Black, West Virginian Women [Teachers]\"","Demographics of teachers' project. Map showing location of teachers. Narrative overview of the project. Paper \"Mosaic [sic] in Black and White: Black Teachers Remember School Integration in West Virginia\" [by] Ancella Bickley and Rita Wicks-Nelson; paper presented at the Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Gender in Appalachia, MU, 2000. Annotated paper. Draft of paper \"Changing Lives and Potential Leadership: A Study of West Virginian Women Returning to College\" [by] Rita Wicks-Nelson, Lynda Ann Ewen, ca. 1997.","Correspondence between AB and RW-N and others re: book based on teachers' oral history interviews. Paper \"Black Education in West Virginia.\" Text of paper [by AB] \"Read @ WV Sociological Assoc. Annual Mtng. WVSC - Oct. 24, 1997.\" Letter from NB, 2005, asking for addenda to  West Virginia Law Review  paper about  Brown v. Board of Education.  Research notes. \" Fullen  corrected pp, AB,\" 2001. Letter requesting interview with Pearl Swann Carter, 2000.","Release form from Suzanne Slaughter, 1998","Correspondence, edits, research notes with RW-N. Book reviews from The Appalachian journal, 2005. List of women interviewed. Background and summaries for interviewees.","Research materials re: education in WV;  Brown v Board of Education.  Possible participants; call for participants; correspondence with participants Writing retreat brochure and correspondence. Project update to the Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Gender in Appalachia at MU. Draft of summary of results. Summary data forms and interview guide. Schedule of interviews. Letter from parent to teacher, Anna McCright. Flyer announcing talk by AB and RW-N. Luncheon flyer from the Fayette County Black Caucus.","Life stories, some annotated or edited, for Vivian Williams Fleming, Eliza Jane Campbell Dillard, Anna McCright, and Mary Montgomery.","Annotated transcript of oral history interviews with Mrs. Louise Anderson. Newspaper clipping of obituary.","Annotated transcript of oral history interviews with Mrs. Velma Bradshaw. Handwritten notes on folder.","Oral History Review  article, 2001, re: school segregation. Email with list of changes to the transcript. Transcript of oral history interviews with Mrs. Pearl Swann Carter, 2001.","Annotated transcript of oral history interviews with Mrs. Florence Casey, 1997","Transcript of oral history interviews with Mrs. Ottrus Chatman, 1999. Typed and handwritten notes on the interview.","Annotated transcript of oral history interviews with Mrs. Verona Clarke, 1997.","Annotated transcript of oral history interviews with Mrs. E. Jane Dillard, 1999.","Handwritten notes on the interview. Correspondence with Mrs. Elston. Annotated transcript of oral history interviews with Mrs. Mary M. Elston, 1997.","Annotated transcript of oral history interviews with Mrs. Eunice Fleming, 1999.","Annotated transcript of oral history interviews with Mrs. Vivian Williams Fleming, 1997. Handwritten notes.","Annotated transcript of oral history interviews with Mrs. Norma Jean Fullen, 1997.","Handwritten notes. Annotated transcript of oral history interviews with Mrs. Susie Guyton, 1997.","Handwritten notes. Transcript of oral history interviews with Mrs. Willie Hise, 1999.","Typed and handwritten notes. Annotated transcript of oral history interviews with Mrs. Floristine Holland, 1998.","Handwritten notes. Transcript of oral history interviews with Mrs. B'Alma Jones, 1999.","Annotated transcript of oral history interviews with Miss Anna McCright, 1999.","Corrected transcript of oral history interviews with Mrs. Thelma McDaniel, 1999.","Letter to Mrs. McDaniel. Typed notes and pages from the interview. Letter from Norman L. Jones re: Thelma McDaniel and the Price and White families, 2001.","Annotated transcript of oral history interviews with Mrs. Edris Miller, 1998.","Annotated transcript of oral history interviews with Mrs. Mary Montgomery, 1997. Overview for Mrs. Montgomery. Letter to her. Pages of the interview with corrections. List of names and addresses for interviewees.","Annotated transcript of oral history interviews with Ms. Doris Payne, 1999.","Overview for Ruby Brown Reeler. Annotated transcript of oral history interviews with Mrs. Ruby Reeler, 1997. Handwritten transcript of a quote from the interview. Handwritten notes on the folder.","Annotated transcript of oral history interviews with Mrs. Nancie Smith Robinson, 1999.","Transcripts pages of interview with FH [Floristine Holland?] Annotated transcript of oral history interviews with Mrs. Suzanne Slaughter, 1998.","Obituary for Mary Crozier Snow, 2011. Annotated transcript of oral history interviews with Mrs. Mary Snow, 1997. Letter to Mrs. Snow with corrections, 2001.","Transcript of oral history interviews with Mrs. Fannie Ashe Thomas, 1999.","Handwritten notes. Annotated transcript of oral history interviews with Mrs. Velma Twyman, 1997. Letter to Mrs. Twyman re: corrections, 2001.","Includes books, manuscripts, facsimile pages, and other publications not written by Bickley, who was sometimes asked to provide feedback on writing. Forms of writing include family histories, poems, short stories, plays, novels, and both scholarly and popular articles. Other writers include: Sharon M. Draper, Charles Lloyd, Hannah N. Geffert, Peri Lynne Johnson, L. O'B. Thomson, Nelson L. Barnett, J. McHenry Jones, Judith Stitzel, Elizabeth Taylor Brown, and Phyllis Moore.","A Memorial to the Scott, Carter, Mumford Families and the Journey from the Hills of North Carolina to the Beautiful Ohio Shore in the Year 1844  by Edith Dove Bryant, original and one facsimile. Article \"Midwifery in West Virginia\" 1990.","My Dearest Husband: the Letters of Amacetta Laidley Summers to George W. Summers, 1842-1843  by Patricia Clark Bulla. Handwritten genealogy chart for James M. Laidley","Poem \"Old Lady Sady and the Chicken Wings\" c1992 Sharon M. Draper","My Dearest Husband: the Letters of Amacetta Laidley Summers to George W. Summers, 1842-1843  by Patricia Clark Bulla. Laidley-Summers-Quarrier family line","Manuscript for  Aesculapius, Ebony  by Nelson L. Barnett, M.D.","\"…Tryin' to Get Home…\": A Journal,  a compendium of biographies, family histories, community histories, etc. by the John Henry Memorial Committee.","\"The Search for Larry Doby\" by Bob Stitzel in  Sports Collectors Digest , December 1, 1989. Letter from Judith Stitzel critiquing short stories \"The Woman in the Lavender Hat,\" \"Hush Now Child,\" \"Sweets,\" and \"Jones.\" Manuscripts of Stitzel's stories \"My New York Yankees,\" \"Cover-Up,\" \"Hearing Aids,\" \"Unbecoming a Jew.\" Letter from Stitzel regarding order of stories.","Manuscript for book about West Virginia State College.","Correspondence with Phyllis Moore re: WV writers. Annotated stories \"It Ain't Her!,\" \"The Crossing,\" and \"On This Rock,\" short stories by AB. Photo of AB and unidentified woman. \"'Talking about home…': Yes, We Have Authors\" by Phyllis Wilson Moore.","Project overview for Greenbrier Valley African-American life. J. McHenry Jones' novel  Hearts of Gold  with highlighted passages and annotations. Background research materials.","Facsimile of  The Jones Family  by John L. Jones.","Correspondence with Hannah N. Geffert re: Black History Conference and her annotated story \"The Guns of October.\"","\"History of Lakin Hospital: Pulling for the Stars\" by Elizabeth Taylor Brown. Reviewers' comments.","The Plays of Ann Kathryn Flagg  published by Amistad, Inc., Ancella Bickley, Director.","\"Black High Schools in West Virginia\" prepared by R. Charles Byers.","Writings of Peri Lynne Johnson, AB's niece, some with annotations.","Review of \"The History of Lakin State Hospital\" by Elizabeth Brown; manuscript.","Drafts and final papers written by L. O'B. Thompson who taught at WVSC.","Aesculapius, Ebony  by Nelson L. Barnett. Brief biography of Carl Eugene Barnett. Facsimile of photograph of \"Reverend Nelson Barnett, Circa 1900.\"","Paper and letter of transmittal for \"The Peters Sisters: An Historical Omission\" by Norman Jordan. Research notes on the sisters: Ethel and Ada Peters.","Typewritten notes about various novels, movies, and other works. Discussion questions for some.","Inscribed play \"Day to Day: a Drama in One Act\" by Maryat Lee. Article \"'…To Will One Thing: a New Look at Theater\" [by] Maryat Lee, from  Drama Review , 1983. Materials re: EcoTheater including scholarly articles.","Includes black and white historical photographs, slides, and contemporary color photographs. Additional photographs can be found throughout the collection. Most photos are black and white facsimiles of original historical photos of people and places significant to Bickley's research and publications. Subjects include educational institution buildings and students; other institution buildings; the Radford family; Bickley and Bickley with others. The contemporary color photos include ones of the memorial statues on the West Virginia Capitol grounds; Potomac State College campus; Bickley and others; and the social event A Red Hat Party celebrating women.","Photos: graduating class at Bluefield State College; Barnett School Orchestra, Huntington, with Nellie Francisco; school children at Lincoln School, Wheeling, 1912; unidentified football team; buildings at Bluefield State College and West Virginia State College.","Photos, invitation to, and follow up for a birthday celebration for AB, and a Red Hat Party to celebrate older women. Poem about AB.","Photographs of building details; street scenes; two black women [Alberta Coleman]; NB; campus, Potomac State College, buildings including Academy Hall and Duke Anthony Whitmore/Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Academic Achievement Wall.","Photos of statues on the WV State Capitol grounds: prints, proof sheet with numbered descriptions, and a CD. Annotated text to accompany photos and titled \"Statuary on the Grounds of the West Virginia State Capitol.\" Brief history of the Capitol and the state of West Virginia.","\"Honoring Our Past: 1994 Calendar\" produced by the Alliance for the Collection, Preservation and Dissemination of West Virginia's Black History. Calendar includes photos of school bands, Bluefield NAACP chapter, Hopewell barber shop in Martinsburg, and schools.","Copies of group photographs of children and a \"Special Citation Award to Mrs. Harry Gordon\"","Photo of unidentified family, 1901; restored photo and invoice for work, 2005.","Negatives and photos from AB's Red Hat Party","Variety of copies of historical photographs, most not identified, 1912-1918. Note stapled to folder removed, 10/17/1990.","1991 (3), 1993, 1994 calendar \"Honoring Our Past\" from the Alliance for the Collection, Preservation and Dissemination of West Virginia's Black History. 1971 Black History Calendar [by] Raymond W. Lowry.","Facsimiles of photographs of students at WVSC including AB in Delta Sigma Theta Sorority.","Photographs of AB and others at a presentation on CGW at Marshall University, President's Home. February 24, 1988.","Facsimile of undated photo [ca. 1942] of John W. Davis, Charles Rutherford, Austin W. Curtis, L.A. Toney, et al. On back: \"Received from Debby Jackson,  Goldenseal , 4/7/1997. Picture taken during construction of Washington-Carver Camp.\"","Photo of AB with author Alice Walker at the University of Charleston, [1999]. Photo of AB with Ken Sullivan, Executive Director of the WV Humanities Council, 2002.","Includes examples of Bickley's contribution to a number of public service projects both in a professional capacity and as a citizen. Includes these formats:  \nplanning documents,  \ncorrespondence,  \nmeeting notes, and  \nagendas for these organizations:  \n-Amistad, Inc., a publishing company she formed;  \n-West Virginia Humanities Foundation;  \n-Black Mountain Youth Leadership Program, Berea College;  \n-The EcoTheater in Lewisburg, for which she served as board member;  \n-National Council of Teachers of English, for which she was National Director;  \n-West Virginia Archives and History Commission, of which she was a member; and  \n-Marshall University colloquium on black history.","Most notable are the grant applications, programs, and correspondence from her work with the West Virginia Humanities Foundation. Bickley was President of the Board of Directors and wrote a ten-year history of the organization, 1974-1984. The files include background materials for a number of projects for which she or others received grants. For her work with the Kanawha County Board of Education, her files include research materials about minority student achievement, and documents about the Kanawha County Schools Minority Student Achievement Task Force and Maximizing Achievement of African-American Children in Kanawha County (MAAACK). Documenting her work with an organizing committee to clean up the Bethel Cemetery in Huntington, her files include calls for participants, flyers, lists of members, and more. One civic activity with no apparent formal organization includes a meeting with Governor Rockefeller to advocate for affirmative action in West Virginia government. More on Bickley's professional and community activities can be found in the Awards, Honors Series.","\"Notes from Meeting between WV SAC and Governor Rockefeller--June 13\" The SAC [Statistical Analysis Center] asked the governor to authorize another study concerning minority employment in West Virginia with the goal of supporting affirmative action and the employment of more minorities.","Humanities Scholar Resource Forms by Virginia Edwards (2/86), Judith G Stitzel, and Elayne Rapping for the project, \"Reel Visions: A Conference on Women and Film.\" \"Seminar for Professionals Scholar's Statement\" by AB.  The Midwest Quarterl y article \"The Humanities in Public Conversation.\" Publication: \"The Humanities Foundation of West Virginia, 1974-1984, A Decade of Discovery\" which lists awards; AB was President of the Board of Directors.","Brochure for the 15th Year of the EcoTheater founded by Maryat Lee, 1975-1990. Letter of support fro grant to the EcoTheater, February 10, 1990. Business correspondence with members of the Board of Directors.","Notes, membership lists, and correspondence from meetings of the Bethel Memorial Park Interest Group. Various research notes regarding black WV doctors and other topics.","Invitation to Ronald Reagan's inauguration","Correspondence from Cecil H. Underwood and Earl Ray Tomblin regarding appointment to the WV Archives and History Commission, July 11, 2000-September 22, 2000.","Papers and notes from 1975 National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) conferences when AB was National Director. List of attendees. Black history newspaper clippings. NCTE Spring Institutes programs: April 4-8 in Buffalo, New York; and April 25-29 in Santa Barbara, California. Paper by NB \"Mini-Psychological Theory about Black Americans\"","Invitation to Jimmy Carter's inauguration, January 20, 1977.","Certificate of incorporation and other legal documents for Amistad, Inc. Humanities Foundation grant application. Correspondence, agendas for Board meetings, and notes from meetings.","Correspondence with William (Bill) Turner regarding a black history colloquium at Marshall and editing a special issue the  Appalachian Journal. Sojourner: Voice of the Eastern Kentucky Social Clubs , 1989.","Program for MU symposium \"Moving Toward Freedom: Slavery and Resistance.\" WV Humanities Foundation grant materials for \"Fact to Freedom: The Story of Slavery in West Virginia.\" Cost details for recreating a slave auction block. Photograph of 10th and Market in Wheeling, 1895.","Correspondence with Brucella and Norman Jordan re: the African American Heritage Family Tree Museum. Also a Humanities Council Grant, brochures, newspaper clippings, press releases. B. Jordan's curriculum vitia and job description with an appliation.","Materials supporting the proposal for WVSC's The Canty House being placed on the National Register of Historic Places.","Materials for collaboration of Kanawha County Schools Minority Student Achievement Task Force and Achieving Excellence in Learning (AEL). Maximizing Achievement of African-American Children in Kanawha County (MAACK) materials. Data on Kanawha County students.","Readings on teaching minority students, Ebonics. Maximizing Achievement of African-American Children in Kanawha County (MAACK) materials.","Notes and correspondence pertaining to the evaluation of the Black Mountain Youth Leadership Program at Berea College.","Letter from the Governor of Montana. Itineraries. Correspondence re: trip.","Matted print of D. Richardson's drawing of the WV Colored Children's Home.","This series includes eleven subseries which highlight Bickley's research on black history in West Virginia and to a smaller extent black history in general. The subseries include her work on black history for many West Virginia counties with her research being more extensive for Cabell, Jefferson, and Kanawha Counties which have their own subseries. The subseries for Research Notes and Collected Papers are: General, Biography; Cabell County, WV; Jefferson County, WV; Kanawha County, WV; Other WV Counties; Churches, Education; General; Organizations; Slavery; and the Underground Railroad.","Bickley researched a wide range of black history and black culture topics; for example, Aunt Jemima and the statue of a black boy as yard ornament, in addition to persons and events. The research provided background for her writings and was often incorporated into her works of fiction as well as historical accounts. Her papers include research notes and supporting sources on a wide range of topics with reference to black history and West Virginia black history.","Handwritten inventory of boxes with Post-it-Note \"Found AFTER boxing - This drawer-files are out of order so I don't know if it will be helpful. (Plus, my sister has horrible handwriting.\"","Post card from Mabel Hunter with Storer College Brackett Hall dorm room circled (1946). Photo of statue of Carter G. Woodson. 1850 mortality statistics for western section of Virginia.  Bulletin of the West Virginia State Teachers' Association , 1940. Program for the Mountain State Bar Association, Inc. Annual Awards Banquet, June 18, 1988. Partial transcript of \"Interview with Doris Miller, Huntington, WV\" regarding house purported to be on the underground railroad. Marriage records, 1869, Trinity Church, Parkersburg. \"Reading the Names\" program at Virginia Sate University of those lynched, 1868-1935; AB read the WV names, ca. 2011. Handwritten research notes. Notes on census slave records. Proposed black history highway markers, 2001. Newspaper clipping about Huntington Tuskegee Airmen, 2009. Email from Brucella Jordan requesting a recommendation; paragraph regarding the founding of the African American Heritage Family Tree Museum, 2010. Email from David Trobridge invitation to speak at Marshall University, 2011. Facsimile of pages from the Bureau of Negro Welfare and Statistics regarding the Episcopal Church in West Virginia. Roster of Negroes serving in state and local government, ca. 1968. \"The West Virginia Medical Society [Black].\" \"Slavery in Western Virginia\" (notes for an exhibit?)","Correspondence and research notes regarding the black history of Gallipolis, Ohio. Love story by Harry Dolphis Scott, Bidwell, Ohio. Typed lists from Carter G. Woodson's Free Negro Head of Families (1830), Town of Gallipolis.","Newspaper clippings from the Herald-Dispatch, 1981. Brochure: \"Graduates of Distinction: Michael Perry, Ancella Bickley\" from the Education Alliance, 2002","Various articles regarding blues music. Multiple facsimiles of \"Bessie Smith, 1898-1937, A Short Blues Anthology,\" 1971; one with annotations.","Various articles including the legend of Jocko, subject of a lawn ornament, and a 1971 black history calendar by Raymond W. Lowry which highlights achievements.","2 nd Annual John Henry Festival, Clifftop, West Virginia: Herbs and Traditional Medicine [by] Roscoe Leonard.","Typewritten paper about spirituals","Journal, newspaper, and magazine articles about black history, Carter G. Woodson, Nelson Bickley, and the methyl isocyanate leak in Institute, 1984.","Prospective Sites Relating to Black History in Canada  by William N. T. Wylie, June 1994.","Research materials regarding the holiday, Juneteenth, which celebrates the Emancipation Proclamation. Text of two speeches.","\"The Black Literary Tradition of West Virginia: A Bio-Critical Survey\" [by] Leonard J. Deutsch","The booklet (2 copies) \"History of African-American Miners in Appalachian Coal Fields: Black History Month, February, 2000\" Funeral program for Ulysses Grant Carter, teacher at Kimball High School.  A Saga of Service: A History of the Mining Extension Service of West Virginia State College, 1937-1957  by Cecile M. McCormick and U.G. Carter.","Facsimiles of pages from reports from the WV Bureau of Negro Welfare and Statistics.","Correspondence and attached materials from Sara J. Sow re: blacks in Gallia County, Ohio. \"Why We Celebrate Our Culture and Church\" about churches in Lawrence County, Ohio.","Correspondence with and writings of James Fisher, Berkeley County.","Background research notes and materials about Cuba.  National Geographic  article \"Evolution in the Revolution: CUBA.\" Poems by or translated by Nelson A. Ossorio.","Correspondence with Joan C. Browning re: content for the Henrietta Marie exhibit; white women in the civil rights movement. Biography. Resume. Newspaper clippings; article \"Invisible Revolutionaries: White Women in Civil Rights Historiography.\" Program and other materials for the WVU panel for the Rush Holt History Conference. Commentary from John Raines re: J. Browning and David Mussat's contributions to the RDH Conference; annotated JB paper \"Religion Gave Me Power to Witness\" and David Mussat's paper \"Sticks and Stone: an Interpretation of Power and Religion in the Movement.\"","Research materials on many aspects of WV Black history including newspaper clippings, scholarly articles, meeting programs, and the text of an Odd Fellows speech.","\"Negro Coal Miners in West Virginia, 1875-1925\" from the  Midwest Journal , 1954. Reprint of \"Negro Migration to the Mining Fields of West Virginia\" from the  Proceedings, West Virginia Academy of Sciences , 1936.","Handwritten research notes. Research materials re: WV history. Typed notes on WV black history. 1955 newspaper article re: integration of schools.","Correspondence regarding black WV historical markers. Resignation as a Commissioner for the WV Division of Culture and History. Program for Roosevelt Junior High School Award Assembly, June 2, 2000; Bickley is on the program for the East End History Essay.","Programs for West Virginia Conference on Black History at the First Baptist Church in Charleston, April 22-23, 1988, and the Eighth Annual Conference on West Virginia's Black History at Marshall University, November 10-11, 1995","Web page print out of article about Silas Green in minstrel show.","\"Fifth U.S. Colored Infantry\" by John F. Walter, rev. 1998. Includes information on Ohio and WV blacks.","\"Negro Participants in the Fields of the Theatre and Music Plus Associated Enterprises: Period: 1920-1960\" by Dr. Douglass T. Murray. Booklet for The National [Negro] Opera [Company].","Paper titled \" School Desegregation Since  Brown  (1954): 30-Year Perspective\" by Franklin Parker, WVU Professor of Education, 1984. Two pages of annotated text of a speech about education of black West Virginians, [delivered at WVU].  Daily Athenaeum  article re: interview Nelson Bickley about discrimination in housing in Morgantown, 1971. Program for \"The West Virginia Experience in Higher Education: an Historical Perspective\" at WVU, 1984, when AB was on a panel. Facsimile of the pamphlet \"The Black Student at WVU\" 1971-72. Correspondence from the Ohio University Press re: manuscript review of the book  Memphis Tennessee Garrison  by William H. Turner, 1999. \"History of DuBois High School\" from a book. Map of slave plantations in Wood County, Va. Map of Underground Railroad routes to Canada, 1898.","Email correspondence primarily between AB and her daughter Ancella Livers re: access to WWII Soldiers' letters at the New York Public Library. Email from Della [Hardman?] re: Belle Powell and Ravella Hughes.","Includes biographical material for many people of interested to Bickley. Types of material include correspondence, handwritten notes, clippings and articles, photographs, various facsimiles, and more. Subjects of research notes and collected materials include: Carter G. Woodson, Dick Pointer, Henry Louis \"Skip\" Gates, Memphis Tennessee Garrison, John Henry, Ravella Hughes, John Wesley Harris, Maude Beatrice Bell Plowden, Della Brown Taylor, Bessie Yancey, Mollie Gabe (Mary Elizabeth Johnson), Elizabeth Simpson Drewry, J. McHenry Jones, Stonewall Jackson, Gwen McMillion Bingham, and William Cathay. Additional topics include: blacks in WV literature; black women; Tuskegee Airmen including John L. Whitehead, Jr. and William Lee Hill; and black WV legislators. Biographical information is also included in the Interviews and Oral History Interviews series.","Newspaper clippings. Partial notes [speech] J. McHenry Jones including John R. Clifford, Christopher Payne, and black legislators. Pages from a 1913 Congressional hearing on \"Conditions in the Paint Creek District, West Virginia\" with conditional pardon of Dan Chain highlighted. Memo, 1/18/03, from Alfonzo Dalton regarding interview with Ben Carson who was a Republican candidate for the US President in 2016.","Letter to researcher Sean Duff, November 19, 2012, and attached information regarding J. McHenry Jones and Wheeling. Letter to researcher L. Morris Jones, May 3, 1989. Newspaper clipping of article about  Hearts of Gold  which was written by J. McHenry Jones (JMJ). Various versions of \"James McHenry Jones: a Monologue\" by Ancella R. Bickley. Full and partial \"J. McHenry Jones, 1859-1909.\" Text of newspaper article about JMJ's opposition to the Evans Jim Crow Bill, February 14, 1907. Research notes including Jones family history. Facsimile of pages from  History of the Jones Family  by John L. Jones.","Research notes on Guion Bluford (?). Ed White, sculptor, biography. Facsimile of pages from the children's book  Black Stars in Orbit , [1995]","Correspondence between NB and The Association for the Study of Negro Life and History, Incorporated regarding preservation of the Carter G. Woodson house in Huntington. Correspondence between Carter G. Woodson and his sister, Bessie Woodson Yancey, regarding upkeep of the house.","Research materials on Dick Pointer, black Indian War hero, for an article for the  Journal of the Greenbrier Historical Society ; the article; handwritten notes; various versions of the article. Research notes. Facsimile of a painting by S. Ross Browne, 1993.","Correspondence with Henry Louis \"Skip\" Gates, Jr. Newspaper clipping: MU Commencement.","Correspondence with Adolphus Young regarding black West Virginia women, particularly MTG.","Washington Post  article \"In Quest of the Historical John Henry\" by Hank Burchard, August 24, 1969. Press release by Kyle McCormick, WV Dept. of Archives and History, 1957.  WV Hillbilly , June 23, 1979, \"A Salute to John Henry.\"","Handwritten notes about John Matheus, WVSC professor; his curriculum vitae, ca. 1953; reprint of an article from the  CLA Journal  by him, 1972.","Research notes about Revella Hughes","Research notes about William Hill for  Goldenseal  article about Tuskegee Airmen.","Research on John Brown including materials from the National Parks Service's John Brown Conference, 2000; an annotated Langston Hughes' poem \"October 16;\" and \"A Psychological Examination of John Brown.\"","Two newspaper clippings: one about Fannie Cobb Carter and one about Memphis Tennessee Garrison","Obituary and other information about Major General Charles \"Jackie\" Calvin Rogers. Documents regarding the naming of a United States Army Reserve Center for him. Text of NB's speech.","Goldenseal  article about John Wesley Harris. Facsimile of newspaper clipping about Maude Beatrice Bell Plowden.","Transcript of interview with AB by Ohio State University's WOSU about Della Brown Taylor [Hardman], a graduate of Garnet High School, artist, and teacher at WVSC.","Research notes. Transcript of conversation with Bruce Rogers regarding Aunt Jemima and Bruce Family history. Facsimiles of newspaper articles regarding Aunt Jemima.","Background research about the Sargent School of Physical Education; Sydney Taylor Brown who graduated from there and then WVSC; black women in the American Red Cross; and black women's service in WWII.  American Legacy , Winter 1999. Research notes.","Facsimile of pages from  History of the American Negro,  W.Va. Edition, vol. VII, [edited] by [A. D.] Caldwell.","Print outs of web pages regarding the Tuskegee Airmen. Photograph of monument in Walterboro, SC. Newspaper clippings.","Research materials pertaining to Carter G. Woodson including: journal and magazine articles; facsimile of book pages; newspaper clippings; and a masters degree thesis. Text of speeches and programs for speeches by both AB and NB. Invitation to a reception to honor Sen. and Mrs. John F. Kennedy in Huntington, April 20, 1960.","Poems, correspondence, and other writings by Bessie Yancey, Carter G. Woodson's sister. Photocopies of journal articles and WV Collegiate Institute publications. Special Carter G. Woodson issue of  Community,  published by Friendship House, Winter 1970. Issue of  The Journal of Negro History , July 1968.","Research materials on Mollie Gabe, also known as Mary Elizabeth Johnson, midwife from Falls Mill, Braxton County.","Research materials about John P. Parker, a former slave who was active in the UGRR in Ohio. Parker was also an inventor and a business man.","Research materials about Elizabeth Simpson Drewry, McDowell County representative to the WV House of Delegates.","Letters to Bessie W. Yancey, CGW's sister. Research materials. Poem \"The Forgotten Boys.\" Correspondence re: restoration of the CGW home. Carter G. Woodson Memorial Committee and Foundation materials. Text of speech by AB. CGW stamps. Dedication of statue of CGW. Correspondence re: Ann Eliza Riddle Woodson family property. CGW genealogy prepared by Nelson Barnett, Jr. Letter from CGW to Bessie Woodson Yancey. Text of paper \"Carter G. Woodson: the West Virginia Connection.\" Photographs of CGW and kin.","Correspondence from CGW to Bessie W. Yancey, re: house in Huntington, 1941. Book contract between Bessie W. Yancey for  Echoes in the Hills  and CGW's company, The Associated Publishers, 1939. Letter re: book to CGW from BWY, 1939. Letter from John W. Davis, President WVSC, to BWY, 1945, re: Nelson Bickley. Letter from BWY to Louis R. Mehlinger re: loss of two brothers, 1950. Envelope, no contents, from Joel A Rogers, 1951. Envelope, no contents, from The Associated Publishers, 1958. Photographic negative of BWY.","Research materials including newspaper clippings, correspondence, articles, and research notes on Carter G. Woodson; Bessie W. Yancey; Black History Month; restoration of the Woodson home; and the Woodson family. Annotated copy of the paper \"Carter G. Woodson: the West Virginia Connection.\" Facscimiles of Otis Woodson and CGW photos. Photo of Bessie Woodson Yancey and letter from BWY to CGW re: poetry. Edited entry for CGW from  The Encyclopedia of Black America . List of WV Collegiate Institutue, 1920/21 and 1921/22. Facsimile of correspondence between CGW and BWY re: house.","Research materials on J. McHenry Jones including facsimiles of obituaries; other newspaper clippings; and transcriptions of clippings. Photo of Hazlewood Assembly Hall. Notes [speech?] on JMJ. Timeline with sources. Paper about JMJ by AB. Jones family history.","Pages copied from book  The Hidden Years of Stonewall Jackson  purporting that he fathered a black child. From Merle Moore.","Research materials on Tuskegee Airmen including John L. Whitehead, Jr. and William Lee Hill.","Text of a speech? \"African Americans in the West Virginia Legislature.\" Letter from C.A. Blankenship to  The Negro History Bulletin  adding names of Negroes who served in the WV Legislature, 1964. \"West Virginia's Black Female Legislators\" ca. 1991. Facsimile of photo with caption: \"President Harry S. Truman being shown a copy of America's first Black pictorial magazine. [There is some question which came first  Color  or  Ebony]  Left to right: Sippi Coleman, Pres. Truman, W.VA. Congressman, Dr. I.J.K. Wells Editor and Publisher of Color,\" ca. 1948. Newspaper clipping of article re: female legislators, 1998.","Facsimile of photo of \"Gabriel, Pardoned by VA Governor Tim Kaine, June 26, 2007.\" Research notes. Paper \"Major General Gwen McMillion Bingham,\" ca. 2011 with newspaper clipping. Facsimile of unidentified photograph of woman in uniform. Paper \"'Who Was William Cathay?' adapted from a piece in the St. Louis Daily Times, January 2, 1876.\" Poem \"Cathay Williams,\" 1997. Facsimile of enlarged photo of face of unidentified soldier. Summary/timeline for Cathay Williams/William Cathay.","Draft of \"Elizabeth Simpson Drewry, 1894-1979\"","Covers a wide range of topics on the history of Cabell County; Huntington, WV; and adjacent Ohio counties. Notable are Nelson Barnett's transcriptions of late 19th century Huntington newspaper articles regarding blacks. Also included are newspaper clippings, monographs, photos, biographies, and interviews about veterans, church history, education, organizations, and more.","\"References and Briefs to Miscellaneous Newspaper Articles, [June 15, 1872-October 21, 1898, and June 4, 1922-May 20, 1928]\" compiled by Nelson Barnett, Jr., 1988, from Huntington newspapers.","\"Black Veterans of World War I from Cabell County, W.Va., 1918.\" \"Past Imperfect, 1902: Articles of Interest, [Nov. 13, 1901-Dec. 31, 1901]\" compiled by Nelson Barnett, Jr. from Huntington newspapers.","\"Past-Imperfect, 1901: Articles of Interest, [Jan. 7, 1901-May 28, 1901]\" compiled by Nelson Barnett, Jr. from Huntington newspapers","Resources about blacks in Huntington and Cabell County. Includes a bibliography of  Goldenseal  articles about blacks. Other resources are church histories, listings of names, facsimiles of book chapters and papers, newspaper clippings, interviews, handwritten research notes, and more.","\"Progress of the Huntington Negro\" by Prof. J. W. Scott","\"A Black History of Huntington\" by Edna Duckworth, 1976. Genealogy for Edna Duckworth. \"Biohistrogenetics Project Proposal\" to the Carter G. Woodson Memorial Foundation, 1996-1997; Duckworth is listed as the visionary.","Marriage records, late 19th century, Cabell County.","Correspondence with Clara Knight. Facsimiles of Greenbottom Church, Huntington, records listing black members. Records regarding John Ball freeing his slaves, 1793. Map of Millersport, OH, 1887.","Correspondence with Bill Lindsay re: blacks in Huntington and Pocahontas County","Two newspaper clippings: one about Nellie Fransisco [sic] and AB's research about blacks on the Ohio River.","\"A Black History of Huntington\" by Edna Duckworth, [1976]. Census data for black families in Lawrence County, Ohio; 1850, 1860.","Photos of black workers in C\u0026O shop including Anderson Radford, AB's grandfather. Correspondence; transcription of newspaper articles; research notes; biographical sketches; photos of Goodes; newspaper clippings; church histories and programs; facsimiles of book pages; transcription of interviews; and bibliography.","Research notes. Photos. Paper \"Black People and the Huntington Experience.\" Project, \"A Sojourn for Truth: Revisiting Black History Along the Ohio River,\" overview. Research materials re: Huntington, Cabell County, and parts of Ohio. Transcript of interview with Suzette Spencer. \"The West Virginia Colored Children's Home\" by Ancella R. Bickley. \"Poke Patch/Black Fork, Ohio\"","Research notes on Douglass School. Typewritten notes on Douglass School, 1891-1924. Notes from conversation with Nellie Francisco. Handwritten transcription of article, 1902.","Covers research about blacks in Charlestown and Harpers Ferry as well as other locations in Jefferson County. Materials include obituaries, school histories, correspondence, cemetery records, research notes, and more about school integration, Storer College, slave collars, Fisherman's Hall, and more.","Research materials regarding blacks in Charlestown. Obituary for former slave George Jenkins in Huntington, 1917.","Paper about St. Philip's parochial school by James A. Tolbert. Materials re: Sons of Confederate Veterans tablet in Harper's Ferry. Other research materials re: Jefferson County and Charlestown.","Photos of a slave collar. Correspondence re: acquiring the collar for the Henrietta slave ship exhibit.","Correspondence with James Tolbert re: black CCC camp, McDowell County; Black History Conference; Fisherman's Hall, Charlestown, restoration; Harewood Cemetery, Jefferson County; marker for Martin Delany, Charlestown.","Research materials re: Harpers Ferry, the National Park, and Storer College.","Typewritten text of speech at Shepherd College, 2004. Transcript \"Discussion of Integration of Schools in Jefferson County: Jim Tolbert.\"","Handwritten research notes mostly re: John Brown and Harpers Ferry, ca. 2000.","Covers research about blacks in the WV Capitol, Charleston, and other locations in Kanawha County. Topics covered include slavery in the salt industry, biographies, wine cellars, and buildings. Contents include correspondence, facsimiles of documents, research papers, obituaries, newspaper clippings and more.","Research materials about slavery in West Virginia with focus on Kanawha County and the salt industry","Research materials on black attorney Thomas Gillis Nutter.","Research materials on Charleston, WV including: \"Unpublished Black History in the Early Kanawha Valley\" by William D. Wintz; \"Blacks in Charleston, West Virginia: A Survey of Their Presence in the Community and Occupational and Residential Patterns in the Early 1900s\" by Mary Johnson, WVU student. Research materials regarding Oscar Wayman Holmes, the first African American naval aviator and obituaries for C.H. James, prominent black businessman. Text of speech, \"Black People in Charleston,\" 1994.","Research materials on the Dutch Hollow wine cellars in Dunbar.","Documents regarding Samuel W. Starks and the Starks House in Charleston. Correspondence regarding its being put on the National Register of Historic Places.","Correspondence with Eugene Washington re: Phillis Wheatley School and Albert G. Brown, architect.","Excludes Cabell, Jefferson, and Kanawha Counties which have separate subseries. Includes research materials about slavery, school integration, lynching, historic homes, and more researched by Bickley for these counties: Wayne, McDowell, Harrison, Greenbrier, Hardy, Fayette, Monongalia, Upshur, Wood, and Monroe; as well as the cities of Bluefield, Buckhannon, Keystone, Weirton, Weston, and Wheeling. Research materials include photographs, correspondence, brochures, newspaper clippings, book pages, articles, interviews, and more.","Various documents regarding blacks in Wayne County, WV; the Livisay family; writings by Tim R. Massey, 1981; the Lindsey family; photograph and negatives of a photograph of a black family.","Research materials on McDowell County, WV, with focus on the towns of Keystone and Keystone. Letters and notes from Adolphus A. Young, Jr.","Program for \"Freedom Is a Struggle: Glimpses of African-American Life in the Greenbrier Valley of [West] Virginia.\" Brochure \"Black Historic Sites in Lewisburg, West Virginia.\"","Newspaper clipping about Sarah Hall, black lawyer. Facsimiles of research materials. \"The History of the Negro in McDowell County and in West Virginia Leading Up to and Including the Integration of Schools\" by Dr. Douglass T. Murray. Typewritten notes from Adolphus Young, Jr. Correspondence with Alphonso Dalton, Jr. regarding MTG and black McDowell County families","Facsimile of 1952 newspaper article regarding slaves listed in 1848 Harrison County tax book. Slave owners are listed and includes Nathan Goff.","Paper, author unidentified, regarding lynching in WV. Research materials about slaves in Greenbrier County","Correspondence regarding letter from a slave asking to be purchased by Stump family [1851]. Facsimile of letter.","Research notes and resources regarding Glenwood, historic home in Charleston. Clarksburg newspaper article of reminiscences of a former slave, Ann Freeman and others. Clarksburg newspaper article regarding Union Veterans Association.","Research materials for Fayette County including contacts list, newspaper articles, maps, facsimiles of pages from books, student research paper, church histories, handwritten research notes, and grant applications. Correspondence with and Lucille Meadows and her handwritten reminiscences.","Newspaper articles, facsimiles of historical records. Partial manuscript for  To Be Black in Fayette  and annotated pages. \"Black Politics in Fayette County, West Virginia, 1896-1918\" by Daniel Wright. Text of speech by Daniel Wright. Brochure titled \"Camp Washington-Carver: a Compendium of the First African-American 4-H Camp.\"","Research materials and research notes:  Monongalia Blacks Speak : Women, Part II and Men, Part I, Holland family, schools. Interview with Grace Edwards Waters.","Research materials about Weirton.","Research materials about Upshur County. Facsimiles of articles written by R.H. Ralston, Sr. regarding Buckhannon's black history; newspaper clippings. \"A History of Blacks in Buckhannon: The Recollections of Harriet Warfield,\" an interview with Harriet Warfield, 1977.","Research materials regarding blacks in Wheeling. \"Wheeling's Black Population: A General Perspective\" written and presented by Darryl Clausell, Pat Dudley, with contributors Kathryn Snead and Dorothy Cooper, 1990. Correspondence with Margaret Brennan. Photo of AB, Pat Dudley, Brennan, and Annie Tanks at an Oral History Seminar in Wheeling.","Correspondence regarding Memphis Tennessee Garrison. Research materials on Gary and other McDowell County locales: newspaper clippings,  Goldenseal  article.","Papers by Wheeling Jesuit Students Joel Michael Coulson and Beau Conway.","Research resources regarding blacks in Fayette County, WV, including transcripts of oral history interviews with Lucille Meadows, Mrs. Turner, Charista Davis, Lula Lall Jones, Rosa Roach and Jessie Barrett; correspondence, church histories and programs. Includes Smoot family information.","Transcripts of interviews with Alease Watkins, David W. Turner, Russell Lee Matthews, and Elsie Choice Hopkins. Also, includes research notes, newspaper clippings, a grant application, facsimiles of book pages, and correspondence.","Photo of Lomax Hospital in Bluefield. Brochures for Afro-Appalachian Performance Company. Correspondence with Joseph Bundy re: history alive performances. Research materials about black Bluefield hospitals.","Correspondence with Ray Swick re: blacks in Wood County. Research notes. Correspondence with the Wood County Bicentennial Commission re: speech.","Court record for  Mullens v. County Court , 1932. Facsimile of WV entry from  100 Years of Lynchings  by Ralph Ginzburg. \"The Greenbrier County Lynching: a Study of West Virginian Justices\" by Ancella Bickley Livers. \"'Reading the Names,' Program at Virginia State University.\"","Research notes re: Parkersburg black history. Facsimile of letter and transcription of letter from ex-slave Isaac Fairfax to George Washington Henderson.","Letter from Charles (Charley) Goddard re: Greenbrier County history and Sharlotta Gardner contact information.","Copy of photo and negative of lynching. Photos of black children. Note from Maurice Allman, Hacker's Creek Pioneer Descendants. Transcripts of  Weston Democrat  articles re: 1892 lynching of Edgar Jones. Transcripts re: 1910 lynching. Research notes on these incidents. Application for the Weston Colored School to be placed on the National Register of Historical Places. Research notes re: Weston State Hospital. Correspondence re: dedication of the Central West Virginia Genealogical and Historical Library, formerly the Weston Colored School. Handwritten transcription of interview with Rahleen Gardner who attended the School. Transcript of conversation with Mrs. Joy Gilchrist, 1992.","Transcripts of interviews with Mr. Waldo Lacy and Mrs. Gladys Lacy. Facsimile of newspaper article of speech by T.J. Ferguson, 1870. Research materials on the Sumner School. History of Parkersburg from Bernie Allen. Facsimile of books pages, newspaper articles, and transcription of newspaper articles. Parkersburg Art Center brochure featuring Joseph Eldridge Dodd. Text for slide show (no slides). Typewritten outline of \"Parkersburg Study.\"","Facsimiles of newspaper articles. Correspondence with Ray Swick, Blennerhassett Island State Park. Research materials about blacks in Wood County. Research notes. \"A History of Sumner School\" written by Sally Browning, 1996.  The Island Packet  from the Friends of Blennerhassett Island.","Background research on blacks in Monroe County. Correspondence with Fawn Valentine and Presidents of the Monroe County Historical Society. \"Bishop Matthew W. Clair, Sr.: a Biography\" by Dr. Margaret B. Ballard, 1973.","Includes programs, bulletins, correspondence, research notes, and histories of black West Virginia churches in Fayetteville, Charleston, Charlestown, Fairmont, St. Albans, Parkersburg, Huntington, and Alderson. Also includes a history of churches and lodges in West Virginia as well as histories of the Odd Fellows, Knights of Pythias, and the Galilean Fisherman lodges. Denominations represented include African Methodist Episcopal, Episcopalian, and Baptist.","Correspondence with Lucile S. Meadows regarding help with the Second Baptist Church, Fayetteville, Centennial; racial tolerance in schools","\"125th Anniversary Journal\" First Baptist Church, February 1, 1868-February 28, 1993, Charleston, WV","Time line for black Episcopalians in WV. \"The First Hundred Years: a History of St. Philip's Episcopal Church, Charles Town.\" Research notes and sources. Humanities Foundation of WV grant application by Florita Montgomery to study the history of St. Phillips' Episcopal Church. Information on the Trinity Church in Parkersburg. Photograph including some black congregants.","1907 Weekly Bulletin of Diamond St. M.E. Church in Fairmont","Book titled  Miracle on B Street Continues  about St. Paul Baptist Church's (St. Albans) 131st anniversary.","Letter re: slide presentation at the Young Chapel African American Methodist Episcopal Church. Program for the 94th Church Anniversary. Handwritten time line and other notes. Booklet of photographs, text of Bickley's speech, newspaper clipping.","\"Black Churches and Lodges in West Virginia in Their Infancy, 1865-1900\" by J. Reuben Sheeler. \"History of Bright Hope Lodge #9, F.\u0026A.M. and - P.H.A. Montgomery WV.\" Facsimile of pages \"Introduction and Growth of the Grand United States Order of Odd Fellows in America.\" Notes \"Knights of Pythias of West Virginia History\" researched by James A. Tolbert. Notes about \"Grand United Order of the Galilean Fisherman\" compiled by Ann Wilson.","Email correspondence with Adrienne Belafonte re: a newspaper article about the Shiloh Baptist Church in Alderson. Clipping of the article.","Program for First Baptist Church 125th Anniversary, 1997. Program for installation of Rev. William F. Buchanan, First Baptist Church, 1988.","Includes newspaper clippings, text for presentations, correspondence, research notes, articles, commencement programs, interviews and more about state and national teachers' organizations, historically black WV colleges including West Virginia State College and West Virginia University, integration of schools, histories of specific schools, the Kanawha County textbook controversy, and more.","Newspaper articles: WV Education Association (WVEA) Executive Committee meeting, the National Education Association (NEA) and the need for minority teachers; and recommendations from the Black Caucus,  WV School Journal , December 15, 1973. Photograph of Blacks in auditorium seating, ca. 1950s","Multiple facsimiles of a post card picturing Albert Long, \"Bertie\" -- Aunt Onie's Son. West Virginia State College Commencement Programs: 1948, 1950, 1951","Information sheets and travel plans for trip to Egypt, July 5, 1987, sponsored by WVSC. Passport and Visa information written on folder.","Various versions of text for a multi-media program on the history of West Virginia State College (WVSC) and Institute, WV","Letter to Edmonia Grider from Marjorie [Counts] regarding the Hilltop School, October 7, 1974.","Manuscript discussing integration and black teachers in WV, author unknown. Speech (?) regarding school integration. Research notes. Annotated speech: \"Black Education in West Virginia\" delivered in Shepherdstown.","Research materials on the integration of WV schools: facsimiles of WV newspaper articles regarding integration of schools; \"How Black Students Saw Themselves through the Decades of Change at Bluefield State College (founded in 1895) as It Changed from Predominately Black Institution to a Predominantly White Institution\" by James Worsham","Program for the Alpha Delta Chapter, Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. 19th annual Jabberwock, March 16th, 1949. Dance invitation, 1948. WVSC Commencement program, 1949. Washington Alumni Chapter banquet, 1976, to roast John W. Davis. Newspaper articles","Vocational and Educational Survey for the Kanawha County Negro Schools  by Andrew H. Calloway, 1945.","Correspondence, photos, newsletter, and newspaper clippings regarding the Douglass High School (Huntington) Reunion. Notes on class of 1947. Newspaper clipping regarding NB. Photo YWCA Y-Teens, Douglas High School, Christmas, 1946.","Research notes on schools in Keyser and Piedmont, WV, including a facsimile of book pages from  Howard School: a History, 1877-1955 regarding a black student strike for a better school in 1939. Notes on interview with Alberta Coleman, Piedmont, WV. Notes from interview with Opal Coates Carter, and other research notes, regarding Woolworth Fire, Charleston, WV, [ca. 1964s].","Compilation, by R. Charles Byers, of resources regarding WV black schools.","Annotated pages for \"Integration in West Virginia\"","Bulletin of West Virginia State College , Series 21, no. 1, June 1933. \"Why Choose West Virginia State College\"","Affirmative action statistics for Bluefield State College, 1984. \"Pride and Preservation: West Virginia State College\" seminars which included Alex Haley as a speaker, 1979. Newspaper article re: archives at West Virginia State College, 1979.  Southern Rural Women's Network Newsletter , June, 1983. Photograph of Alex Haley with inscription and signed letter from Alex Haley to NB, 1970.","Research notes and materials for research on education in Mason County, WV","Research materials regarding the Lincoln School in Wheeling, WV","West Virginia State College Bulletin , April 1941, Series 28, No. 2. Handwritten transcription of an article in  The Advocate , 1907.","Program for One Hundred Fifth Commencement, Huntington High School, 1971. Photo of AB, West Virginia State College Commencement, May 17, 1986.","Report of the Twenty-first Annual NEA Conference on Human and Civil Rights in Education , 1983, including paper by AB on the Kanawha County textbook controversy and censorship.","Facsimile of a brief historical sketch of Storer College, 1867-1891, by Kate J. Anthony, 1891.","Newspaper clippings and other sources relating to the West Virginia Seminary and College and the Hilltop Baptist Center.","\"Integration in Reverse at West Virginia State College\" by Elizabeth Duran and James A. Duran, Jr.","Correspondence, interviews, newspaper clippings, and facsimiles of photos re: WVSC's East Hall. Research notes.","WV Humanities Council grant application for a presentation on black education in Parkersburg. Research materials and notes. Handwritten and typed notes from interviews with Mrs. Dorsey, Mr. James Emondson, Mrs. Hattie Gazelle Turner, and Mrs. Elizabeth Mitchell. Particular focus on the Sumner School.","Photo slides of WVSC buildings, presidents, etc. Post cards of WVSC buildings and Institute. Note cards from a lecture. Research materials on all aspects of WVSC history.","Research materials on many aspects of WVSC history including faculty information. Includes these publications: \"ROTC in Review: 40 Years of Tradition;\" \"West Virginia State College Glee Club;\" Alumni Association, Los Angeles Chapter, Scholarship Luncheon program, 1989;","Program for Convocation and Dedication of the Harold Maceo McNeill Physical Facilities Plant, WVSC, 1999.","Letter from AB re: retirement of Justine Gutzmer; retirement announcement for Gerald Cote, Beatrice Dupass, Gutzmer, and Darthulia Jones. Facsimile of WWII death notice of Oliver Johnson to his parents and his obituary. Johnson was Gutzmer's brother.","Booklet of texts and order of ceremonies for the WVSC commencement program, 1985.","Includes background research on the Montgomery Woman's Improvement League, the West Virginia Federation of Colored Women's Clubs, Alpha Omicron Omega Chapter of the Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, the Mountain State Bar Association, and the West Virginia Medical Society. Research materials include a yearbook, programs, correspondence, a members list, and more.","Montgomery Woman's Improvement League Year Book , 1955-56 and 1960-61. Program for West Virginia State Federation of Colored Women's Clubs, Inc. Annual Convention, 1959. Newspaper photojournalism article regarding the College Alumni Club 50th anniversary history booklet. Program for the Annual Debutante Ball sponsored by Alpha Omicron Omega Chapter, Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, 1958. Correspondence with Katherine Atwater regarding resources.","Program for the Annual Meeting and Awards Banquet of the Mountain State Bar Association, 1985. List of members, 1986.","Paper titled \"The West Virginia Medical Society [Black]\" Article: \"Historically Black Medical Colleges: From Scorn to Success\" from  The Boule Journal , 2004.","This subseries includes maps, research papers, newspaper clippings, letters, census data, newspaper articles, facsimiles of historical slave documents, and more. Other materials regarding slavery can be found in county subseries and the Underground Railroad Subseries.","West Virginia map. \"Number of Slaves in Counties Which Became WV\" 1850, 1860. Typescript of  Historical Atlas of West Virginia  by Frank S. Riddel.","Handwritten notes on John Marshall; Marshall and slavery; Marshall and Robin Spurlock, his servant. Typed observations. Resource materials.","Facsimiles of legislation and resolutions to abolish slavery; and a list of representatives at the state convention in Wheeling.","Research materials. Typewritten manuscript[s] by James Oliver Horton. Codes for occupations. Copy of newspaper article.","Newspaper clipping and multiple facsimiles of an article about a slave breeding farm in Greenup, KY.","Research materials about slaves in Ohio Valley plantations and adjacent WV counties. Photocopies of photographs of Mary and plantation sites.","Facsimiles of: newpaper slave ads; Virginia law re: Kanawha Slave Insurance Company; Dunsmore's Proclamation freeing slaves; Va. Law to send slave to Liberia; slaves in Bunker Hill; New York Times article re: slave uprising; and drawing of [Harpers Ferry]. Harpers Ferry National Historical Park Afro-American materials. \"History of Gerrardstown\" in  The Berkeley Journal . Handwritten list of properties, including slave names, of Richard B. Washington, [1864]. Letter of transmittl and facsimile of bill of sale for slave, 18[4]5. Transcription of Rumsey-Polk letters re: slaves.","Handwritten research notes and research materials regarding reparations for slavery; text of NB speech; typewritten notes.","Annotated manuscript \"Compensatory Justice: Over Time and Between Groups\" by Renee A. Hill; text of introduction of a speech about reparations; newsapper clippings; web page print outs; articles.","West Virginia and Regional History Collection Newsletter  with articles re: slave letters.  West Virginia Then and Now  article re: John Brown's letter. Research re: images of blacks in journalism. Research notes.","Facsimile of tables of free Negro listings from 1830 census. \"Researching Virginia's Slave and Free Negro Records\"","Facsimile of newspaper article, 1934, re: Mount Pisgah Church, Proctorville, OH. \"The Way It Was…\" by Betty Burcham, a history of UGRR and Mount Pisgah Church. Facsimile of will of Eliza Goode freeing Sully Smith, her husband and her slave, 1848. Facsimile of two receipts for purchase of slaves, 1852. Research notes re: Ohio slaves and fugitives to WV.","This subseries includes text of a speech made by Bickley, books, slides, photographs, brochures, post cards, correspondence, maps, and more. The materials focus on parts of Ohio across the river from Huntington as well as West Virginia. Some topics are quilt codes, abolitionists, runaway slaves, location of Underground Railroad sites, and more.","Research materials about Serena Wilson and the book  Hidden in Plain View: The Secret Story of Quilts and the Underground Railroad.","Photos \"Trip to Doddridge County to visit Jaco Hill/cave - UGRR Site - w/Karen Nance, Sandra Moats, \u0026 Judy Wilinson, 6/20/01. Other research materials","Research materials on the Underground Railroad with focus on Ohio.","Brochures and post cards regarding the UGRR and the film \"Nightjohn.\" Correspondence with Margaret Brennan, organizer for the UGRR Summit in Wheeling. \"Reflections on the West Virginia UGRR Summit\" by Cathy D. Nelson; photo of AB speaking at the Summit and with Amanda Nelson and Sherry [Sowchuck].","Correspondence from Alicestyne Turley-Adams re: Underground Railroad Network Partnership.","Correspondence with Lucille Deberry and other research materials re: the UGRR, some in West Virginia.","Correspondence with Sandra Moats-Burke re: UGRR in WV counties.  Exploring a Common Past: Researching and Interpreting the Underground Railroad , 1998, 2nd ed. from the National Park Service. List of UGRR sites in WV.","Photograph slides, numbered and identified. Research materials mostly about Ohio. \"Draft Proposal to Establish a National Underground Commemorative, Interpretive, and Research Center, City of Huntington, West Virginia\" 1994. Itinerary for trip to Washington to meet with Interior Dept. officials and Robert C. Byrd's staff.","Book chapter \"In Gallia and Miegs Counties\" from  The Mysteries of Ohio's Underground Railroad  by Wilbur Henry Siebert, 1951. Facsimile of handwritten narrative by an abolitionist, [1892]. Facsimile of letter from R. C. Rankin re: father Rev. John Rankin, 1892. Research notes on WV runaway slaves. Facsimile of letter to Daniel ? to Cyrus Little re: UGRR, 1894. Map of UGRR, 1860. Requests for copies from the Siebert papers. More facsimiles of records.","Background materials on the Underground Railroad in Ohio.","Research materials including newspaper clippings and research notes on the Underground Railroad","Research materials re: the Underground Railroad. Research notes.","Facsimiles of documents pertaining to slaves in Jefferson County, VA. Itinerary for Underground Railroad tours [Ohio?].  The Escape of Jane: a True Story of the Underground Railroad  by Henry Burke \u0026 Dick Croy. Henry Robert Burke correspondence. Brochure on Henderson Hall, Wood County. Dick Croy correspondence and resume. Newspaper articles by Burke. \"Black Cultural Sites in West Virginia\" compiled by Michael Pauley and Peter Jesus, 1990","Correspondence with Sandra Moats-Burke re: UGRR. WV and county maps. Facsimile of pages from \"From the Charles River Shire, 1634-1643, to the Present Day Counties: Harrison, Doddridge, Ritchie, Wood, Pleasants and Tyler\" by Barr Wilson. Research materials on the UGRR. Research notes. \"The Anti-Slavery Movement in West Virginia,\" a speech delivered by Sandra Moats Burke.","Research materials re: quilts and the Underground Railroad, 2001-2011. Notes re: Eliza Farrow, 2005. Paper \"The UGRR Quilt Code\" by Leigh Fellner. Research notes; newspaper clipping; facsimile of web page and transcription of story in an email \"Secret Quilt Code on Exhibit until 10/6,\" 2012; and September 2012 issue of Underground Railroad Free Press.\" Mini-grant for UGRR quilts materials, 2013.","Underground Railroad: Official National Park Handbook .","Includes manuscripts and publications for books; plays and reenactor monologues; short stories; magazine and scholarly articles; and other forms of writing in both print and handwriting. Five subseries encompass the various genres of her writing. Also includes background and research materials for the subjects for her writings, both fiction and non-fiction.","Includes research materials for topics of articles. Subjects and formats treated are: encyclopedia entries in the biographical dictionary African American Architects; drafts and final versions of entries for both people and institutions for the West Virginia Encyclopedia; drafts and final versions of articles about Molly Gabe and Carter G. Woodson for Appalachian Heritage; newspaper articles for the Charleston (WV) Gazette Mail and Village Neighbors (FL) on a number of topics including George Wesley Atkinson, 10th governor of West Virginia, but especially for Black History Month and its founder Carter G. Woodson; Goldenseal articles about a Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) camp, Jessie Moon Thomas, Edward Greer, the Charleston Women's Improvement League, Memphis Tennessee Garrison, and West Virginia's Tuskegee Airmen; contribution to a symposium on diversity and change for Appalachian youth; and a study guide for a Charleston, WV, performance of Zora Neale Hurston's Spunk.","Articles by Ancella Bickley from the  Goldenseal Magazine","Correspondence regarding use of the Goldenseal article \"Camp War: Remembering CCC Company 3538-C\" in an online education guide by the WV State Museum.","Annotated manuscript and research notes for Goldenseal article \"Education and Activism in Gary: a Visit with Jessie Moon Thomas.\" Correspondence with Mrs. Thomas including notes on the Froe and Moon families.","Issue of the journal  Appalachian Heritage  containing AB article \"Profiles: Mollie Gabe\" by Ancilla  [sic]  Bickley.","\"Remembering Carter G. Woodson, the 'Father of Black History'\" in  Village Neighbors , [a publication of the Village in Florida where the Bickley's resided.] Typed notes on Carter G. Woodson. Transcription of letter from Bessie Woodson Yancey, CGW's sister, including text of the poem \"If You Live in West Virginia.\" CGW black history quiz prepared for the Spicy Ladies meeting.","Typed text of autobiographical musings about friendship: likens travel in the south in 1952 to the Underground Railroad travel; and includes details about the move to Morgantown in 1966.","Correspondence with  Goldenseal  regarding \"Edward Greer: First Black General from West Virginia\" and potential story about 1939 black student strike in Piedmont, WV. Manuscripts for Greer article.","Correspondence and drafts of a  Goldenseal  article \"Lifting as We Climb\" about the Charleston Woman's Improvement League. Research materials including facsimiles of photographs. Newspaper article about Judge Irene Berger, McDowell County.","Research materials on Carl Eugene Barnett and Robert Edward Lee Washington for entries in  African American Architects: A Biographical Dictionary, 1865-1945 .","Spiral bound program for  A Different World: Symposium on Diversity, Change, and Appalachian Youth,  2006, where Bickley was a panelist.","Appalachian Heritage , Summer 2008, which includes \"Carter G. Woodson: the West Virginia Connection\" by Ancella Bickley","Appalachian Heritage , Special Issue: Blacks in Appalachia, 1991, which includes Bickley's \"Molly Gabe\" in the Profiles section.","Goldenseal , Winter 2011, containing AB's article \"General Edward Greer: West Virginia's First Black General.\"","Correspondence with Dreck S. Wilson re: contribution to the book  Biographical Dictionary of African-American Architects, 1865-1945.","Research materials about George Wesley Atkinson, tenth governor of WV who attended Howard University. Paper titled \"West Virginia's Tenth Governor and the Black Community\" and newspaper article by AB.","Research materials re: the West Virginia Colored Orphans Home. Newspaper article written by AB. Testimonial for Fannie Cobb Carter. Research notes. Facsimiles of photos. Transcript of interview with Araminta Miller Justice. AB's paper about the Home.","Manuscript drafts and final versions for entries in the West Virginia Encyclopedia. Materials from West Virginia Humanities Council meetings re: the format and content of the Encyclopedia","Appalachian Heritage, Special Issue: Blacks in Appalachia,  Fall 1991, with article by AB in the Profiles Section on Mollie Gabe.","Musings written to friends, 1996. Clipping of \"Commentary: Capable of Thinking, Working…and Paying Her Own Bills,\" 1979, Ancella Bickley Jr.","Processor-created bibliography of Ancella Bickley's writings","Includes books written, complied, or edited by Bickley, and background research materials and drafts of manuscripts. Books Bickley wrote include: a children's book,   LuJay, No-Name, and the Parrot , also titled  Lucia Jean, No Name, and the Parrot  ;   …to be black in fayette  [sic];   History of the West Virginia State Teacher's Association ; and   In Spite of Obstacles: a History of the West Virginia Schools for Colored Deaf and Blind . Books edited by Bickley include:  Honoring Our Past: Proceedings of the First Two Conferences on West Virginia's Black History ;  Memphis Tennessee Garrison: the Remarkable Story of a Black Appalachian Woman ; and   Our Mount Vernons: Historic Register Listing of Sites Significant to the Black History of West Virginia .","Typed manuscripts, 1-14 parts, of 1968 oral history interview with Garrison by Bernard Cleveland, with AB notes and Post-it-Note tabs.","Draft of book introduction; correspondence; photos and negatives for book: MTG and family, Gary WV, mining, Edward O'Toole, facsimiles of photos. Facsimiles of William Garrison's obituary, letter of condolence from Agatha S. Lowe. Program for MTG celebration at Marshall. Personal notes of congratulations on book. Photograph permissions. Facsimile of deed for MTG's grandfather's property, Hollins, VA.","\"The Charleston Stage Company's Study Guide for George C. Wolfe's Adaptation of Zora Neale Hurston's  Spunk \"","Honoring Our Past: Proceedings of the First Two Conferences on West Virginia's Black History  edited by Joe William Trotter, Jr. and Ancella Bickley","Text and illustrations for [children's] book  Lucia Jean, No Name, and the Parrot  as told to Ancella. Original illustrations by S. Ross Browne.","Manuscript for \"Papers from the Conference on West Virginia's Black History, Marshall University, Huntington, West Virginia, September 1991\" Facsimile of a book chapter \"Negro Education and Integration.\" Facsimile of photograph of students at Weston Colored School.","Spiral bound  The Gathering .","Our Mount Vernons: Historic Register Listings of Sites Significant to the Black History of West Virginia  edited by Ancella R. Bickley.","History of the West Virginia State Teachers' Association  by Ancella R. Bickley; program for The Carter G. Woodson Memorial Foundation, Inc. annual banquet, 2006; research notes on  History of Negro Secondary Education in McDowell County, WV.","In Spite of Obstacles: a History of the West Virginia Schools for the Colored Deaf and Blind, 1926-1955  by Ancella Bickley.","Memphis Tennessee Garrison: the Remarkable Story of a Black Appalachian Woman  edited by Ancella R. Bickley and Lynda Ann Ewen.","Our Mount Vernons: Historic Register Listings of Sites Significant to the Black History of West Virginia  edited by Ancella R. Bickley. Program for Second Baptist Church in Fayetteville, 1993","Manuscript for  …to be black in fayette  written and compiled by Ancella R. Bickley for The Centennial Committee of the Second Baptist Church of Fayetteville, West Virginia, and The Fayette County Black Caucus.","Permissions to publish papers in  Honoring Our Past: Procedures of the First Two Conferences on West Virginia's Black History .","Correspondence with Joe William Trotter. Research notes. Materials relating to the Second Annual Conference on West Virginia's Black History and a paper on James McHenry Jones. Trotter's syllabus for a seminar \"The Afro-American Experience.\" \"Blacks in West Virginia: A Critique of the Secondary Literature and Survey of Primary Sources\" by Joe W. Trotter.","Galley proof of the children's book,  LuJay, No-Name, and the Parrot  by Ancella R Bickley, illustrated by S. Ross Browne. Handwritten list of names.","…to be black in fayette  written and compiled by Ancella R. Bickley for The Centennial Committee of the Second Baptist Church of Fayetteville, West Virginia and The Fayette County Black Caucus.","Includes full plays, skits, and historical interpreter scripts depicting characters such as: Ester from the Bible; West Virginia men and women such as Molly Gabe from Braxton County; Deborah Lacks Pullum, daughter of Henrietta Lacks; and many more. Includes manuscripts for a collaboration with Maureen Crocket in writing \"Tangled Threads: a Three Act Play\" and other plays. For \"Two Saint Say,\" a play performed at the Central Florida Community College, materials include an audition announcement, program, newspaper clipping, and correspondence. Also included is a newspaper clipping and details about Bickley's winning the Florida Senior Playwright Festival contest with \"Wade in the Water.\"","Newspaper article about the play  Two Saint Say  and its performance.","\"Historical Information Re: Milly, Enslaved Black Woman on Whom the Character, OAGE, in  Toussaint Say  Is Based\" Handwritten research notes.","Manuscript for \"Wade in the Water: a Play in One Act\" by Ancella R. Bickley. Correspondence regarding performance.","Manuscripts and notes for \"Mother Love: a Three Act Play\" by Ancella Bickley and Maureen Crockett. Annotated text.","Program for performance of  Two Saint Say  at the Central Florida Community College, February-March, [2008] Print of online article from the  Ocala Star Banner  added by processor.","Two Saint Say  and AB typed comments","Annotated \"In the Name of Woman.\" Facsimile of pages from 1909 court docket book, County of Allegheny (PA) and court case upon which the play is based.","Correspondence with Maureen 'Bunny' Crockett and Bobbi (bjslake@comcast.net) regarding changes to the play  Tangled Threads . Typed pages with annotations regarding black history. \"Mother Love: a Three Act Play\" by Ancella Bickley and Maureen Crockett.","Newspaper clipping for \"Villager's Work Winds Playwright Contest.\"\" Congratulatory email for selection of  Wade in the Water  for the Florida Senior Playwright Festival. Email commenting on inspiration for various plays. Lyrics for the spiritual \"Wade in the Water.\"","Scripts for historical interpreters for Deborah Lacks Pullum, Henrietta Lacks' daughter; and Henrietta Lacks. \"It Ain't Her: a One Act Play.\" Script for historical interpreter for Ona \"Oney\" Judge; Robert Smalls, 1839-1915; Callie House; and Percy Julian. Research notes on Dr. James Marion Sims and other projects. Program for WVU Honors College Symposium \"With a Torch in Their Souls: African Americans in the Civil War\"","Script for historical interpreter for Charles Hamilton Houston presented for the African-American Club, 2011; Gabriel; and Henrietta Lacks.","Research notes. Text of play \"And Further She Sayeth Naught.\" Text of play \"Heritage: an Historical Drama in Three Acts\" by Ancella Bickley and Maureen Crockett.","Two Saint Say: A Play in Two Acts . Auditions announcement. Correspondence regarding the production. Proposal to produce the play from the director Bobbi Jordan.","Correspondence regarding Megan Forrest, actress. Double sided card featuring photos of Ms. Forrest and a brief overview of future endeavors.","Brief plays regarding voting issues including: lack of attention to candidates and issues, campaign spending, voter assistance, pay for voting, etc. Unidentified group photograph. Handwritten dialog.","Two Saint Say: a Play in Two Acts  [performed at] Central Florida Community College, Ocala, Florida, February 29-March 1, 2008.","Submission form for  Wade in the Wate r for the Florida Senior Playwright Festival. Manuscript for Wade in the Water. Email update for Festival.","Manuscript for \"The Crossing,\" a play. Photocopied page regarding Mollie Gabe and her time in Braxton County.","Typed manuscript for a play  Tangled Threads .","\"On This Rock,\" a play; one annotated. Handwritten notes on \"A Last Right\" and \"A Good Christian Woman.\" Recommended edits to Bickley's writing? Short stories, \"The User\" and \"Feelin' the Heat\" by Charles Lloyd.","Traditions: A Journal of West Virginia Folk Culture and Educational Awareness , 1996, which includes Bickley's \"The Baby Catcher\"","Spiral bound  Two Saint Say: a Play in Two Acts  by Ancella Bickley","Research and performance notes for  Tangled Threads: A Three Act Play  by Ancella R. Bickley and Maureen Crockett. Lists of guests who read parts, 2014. Comments from readers.","Annotated  Tangled Threads , 2008.","Tangled Threads  labeled \"Work Copy\"","Tangled Threads","Annotated \"I-John,\" a play.","Table of contents for Skit of Ester, 2010. Web page re: Esther. Typed page re: Haman, Mordecai, and Esther. Chapter summaries. Typed paper about Queen Vashti. Two typewritten pages from larger document. Letter to Jerome re: return of skit manuscript. Letter to Jerome re: transmittal of skit text and masks for players. Handwritten, not AB's handwriting, notes. Three \"masks,\" made from paper fans, and for 6 characters.","Includes manuscripts and edited manuscripts for many stories and a collection of short stories,  Turn Left at the Desert  . Bickley's stories are mostly historical character studies and include themes such as faith and community. One highlight is a critical review of Bickley's short story \"Martha,\" a part of the anthology  Appalachian Love Stories  .","Manuscripts: \"Gabe,\" \"Turn Left at the Desert: Verbal 'Snapshots' from a Black Community\" contents, \"Jones,\" \"The Church on the Corner,\" and \"Sister Angelica.\"","Annotated story manuscripts. \"'Jones': Manuscript Submitted for Workshop, Women Writers Conference\" and reviewed by Faith [Holsart?]","Annotated manuscript for the story \"On This Rock;\" the play  Tangled Threads ; and the story \"It Ain't Her\"","Correspondence regarding writing critiques. Text of \"Mr. Adams,\" \"The Church on the Corner,\" \"Gabe,\" \"Angie's Uncle Robert,\" three versions of \"Mr. Abe Jackson,\" \"The Battle of the Bottle,\" \"DoeDoe,\" \"Addie,\" \"Lesey, Who Was Black, But Comely,\" \"The Lavender Hat,\" and \"A Day in the Park.\" AB commentary on stories.","Review of \"Martha.\" Text of \"Martha.\"","Manuscripts and notes for \"It Ain't Her,\" \"Belli: 'Momma Raised Me Up Special',\" The Battle of the Bottle,\" \"Bertha,\" \"Friends,\" and \"Martha.\"","Manuscript for stories for Turn Left at the Desert","Manuscript for stories for Turn Left at the Desert: \"It Ain't Her,\" \"Hush Now, Child\"","Excerpt from a review of AB's story, [\"Martha\"], in  Appalachian Love Stories .","Short stories for  Turn Left at the Desert.","Annotated manuscript for \"Bertha,\" a short story.","Appalachian Love Stories  compiled and edited by James M. Gifford, Edwina Pendarvis; includes \"Martha\" by Ancella Bickley.","Parts of  Turn Left at the Desert: Verbal \"Snapshots\" from a Black Community.","Handwritten beginning of a story","Handwritten pieces of writing","Typewritten contents for \"Turn Left at the Desert: Verbal 'Snapshots' from a Black Community\"","Typed manuscripts for various short stories.","Bickley was a prolific speaker; speeches cover a wide range of topics including faith, WV black history, black history and pride, West Virginia State College, education, black literature, and more. The majority of the speeches are typewritten.","Program for \"Mending an Era: a Slave Ship Speaks: the Wreck of the Henrietta Marie.\" Typed text, pages 6-7, of a speech (?) about slaves, Anderson Radford, Cassie Thomas Carter, and MTG's mother.","Text of 2 speeches about Alice Walker's novel  The Color Purple:  \"The Uses of Literature: 1984 \u0026 The Color Purple, Panel Discussion at the Tenth Anniversary Program of the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities,\" September, 1984; and one at Richard Bland Community College, October 7, 1985. Research notes on  The Color Purple . Research notes on Alice Walker's short stories \"1955\" and \"In Love and Trouble\"","Correspondence, schedule, lecture series program with AB's lecture on the Underground Railroad. Typed notes from Guyandotte presentation 11/9/91, and the Guyandotte Civil War Days. Program for Guyandotte Civil War Days, October 12-November 4, 1992 with listing of AB lecture \"Local Black Settlement.\" List of sources by Alan Gould, Marshall University. Invitation to present at the 1993 Civil War Days.","T he West Virginia and Regional History Collection Newsletter , Summer 1989, which includes a speech by AB at an education in WV forum.","Annotated text of a speech by both AB and NB about their time at WVU. WVU program \"A Celebration: Integration of Sports on the WVU Campus\" Correspondence with Dana Brooks regarding participation","Article regarding speech about  The Color Purple  at the West Virginia Alliance for Women's Studies meeting. Text of paper \"Black Education in WV\" read at WVU 6/20/89 for West Virginia Day.","Text of speech about black history in West Virginia and after-dinner remarks regarding social history. Email, travel itinerary, newspaper clipping, and correspondence.","Paper about the slave ship Amistad.","Text of speech re: the Underground Railroad. Newspaper article re: decree of freedom from slavery 150 years after.","Handwritten speech to Mo So Lit Club in McDowell County regarding the history of education of blacks, April 1983. WVSC Fall Convocation program, September 8, 1983; two texts of AB's welcome.","Handwritten poem \"Scamp\" [by Paul Laurence Dunbar]. Two handwritten speeches to the WVSC student government regarding importance of citizenship and service, and the history of WVSC. Invitation to speak to the Student Government Association, April 16, 1982. Newspaper article about black newspapers. Program for the Student Government Association Annual Inauguration Dinner, April 13, 1980. Speech for the Honors Convocation, 1985. \"Remarks prepared for State Senator Marie Redd for Blk History Month-2/4/99\" regarding black history and WV black history.","Correspondence regarding invitation to speak at the West Virginia State Baptist Convention. WVSC new student orientation schedule with remarks scheduled for AB. Text of speech, 1984 and 1985, including a brief history of WVSC and Institute.","First page of WVSC Honors Convocation Speech","Program for \"Building Leadership for Educational Excellence: NEA Mid-Atlantic Regional Leadership Conference, November 1-3, 1985 - Greenbrier Hotel, White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia.\" Annotated text of speech \"A Response to the New Right's Agenda for Public Education.\" Other speeches regarding education","Annotated text, some handwritten, of speech to the Mo So Lit Club, McDowell County, WV. Program for The Matrons and Maids Social and Literary Club (Ma-So-Lit), 50th Anniversary, April 17, 1983. Program and text of introduction of Ethel O. Davie for the WVSC Graduate Dinner, 1984.","Program and text of speech for \"Rewriting History\" panel at the \"Premonitions and Perspectives from 1984: Has the Orwellian World Arrived?\" Wisconsin Intellectual Freedom 6th Annual Conference in Milwaukee, March 1-3, 1984. Program, including full text of AB's speech for a panel on \"Perspectives on Censorship: A Discussion\" at the Twenty-First Annual NEA Conference on Human and Civil Rights in Education, February 25-27, 1983. Correspondence regarding invitations to speak at these conferences.","A speech about  The Color Purple  possibly delivered at a Virginia Humanities Conference.","Text of speech for WVSC Convocation and an outline of speech to women students.","Speeches about Carter G. Woodson, WV black history, her life and experiences, and MLK Day.","Speeches about WV black history, historical research, community service, her life and experiences, importance of black organizations, her faith, black women, race, and black education. Programs from presentations at churches. Letter confirming appointment to the Danforth Associate Program.","Speeches about black education; being a role model; leadership; church missionary work; Martin Luther King, Jr.; taking control; the college experience; community service; honoring Alan Gould; Our Mount Vernons; and black history. Corresponence re: speaking at churches.","Speeches about Black History Month; civil rights; Kwanzaa; women's rights; Martin Luther King, Jr.; the Underground Railroad; MTG; The Color Purple; black culture; Alice Walker; Carter G. Woodson; and WV black history.","Slides for WV black history speech. Research materials on WV black institutions. First two pages of speech. Handwritten text on various institutions.","\"Go with God: Remembering All of Us…,\" Commencement address at MU, 1990. Photograph of unidentified black men singing in church. The program for the 1975 NCTE Spring Institutes: \"Teaching Minority Literatures at All Levels.\"","Text of speech, one annotated, about  The Color Purple  for the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities; handwritten notes.","Text of two speeches about black culture with notes for accompanying slides. Note from Charles Davis. Langston Hughes poem with Alex Haley autograph. [No slides in file.]","Booklet presented to AB after she made a speech for the Army Corps of Engineers in Huntington.","Correspondence with NEA re: participation in panel \"Perspectives on Censorship: A Discussion.\" Handwritten speech on censoring literature by blacks and women in the context of the Kanawha County textbook controversy.","Background materials, correspondence, and text of speech \"Multiculturalism in West Virginia\" at the Governor's Honors Academy.","Newspaper clipping about AB Commencement address at Marshall University, 1990. \"And Further She Sayeth Naught: a Play in Three Acts\" by Maureen \"Bunny\" Crocket and Ancella Bickley. [Speech] re: education in WV.","Text of speech about Martha Toler Spencer. Outline for [speech] about black women. Handwritten text of speech in Virginia, Longwood College, about black women. Notes.","\"Go with God: Remember All of Us\" AB's commencement address at MU, 1994.","Typed text of speech for the National Education Association.","Edited paper about the mission of West Virginia State College and changes for the future.","Items not held in the WVRHC collection which were sent to the Rare Books Curator:\n \n1969/70 edition of \"The Black Student at WVU\"  \nBulletin of West Virginia State College, Series 21, no. 1, June 1933. \"Why Choose West Virginia State College\" \nBickley, A. R., Carter, G. W. M. F. I., \u0026 Marshall University, H. W. V. D. A. (1997).  Our Mount Vernons: historic register listings of sites significant to the Black history of West Virginia . [Huntington, WV] : [Carter G. Woodson Memorial Foundation of Huntington and the Drinko Academy at Marshall University]. \nBooklet, \"History of African-American Miners in Appalachian Coal Fields: Black History Month, February, 2000\"","Permission to publish or reproduce is required from the copyright holder. For more information, please see the  Permissions and Copyright page  on the West Virginia and Regional History Center website.","West Virginia and Regional History Center / West Virginia University / 1549 University Avenue / P.O. Box 6069 / Morgantown, WV 26506-6069 / Phone: 304-293-3536  / URL: https://wvrhc.lib.wvu.edu/","West Virginia and Regional History Center","West Virginia State College (Institute, W. 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She graduated from Douglass High School in 1947 and went on to attend West Virginia State College, graduating magna cum laude in 1950 with a degree in English.  She was the first full time black student at Marshall University and received her master's degree in English in 1954.  She received her Ed.D. in English from West Virginia University in 1974.  Dr. Bickley was a teacher at all educational levels and was Vice-President for Academic Affairs at West Virginia State College where she retired in 1986.  She continued to research, write, and speak from her retirement home in Florida where she lived with her husband Nelson.  Some of her accolades include the Mountain State Bar Association's Distinguished Citizen Award, 1978; the National Education Association's The Carter G. Woodson Memorial Award, 1980; West Virginia Woman of the Year, 1984; the West Virginia State College Alumnus of the Year, 1988; and was a Rockefeller Foundation Scholar at Marshall University in 1999.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eDr. Bickley was a prolific speaker and in addtion to the speeches, she authored many stories, plays, and articles.  In 1997, she published \u003ctitle\u003eOur Mount Vernons\u003c/title\u003e to identify sites significant to West Virginia black history.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eWith Lynda Ann Ewen, she co-edited \u003ctitle\u003eMemphis Tennessee Garrison: The Remarkable Story of a Black Appalachian Woman\u003c/title\u003e, published by Ohio University Press. She has written stories and articles for publications including West Virginia cultural magazine, \u003ctitle\u003eGoldenseal\u003c/title\u003e. She wrote a history of the West Virginia Schools for the Colored Deaf and Blind.\u003c/p\u003e"],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical Note"],"bioghist_tesim":["Dr. Ancella Radford Bickley, author, historian, and educator, grew up in segregated Huntington, West Virginia, where she was born in 1930.  She graduated from Douglass High School in 1947 and went on to attend West Virginia State College, graduating magna cum laude in 1950 with a degree in English.  She was the first full time black student at Marshall University and received her master's degree in English in 1954.  She received her Ed.D. in English from West Virginia University in 1974.  Dr. Bickley was a teacher at all educational levels and was Vice-President for Academic Affairs at West Virginia State College where she retired in 1986.  She continued to research, write, and speak from her retirement home in Florida where she lived with her husband Nelson.  Some of her accolades include the Mountain State Bar Association's Distinguished Citizen Award, 1978; the National Education Association's The Carter G. Woodson Memorial Award, 1980; West Virginia Woman of the Year, 1984; the West Virginia State College Alumnus of the Year, 1988; and was a Rockefeller Foundation Scholar at Marshall University in 1999.","Dr. Bickley was a prolific speaker and in addtion to the speeches, she authored many stories, plays, and articles.  In 1997, she published  Our Mount Vernons  to identify sites significant to West Virginia black history.","With Lynda Ann Ewen, she co-edited  Memphis Tennessee Garrison: The Remarkable Story of a Black Appalachian Woman , published by Ohio University Press. She has written stories and articles for publications including West Virginia cultural magazine,  Goldenseal . She wrote a history of the West Virginia Schools for the Colored Deaf and Blind."],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003e[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], Ancella Bickley, Historian, Research Papers regarding African-Americans, A\u0026amp;M 4208, West Virginia and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e"],"prefercite_tesim":["[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], Ancella Bickley, Historian, Research Papers regarding African-Americans, A\u0026M 4208, West Virginia and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia."],"relatedmaterial_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eBickley, Ancella Collection. Materials relating to African-American history including annual West Virginia Conferences on Black History, 1908-1996. 3 boxes. Ms2003-182, at the West Virginia State Archives.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eMarshall University Oral History Collection, Accession Number 1973/01.0064, also includes the oral history transcripts in this collection's addendum of 2017/02/09.\u003c/p\u003e"],"relatedmaterial_heading_ssm":["Related Materials"],"relatedmaterial_tesim":["Bickley, Ancella Collection. Materials relating to African-American history including annual West Virginia Conferences on Black History, 1908-1996. 3 boxes. Ms2003-182, at the West Virginia State Archives.","Marshall University Oral History Collection, Accession Number 1973/01.0064, also includes the oral history transcripts in this collection's addendum of 2017/02/09."],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThis collection documents the research, public service, and life of Ancella Bickley, writer, educator, speaker, and historian. Includes writings, research materials, and more, focusing on the history of African Americans in West Virginia and the black experience in West Virginia. Collected research materials are predominantly facsimiles.  Printed formats include correspondence, clippings, interview transcripts, typescript writings, publications, pamphlets, ephemera, speeches, articles, military records, and more.  Other formats include photographs, slides, and audiocassettes. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eSubjects include Dr. Bickley's writings, which include plays, speeches, and short stories as well as her historical books, articles and other publications; collected materials from Dr. Bickley's historical research on the history of African Americans in West Virginia; and personal papers. Her research materials include papers grouped sometimes by county, sometimes by individual, sometimes by subject. Subjects of her research include slavery, education, churches, biography and genealogy, literature, and more.  Specific subjects include the Underground Railroad, James McHenry Jones, genealogy, Carter G. Woodson, Mollie Gabe, West Virginia Colored Institute/West Virginia State College, John W. Davis, black high schools, school integration, and more. Counties and their cities with specific focus include Cabell, Kanawha, and Jefferson.  Some documents treating slavery and the Underground Railroad include Ohio from which Cabell County blacks, including Bickley's ancestors, migrated.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eColleagues with whom she corresponded include Judith Stitzel, Nelson Barnett, Maureen Crockett (with whom she co-wrote at least one play), and many more. Of significance is correspondence between Carter G. Woodson and his sister, Bessie Woodson Yancey; and letters and a signed photo from Alex Haley.  \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eWritings, research background, and drafts of Dr. Bickley's works found within the collection include: \u003ctitle\u003eMemphis Tennessee Garrison: The Remarkable Story of a Black Appalachian Woman\u003c/title\u003e, \"Midwifery in West Virginia\" (1990), \u003ctitle\u003eHonoring our Past: Proceedings of the First Two Conferences on West Virginia's Black History\u003c/title\u003e, \u003ctitle\u003eHistory of the West Virginia State Teachers' Association\u003c/title\u003e (1979), \u003ctitle\u003eIn Spite of Obstacles: a History of the West Virginia Schools for the Colored Deaf and Blind, 1926-1955\u003c/title\u003e, \u003ctitle\u003eOur Mount Vernons: historic register listings of sites significant to the Black history of West Virginia\u003c/title\u003e, a short story collection \"Turn Left at the Desert,\" \u003ctitle\u003e... to be black in Fayette\u003c/title\u003e, and plays: \u003ctitle\u003eTwo Saint Say\u003c/title\u003e, \u003ctitle\u003eMother Love\u003c/title\u003e, \u003ctitle\u003eTangled Threads\u003c/title\u003e (with Maureen Crockett), \u003ctitle\u003eWade in the Water\u003c/title\u003e, and seven \u003ctitle\u003eGoldenseal\u003c/title\u003e articles. \nGrant applications and other documents pertaining to her work with the Humanities Council of West Virginia are included in the collection. Other documents describe her work with the Kanawha County Board of Education, EcoTheater, Berea College's Black Mountain Youth Leadership program, and various professional organizations.   \nPersonal papers include material about her husband Nelson R. Bickley and his military career, diplomas, transcripts, photographs of a party she held, and more. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eAddendum of 2017/02/09 (boxes 11 and 12) includes papers of Dr. Ancella R. Bickley, with a few papers of her daughter Ancella Livers. Formats include interview transcripts, correspondence, clippings, typescript writings, publications, cassettes, and more. Most of these materials are transcripts of oral histories pertaining to a collaborative project undertaken by Dr. Bickley and Dr. Rita Wicks-Nelson about black teachers and their memories of school integration in West Virginia in affiliation with the Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Gender in Appalachia at Marshall University.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eAbbreviations used in the Contents List:\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nAB - Ancella Bickley\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nWVSC - West Virginia State College\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nNB - Nelson Bickley\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nMTG - Memphis Tennessee Garrison\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nJMJ - J. McHenry Jones\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nNEA - National Education Association\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nNCTE - National Council of Teachers of English\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nMo So Lit Club - Matrons and Maids Social and Literary Club, McDowell County, WV\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nUGRR - Underground Railroad\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nMU - Marshall University\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nWVU - West Virginia University\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nCGW - Carter G. Woodson\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nRW-N  - Rita Wicks-Nelson\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes civic and academic awards and honors, as well as academic milestones such as graduation and Bickley's dissertation. This series includes materials on the celebration of Bickley's retirement from West Virginia State College.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence from Marshall University regarding AB's commencement address and honorary doctorate; notes of congratulations. Guest list. Photographs of AB delivering address and with others including Soupy Sales. Letter to editor regarding racism of highlighting photograph of Soupy Sales wiping a tear during AB's speech; newspaper clippings. Commencement program. AB's speech.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHonorary Doctorate\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eArmy Commendation Medal (Second Oak Leaf Cluster). AB's Delta Sigma Rho-Tau Kappa Alpha, Hampton Institute, initiation certificate, May 1976\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAttendance, reading, scholarships, and other certificates from elementary through college\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAB transcript, 1951, from MU. Transcript, WVSC.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eProgram for the Fourteenth Annual NEA Human and Civil Rights Awards, 1980, when AB won The Carter G. Woodson Memorial Award. Correspondence regarding the award including 2 letters from John W. Davis.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePhotograph of WVSC President Thomas Cole and Ancella Bickley at her retirement; labeled \"West Virginia State College, Commencement, May 17, 1986.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMaster of Arts degree confirmation from Marshall University\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDoctor of Education degree confirmation from West Virginia University\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCertificate of Appreciation from the Kiwanis Club of Huntington\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNote from WVU professor Armand [Singer] regarding missing retirement celebration\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNewspaper clipping re: CGW. Photographs of AB and others after a speaking engagement in Fayette County. Service Award certificate from WVSC.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter from Maureen Crocket to the Director of the Appalachian Festival re: Tangled Threads. Letter of recommendation from AB for Dr. Elaine Ginsberg. \"Remarks Made upon the Presentation of the 1988 Humanities Award to Ancella Radford Bickley\" by Judith Stitzel. Letter of recommendation for Dr. Bernard L. Allen for the WVU Claude Worthington Benedum Distinguished Scholar Award. Congratulatory letter for appointment [at WVSC]. Request for letter of recommendation from Marc E. Washington at MU; confirmation of receipt of letter. Request for recommendation for Elaine Ginsberg, Trinity University; verification of receipt of letter. Letter of congratulations on retirement from George Parkinson; letter of regrets from Lawrence H. Talley, West Liberty.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMaterials re: WV NAACP Harpers Ferry NHP, 1994, including photographs and text of speech. Congratulatory letter for receiving the Distinguished West Virginian Award, 1986. Thank you for copy of Honoring Our Past, 1992. Many other letters and notes re: service and speeches. Request to speak at the New Employment for Women Information \u0026amp; Referral Center in Logan about black history. Letter from Gaston Caperton, Governor, re: appointment to the Archives and History Commission, 1991. Thank you letter for contribution to Chandler Third Base, 1992. Certificate of recognition for Outstanding Service in Support of 1993 Douglass High School Reunion. Thank you for participating in the United Way Youth Advisory Council's Youth Forum, 1993. Thank you letter re: speech at naturalized citizens ceremony from John T. Copenhaver, 1992. Certificate of appreciation and other materials including a photo re: \"Read to Me\" Day, 1999. Newspaper article re: writing about the West Virginia Schools for the Colored Deaf and Blind and cards of congratulations. Kanawha County Schools Certificate of Recognition and Appreciation, 1991.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter of acknowledgement to deliver commencement address and receive an honorary doctorate at MU, 1990. Newspaper clipping and tribute to Minnie Wayne Cooper, 1989. Thank you letter to Matthew Kinsolving, Kanawha County Board of Education, for plaque, 1989. Typed text of \"Remarks Made upon the Presentation of the 1988 Humanities Award to Ancella Radford Bickley.\" Newspaper clipping and congratulatory letter re: WVSC Alumna of the Year, 1988. Letter withdrawing candidacy for the Kanawha County Board of Education, 1988. Thank you letter for receiving the Humanities Foundation Award, 1988; letter of congratulations from A. James Manchin; and Dee Caperton, House of Representatives. Letter of congratulations from Herman G. Canady, Jr., for appointment to Board of Education, 1988. Program for NAACP, Charleston Branch, Annual Freedom Fund Banquet, 1988, with AB as guest speaker. The Trumpet, West Liberty State College student newspaper, with article about AB's lecture on teaching black literature, November 28, 1973. Program, newspaper clipping, flyer, and certificate of recognition for the National Council of Jewish Women, West Virginia Section, Founder's Day, 1991. Correspondence re: speaking invitations, 1991-2001. Letters of thank you for service: The Huntington Club of Negro Business and Professional Women's Clubs, Inc., 2001; Charleston Mayor, G. Kemp Melton, for Charleston Urban Renewal Authority, 1999; Conference program for \"New Approaches to the Humanities and Lifelong Learning,\" 1988, where AB received award. Newspaper clippings for awards and accomplishments. 1987-1988. Newspaper clipping \"Educator Grim on Blacks' Future\" 1985. Thank you letter from Dee Caperton, House of Delegates, for draft of book about Elizabeth Simpson Drewry, 1987. Congratulatory notes, 1988-2002. Resume, ca. 1988. Text of speech for [receiving WVSC Alumna of the Year award, 1988]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNewspaper clippings, 1994-2002. Congratulatory and thank you letters, 1984-1995. Program for Staff Recall, Federal Prison Camp, Alderson, WV, with AB as guest speaker. Program for Induction Ceremony [sic], Phi Sigma Alpha, WVSC, 1995, when AB gave speech on the UGRR. Program for Carter G. Woodson Memorial Foundation Third Annual Memorial Fundraiser Banquet, 1995, AB speaker. Program for MLK birthday event at the WV School of Osteopathic Medicine where AB spoke, 1994. Resume. Photo of the Berlin Wall, May 1963.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNewspaper clippings, 1984-2002. Congratulatory and thank you letters and certificates, 1975-2002. Program for the Fourteenth Annual NEA Human and Civil Rights Awards dinner, 1980, when AB received The Carter G. Woodson Memorial Award. Program for Academy Cultural Awareness Committee Black History Month Program, 2002, where AB presented about MTG. Invitation to reception for Oliver W. Hill Freedom Fighter Award of the Virginia State Conference NAACP, 1999, and invitation to recognition event at the U.S. Capitol. Program for St. Anthony Church and School Community Education Awards where AB received the Gregory Loebach Award, 2002. Text of speech and program for West Virginia's African-American Women of Distinction book introduction by the West Virginia Women's Commission, 2002. Program for The Education Alliance Graduates of Distinction, AB recipient, 2002; text of speech; newspaper clipping; correspondence.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNewspaper clippings, ca. 1972-2002. Congratulatory and thank you letters, certificates and other recognitions, 1975 -2002. Letter of receipt for items given to the West Virginia State College/West Virginia Black Heritage Collection, 1987. Personal note, 3/26/80, discussing various contributions to education. Photograph of AB. Program for The National Association of Negro Business and Professional Women's Clubs banquet and candlelight rededication services, 1988, where AB was the guest speaker. Program for Berkeley County Diversity Committee \"Town Meeting\" with AB conducting interactive workshops at schools, 2002. Program and sketch of AB for [her retirement] 1986. Program for PCC lecture series \"The West Virginia Experience,\" [ca. 1985]. State of WV Teaching Certificate, 1960-1965. Letter of acceptance by NB for offer of teaching positions at WVSC for both NB and AB, 1972. Letter offering employment at WVSC as Associate Professor of English, 1972. Letter to NB offering WVSC position of Director of Guidance and Placement, 1972. Letters of thanks for AB for retirement and awards, 1986. Notification of nomination for President of WVSC, 1987. Correspondence Re: NCTE Orwell conference, 1984. Notification that tapes of censorship series of programs will be housed at the New York Public Library, 1984. Program for the Danforth Associate Program, 1975, for which AB and NB were program chairs. Program for The Women's Study Club Annual Open House, 1984, when AB was named Woman of the Year. Program for \"African Americans in the Appalachian Coalfields\" at the National Mine Health \u0026amp; Safety Academy when AB gave a lecture, 2000.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNewspaper clippings, 1989-2000. Congratulatory and thank you letters, invitations to speak, certificates of recognition, 1985-2000. Photograph of Douglass High School Y Teens, ca. 1946, including AB. Newspaper articles re: AB as WVSC's May Queen, 1948. Issue of MU's Greenline: a Publication for Alumni and Friends of Marshall University, May-July 1990, in which AB is recognized as commencement speaker; press release; letters of congratulations. Photograph of AB and others after presentation in Morgantown, 1990. Program for WVSC National Alumni Association William L. Lonesome Alumni Awards Dinner-Dance Honoring Dr. Ancella R. Bickley, Class of 1950, 1988 Alumnus of the Year. Dunbar Rotary Club Newsletter with AB as speaker, 1988. Materials from the Second Annual Conference on West Virginia's Black History, 1989. Letter to the editor of the Charleston Gazette re: black athlete, 1988.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRetirement from WVSC, 1986, materials. Correspondence re: ceremony; letters of congratulations; newspaper clippings; photographs; program; WVSC commencement program with AB as retirement honoree.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAB's doctoral dissertation A Study of the Effects of Teaching a Unit on Black Culture to Classes of Predominantly White High School Students, 1974.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNewspaper clippings for Education Alliance Graduates of Distinction, 2002. Materials pertaining to \"From Our Front Porch: Stories about Charleston's Oldest Neighborhood, The East End\": newspaper insert; outline for Appalachian Studies Association presentation; program for play at Roosevelt Wilson High School; the play. \"Testimony of Ancella Radford Bickley, Independent Scholar from West Virginia, on behalf of The State Humanities Program Regarding FY 1989 Appropriations to the National Endowment for the Humanities before the Appropriations Subcommittee on the Interior of the Senate,\" 1988. Congratulatory letters re: selection to the Kanawha Board of Education. Newspaper clippings. Congratulations re: speech's and performance of play in Florida. Commencement program for WVSC, 1950. Text of AB honors. Newspaper clippings re: her writings. Letter of acknowledgement for participation in reading of the names of lynchings victims program, Virginia State University, 2001. News release re: production of Harvest of Dreams by the Charleston Stage Company, 2000. Correspondence re: appointment to the WVU Board of Advisors, 1989. Certificate of appreciation from the City of Beckley for contributions to black history in WV. Thank you note re: women writers, 1994. Thank you letter from James Tolbert re: participation in Black History Month program at Harper's Ferry. Overview of AB accomplishments [introduction?]. Letter acknowledging participation in Kanawha County Public Library Black History Month events, 1993; abstract of talk; resume. Thank you letter for presentation at a Affirmative Action Committee Meeting, 1994; program; brochure listing black employees. Letter acknowledging intent to speak at the WV School of Osteopathic Medicine re: unsung heroes of the Civil Rights Movement and for MLK Day, 1993. Handwritten note of appreciation for a speech. Handwritten note re: missing speech for Black History Month, with attached newspaper clipping, 1994. 1949 Yellow Jacket article with picture of AB as newspaper staff. Clipping re: AB as keynote speaker for MLK Day celebration, 1991. Letter acknowledging a reading at the College Language Association, 1993. Letter acknowledging agreement to moderate a panel on sexual harassment; flyer for the program. Congratulatory letter for receiving the MU Graduate School Distinguished Alumnus, 1993. Program for \"First Annual Forum and Family Recognition Conference\" from the West Virginia Black Family Coalition, 1992, for which Bickley was a moderator. Correspondence and program for Distinguished Graduate Student Award from MU, 1993. Newspaper clipping about the WVSC presidential inaugural ball including description of AB and NB attire, 1974. Letter from Mary Pearl Compton, WV Delegate, re: Union's Historic District. Handwritten card praising AB as a \"liquid god\" able to move among roles, 1995. Resumes.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSenate Resolution honoring AB and Lynda Ann Ewen, 2002. Certificate of recognition as a West Virginia Hero, 2002. Newspaper clippings, 1990-2002. Correspondence re: lecture at Alderson Broaddus College, 1991. Certificate of recognition from the WV National Organization of Women and two 1991 conference programs. Program for \"African-Americans in the Appalachian Coalfields,\" 2000. Letter acknowledging selection at WVSC Alumnus of the Year, 1988. The Humanities Foundation of West Virginia Award Dinner Program, 1988. Issue of People \u0026amp; Mountains: a Publication of the West Virginia Humanities Council, Summer 2001, with MTG interview excerpt edited by AB and Lynda Ann Ewen. Congratulatory note re: publication of Memphis Tennessee Garrison; lecture on MTG announcement, 2000. Letter from the Indiana Humanities Council re: placement on \"Always a River\" registry, 1991. Letter from Gov. Gaston Caperton recognizing appointment to the Martin Luther King, Jr. State Holiday Commission, 1989. Acknowledgement letters as a speaker, 1990-1999. Acknowledgement of receipt of Our Mount Vernons from a professor at the University of Texas at El Paso, 1997. \"Book Notes\" section of West Virginia History re: Our Mount Vernons, 1997. Letter of re: reappointment to the WV Archives and History Commission, 1997. Letter re: WV Public Radio's Cultural Diversity Radio Project, 1998. Letter re: Mistress of Ceremony for a poetry contest at WVSC, 1995. Letter acknowledging support of the WV Humanities Council programming, 1995.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSpecial Commendation from the U.S. Dept. of the Interior, National Park Service, for Significant Contributions to the Underground Railroad Study, 1995.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"West Virginia: a Film History\" recognition as the Historical Advisor for the film project.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eState of West Virginia Distinguished West Virginian award, 1986.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSenate Resolution honoring AB and Lynda Ann Ewen, 2002.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes newspaper clippings and writings by Ancella Bickley Livers (also called Cill Jr. or Cill). Also includes material by or about Nelson Bickley, Ancella Bickley's husband and prominent Charleston, West Virginia, lawyer. Formats include articles, awards and honors, military records, speeches, research notes, publications, correspondence, newspaper clippings, and more. Subjects include Nelson Bickley's military and teaching careers, his uncle Carter G. Woodson, and more.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence with James Harlow, WVU President, regarding tenure at WVU, 1969 and 1972. Army records for Nelson Bickley. Various Army regulations, blank forms, and information flyers. Correspondence and forms from the Veterans Administration. Medical records, 1956-1966\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCharleston Gazette/Gazette-Mail newspaper clippings about AB and NB, 1999-2003\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eText of NB's speech \"CMA's Link to the Late Carter G. Woodson, the 'Father of Negro History'\" at the Chicago Military Academy, program, and certificate of appreciation.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eText of speech given by NB at East Bank High School to Junior ROTC, regarding the benefits of military service.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMilitary and scholarship commendations, program from WVSC Commencement, 1948.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMilitary records for Nelson Bickley including his assignment as an Army ROTC instructor at WVU and difficulty of finding Negro housing. Admission to WVU College of Human Resources and Education.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFolder within 16a containing Army medical records for Nelson Bickley, 1957-1966.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eAkron Beacon Journal,\u003c/emph\u003e December 7, 1982, with article by Ancella Livers which includes brief biography.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eBrown V. Board of Education\u003c/emph\u003e in West Virginia\" by Nelson R. Bickley in the \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eWest Virginia Law Review\u003c/emph\u003e, Spring 2005.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eText of speech given by NB at the WVU Law School\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence with Congressman Harley Staggers, James G. Harlow, President of WVU, and others regarding Nelson Bickley's retirement. Other military records.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eInvitations to the ROTC Cadet Corps Annual Military Ball and the ROTC Awards Day and Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony, 1982. Program for the ROTC Awards Day Ceremony, May 1, 1981. WVSC student newspaper \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eThe Yellow Jacket\u003c/emph\u003e with an article about the inductees to the ROTC Hall of Fame including NB. Typed text of NB's acceptance speech about his time in the military. Newspaper with an interview with NB and Belva Clark about Carter G. Woodson, 1987. Program and text of NB speech, with AB edits, at WVSC for Veterans Day, 1992. Newspaper article regarding NB induction into the WVSC ROTC Hall of Fame.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSigned letter from Alex Haley to Colonel and Mrs. Nelson Bickley, March 1, 1973, re: the Bickleys' hospitality after a lecture.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eClippings regarding the Bickleys from \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eThe Villages Daily Sun\u003c/emph\u003e (FL) and \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eThe Sunday News-Registe\u003c/emph\u003er (Wheeling, WV)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePamphlet \"The Black Student at WVU,\" 1969/70, 1971/72, which include pictures of AB. Program for Lincoln-Douglas Banquet sponsored by Morning Star Baptist Church, February 12, 1977; includes AB as the speaker. Newspaper articles by and about Ancella Bickley, as well as Nelson. Congratulatory letter regarding AB promotion to Vice President for Administration at WVSC, July 9, 1975. Dunbar High School's publication, Kennel, Feb. 23, 1973 and May, 1974.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter regarding AB in WVU classroom. Newspaper article about Ancella, daughter of Ancella and Nelson. Dunbar High School's student newspaper, Kennel, Nov. 1972.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBachelor of Arts degree confirmation from West Virginia State College\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNelson Bickley's Master of Arts degree confirmation from West Virginia University\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNellie Francisco's Bachelor of Arts in Education degree confirmation from West Virginia State College, 1938\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter from CGW to Bessie Woodson Yancey, CGW's sister, re: funding Joan's education. Text of the poem \"The Forgotten Boys.\" Invitation to the dedication of the Carter G. Wooson School, New Orleans.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eResearch materials re: Belva Clark, Carter G. Woodson's niece and Nelson Bickley's mother; note of condolence; funeral program; handwritten [by Mrs. Clark?] obituary and instructions\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eArticles about NB. Membership certificate to Sigma Pi Phi Fraternity.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTeaching certificate for Nellie Radford Francisco, Bluefield Colored Institute, 1928.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSpecial Order lists. Legal case notes? Selective Service Act of 1948 memo.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes genealogical research material, notes, and charts in print as well as handwritten for these families, mostly from the Huntington, West Virginia area and across the Ohio River: Twyman, Spurlock, Barnett, Payne, Jones, Woodson, Wilson, Johnson, Summers, Smoot, Peters, Radford, Layne/Lane, Jones, Straham, Cabell, and Parker. Additional genealogical information is included in oral history interviews with individuals (see Interviews and Oral History Interviews series); the Others' Works series; the Biography subseries of Research Notes and Collected Materials; and other locations throughout the collections.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDocuments pertaining to the Twyman Family. Facsimile of pages from \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eThe Promised Land\u003c/emph\u003e by J. Earl Pratt [1964]. Facsimile of newspaper legal notices from T\u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003ehe Ironton Register\u003c/emph\u003e, Oct. 27 and Dec. 15, 1870.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter from Willard H. Radford and Kim Radford regarding a reunion for the Radford-Bickley families.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence between the Bickleys and Nelson L. Barnett, Jr. regarding Allensworth (CA) State Historical Park, the Spurlock family, the Barnett-Payne-Jones family. Rededication pamphlet, October 10, 1992\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBarnett family genealogy compiled by Nelson Barnett, Jr.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eVarious documents pertaining to Carter G. Woodson and the Barnett family connection. \"A Black History of Huntington\" by Edna Duckworth. Barnett family documents.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFamily line charts, photographs, newspapers, family history for the Nelson Barnett line. Program for the First Baptist Church, Huntington, September 25, 1988. Photographs buildings designed by Carl Barnett, architect.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTranscription of Barnett family obituaries.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJames and Mary Wilson family genealogy. Facsimiles of portraits. Memorial service programs. Photographs of Mary Wilson Johnson and James Johnson. Photo of family group identified later in file and on facsimile. Obituary for William O. Johnson. Family group photo. Photos of Ida and William Johnson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHandwritten Cabell Family tree and notes on the Cabell Family in Institute. Transcription of letter from J. S. Cunningham to Governor A.I. Boreman. Facsimile of newspaper ad for sale of slave.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHandwritten notes regarding Summers Family and slaves.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFacsimile of book section and term paper about the Smoot Family written by Marcella L. Pauley Short for WVSC class.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBooklet of genealogy forms. \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eAfrican-American Genealogy: A Research Guide\u003c/emph\u003e compiled by Phyllis Preston Jarrett and Helen Chambers Winston.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTypewritten history of the Smoot Family, Boone County.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePersonnel record for Willard Radford. Letter, 1949, certifying marriage of Willard Radford to Lilian Angus in Cuba, 1923.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHandwritten marriage records for Radfords.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHandwritten notes from a phone conversation regarding the Straham-Parker families.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTyped \"Conversation with Nellie Redford Francisco--about 1985.\" Handwritten \"Discussion w/Henry Radford, 1/14/93.\" Radford Family genealogy. Peters Family genealogy. Newspaper articles regarding Negro education in Huntington and Kimball, 1904-1923. Cemetery lot receipts to Willard Radford. Program for Sterberger Elementary School 1999 Graduation Ceremony; Akil Livers listed as student. Funeral service program for Lily Van Sykes Kelly, 1994. Transcribed obituaries for Joseph T. Payne, 1948, and Minnie Bell Powell, 1936.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eResearch notes on how to do black genealogy. \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eBlack Studies: a Select Catalog of National Archives Microfilm Publications\u003c/emph\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eThe Layne Family Tree and Its Branches\u003c/emph\u003e. Handwritten tree with Twyman connection.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Plat Map, Mt. Pisgah Cemetery, Proctorville, Ohio\" with notes. Request for donation to the Cemetery, 2013.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHandwritten CGW family tree.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRadford family genealogy. Release of note on deed, Radford family, 1952.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes two subseries, General and Black Teachers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes more formal oral history interviews as well as \"discussions\" and other less structured interviews not intended for any historical publication. Formats include handwritten notes, typed notes, and transcripts of interviews as well as background in the form of correspondence and typed and handwritten corrections.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTranscript of interview with Johnnie James. Newspaper article \"THE Man…Johnny James Now Shares Life With God\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBackground research re: changes to social history and oral history.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNotes from discussion with Grover DuBose, Korean War veteran, Sept. 10, 2000.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTranscripts of interviews with black citizens of Huntington, WV; Institute, WV; Guyandotte, WV; and Black Fork, OH. Including Johnnie James, Ms. Bessie Herbert McClain, Chester A. Burris, Henry Pierce, Mildred Loar Williams, Cash Keels, James Thompson, Mrs. Araminta Miller Justice, and James Johnson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSpiral bound notebook containing notes from oral history interviews with black soldiers, 1945-46. References to color-coded folders. Notes on soldiers' letters, 1943-45. List of themes in interviews. Follow up on specific soldiers, 2005, titled \"Negative behavior of Blk soldiers.\" Diagram of Army organization.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eResearch notes labeled \"Army Wives Material: Discussion with Carl \u0026amp; Nancy Johnson Re: Military Experiences; Carl was a Tuskegee Airman. His wife, Nancy, is white\" 2014. Annotated paper \"The WV State Capitol\" with research notes. Emails re: Kimball Wall Memorial Project, 2011. Research notes. Letter to Beverly from AB re: various researchers in the Villages, FL, 2014. Typed notes from interview with Harriet Williams, Lewisburg, WV.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAnnotated transcript of oral history interviews with Mrs. Mildred Lore Williams, 1990, re: family history and Cabell County History. Annotated transcript of oral history interviews with Mrs. Bessie Herbert McClain, 1990, re: living in Huntington. Annotated transcript of oral history interviews with Mrs. Suzette Spencer, 1990, re: family and life in Huntington. Mrs. Spencer was a descendant of 37 slaves freed in the south and sent to Ohio. Transcript of oral history interview with Mr. Cash Keels, 1990, re: family history and life in Black Fork, Ohio.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAudiocassettes labeled: \"Joseph C. Peters re: Black High School Athletics - 11/2/95;\" \"Gregory Peters / Reminiscences, 9/22/95, \u0026amp; Ed Scott #3;\" \"MC (Ref) Edward Greer, 5/10/06;\" and \"Ed Scott / Reminiscences /Korea, 10/20/95\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBickley and Rita Wicks-Nelson, as Rockefeller Scholars-in-Residence at Marshall University's Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Gender in Appalachia, interviewed and recorded interviews with older black women teachers from across the state. This subseries contains transcripts of the interviews, corrected transcripts, correspondence with the subjects, and sometimes background information about them.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTyped manuscript for \"Black Education in West Virginia,\" a joint project between Ancella Bickley and Rita Wicks-Nelson. Notes regarding Mrs. T. McDaniel interview; text of interview. Correspondence regarding book on black female teachers. Research notes. Text of speech about black WV schools. List of narrators. Facsimiles of newspaper clippings \"from Mrs. Rayford's Collection\" regarding desegregation of schools, 1955-1956. Newspaper clipping of AB interview regarding MTG.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHandwritten notes of [interview with] Marian Hatcher, WVU English Dept. teacher.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePrint out of web page re: Dr. Ancella Bickley and Dr. Rita Wicks-Nelson, 1999 Rockefeller Scholars-in-Residence. Project name: \"Life Experiences of Older, Black, West Virginian Women [Teachers]\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDemographics of teachers' project. Map showing location of teachers. Narrative overview of the project. Paper \"Mosaic [sic] in Black and White: Black Teachers Remember School Integration in West Virginia\" [by] Ancella Bickley and Rita Wicks-Nelson; paper presented at the Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Gender in Appalachia, MU, 2000. Annotated paper. Draft of paper \"Changing Lives and Potential Leadership: A Study of West Virginian Women Returning to College\" [by] Rita Wicks-Nelson, Lynda Ann Ewen, ca. 1997.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence between AB and RW-N and others re: book based on teachers' oral history interviews. Paper \"Black Education in West Virginia.\" Text of paper [by AB] \"Read @ WV Sociological Assoc. Annual Mtng. WVSC - Oct. 24, 1997.\" Letter from NB, 2005, asking for addenda to \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eWest Virginia Law Review\u003c/emph\u003e paper about \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eBrown v. Board of Education. \u003c/emph\u003eResearch notes. \"\u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eFullen\u003c/emph\u003e corrected pp, AB,\" 2001. Letter requesting interview with Pearl Swann Carter, 2000.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRelease form from Suzanne Slaughter, 1998\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence, edits, research notes with RW-N. Book reviews from The Appalachian journal, 2005. List of women interviewed. Background and summaries for interviewees.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eResearch materials re: education in WV; \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eBrown v Board of Education. \u003c/emph\u003ePossible participants; call for participants; correspondence with participants Writing retreat brochure and correspondence. Project update to the Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Gender in Appalachia at MU. Draft of summary of results. Summary data forms and interview guide. Schedule of interviews. Letter from parent to teacher, Anna McCright. Flyer announcing talk by AB and RW-N. Luncheon flyer from the Fayette County Black Caucus.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLife stories, some annotated or edited, for Vivian Williams Fleming, Eliza Jane Campbell Dillard, Anna McCright, and Mary Montgomery.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAnnotated transcript of oral history interviews with Mrs. Louise Anderson. Newspaper clipping of obituary.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAnnotated transcript of oral history interviews with Mrs. Velma Bradshaw. Handwritten notes on folder.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eOral History Review \u003c/emph\u003earticle, 2001, re: school segregation. Email with list of changes to the transcript. Transcript of oral history interviews with Mrs. Pearl Swann Carter, 2001.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAnnotated transcript of oral history interviews with Mrs. Florence Casey, 1997\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTranscript of oral history interviews with Mrs. Ottrus Chatman, 1999. Typed and handwritten notes on the interview.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAnnotated transcript of oral history interviews with Mrs. Verona Clarke, 1997.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAnnotated transcript of oral history interviews with Mrs. E. Jane Dillard, 1999.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHandwritten notes on the interview. Correspondence with Mrs. Elston. Annotated transcript of oral history interviews with Mrs. Mary M. Elston, 1997.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAnnotated transcript of oral history interviews with Mrs. Eunice Fleming, 1999.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAnnotated transcript of oral history interviews with Mrs. Vivian Williams Fleming, 1997. Handwritten notes.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAnnotated transcript of oral history interviews with Mrs. Norma Jean Fullen, 1997.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHandwritten notes. Annotated transcript of oral history interviews with Mrs. Susie Guyton, 1997.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHandwritten notes. Transcript of oral history interviews with Mrs. Willie Hise, 1999.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTyped and handwritten notes. Annotated transcript of oral history interviews with Mrs. Floristine Holland, 1998.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHandwritten notes. Transcript of oral history interviews with Mrs. B'Alma Jones, 1999.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAnnotated transcript of oral history interviews with Miss Anna McCright, 1999.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrected transcript of oral history interviews with Mrs. Thelma McDaniel, 1999.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter to Mrs. McDaniel. Typed notes and pages from the interview. Letter from Norman L. Jones re: Thelma McDaniel and the Price and White families, 2001.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAnnotated transcript of oral history interviews with Mrs. Edris Miller, 1998.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAnnotated transcript of oral history interviews with Mrs. Mary Montgomery, 1997. Overview for Mrs. Montgomery. Letter to her. Pages of the interview with corrections. List of names and addresses for interviewees.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAnnotated transcript of oral history interviews with Ms. Doris Payne, 1999.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOverview for Ruby Brown Reeler. Annotated transcript of oral history interviews with Mrs. Ruby Reeler, 1997. Handwritten transcript of a quote from the interview. Handwritten notes on the folder.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAnnotated transcript of oral history interviews with Mrs. Nancie Smith Robinson, 1999.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTranscripts pages of interview with FH [Floristine Holland?] Annotated transcript of oral history interviews with Mrs. Suzanne Slaughter, 1998.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eObituary for Mary Crozier Snow, 2011. Annotated transcript of oral history interviews with Mrs. Mary Snow, 1997. Letter to Mrs. Snow with corrections, 2001.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTranscript of oral history interviews with Mrs. Fannie Ashe Thomas, 1999.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHandwritten notes. Annotated transcript of oral history interviews with Mrs. Velma Twyman, 1997. Letter to Mrs. Twyman re: corrections, 2001.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes books, manuscripts, facsimile pages, and other publications not written by Bickley, who was sometimes asked to provide feedback on writing. Forms of writing include family histories, poems, short stories, plays, novels, and both scholarly and popular articles. Other writers include: Sharon M. Draper, Charles Lloyd, Hannah N. Geffert, Peri Lynne Johnson, L. O'B. Thomson, Nelson L. Barnett, J. McHenry Jones, Judith Stitzel, Elizabeth Taylor Brown, and Phyllis Moore.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eA Memorial to the Scott, Carter, Mumford Families and the Journey from the Hills of North Carolina to the Beautiful Ohio Shore in the Year 1844\u003c/emph\u003e by Edith Dove Bryant, original and one facsimile. Article \"Midwifery in West Virginia\" 1990.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eMy Dearest Husband: the Letters of Amacetta Laidley Summers to George W. Summers, 1842-1843 \u003c/emph\u003eby Patricia Clark Bulla. Handwritten genealogy chart for James M. Laidley\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePoem \"Old Lady Sady and the Chicken Wings\" c1992 Sharon M. Draper\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eMy Dearest Husband: the Letters of Amacetta Laidley Summers to George W. Summers, 1842-1843\u003c/emph\u003e by Patricia Clark Bulla. Laidley-Summers-Quarrier family line\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eManuscript for \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eAesculapius, Ebony \u003c/emph\u003eby Nelson L. Barnett, M.D.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003e\"…Tryin' to Get Home…\": A Journal, \u003c/emph\u003ea compendium of biographies, family histories, community histories, etc. by the John Henry Memorial Committee.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"The Search for Larry Doby\" by Bob Stitzel in \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eSports Collectors Digest\u003c/emph\u003e, December 1, 1989. Letter from Judith Stitzel critiquing short stories \"The Woman in the Lavender Hat,\" \"Hush Now Child,\" \"Sweets,\" and \"Jones.\" Manuscripts of Stitzel's stories \"My New York Yankees,\" \"Cover-Up,\" \"Hearing Aids,\" \"Unbecoming a Jew.\" Letter from Stitzel regarding order of stories.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eManuscript for book about West Virginia State College.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence with Phyllis Moore re: WV writers. Annotated stories \"It Ain't Her!,\" \"The Crossing,\" and \"On This Rock,\" short stories by AB. Photo of AB and unidentified woman. \"'Talking about home…': Yes, We Have Authors\" by Phyllis Wilson Moore.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eProject overview for Greenbrier Valley African-American life. J. McHenry Jones' novel \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eHearts of Gold\u003c/emph\u003e with highlighted passages and annotations. Background research materials.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFacsimile of \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eThe Jones Family\u003c/emph\u003e by John L. Jones.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence with Hannah N. Geffert re: Black History Conference and her annotated story \"The Guns of October.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"History of Lakin Hospital: Pulling for the Stars\" by Elizabeth Taylor Brown. Reviewers' comments.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eThe Plays of Ann Kathryn Flagg\u003c/emph\u003e published by Amistad, Inc., Ancella Bickley, Director.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Black High Schools in West Virginia\" prepared by R. Charles Byers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWritings of Peri Lynne Johnson, AB's niece, some with annotations.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReview of \"The History of Lakin State Hospital\" by Elizabeth Brown; manuscript.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDrafts and final papers written by L. O'B. Thompson who taught at WVSC.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eAesculapius, Ebony\u003c/emph\u003e by Nelson L. Barnett. Brief biography of Carl Eugene Barnett. Facsimile of photograph of \"Reverend Nelson Barnett, Circa 1900.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePaper and letter of transmittal for \"The Peters Sisters: An Historical Omission\" by Norman Jordan. Research notes on the sisters: Ethel and Ada Peters.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTypewritten notes about various novels, movies, and other works. Discussion questions for some.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eInscribed play \"Day to Day: a Drama in One Act\" by Maryat Lee. Article \"'…To Will One Thing: a New Look at Theater\" [by] Maryat Lee, from\u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003e Drama Review\u003c/emph\u003e, 1983. Materials re: EcoTheater including scholarly articles.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes black and white historical photographs, slides, and contemporary color photographs. Additional photographs can be found throughout the collection. Most photos are black and white facsimiles of original historical photos of people and places significant to Bickley's research and publications. Subjects include educational institution buildings and students; other institution buildings; the Radford family; Bickley and Bickley with others. The contemporary color photos include ones of the memorial statues on the West Virginia Capitol grounds; Potomac State College campus; Bickley and others; and the social event A Red Hat Party celebrating women.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePhotos: graduating class at Bluefield State College; Barnett School Orchestra, Huntington, with Nellie Francisco; school children at Lincoln School, Wheeling, 1912; unidentified football team; buildings at Bluefield State College and West Virginia State College.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePhotos, invitation to, and follow up for a birthday celebration for AB, and a Red Hat Party to celebrate older women. Poem about AB.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePhotographs of building details; street scenes; two black women [Alberta Coleman]; NB; campus, Potomac State College, buildings including Academy Hall and Duke Anthony Whitmore/Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Academic Achievement Wall.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePhotos of statues on the WV State Capitol grounds: prints, proof sheet with numbered descriptions, and a CD. Annotated text to accompany photos and titled \"Statuary on the Grounds of the West Virginia State Capitol.\" Brief history of the Capitol and the state of West Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Honoring Our Past: 1994 Calendar\" produced by the Alliance for the Collection, Preservation and Dissemination of West Virginia's Black History. Calendar includes photos of school bands, Bluefield NAACP chapter, Hopewell barber shop in Martinsburg, and schools.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCopies of group photographs of children and a \"Special Citation Award to Mrs. Harry Gordon\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePhoto of unidentified family, 1901; restored photo and invoice for work, 2005.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNegatives and photos from AB's Red Hat Party\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eVariety of copies of historical photographs, most not identified, 1912-1918. Note stapled to folder removed, 10/17/1990.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1991 (3), 1993, 1994 calendar \"Honoring Our Past\" from the Alliance for the Collection, Preservation and Dissemination of West Virginia's Black History. 1971 Black History Calendar [by] Raymond W. Lowry.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFacsimiles of photographs of students at WVSC including AB in Delta Sigma Theta Sorority.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePhotographs of AB and others at a presentation on CGW at Marshall University, President's Home. February 24, 1988.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFacsimile of undated photo [ca. 1942] of John W. Davis, Charles Rutherford, Austin W. Curtis, L.A. Toney, et al. On back: \"Received from Debby Jackson, \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eGoldenseal\u003c/emph\u003e, 4/7/1997. Picture taken during construction of Washington-Carver Camp.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePhoto of AB with author Alice Walker at the University of Charleston, [1999]. Photo of AB with Ken Sullivan, Executive Director of the WV Humanities Council, 2002.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes examples of Bickley's contribution to a number of public service projects both in a professional capacity and as a citizen. Includes these formats: \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nplanning documents, \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\ncorrespondence, \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nmeeting notes, and \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nagendas for these organizations: \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\n-Amistad, Inc., a publishing company she formed; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\n-West Virginia Humanities Foundation; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\n-Black Mountain Youth Leadership Program, Berea College; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\n-The EcoTheater in Lewisburg, for which she served as board member; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\n-National Council of Teachers of English, for which she was National Director; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\n-West Virginia Archives and History Commission, of which she was a member; and \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\n-Marshall University colloquium on black history.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eMost notable are the grant applications, programs, and correspondence from her work with the West Virginia Humanities Foundation. Bickley was President of the Board of Directors and wrote a ten-year history of the organization, 1974-1984. The files include background materials for a number of projects for which she or others received grants. For her work with the Kanawha County Board of Education, her files include research materials about minority student achievement, and documents about the Kanawha County Schools Minority Student Achievement Task Force and Maximizing Achievement of African-American Children in Kanawha County (MAAACK). Documenting her work with an organizing committee to clean up the Bethel Cemetery in Huntington, her files include calls for participants, flyers, lists of members, and more. One civic activity with no apparent formal organization includes a meeting with Governor Rockefeller to advocate for affirmative action in West Virginia government. More on Bickley's professional and community activities can be found in the Awards, Honors Series.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Notes from Meeting between WV SAC and Governor Rockefeller--June 13\" The SAC [Statistical Analysis Center] asked the governor to authorize another study concerning minority employment in West Virginia with the goal of supporting affirmative action and the employment of more minorities.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHumanities Scholar Resource Forms by Virginia Edwards (2/86), Judith G Stitzel, and Elayne Rapping for the project, \"Reel Visions: A Conference on Women and Film.\" \"Seminar for Professionals Scholar's Statement\" by AB. \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eThe Midwest Quarterl\u003c/emph\u003ey article \"The Humanities in Public Conversation.\" Publication: \"The Humanities Foundation of West Virginia, 1974-1984, A Decade of Discovery\" which lists awards; AB was President of the Board of Directors.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBrochure for the 15th Year of the EcoTheater founded by Maryat Lee, 1975-1990. Letter of support fro grant to the EcoTheater, February 10, 1990. Business correspondence with members of the Board of Directors.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNotes, membership lists, and correspondence from meetings of the Bethel Memorial Park Interest Group. Various research notes regarding black WV doctors and other topics.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eInvitation to Ronald Reagan's inauguration\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence from Cecil H. Underwood and Earl Ray Tomblin regarding appointment to the WV Archives and History Commission, July 11, 2000-September 22, 2000.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePapers and notes from 1975 National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) conferences when AB was National Director. List of attendees. Black history newspaper clippings. NCTE Spring Institutes programs: April 4-8 in Buffalo, New York; and April 25-29 in Santa Barbara, California. Paper by NB \"Mini-Psychological Theory about Black Americans\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eInvitation to Jimmy Carter's inauguration, January 20, 1977.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCertificate of incorporation and other legal documents for Amistad, Inc. Humanities Foundation grant application. Correspondence, agendas for Board meetings, and notes from meetings.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence with William (Bill) Turner regarding a black history colloquium at Marshall and editing a special issue the \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eAppalachian Journal.\u003c/emph\u003e \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eSojourner: Voice of the Eastern Kentucky Social Clubs\u003c/emph\u003e, 1989.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eProgram for MU symposium \"Moving Toward Freedom: Slavery and Resistance.\" WV Humanities Foundation grant materials for \"Fact to Freedom: The Story of Slavery in West Virginia.\" Cost details for recreating a slave auction block. Photograph of 10th and Market in Wheeling, 1895.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence with Brucella and Norman Jordan re: the African American Heritage Family Tree Museum. Also a Humanities Council Grant, brochures, newspaper clippings, press releases. B. Jordan's curriculum vitia and job description with an appliation.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMaterials supporting the proposal for WVSC's The Canty House being placed on the National Register of Historic Places.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMaterials for collaboration of Kanawha County Schools Minority Student Achievement Task Force and Achieving Excellence in Learning (AEL). Maximizing Achievement of African-American Children in Kanawha County (MAACK) materials. Data on Kanawha County students.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReadings on teaching minority students, Ebonics. Maximizing Achievement of African-American Children in Kanawha County (MAACK) materials.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNotes and correspondence pertaining to the evaluation of the Black Mountain Youth Leadership Program at Berea College.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter from the Governor of Montana. Itineraries. Correspondence re: trip.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMatted print of D. Richardson's drawing of the WV Colored Children's Home.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes eleven subseries which highlight Bickley's research on black history in West Virginia and to a smaller extent black history in general. The subseries include her work on black history for many West Virginia counties with her research being more extensive for Cabell, Jefferson, and Kanawha Counties which have their own subseries. The subseries for Research Notes and Collected Papers are: General, Biography; Cabell County, WV; Jefferson County, WV; Kanawha County, WV; Other WV Counties; Churches, Education; General; Organizations; Slavery; and the Underground Railroad.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBickley researched a wide range of black history and black culture topics; for example, Aunt Jemima and the statue of a black boy as yard ornament, in addition to persons and events. The research provided background for her writings and was often incorporated into her works of fiction as well as historical accounts. Her papers include research notes and supporting sources on a wide range of topics with reference to black history and West Virginia black history.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHandwritten inventory of boxes with Post-it-Note \"Found AFTER boxing - This drawer-files are out of order so I don't know if it will be helpful. (Plus, my sister has horrible handwriting.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePost card from Mabel Hunter with Storer College Brackett Hall dorm room circled (1946). Photo of statue of Carter G. Woodson. 1850 mortality statistics for western section of Virginia. \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eBulletin of the West Virginia State Teachers' Association\u003c/emph\u003e, 1940. Program for the Mountain State Bar Association, Inc. Annual Awards Banquet, June 18, 1988. Partial transcript of \"Interview with Doris Miller, Huntington, WV\" regarding house purported to be on the underground railroad. Marriage records, 1869, Trinity Church, Parkersburg. \"Reading the Names\" program at Virginia Sate University of those lynched, 1868-1935; AB read the WV names, ca. 2011. Handwritten research notes. Notes on census slave records. Proposed black history highway markers, 2001. Newspaper clipping about Huntington Tuskegee Airmen, 2009. Email from Brucella Jordan requesting a recommendation; paragraph regarding the founding of the African American Heritage Family Tree Museum, 2010. Email from David Trobridge invitation to speak at Marshall University, 2011. Facsimile of pages from the Bureau of Negro Welfare and Statistics regarding the Episcopal Church in West Virginia. Roster of Negroes serving in state and local government, ca. 1968. \"The West Virginia Medical Society [Black].\" \"Slavery in Western Virginia\" (notes for an exhibit?)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence and research notes regarding the black history of Gallipolis, Ohio. Love story by Harry Dolphis Scott, Bidwell, Ohio. Typed lists from Carter G. Woodson's Free Negro Head of Families (1830), Town of Gallipolis.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNewspaper clippings from the Herald-Dispatch, 1981. Brochure: \"Graduates of Distinction: Michael Perry, Ancella Bickley\" from the Education Alliance, 2002\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eVarious articles regarding blues music. Multiple facsimiles of \"Bessie Smith, 1898-1937, A Short Blues Anthology,\" 1971; one with annotations.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eVarious articles including the legend of Jocko, subject of a lawn ornament, and a 1971 black history calendar by Raymond W. Lowry which highlights achievements.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e2\u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003end Annual John Henry Festival, Clifftop, West Virginia: Herbs and Traditional Medicine\u003c/emph\u003e[by] Roscoe Leonard.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTypewritten paper about spirituals\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJournal, newspaper, and magazine articles about black history, Carter G. Woodson, Nelson Bickley, and the methyl isocyanate leak in Institute, 1984.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eProspective Sites Relating to Black History in Canada\u003c/emph\u003e by William N. T. Wylie, June 1994.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eResearch materials regarding the holiday, Juneteenth, which celebrates the Emancipation Proclamation. Text of two speeches.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"The Black Literary Tradition of West Virginia: A Bio-Critical Survey\" [by] Leonard J. Deutsch\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe booklet (2 copies) \"History of African-American Miners in Appalachian Coal Fields: Black History Month, February, 2000\" Funeral program for Ulysses Grant Carter, teacher at Kimball High School. \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eA Saga of Service: A History of the Mining Extension Service of West Virginia State College, 1937-1957\u003c/emph\u003e by Cecile M. McCormick and U.G. Carter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFacsimiles of pages from reports from the WV Bureau of Negro Welfare and Statistics.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence and attached materials from Sara J. Sow re: blacks in Gallia County, Ohio. \"Why We Celebrate Our Culture and Church\" about churches in Lawrence County, Ohio.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence with and writings of James Fisher, Berkeley County.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBackground research notes and materials about Cuba. \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eNational Geographic\u003c/emph\u003e article \"Evolution in the Revolution: CUBA.\" Poems by or translated by Nelson A. Ossorio.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence with Joan C. Browning re: content for the Henrietta Marie exhibit; white women in the civil rights movement. Biography. Resume. Newspaper clippings; article \"Invisible Revolutionaries: White Women in Civil Rights Historiography.\" Program and other materials for the WVU panel for the Rush Holt History Conference. Commentary from John Raines re: J. Browning and David Mussat's contributions to the RDH Conference; annotated JB paper \"Religion Gave Me Power to Witness\" and David Mussat's paper \"Sticks and Stone: an Interpretation of Power and Religion in the Movement.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eResearch materials on many aspects of WV Black history including newspaper clippings, scholarly articles, meeting programs, and the text of an Odd Fellows speech.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Negro Coal Miners in West Virginia, 1875-1925\" from the \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eMidwest Journal\u003c/emph\u003e, 1954. Reprint of \"Negro Migration to the Mining Fields of West Virginia\" from the \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eProceedings, West Virginia Academy of Sciences\u003c/emph\u003e, 1936.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHandwritten research notes. Research materials re: WV history. Typed notes on WV black history. 1955 newspaper article re: integration of schools.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence regarding black WV historical markers. Resignation as a Commissioner for the WV Division of Culture and History. Program for Roosevelt Junior High School Award Assembly, June 2, 2000; Bickley is on the program for the East End History Essay.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePrograms for West Virginia Conference on Black History at the First Baptist Church in Charleston, April 22-23, 1988, and the Eighth Annual Conference on West Virginia's Black History at Marshall University, November 10-11, 1995\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWeb page print out of article about Silas Green in minstrel show.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Fifth U.S. Colored Infantry\" by John F. Walter, rev. 1998. Includes information on Ohio and WV blacks.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Negro Participants in the Fields of the Theatre and Music Plus Associated Enterprises: Period: 1920-1960\" by Dr. Douglass T. Murray. Booklet for The National [Negro] Opera [Company].\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePaper titled \" School Desegregation Since \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eBrown\u003c/emph\u003e (1954): 30-Year Perspective\" by Franklin Parker, WVU Professor of Education, 1984. Two pages of annotated text of a speech about education of black West Virginians, [delivered at WVU]. \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eDaily Athenaeum \u003c/emph\u003earticle re: interview Nelson Bickley about discrimination in housing in Morgantown, 1971. Program for \"The West Virginia Experience in Higher Education: an Historical Perspective\" at WVU, 1984, when AB was on a panel. Facsimile of the pamphlet \"The Black Student at WVU\" 1971-72. Correspondence from the Ohio University Press re: manuscript review of the book \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eMemphis Tennessee Garrison\u003c/emph\u003e by William H. Turner, 1999. \"History of DuBois High School\" from a book. Map of slave plantations in Wood County, Va. Map of Underground Railroad routes to Canada, 1898.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEmail correspondence primarily between AB and her daughter Ancella Livers re: access to WWII Soldiers' letters at the New York Public Library. Email from Della [Hardman?] re: Belle Powell and Ravella Hughes.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes biographical material for many people of interested to Bickley. Types of material include correspondence, handwritten notes, clippings and articles, photographs, various facsimiles, and more. Subjects of research notes and collected materials include: Carter G. Woodson, Dick Pointer, Henry Louis \"Skip\" Gates, Memphis Tennessee Garrison, John Henry, Ravella Hughes, John Wesley Harris, Maude Beatrice Bell Plowden, Della Brown Taylor, Bessie Yancey, Mollie Gabe (Mary Elizabeth Johnson), Elizabeth Simpson Drewry, J. McHenry Jones, Stonewall Jackson, Gwen McMillion Bingham, and William Cathay. Additional topics include: blacks in WV literature; black women; Tuskegee Airmen including John L. Whitehead, Jr. and William Lee Hill; and black WV legislators. Biographical information is also included in the Interviews and Oral History Interviews series.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNewspaper clippings. Partial notes [speech] J. McHenry Jones including John R. Clifford, Christopher Payne, and black legislators. Pages from a 1913 Congressional hearing on \"Conditions in the Paint Creek District, West Virginia\" with conditional pardon of Dan Chain highlighted. Memo, 1/18/03, from Alfonzo Dalton regarding interview with Ben Carson who was a Republican candidate for the US President in 2016.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter to researcher Sean Duff, November 19, 2012, and attached information regarding J. McHenry Jones and Wheeling. Letter to researcher L. Morris Jones, May 3, 1989. Newspaper clipping of article about \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eHearts of Gold\u003c/emph\u003e which was written by J. McHenry Jones (JMJ). Various versions of \"James McHenry Jones: a Monologue\" by Ancella R. Bickley. Full and partial \"J. McHenry Jones, 1859-1909.\" Text of newspaper article about JMJ's opposition to the Evans Jim Crow Bill, February 14, 1907. Research notes including Jones family history. Facsimile of pages from \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eHistory of the Jones Family \u003c/emph\u003eby John L. Jones.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eResearch notes on Guion Bluford (?). Ed White, sculptor, biography. Facsimile of pages from the children's book \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eBlack Stars in Orbit\u003c/emph\u003e, [1995]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence between NB and The Association for the Study of Negro Life and History, Incorporated regarding preservation of the Carter G. Woodson house in Huntington. Correspondence between Carter G. Woodson and his sister, Bessie Woodson Yancey, regarding upkeep of the house.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eResearch materials on Dick Pointer, black Indian War hero, for an article for the \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eJournal of the Greenbrier Historical Society\u003c/emph\u003e; the article; handwritten notes; various versions of the article. Research notes. Facsimile of a painting by S. Ross Browne, 1993.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence with Henry Louis \"Skip\" Gates, Jr. Newspaper clipping: MU Commencement.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence with Adolphus Young regarding black West Virginia women, particularly MTG.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eWashington Post\u003c/emph\u003e article \"In Quest of the Historical John Henry\" by Hank Burchard, August 24, 1969. Press release by Kyle McCormick, WV Dept. of Archives and History, 1957. \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eWV Hillbilly\u003c/emph\u003e, June 23, 1979, \"A Salute to John Henry.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHandwritten notes about John Matheus, WVSC professor; his curriculum vitae, ca. 1953; reprint of an article from the \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eCLA Journal\u003c/emph\u003e by him, 1972.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eResearch notes about Revella Hughes\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eResearch notes about William Hill for \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eGoldenseal\u003c/emph\u003e article about Tuskegee Airmen.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eResearch on John Brown including materials from the National Parks Service's John Brown Conference, 2000; an annotated Langston Hughes' poem \"October 16;\" and \"A Psychological Examination of John Brown.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTwo newspaper clippings: one about Fannie Cobb Carter and one about Memphis Tennessee Garrison\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eObituary and other information about Major General Charles \"Jackie\" Calvin Rogers. Documents regarding the naming of a United States Army Reserve Center for him. Text of NB's speech.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eGoldenseal \u003c/emph\u003earticle about John Wesley Harris. Facsimile of newspaper clipping about Maude Beatrice Bell Plowden.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTranscript of interview with AB by Ohio State University's WOSU about Della Brown Taylor [Hardman], a graduate of Garnet High School, artist, and teacher at WVSC.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eResearch notes. Transcript of conversation with Bruce Rogers regarding Aunt Jemima and Bruce Family history. Facsimiles of newspaper articles regarding Aunt Jemima.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBackground research about the Sargent School of Physical Education; Sydney Taylor Brown who graduated from there and then WVSC; black women in the American Red Cross; and black women's service in WWII. \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eAmerican Legacy\u003c/emph\u003e, Winter 1999. Research notes.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFacsimile of pages from \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eHistory of the American Negro,\u003c/emph\u003e W.Va. Edition, vol. VII, [edited] by [A. D.] Caldwell.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePrint outs of web pages regarding the Tuskegee Airmen. Photograph of monument in Walterboro, SC. Newspaper clippings.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eResearch materials pertaining to Carter G. Woodson including: journal and magazine articles; facsimile of book pages; newspaper clippings; and a masters degree thesis. Text of speeches and programs for speeches by both AB and NB. Invitation to a reception to honor Sen. and Mrs. John F. Kennedy in Huntington, April 20, 1960.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePoems, correspondence, and other writings by Bessie Yancey, Carter G. Woodson's sister. Photocopies of journal articles and WV Collegiate Institute publications. Special Carter G. Woodson issue of \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eCommunity, \u003c/emph\u003epublished by Friendship House, Winter 1970. Issue of \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eThe Journal of Negro History\u003c/emph\u003e, July 1968.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eResearch materials on Mollie Gabe, also known as Mary Elizabeth Johnson, midwife from Falls Mill, Braxton County.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eResearch materials about John P. Parker, a former slave who was active in the UGRR in Ohio. Parker was also an inventor and a business man.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eResearch materials about Elizabeth Simpson Drewry, McDowell County representative to the WV House of Delegates.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters to Bessie W. Yancey, CGW's sister. Research materials. Poem \"The Forgotten Boys.\" Correspondence re: restoration of the CGW home. Carter G. Woodson Memorial Committee and Foundation materials. Text of speech by AB. CGW stamps. Dedication of statue of CGW. Correspondence re: Ann Eliza Riddle Woodson family property. CGW genealogy prepared by Nelson Barnett, Jr. Letter from CGW to Bessie Woodson Yancey. Text of paper \"Carter G. Woodson: the West Virginia Connection.\" Photographs of CGW and kin.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence from CGW to Bessie W. Yancey, re: house in Huntington, 1941. Book contract between Bessie W. Yancey for \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eEchoes in the Hills \u003c/emph\u003eand CGW's company, The Associated Publishers, 1939. Letter re: book to CGW from BWY, 1939. Letter from John W. Davis, President WVSC, to BWY, 1945, re: Nelson Bickley. Letter from BWY to Louis R. Mehlinger re: loss of two brothers, 1950. Envelope, no contents, from Joel A Rogers, 1951. Envelope, no contents, from The Associated Publishers, 1958. Photographic negative of BWY.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eResearch materials including newspaper clippings, correspondence, articles, and research notes on Carter G. Woodson; Bessie W. Yancey; Black History Month; restoration of the Woodson home; and the Woodson family. Annotated copy of the paper \"Carter G. Woodson: the West Virginia Connection.\" Facscimiles of Otis Woodson and CGW photos. Photo of Bessie Woodson Yancey and letter from BWY to CGW re: poetry. Edited entry for CGW from \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eThe Encyclopedia of Black America\u003c/emph\u003e. List of WV Collegiate Institutue, 1920/21 and 1921/22. Facsimile of correspondence between CGW and BWY re: house.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eResearch materials on J. McHenry Jones including facsimiles of obituaries; other newspaper clippings; and transcriptions of clippings. Photo of Hazlewood Assembly Hall. Notes [speech?] on JMJ. Timeline with sources. Paper about JMJ by AB. Jones family history.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePages copied from book \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eThe Hidden Years of Stonewall Jackson \u003c/emph\u003epurporting that he fathered a black child. From Merle Moore.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eResearch materials on Tuskegee Airmen including John L. Whitehead, Jr. and William Lee Hill.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eText of a speech? \"African Americans in the West Virginia Legislature.\" Letter from C.A. Blankenship to \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eThe Negro History Bulletin\u003c/emph\u003e adding names of Negroes who served in the WV Legislature, 1964. \"West Virginia's Black Female Legislators\" ca. 1991. Facsimile of photo with caption: \"President Harry S. Truman being shown a copy of America's first Black pictorial magazine. [There is some question which came first \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eColor\u003c/emph\u003e or \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eEbony]\u003c/emph\u003e Left to right: Sippi Coleman, Pres. Truman, W.VA. Congressman, Dr. I.J.K. Wells Editor and Publisher of Color,\" ca. 1948. Newspaper clipping of article re: female legislators, 1998.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFacsimile of photo of \"Gabriel, Pardoned by VA Governor Tim Kaine, June 26, 2007.\" Research notes. Paper \"Major General Gwen McMillion Bingham,\" ca. 2011 with newspaper clipping. Facsimile of unidentified photograph of woman in uniform. Paper \"'Who Was William Cathay?' adapted from a piece in the St. Louis Daily Times, January 2, 1876.\" Poem \"Cathay Williams,\" 1997. Facsimile of enlarged photo of face of unidentified soldier. Summary/timeline for Cathay Williams/William Cathay.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDraft of \"Elizabeth Simpson Drewry, 1894-1979\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCovers a wide range of topics on the history of Cabell County; Huntington, WV; and adjacent Ohio counties. Notable are Nelson Barnett's transcriptions of late 19th century Huntington newspaper articles regarding blacks. Also included are newspaper clippings, monographs, photos, biographies, and interviews about veterans, church history, education, organizations, and more.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"References and Briefs to Miscellaneous Newspaper Articles, [June 15, 1872-October 21, 1898, and June 4, 1922-May 20, 1928]\" compiled by Nelson Barnett, Jr., 1988, from Huntington newspapers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Black Veterans of World War I from Cabell County, W.Va., 1918.\" \"Past Imperfect, 1902: Articles of Interest, [Nov. 13, 1901-Dec. 31, 1901]\" compiled by Nelson Barnett, Jr. from Huntington newspapers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Past-Imperfect, 1901: Articles of Interest, [Jan. 7, 1901-May 28, 1901]\" compiled by Nelson Barnett, Jr. from Huntington newspapers\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eResources about blacks in Huntington and Cabell County. Includes a bibliography of \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eGoldenseal \u003c/emph\u003earticles about blacks. Other resources are church histories, listings of names, facsimiles of book chapters and papers, newspaper clippings, interviews, handwritten research notes, and more.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Progress of the Huntington Negro\" by Prof. J. W. Scott\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"A Black History of Huntington\" by Edna Duckworth, 1976. Genealogy for Edna Duckworth. \"Biohistrogenetics Project Proposal\" to the Carter G. Woodson Memorial Foundation, 1996-1997; Duckworth is listed as the visionary.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMarriage records, late 19th century, Cabell County.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence with Clara Knight. Facsimiles of Greenbottom Church, Huntington, records listing black members. Records regarding John Ball freeing his slaves, 1793. Map of Millersport, OH, 1887.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence with Bill Lindsay re: blacks in Huntington and Pocahontas County\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTwo newspaper clippings: one about Nellie Fransisco [sic] and AB's research about blacks on the Ohio River.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"A Black History of Huntington\" by Edna Duckworth, [1976]. Census data for black families in Lawrence County, Ohio; 1850, 1860.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePhotos of black workers in C\u0026amp;O shop including Anderson Radford, AB's grandfather. Correspondence; transcription of newspaper articles; research notes; biographical sketches; photos of Goodes; newspaper clippings; church histories and programs; facsimiles of book pages; transcription of interviews; and bibliography.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eResearch notes. Photos. Paper \"Black People and the Huntington Experience.\" Project, \"A Sojourn for Truth: Revisiting Black History Along the Ohio River,\" overview. Research materials re: Huntington, Cabell County, and parts of Ohio. Transcript of interview with Suzette Spencer. \"The West Virginia Colored Children's Home\" by Ancella R. Bickley. \"Poke Patch/Black Fork, Ohio\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eResearch notes on Douglass School. Typewritten notes on Douglass School, 1891-1924. Notes from conversation with Nellie Francisco. Handwritten transcription of article, 1902.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCovers research about blacks in Charlestown and Harpers Ferry as well as other locations in Jefferson County. Materials include obituaries, school histories, correspondence, cemetery records, research notes, and more about school integration, Storer College, slave collars, Fisherman's Hall, and more.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eResearch materials regarding blacks in Charlestown. Obituary for former slave George Jenkins in Huntington, 1917.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePaper about St. Philip's parochial school by James A. Tolbert. Materials re: Sons of Confederate Veterans tablet in Harper's Ferry. Other research materials re: Jefferson County and Charlestown.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePhotos of a slave collar. Correspondence re: acquiring the collar for the Henrietta slave ship exhibit.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence with James Tolbert re: black CCC camp, McDowell County; Black History Conference; Fisherman's Hall, Charlestown, restoration; Harewood Cemetery, Jefferson County; marker for Martin Delany, Charlestown.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eResearch materials re: Harpers Ferry, the National Park, and Storer College.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTypewritten text of speech at Shepherd College, 2004. Transcript \"Discussion of Integration of Schools in Jefferson County: Jim Tolbert.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHandwritten research notes mostly re: John Brown and Harpers Ferry, ca. 2000.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCovers research about blacks in the WV Capitol, Charleston, and other locations in Kanawha County. Topics covered include slavery in the salt industry, biographies, wine cellars, and buildings. Contents include correspondence, facsimiles of documents, research papers, obituaries, newspaper clippings and more.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eResearch materials about slavery in West Virginia with focus on Kanawha County and the salt industry\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eResearch materials on black attorney Thomas Gillis Nutter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eResearch materials on Charleston, WV including: \"Unpublished Black History in the Early Kanawha Valley\" by William D. Wintz; \"Blacks in Charleston, West Virginia: A Survey of Their Presence in the Community and Occupational and Residential Patterns in the Early 1900s\" by Mary Johnson, WVU student. Research materials regarding Oscar Wayman Holmes, the first African American naval aviator and obituaries for C.H. James, prominent black businessman. Text of speech, \"Black People in Charleston,\" 1994.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eResearch materials on the Dutch Hollow wine cellars in Dunbar.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDocuments regarding Samuel W. Starks and the Starks House in Charleston. Correspondence regarding its being put on the National Register of Historic Places.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence with Eugene Washington re: Phillis Wheatley School and Albert G. Brown, architect.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eExcludes Cabell, Jefferson, and Kanawha Counties which have separate subseries. Includes research materials about slavery, school integration, lynching, historic homes, and more researched by Bickley for these counties: Wayne, McDowell, Harrison, Greenbrier, Hardy, Fayette, Monongalia, Upshur, Wood, and Monroe; as well as the cities of Bluefield, Buckhannon, Keystone, Weirton, Weston, and Wheeling. Research materials include photographs, correspondence, brochures, newspaper clippings, book pages, articles, interviews, and more.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eVarious documents regarding blacks in Wayne County, WV; the Livisay family; writings by Tim R. Massey, 1981; the Lindsey family; photograph and negatives of a photograph of a black family.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eResearch materials on McDowell County, WV, with focus on the towns of Keystone and Keystone. Letters and notes from Adolphus A. Young, Jr.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eProgram for \"Freedom Is a Struggle: Glimpses of African-American Life in the Greenbrier Valley of [West] Virginia.\" Brochure \"Black Historic Sites in Lewisburg, West Virginia.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNewspaper clipping about Sarah Hall, black lawyer. Facsimiles of research materials. \"The History of the Negro in McDowell County and in West Virginia Leading Up to and Including the Integration of Schools\" by Dr. Douglass T. Murray. Typewritten notes from Adolphus Young, Jr. Correspondence with Alphonso Dalton, Jr. regarding MTG and black McDowell County families\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFacsimile of 1952 newspaper article regarding slaves listed in 1848 Harrison County tax book. Slave owners are listed and includes Nathan Goff.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePaper, author unidentified, regarding lynching in WV. Research materials about slaves in Greenbrier County\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence regarding letter from a slave asking to be purchased by Stump family [1851]. Facsimile of letter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eResearch notes and resources regarding Glenwood, historic home in Charleston. Clarksburg newspaper article of reminiscences of a former slave, Ann Freeman and others. Clarksburg newspaper article regarding Union Veterans Association.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eResearch materials for Fayette County including contacts list, newspaper articles, maps, facsimiles of pages from books, student research paper, church histories, handwritten research notes, and grant applications. Correspondence with and Lucille Meadows and her handwritten reminiscences.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNewspaper articles, facsimiles of historical records. Partial manuscript for \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eTo Be Black in Fayette \u003c/emph\u003eand annotated pages. \"Black Politics in Fayette County, West Virginia, 1896-1918\" by Daniel Wright. Text of speech by Daniel Wright. Brochure titled \"Camp Washington-Carver: a Compendium of the First African-American 4-H Camp.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eResearch materials and research notes: \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eMonongalia Blacks Speak\u003c/emph\u003e: Women, Part II and Men, Part I, Holland family, schools. Interview with Grace Edwards Waters.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eResearch materials about Weirton.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eResearch materials about Upshur County. Facsimiles of articles written by R.H. Ralston, Sr. regarding Buckhannon's black history; newspaper clippings. \"A History of Blacks in Buckhannon: The Recollections of Harriet Warfield,\" an interview with Harriet Warfield, 1977.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eResearch materials regarding blacks in Wheeling. \"Wheeling's Black Population: A General Perspective\" written and presented by Darryl Clausell, Pat Dudley, with contributors Kathryn Snead and Dorothy Cooper, 1990. Correspondence with Margaret Brennan. Photo of AB, Pat Dudley, Brennan, and Annie Tanks at an Oral History Seminar in Wheeling.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence regarding Memphis Tennessee Garrison. Research materials on Gary and other McDowell County locales: newspaper clippings, \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eGoldenseal\u003c/emph\u003e article.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePapers by Wheeling Jesuit Students Joel Michael Coulson and Beau Conway.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eResearch resources regarding blacks in Fayette County, WV, including transcripts of oral history interviews with Lucille Meadows, Mrs. Turner, Charista Davis, Lula Lall Jones, Rosa Roach and Jessie Barrett; correspondence, church histories and programs. Includes Smoot family information.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTranscripts of interviews with Alease Watkins, David W. Turner, Russell Lee Matthews, and Elsie Choice Hopkins. Also, includes research notes, newspaper clippings, a grant application, facsimiles of book pages, and correspondence.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePhoto of Lomax Hospital in Bluefield. Brochures for Afro-Appalachian Performance Company. Correspondence with Joseph Bundy re: history alive performances. Research materials about black Bluefield hospitals.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence with Ray Swick re: blacks in Wood County. Research notes. Correspondence with the Wood County Bicentennial Commission re: speech.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCourt record for \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eMullens v. County Court\u003c/emph\u003e, 1932. Facsimile of WV entry from \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003e100 Years of Lynchings\u003c/emph\u003e by Ralph Ginzburg. \"The Greenbrier County Lynching: a Study of West Virginian Justices\" by Ancella Bickley Livers. \"'Reading the Names,' Program at Virginia State University.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eResearch notes re: Parkersburg black history. Facsimile of letter and transcription of letter from ex-slave Isaac Fairfax to George Washington Henderson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter from Charles (Charley) Goddard re: Greenbrier County history and Sharlotta Gardner contact information.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCopy of photo and negative of lynching. Photos of black children. Note from Maurice Allman, Hacker's Creek Pioneer Descendants. Transcripts of \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eWeston Democrat\u003c/emph\u003e articles re: 1892 lynching of Edgar Jones. Transcripts re: 1910 lynching. Research notes on these incidents. Application for the Weston Colored School to be placed on the National Register of Historical Places. Research notes re: Weston State Hospital. Correspondence re: dedication of the Central West Virginia Genealogical and Historical Library, formerly the Weston Colored School. Handwritten transcription of interview with Rahleen Gardner who attended the School. Transcript of conversation with Mrs. Joy Gilchrist, 1992.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTranscripts of interviews with Mr. Waldo Lacy and Mrs. Gladys Lacy. Facsimile of newspaper article of speech by T.J. Ferguson, 1870. Research materials on the Sumner School. History of Parkersburg from Bernie Allen. Facsimile of books pages, newspaper articles, and transcription of newspaper articles. Parkersburg Art Center brochure featuring Joseph Eldridge Dodd. Text for slide show (no slides). Typewritten outline of \"Parkersburg Study.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFacsimiles of newspaper articles. Correspondence with Ray Swick, Blennerhassett Island State Park. Research materials about blacks in Wood County. Research notes. \"A History of Sumner School\" written by Sally Browning, 1996. \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eThe Island Packet\u003c/emph\u003e from the Friends of Blennerhassett Island.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBackground research on blacks in Monroe County. Correspondence with Fawn Valentine and Presidents of the Monroe County Historical Society. \"Bishop Matthew W. Clair, Sr.: a Biography\" by Dr. Margaret B. Ballard, 1973.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes programs, bulletins, correspondence, research notes, and histories of black West Virginia churches in Fayetteville, Charleston, Charlestown, Fairmont, St. Albans, Parkersburg, Huntington, and Alderson. Also includes a history of churches and lodges in West Virginia as well as histories of the Odd Fellows, Knights of Pythias, and the Galilean Fisherman lodges. Denominations represented include African Methodist Episcopal, Episcopalian, and Baptist.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence with Lucile S. Meadows regarding help with the Second Baptist Church, Fayetteville, Centennial; racial tolerance in schools\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"125th Anniversary Journal\" First Baptist Church, February 1, 1868-February 28, 1993, Charleston, WV\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTime line for black Episcopalians in WV. \"The First Hundred Years: a History of St. Philip's Episcopal Church, Charles Town.\" Research notes and sources. Humanities Foundation of WV grant application by Florita Montgomery to study the history of St. Phillips' Episcopal Church. Information on the Trinity Church in Parkersburg. Photograph including some black congregants.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1907 Weekly Bulletin of Diamond St. M.E. Church in Fairmont\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBook titled \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eMiracle on B Street Continues\u003c/emph\u003e about St. Paul Baptist Church's (St. Albans) 131st anniversary.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter re: slide presentation at the Young Chapel African American Methodist Episcopal Church. Program for the 94th Church Anniversary. Handwritten time line and other notes. Booklet of photographs, text of Bickley's speech, newspaper clipping.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Black Churches and Lodges in West Virginia in Their Infancy, 1865-1900\" by J. Reuben Sheeler. \"History of Bright Hope Lodge #9, F.\u0026amp;A.M. and - P.H.A. Montgomery WV.\" Facsimile of pages \"Introduction and Growth of the Grand United States Order of Odd Fellows in America.\" Notes \"Knights of Pythias of West Virginia History\" researched by James A. Tolbert. Notes about \"Grand United Order of the Galilean Fisherman\" compiled by Ann Wilson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEmail correspondence with Adrienne Belafonte re: a newspaper article about the Shiloh Baptist Church in Alderson. Clipping of the article.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eProgram for First Baptist Church 125th Anniversary, 1997. Program for installation of Rev. William F. Buchanan, First Baptist Church, 1988.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes newspaper clippings, text for presentations, correspondence, research notes, articles, commencement programs, interviews and more about state and national teachers' organizations, historically black WV colleges including West Virginia State College and West Virginia University, integration of schools, histories of specific schools, the Kanawha County textbook controversy, and more.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNewspaper articles: WV Education Association (WVEA) Executive Committee meeting, the National Education Association (NEA) and the need for minority teachers; and recommendations from the Black Caucus, \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eWV School Journal\u003c/emph\u003e, December 15, 1973. Photograph of Blacks in auditorium seating, ca. 1950s\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMultiple facsimiles of a post card picturing Albert Long, \"Bertie\" -- Aunt Onie's Son. West Virginia State College Commencement Programs: 1948, 1950, 1951\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eInformation sheets and travel plans for trip to Egypt, July 5, 1987, sponsored by WVSC. Passport and Visa information written on folder.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eVarious versions of text for a multi-media program on the history of West Virginia State College (WVSC) and Institute, WV\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter to Edmonia Grider from Marjorie [Counts] regarding the Hilltop School, October 7, 1974.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eManuscript discussing integration and black teachers in WV, author unknown. Speech (?) regarding school integration. Research notes. Annotated speech: \"Black Education in West Virginia\" delivered in Shepherdstown.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eResearch materials on the integration of WV schools: facsimiles of WV newspaper articles regarding integration of schools; \"How Black Students Saw Themselves through the Decades of Change at Bluefield State College (founded in 1895) as It Changed from Predominately Black Institution to a Predominantly White Institution\" by James Worsham\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eProgram for the Alpha Delta Chapter, Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. 19th annual Jabberwock, March 16th, 1949. Dance invitation, 1948. WVSC Commencement program, 1949. Washington Alumni Chapter banquet, 1976, to roast John W. Davis. Newspaper articles\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eVocational and Educational Survey for the Kanawha County Negro Schools\u003c/emph\u003e by Andrew H. Calloway, 1945.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence, photos, newsletter, and newspaper clippings regarding the Douglass High School (Huntington) Reunion. Notes on class of 1947. Newspaper clipping regarding NB. Photo YWCA Y-Teens, Douglas High School, Christmas, 1946.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eResearch notes on schools in Keyser and Piedmont, WV, including a facsimile of book pages from \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eHoward School: a History, 1877-1955\u003c/emph\u003eregarding a black student strike for a better school in 1939. Notes on interview with Alberta Coleman, Piedmont, WV. Notes from interview with Opal Coates Carter, and other research notes, regarding Woolworth Fire, Charleston, WV, [ca. 1964s].\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCompilation, by R. Charles Byers, of resources regarding WV black schools.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAnnotated pages for \"Integration in West Virginia\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eBulletin of West Virginia State College\u003c/emph\u003e, Series 21, no. 1, June 1933. \"Why Choose West Virginia State College\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAffirmative action statistics for Bluefield State College, 1984. \"Pride and Preservation: West Virginia State College\" seminars which included Alex Haley as a speaker, 1979. Newspaper article re: archives at West Virginia State College, 1979. \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eSouthern Rural Women's Network Newsletter\u003c/emph\u003e, June, 1983. Photograph of Alex Haley with inscription and signed letter from Alex Haley to NB, 1970.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eResearch notes and materials for research on education in Mason County, WV\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eResearch materials regarding the Lincoln School in Wheeling, WV\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eWest Virginia State College Bulletin\u003c/emph\u003e, April 1941, Series 28, No. 2. Handwritten transcription of an article in \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eThe Advocate\u003c/emph\u003e, 1907.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eProgram for One Hundred Fifth Commencement, Huntington High School, 1971. Photo of AB, West Virginia State College Commencement, May 17, 1986.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eReport of the Twenty-first Annual NEA Conference on Human and Civil Rights in Education\u003c/emph\u003e, 1983, including paper by AB on the Kanawha County textbook controversy and censorship.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFacsimile of a brief historical sketch of Storer College, 1867-1891, by Kate J. Anthony, 1891.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNewspaper clippings and other sources relating to the West Virginia Seminary and College and the Hilltop Baptist Center.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Integration in Reverse at West Virginia State College\" by Elizabeth Duran and James A. Duran, Jr.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence, interviews, newspaper clippings, and facsimiles of photos re: WVSC's East Hall. Research notes.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWV Humanities Council grant application for a presentation on black education in Parkersburg. Research materials and notes. Handwritten and typed notes from interviews with Mrs. Dorsey, Mr. James Emondson, Mrs. Hattie Gazelle Turner, and Mrs. Elizabeth Mitchell. Particular focus on the Sumner School.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePhoto slides of WVSC buildings, presidents, etc. Post cards of WVSC buildings and Institute. Note cards from a lecture. Research materials on all aspects of WVSC history.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eResearch materials on many aspects of WVSC history including faculty information. Includes these publications: \"ROTC in Review: 40 Years of Tradition;\" \"West Virginia State College Glee Club;\" Alumni Association, Los Angeles Chapter, Scholarship Luncheon program, 1989;\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eProgram for Convocation and Dedication of the Harold Maceo McNeill Physical Facilities Plant, WVSC, 1999.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter from AB re: retirement of Justine Gutzmer; retirement announcement for Gerald Cote, Beatrice Dupass, Gutzmer, and Darthulia Jones. Facsimile of WWII death notice of Oliver Johnson to his parents and his obituary. Johnson was Gutzmer's brother.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBooklet of texts and order of ceremonies for the WVSC commencement program, 1985.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes background research on the Montgomery Woman's Improvement League, the West Virginia Federation of Colored Women's Clubs, Alpha Omicron Omega Chapter of the Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, the Mountain State Bar Association, and the West Virginia Medical Society. Research materials include a yearbook, programs, correspondence, a members list, and more.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eMontgomery Woman's Improvement League Year Book\u003c/emph\u003e, 1955-56 and 1960-61. Program for West Virginia State Federation of Colored Women's Clubs, Inc. Annual Convention, 1959. Newspaper photojournalism article regarding the College Alumni Club 50th anniversary history booklet. Program for the Annual Debutante Ball sponsored by Alpha Omicron Omega Chapter, Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, 1958. Correspondence with Katherine Atwater regarding resources.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eProgram for the Annual Meeting and Awards Banquet of the Mountain State Bar Association, 1985. List of members, 1986.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePaper titled \"The West Virginia Medical Society [Black]\" Article: \"Historically Black Medical Colleges: From Scorn to Success\" from \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eThe Boule Journal\u003c/emph\u003e, 2004.\u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003e \u003c/emph\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis subseries includes maps, research papers, newspaper clippings, letters, census data, newspaper articles, facsimiles of historical slave documents, and more. Other materials regarding slavery can be found in county subseries and the Underground Railroad Subseries.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWest Virginia map. \"Number of Slaves in Counties Which Became WV\" 1850, 1860. Typescript of \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eHistorical Atlas of West Virginia \u003c/emph\u003eby Frank S. Riddel.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHandwritten notes on John Marshall; Marshall and slavery; Marshall and Robin Spurlock, his servant. Typed observations. Resource materials.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFacsimiles of legislation and resolutions to abolish slavery; and a list of representatives at the state convention in Wheeling.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eResearch materials. Typewritten manuscript[s] by James Oliver Horton. Codes for occupations. Copy of newspaper article.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNewspaper clipping and multiple facsimiles of an article about a slave breeding farm in Greenup, KY.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eResearch materials about slaves in Ohio Valley plantations and adjacent WV counties. Photocopies of photographs of Mary and plantation sites.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFacsimiles of: newpaper slave ads; Virginia law re: Kanawha Slave Insurance Company; Dunsmore's Proclamation freeing slaves; Va. Law to send slave to Liberia; slaves in Bunker Hill; New York Times article re: slave uprising; and drawing of [Harpers Ferry]. Harpers Ferry National Historical Park Afro-American materials. \"History of Gerrardstown\" in \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eThe Berkeley Journal\u003c/emph\u003e. Handwritten list of properties, including slave names, of Richard B. Washington, [1864]. Letter of transmittl and facsimile of bill of sale for slave, 18[4]5. Transcription of Rumsey-Polk letters re: slaves.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHandwritten research notes and research materials regarding reparations for slavery; text of NB speech; typewritten notes.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAnnotated manuscript \"Compensatory Justice: Over Time and Between Groups\" by Renee A. Hill; text of introduction of a speech about reparations; newsapper clippings; web page print outs; articles.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eWest Virginia and Regional History Collection Newsletter \u003c/emph\u003ewith articles re: slave letters. \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eWest Virginia Then and Now \u003c/emph\u003earticle re: John Brown's letter. Research re: images of blacks in journalism. Research notes.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFacsimile of tables of free Negro listings from 1830 census. \"Researching Virginia's Slave and Free Negro Records\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFacsimile of newspaper article, 1934, re: Mount Pisgah Church, Proctorville, OH. \"The Way It Was…\" by Betty Burcham, a history of UGRR and Mount Pisgah Church. Facsimile of will of Eliza Goode freeing Sully Smith, her husband and her slave, 1848. Facsimile of two receipts for purchase of slaves, 1852. Research notes re: Ohio slaves and fugitives to WV.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis subseries includes text of a speech made by Bickley, books, slides, photographs, brochures, post cards, correspondence, maps, and more. The materials focus on parts of Ohio across the river from Huntington as well as West Virginia. Some topics are quilt codes, abolitionists, runaway slaves, location of Underground Railroad sites, and more.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eResearch materials about Serena Wilson and the book \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eHidden in Plain View: The Secret Story of Quilts and the Underground Railroad.\u003c/emph\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePhotos \"Trip to Doddridge County to visit Jaco Hill/cave - UGRR Site - w/Karen Nance, Sandra Moats, \u0026amp; Judy Wilinson, 6/20/01. Other research materials\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eResearch materials on the Underground Railroad with focus on Ohio.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBrochures and post cards regarding the UGRR and the film \"Nightjohn.\" Correspondence with Margaret Brennan, organizer for the UGRR Summit in Wheeling. \"Reflections on the West Virginia UGRR Summit\" by Cathy D. Nelson; photo of AB speaking at the Summit and with Amanda Nelson and Sherry [Sowchuck].\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence from Alicestyne Turley-Adams re: Underground Railroad Network Partnership.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence with Lucille Deberry and other research materials re: the UGRR, some in West Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence with Sandra Moats-Burke re: UGRR in WV counties. \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eExploring a Common Past: Researching and Interpreting the Underground Railroad\u003c/emph\u003e, 1998, 2nd ed. from the National Park Service. List of UGRR sites in WV.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePhotograph slides, numbered and identified. Research materials mostly about Ohio. \"Draft Proposal to Establish a National Underground Commemorative, Interpretive, and Research Center, City of Huntington, West Virginia\" 1994. Itinerary for trip to Washington to meet with Interior Dept. officials and Robert C. Byrd's staff.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBook chapter \"In Gallia and Miegs Counties\" from \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eThe Mysteries of Ohio's Underground Railroad\u003c/emph\u003e by Wilbur Henry Siebert, 1951. Facsimile of handwritten narrative by an abolitionist, [1892]. Facsimile of letter from R. C. Rankin re: father Rev. John Rankin, 1892. Research notes on WV runaway slaves. Facsimile of letter to Daniel ? to Cyrus Little re: UGRR, 1894. Map of UGRR, 1860. Requests for copies from the Siebert papers. More facsimiles of records.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBackground materials on the Underground Railroad in Ohio.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eResearch materials including newspaper clippings and research notes on the Underground Railroad\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eResearch materials re: the Underground Railroad. Research notes.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFacsimiles of documents pertaining to slaves in Jefferson County, VA. Itinerary for Underground Railroad tours [Ohio?]. \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eThe Escape of Jane: a True Story of the Underground Railroad\u003c/emph\u003e by Henry Burke \u0026amp; Dick Croy. Henry Robert Burke correspondence. Brochure on Henderson Hall, Wood County. Dick Croy correspondence and resume. Newspaper articles by Burke. \"Black Cultural Sites in West Virginia\" compiled by Michael Pauley and Peter Jesus, 1990\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence with Sandra Moats-Burke re: UGRR. WV and county maps. Facsimile of pages from \"From the Charles River Shire, 1634-1643, to the Present Day Counties: Harrison, Doddridge, Ritchie, Wood, Pleasants and Tyler\" by Barr Wilson. Research materials on the UGRR. Research notes. \"The Anti-Slavery Movement in West Virginia,\" a speech delivered by Sandra Moats Burke.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eResearch materials re: quilts and the Underground Railroad, 2001-2011. Notes re: Eliza Farrow, 2005. Paper \"The UGRR Quilt Code\" by Leigh Fellner. Research notes; newspaper clipping; facsimile of web page and transcription of story in an email \"Secret Quilt Code on Exhibit until 10/6,\" 2012; and September 2012 issue of Underground Railroad Free Press.\" Mini-grant for UGRR quilts materials, 2013.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eUnderground Railroad: Official National Park Handbook\u003c/emph\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes manuscripts and publications for books; plays and reenactor monologues; short stories; magazine and scholarly articles; and other forms of writing in both print and handwriting. Five subseries encompass the various genres of her writing. Also includes background and research materials for the subjects for her writings, both fiction and non-fiction.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes research materials for topics of articles. Subjects and formats treated are: encyclopedia entries in the biographical dictionary African American Architects; drafts and final versions of entries for both people and institutions for the West Virginia Encyclopedia; drafts and final versions of articles about Molly Gabe and Carter G. Woodson for Appalachian Heritage; newspaper articles for the Charleston (WV) Gazette Mail and Village Neighbors (FL) on a number of topics including George Wesley Atkinson, 10th governor of West Virginia, but especially for Black History Month and its founder Carter G. Woodson; Goldenseal articles about a Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) camp, Jessie Moon Thomas, Edward Greer, the Charleston Women's Improvement League, Memphis Tennessee Garrison, and West Virginia's Tuskegee Airmen; contribution to a symposium on diversity and change for Appalachian youth; and a study guide for a Charleston, WV, performance of Zora Neale Hurston's Spunk.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eArticles by Ancella Bickley from the \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eGoldenseal Magazine\u003c/emph\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence regarding use of the Goldenseal article \"Camp War: Remembering CCC Company 3538-C\" in an online education guide by the WV State Museum.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAnnotated manuscript and research notes for Goldenseal article \"Education and Activism in Gary: a Visit with Jessie Moon Thomas.\" Correspondence with Mrs. Thomas including notes on the Froe and Moon families.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIssue of the journal \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eAppalachian Heritage \u003c/emph\u003econtaining AB article \"Profiles: Mollie Gabe\" by Ancilla \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003e[sic] \u003c/emph\u003eBickley.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Remembering Carter G. Woodson, the 'Father of Black History'\" in \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eVillage Neighbors\u003c/emph\u003e, [a publication of the Village in Florida where the Bickley's resided.] Typed notes on Carter G. Woodson. Transcription of letter from Bessie Woodson Yancey, CGW's sister, including text of the poem \"If You Live in West Virginia.\" CGW black history quiz prepared for the Spicy Ladies meeting.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTyped text of autobiographical musings about friendship: likens travel in the south in 1952 to the Underground Railroad travel; and includes details about the move to Morgantown in 1966.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence with \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eGoldenseal\u003c/emph\u003e regarding \"Edward Greer: First Black General from West Virginia\" and potential story about 1939 black student strike in Piedmont, WV. Manuscripts for Greer article.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence and drafts of a \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eGoldenseal\u003c/emph\u003e article \"Lifting as We Climb\" about the Charleston Woman's Improvement League. Research materials including facsimiles of photographs. Newspaper article about Judge Irene Berger, McDowell County.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eResearch materials on Carl Eugene Barnett and Robert Edward Lee Washington for entries in \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eAfrican American Architects: A Biographical Dictionary, 1865-1945\u003c/emph\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSpiral bound program for\u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003e A Different World: Symposium on Diversity, Change, and Appalachian Youth,\u003c/emph\u003e 2006, where Bickley was a panelist.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eAppalachian Heritage\u003c/emph\u003e, Summer 2008, which includes \"Carter G. Woodson: the West Virginia Connection\" by Ancella Bickley\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eAppalachian Heritage\u003c/emph\u003e, Special Issue: Blacks in Appalachia, 1991, which includes Bickley's \"Molly Gabe\" in the Profiles section.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eGoldenseal\u003c/emph\u003e, Winter 2011, containing AB's article \"General Edward Greer: West Virginia's First Black General.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence with Dreck S. Wilson re: contribution to the book \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eBiographical Dictionary of African-American Architects, 1865-1945.\u003c/emph\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eResearch materials about George Wesley Atkinson, tenth governor of WV who attended Howard University. Paper titled \"West Virginia's Tenth Governor and the Black Community\" and newspaper article by AB.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eResearch materials re: the West Virginia Colored Orphans Home. Newspaper article written by AB. Testimonial for Fannie Cobb Carter. Research notes. Facsimiles of photos. Transcript of interview with Araminta Miller Justice. AB's paper about the Home.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eManuscript drafts and final versions for entries in the West Virginia Encyclopedia. Materials from West Virginia Humanities Council meetings re: the format and content of the Encyclopedia\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eAppalachian Heritage, Special Issue: Blacks in Appalachia, \u003c/emph\u003eFall 1991, with article by AB in the Profiles Section on Mollie Gabe.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMusings written to friends, 1996. Clipping of \"Commentary: Capable of Thinking, Working…and Paying Her Own Bills,\" 1979, Ancella Bickley Jr.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eProcessor-created bibliography of Ancella Bickley's writings\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes books written, complied, or edited by Bickley, and background research materials and drafts of manuscripts. Books Bickley wrote include: a children's book, \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003e LuJay, No-Name, and the Parrot\u003c/emph\u003e, also titled \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eLucia Jean, No Name, and the Parrot\u003c/emph\u003e ; \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003e …to be black in fayette\u003c/emph\u003e [sic]; \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003e History of the West Virginia State Teacher's Association\u003c/emph\u003e; and \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003e In Spite of Obstacles: a History of the West Virginia Schools for Colored Deaf and Blind\u003c/emph\u003e. Books edited by Bickley include: \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eHonoring Our Past: Proceedings of the First Two Conferences on West Virginia's Black History\u003c/emph\u003e; \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eMemphis Tennessee Garrison: the Remarkable Story of a Black Appalachian Woman\u003c/emph\u003e; and \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003e Our Mount Vernons: Historic Register Listing of Sites Significant to the Black History of West Virginia\u003c/emph\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTyped manuscripts, 1-14 parts, of 1968 oral history interview with Garrison by Bernard Cleveland, with AB notes and Post-it-Note tabs.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDraft of book introduction; correspondence; photos and negatives for book: MTG and family, Gary WV, mining, Edward O'Toole, facsimiles of photos. Facsimiles of William Garrison's obituary, letter of condolence from Agatha S. Lowe. Program for MTG celebration at Marshall. Personal notes of congratulations on book. Photograph permissions. Facsimile of deed for MTG's grandfather's property, Hollins, VA.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"The Charleston Stage Company's Study Guide for George C. Wolfe's Adaptation of Zora Neale Hurston's \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eSpunk\u003c/emph\u003e\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eHonoring Our Past: Proceedings of the First Two Conferences on West Virginia's Black History\u003c/emph\u003e edited by Joe William Trotter, Jr. and Ancella Bickley\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eText and illustrations for [children's] book \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eLucia Jean, No Name, and the Parrot\u003c/emph\u003e as told to Ancella. Original illustrations by S. Ross Browne.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eManuscript for \"Papers from the Conference on West Virginia's Black History, Marshall University, Huntington, West Virginia, September 1991\" Facsimile of a book chapter \"Negro Education and Integration.\" Facsimile of photograph of students at Weston Colored School.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSpiral bound \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eThe Gathering\u003c/emph\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eOur Mount Vernons: Historic Register Listings of Sites Significant to the Black History of West Virginia\u003c/emph\u003e edited by Ancella R. Bickley.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eHistory of the West Virginia State Teachers' Association\u003c/emph\u003e by Ancella R. Bickley; program for The Carter G. Woodson Memorial Foundation, Inc. annual banquet, 2006; research notes on \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eHistory of Negro Secondary Education in McDowell County, WV.\u003c/emph\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eIn Spite of Obstacles: a History of the West Virginia Schools for the Colored Deaf and Blind, 1926-1955\u003c/emph\u003e by Ancella Bickley.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eMemphis Tennessee Garrison: the Remarkable Story of a Black Appalachian Woman\u003c/emph\u003e edited by Ancella R. Bickley and Lynda Ann Ewen.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eOur Mount Vernons: Historic Register Listings of Sites Significant to the Black History of West Virginia\u003c/emph\u003e edited by Ancella R. Bickley. Program for Second Baptist Church in Fayetteville, 1993\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eManuscript for \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003e…to be black in fayette\u003c/emph\u003e written and compiled by Ancella R. Bickley for The Centennial Committee of the Second Baptist Church of Fayetteville, West Virginia, and The Fayette County Black Caucus.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePermissions to publish papers in \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eHonoring Our Past: Procedures of the First Two Conferences on West Virginia's Black History\u003c/emph\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence with Joe William Trotter. Research notes. Materials relating to the Second Annual Conference on West Virginia's Black History and a paper on James McHenry Jones. Trotter's syllabus for a seminar \"The Afro-American Experience.\" \"Blacks in West Virginia: A Critique of the Secondary Literature and Survey of Primary Sources\" by Joe W. Trotter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGalley proof of the children's book, \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eLuJay, No-Name, and the Parrot \u003c/emph\u003eby Ancella R Bickley, illustrated by S. Ross Browne. Handwritten list of names.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003e…to be black in fayette\u003c/emph\u003e written and compiled by Ancella R. Bickley for The Centennial Committee of the Second Baptist Church of Fayetteville, West Virginia and The Fayette County Black Caucus.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes full plays, skits, and historical interpreter scripts depicting characters such as: Ester from the Bible; West Virginia men and women such as Molly Gabe from Braxton County; Deborah Lacks Pullum, daughter of Henrietta Lacks; and many more. Includes manuscripts for a collaboration with Maureen Crocket in writing \"Tangled Threads: a Three Act Play\" and other plays. For \"Two Saint Say,\" a play performed at the Central Florida Community College, materials include an audition announcement, program, newspaper clipping, and correspondence. Also included is a newspaper clipping and details about Bickley's winning the Florida Senior Playwright Festival contest with \"Wade in the Water.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNewspaper article about the play \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eTwo Saint Say\u003c/emph\u003e and its performance.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Historical Information Re: Milly, Enslaved Black Woman on Whom the Character, OAGE, in \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eToussaint Say\u003c/emph\u003e Is Based\" Handwritten research notes.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eManuscript for \"Wade in the Water: a Play in One Act\" by Ancella R. Bickley. Correspondence regarding performance.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eManuscripts and notes for \"Mother Love: a Three Act Play\" by Ancella Bickley and Maureen Crockett. Annotated text.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eProgram for performance of \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eTwo Saint Say\u003c/emph\u003e at the Central Florida Community College, February-March, [2008] Print of online article from the \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eOcala Star Banner\u003c/emph\u003e added by processor.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eTwo Saint Say\u003c/emph\u003e and AB typed comments\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAnnotated \"In the Name of Woman.\" Facsimile of pages from 1909 court docket book, County of Allegheny (PA) and court case upon which the play is based.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence with Maureen 'Bunny' Crockett and Bobbi (bjslake@comcast.net) regarding changes to the play \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eTangled Threads\u003c/emph\u003e. Typed pages with annotations regarding black history. \"Mother Love: a Three Act Play\" by Ancella Bickley and Maureen Crockett.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNewspaper clipping for \"Villager's Work Winds Playwright Contest.\"\" Congratulatory email for selection of \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eWade in the Water\u003c/emph\u003e for the Florida Senior Playwright Festival. Email commenting on inspiration for various plays. Lyrics for the spiritual \"Wade in the Water.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScripts for historical interpreters for Deborah Lacks Pullum, Henrietta Lacks' daughter; and Henrietta Lacks. \"It Ain't Her: a One Act Play.\" Script for historical interpreter for Ona \"Oney\" Judge; Robert Smalls, 1839-1915; Callie House; and Percy Julian. Research notes on Dr. James Marion Sims and other projects. Program for WVU Honors College Symposium \"With a Torch in Their Souls: African Americans in the Civil War\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScript for historical interpreter for Charles Hamilton Houston presented for the African-American Club, 2011; Gabriel; and Henrietta Lacks.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eResearch notes. Text of play \"And Further She Sayeth Naught.\" Text of play \"Heritage: an Historical Drama in Three Acts\" by Ancella Bickley and Maureen Crockett.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eTwo Saint Say: A Play in Two Acts\u003c/emph\u003e. Auditions announcement. Correspondence regarding the production. Proposal to produce the play from the director Bobbi Jordan.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence regarding Megan Forrest, actress. Double sided card featuring photos of Ms. Forrest and a brief overview of future endeavors.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBrief plays regarding voting issues including: lack of attention to candidates and issues, campaign spending, voter assistance, pay for voting, etc. Unidentified group photograph. Handwritten dialog.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eTwo Saint Say: a Play in Two Acts \u003c/emph\u003e[performed at] Central Florida Community College, Ocala, Florida, February 29-March 1, 2008.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSubmission form for \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eWade in the Wate\u003c/emph\u003er for the Florida Senior Playwright Festival. Manuscript for Wade in the Water. Email update for Festival.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eManuscript for \"The Crossing,\" a play. Photocopied page regarding Mollie Gabe and her time in Braxton County.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTyped manuscript for a play \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eTangled Threads\u003c/emph\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"On This Rock,\" a play; one annotated. Handwritten notes on \"A Last Right\" and \"A Good Christian Woman.\" Recommended edits to Bickley's writing? Short stories, \"The User\" and \"Feelin' the Heat\" by Charles Lloyd.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eTraditions: A Journal of West Virginia Folk Culture and Educational Awareness\u003c/emph\u003e, 1996, which includes Bickley's \"The Baby Catcher\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSpiral bound \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eTwo Saint Say: a Play in Two Acts\u003c/emph\u003e by Ancella Bickley\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eResearch and performance notes for \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eTangled Threads: A Three Act Play\u003c/emph\u003e by Ancella R. Bickley and Maureen Crockett. Lists of guests who read parts, 2014. Comments from readers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAnnotated \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eTangled Threads\u003c/emph\u003e, 2008.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eTangled Threads\u003c/emph\u003e labeled \"Work Copy\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eTangled Threads\u003c/emph\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAnnotated \"I-John,\" a play.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTable of contents for Skit of Ester, 2010. Web page re: Esther. Typed page re: Haman, Mordecai, and Esther. Chapter summaries. Typed paper about Queen Vashti. Two typewritten pages from larger document. Letter to Jerome re: return of skit manuscript. Letter to Jerome re: transmittal of skit text and masks for players. Handwritten, not AB's handwriting, notes. Three \"masks,\" made from paper fans, and for 6 characters.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes manuscripts and edited manuscripts for many stories and a collection of short stories, \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eTurn Left at the Desert\u003c/emph\u003e . Bickley's stories are mostly historical character studies and include themes such as faith and community. One highlight is a critical review of Bickley's short story \"Martha,\" a part of the anthology \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eAppalachian Love Stories\u003c/emph\u003e .\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eManuscripts: \"Gabe,\" \"Turn Left at the Desert: Verbal 'Snapshots' from a Black Community\" contents, \"Jones,\" \"The Church on the Corner,\" and \"Sister Angelica.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAnnotated story manuscripts. \"'Jones': Manuscript Submitted for Workshop, Women Writers Conference\" and reviewed by Faith [Holsart?]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAnnotated manuscript for the story \"On This Rock;\" the play \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eTangled Threads\u003c/emph\u003e; and the story \"It Ain't Her\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence regarding writing critiques. Text of \"Mr. Adams,\" \"The Church on the Corner,\" \"Gabe,\" \"Angie's Uncle Robert,\" three versions of \"Mr. Abe Jackson,\" \"The Battle of the Bottle,\" \"DoeDoe,\" \"Addie,\" \"Lesey, Who Was Black, But Comely,\" \"The Lavender Hat,\" and \"A Day in the Park.\" AB commentary on stories.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReview of \"Martha.\" Text of \"Martha.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eManuscripts and notes for \"It Ain't Her,\" \"Belli: 'Momma Raised Me Up Special',\" The Battle of the Bottle,\" \"Bertha,\" \"Friends,\" and \"Martha.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eManuscript for stories for Turn Left at the Desert\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eManuscript for stories for Turn Left at the Desert: \"It Ain't Her,\" \"Hush Now, Child\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eExcerpt from a review of AB's story, [\"Martha\"], in \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eAppalachian Love Stories\u003c/emph\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eShort stories for \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eTurn Left at the Desert.\u003c/emph\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAnnotated manuscript for \"Bertha,\" a short story.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eAppalachian Love Stories\u003c/emph\u003e compiled and edited by James M. Gifford, Edwina Pendarvis; includes \"Martha\" by Ancella Bickley.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eParts of \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eTurn Left at the Desert: Verbal \"Snapshots\" from a Black Community.\u003c/emph\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHandwritten beginning of a story\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHandwritten pieces of writing\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTypewritten contents for \"Turn Left at the Desert: Verbal 'Snapshots' from a Black Community\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTyped manuscripts for various short stories.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBickley was a prolific speaker; speeches cover a wide range of topics including faith, WV black history, black history and pride, West Virginia State College, education, black literature, and more. The majority of the speeches are typewritten.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eProgram for \"Mending an Era: a Slave Ship Speaks: the Wreck of the Henrietta Marie.\" Typed text, pages 6-7, of a speech (?) about slaves, Anderson Radford, Cassie Thomas Carter, and MTG's mother.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eText of 2 speeches about Alice Walker's novel \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eThe Color Purple: \u003c/emph\u003e\"The Uses of Literature: 1984 \u0026amp; The Color Purple, Panel Discussion at the Tenth Anniversary Program of the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities,\" September, 1984; and one at Richard Bland Community College, October 7, 1985. Research notes on \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eThe Color Purple\u003c/emph\u003e. Research notes on Alice Walker's short stories \"1955\" and \"In Love and Trouble\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence, schedule, lecture series program with AB's lecture on the Underground Railroad. Typed notes from Guyandotte presentation 11/9/91, and the Guyandotte Civil War Days. Program for Guyandotte Civil War Days, October 12-November 4, 1992 with listing of AB lecture \"Local Black Settlement.\" List of sources by Alan Gould, Marshall University. Invitation to present at the 1993 Civil War Days.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eT\u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003ehe West Virginia and Regional History Collection Newsletter\u003c/emph\u003e, Summer 1989, which includes a speech by AB at an education in WV forum.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAnnotated text of a speech by both AB and NB about their time at WVU. WVU program \"A Celebration: Integration of Sports on the WVU Campus\" Correspondence with Dana Brooks regarding participation\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eArticle regarding speech about \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eThe Color Purple\u003c/emph\u003e at the West Virginia Alliance for Women's Studies meeting. Text of paper \"Black Education in WV\" read at WVU 6/20/89 for West Virginia Day.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eText of speech about black history in West Virginia and after-dinner remarks regarding social history. Email, travel itinerary, newspaper clipping, and correspondence.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePaper about the slave ship Amistad.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eText of speech re: the Underground Railroad. Newspaper article re: decree of freedom from slavery 150 years after.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHandwritten speech to Mo So Lit Club in McDowell County regarding the history of education of blacks, April 1983. WVSC Fall Convocation program, September 8, 1983; two texts of AB's welcome.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHandwritten poem \"Scamp\" [by Paul Laurence Dunbar]. Two handwritten speeches to the WVSC student government regarding importance of citizenship and service, and the history of WVSC. Invitation to speak to the Student Government Association, April 16, 1982. Newspaper article about black newspapers. Program for the Student Government Association Annual Inauguration Dinner, April 13, 1980. Speech for the Honors Convocation, 1985. \"Remarks prepared for State Senator Marie Redd for Blk History Month-2/4/99\" regarding black history and WV black history.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence regarding invitation to speak at the West Virginia State Baptist Convention. WVSC new student orientation schedule with remarks scheduled for AB. Text of speech, 1984 and 1985, including a brief history of WVSC and Institute.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFirst page of WVSC Honors Convocation Speech\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eProgram for \"Building Leadership for Educational Excellence: NEA Mid-Atlantic Regional Leadership Conference, November 1-3, 1985 - Greenbrier Hotel, White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia.\" Annotated text of speech \"A Response to the New Right's Agenda for Public Education.\" Other speeches regarding education\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAnnotated text, some handwritten, of speech to the Mo So Lit Club, McDowell County, WV. Program for The Matrons and Maids Social and Literary Club (Ma-So-Lit), 50th Anniversary, April 17, 1983. Program and text of introduction of Ethel O. Davie for the WVSC Graduate Dinner, 1984.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eProgram and text of speech for \"Rewriting History\" panel at the \"Premonitions and Perspectives from 1984: Has the Orwellian World Arrived?\" Wisconsin Intellectual Freedom 6th Annual Conference in Milwaukee, March 1-3, 1984. Program, including full text of AB's speech for a panel on \"Perspectives on Censorship: A Discussion\" at the Twenty-First Annual NEA Conference on Human and Civil Rights in Education, February 25-27, 1983. Correspondence regarding invitations to speak at these conferences.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA speech about \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eThe Color Purple\u003c/emph\u003e possibly delivered at a Virginia Humanities Conference.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eText of speech for WVSC Convocation and an outline of speech to women students.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSpeeches about Carter G. Woodson, WV black history, her life and experiences, and MLK Day.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSpeeches about WV black history, historical research, community service, her life and experiences, importance of black organizations, her faith, black women, race, and black education. Programs from presentations at churches. Letter confirming appointment to the Danforth Associate Program.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSpeeches about black education; being a role model; leadership; church missionary work; Martin Luther King, Jr.; taking control; the college experience; community service; honoring Alan Gould; Our Mount Vernons; and black history. Corresponence re: speaking at churches.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSpeeches about Black History Month; civil rights; Kwanzaa; women's rights; Martin Luther King, Jr.; the Underground Railroad; MTG; The Color Purple; black culture; Alice Walker; Carter G. Woodson; and WV black history.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSlides for WV black history speech. Research materials on WV black institutions. First two pages of speech. Handwritten text on various institutions.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Go with God: Remembering All of Us…,\" Commencement address at MU, 1990. Photograph of unidentified black men singing in church. The program for the 1975 NCTE Spring Institutes: \"Teaching Minority Literatures at All Levels.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eText of speech, one annotated, about \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eThe Color Purple\u003c/emph\u003e for the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities; handwritten notes.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eText of two speeches about black culture with notes for accompanying slides. Note from Charles Davis. Langston Hughes poem with Alex Haley autograph. [No slides in file.]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBooklet presented to AB after she made a speech for the Army Corps of Engineers in Huntington.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence with NEA re: participation in panel \"Perspectives on Censorship: A Discussion.\" Handwritten speech on censoring literature by blacks and women in the context of the Kanawha County textbook controversy.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBackground materials, correspondence, and text of speech \"Multiculturalism in West Virginia\" at the Governor's Honors Academy.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNewspaper clipping about AB Commencement address at Marshall University, 1990. \"And Further She Sayeth Naught: a Play in Three Acts\" by Maureen \"Bunny\" Crocket and Ancella Bickley. [Speech] re: education in WV.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eText of speech about Martha Toler Spencer. Outline for [speech] about black women. Handwritten text of speech in Virginia, Longwood College, about black women. Notes.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Go with God: Remember All of Us\" AB's commencement address at MU, 1994.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTyped text of speech for the National Education Association.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEdited paper about the mission of West Virginia State College and changes for the future.\u003c/p\u003e"],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope 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Contents"],"scopecontent_tesim":["This collection documents the research, public service, and life of Ancella Bickley, writer, educator, speaker, and historian. Includes writings, research materials, and more, focusing on the history of African Americans in West Virginia and the black experience in West Virginia. Collected research materials are predominantly facsimiles.  Printed formats include correspondence, clippings, interview transcripts, typescript writings, publications, pamphlets, ephemera, speeches, articles, military records, and more.  Other formats include photographs, slides, and audiocassettes. ","Subjects include Dr. Bickley's writings, which include plays, speeches, and short stories as well as her historical books, articles and other publications; collected materials from Dr. Bickley's historical research on the history of African Americans in West Virginia; and personal papers. Her research materials include papers grouped sometimes by county, sometimes by individual, sometimes by subject. Subjects of her research include slavery, education, churches, biography and genealogy, literature, and more.  Specific subjects include the Underground Railroad, James McHenry Jones, genealogy, Carter G. Woodson, Mollie Gabe, West Virginia Colored Institute/West Virginia State College, John W. Davis, black high schools, school integration, and more. Counties and their cities with specific focus include Cabell, Kanawha, and Jefferson.  Some documents treating slavery and the Underground Railroad include Ohio from which Cabell County blacks, including Bickley's ancestors, migrated.","Colleagues with whom she corresponded include Judith Stitzel, Nelson Barnett, Maureen Crockett (with whom she co-wrote at least one play), and many more. Of significance is correspondence between Carter G. Woodson and his sister, Bessie Woodson Yancey; and letters and a signed photo from Alex Haley.  ","Writings, research background, and drafts of Dr. Bickley's works found within the collection include:  Memphis Tennessee Garrison: The Remarkable Story of a Black Appalachian Woman , \"Midwifery in West Virginia\" (1990),  Honoring our Past: Proceedings of the First Two Conferences on West Virginia's Black History ,  History of the West Virginia State Teachers' Association  (1979),  In Spite of Obstacles: a History of the West Virginia Schools for the Colored Deaf and Blind, 1926-1955 ,  Our Mount Vernons: historic register listings of sites significant to the Black history of West Virginia , a short story collection \"Turn Left at the Desert,\"  ... to be black in Fayette , and plays:  Two Saint Say ,  Mother Love ,  Tangled Threads  (with Maureen Crockett),  Wade in the Water , and seven  Goldenseal  articles. \nGrant applications and other documents pertaining to her work with the Humanities Council of West Virginia are included in the collection. Other documents describe her work with the Kanawha County Board of Education, EcoTheater, Berea College's Black Mountain Youth Leadership program, and various professional organizations.   \nPersonal papers include material about her husband Nelson R. Bickley and his military career, diplomas, transcripts, photographs of a party she held, and more. ","Addendum of 2017/02/09 (boxes 11 and 12) includes papers of Dr. Ancella R. Bickley, with a few papers of her daughter Ancella Livers. Formats include interview transcripts, correspondence, clippings, typescript writings, publications, cassettes, and more. Most of these materials are transcripts of oral histories pertaining to a collaborative project undertaken by Dr. Bickley and Dr. Rita Wicks-Nelson about black teachers and their memories of school integration in West Virginia in affiliation with the Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Gender in Appalachia at Marshall University.","Abbreviations used in the Contents List: \nAB - Ancella Bickley \nWVSC - West Virginia State College \nNB - Nelson Bickley \nMTG - Memphis Tennessee Garrison \nJMJ - J. McHenry Jones \nNEA - National Education Association \nNCTE - National Council of Teachers of English \nMo So Lit Club - Matrons and Maids Social and Literary Club, McDowell County, WV \nUGRR - Underground Railroad \nMU - Marshall University \nWVU - West Virginia University \nCGW - Carter G. Woodson \nRW-N  - Rita Wicks-Nelson","Includes civic and academic awards and honors, as well as academic milestones such as graduation and Bickley's dissertation. This series includes materials on the celebration of Bickley's retirement from West Virginia State College.","Correspondence from Marshall University regarding AB's commencement address and honorary doctorate; notes of congratulations. Guest list. Photographs of AB delivering address and with others including Soupy Sales. Letter to editor regarding racism of highlighting photograph of Soupy Sales wiping a tear during AB's speech; newspaper clippings. Commencement program. AB's speech.","Honorary Doctorate","Army Commendation Medal (Second Oak Leaf Cluster). AB's Delta Sigma Rho-Tau Kappa Alpha, Hampton Institute, initiation certificate, May 1976","Attendance, reading, scholarships, and other certificates from elementary through college","AB transcript, 1951, from MU. Transcript, WVSC.","Program for the Fourteenth Annual NEA Human and Civil Rights Awards, 1980, when AB won The Carter G. Woodson Memorial Award. Correspondence regarding the award including 2 letters from John W. Davis.","Photograph of WVSC President Thomas Cole and Ancella Bickley at her retirement; labeled \"West Virginia State College, Commencement, May 17, 1986.\"","Master of Arts degree confirmation from Marshall University","Doctor of Education degree confirmation from West Virginia University","Certificate of Appreciation from the Kiwanis Club of Huntington","Note from WVU professor Armand [Singer] regarding missing retirement celebration","Newspaper clipping re: CGW. Photographs of AB and others after a speaking engagement in Fayette County. Service Award certificate from WVSC.","Letter from Maureen Crocket to the Director of the Appalachian Festival re: Tangled Threads. Letter of recommendation from AB for Dr. Elaine Ginsberg. \"Remarks Made upon the Presentation of the 1988 Humanities Award to Ancella Radford Bickley\" by Judith Stitzel. Letter of recommendation for Dr. Bernard L. Allen for the WVU Claude Worthington Benedum Distinguished Scholar Award. Congratulatory letter for appointment [at WVSC]. Request for letter of recommendation from Marc E. Washington at MU; confirmation of receipt of letter. Request for recommendation for Elaine Ginsberg, Trinity University; verification of receipt of letter. Letter of congratulations on retirement from George Parkinson; letter of regrets from Lawrence H. Talley, West Liberty.","Materials re: WV NAACP Harpers Ferry NHP, 1994, including photographs and text of speech. Congratulatory letter for receiving the Distinguished West Virginian Award, 1986. Thank you for copy of Honoring Our Past, 1992. Many other letters and notes re: service and speeches. Request to speak at the New Employment for Women Information \u0026 Referral Center in Logan about black history. Letter from Gaston Caperton, Governor, re: appointment to the Archives and History Commission, 1991. Thank you letter for contribution to Chandler Third Base, 1992. Certificate of recognition for Outstanding Service in Support of 1993 Douglass High School Reunion. Thank you for participating in the United Way Youth Advisory Council's Youth Forum, 1993. Thank you letter re: speech at naturalized citizens ceremony from John T. Copenhaver, 1992. Certificate of appreciation and other materials including a photo re: \"Read to Me\" Day, 1999. Newspaper article re: writing about the West Virginia Schools for the Colored Deaf and Blind and cards of congratulations. Kanawha County Schools Certificate of Recognition and Appreciation, 1991.","Letter of acknowledgement to deliver commencement address and receive an honorary doctorate at MU, 1990. Newspaper clipping and tribute to Minnie Wayne Cooper, 1989. Thank you letter to Matthew Kinsolving, Kanawha County Board of Education, for plaque, 1989. Typed text of \"Remarks Made upon the Presentation of the 1988 Humanities Award to Ancella Radford Bickley.\" Newspaper clipping and congratulatory letter re: WVSC Alumna of the Year, 1988. Letter withdrawing candidacy for the Kanawha County Board of Education, 1988. Thank you letter for receiving the Humanities Foundation Award, 1988; letter of congratulations from A. James Manchin; and Dee Caperton, House of Representatives. Letter of congratulations from Herman G. Canady, Jr., for appointment to Board of Education, 1988. Program for NAACP, Charleston Branch, Annual Freedom Fund Banquet, 1988, with AB as guest speaker. The Trumpet, West Liberty State College student newspaper, with article about AB's lecture on teaching black literature, November 28, 1973. Program, newspaper clipping, flyer, and certificate of recognition for the National Council of Jewish Women, West Virginia Section, Founder's Day, 1991. Correspondence re: speaking invitations, 1991-2001. Letters of thank you for service: The Huntington Club of Negro Business and Professional Women's Clubs, Inc., 2001; Charleston Mayor, G. Kemp Melton, for Charleston Urban Renewal Authority, 1999; Conference program for \"New Approaches to the Humanities and Lifelong Learning,\" 1988, where AB received award. Newspaper clippings for awards and accomplishments. 1987-1988. Newspaper clipping \"Educator Grim on Blacks' Future\" 1985. Thank you letter from Dee Caperton, House of Delegates, for draft of book about Elizabeth Simpson Drewry, 1987. Congratulatory notes, 1988-2002. Resume, ca. 1988. Text of speech for [receiving WVSC Alumna of the Year award, 1988]","Newspaper clippings, 1994-2002. Congratulatory and thank you letters, 1984-1995. Program for Staff Recall, Federal Prison Camp, Alderson, WV, with AB as guest speaker. Program for Induction Ceremony [sic], Phi Sigma Alpha, WVSC, 1995, when AB gave speech on the UGRR. Program for Carter G. Woodson Memorial Foundation Third Annual Memorial Fundraiser Banquet, 1995, AB speaker. Program for MLK birthday event at the WV School of Osteopathic Medicine where AB spoke, 1994. Resume. Photo of the Berlin Wall, May 1963.","Newspaper clippings, 1984-2002. Congratulatory and thank you letters and certificates, 1975-2002. Program for the Fourteenth Annual NEA Human and Civil Rights Awards dinner, 1980, when AB received The Carter G. Woodson Memorial Award. Program for Academy Cultural Awareness Committee Black History Month Program, 2002, where AB presented about MTG. Invitation to reception for Oliver W. Hill Freedom Fighter Award of the Virginia State Conference NAACP, 1999, and invitation to recognition event at the U.S. Capitol. Program for St. Anthony Church and School Community Education Awards where AB received the Gregory Loebach Award, 2002. Text of speech and program for West Virginia's African-American Women of Distinction book introduction by the West Virginia Women's Commission, 2002. Program for The Education Alliance Graduates of Distinction, AB recipient, 2002; text of speech; newspaper clipping; correspondence.","Newspaper clippings, ca. 1972-2002. Congratulatory and thank you letters, certificates and other recognitions, 1975 -2002. Letter of receipt for items given to the West Virginia State College/West Virginia Black Heritage Collection, 1987. Personal note, 3/26/80, discussing various contributions to education. Photograph of AB. Program for The National Association of Negro Business and Professional Women's Clubs banquet and candlelight rededication services, 1988, where AB was the guest speaker. Program for Berkeley County Diversity Committee \"Town Meeting\" with AB conducting interactive workshops at schools, 2002. Program and sketch of AB for [her retirement] 1986. Program for PCC lecture series \"The West Virginia Experience,\" [ca. 1985]. State of WV Teaching Certificate, 1960-1965. Letter of acceptance by NB for offer of teaching positions at WVSC for both NB and AB, 1972. Letter offering employment at WVSC as Associate Professor of English, 1972. Letter to NB offering WVSC position of Director of Guidance and Placement, 1972. Letters of thanks for AB for retirement and awards, 1986. Notification of nomination for President of WVSC, 1987. Correspondence Re: NCTE Orwell conference, 1984. Notification that tapes of censorship series of programs will be housed at the New York Public Library, 1984. Program for the Danforth Associate Program, 1975, for which AB and NB were program chairs. Program for The Women's Study Club Annual Open House, 1984, when AB was named Woman of the Year. Program for \"African Americans in the Appalachian Coalfields\" at the National Mine Health \u0026 Safety Academy when AB gave a lecture, 2000.","Newspaper clippings, 1989-2000. Congratulatory and thank you letters, invitations to speak, certificates of recognition, 1985-2000. Photograph of Douglass High School Y Teens, ca. 1946, including AB. Newspaper articles re: AB as WVSC's May Queen, 1948. Issue of MU's Greenline: a Publication for Alumni and Friends of Marshall University, May-July 1990, in which AB is recognized as commencement speaker; press release; letters of congratulations. Photograph of AB and others after presentation in Morgantown, 1990. Program for WVSC National Alumni Association William L. Lonesome Alumni Awards Dinner-Dance Honoring Dr. Ancella R. Bickley, Class of 1950, 1988 Alumnus of the Year. Dunbar Rotary Club Newsletter with AB as speaker, 1988. Materials from the Second Annual Conference on West Virginia's Black History, 1989. Letter to the editor of the Charleston Gazette re: black athlete, 1988.","Retirement from WVSC, 1986, materials. Correspondence re: ceremony; letters of congratulations; newspaper clippings; photographs; program; WVSC commencement program with AB as retirement honoree.","AB's doctoral dissertation A Study of the Effects of Teaching a Unit on Black Culture to Classes of Predominantly White High School Students, 1974.","Newspaper clippings for Education Alliance Graduates of Distinction, 2002. Materials pertaining to \"From Our Front Porch: Stories about Charleston's Oldest Neighborhood, The East End\": newspaper insert; outline for Appalachian Studies Association presentation; program for play at Roosevelt Wilson High School; the play. \"Testimony of Ancella Radford Bickley, Independent Scholar from West Virginia, on behalf of The State Humanities Program Regarding FY 1989 Appropriations to the National Endowment for the Humanities before the Appropriations Subcommittee on the Interior of the Senate,\" 1988. Congratulatory letters re: selection to the Kanawha Board of Education. Newspaper clippings. Congratulations re: speech's and performance of play in Florida. Commencement program for WVSC, 1950. Text of AB honors. Newspaper clippings re: her writings. Letter of acknowledgement for participation in reading of the names of lynchings victims program, Virginia State University, 2001. News release re: production of Harvest of Dreams by the Charleston Stage Company, 2000. Correspondence re: appointment to the WVU Board of Advisors, 1989. Certificate of appreciation from the City of Beckley for contributions to black history in WV. Thank you note re: women writers, 1994. Thank you letter from James Tolbert re: participation in Black History Month program at Harper's Ferry. Overview of AB accomplishments [introduction?]. Letter acknowledging participation in Kanawha County Public Library Black History Month events, 1993; abstract of talk; resume. Thank you letter for presentation at a Affirmative Action Committee Meeting, 1994; program; brochure listing black employees. Letter acknowledging intent to speak at the WV School of Osteopathic Medicine re: unsung heroes of the Civil Rights Movement and for MLK Day, 1993. Handwritten note of appreciation for a speech. Handwritten note re: missing speech for Black History Month, with attached newspaper clipping, 1994. 1949 Yellow Jacket article with picture of AB as newspaper staff. Clipping re: AB as keynote speaker for MLK Day celebration, 1991. Letter acknowledging a reading at the College Language Association, 1993. Letter acknowledging agreement to moderate a panel on sexual harassment; flyer for the program. Congratulatory letter for receiving the MU Graduate School Distinguished Alumnus, 1993. Program for \"First Annual Forum and Family Recognition Conference\" from the West Virginia Black Family Coalition, 1992, for which Bickley was a moderator. Correspondence and program for Distinguished Graduate Student Award from MU, 1993. Newspaper clipping about the WVSC presidential inaugural ball including description of AB and NB attire, 1974. Letter from Mary Pearl Compton, WV Delegate, re: Union's Historic District. Handwritten card praising AB as a \"liquid god\" able to move among roles, 1995. Resumes.","Senate Resolution honoring AB and Lynda Ann Ewen, 2002. Certificate of recognition as a West Virginia Hero, 2002. Newspaper clippings, 1990-2002. Correspondence re: lecture at Alderson Broaddus College, 1991. Certificate of recognition from the WV National Organization of Women and two 1991 conference programs. Program for \"African-Americans in the Appalachian Coalfields,\" 2000. Letter acknowledging selection at WVSC Alumnus of the Year, 1988. The Humanities Foundation of West Virginia Award Dinner Program, 1988. Issue of People \u0026 Mountains: a Publication of the West Virginia Humanities Council, Summer 2001, with MTG interview excerpt edited by AB and Lynda Ann Ewen. Congratulatory note re: publication of Memphis Tennessee Garrison; lecture on MTG announcement, 2000. Letter from the Indiana Humanities Council re: placement on \"Always a River\" registry, 1991. Letter from Gov. Gaston Caperton recognizing appointment to the Martin Luther King, Jr. State Holiday Commission, 1989. Acknowledgement letters as a speaker, 1990-1999. Acknowledgement of receipt of Our Mount Vernons from a professor at the University of Texas at El Paso, 1997. \"Book Notes\" section of West Virginia History re: Our Mount Vernons, 1997. Letter of re: reappointment to the WV Archives and History Commission, 1997. Letter re: WV Public Radio's Cultural Diversity Radio Project, 1998. Letter re: Mistress of Ceremony for a poetry contest at WVSC, 1995. Letter acknowledging support of the WV Humanities Council programming, 1995.","Special Commendation from the U.S. Dept. of the Interior, National Park Service, for Significant Contributions to the Underground Railroad Study, 1995.","\"West Virginia: a Film History\" recognition as the Historical Advisor for the film project.","State of West Virginia Distinguished West Virginian award, 1986.","Senate Resolution honoring AB and Lynda Ann Ewen, 2002.","Includes newspaper clippings and writings by Ancella Bickley Livers (also called Cill Jr. or Cill). Also includes material by or about Nelson Bickley, Ancella Bickley's husband and prominent Charleston, West Virginia, lawyer. Formats include articles, awards and honors, military records, speeches, research notes, publications, correspondence, newspaper clippings, and more. Subjects include Nelson Bickley's military and teaching careers, his uncle Carter G. Woodson, and more.","Correspondence with James Harlow, WVU President, regarding tenure at WVU, 1969 and 1972. Army records for Nelson Bickley. Various Army regulations, blank forms, and information flyers. Correspondence and forms from the Veterans Administration. Medical records, 1956-1966","Charleston Gazette/Gazette-Mail newspaper clippings about AB and NB, 1999-2003","Text of NB's speech \"CMA's Link to the Late Carter G. Woodson, the 'Father of Negro History'\" at the Chicago Military Academy, program, and certificate of appreciation.","Text of speech given by NB at East Bank High School to Junior ROTC, regarding the benefits of military service.","Military and scholarship commendations, program from WVSC Commencement, 1948.","Military records for Nelson Bickley including his assignment as an Army ROTC instructor at WVU and difficulty of finding Negro housing. Admission to WVU College of Human Resources and Education.","Folder within 16a containing Army medical records for Nelson Bickley, 1957-1966.","Akron Beacon Journal,  December 7, 1982, with article by Ancella Livers which includes brief biography.","\" Brown V. Board of Education  in West Virginia\" by Nelson R. Bickley in the  West Virginia Law Review , Spring 2005.","Text of speech given by NB at the WVU Law School","Correspondence with Congressman Harley Staggers, James G. Harlow, President of WVU, and others regarding Nelson Bickley's retirement. Other military records.","Invitations to the ROTC Cadet Corps Annual Military Ball and the ROTC Awards Day and Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony, 1982. Program for the ROTC Awards Day Ceremony, May 1, 1981. WVSC student newspaper  The Yellow Jacket  with an article about the inductees to the ROTC Hall of Fame including NB. Typed text of NB's acceptance speech about his time in the military. Newspaper with an interview with NB and Belva Clark about Carter G. Woodson, 1987. Program and text of NB speech, with AB edits, at WVSC for Veterans Day, 1992. Newspaper article regarding NB induction into the WVSC ROTC Hall of Fame.","Signed letter from Alex Haley to Colonel and Mrs. Nelson Bickley, March 1, 1973, re: the Bickleys' hospitality after a lecture.","Clippings regarding the Bickleys from  The Villages Daily Sun  (FL) and  The Sunday News-Registe r (Wheeling, WV)","Pamphlet \"The Black Student at WVU,\" 1969/70, 1971/72, which include pictures of AB. Program for Lincoln-Douglas Banquet sponsored by Morning Star Baptist Church, February 12, 1977; includes AB as the speaker. Newspaper articles by and about Ancella Bickley, as well as Nelson. Congratulatory letter regarding AB promotion to Vice President for Administration at WVSC, July 9, 1975. Dunbar High School's publication, Kennel, Feb. 23, 1973 and May, 1974.","Letter regarding AB in WVU classroom. Newspaper article about Ancella, daughter of Ancella and Nelson. Dunbar High School's student newspaper, Kennel, Nov. 1972.","Bachelor of Arts degree confirmation from West Virginia State College","Nelson Bickley's Master of Arts degree confirmation from West Virginia University","Nellie Francisco's Bachelor of Arts in Education degree confirmation from West Virginia State College, 1938","Letter from CGW to Bessie Woodson Yancey, CGW's sister, re: funding Joan's education. Text of the poem \"The Forgotten Boys.\" Invitation to the dedication of the Carter G. Wooson School, New Orleans.","Research materials re: Belva Clark, Carter G. Woodson's niece and Nelson Bickley's mother; note of condolence; funeral program; handwritten [by Mrs. Clark?] obituary and instructions","Articles about NB. Membership certificate to Sigma Pi Phi Fraternity.","Teaching certificate for Nellie Radford Francisco, Bluefield Colored Institute, 1928.","Special Order lists. Legal case notes? Selective Service Act of 1948 memo.","Includes genealogical research material, notes, and charts in print as well as handwritten for these families, mostly from the Huntington, West Virginia area and across the Ohio River: Twyman, Spurlock, Barnett, Payne, Jones, Woodson, Wilson, Johnson, Summers, Smoot, Peters, Radford, Layne/Lane, Jones, Straham, Cabell, and Parker. Additional genealogical information is included in oral history interviews with individuals (see Interviews and Oral History Interviews series); the Others' Works series; the Biography subseries of Research Notes and Collected Materials; and other locations throughout the collections.","Documents pertaining to the Twyman Family. Facsimile of pages from  The Promised Land  by J. Earl Pratt [1964]. Facsimile of newspaper legal notices from T he Ironton Register , Oct. 27 and Dec. 15, 1870.","Letter from Willard H. Radford and Kim Radford regarding a reunion for the Radford-Bickley families.","Correspondence between the Bickleys and Nelson L. Barnett, Jr. regarding Allensworth (CA) State Historical Park, the Spurlock family, the Barnett-Payne-Jones family. Rededication pamphlet, October 10, 1992","Barnett family genealogy compiled by Nelson Barnett, Jr.","Various documents pertaining to Carter G. Woodson and the Barnett family connection. \"A Black History of Huntington\" by Edna Duckworth. Barnett family documents.","Family line charts, photographs, newspapers, family history for the Nelson Barnett line. Program for the First Baptist Church, Huntington, September 25, 1988. Photographs buildings designed by Carl Barnett, architect.","Transcription of Barnett family obituaries.","James and Mary Wilson family genealogy. Facsimiles of portraits. Memorial service programs. Photographs of Mary Wilson Johnson and James Johnson. Photo of family group identified later in file and on facsimile. Obituary for William O. Johnson. Family group photo. Photos of Ida and William Johnson.","Handwritten Cabell Family tree and notes on the Cabell Family in Institute. Transcription of letter from J. S. Cunningham to Governor A.I. Boreman. Facsimile of newspaper ad for sale of slave.","Handwritten notes regarding Summers Family and slaves.","Facsimile of book section and term paper about the Smoot Family written by Marcella L. Pauley Short for WVSC class.","Booklet of genealogy forms.  African-American Genealogy: A Research Guide  compiled by Phyllis Preston Jarrett and Helen Chambers Winston.","Typewritten history of the Smoot Family, Boone County.","Personnel record for Willard Radford. Letter, 1949, certifying marriage of Willard Radford to Lilian Angus in Cuba, 1923.","Handwritten marriage records for Radfords.","Handwritten notes from a phone conversation regarding the Straham-Parker families.","Typed \"Conversation with Nellie Redford Francisco--about 1985.\" Handwritten \"Discussion w/Henry Radford, 1/14/93.\" Radford Family genealogy. Peters Family genealogy. Newspaper articles regarding Negro education in Huntington and Kimball, 1904-1923. Cemetery lot receipts to Willard Radford. Program for Sterberger Elementary School 1999 Graduation Ceremony; Akil Livers listed as student. Funeral service program for Lily Van Sykes Kelly, 1994. Transcribed obituaries for Joseph T. Payne, 1948, and Minnie Bell Powell, 1936.","Research notes on how to do black genealogy.  Black Studies: a Select Catalog of National Archives Microfilm Publications .","The Layne Family Tree and Its Branches . Handwritten tree with Twyman connection.","\"Plat Map, Mt. Pisgah Cemetery, Proctorville, Ohio\" with notes. Request for donation to the Cemetery, 2013.","Handwritten CGW family tree.","Radford family genealogy. Release of note on deed, Radford family, 1952.","This series includes two subseries, General and Black Teachers.","Includes more formal oral history interviews as well as \"discussions\" and other less structured interviews not intended for any historical publication. Formats include handwritten notes, typed notes, and transcripts of interviews as well as background in the form of correspondence and typed and handwritten corrections.","Transcript of interview with Johnnie James. Newspaper article \"THE Man…Johnny James Now Shares Life With God\"","Background research re: changes to social history and oral history.","Notes from discussion with Grover DuBose, Korean War veteran, Sept. 10, 2000.","Transcripts of interviews with black citizens of Huntington, WV; Institute, WV; Guyandotte, WV; and Black Fork, OH. Including Johnnie James, Ms. Bessie Herbert McClain, Chester A. Burris, Henry Pierce, Mildred Loar Williams, Cash Keels, James Thompson, Mrs. Araminta Miller Justice, and James Johnson.","Spiral bound notebook containing notes from oral history interviews with black soldiers, 1945-46. References to color-coded folders. Notes on soldiers' letters, 1943-45. List of themes in interviews. Follow up on specific soldiers, 2005, titled \"Negative behavior of Blk soldiers.\" Diagram of Army organization.","Research notes labeled \"Army Wives Material: Discussion with Carl \u0026 Nancy Johnson Re: Military Experiences; Carl was a Tuskegee Airman. His wife, Nancy, is white\" 2014. Annotated paper \"The WV State Capitol\" with research notes. Emails re: Kimball Wall Memorial Project, 2011. Research notes. Letter to Beverly from AB re: various researchers in the Villages, FL, 2014. Typed notes from interview with Harriet Williams, Lewisburg, WV.","Annotated transcript of oral history interviews with Mrs. Mildred Lore Williams, 1990, re: family history and Cabell County History. Annotated transcript of oral history interviews with Mrs. Bessie Herbert McClain, 1990, re: living in Huntington. Annotated transcript of oral history interviews with Mrs. Suzette Spencer, 1990, re: family and life in Huntington. Mrs. Spencer was a descendant of 37 slaves freed in the south and sent to Ohio. Transcript of oral history interview with Mr. Cash Keels, 1990, re: family history and life in Black Fork, Ohio.","Audiocassettes labeled: \"Joseph C. Peters re: Black High School Athletics - 11/2/95;\" \"Gregory Peters / Reminiscences, 9/22/95, \u0026 Ed Scott #3;\" \"MC (Ref) Edward Greer, 5/10/06;\" and \"Ed Scott / Reminiscences /Korea, 10/20/95\"","Bickley and Rita Wicks-Nelson, as Rockefeller Scholars-in-Residence at Marshall University's Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Gender in Appalachia, interviewed and recorded interviews with older black women teachers from across the state. This subseries contains transcripts of the interviews, corrected transcripts, correspondence with the subjects, and sometimes background information about them.","Typed manuscript for \"Black Education in West Virginia,\" a joint project between Ancella Bickley and Rita Wicks-Nelson. Notes regarding Mrs. T. McDaniel interview; text of interview. Correspondence regarding book on black female teachers. Research notes. Text of speech about black WV schools. List of narrators. Facsimiles of newspaper clippings \"from Mrs. Rayford's Collection\" regarding desegregation of schools, 1955-1956. Newspaper clipping of AB interview regarding MTG.","Handwritten notes of [interview with] Marian Hatcher, WVU English Dept. teacher.","Print out of web page re: Dr. Ancella Bickley and Dr. Rita Wicks-Nelson, 1999 Rockefeller Scholars-in-Residence. Project name: \"Life Experiences of Older, Black, West Virginian Women [Teachers]\"","Demographics of teachers' project. Map showing location of teachers. Narrative overview of the project. Paper \"Mosaic [sic] in Black and White: Black Teachers Remember School Integration in West Virginia\" [by] Ancella Bickley and Rita Wicks-Nelson; paper presented at the Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Gender in Appalachia, MU, 2000. Annotated paper. Draft of paper \"Changing Lives and Potential Leadership: A Study of West Virginian Women Returning to College\" [by] Rita Wicks-Nelson, Lynda Ann Ewen, ca. 1997.","Correspondence between AB and RW-N and others re: book based on teachers' oral history interviews. Paper \"Black Education in West Virginia.\" Text of paper [by AB] \"Read @ WV Sociological Assoc. Annual Mtng. WVSC - Oct. 24, 1997.\" Letter from NB, 2005, asking for addenda to  West Virginia Law Review  paper about  Brown v. Board of Education.  Research notes. \" Fullen  corrected pp, AB,\" 2001. Letter requesting interview with Pearl Swann Carter, 2000.","Release form from Suzanne Slaughter, 1998","Correspondence, edits, research notes with RW-N. Book reviews from The Appalachian journal, 2005. List of women interviewed. Background and summaries for interviewees.","Research materials re: education in WV;  Brown v Board of Education.  Possible participants; call for participants; correspondence with participants Writing retreat brochure and correspondence. Project update to the Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Gender in Appalachia at MU. Draft of summary of results. Summary data forms and interview guide. Schedule of interviews. Letter from parent to teacher, Anna McCright. Flyer announcing talk by AB and RW-N. Luncheon flyer from the Fayette County Black Caucus.","Life stories, some annotated or edited, for Vivian Williams Fleming, Eliza Jane Campbell Dillard, Anna McCright, and Mary Montgomery.","Annotated transcript of oral history interviews with Mrs. Louise Anderson. Newspaper clipping of obituary.","Annotated transcript of oral history interviews with Mrs. Velma Bradshaw. Handwritten notes on folder.","Oral History Review  article, 2001, re: school segregation. Email with list of changes to the transcript. Transcript of oral history interviews with Mrs. Pearl Swann Carter, 2001.","Annotated transcript of oral history interviews with Mrs. Florence Casey, 1997","Transcript of oral history interviews with Mrs. Ottrus Chatman, 1999. Typed and handwritten notes on the interview.","Annotated transcript of oral history interviews with Mrs. Verona Clarke, 1997.","Annotated transcript of oral history interviews with Mrs. E. Jane Dillard, 1999.","Handwritten notes on the interview. Correspondence with Mrs. Elston. Annotated transcript of oral history interviews with Mrs. Mary M. Elston, 1997.","Annotated transcript of oral history interviews with Mrs. Eunice Fleming, 1999.","Annotated transcript of oral history interviews with Mrs. Vivian Williams Fleming, 1997. Handwritten notes.","Annotated transcript of oral history interviews with Mrs. Norma Jean Fullen, 1997.","Handwritten notes. Annotated transcript of oral history interviews with Mrs. Susie Guyton, 1997.","Handwritten notes. Transcript of oral history interviews with Mrs. Willie Hise, 1999.","Typed and handwritten notes. Annotated transcript of oral history interviews with Mrs. Floristine Holland, 1998.","Handwritten notes. Transcript of oral history interviews with Mrs. B'Alma Jones, 1999.","Annotated transcript of oral history interviews with Miss Anna McCright, 1999.","Corrected transcript of oral history interviews with Mrs. Thelma McDaniel, 1999.","Letter to Mrs. McDaniel. Typed notes and pages from the interview. Letter from Norman L. Jones re: Thelma McDaniel and the Price and White families, 2001.","Annotated transcript of oral history interviews with Mrs. Edris Miller, 1998.","Annotated transcript of oral history interviews with Mrs. Mary Montgomery, 1997. Overview for Mrs. Montgomery. Letter to her. Pages of the interview with corrections. List of names and addresses for interviewees.","Annotated transcript of oral history interviews with Ms. Doris Payne, 1999.","Overview for Ruby Brown Reeler. Annotated transcript of oral history interviews with Mrs. Ruby Reeler, 1997. Handwritten transcript of a quote from the interview. Handwritten notes on the folder.","Annotated transcript of oral history interviews with Mrs. Nancie Smith Robinson, 1999.","Transcripts pages of interview with FH [Floristine Holland?] Annotated transcript of oral history interviews with Mrs. Suzanne Slaughter, 1998.","Obituary for Mary Crozier Snow, 2011. Annotated transcript of oral history interviews with Mrs. Mary Snow, 1997. Letter to Mrs. Snow with corrections, 2001.","Transcript of oral history interviews with Mrs. Fannie Ashe Thomas, 1999.","Handwritten notes. Annotated transcript of oral history interviews with Mrs. Velma Twyman, 1997. Letter to Mrs. Twyman re: corrections, 2001.","Includes books, manuscripts, facsimile pages, and other publications not written by Bickley, who was sometimes asked to provide feedback on writing. Forms of writing include family histories, poems, short stories, plays, novels, and both scholarly and popular articles. Other writers include: Sharon M. Draper, Charles Lloyd, Hannah N. Geffert, Peri Lynne Johnson, L. O'B. Thomson, Nelson L. Barnett, J. McHenry Jones, Judith Stitzel, Elizabeth Taylor Brown, and Phyllis Moore.","A Memorial to the Scott, Carter, Mumford Families and the Journey from the Hills of North Carolina to the Beautiful Ohio Shore in the Year 1844  by Edith Dove Bryant, original and one facsimile. Article \"Midwifery in West Virginia\" 1990.","My Dearest Husband: the Letters of Amacetta Laidley Summers to George W. Summers, 1842-1843  by Patricia Clark Bulla. Handwritten genealogy chart for James M. Laidley","Poem \"Old Lady Sady and the Chicken Wings\" c1992 Sharon M. Draper","My Dearest Husband: the Letters of Amacetta Laidley Summers to George W. Summers, 1842-1843  by Patricia Clark Bulla. Laidley-Summers-Quarrier family line","Manuscript for  Aesculapius, Ebony  by Nelson L. Barnett, M.D.","\"…Tryin' to Get Home…\": A Journal,  a compendium of biographies, family histories, community histories, etc. by the John Henry Memorial Committee.","\"The Search for Larry Doby\" by Bob Stitzel in  Sports Collectors Digest , December 1, 1989. Letter from Judith Stitzel critiquing short stories \"The Woman in the Lavender Hat,\" \"Hush Now Child,\" \"Sweets,\" and \"Jones.\" Manuscripts of Stitzel's stories \"My New York Yankees,\" \"Cover-Up,\" \"Hearing Aids,\" \"Unbecoming a Jew.\" Letter from Stitzel regarding order of stories.","Manuscript for book about West Virginia State College.","Correspondence with Phyllis Moore re: WV writers. Annotated stories \"It Ain't Her!,\" \"The Crossing,\" and \"On This Rock,\" short stories by AB. Photo of AB and unidentified woman. \"'Talking about home…': Yes, We Have Authors\" by Phyllis Wilson Moore.","Project overview for Greenbrier Valley African-American life. J. McHenry Jones' novel  Hearts of Gold  with highlighted passages and annotations. Background research materials.","Facsimile of  The Jones Family  by John L. Jones.","Correspondence with Hannah N. Geffert re: Black History Conference and her annotated story \"The Guns of October.\"","\"History of Lakin Hospital: Pulling for the Stars\" by Elizabeth Taylor Brown. Reviewers' comments.","The Plays of Ann Kathryn Flagg  published by Amistad, Inc., Ancella Bickley, Director.","\"Black High Schools in West Virginia\" prepared by R. Charles Byers.","Writings of Peri Lynne Johnson, AB's niece, some with annotations.","Review of \"The History of Lakin State Hospital\" by Elizabeth Brown; manuscript.","Drafts and final papers written by L. O'B. Thompson who taught at WVSC.","Aesculapius, Ebony  by Nelson L. Barnett. Brief biography of Carl Eugene Barnett. Facsimile of photograph of \"Reverend Nelson Barnett, Circa 1900.\"","Paper and letter of transmittal for \"The Peters Sisters: An Historical Omission\" by Norman Jordan. Research notes on the sisters: Ethel and Ada Peters.","Typewritten notes about various novels, movies, and other works. Discussion questions for some.","Inscribed play \"Day to Day: a Drama in One Act\" by Maryat Lee. Article \"'…To Will One Thing: a New Look at Theater\" [by] Maryat Lee, from  Drama Review , 1983. Materials re: EcoTheater including scholarly articles.","Includes black and white historical photographs, slides, and contemporary color photographs. Additional photographs can be found throughout the collection. Most photos are black and white facsimiles of original historical photos of people and places significant to Bickley's research and publications. Subjects include educational institution buildings and students; other institution buildings; the Radford family; Bickley and Bickley with others. The contemporary color photos include ones of the memorial statues on the West Virginia Capitol grounds; Potomac State College campus; Bickley and others; and the social event A Red Hat Party celebrating women.","Photos: graduating class at Bluefield State College; Barnett School Orchestra, Huntington, with Nellie Francisco; school children at Lincoln School, Wheeling, 1912; unidentified football team; buildings at Bluefield State College and West Virginia State College.","Photos, invitation to, and follow up for a birthday celebration for AB, and a Red Hat Party to celebrate older women. Poem about AB.","Photographs of building details; street scenes; two black women [Alberta Coleman]; NB; campus, Potomac State College, buildings including Academy Hall and Duke Anthony Whitmore/Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Academic Achievement Wall.","Photos of statues on the WV State Capitol grounds: prints, proof sheet with numbered descriptions, and a CD. Annotated text to accompany photos and titled \"Statuary on the Grounds of the West Virginia State Capitol.\" Brief history of the Capitol and the state of West Virginia.","\"Honoring Our Past: 1994 Calendar\" produced by the Alliance for the Collection, Preservation and Dissemination of West Virginia's Black History. Calendar includes photos of school bands, Bluefield NAACP chapter, Hopewell barber shop in Martinsburg, and schools.","Copies of group photographs of children and a \"Special Citation Award to Mrs. Harry Gordon\"","Photo of unidentified family, 1901; restored photo and invoice for work, 2005.","Negatives and photos from AB's Red Hat Party","Variety of copies of historical photographs, most not identified, 1912-1918. Note stapled to folder removed, 10/17/1990.","1991 (3), 1993, 1994 calendar \"Honoring Our Past\" from the Alliance for the Collection, Preservation and Dissemination of West Virginia's Black History. 1971 Black History Calendar [by] Raymond W. Lowry.","Facsimiles of photographs of students at WVSC including AB in Delta Sigma Theta Sorority.","Photographs of AB and others at a presentation on CGW at Marshall University, President's Home. February 24, 1988.","Facsimile of undated photo [ca. 1942] of John W. Davis, Charles Rutherford, Austin W. Curtis, L.A. Toney, et al. On back: \"Received from Debby Jackson,  Goldenseal , 4/7/1997. Picture taken during construction of Washington-Carver Camp.\"","Photo of AB with author Alice Walker at the University of Charleston, [1999]. Photo of AB with Ken Sullivan, Executive Director of the WV Humanities Council, 2002.","Includes examples of Bickley's contribution to a number of public service projects both in a professional capacity and as a citizen. Includes these formats:  \nplanning documents,  \ncorrespondence,  \nmeeting notes, and  \nagendas for these organizations:  \n-Amistad, Inc., a publishing company she formed;  \n-West Virginia Humanities Foundation;  \n-Black Mountain Youth Leadership Program, Berea College;  \n-The EcoTheater in Lewisburg, for which she served as board member;  \n-National Council of Teachers of English, for which she was National Director;  \n-West Virginia Archives and History Commission, of which she was a member; and  \n-Marshall University colloquium on black history.","Most notable are the grant applications, programs, and correspondence from her work with the West Virginia Humanities Foundation. Bickley was President of the Board of Directors and wrote a ten-year history of the organization, 1974-1984. The files include background materials for a number of projects for which she or others received grants. For her work with the Kanawha County Board of Education, her files include research materials about minority student achievement, and documents about the Kanawha County Schools Minority Student Achievement Task Force and Maximizing Achievement of African-American Children in Kanawha County (MAAACK). Documenting her work with an organizing committee to clean up the Bethel Cemetery in Huntington, her files include calls for participants, flyers, lists of members, and more. One civic activity with no apparent formal organization includes a meeting with Governor Rockefeller to advocate for affirmative action in West Virginia government. More on Bickley's professional and community activities can be found in the Awards, Honors Series.","\"Notes from Meeting between WV SAC and Governor Rockefeller--June 13\" The SAC [Statistical Analysis Center] asked the governor to authorize another study concerning minority employment in West Virginia with the goal of supporting affirmative action and the employment of more minorities.","Humanities Scholar Resource Forms by Virginia Edwards (2/86), Judith G Stitzel, and Elayne Rapping for the project, \"Reel Visions: A Conference on Women and Film.\" \"Seminar for Professionals Scholar's Statement\" by AB.  The Midwest Quarterl y article \"The Humanities in Public Conversation.\" Publication: \"The Humanities Foundation of West Virginia, 1974-1984, A Decade of Discovery\" which lists awards; AB was President of the Board of Directors.","Brochure for the 15th Year of the EcoTheater founded by Maryat Lee, 1975-1990. Letter of support fro grant to the EcoTheater, February 10, 1990. Business correspondence with members of the Board of Directors.","Notes, membership lists, and correspondence from meetings of the Bethel Memorial Park Interest Group. Various research notes regarding black WV doctors and other topics.","Invitation to Ronald Reagan's inauguration","Correspondence from Cecil H. Underwood and Earl Ray Tomblin regarding appointment to the WV Archives and History Commission, July 11, 2000-September 22, 2000.","Papers and notes from 1975 National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) conferences when AB was National Director. List of attendees. Black history newspaper clippings. NCTE Spring Institutes programs: April 4-8 in Buffalo, New York; and April 25-29 in Santa Barbara, California. Paper by NB \"Mini-Psychological Theory about Black Americans\"","Invitation to Jimmy Carter's inauguration, January 20, 1977.","Certificate of incorporation and other legal documents for Amistad, Inc. Humanities Foundation grant application. Correspondence, agendas for Board meetings, and notes from meetings.","Correspondence with William (Bill) Turner regarding a black history colloquium at Marshall and editing a special issue the  Appalachian Journal. Sojourner: Voice of the Eastern Kentucky Social Clubs , 1989.","Program for MU symposium \"Moving Toward Freedom: Slavery and Resistance.\" WV Humanities Foundation grant materials for \"Fact to Freedom: The Story of Slavery in West Virginia.\" Cost details for recreating a slave auction block. Photograph of 10th and Market in Wheeling, 1895.","Correspondence with Brucella and Norman Jordan re: the African American Heritage Family Tree Museum. Also a Humanities Council Grant, brochures, newspaper clippings, press releases. B. Jordan's curriculum vitia and job description with an appliation.","Materials supporting the proposal for WVSC's The Canty House being placed on the National Register of Historic Places.","Materials for collaboration of Kanawha County Schools Minority Student Achievement Task Force and Achieving Excellence in Learning (AEL). Maximizing Achievement of African-American Children in Kanawha County (MAACK) materials. Data on Kanawha County students.","Readings on teaching minority students, Ebonics. Maximizing Achievement of African-American Children in Kanawha County (MAACK) materials.","Notes and correspondence pertaining to the evaluation of the Black Mountain Youth Leadership Program at Berea College.","Letter from the Governor of Montana. Itineraries. Correspondence re: trip.","Matted print of D. Richardson's drawing of the WV Colored Children's Home.","This series includes eleven subseries which highlight Bickley's research on black history in West Virginia and to a smaller extent black history in general. The subseries include her work on black history for many West Virginia counties with her research being more extensive for Cabell, Jefferson, and Kanawha Counties which have their own subseries. The subseries for Research Notes and Collected Papers are: General, Biography; Cabell County, WV; Jefferson County, WV; Kanawha County, WV; Other WV Counties; Churches, Education; General; Organizations; Slavery; and the Underground Railroad.","Bickley researched a wide range of black history and black culture topics; for example, Aunt Jemima and the statue of a black boy as yard ornament, in addition to persons and events. The research provided background for her writings and was often incorporated into her works of fiction as well as historical accounts. Her papers include research notes and supporting sources on a wide range of topics with reference to black history and West Virginia black history.","Handwritten inventory of boxes with Post-it-Note \"Found AFTER boxing - This drawer-files are out of order so I don't know if it will be helpful. (Plus, my sister has horrible handwriting.\"","Post card from Mabel Hunter with Storer College Brackett Hall dorm room circled (1946). Photo of statue of Carter G. Woodson. 1850 mortality statistics for western section of Virginia.  Bulletin of the West Virginia State Teachers' Association , 1940. Program for the Mountain State Bar Association, Inc. Annual Awards Banquet, June 18, 1988. Partial transcript of \"Interview with Doris Miller, Huntington, WV\" regarding house purported to be on the underground railroad. Marriage records, 1869, Trinity Church, Parkersburg. \"Reading the Names\" program at Virginia Sate University of those lynched, 1868-1935; AB read the WV names, ca. 2011. Handwritten research notes. Notes on census slave records. Proposed black history highway markers, 2001. Newspaper clipping about Huntington Tuskegee Airmen, 2009. Email from Brucella Jordan requesting a recommendation; paragraph regarding the founding of the African American Heritage Family Tree Museum, 2010. Email from David Trobridge invitation to speak at Marshall University, 2011. Facsimile of pages from the Bureau of Negro Welfare and Statistics regarding the Episcopal Church in West Virginia. Roster of Negroes serving in state and local government, ca. 1968. \"The West Virginia Medical Society [Black].\" \"Slavery in Western Virginia\" (notes for an exhibit?)","Correspondence and research notes regarding the black history of Gallipolis, Ohio. Love story by Harry Dolphis Scott, Bidwell, Ohio. Typed lists from Carter G. Woodson's Free Negro Head of Families (1830), Town of Gallipolis.","Newspaper clippings from the Herald-Dispatch, 1981. Brochure: \"Graduates of Distinction: Michael Perry, Ancella Bickley\" from the Education Alliance, 2002","Various articles regarding blues music. Multiple facsimiles of \"Bessie Smith, 1898-1937, A Short Blues Anthology,\" 1971; one with annotations.","Various articles including the legend of Jocko, subject of a lawn ornament, and a 1971 black history calendar by Raymond W. Lowry which highlights achievements.","2 nd Annual John Henry Festival, Clifftop, West Virginia: Herbs and Traditional Medicine [by] Roscoe Leonard.","Typewritten paper about spirituals","Journal, newspaper, and magazine articles about black history, Carter G. Woodson, Nelson Bickley, and the methyl isocyanate leak in Institute, 1984.","Prospective Sites Relating to Black History in Canada  by William N. T. Wylie, June 1994.","Research materials regarding the holiday, Juneteenth, which celebrates the Emancipation Proclamation. Text of two speeches.","\"The Black Literary Tradition of West Virginia: A Bio-Critical Survey\" [by] Leonard J. Deutsch","The booklet (2 copies) \"History of African-American Miners in Appalachian Coal Fields: Black History Month, February, 2000\" Funeral program for Ulysses Grant Carter, teacher at Kimball High School.  A Saga of Service: A History of the Mining Extension Service of West Virginia State College, 1937-1957  by Cecile M. McCormick and U.G. Carter.","Facsimiles of pages from reports from the WV Bureau of Negro Welfare and Statistics.","Correspondence and attached materials from Sara J. Sow re: blacks in Gallia County, Ohio. \"Why We Celebrate Our Culture and Church\" about churches in Lawrence County, Ohio.","Correspondence with and writings of James Fisher, Berkeley County.","Background research notes and materials about Cuba.  National Geographic  article \"Evolution in the Revolution: CUBA.\" Poems by or translated by Nelson A. Ossorio.","Correspondence with Joan C. Browning re: content for the Henrietta Marie exhibit; white women in the civil rights movement. Biography. Resume. Newspaper clippings; article \"Invisible Revolutionaries: White Women in Civil Rights Historiography.\" Program and other materials for the WVU panel for the Rush Holt History Conference. Commentary from John Raines re: J. Browning and David Mussat's contributions to the RDH Conference; annotated JB paper \"Religion Gave Me Power to Witness\" and David Mussat's paper \"Sticks and Stone: an Interpretation of Power and Religion in the Movement.\"","Research materials on many aspects of WV Black history including newspaper clippings, scholarly articles, meeting programs, and the text of an Odd Fellows speech.","\"Negro Coal Miners in West Virginia, 1875-1925\" from the  Midwest Journal , 1954. Reprint of \"Negro Migration to the Mining Fields of West Virginia\" from the  Proceedings, West Virginia Academy of Sciences , 1936.","Handwritten research notes. Research materials re: WV history. Typed notes on WV black history. 1955 newspaper article re: integration of schools.","Correspondence regarding black WV historical markers. Resignation as a Commissioner for the WV Division of Culture and History. Program for Roosevelt Junior High School Award Assembly, June 2, 2000; Bickley is on the program for the East End History Essay.","Programs for West Virginia Conference on Black History at the First Baptist Church in Charleston, April 22-23, 1988, and the Eighth Annual Conference on West Virginia's Black History at Marshall University, November 10-11, 1995","Web page print out of article about Silas Green in minstrel show.","\"Fifth U.S. Colored Infantry\" by John F. Walter, rev. 1998. Includes information on Ohio and WV blacks.","\"Negro Participants in the Fields of the Theatre and Music Plus Associated Enterprises: Period: 1920-1960\" by Dr. Douglass T. Murray. Booklet for The National [Negro] Opera [Company].","Paper titled \" School Desegregation Since  Brown  (1954): 30-Year Perspective\" by Franklin Parker, WVU Professor of Education, 1984. Two pages of annotated text of a speech about education of black West Virginians, [delivered at WVU].  Daily Athenaeum  article re: interview Nelson Bickley about discrimination in housing in Morgantown, 1971. Program for \"The West Virginia Experience in Higher Education: an Historical Perspective\" at WVU, 1984, when AB was on a panel. Facsimile of the pamphlet \"The Black Student at WVU\" 1971-72. Correspondence from the Ohio University Press re: manuscript review of the book  Memphis Tennessee Garrison  by William H. Turner, 1999. \"History of DuBois High School\" from a book. Map of slave plantations in Wood County, Va. Map of Underground Railroad routes to Canada, 1898.","Email correspondence primarily between AB and her daughter Ancella Livers re: access to WWII Soldiers' letters at the New York Public Library. Email from Della [Hardman?] re: Belle Powell and Ravella Hughes.","Includes biographical material for many people of interested to Bickley. Types of material include correspondence, handwritten notes, clippings and articles, photographs, various facsimiles, and more. Subjects of research notes and collected materials include: Carter G. Woodson, Dick Pointer, Henry Louis \"Skip\" Gates, Memphis Tennessee Garrison, John Henry, Ravella Hughes, John Wesley Harris, Maude Beatrice Bell Plowden, Della Brown Taylor, Bessie Yancey, Mollie Gabe (Mary Elizabeth Johnson), Elizabeth Simpson Drewry, J. McHenry Jones, Stonewall Jackson, Gwen McMillion Bingham, and William Cathay. Additional topics include: blacks in WV literature; black women; Tuskegee Airmen including John L. Whitehead, Jr. and William Lee Hill; and black WV legislators. Biographical information is also included in the Interviews and Oral History Interviews series.","Newspaper clippings. Partial notes [speech] J. McHenry Jones including John R. Clifford, Christopher Payne, and black legislators. Pages from a 1913 Congressional hearing on \"Conditions in the Paint Creek District, West Virginia\" with conditional pardon of Dan Chain highlighted. Memo, 1/18/03, from Alfonzo Dalton regarding interview with Ben Carson who was a Republican candidate for the US President in 2016.","Letter to researcher Sean Duff, November 19, 2012, and attached information regarding J. McHenry Jones and Wheeling. Letter to researcher L. Morris Jones, May 3, 1989. Newspaper clipping of article about  Hearts of Gold  which was written by J. McHenry Jones (JMJ). Various versions of \"James McHenry Jones: a Monologue\" by Ancella R. Bickley. Full and partial \"J. McHenry Jones, 1859-1909.\" Text of newspaper article about JMJ's opposition to the Evans Jim Crow Bill, February 14, 1907. Research notes including Jones family history. Facsimile of pages from  History of the Jones Family  by John L. Jones.","Research notes on Guion Bluford (?). Ed White, sculptor, biography. Facsimile of pages from the children's book  Black Stars in Orbit , [1995]","Correspondence between NB and The Association for the Study of Negro Life and History, Incorporated regarding preservation of the Carter G. Woodson house in Huntington. Correspondence between Carter G. Woodson and his sister, Bessie Woodson Yancey, regarding upkeep of the house.","Research materials on Dick Pointer, black Indian War hero, for an article for the  Journal of the Greenbrier Historical Society ; the article; handwritten notes; various versions of the article. Research notes. Facsimile of a painting by S. Ross Browne, 1993.","Correspondence with Henry Louis \"Skip\" Gates, Jr. Newspaper clipping: MU Commencement.","Correspondence with Adolphus Young regarding black West Virginia women, particularly MTG.","Washington Post  article \"In Quest of the Historical John Henry\" by Hank Burchard, August 24, 1969. Press release by Kyle McCormick, WV Dept. of Archives and History, 1957.  WV Hillbilly , June 23, 1979, \"A Salute to John Henry.\"","Handwritten notes about John Matheus, WVSC professor; his curriculum vitae, ca. 1953; reprint of an article from the  CLA Journal  by him, 1972.","Research notes about Revella Hughes","Research notes about William Hill for  Goldenseal  article about Tuskegee Airmen.","Research on John Brown including materials from the National Parks Service's John Brown Conference, 2000; an annotated Langston Hughes' poem \"October 16;\" and \"A Psychological Examination of John Brown.\"","Two newspaper clippings: one about Fannie Cobb Carter and one about Memphis Tennessee Garrison","Obituary and other information about Major General Charles \"Jackie\" Calvin Rogers. Documents regarding the naming of a United States Army Reserve Center for him. Text of NB's speech.","Goldenseal  article about John Wesley Harris. Facsimile of newspaper clipping about Maude Beatrice Bell Plowden.","Transcript of interview with AB by Ohio State University's WOSU about Della Brown Taylor [Hardman], a graduate of Garnet High School, artist, and teacher at WVSC.","Research notes. Transcript of conversation with Bruce Rogers regarding Aunt Jemima and Bruce Family history. Facsimiles of newspaper articles regarding Aunt Jemima.","Background research about the Sargent School of Physical Education; Sydney Taylor Brown who graduated from there and then WVSC; black women in the American Red Cross; and black women's service in WWII.  American Legacy , Winter 1999. Research notes.","Facsimile of pages from  History of the American Negro,  W.Va. Edition, vol. VII, [edited] by [A. D.] Caldwell.","Print outs of web pages regarding the Tuskegee Airmen. Photograph of monument in Walterboro, SC. Newspaper clippings.","Research materials pertaining to Carter G. Woodson including: journal and magazine articles; facsimile of book pages; newspaper clippings; and a masters degree thesis. Text of speeches and programs for speeches by both AB and NB. Invitation to a reception to honor Sen. and Mrs. John F. Kennedy in Huntington, April 20, 1960.","Poems, correspondence, and other writings by Bessie Yancey, Carter G. Woodson's sister. Photocopies of journal articles and WV Collegiate Institute publications. Special Carter G. Woodson issue of  Community,  published by Friendship House, Winter 1970. Issue of  The Journal of Negro History , July 1968.","Research materials on Mollie Gabe, also known as Mary Elizabeth Johnson, midwife from Falls Mill, Braxton County.","Research materials about John P. Parker, a former slave who was active in the UGRR in Ohio. Parker was also an inventor and a business man.","Research materials about Elizabeth Simpson Drewry, McDowell County representative to the WV House of Delegates.","Letters to Bessie W. Yancey, CGW's sister. Research materials. Poem \"The Forgotten Boys.\" Correspondence re: restoration of the CGW home. Carter G. Woodson Memorial Committee and Foundation materials. Text of speech by AB. CGW stamps. Dedication of statue of CGW. Correspondence re: Ann Eliza Riddle Woodson family property. CGW genealogy prepared by Nelson Barnett, Jr. Letter from CGW to Bessie Woodson Yancey. Text of paper \"Carter G. Woodson: the West Virginia Connection.\" Photographs of CGW and kin.","Correspondence from CGW to Bessie W. Yancey, re: house in Huntington, 1941. Book contract between Bessie W. Yancey for  Echoes in the Hills  and CGW's company, The Associated Publishers, 1939. Letter re: book to CGW from BWY, 1939. Letter from John W. Davis, President WVSC, to BWY, 1945, re: Nelson Bickley. Letter from BWY to Louis R. Mehlinger re: loss of two brothers, 1950. Envelope, no contents, from Joel A Rogers, 1951. Envelope, no contents, from The Associated Publishers, 1958. Photographic negative of BWY.","Research materials including newspaper clippings, correspondence, articles, and research notes on Carter G. Woodson; Bessie W. Yancey; Black History Month; restoration of the Woodson home; and the Woodson family. Annotated copy of the paper \"Carter G. Woodson: the West Virginia Connection.\" Facscimiles of Otis Woodson and CGW photos. Photo of Bessie Woodson Yancey and letter from BWY to CGW re: poetry. Edited entry for CGW from  The Encyclopedia of Black America . List of WV Collegiate Institutue, 1920/21 and 1921/22. Facsimile of correspondence between CGW and BWY re: house.","Research materials on J. McHenry Jones including facsimiles of obituaries; other newspaper clippings; and transcriptions of clippings. Photo of Hazlewood Assembly Hall. Notes [speech?] on JMJ. Timeline with sources. Paper about JMJ by AB. Jones family history.","Pages copied from book  The Hidden Years of Stonewall Jackson  purporting that he fathered a black child. From Merle Moore.","Research materials on Tuskegee Airmen including John L. Whitehead, Jr. and William Lee Hill.","Text of a speech? \"African Americans in the West Virginia Legislature.\" Letter from C.A. Blankenship to  The Negro History Bulletin  adding names of Negroes who served in the WV Legislature, 1964. \"West Virginia's Black Female Legislators\" ca. 1991. Facsimile of photo with caption: \"President Harry S. Truman being shown a copy of America's first Black pictorial magazine. [There is some question which came first  Color  or  Ebony]  Left to right: Sippi Coleman, Pres. Truman, W.VA. Congressman, Dr. I.J.K. Wells Editor and Publisher of Color,\" ca. 1948. Newspaper clipping of article re: female legislators, 1998.","Facsimile of photo of \"Gabriel, Pardoned by VA Governor Tim Kaine, June 26, 2007.\" Research notes. Paper \"Major General Gwen McMillion Bingham,\" ca. 2011 with newspaper clipping. Facsimile of unidentified photograph of woman in uniform. Paper \"'Who Was William Cathay?' adapted from a piece in the St. Louis Daily Times, January 2, 1876.\" Poem \"Cathay Williams,\" 1997. Facsimile of enlarged photo of face of unidentified soldier. Summary/timeline for Cathay Williams/William Cathay.","Draft of \"Elizabeth Simpson Drewry, 1894-1979\"","Covers a wide range of topics on the history of Cabell County; Huntington, WV; and adjacent Ohio counties. Notable are Nelson Barnett's transcriptions of late 19th century Huntington newspaper articles regarding blacks. Also included are newspaper clippings, monographs, photos, biographies, and interviews about veterans, church history, education, organizations, and more.","\"References and Briefs to Miscellaneous Newspaper Articles, [June 15, 1872-October 21, 1898, and June 4, 1922-May 20, 1928]\" compiled by Nelson Barnett, Jr., 1988, from Huntington newspapers.","\"Black Veterans of World War I from Cabell County, W.Va., 1918.\" \"Past Imperfect, 1902: Articles of Interest, [Nov. 13, 1901-Dec. 31, 1901]\" compiled by Nelson Barnett, Jr. from Huntington newspapers.","\"Past-Imperfect, 1901: Articles of Interest, [Jan. 7, 1901-May 28, 1901]\" compiled by Nelson Barnett, Jr. from Huntington newspapers","Resources about blacks in Huntington and Cabell County. Includes a bibliography of  Goldenseal  articles about blacks. Other resources are church histories, listings of names, facsimiles of book chapters and papers, newspaper clippings, interviews, handwritten research notes, and more.","\"Progress of the Huntington Negro\" by Prof. J. W. Scott","\"A Black History of Huntington\" by Edna Duckworth, 1976. Genealogy for Edna Duckworth. \"Biohistrogenetics Project Proposal\" to the Carter G. Woodson Memorial Foundation, 1996-1997; Duckworth is listed as the visionary.","Marriage records, late 19th century, Cabell County.","Correspondence with Clara Knight. Facsimiles of Greenbottom Church, Huntington, records listing black members. Records regarding John Ball freeing his slaves, 1793. Map of Millersport, OH, 1887.","Correspondence with Bill Lindsay re: blacks in Huntington and Pocahontas County","Two newspaper clippings: one about Nellie Fransisco [sic] and AB's research about blacks on the Ohio River.","\"A Black History of Huntington\" by Edna Duckworth, [1976]. Census data for black families in Lawrence County, Ohio; 1850, 1860.","Photos of black workers in C\u0026O shop including Anderson Radford, AB's grandfather. Correspondence; transcription of newspaper articles; research notes; biographical sketches; photos of Goodes; newspaper clippings; church histories and programs; facsimiles of book pages; transcription of interviews; and bibliography.","Research notes. Photos. Paper \"Black People and the Huntington Experience.\" Project, \"A Sojourn for Truth: Revisiting Black History Along the Ohio River,\" overview. Research materials re: Huntington, Cabell County, and parts of Ohio. Transcript of interview with Suzette Spencer. \"The West Virginia Colored Children's Home\" by Ancella R. Bickley. \"Poke Patch/Black Fork, Ohio\"","Research notes on Douglass School. Typewritten notes on Douglass School, 1891-1924. Notes from conversation with Nellie Francisco. Handwritten transcription of article, 1902.","Covers research about blacks in Charlestown and Harpers Ferry as well as other locations in Jefferson County. Materials include obituaries, school histories, correspondence, cemetery records, research notes, and more about school integration, Storer College, slave collars, Fisherman's Hall, and more.","Research materials regarding blacks in Charlestown. Obituary for former slave George Jenkins in Huntington, 1917.","Paper about St. Philip's parochial school by James A. Tolbert. Materials re: Sons of Confederate Veterans tablet in Harper's Ferry. Other research materials re: Jefferson County and Charlestown.","Photos of a slave collar. Correspondence re: acquiring the collar for the Henrietta slave ship exhibit.","Correspondence with James Tolbert re: black CCC camp, McDowell County; Black History Conference; Fisherman's Hall, Charlestown, restoration; Harewood Cemetery, Jefferson County; marker for Martin Delany, Charlestown.","Research materials re: Harpers Ferry, the National Park, and Storer College.","Typewritten text of speech at Shepherd College, 2004. Transcript \"Discussion of Integration of Schools in Jefferson County: Jim Tolbert.\"","Handwritten research notes mostly re: John Brown and Harpers Ferry, ca. 2000.","Covers research about blacks in the WV Capitol, Charleston, and other locations in Kanawha County. Topics covered include slavery in the salt industry, biographies, wine cellars, and buildings. Contents include correspondence, facsimiles of documents, research papers, obituaries, newspaper clippings and more.","Research materials about slavery in West Virginia with focus on Kanawha County and the salt industry","Research materials on black attorney Thomas Gillis Nutter.","Research materials on Charleston, WV including: \"Unpublished Black History in the Early Kanawha Valley\" by William D. Wintz; \"Blacks in Charleston, West Virginia: A Survey of Their Presence in the Community and Occupational and Residential Patterns in the Early 1900s\" by Mary Johnson, WVU student. Research materials regarding Oscar Wayman Holmes, the first African American naval aviator and obituaries for C.H. James, prominent black businessman. Text of speech, \"Black People in Charleston,\" 1994.","Research materials on the Dutch Hollow wine cellars in Dunbar.","Documents regarding Samuel W. Starks and the Starks House in Charleston. Correspondence regarding its being put on the National Register of Historic Places.","Correspondence with Eugene Washington re: Phillis Wheatley School and Albert G. Brown, architect.","Excludes Cabell, Jefferson, and Kanawha Counties which have separate subseries. Includes research materials about slavery, school integration, lynching, historic homes, and more researched by Bickley for these counties: Wayne, McDowell, Harrison, Greenbrier, Hardy, Fayette, Monongalia, Upshur, Wood, and Monroe; as well as the cities of Bluefield, Buckhannon, Keystone, Weirton, Weston, and Wheeling. Research materials include photographs, correspondence, brochures, newspaper clippings, book pages, articles, interviews, and more.","Various documents regarding blacks in Wayne County, WV; the Livisay family; writings by Tim R. Massey, 1981; the Lindsey family; photograph and negatives of a photograph of a black family.","Research materials on McDowell County, WV, with focus on the towns of Keystone and Keystone. Letters and notes from Adolphus A. Young, Jr.","Program for \"Freedom Is a Struggle: Glimpses of African-American Life in the Greenbrier Valley of [West] Virginia.\" Brochure \"Black Historic Sites in Lewisburg, West Virginia.\"","Newspaper clipping about Sarah Hall, black lawyer. Facsimiles of research materials. \"The History of the Negro in McDowell County and in West Virginia Leading Up to and Including the Integration of Schools\" by Dr. Douglass T. Murray. Typewritten notes from Adolphus Young, Jr. Correspondence with Alphonso Dalton, Jr. regarding MTG and black McDowell County families","Facsimile of 1952 newspaper article regarding slaves listed in 1848 Harrison County tax book. Slave owners are listed and includes Nathan Goff.","Paper, author unidentified, regarding lynching in WV. Research materials about slaves in Greenbrier County","Correspondence regarding letter from a slave asking to be purchased by Stump family [1851]. Facsimile of letter.","Research notes and resources regarding Glenwood, historic home in Charleston. Clarksburg newspaper article of reminiscences of a former slave, Ann Freeman and others. Clarksburg newspaper article regarding Union Veterans Association.","Research materials for Fayette County including contacts list, newspaper articles, maps, facsimiles of pages from books, student research paper, church histories, handwritten research notes, and grant applications. Correspondence with and Lucille Meadows and her handwritten reminiscences.","Newspaper articles, facsimiles of historical records. Partial manuscript for  To Be Black in Fayette  and annotated pages. \"Black Politics in Fayette County, West Virginia, 1896-1918\" by Daniel Wright. Text of speech by Daniel Wright. Brochure titled \"Camp Washington-Carver: a Compendium of the First African-American 4-H Camp.\"","Research materials and research notes:  Monongalia Blacks Speak : Women, Part II and Men, Part I, Holland family, schools. Interview with Grace Edwards Waters.","Research materials about Weirton.","Research materials about Upshur County. Facsimiles of articles written by R.H. Ralston, Sr. regarding Buckhannon's black history; newspaper clippings. \"A History of Blacks in Buckhannon: The Recollections of Harriet Warfield,\" an interview with Harriet Warfield, 1977.","Research materials regarding blacks in Wheeling. \"Wheeling's Black Population: A General Perspective\" written and presented by Darryl Clausell, Pat Dudley, with contributors Kathryn Snead and Dorothy Cooper, 1990. Correspondence with Margaret Brennan. Photo of AB, Pat Dudley, Brennan, and Annie Tanks at an Oral History Seminar in Wheeling.","Correspondence regarding Memphis Tennessee Garrison. Research materials on Gary and other McDowell County locales: newspaper clippings,  Goldenseal  article.","Papers by Wheeling Jesuit Students Joel Michael Coulson and Beau Conway.","Research resources regarding blacks in Fayette County, WV, including transcripts of oral history interviews with Lucille Meadows, Mrs. Turner, Charista Davis, Lula Lall Jones, Rosa Roach and Jessie Barrett; correspondence, church histories and programs. Includes Smoot family information.","Transcripts of interviews with Alease Watkins, David W. Turner, Russell Lee Matthews, and Elsie Choice Hopkins. Also, includes research notes, newspaper clippings, a grant application, facsimiles of book pages, and correspondence.","Photo of Lomax Hospital in Bluefield. Brochures for Afro-Appalachian Performance Company. Correspondence with Joseph Bundy re: history alive performances. Research materials about black Bluefield hospitals.","Correspondence with Ray Swick re: blacks in Wood County. Research notes. Correspondence with the Wood County Bicentennial Commission re: speech.","Court record for  Mullens v. County Court , 1932. Facsimile of WV entry from  100 Years of Lynchings  by Ralph Ginzburg. \"The Greenbrier County Lynching: a Study of West Virginian Justices\" by Ancella Bickley Livers. \"'Reading the Names,' Program at Virginia State University.\"","Research notes re: Parkersburg black history. Facsimile of letter and transcription of letter from ex-slave Isaac Fairfax to George Washington Henderson.","Letter from Charles (Charley) Goddard re: Greenbrier County history and Sharlotta Gardner contact information.","Copy of photo and negative of lynching. Photos of black children. Note from Maurice Allman, Hacker's Creek Pioneer Descendants. Transcripts of  Weston Democrat  articles re: 1892 lynching of Edgar Jones. Transcripts re: 1910 lynching. Research notes on these incidents. Application for the Weston Colored School to be placed on the National Register of Historical Places. Research notes re: Weston State Hospital. Correspondence re: dedication of the Central West Virginia Genealogical and Historical Library, formerly the Weston Colored School. Handwritten transcription of interview with Rahleen Gardner who attended the School. Transcript of conversation with Mrs. Joy Gilchrist, 1992.","Transcripts of interviews with Mr. Waldo Lacy and Mrs. Gladys Lacy. Facsimile of newspaper article of speech by T.J. Ferguson, 1870. Research materials on the Sumner School. History of Parkersburg from Bernie Allen. Facsimile of books pages, newspaper articles, and transcription of newspaper articles. Parkersburg Art Center brochure featuring Joseph Eldridge Dodd. Text for slide show (no slides). Typewritten outline of \"Parkersburg Study.\"","Facsimiles of newspaper articles. Correspondence with Ray Swick, Blennerhassett Island State Park. Research materials about blacks in Wood County. Research notes. \"A History of Sumner School\" written by Sally Browning, 1996.  The Island Packet  from the Friends of Blennerhassett Island.","Background research on blacks in Monroe County. Correspondence with Fawn Valentine and Presidents of the Monroe County Historical Society. \"Bishop Matthew W. Clair, Sr.: a Biography\" by Dr. Margaret B. Ballard, 1973.","Includes programs, bulletins, correspondence, research notes, and histories of black West Virginia churches in Fayetteville, Charleston, Charlestown, Fairmont, St. Albans, Parkersburg, Huntington, and Alderson. Also includes a history of churches and lodges in West Virginia as well as histories of the Odd Fellows, Knights of Pythias, and the Galilean Fisherman lodges. Denominations represented include African Methodist Episcopal, Episcopalian, and Baptist.","Correspondence with Lucile S. Meadows regarding help with the Second Baptist Church, Fayetteville, Centennial; racial tolerance in schools","\"125th Anniversary Journal\" First Baptist Church, February 1, 1868-February 28, 1993, Charleston, WV","Time line for black Episcopalians in WV. \"The First Hundred Years: a History of St. Philip's Episcopal Church, Charles Town.\" Research notes and sources. Humanities Foundation of WV grant application by Florita Montgomery to study the history of St. Phillips' Episcopal Church. Information on the Trinity Church in Parkersburg. Photograph including some black congregants.","1907 Weekly Bulletin of Diamond St. M.E. Church in Fairmont","Book titled  Miracle on B Street Continues  about St. Paul Baptist Church's (St. Albans) 131st anniversary.","Letter re: slide presentation at the Young Chapel African American Methodist Episcopal Church. Program for the 94th Church Anniversary. Handwritten time line and other notes. Booklet of photographs, text of Bickley's speech, newspaper clipping.","\"Black Churches and Lodges in West Virginia in Their Infancy, 1865-1900\" by J. Reuben Sheeler. \"History of Bright Hope Lodge #9, F.\u0026A.M. and - P.H.A. Montgomery WV.\" Facsimile of pages \"Introduction and Growth of the Grand United States Order of Odd Fellows in America.\" Notes \"Knights of Pythias of West Virginia History\" researched by James A. Tolbert. Notes about \"Grand United Order of the Galilean Fisherman\" compiled by Ann Wilson.","Email correspondence with Adrienne Belafonte re: a newspaper article about the Shiloh Baptist Church in Alderson. Clipping of the article.","Program for First Baptist Church 125th Anniversary, 1997. Program for installation of Rev. William F. Buchanan, First Baptist Church, 1988.","Includes newspaper clippings, text for presentations, correspondence, research notes, articles, commencement programs, interviews and more about state and national teachers' organizations, historically black WV colleges including West Virginia State College and West Virginia University, integration of schools, histories of specific schools, the Kanawha County textbook controversy, and more.","Newspaper articles: WV Education Association (WVEA) Executive Committee meeting, the National Education Association (NEA) and the need for minority teachers; and recommendations from the Black Caucus,  WV School Journal , December 15, 1973. Photograph of Blacks in auditorium seating, ca. 1950s","Multiple facsimiles of a post card picturing Albert Long, \"Bertie\" -- Aunt Onie's Son. West Virginia State College Commencement Programs: 1948, 1950, 1951","Information sheets and travel plans for trip to Egypt, July 5, 1987, sponsored by WVSC. Passport and Visa information written on folder.","Various versions of text for a multi-media program on the history of West Virginia State College (WVSC) and Institute, WV","Letter to Edmonia Grider from Marjorie [Counts] regarding the Hilltop School, October 7, 1974.","Manuscript discussing integration and black teachers in WV, author unknown. Speech (?) regarding school integration. Research notes. Annotated speech: \"Black Education in West Virginia\" delivered in Shepherdstown.","Research materials on the integration of WV schools: facsimiles of WV newspaper articles regarding integration of schools; \"How Black Students Saw Themselves through the Decades of Change at Bluefield State College (founded in 1895) as It Changed from Predominately Black Institution to a Predominantly White Institution\" by James Worsham","Program for the Alpha Delta Chapter, Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. 19th annual Jabberwock, March 16th, 1949. Dance invitation, 1948. WVSC Commencement program, 1949. Washington Alumni Chapter banquet, 1976, to roast John W. Davis. Newspaper articles","Vocational and Educational Survey for the Kanawha County Negro Schools  by Andrew H. Calloway, 1945.","Correspondence, photos, newsletter, and newspaper clippings regarding the Douglass High School (Huntington) Reunion. Notes on class of 1947. Newspaper clipping regarding NB. Photo YWCA Y-Teens, Douglas High School, Christmas, 1946.","Research notes on schools in Keyser and Piedmont, WV, including a facsimile of book pages from  Howard School: a History, 1877-1955 regarding a black student strike for a better school in 1939. Notes on interview with Alberta Coleman, Piedmont, WV. Notes from interview with Opal Coates Carter, and other research notes, regarding Woolworth Fire, Charleston, WV, [ca. 1964s].","Compilation, by R. Charles Byers, of resources regarding WV black schools.","Annotated pages for \"Integration in West Virginia\"","Bulletin of West Virginia State College , Series 21, no. 1, June 1933. \"Why Choose West Virginia State College\"","Affirmative action statistics for Bluefield State College, 1984. \"Pride and Preservation: West Virginia State College\" seminars which included Alex Haley as a speaker, 1979. Newspaper article re: archives at West Virginia State College, 1979.  Southern Rural Women's Network Newsletter , June, 1983. Photograph of Alex Haley with inscription and signed letter from Alex Haley to NB, 1970.","Research notes and materials for research on education in Mason County, WV","Research materials regarding the Lincoln School in Wheeling, WV","West Virginia State College Bulletin , April 1941, Series 28, No. 2. Handwritten transcription of an article in  The Advocate , 1907.","Program for One Hundred Fifth Commencement, Huntington High School, 1971. Photo of AB, West Virginia State College Commencement, May 17, 1986.","Report of the Twenty-first Annual NEA Conference on Human and Civil Rights in Education , 1983, including paper by AB on the Kanawha County textbook controversy and censorship.","Facsimile of a brief historical sketch of Storer College, 1867-1891, by Kate J. Anthony, 1891.","Newspaper clippings and other sources relating to the West Virginia Seminary and College and the Hilltop Baptist Center.","\"Integration in Reverse at West Virginia State College\" by Elizabeth Duran and James A. Duran, Jr.","Correspondence, interviews, newspaper clippings, and facsimiles of photos re: WVSC's East Hall. Research notes.","WV Humanities Council grant application for a presentation on black education in Parkersburg. Research materials and notes. Handwritten and typed notes from interviews with Mrs. Dorsey, Mr. James Emondson, Mrs. Hattie Gazelle Turner, and Mrs. Elizabeth Mitchell. Particular focus on the Sumner School.","Photo slides of WVSC buildings, presidents, etc. Post cards of WVSC buildings and Institute. Note cards from a lecture. Research materials on all aspects of WVSC history.","Research materials on many aspects of WVSC history including faculty information. Includes these publications: \"ROTC in Review: 40 Years of Tradition;\" \"West Virginia State College Glee Club;\" Alumni Association, Los Angeles Chapter, Scholarship Luncheon program, 1989;","Program for Convocation and Dedication of the Harold Maceo McNeill Physical Facilities Plant, WVSC, 1999.","Letter from AB re: retirement of Justine Gutzmer; retirement announcement for Gerald Cote, Beatrice Dupass, Gutzmer, and Darthulia Jones. Facsimile of WWII death notice of Oliver Johnson to his parents and his obituary. Johnson was Gutzmer's brother.","Booklet of texts and order of ceremonies for the WVSC commencement program, 1985.","Includes background research on the Montgomery Woman's Improvement League, the West Virginia Federation of Colored Women's Clubs, Alpha Omicron Omega Chapter of the Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, the Mountain State Bar Association, and the West Virginia Medical Society. Research materials include a yearbook, programs, correspondence, a members list, and more.","Montgomery Woman's Improvement League Year Book , 1955-56 and 1960-61. Program for West Virginia State Federation of Colored Women's Clubs, Inc. Annual Convention, 1959. Newspaper photojournalism article regarding the College Alumni Club 50th anniversary history booklet. Program for the Annual Debutante Ball sponsored by Alpha Omicron Omega Chapter, Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, 1958. Correspondence with Katherine Atwater regarding resources.","Program for the Annual Meeting and Awards Banquet of the Mountain State Bar Association, 1985. List of members, 1986.","Paper titled \"The West Virginia Medical Society [Black]\" Article: \"Historically Black Medical Colleges: From Scorn to Success\" from  The Boule Journal , 2004.","This subseries includes maps, research papers, newspaper clippings, letters, census data, newspaper articles, facsimiles of historical slave documents, and more. Other materials regarding slavery can be found in county subseries and the Underground Railroad Subseries.","West Virginia map. \"Number of Slaves in Counties Which Became WV\" 1850, 1860. Typescript of  Historical Atlas of West Virginia  by Frank S. Riddel.","Handwritten notes on John Marshall; Marshall and slavery; Marshall and Robin Spurlock, his servant. Typed observations. Resource materials.","Facsimiles of legislation and resolutions to abolish slavery; and a list of representatives at the state convention in Wheeling.","Research materials. Typewritten manuscript[s] by James Oliver Horton. Codes for occupations. Copy of newspaper article.","Newspaper clipping and multiple facsimiles of an article about a slave breeding farm in Greenup, KY.","Research materials about slaves in Ohio Valley plantations and adjacent WV counties. Photocopies of photographs of Mary and plantation sites.","Facsimiles of: newpaper slave ads; Virginia law re: Kanawha Slave Insurance Company; Dunsmore's Proclamation freeing slaves; Va. Law to send slave to Liberia; slaves in Bunker Hill; New York Times article re: slave uprising; and drawing of [Harpers Ferry]. Harpers Ferry National Historical Park Afro-American materials. \"History of Gerrardstown\" in  The Berkeley Journal . Handwritten list of properties, including slave names, of Richard B. Washington, [1864]. Letter of transmittl and facsimile of bill of sale for slave, 18[4]5. Transcription of Rumsey-Polk letters re: slaves.","Handwritten research notes and research materials regarding reparations for slavery; text of NB speech; typewritten notes.","Annotated manuscript \"Compensatory Justice: Over Time and Between Groups\" by Renee A. Hill; text of introduction of a speech about reparations; newsapper clippings; web page print outs; articles.","West Virginia and Regional History Collection Newsletter  with articles re: slave letters.  West Virginia Then and Now  article re: John Brown's letter. Research re: images of blacks in journalism. Research notes.","Facsimile of tables of free Negro listings from 1830 census. \"Researching Virginia's Slave and Free Negro Records\"","Facsimile of newspaper article, 1934, re: Mount Pisgah Church, Proctorville, OH. \"The Way It Was…\" by Betty Burcham, a history of UGRR and Mount Pisgah Church. Facsimile of will of Eliza Goode freeing Sully Smith, her husband and her slave, 1848. Facsimile of two receipts for purchase of slaves, 1852. Research notes re: Ohio slaves and fugitives to WV.","This subseries includes text of a speech made by Bickley, books, slides, photographs, brochures, post cards, correspondence, maps, and more. The materials focus on parts of Ohio across the river from Huntington as well as West Virginia. Some topics are quilt codes, abolitionists, runaway slaves, location of Underground Railroad sites, and more.","Research materials about Serena Wilson and the book  Hidden in Plain View: The Secret Story of Quilts and the Underground Railroad.","Photos \"Trip to Doddridge County to visit Jaco Hill/cave - UGRR Site - w/Karen Nance, Sandra Moats, \u0026 Judy Wilinson, 6/20/01. Other research materials","Research materials on the Underground Railroad with focus on Ohio.","Brochures and post cards regarding the UGRR and the film \"Nightjohn.\" Correspondence with Margaret Brennan, organizer for the UGRR Summit in Wheeling. \"Reflections on the West Virginia UGRR Summit\" by Cathy D. Nelson; photo of AB speaking at the Summit and with Amanda Nelson and Sherry [Sowchuck].","Correspondence from Alicestyne Turley-Adams re: Underground Railroad Network Partnership.","Correspondence with Lucille Deberry and other research materials re: the UGRR, some in West Virginia.","Correspondence with Sandra Moats-Burke re: UGRR in WV counties.  Exploring a Common Past: Researching and Interpreting the Underground Railroad , 1998, 2nd ed. from the National Park Service. List of UGRR sites in WV.","Photograph slides, numbered and identified. Research materials mostly about Ohio. \"Draft Proposal to Establish a National Underground Commemorative, Interpretive, and Research Center, City of Huntington, West Virginia\" 1994. Itinerary for trip to Washington to meet with Interior Dept. officials and Robert C. Byrd's staff.","Book chapter \"In Gallia and Miegs Counties\" from  The Mysteries of Ohio's Underground Railroad  by Wilbur Henry Siebert, 1951. Facsimile of handwritten narrative by an abolitionist, [1892]. Facsimile of letter from R. C. Rankin re: father Rev. John Rankin, 1892. Research notes on WV runaway slaves. Facsimile of letter to Daniel ? to Cyrus Little re: UGRR, 1894. Map of UGRR, 1860. Requests for copies from the Siebert papers. More facsimiles of records.","Background materials on the Underground Railroad in Ohio.","Research materials including newspaper clippings and research notes on the Underground Railroad","Research materials re: the Underground Railroad. Research notes.","Facsimiles of documents pertaining to slaves in Jefferson County, VA. Itinerary for Underground Railroad tours [Ohio?].  The Escape of Jane: a True Story of the Underground Railroad  by Henry Burke \u0026 Dick Croy. Henry Robert Burke correspondence. Brochure on Henderson Hall, Wood County. Dick Croy correspondence and resume. Newspaper articles by Burke. \"Black Cultural Sites in West Virginia\" compiled by Michael Pauley and Peter Jesus, 1990","Correspondence with Sandra Moats-Burke re: UGRR. WV and county maps. Facsimile of pages from \"From the Charles River Shire, 1634-1643, to the Present Day Counties: Harrison, Doddridge, Ritchie, Wood, Pleasants and Tyler\" by Barr Wilson. Research materials on the UGRR. Research notes. \"The Anti-Slavery Movement in West Virginia,\" a speech delivered by Sandra Moats Burke.","Research materials re: quilts and the Underground Railroad, 2001-2011. Notes re: Eliza Farrow, 2005. Paper \"The UGRR Quilt Code\" by Leigh Fellner. Research notes; newspaper clipping; facsimile of web page and transcription of story in an email \"Secret Quilt Code on Exhibit until 10/6,\" 2012; and September 2012 issue of Underground Railroad Free Press.\" Mini-grant for UGRR quilts materials, 2013.","Underground Railroad: Official National Park Handbook .","Includes manuscripts and publications for books; plays and reenactor monologues; short stories; magazine and scholarly articles; and other forms of writing in both print and handwriting. Five subseries encompass the various genres of her writing. Also includes background and research materials for the subjects for her writings, both fiction and non-fiction.","Includes research materials for topics of articles. Subjects and formats treated are: encyclopedia entries in the biographical dictionary African American Architects; drafts and final versions of entries for both people and institutions for the West Virginia Encyclopedia; drafts and final versions of articles about Molly Gabe and Carter G. Woodson for Appalachian Heritage; newspaper articles for the Charleston (WV) Gazette Mail and Village Neighbors (FL) on a number of topics including George Wesley Atkinson, 10th governor of West Virginia, but especially for Black History Month and its founder Carter G. Woodson; Goldenseal articles about a Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) camp, Jessie Moon Thomas, Edward Greer, the Charleston Women's Improvement League, Memphis Tennessee Garrison, and West Virginia's Tuskegee Airmen; contribution to a symposium on diversity and change for Appalachian youth; and a study guide for a Charleston, WV, performance of Zora Neale Hurston's Spunk.","Articles by Ancella Bickley from the  Goldenseal Magazine","Correspondence regarding use of the Goldenseal article \"Camp War: Remembering CCC Company 3538-C\" in an online education guide by the WV State Museum.","Annotated manuscript and research notes for Goldenseal article \"Education and Activism in Gary: a Visit with Jessie Moon Thomas.\" Correspondence with Mrs. Thomas including notes on the Froe and Moon families.","Issue of the journal  Appalachian Heritage  containing AB article \"Profiles: Mollie Gabe\" by Ancilla  [sic]  Bickley.","\"Remembering Carter G. Woodson, the 'Father of Black History'\" in  Village Neighbors , [a publication of the Village in Florida where the Bickley's resided.] Typed notes on Carter G. Woodson. Transcription of letter from Bessie Woodson Yancey, CGW's sister, including text of the poem \"If You Live in West Virginia.\" CGW black history quiz prepared for the Spicy Ladies meeting.","Typed text of autobiographical musings about friendship: likens travel in the south in 1952 to the Underground Railroad travel; and includes details about the move to Morgantown in 1966.","Correspondence with  Goldenseal  regarding \"Edward Greer: First Black General from West Virginia\" and potential story about 1939 black student strike in Piedmont, WV. Manuscripts for Greer article.","Correspondence and drafts of a  Goldenseal  article \"Lifting as We Climb\" about the Charleston Woman's Improvement League. Research materials including facsimiles of photographs. Newspaper article about Judge Irene Berger, McDowell County.","Research materials on Carl Eugene Barnett and Robert Edward Lee Washington for entries in  African American Architects: A Biographical Dictionary, 1865-1945 .","Spiral bound program for  A Different World: Symposium on Diversity, Change, and Appalachian Youth,  2006, where Bickley was a panelist.","Appalachian Heritage , Summer 2008, which includes \"Carter G. Woodson: the West Virginia Connection\" by Ancella Bickley","Appalachian Heritage , Special Issue: Blacks in Appalachia, 1991, which includes Bickley's \"Molly Gabe\" in the Profiles section.","Goldenseal , Winter 2011, containing AB's article \"General Edward Greer: West Virginia's First Black General.\"","Correspondence with Dreck S. Wilson re: contribution to the book  Biographical Dictionary of African-American Architects, 1865-1945.","Research materials about George Wesley Atkinson, tenth governor of WV who attended Howard University. Paper titled \"West Virginia's Tenth Governor and the Black Community\" and newspaper article by AB.","Research materials re: the West Virginia Colored Orphans Home. Newspaper article written by AB. Testimonial for Fannie Cobb Carter. Research notes. Facsimiles of photos. Transcript of interview with Araminta Miller Justice. AB's paper about the Home.","Manuscript drafts and final versions for entries in the West Virginia Encyclopedia. Materials from West Virginia Humanities Council meetings re: the format and content of the Encyclopedia","Appalachian Heritage, Special Issue: Blacks in Appalachia,  Fall 1991, with article by AB in the Profiles Section on Mollie Gabe.","Musings written to friends, 1996. Clipping of \"Commentary: Capable of Thinking, Working…and Paying Her Own Bills,\" 1979, Ancella Bickley Jr.","Processor-created bibliography of Ancella Bickley's writings","Includes books written, complied, or edited by Bickley, and background research materials and drafts of manuscripts. Books Bickley wrote include: a children's book,   LuJay, No-Name, and the Parrot , also titled  Lucia Jean, No Name, and the Parrot  ;   …to be black in fayette  [sic];   History of the West Virginia State Teacher's Association ; and   In Spite of Obstacles: a History of the West Virginia Schools for Colored Deaf and Blind . Books edited by Bickley include:  Honoring Our Past: Proceedings of the First Two Conferences on West Virginia's Black History ;  Memphis Tennessee Garrison: the Remarkable Story of a Black Appalachian Woman ; and   Our Mount Vernons: Historic Register Listing of Sites Significant to the Black History of West Virginia .","Typed manuscripts, 1-14 parts, of 1968 oral history interview with Garrison by Bernard Cleveland, with AB notes and Post-it-Note tabs.","Draft of book introduction; correspondence; photos and negatives for book: MTG and family, Gary WV, mining, Edward O'Toole, facsimiles of photos. Facsimiles of William Garrison's obituary, letter of condolence from Agatha S. Lowe. Program for MTG celebration at Marshall. Personal notes of congratulations on book. Photograph permissions. Facsimile of deed for MTG's grandfather's property, Hollins, VA.","\"The Charleston Stage Company's Study Guide for George C. Wolfe's Adaptation of Zora Neale Hurston's  Spunk \"","Honoring Our Past: Proceedings of the First Two Conferences on West Virginia's Black History  edited by Joe William Trotter, Jr. and Ancella Bickley","Text and illustrations for [children's] book  Lucia Jean, No Name, and the Parrot  as told to Ancella. Original illustrations by S. Ross Browne.","Manuscript for \"Papers from the Conference on West Virginia's Black History, Marshall University, Huntington, West Virginia, September 1991\" Facsimile of a book chapter \"Negro Education and Integration.\" Facsimile of photograph of students at Weston Colored School.","Spiral bound  The Gathering .","Our Mount Vernons: Historic Register Listings of Sites Significant to the Black History of West Virginia  edited by Ancella R. Bickley.","History of the West Virginia State Teachers' Association  by Ancella R. Bickley; program for The Carter G. Woodson Memorial Foundation, Inc. annual banquet, 2006; research notes on  History of Negro Secondary Education in McDowell County, WV.","In Spite of Obstacles: a History of the West Virginia Schools for the Colored Deaf and Blind, 1926-1955  by Ancella Bickley.","Memphis Tennessee Garrison: the Remarkable Story of a Black Appalachian Woman  edited by Ancella R. Bickley and Lynda Ann Ewen.","Our Mount Vernons: Historic Register Listings of Sites Significant to the Black History of West Virginia  edited by Ancella R. Bickley. Program for Second Baptist Church in Fayetteville, 1993","Manuscript for  …to be black in fayette  written and compiled by Ancella R. Bickley for The Centennial Committee of the Second Baptist Church of Fayetteville, West Virginia, and The Fayette County Black Caucus.","Permissions to publish papers in  Honoring Our Past: Procedures of the First Two Conferences on West Virginia's Black History .","Correspondence with Joe William Trotter. Research notes. Materials relating to the Second Annual Conference on West Virginia's Black History and a paper on James McHenry Jones. Trotter's syllabus for a seminar \"The Afro-American Experience.\" \"Blacks in West Virginia: A Critique of the Secondary Literature and Survey of Primary Sources\" by Joe W. Trotter.","Galley proof of the children's book,  LuJay, No-Name, and the Parrot  by Ancella R Bickley, illustrated by S. Ross Browne. Handwritten list of names.","…to be black in fayette  written and compiled by Ancella R. Bickley for The Centennial Committee of the Second Baptist Church of Fayetteville, West Virginia and The Fayette County Black Caucus.","Includes full plays, skits, and historical interpreter scripts depicting characters such as: Ester from the Bible; West Virginia men and women such as Molly Gabe from Braxton County; Deborah Lacks Pullum, daughter of Henrietta Lacks; and many more. Includes manuscripts for a collaboration with Maureen Crocket in writing \"Tangled Threads: a Three Act Play\" and other plays. For \"Two Saint Say,\" a play performed at the Central Florida Community College, materials include an audition announcement, program, newspaper clipping, and correspondence. Also included is a newspaper clipping and details about Bickley's winning the Florida Senior Playwright Festival contest with \"Wade in the Water.\"","Newspaper article about the play  Two Saint Say  and its performance.","\"Historical Information Re: Milly, Enslaved Black Woman on Whom the Character, OAGE, in  Toussaint Say  Is Based\" Handwritten research notes.","Manuscript for \"Wade in the Water: a Play in One Act\" by Ancella R. Bickley. Correspondence regarding performance.","Manuscripts and notes for \"Mother Love: a Three Act Play\" by Ancella Bickley and Maureen Crockett. Annotated text.","Program for performance of  Two Saint Say  at the Central Florida Community College, February-March, [2008] Print of online article from the  Ocala Star Banner  added by processor.","Two Saint Say  and AB typed comments","Annotated \"In the Name of Woman.\" Facsimile of pages from 1909 court docket book, County of Allegheny (PA) and court case upon which the play is based.","Correspondence with Maureen 'Bunny' Crockett and Bobbi (bjslake@comcast.net) regarding changes to the play  Tangled Threads . Typed pages with annotations regarding black history. \"Mother Love: a Three Act Play\" by Ancella Bickley and Maureen Crockett.","Newspaper clipping for \"Villager's Work Winds Playwright Contest.\"\" Congratulatory email for selection of  Wade in the Water  for the Florida Senior Playwright Festival. Email commenting on inspiration for various plays. Lyrics for the spiritual \"Wade in the Water.\"","Scripts for historical interpreters for Deborah Lacks Pullum, Henrietta Lacks' daughter; and Henrietta Lacks. \"It Ain't Her: a One Act Play.\" Script for historical interpreter for Ona \"Oney\" Judge; Robert Smalls, 1839-1915; Callie House; and Percy Julian. Research notes on Dr. James Marion Sims and other projects. Program for WVU Honors College Symposium \"With a Torch in Their Souls: African Americans in the Civil War\"","Script for historical interpreter for Charles Hamilton Houston presented for the African-American Club, 2011; Gabriel; and Henrietta Lacks.","Research notes. Text of play \"And Further She Sayeth Naught.\" Text of play \"Heritage: an Historical Drama in Three Acts\" by Ancella Bickley and Maureen Crockett.","Two Saint Say: A Play in Two Acts . Auditions announcement. Correspondence regarding the production. Proposal to produce the play from the director Bobbi Jordan.","Correspondence regarding Megan Forrest, actress. Double sided card featuring photos of Ms. Forrest and a brief overview of future endeavors.","Brief plays regarding voting issues including: lack of attention to candidates and issues, campaign spending, voter assistance, pay for voting, etc. Unidentified group photograph. Handwritten dialog.","Two Saint Say: a Play in Two Acts  [performed at] Central Florida Community College, Ocala, Florida, February 29-March 1, 2008.","Submission form for  Wade in the Wate r for the Florida Senior Playwright Festival. Manuscript for Wade in the Water. Email update for Festival.","Manuscript for \"The Crossing,\" a play. Photocopied page regarding Mollie Gabe and her time in Braxton County.","Typed manuscript for a play  Tangled Threads .","\"On This Rock,\" a play; one annotated. Handwritten notes on \"A Last Right\" and \"A Good Christian Woman.\" Recommended edits to Bickley's writing? Short stories, \"The User\" and \"Feelin' the Heat\" by Charles Lloyd.","Traditions: A Journal of West Virginia Folk Culture and Educational Awareness , 1996, which includes Bickley's \"The Baby Catcher\"","Spiral bound  Two Saint Say: a Play in Two Acts  by Ancella Bickley","Research and performance notes for  Tangled Threads: A Three Act Play  by Ancella R. Bickley and Maureen Crockett. Lists of guests who read parts, 2014. Comments from readers.","Annotated  Tangled Threads , 2008.","Tangled Threads  labeled \"Work Copy\"","Tangled Threads","Annotated \"I-John,\" a play.","Table of contents for Skit of Ester, 2010. Web page re: Esther. Typed page re: Haman, Mordecai, and Esther. Chapter summaries. Typed paper about Queen Vashti. Two typewritten pages from larger document. Letter to Jerome re: return of skit manuscript. Letter to Jerome re: transmittal of skit text and masks for players. Handwritten, not AB's handwriting, notes. Three \"masks,\" made from paper fans, and for 6 characters.","Includes manuscripts and edited manuscripts for many stories and a collection of short stories,  Turn Left at the Desert  . Bickley's stories are mostly historical character studies and include themes such as faith and community. One highlight is a critical review of Bickley's short story \"Martha,\" a part of the anthology  Appalachian Love Stories  .","Manuscripts: \"Gabe,\" \"Turn Left at the Desert: Verbal 'Snapshots' from a Black Community\" contents, \"Jones,\" \"The Church on the Corner,\" and \"Sister Angelica.\"","Annotated story manuscripts. \"'Jones': Manuscript Submitted for Workshop, Women Writers Conference\" and reviewed by Faith [Holsart?]","Annotated manuscript for the story \"On This Rock;\" the play  Tangled Threads ; and the story \"It Ain't Her\"","Correspondence regarding writing critiques. Text of \"Mr. Adams,\" \"The Church on the Corner,\" \"Gabe,\" \"Angie's Uncle Robert,\" three versions of \"Mr. Abe Jackson,\" \"The Battle of the Bottle,\" \"DoeDoe,\" \"Addie,\" \"Lesey, Who Was Black, But Comely,\" \"The Lavender Hat,\" and \"A Day in the Park.\" AB commentary on stories.","Review of \"Martha.\" Text of \"Martha.\"","Manuscripts and notes for \"It Ain't Her,\" \"Belli: 'Momma Raised Me Up Special',\" The Battle of the Bottle,\" \"Bertha,\" \"Friends,\" and \"Martha.\"","Manuscript for stories for Turn Left at the Desert","Manuscript for stories for Turn Left at the Desert: \"It Ain't Her,\" \"Hush Now, Child\"","Excerpt from a review of AB's story, [\"Martha\"], in  Appalachian Love Stories .","Short stories for  Turn Left at the Desert.","Annotated manuscript for \"Bertha,\" a short story.","Appalachian Love Stories  compiled and edited by James M. Gifford, Edwina Pendarvis; includes \"Martha\" by Ancella Bickley.","Parts of  Turn Left at the Desert: Verbal \"Snapshots\" from a Black Community.","Handwritten beginning of a story","Handwritten pieces of writing","Typewritten contents for \"Turn Left at the Desert: Verbal 'Snapshots' from a Black Community\"","Typed manuscripts for various short stories.","Bickley was a prolific speaker; speeches cover a wide range of topics including faith, WV black history, black history and pride, West Virginia State College, education, black literature, and more. The majority of the speeches are typewritten.","Program for \"Mending an Era: a Slave Ship Speaks: the Wreck of the Henrietta Marie.\" Typed text, pages 6-7, of a speech (?) about slaves, Anderson Radford, Cassie Thomas Carter, and MTG's mother.","Text of 2 speeches about Alice Walker's novel  The Color Purple:  \"The Uses of Literature: 1984 \u0026 The Color Purple, Panel Discussion at the Tenth Anniversary Program of the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities,\" September, 1984; and one at Richard Bland Community College, October 7, 1985. Research notes on  The Color Purple . Research notes on Alice Walker's short stories \"1955\" and \"In Love and Trouble\"","Correspondence, schedule, lecture series program with AB's lecture on the Underground Railroad. Typed notes from Guyandotte presentation 11/9/91, and the Guyandotte Civil War Days. Program for Guyandotte Civil War Days, October 12-November 4, 1992 with listing of AB lecture \"Local Black Settlement.\" List of sources by Alan Gould, Marshall University. Invitation to present at the 1993 Civil War Days.","T he West Virginia and Regional History Collection Newsletter , Summer 1989, which includes a speech by AB at an education in WV forum.","Annotated text of a speech by both AB and NB about their time at WVU. WVU program \"A Celebration: Integration of Sports on the WVU Campus\" Correspondence with Dana Brooks regarding participation","Article regarding speech about  The Color Purple  at the West Virginia Alliance for Women's Studies meeting. Text of paper \"Black Education in WV\" read at WVU 6/20/89 for West Virginia Day.","Text of speech about black history in West Virginia and after-dinner remarks regarding social history. Email, travel itinerary, newspaper clipping, and correspondence.","Paper about the slave ship Amistad.","Text of speech re: the Underground Railroad. Newspaper article re: decree of freedom from slavery 150 years after.","Handwritten speech to Mo So Lit Club in McDowell County regarding the history of education of blacks, April 1983. WVSC Fall Convocation program, September 8, 1983; two texts of AB's welcome.","Handwritten poem \"Scamp\" [by Paul Laurence Dunbar]. Two handwritten speeches to the WVSC student government regarding importance of citizenship and service, and the history of WVSC. Invitation to speak to the Student Government Association, April 16, 1982. Newspaper article about black newspapers. Program for the Student Government Association Annual Inauguration Dinner, April 13, 1980. Speech for the Honors Convocation, 1985. \"Remarks prepared for State Senator Marie Redd for Blk History Month-2/4/99\" regarding black history and WV black history.","Correspondence regarding invitation to speak at the West Virginia State Baptist Convention. WVSC new student orientation schedule with remarks scheduled for AB. Text of speech, 1984 and 1985, including a brief history of WVSC and Institute.","First page of WVSC Honors Convocation Speech","Program for \"Building Leadership for Educational Excellence: NEA Mid-Atlantic Regional Leadership Conference, November 1-3, 1985 - Greenbrier Hotel, White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia.\" Annotated text of speech \"A Response to the New Right's Agenda for Public Education.\" Other speeches regarding education","Annotated text, some handwritten, of speech to the Mo So Lit Club, McDowell County, WV. Program for The Matrons and Maids Social and Literary Club (Ma-So-Lit), 50th Anniversary, April 17, 1983. Program and text of introduction of Ethel O. Davie for the WVSC Graduate Dinner, 1984.","Program and text of speech for \"Rewriting History\" panel at the \"Premonitions and Perspectives from 1984: Has the Orwellian World Arrived?\" Wisconsin Intellectual Freedom 6th Annual Conference in Milwaukee, March 1-3, 1984. Program, including full text of AB's speech for a panel on \"Perspectives on Censorship: A Discussion\" at the Twenty-First Annual NEA Conference on Human and Civil Rights in Education, February 25-27, 1983. Correspondence regarding invitations to speak at these conferences.","A speech about  The Color Purple  possibly delivered at a Virginia Humanities Conference.","Text of speech for WVSC Convocation and an outline of speech to women students.","Speeches about Carter G. Woodson, WV black history, her life and experiences, and MLK Day.","Speeches about WV black history, historical research, community service, her life and experiences, importance of black organizations, her faith, black women, race, and black education. Programs from presentations at churches. Letter confirming appointment to the Danforth Associate Program.","Speeches about black education; being a role model; leadership; church missionary work; Martin Luther King, Jr.; taking control; the college experience; community service; honoring Alan Gould; Our Mount Vernons; and black history. Corresponence re: speaking at churches.","Speeches about Black History Month; civil rights; Kwanzaa; women's rights; Martin Luther King, Jr.; the Underground Railroad; MTG; The Color Purple; black culture; Alice Walker; Carter G. Woodson; and WV black history.","Slides for WV black history speech. Research materials on WV black institutions. First two pages of speech. Handwritten text on various institutions.","\"Go with God: Remembering All of Us…,\" Commencement address at MU, 1990. Photograph of unidentified black men singing in church. The program for the 1975 NCTE Spring Institutes: \"Teaching Minority Literatures at All Levels.\"","Text of speech, one annotated, about  The Color Purple  for the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities; handwritten notes.","Text of two speeches about black culture with notes for accompanying slides. Note from Charles Davis. Langston Hughes poem with Alex Haley autograph. [No slides in file.]","Booklet presented to AB after she made a speech for the Army Corps of Engineers in Huntington.","Correspondence with NEA re: participation in panel \"Perspectives on Censorship: A Discussion.\" Handwritten speech on censoring literature by blacks and women in the context of the Kanawha County textbook controversy.","Background materials, correspondence, and text of speech \"Multiculturalism in West Virginia\" at the Governor's Honors Academy.","Newspaper clipping about AB Commencement address at Marshall University, 1990. \"And Further She Sayeth Naught: a Play in Three Acts\" by Maureen \"Bunny\" Crocket and Ancella Bickley. [Speech] re: education in WV.","Text of speech about Martha Toler Spencer. Outline for [speech] about black women. Handwritten text of speech in Virginia, Longwood College, about black women. 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Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, such as the Virginia Public Records Act (Code of Virginia. § 42.1-76-91); and the Virginia Freedom of Information Act (Code of Virginia § 2.2-3705.5). Confidential material may include, but is not limited to, educational, medical, and personnel records. If sensitive material is found in this collection, please contact a staff member immediately. The disclosure of personally identifiable information pertaining to a living individual may have legal consequences for which the College of William and Mary assumes no responsibility.","Three generations of the McGavock family lived in Wythe County, Va. The immigrant was James McGavock (1728-1812) who came from Scotland. His son was James McGavock (1764-1838) and his grandsons were James McGavock (1804- 1839) and Stephen McGavock (1807-1880) who was president of the Farmer's Bank of Virginia at Wytheville.","Papers (including correspondence, legal documents, and accounts) of James McGavock (1728-1812), his son James McGavock (1764-1838) and his grandsons James McGavock (1804-1839) and Stephen McGavock (1807-1880). Many of the papers concern lead mines at Fort Chiswell, Va, slavery, agriculture, aspects of the Revolutionary War, and other.  Included are a list of parish levies before 1776; receipts for supplies issued at Fort Chiswell, Wythe County, Va. and at Fort Patrick Henry, Tenn. for an expedition, 1776-1777, against the Cherokees; and county tax and fee bills for Augusta, Bedford, Botetourt, Montgomery, Pittsylvania, Washington and Wythe counties, Va. The collection includes genealogical information on the McGavock and Boyd families and letters written by members of the Cloyd family and by John Williamson McGavock while attending the University of Virginia.","Letter from John Shaw to Joseph Sheels. This letter is on the same sheet as a receipt signe by Joseph Sheels.","A receipt signed by Joseph Sheels for articles received of James McGavock, on same sheet as the letter to John Shaw.","Circular letter to the Surveyors of the Revenue, Mutilated.","Postmarked Nashville","Mutilated.","Mutilated","Post-marked Richmond, forwarded to Christiansburg, VA","Incomplete","? at Fort Chiswell to [Wythe County], to ?. Incomplete","James Graham, Wythe County to ?","Robert Montgomery, at Madison Township, Jefferson County, Indiana to James McGavock","James F. Perry, at Oak Grove, Chocolate Bayou [Louisiana], to James McGavock, Fort Chiswell, Wythe County, VA. 2 Copies","Ferguson, Jones, and Campbell, at Philadelphia, to James McGavock, Fort Chiswell, Wythe VA","Harold Smyth, at Wythe Courthouse, to James McGavock, Wythe County VA","[James McGavock] to Ferguson, Jones, and Campbell at Philadelphia. Rough copy, incomplete.","James St. Clair to James McGavock","N.H. Robertson at Nashville [TN] to James McGavock Sr., Wythe Courthouse, VA","Ferguson, Jones, and Co., at Philadelphia to James McGavock at Fort Chiswell, Wythe County, VA","N.H. Robertson at Nashville [TN] to James McGavock, Wythe Court House, VA","Lysander McGavock to his uncle james McGavock Sr. at Fort Chiswell, VA","John Hanger at Richmond, to Joseph McGavock, Wythe County VA","William Hill to James McGavock Sr., Fort Chissell (Chiswell) VA","Peter Fulkerson Sr. Lee County VA to ?","Joseph Haller, Wythe Court House to Col. Joseph Kent, Joseph Crockett and James McGavock, Wythe County VA","John Kesten and Nancy Kesten, Johnson County Iowa, to [?]","Adams [Adam?] Sanders to [?]. Mutilated","E.N. Sprinkle to S[tephen] McGavock","J.P. Matthews at Wythe [County] to Stephen McGavock at Fort Chiswell","J.W. Truslow at Wythevill to Stephen McGavock Wythe County VA","William B. Mason and Co at Giles Court House to ? McGavock at Wytheville, VA","T.J. Morrison at Seven Mile Ford [Smyth County] to Stephen McGavock at Wytheville, VA","E[phraim] McGavock at Wytheville to Stephen McGavock at Fort Chiswell","T.J. Morrison at Wytheville to Stephen McGavock at Fort Chisel (Chiswell), Wythe County VA","L. Click and H.D. Roe at Kingsport TN to S[tephen] McGavock. Mutilated.","Hamilton Sagers, at Drapers Valley [Wythe County] to Stephen McGavock, Wythe County VA","Hallers [?] to Stephen McGavock","John Morrison at Wytheville to S[tephen] McGavock","David F. Kent at Springfield to Stephen McGavock, Ft. Chisel (Chiswell), Wythe [County] VA","John Morrison at Wytheville to [?] McGavock","D. McG[avock] at Harpers Ferry (Jefferson County VA) to Stephen [McGavock]","James A McNutt, at Marion (Smyth County VA) to Stephen [McGavock]","J. Brown Jr. at Richmond to Stephen McGavock President of the office of the Farmers Bank of Virginia at Wytheville.","Habliston and Brother, at Richmond to S[tephen] McGavock","Habliston and Brother, at Richmond, to S[tephen] McGavock","Alfred King, per Thomas H. Lambeth, at Richmond to Stephen McGavock","James M. Bland, at Greensboro to Stephen McGavock","F.H. Mays at Fincastle (Botetourt County) to S[tephen] McGavock","E[phraim] McGavock at Wytheville to Stephen McGavock Fort Chiswell","Francis Bell, at Back Creek, to Stephen McGavock","Thomas J. Boyd, at Wythevillem, to Capt. Charles W. Venable, Commissary C.S.A. at Wythevillem, VA. On back of sheet is a note tothe agents of the Assistant Commissary's Office at Wytheville, signed by C.W. Venable 15 November 1864","J.N. Goodwin, General Superintendant of the Virginia and Tennessee Railroad, at Lynchburg, to Stephen and Cloyd McGavock","D. Graham at Cedar Run, VA to E[phraim] McGavock at Wytheville VA","A.M. Kasey to [?] McGavock","Cynthia M.G. Houston, at Natural Bridge (Rockbridge County), to her cousin Stephen [McGavock]","A. Thomas at Holston Mills to S[tephen] McGavock","J.R. Crockett at Max Meadow, to Stephen or Cloyd McGavock.","J.H. Martin at Wytheville to [?] McGavock","R.E. Withers at Lynchburg, to Stephen and Cloyd McGavock, at Max Meadow, Wythe County, VA","Mr. and Mrs. John A. Lee at Lynchburg to Messrs. and Miss McGavock. Declining an invitation.","John M. Hall to Cloid [Cloyd] McGavock","John H. Gibboney at Wytheville, to Stephen McGavock","Williamson McGavock, at the University of Virginia to his uncle [?]","J.F. Kent at Bellfield Mills, to his cousin Stephen McGavock","Charles L. Fox at Wytheville to Stephen and Cloyd McGavock","Charles L. Fox at Wytheville to Stephen McGavock","D.C. Kent at Dublin (Pulaski County) to his cousin Stephen McGavock","V.C. Huff to Stephen McGavock","Williamson McGavock at the University of Virginia to his uncle Stephen McGavock","Joseph Cloyd, near Dublin (Pulaski county) to Stephen or Cloyd McGavock","William Gibboney at Wytheville to J.F. Slaughter at Lynchburg, VA introducing Stephen McGavock.","William Gibboney at Wytheville, VA to S.B. Smith, Richmond introducing Stephen McGavock","Crockett and Blair at Wytheville, Wythe County, to Stephen McGavock","J.W. Hagar to Stephen and Cloyd McGavock","Joseph F. Kent at Bellfield Mills to Stephen McGavock","Charles L. Fox at Wytheville, VA to Stephen and Cloyd McGavock","W.B. Byars at Glade Spring (Washington County) to [?]","W.A. Smyth at Montgomery to [?]","John W. Robinson at Graham's Ford to Stephen McGavock at Ft. Chiswell VA","Noel and Brown at Wytheville, VA to Stephen McGavock","William Matthews at Dublin [Pulaski County VA] to [?]","A.E. Parker at Wytheville to McGavock and Brother at Fort Chiswell.","Mathew Aiken at Croftsville, Tazwell County, VA to Stephen or Cloyd McGavock","William B. Byars at Glad Spring [Washington County VA] to Stephen McGavock","J.M. Crockett at Philadelphia to Stephen McGavock","J.F. Kent at Kent's Mill, VA to Stephen [McGavock]","John R. Richardson, at Morristown, TN to Stephen McGavock at Max Meadows, Wythe County, VA","A.N. Chiffin to T. Wood","T[?] P. Clap to [?]","Lynch A Currin to S[tephen] McGavock","P. Gaines to James McGavock","Phillip Gaines to James McGavock Jr.","Hugh Graham to [?]","Kate Haller to Mr. [?] McGavock","P[?] P[?] Hanson at Wytheville to Stephen McGavock at Fort Chiswell","William Hill to Stephen McGavock","V.C. Huff to [?] McGavock","V.C. Huff to Stephen McGavock","Margaret Mathews to her brother [?]","D. McGavock to his cousin Stephen McGavock","E[phraim] McGavock to Stephen McGavock, Fort Chiswell, Wythe County VA","Peter Mulholland to Stephen McGavock","Thomas Quirk to Col. W. Crockett","Waller R. Staples at Richmond to Stephen McGavock","A. Tompkins to S[tephen] McGavock","Sarah [?] to her uncle [?]","One unidentified letter","McGavock (?). 59 Pieces including a small book containing an Index to accounts.","1 Piece","3 Pieces","1 Piece","10 Pieces","1 Piece","6 Pieces","1 Piece","Piece","1 Piece","40 Pieces","3 Pieces","1 Piece","1 Piece","1 Piece","1 Piece","5 Pieces","1 Piece","2 Pieces","1 Piece","Receipt for guns issued for the expedition against the Cherokee 1780. 1 Piece Discharge of Thomas Welch, 1776, 1 Piece","Collector of the poor rates 1796.  1 Piece","Tax levies and clerk's fees 1760-1793. 15 Pieces Other invoices and receipts 1761-1811. 77 Pieces","Scope and Contents","A 1779 Manuscript Volume containing the following: parish levies, receipts from supplies issued to public stores for use during the expedition against the Cherokee, 1776. receipts for supplies for troops at Fort Patrick Henry, 1776-1777; and a manuscript arithmetic. 250 Pages, 8\"x7\" See also folders 5 and 10.","Receipts and certificates of service issued by James McGavock, Ensign, Wythe County Militia. 1791-1792. 25 Pieces","Lead mines in Wythe County, 1810-1833. 53 Pieces including 9 Letters Saltpeter receipts 1814-1815.  33 Pieces including 5 Letters","Tax levies and Clerk's fees 1800-1836. 66 Pieces Other Invoices and receipts. 1791-1836. 86 Pieces","Tax levies and Clerk's fees 1838-1866.  29 Pieces Accounts, receipts, and memoranda 1834-1848.  22 Pieces","Tax levies and Clerk's fees, 1831-1837.  12 Pieces Other invoices and receipts, 1820-1839.  57 Pieces","Tax levies and Clerk's fees, 1847-1851.  6 Pieces","Accounts, Receipts, and Memoranda of Stephen McGavock, executor of the Estate of James McGavock and guardian of Mary, Jane, and Sarah McGavock","Letters from Agnes L. McGavock, aferwards Agnes L. Richardson, widow of James McGavock to his executor Stephen McGavock concerning certain matters regarding the estate.  7 Pieces","Letter from Andrew S. Fulton, at Wytheville to Stephen McGavock at Fort Chiswell [Wythe] concerning dower rights. 1 Piece","Letters from John R. Richardson, at Cedar Hill to Stephen McGavock, Fort Chiswell, Wythe, VA, concerning arbitration of the estate. 2 Pieces.","Statement of lead delivered by the County Lieutenants. 1 Piece","60 Pieces","164 Pieces","20 Pieces","26 Pieces","28 Pieces","35 Pieces","1 Piece","8 Pieces","13 Pieces","1 Piece","6 Pieces","8 Pieces","1 Piece","3 Pieces","626 Pieces.  This collection of accounts is divided between folders 12, 13, and 14","626 Pieces.  This collection of accounts is divided between folders 12, 13, and 14","626 Pieces. This collection of accounts is divided between folders 12, 13, and 14","505 Pieces divided between folders 15 and 16.","505 Pieces divided between folders 15 and 16.","2 PIeces","24 Pieces","Accounts of Stephen, Cloyd, William, Cynthia, Polly, and Betsey McGavock. 1 Piece","7 Pieces","Includes a statement of he cause of deathe of William McGavock as wel as a memorandum book (small but not a volume). 17 Pieces total.","2 Pieces","Includes one memorandum book. 116 Pieces","179 Pieces","Fee bills of the County Clerks, 19 pieces.","Fee bills of the County Clerk. 3 Pieces","Fee bills of the county Clerks and Tax bills, 240 Pieces","1 Piece","Fee bills of the county clerk and sheriff. 2 Pieces","Fee bills of the County Clerk. 4 Pieces","Fee bills of the clerk and sheriff. 2 Pieces","Fee bills of the county clerk and sheriff, and tax bills. 50 Pieces","9 Pieces","9 Pieces","John Allison. Survey of a tract of land sold to C.C. Tate. 3 Pieces","Scope and Contents","Papers relating to a tract of land in Wythe County, Virginia, called \"Anchor and Hope\". 7 Pieces","copy of a survey of a portion of a Revolutionary land grant made to Moses Austin, Wythe County, Virginia (1795); and a legal opinion of David McComas (1833) concerning the claim of David Graham to a portion of the land included in the grant. 2 Pieces","Letter of Stephen and Moses Austin and Samuel Paine to Beverley Randolf, Governor of Virginia. Copy of a bond for the repayment of 20 tonnes of lead. 1 Piece","Letter of Henry Banks to William Whitcroft. Copy of the court record of a deed to a tract of land in Montgomery County, Virginia. 1 Piece","Agreement for the sale of a tract of land in Wythe county, Virginia to Mary Graham and William Graham. 1 Piece","Suit in Wythe County. 1 Piece","David Carnut, assignee of Colin Campbell, assignee of John Lathem. Copy of the record of a Revolutionary land claim in Montgomery County. David Carnute, assignee of James newell, assignee of robert Love. Copy of the record of a revolutionary land claim. Both are on one sheet.","John Carter to Joseph Kent. Bill of sale of a Negro girl. 1 Piece","Carter, Crockett, and Thomas Herbert to Robert and Walter Colquohoun. Bond. 1 Piece","Will of Alexander N. Chaffin, of Wythe County, VA. 1 Piece","Lease of a tract of land in Wythe County known as Boiling Spring, to Costilo Hill. 1 Piece","Lease of a tract of land in Wythe County known as Boiling Spring to Isaac Sulander. 1 Piece","Agreement of the sale of a tract of land in Monk's Corner, to Conrad Keesling. 1 piece","Papers relating to the division of Abram Crockett's lands in Williamson County, Tennessee. 3 Pieces","Survey and description of James Crockett's Mountain orchard. 1 Piece","Power of attorney authorizing Alexander Ewing to transfer to David McGavock a tract of land in Davidson County, Tennessee. 1 piece","power of attorney authorizing randal McGavock to sell a tract of land in Sumner County, Tennessee. 1 Piece","James Crockett to James R. Kent. Bill of sale of a Negro girl. 1 Piece","James Crockett and Robert Sayers to William Galt.  Bond.  1 Piece.","Survey of a tract of land in Wythe County. 1 Piece","Joseph Dougherty to Thomas Quirk. Bill of sale of a Negro boy. 1 Piece","Robert Dougherty, executor of Michael Dougherty to David McGavock.  Power of attorney authorizing the conveyance of certain tracts of land to David Love, John Craiger and William Chistle, assignee of John Bentley.  1 Piece.  Mutilated","Survey and plats of a tract of land in Davidson County, Tennessee. 1 Piece","Suit","Agreement of Samuel Graham and Nathaniel Crockett and othersconcerning the settling of the estate of Robert Graham. 3 Pieces","Henry Hufford to James E. Brown. Trust deed covering a tract of land in Preston County, Virginia. 1 Piece","Suit in washington [County] District Court. 2 pieces","Suit in Botetourt County.  2 Pieces","Two surveys made for David Love.  1 piece","Bond","Bond. 1 Piece","Suit in Botetourt County, Virginia. 1 Piece","Statement made in Caswell County, North Carolina, in regards to the unaauthorized sale of his property.  1 Piece","Suit","Suit in Grayson County, Virginia. David McGavock vs. Stephen Saunders, administrator of James Ewing. 1 Piece","Deed to a tract of land i Wythe County, Virginia, sold by Samuel Crockett and wife to Ephraim, Stephen, and Joseph C. McGavock. Not Signed. 1 Piece","Assignment of a tract of land. 1 piece","Receipt for payment made by James McGavock for the purchase of William Gillaspe's land. 1 piece.","Bond given to James McGavock to insure compliance with his agreement for the delivery of Aluminum Salt at Fort Chiswell. 1 Piece","Bond for the performance of his duties as undersheriff. 1 Piece","Settlement proposed by the arbitrators to be made by James McGavock with Samuel and Elizabeth McDowell, administrators of James McDowell.  2 Pieces","Suit in Augusta County.  1 Piece","Papers concerning lands conveyed to James McGavock by military and treasury warrants. 2 Pieces","Bond given to James McGavock to secure a debt and to secure the payment of interest due on a tract of land sold to James McGavock. 1 Piece","Memorandum of an agreement concerning the division of the Sheriff's duties and renumeration in Botetourt County.  Bond given by James McGavock as Sheriff, and bond given by Francis Smith and William preston to James McGavock.  3 Pieces.","Bond given by James McGavock as collector of the parish levy, Botetourt County. 1 Piece","Bond given by john floyd and James Thompson to James McGavock for collection of a parish levy. 1 piece","Transfer of a certificate for a tract of land in Williamson County, Tennessee.  1 Piece","James Crockett to James McGavock. Trust deed covering three tracts of land in Wythe County, VA, including the mountain or orchard tract and a portion of Purgatory Tract","Agreement for the sale of a tract of land to James McGavock. 1 Piece","Leases granted by James McGavock to Zaceriah Hurt. 2 pieces","Zaceriah Hurt to James Ward, trustee for James McGavock. Chattel mortgage. 2 pieces","Attachment upon Zaceriah Hurt in favor of James McGavock. 1 Piece","Suit, 1 Piece","Copy of a deed to a tract of land in Wythe county. 1 Piece","Bills of sale for Negroes sold to James McGavock. 8 Pieces","Bills of sale of negroes.  2 Pieces","Survey of a division line between the lands of the heirs of James McGavock Sr., and the heirs of James McGavock Jr. 1 Piece","A memorandum of stray cattle taken by James McGavock at Fort Chiswell. 1 piece","Suit in Wythe County. 1 Piece","Plat, description and receipt of payment for certain tracts of land sold by Samuel Graham to James McGavock. 3 Pieces","Assignment of a tract of land.  1 Piece","Trust deed covering two tracts of land in Wythe County. 1 Piece","Articles of agreement and bond for the sale by James Mcgavock to David and James Magill, of a plantation in Rockbridge County, VA.  5 Pieces","Referees' decision in a dispute with James McGavock. 1 Piece","Surveyor's plat of a tract of land sold by Joseph Ramsey to James McGavock. 1 Piece","Suit in Botetourt County. 1 Piece","Bond to insure delivery of the indenture of John Myers, an indentured servant sold to James McGavock by Samuel Smith and others. 1 piece","Trust deed covering certain real estate in Stephensburg and a memorandum concerning the property. 2 Pieces","Bill of sale for Negroes sold to James McGavock. 4 pieces","Memorandum of an agreement for farm work to be done by Adams.  1 Piece","Bill of sale of a Negro boy. 1 Piece","Lease granted to Alexander Fisher. Mutilated. 1 Piece","Agreement concerning the sale to Stephen McGavock of an interest in a plantation. 1 Piece","Receipt for money paid for a tract of land. 1 Piece","Bond to insure delivery of a good title to a tract of land in Wythe County, VA, sold to Stephen and Cloyd McGavock. 1 Piece","Agreement to give possession of a certain plantation to Stephen and Joseph Cloyd McGavock. 1 Piece.","Receipt for money paid for a tract of land.  1 Piece","George Archer, 1852, 1 piece Harrison Archer, 1867, 1 Piece William D. Archer, 1867-72, 3 Pieces John Maybe, 1866, 1 Piece George A. Shoemaker, 1866, 1 Piece P.C. Taylor, 1866, 1 Piece Pleasant C. Taylor, 1866, 1 piece","Farm labor agreements of Stephen and Cloyd McGavock. 3 pieces","Survey of 40 acres of land conveyed to an unnamed person. 1 Piece","Comission of John T. Sayers and Francis J. Carter to receive the acknowledgement of Daniel Miller's wife of his deed to James Crockett, conveying a tract of land in Wythe County, VA. 1 piece","Survey of a tract of land belonging to R. Montgomery.  1 piece","Surveys of tracts of land made for William Montgomery, Josiah Ramsey, and Abner Bledsoe.  1 Piece","Survey of a tract of land in Wythe County, VA, conveyed by Robert Norris to Josiah Ramsey. 1 Piece","Deed to a tract of land in Wythe County. 1 Piece","Survey of land deeded to James and Andrew Crockett. 1 Piece","Surveyor's plat of a tract of land sold by james Thompson, agent for R. Price. 1 piece","Court orders regarding public roads. 2 Pieces","Memorandum of two tracts of land in Wythe Couny, VA, surveyed for Josiah Ramsey. 1 Piece","Legal opinion on the proper procedure in a sale of land by [?] McGavock to [?] Sawyers.  1 piece","Suits against Abraham Reynolds for debt.  Wythe County, VA.  19 pieces","Transfer if a lease on a tract of land called Crocketts Forge, in Wythe County. 1 piece","Suit in Wythe County.  1 piece","Surveys and plats of land in Burk's Garden, Tazwell County, VA, belonging to Colonel Robert Sayers.  4 Pieces","Suit in Wythe County, 1 piece","Description of a tract of land in Montgomery County, surveyed for David Sloan. 1 Piece","Bill of sale of a negro boy. 1 Piece","Suit for debt. 1 Piece","Agreement with Patrick Henry, Walter Crockett, James McCorkle, Thomas Madison, and James McGavock; concerning the mining of iron. 1 Piece","Suit in Wythe County.  1 Piece","Agreement for the erection of a grist mill.  1 Piece","Copy of a warrant for Richard Woods. Botetourt County, Virginia. 1 Piece","Revolutionary land warrants of James McGavock, David McGavock, Alexander Smyth, John Latham, George Brook, James Crockett, John Creger, David Sloan, Hiram Craig, John Belshen, William King, Godfrey Messersmith, and John Herkerader. 4 pieces.","Andrew Neely vs. John Drake and William Neely George Hancock vs. Andrew Neely One One sheet","William Hay vs. Joseph Barneville and Philip Buttonstone (1794) William Hay vs. David McGavock (1796) One one sheet","17 Pieces","1 Piece","A printed list of guests at Chapman Springs. 1 Piece","4 Pieces","6 pieces","Forms for the use of tax collectors. 5 Pieces","A tax form used by the Confederate States of America.  1 Piece","Tax assesor's form for the United States Internal Revenue Service. 1 Piece","Pedigree and description of Manassas, a thoroughbred horse. 1 Piece","Printed Circular letter announcing a commercial convention to be held in Norfolk to improve the means of communication with the Interior, the West, Nortgwest, Southwest, and North Carolina; and establish direct trade with Europe.  1 Piece","Certificate of membership in the union Agricultural Society of Virginia and North Carolina. 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Many of the papers concern lead mines at Fort Chiswell, Va, slavery, agriculture, aspects of the Revolutionary War, and other.  Included are a list of parish levies before 1776; receipts for supplies issued at Fort Chiswell, Wythe County, Va. and at Fort Patrick Henry, Tenn. for an expedition, 1776-1777, against the Cherokees; and county tax and fee bills for Augusta, Bedford, Botetourt, Montgomery, Pittsylvania, Washington and Wythe counties, Va. The collection includes genealogical information on the McGavock and Boyd families and letters written by members of the Cloyd family and by John Williamson McGavock while attending the University of Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter from John Shaw to Joseph Sheels. 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Chiffin to T. Wood\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eT[?] P. Clap to [?]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLynch A Currin to S[tephen] McGavock\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eP. Gaines to James McGavock\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePhillip Gaines to James McGavock Jr.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHugh Graham to [?]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eKate Haller to Mr. [?] McGavock\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eP[?] P[?] Hanson at Wytheville to Stephen McGavock at Fort Chiswell\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWilliam Hill to Stephen McGavock\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eV.C. Huff to [?] McGavock\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eV.C. Huff to Stephen McGavock\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMargaret Mathews to her brother [?]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eD. McGavock to his cousin Stephen McGavock\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eE[phraim] McGavock to Stephen McGavock, Fort Chiswell, Wythe County VA\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePeter Mulholland to Stephen McGavock\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThomas Quirk to Col. W. 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Copy of the court record of a deed to a tract of land in Montgomery County, Virginia. 1 Piece\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAgreement for the sale of a tract of land in Wythe county, Virginia to Mary Graham and William Graham. 1 Piece\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSuit in Wythe County. 1 Piece\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDavid Carnut, assignee of Colin Campbell, assignee of John Lathem. Copy of the record of a Revolutionary land claim in Montgomery County. David Carnute, assignee of James newell, assignee of robert Love. Copy of the record of a revolutionary land claim. Both are on one sheet.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn Carter to Joseph Kent. Bill of sale of a Negro girl. 1 Piece\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCarter, Crockett, and Thomas Herbert to Robert and Walter Colquohoun. Bond. 1 Piece\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWill of Alexander N. 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grandsons James McGavock (1804-1839) and Stephen McGavock (1807-1880). Many of the papers concern lead mines at Fort Chiswell, Va, slavery, agriculture, aspects of the Revolutionary War, and other.  Included are a list of parish levies before 1776; receipts for supplies issued at Fort Chiswell, Wythe County, Va. and at Fort Patrick Henry, Tenn. for an expedition, 1776-1777, against the Cherokees; and county tax and fee bills for Augusta, Bedford, Botetourt, Montgomery, Pittsylvania, Washington and Wythe counties, Va. The collection includes genealogical information on the McGavock and Boyd families and letters written by members of the Cloyd family and by John Williamson McGavock while attending the University of Virginia.","Letter from John Shaw to Joseph Sheels. This letter is on the same sheet as a receipt signe by Joseph Sheels.","A receipt signed by Joseph Sheels for articles received of James McGavock, on same sheet as the letter to John Shaw.","Circular letter to the Surveyors of the Revenue, Mutilated.","Postmarked Nashville","Mutilated.","Mutilated","Post-marked Richmond, forwarded to Christiansburg, VA","Incomplete","? at Fort Chiswell to [Wythe County], to ?. Incomplete","James Graham, Wythe County to ?","Robert Montgomery, at Madison Township, Jefferson County, Indiana to James McGavock","James F. Perry, at Oak Grove, Chocolate Bayou [Louisiana], to James McGavock, Fort Chiswell, Wythe County, VA. 2 Copies","Ferguson, Jones, and Campbell, at Philadelphia, to James McGavock, Fort Chiswell, Wythe VA","Harold Smyth, at Wythe Courthouse, to James McGavock, Wythe County VA","[James McGavock] to Ferguson, Jones, and Campbell at Philadelphia. Rough copy, incomplete.","James St. Clair to James McGavock","N.H. Robertson at Nashville [TN] to James McGavock Sr., Wythe Courthouse, VA","Ferguson, Jones, and Co., at Philadelphia to James McGavock at Fort Chiswell, Wythe County, VA","N.H. Robertson at Nashville [TN] to James McGavock, Wythe Court House, VA","Lysander McGavock to his uncle james McGavock Sr. at Fort Chiswell, VA","John Hanger at Richmond, to Joseph McGavock, Wythe County VA","William Hill to James McGavock Sr., Fort Chissell (Chiswell) VA","Peter Fulkerson Sr. Lee County VA to ?","Joseph Haller, Wythe Court House to Col. Joseph Kent, Joseph Crockett and James McGavock, Wythe County VA","John Kesten and Nancy Kesten, Johnson County Iowa, to [?]","Adams [Adam?] Sanders to [?]. Mutilated","E.N. Sprinkle to S[tephen] McGavock","J.P. Matthews at Wythe [County] to Stephen McGavock at Fort Chiswell","J.W. Truslow at Wythevill to Stephen McGavock Wythe County VA","William B. Mason and Co at Giles Court House to ? McGavock at Wytheville, VA","T.J. Morrison at Seven Mile Ford [Smyth County] to Stephen McGavock at Wytheville, VA","E[phraim] McGavock at Wytheville to Stephen McGavock at Fort Chiswell","T.J. Morrison at Wytheville to Stephen McGavock at Fort Chisel (Chiswell), Wythe County VA","L. Click and H.D. Roe at Kingsport TN to S[tephen] McGavock. Mutilated.","Hamilton Sagers, at Drapers Valley [Wythe County] to Stephen McGavock, Wythe County VA","Hallers [?] to Stephen McGavock","John Morrison at Wytheville to S[tephen] McGavock","David F. Kent at Springfield to Stephen McGavock, Ft. Chisel (Chiswell), Wythe [County] VA","John Morrison at Wytheville to [?] McGavock","D. McG[avock] at Harpers Ferry (Jefferson County VA) to Stephen [McGavock]","James A McNutt, at Marion (Smyth County VA) to Stephen [McGavock]","J. Brown Jr. at Richmond to Stephen McGavock President of the office of the Farmers Bank of Virginia at Wytheville.","Habliston and Brother, at Richmond to S[tephen] McGavock","Habliston and Brother, at Richmond, to S[tephen] McGavock","Alfred King, per Thomas H. Lambeth, at Richmond to Stephen McGavock","James M. Bland, at Greensboro to Stephen McGavock","F.H. Mays at Fincastle (Botetourt County) to S[tephen] McGavock","E[phraim] McGavock at Wytheville to Stephen McGavock Fort Chiswell","Francis Bell, at Back Creek, to Stephen McGavock","Thomas J. Boyd, at Wythevillem, to Capt. Charles W. Venable, Commissary C.S.A. at Wythevillem, VA. On back of sheet is a note tothe agents of the Assistant Commissary's Office at Wytheville, signed by C.W. Venable 15 November 1864","J.N. Goodwin, General Superintendant of the Virginia and Tennessee Railroad, at Lynchburg, to Stephen and Cloyd McGavock","D. Graham at Cedar Run, VA to E[phraim] McGavock at Wytheville VA","A.M. Kasey to [?] McGavock","Cynthia M.G. Houston, at Natural Bridge (Rockbridge County), to her cousin Stephen [McGavock]","A. Thomas at Holston Mills to S[tephen] McGavock","J.R. Crockett at Max Meadow, to Stephen or Cloyd McGavock.","J.H. Martin at Wytheville to [?] McGavock","R.E. Withers at Lynchburg, to Stephen and Cloyd McGavock, at Max Meadow, Wythe County, VA","Mr. and Mrs. John A. Lee at Lynchburg to Messrs. and Miss McGavock. Declining an invitation.","John M. Hall to Cloid [Cloyd] McGavock","John H. Gibboney at Wytheville, to Stephen McGavock","Williamson McGavock, at the University of Virginia to his uncle [?]","J.F. Kent at Bellfield Mills, to his cousin Stephen McGavock","Charles L. Fox at Wytheville to Stephen and Cloyd McGavock","Charles L. Fox at Wytheville to Stephen McGavock","D.C. Kent at Dublin (Pulaski County) to his cousin Stephen McGavock","V.C. Huff to Stephen McGavock","Williamson McGavock at the University of Virginia to his uncle Stephen McGavock","Joseph Cloyd, near Dublin (Pulaski county) to Stephen or Cloyd McGavock","William Gibboney at Wytheville to J.F. Slaughter at Lynchburg, VA introducing Stephen McGavock.","William Gibboney at Wytheville, VA to S.B. Smith, Richmond introducing Stephen McGavock","Crockett and Blair at Wytheville, Wythe County, to Stephen McGavock","J.W. Hagar to Stephen and Cloyd McGavock","Joseph F. Kent at Bellfield Mills to Stephen McGavock","Charles L. Fox at Wytheville, VA to Stephen and Cloyd McGavock","W.B. Byars at Glade Spring (Washington County) to [?]","W.A. Smyth at Montgomery to [?]","John W. Robinson at Graham's Ford to Stephen McGavock at Ft. Chiswell VA","Noel and Brown at Wytheville, VA to Stephen McGavock","William Matthews at Dublin [Pulaski County VA] to [?]","A.E. Parker at Wytheville to McGavock and Brother at Fort Chiswell.","Mathew Aiken at Croftsville, Tazwell County, VA to Stephen or Cloyd McGavock","William B. Byars at Glad Spring [Washington County VA] to Stephen McGavock","J.M. Crockett at Philadelphia to Stephen McGavock","J.F. Kent at Kent's Mill, VA to Stephen [McGavock]","John R. Richardson, at Morristown, TN to Stephen McGavock at Max Meadows, Wythe County, VA","A.N. Chiffin to T. Wood","T[?] P. Clap to [?]","Lynch A Currin to S[tephen] McGavock","P. Gaines to James McGavock","Phillip Gaines to James McGavock Jr.","Hugh Graham to [?]","Kate Haller to Mr. [?] McGavock","P[?] P[?] Hanson at Wytheville to Stephen McGavock at Fort Chiswell","William Hill to Stephen McGavock","V.C. Huff to [?] McGavock","V.C. Huff to Stephen McGavock","Margaret Mathews to her brother [?]","D. McGavock to his cousin Stephen McGavock","E[phraim] McGavock to Stephen McGavock, Fort Chiswell, Wythe County VA","Peter Mulholland to Stephen McGavock","Thomas Quirk to Col. W. Crockett","Waller R. Staples at Richmond to Stephen McGavock","A. Tompkins to S[tephen] McGavock","Sarah [?] to her uncle [?]","One unidentified letter","McGavock (?). 59 Pieces including a small book containing an Index to accounts.","1 Piece","3 Pieces","1 Piece","10 Pieces","1 Piece","6 Pieces","1 Piece","Piece","1 Piece","40 Pieces","3 Pieces","1 Piece","1 Piece","1 Piece","1 Piece","5 Pieces","1 Piece","2 Pieces","1 Piece","Receipt for guns issued for the expedition against the Cherokee 1780. 1 Piece Discharge of Thomas Welch, 1776, 1 Piece","Collector of the poor rates 1796.  1 Piece","Tax levies and clerk's fees 1760-1793. 15 Pieces Other invoices and receipts 1761-1811. 77 Pieces","Scope and Contents","A 1779 Manuscript Volume containing the following: parish levies, receipts from supplies issued to public stores for use during the expedition against the Cherokee, 1776. receipts for supplies for troops at Fort Patrick Henry, 1776-1777; and a manuscript arithmetic. 250 Pages, 8\"x7\" See also folders 5 and 10.","Receipts and certificates of service issued by James McGavock, Ensign, Wythe County Militia. 1791-1792. 25 Pieces","Lead mines in Wythe County, 1810-1833. 53 Pieces including 9 Letters Saltpeter receipts 1814-1815.  33 Pieces including 5 Letters","Tax levies and Clerk's fees 1800-1836. 66 Pieces Other Invoices and receipts. 1791-1836. 86 Pieces","Tax levies and Clerk's fees 1838-1866.  29 Pieces Accounts, receipts, and memoranda 1834-1848.  22 Pieces","Tax levies and Clerk's fees, 1831-1837.  12 Pieces Other invoices and receipts, 1820-1839.  57 Pieces","Tax levies and Clerk's fees, 1847-1851.  6 Pieces","Accounts, Receipts, and Memoranda of Stephen McGavock, executor of the Estate of James McGavock and guardian of Mary, Jane, and Sarah McGavock","Letters from Agnes L. McGavock, aferwards Agnes L. Richardson, widow of James McGavock to his executor Stephen McGavock concerning certain matters regarding the estate.  7 Pieces","Letter from Andrew S. Fulton, at Wytheville to Stephen McGavock at Fort Chiswell [Wythe] concerning dower rights. 1 Piece","Letters from John R. Richardson, at Cedar Hill to Stephen McGavock, Fort Chiswell, Wythe, VA, concerning arbitration of the estate. 2 Pieces.","Statement of lead delivered by the County Lieutenants. 1 Piece","60 Pieces","164 Pieces","20 Pieces","26 Pieces","28 Pieces","35 Pieces","1 Piece","8 Pieces","13 Pieces","1 Piece","6 Pieces","8 Pieces","1 Piece","3 Pieces","626 Pieces.  This collection of accounts is divided between folders 12, 13, and 14","626 Pieces.  This collection of accounts is divided between folders 12, 13, and 14","626 Pieces. This collection of accounts is divided between folders 12, 13, and 14","505 Pieces divided between folders 15 and 16.","505 Pieces divided between folders 15 and 16.","2 PIeces","24 Pieces","Accounts of Stephen, Cloyd, William, Cynthia, Polly, and Betsey McGavock. 1 Piece","7 Pieces","Includes a statement of he cause of deathe of William McGavock as wel as a memorandum book (small but not a volume). 17 Pieces total.","2 Pieces","Includes one memorandum book. 116 Pieces","179 Pieces","Fee bills of the County Clerks, 19 pieces.","Fee bills of the County Clerk. 3 Pieces","Fee bills of the county Clerks and Tax bills, 240 Pieces","1 Piece","Fee bills of the county clerk and sheriff. 2 Pieces","Fee bills of the County Clerk. 4 Pieces","Fee bills of the clerk and sheriff. 2 Pieces","Fee bills of the county clerk and sheriff, and tax bills. 50 Pieces","9 Pieces","9 Pieces","John Allison. Survey of a tract of land sold to C.C. Tate. 3 Pieces","Scope and Contents","Papers relating to a tract of land in Wythe County, Virginia, called \"Anchor and Hope\". 7 Pieces","copy of a survey of a portion of a Revolutionary land grant made to Moses Austin, Wythe County, Virginia (1795); and a legal opinion of David McComas (1833) concerning the claim of David Graham to a portion of the land included in the grant. 2 Pieces","Letter of Stephen and Moses Austin and Samuel Paine to Beverley Randolf, Governor of Virginia. Copy of a bond for the repayment of 20 tonnes of lead. 1 Piece","Letter of Henry Banks to William Whitcroft. Copy of the court record of a deed to a tract of land in Montgomery County, Virginia. 1 Piece","Agreement for the sale of a tract of land in Wythe county, Virginia to Mary Graham and William Graham. 1 Piece","Suit in Wythe County. 1 Piece","David Carnut, assignee of Colin Campbell, assignee of John Lathem. Copy of the record of a Revolutionary land claim in Montgomery County. David Carnute, assignee of James newell, assignee of robert Love. Copy of the record of a revolutionary land claim. Both are on one sheet.","John Carter to Joseph Kent. Bill of sale of a Negro girl. 1 Piece","Carter, Crockett, and Thomas Herbert to Robert and Walter Colquohoun. Bond. 1 Piece","Will of Alexander N. Chaffin, of Wythe County, VA. 1 Piece","Lease of a tract of land in Wythe County known as Boiling Spring, to Costilo Hill. 1 Piece","Lease of a tract of land in Wythe County known as Boiling Spring to Isaac Sulander. 1 Piece","Agreement of the sale of a tract of land in Monk's Corner, to Conrad Keesling. 1 piece","Papers relating to the division of Abram Crockett's lands in Williamson County, Tennessee. 3 Pieces","Survey and description of James Crockett's Mountain orchard. 1 Piece","Power of attorney authorizing Alexander Ewing to transfer to David McGavock a tract of land in Davidson County, Tennessee. 1 piece","power of attorney authorizing randal McGavock to sell a tract of land in Sumner County, Tennessee. 1 Piece","James Crockett to James R. Kent. Bill of sale of a Negro girl. 1 Piece","James Crockett and Robert Sayers to William Galt.  Bond.  1 Piece.","Survey of a tract of land in Wythe County. 1 Piece","Joseph Dougherty to Thomas Quirk. Bill of sale of a Negro boy. 1 Piece","Robert Dougherty, executor of Michael Dougherty to David McGavock.  Power of attorney authorizing the conveyance of certain tracts of land to David Love, John Craiger and William Chistle, assignee of John Bentley.  1 Piece.  Mutilated","Survey and plats of a tract of land in Davidson County, Tennessee. 1 Piece","Suit","Agreement of Samuel Graham and Nathaniel Crockett and othersconcerning the settling of the estate of Robert Graham. 3 Pieces","Henry Hufford to James E. Brown. Trust deed covering a tract of land in Preston County, Virginia. 1 Piece","Suit in washington [County] District Court. 2 pieces","Suit in Botetourt County.  2 Pieces","Two surveys made for David Love.  1 piece","Bond","Bond. 1 Piece","Suit in Botetourt County, Virginia. 1 Piece","Statement made in Caswell County, North Carolina, in regards to the unaauthorized sale of his property.  1 Piece","Suit","Suit in Grayson County, Virginia. David McGavock vs. Stephen Saunders, administrator of James Ewing. 1 Piece","Deed to a tract of land i Wythe County, Virginia, sold by Samuel Crockett and wife to Ephraim, Stephen, and Joseph C. McGavock. Not Signed. 1 Piece","Assignment of a tract of land. 1 piece","Receipt for payment made by James McGavock for the purchase of William Gillaspe's land. 1 piece.","Bond given to James McGavock to insure compliance with his agreement for the delivery of Aluminum Salt at Fort Chiswell. 1 Piece","Bond for the performance of his duties as undersheriff. 1 Piece","Settlement proposed by the arbitrators to be made by James McGavock with Samuel and Elizabeth McDowell, administrators of James McDowell.  2 Pieces","Suit in Augusta County.  1 Piece","Papers concerning lands conveyed to James McGavock by military and treasury warrants. 2 Pieces","Bond given to James McGavock to secure a debt and to secure the payment of interest due on a tract of land sold to James McGavock. 1 Piece","Memorandum of an agreement concerning the division of the Sheriff's duties and renumeration in Botetourt County.  Bond given by James McGavock as Sheriff, and bond given by Francis Smith and William preston to James McGavock.  3 Pieces.","Bond given by James McGavock as collector of the parish levy, Botetourt County. 1 Piece","Bond given by john floyd and James Thompson to James McGavock for collection of a parish levy. 1 piece","Transfer of a certificate for a tract of land in Williamson County, Tennessee.  1 Piece","James Crockett to James McGavock. Trust deed covering three tracts of land in Wythe County, VA, including the mountain or orchard tract and a portion of Purgatory Tract","Agreement for the sale of a tract of land to James McGavock. 1 Piece","Leases granted by James McGavock to Zaceriah Hurt. 2 pieces","Zaceriah Hurt to James Ward, trustee for James McGavock. Chattel mortgage. 2 pieces","Attachment upon Zaceriah Hurt in favor of James McGavock. 1 Piece","Suit, 1 Piece","Copy of a deed to a tract of land in Wythe county. 1 Piece","Bills of sale for Negroes sold to James McGavock. 8 Pieces","Bills of sale of negroes.  2 Pieces","Survey of a division line between the lands of the heirs of James McGavock Sr., and the heirs of James McGavock Jr. 1 Piece","A memorandum of stray cattle taken by James McGavock at Fort Chiswell. 1 piece","Suit in Wythe County. 1 Piece","Plat, description and receipt of payment for certain tracts of land sold by Samuel Graham to James McGavock. 3 Pieces","Assignment of a tract of land.  1 Piece","Trust deed covering two tracts of land in Wythe County. 1 Piece","Articles of agreement and bond for the sale by James Mcgavock to David and James Magill, of a plantation in Rockbridge County, VA.  5 Pieces","Referees' decision in a dispute with James McGavock. 1 Piece","Surveyor's plat of a tract of land sold by Joseph Ramsey to James McGavock. 1 Piece","Suit in Botetourt County. 1 Piece","Bond to insure delivery of the indenture of John Myers, an indentured servant sold to James McGavock by Samuel Smith and others. 1 piece","Trust deed covering certain real estate in Stephensburg and a memorandum concerning the property. 2 Pieces","Bill of sale for Negroes sold to James McGavock. 4 pieces","Memorandum of an agreement for farm work to be done by Adams.  1 Piece","Bill of sale of a Negro boy. 1 Piece","Lease granted to Alexander Fisher. Mutilated. 1 Piece","Agreement concerning the sale to Stephen McGavock of an interest in a plantation. 1 Piece","Receipt for money paid for a tract of land. 1 Piece","Bond to insure delivery of a good title to a tract of land in Wythe County, VA, sold to Stephen and Cloyd McGavock. 1 Piece","Agreement to give possession of a certain plantation to Stephen and Joseph Cloyd McGavock. 1 Piece.","Receipt for money paid for a tract of land.  1 Piece","George Archer, 1852, 1 piece Harrison Archer, 1867, 1 Piece William D. Archer, 1867-72, 3 Pieces John Maybe, 1866, 1 Piece George A. Shoemaker, 1866, 1 Piece P.C. Taylor, 1866, 1 Piece Pleasant C. Taylor, 1866, 1 piece","Farm labor agreements of Stephen and Cloyd McGavock. 3 pieces","Survey of 40 acres of land conveyed to an unnamed person. 1 Piece","Comission of John T. Sayers and Francis J. Carter to receive the acknowledgement of Daniel Miller's wife of his deed to James Crockett, conveying a tract of land in Wythe County, VA. 1 piece","Survey of a tract of land belonging to R. Montgomery.  1 piece","Surveys of tracts of land made for William Montgomery, Josiah Ramsey, and Abner Bledsoe.  1 Piece","Survey of a tract of land in Wythe County, VA, conveyed by Robert Norris to Josiah Ramsey. 1 Piece","Deed to a tract of land in Wythe County. 1 Piece","Survey of land deeded to James and Andrew Crockett. 1 Piece","Surveyor's plat of a tract of land sold by james Thompson, agent for R. Price. 1 piece","Court orders regarding public roads. 2 Pieces","Memorandum of two tracts of land in Wythe Couny, VA, surveyed for Josiah Ramsey. 1 Piece","Legal opinion on the proper procedure in a sale of land by [?] McGavock to [?] Sawyers.  1 piece","Suits against Abraham Reynolds for debt.  Wythe County, VA.  19 pieces","Transfer if a lease on a tract of land called Crocketts Forge, in Wythe County. 1 piece","Suit in Wythe County.  1 piece","Surveys and plats of land in Burk's Garden, Tazwell County, VA, belonging to Colonel Robert Sayers.  4 Pieces","Suit in Wythe County, 1 piece","Description of a tract of land in Montgomery County, surveyed for David Sloan. 1 Piece","Bill of sale of a negro boy. 1 Piece","Suit for debt. 1 Piece","Agreement with Patrick Henry, Walter Crockett, James McCorkle, Thomas Madison, and James McGavock; concerning the mining of iron. 1 Piece","Suit in Wythe County.  1 Piece","Agreement for the erection of a grist mill.  1 Piece","Copy of a warrant for Richard Woods. Botetourt County, Virginia. 1 Piece","Revolutionary land warrants of James McGavock, David McGavock, Alexander Smyth, John Latham, George Brook, James Crockett, John Creger, David Sloan, Hiram Craig, John Belshen, William King, Godfrey Messersmith, and John Herkerader. 4 pieces.","Andrew Neely vs. John Drake and William Neely George Hancock vs. Andrew Neely One One sheet","William Hay vs. Joseph Barneville and Philip Buttonstone (1794) William Hay vs. David McGavock (1796) One one sheet","17 Pieces","1 Piece","A printed list of guests at Chapman Springs. 1 Piece","4 Pieces","6 pieces","Forms for the use of tax collectors. 5 Pieces","A tax form used by the Confederate States of America.  1 Piece","Tax assesor's form for the United States Internal Revenue Service. 1 Piece","Pedigree and description of Manassas, a thoroughbred horse. 1 Piece","Printed Circular letter announcing a commercial convention to be held in Norfolk to improve the means of communication with the Interior, the West, Nortgwest, Southwest, and North Carolina; and establish direct trade with Europe.  1 Piece","Certificate of membership in the union Agricultural Society of Virginia and North Carolina. 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Stuart and the related Stuart and Baldwin families 1754-1921","ca. 800 items","There are no restrictions. ","For biographical information concerning Archibald Stuart and Alexander H.H. Stuart, please consult  Dictionary of American Biography,  Volume\n        XVIII, pages 160-162.","This collection consists of the additional papers of the Stuart and Baldwin families, chiefly Archibald Stuart (1757-1832) and Alexander H.H. Stuart (1807-1891), of Staunton, Virginia, ca. 1754-1921, ca. 800 items (4 Hollinger boxes, 1.5 linear feet),\n        including correspondence; financial and legal papers; printed items; microfilm; an architectural drawing; Civil War military papers of Captain George M. Cochran, Jr.; nineteenth century newsclippings; drafts of speeches by Alexander H.H. Stuart; land\n        grants signed by Virginia governors, including Beverley Randolph, Robert Brooke, John Floyd, and James Monroe; two engravings of Alexander H.H. Stuart; and papers regarding the settlement of the estate of Archibald Stuart . Since Alexander H.H. Stuart\n        was a prominent member of the Virginia Whig Party, there is considerable material in this collection concerning the Whig Party and Virginia politics.","CORRESPONDENCE OF THE STUART-BALDWIN FAMILY -SUMMARIES (BOX 1)"," Martha S. Baldwin forwards a letter to her husband General Briscoe Gerard Baldwin (d. 1852) from their daughter Mary Baldwin regarding her health (n.d.)"," James Barbour (1775-1842), Secretary of War, mentions an interview with [Henry] Clay concerning the participation of members of the administration in the political convention [of the National Republican Party ] and discusses his knowledge of the true\n        charges leveled against Andrew Jackson while in control of Louisiana during the War of 1812, Jackson's conflict with Louisiana Governor William Charles Claiborne and the Governor of Georgia, his refusal to obey the orders of President Monroe, his\n        denunciation of Madison, and his behavior as acting Governor of Florida (1827 Dec 16); Barbour also mentions his involvement in \"a controversy of mixed vexation,\" his retirement, \" and says, \" [John C.] Calhoun 's pamphlet is the final act in the drama\n        -and I apprehend the breach will become wider and wider\" (1831 Feb 19)"," G.A. Baxter, member of the Board of Visitors of Washington Academy, informs Archibald Stuart of his election to the Board, and explains why his resignation was errantly reported in their minutes (1807 Sep 29)"," Robert Beverley discusses a possible land sale (1791 May 5); asks Archibald Stuart to attend to his properties near Staunton and make sure all back taxes are paid (1791 Nov 24); discusses land business and court matters (1791-1797); makes reference\n        to the slave revolt in the French colony of Haiti in the West Indies and the declaration of independence by Toussaint L'Ouverture (1743-1803), criticizing George Washington for his early acknowledgement of the French Republic, believing he acted\n        unconstitutionally, and expresses great confidence in the talents, integrity, and firmness of Mr. [John] Adams (1798 Dec 17)"," John Breckinridge writes business letters (1788 \u0026 1790), his son, J.C. Breckinridge, asks for information from Archibald Stuart for a biographical essay about his father (1815 Apr 30)"," Gerald Briscoe, [Jr.?] writes about a land dispute in \"Caintucke\" (all three letters, 1794-1796, n.d.)"," Cuthbert Bullitt to Archibald Stuart and General John Brown discusses a suit involving Colonel Clendenning for lack of payment on a bond (1790 Jan 2); and the death of his brother, Thomas Bullitt, asking for a petition in the Legislature of Virginia\n        for their financial relief (1823 Dec 16)"," Joseph C. Cabell refers to a pamphlet containing Mr. Madison's letter and an appendix establishing the point that the Tariff Policy is the true Republican doctrine; Cabell paid T.W. White, Richmond printer, for 3,000 copies and will have more printed\n        if necessary; claims that the opposition party is exerting every effort to destroy Madison's influence in the state (1829 Feb 24)"," Arthur Campbell requests an investigation into the circumstances surrounding the sickness and death of the boy Charles H. Campbell; speaks of the opposition to the federal constitution and the value of the controversy over the amendments to point out\n        the real motives of those trying to keep Virginia and North Carolina from approving the Constitution (1789 Sep 2); discusses difficulties in obtaining land warrants due to the boundary dispute with Kentucky and refers to the petition to revise the\n        Virginia State Constitution opposed by the friends of [Patrick ?] Henry (1795 Sep 30); refers to Thomas Jefferson and the success of the \"friends of monarchy\" who won the late election for President, and the French Revolution (1797 Feb 20); and\n        mentions his desire that the land law in the Act of 1795 would be repealed or amended (1798 Dec 22)"," John Coalter discusses a debt against Mrs. Reid, and declares \"I have no hopes of the republic since New Jersey has proved recreant\" (1812 Nov 6)"," George Davis discusses legal and business matters (1792 Aug 17)"," R. Gamble discusses legal and business matters (1791-1800)"," Hugh Holmes writes concerning the competition between Winchester and Staunton to be the branch of the Virginia Bank which he believes must be kept exclusively under a Republican direction; asks for Archibald Stuart to secure a loan for five hundred\n        dollars; discusses the rumor that merchants believe that the Eastern and Northern Tories have devised a stratagem to defeat the loan requested by the government to conduct the War of 1812 with Great Britain (1814 Mar 9); speaks of his pain from\n        numerous operations; the raids of the Tunisian corsairs upon British ships in the English Channel (1817 Jul 12); and the death of Mary, the daughter of Archibald's brother Alexander (1823 May 6)"," [Chapman ?] Johnson (1779-1849) sends a copy of a decree from the court of appeals in the case of [Doneghe ?] and Campbell to Archibald Stuart; sent a copy of Archibald Stuart 's letter about the seat of government to the Editor of  The Enquirer  for publication; refers to the failure of their efforts to establish the University of Virginia and his belief that nothing will be done\n        for it this winter; the non-effect of political essays upon the public mind, and mention of \"the great James River project\" (1822 Mar 2)"," John Lewis to Dabney Carr notes \"my seeing Mr. Jefferson\" is very uncertain, and writes about the Mayo v Lewis lawsuit (1768 Jan 23)"," John Lewis to Thomas Jefferson writes regarding his lawsuit Mayo v Lewis, docketed in Thomas Jefferson 's hand (1772 Oct 4)"," J. Marshall speaks of the fickleness of political parties in reference to \"Zach.\" and refers to a business matter (n.d.)"," George Mathews (1739-1812) writes of his safe arrival in Georgia where he was asked to sit for election to political office (1791 Oct 10); and details concerning his dispute over a land sale in Virginia and his motive in accepting the office of\n        [Governor of Georgia?] (1794 Apr 4)"," James D. McCutchen to Joseph Janney writes concerning his inability to make his payment for land due to the drought, high feed costs and poor crops and his proposal to work out an alternative method of payment (1839 Mar 25)"," Andrew Moore (1752-1821), elected to the first four Congresses, March 4, 1789-March 3, 1797, writes from New York and Philadelphia, sends copies of all laws passed, wages established at six dollars per day, set the budget for the staff of the\n        President and Vice-President, discusses office seekers, mentions that the amendments to the constitution are being conducted with a great deal of warmth, believes the amendments \"will quiet the public mind and remove in a great measure the opposition\n        to government\" (1789 Aug 12); asks for help in securing compensation for a slave who escaped into Pennsylvania and proved that he was a free black unjustly sold to Moore who was unaware of his status by a previous owner (1791 Nov 5); the preoccupation\n        of Congress with a bill fixing the rates of representation in Congress and the disputed election between General Anthony Wayne (1745-1796) and General James Jackson (1757-1806) before Congress (1792 Mar 15); his disappointment in the bill fixing the\n        ratio of representation and the decision made in the House concerning the contested election which declared the seat vacant (1792 Mar 26); discusses the resignation of Thomas Jefferson as Secretary of State who appeared determined never to enter public\n        life again, with the former Attorney General Edmund Randolph succeeding Jefferson as Secretary of State; mentions the great loss suffered by the country by Jefferson's resignation at this critical time and praises Jefferson highly; encloses a number of\n        resolutions introduced by Mr. Madison, the conflict over the payment of interest on the debt of the United States; cites Jefferson's opinion on the same subject; forwards copies of the correspondence between Thomas Jefferson and Citizen Edmond Charles\n        Genet and Jefferson's report on United States trade with Europe (1793 Jan 4); the attempt by Washington and Congress to have Citizen Genet recalled to France due to his insolent and insulting conduct (1793 Dec 8); the situation of the United States\n        becoming more and more critical due to the increase of British spoliation on American shipping, detaining our vessels, and alleging that an old law precluded the United States from Britain's West Indian ports; the purchase of flour and beef and the\n        chartering of United States vessels to transport it because the United States was bound by treaty to guarantee the French West Indies; Madison's resolutions; the empowerment of the President to impose an embargo on all shipping coming into American\n        ports; the arming of small vessels to use against the Algerians; a bill providing for the defence of our ports and harbors; the establishment of arsenals, and a resolution for the enlistment of 15,000 troops, with training during 24 days a year, and\n        the need for a direct tax to fund national defence (1794 Mar 14)"," Garrett Peterson asks [Charles Anderson] Wickliffe for help in locating Archibald Stuart and buying a piece of land belonging to Archibald Stuart to make his title to his plantation more secure (1826 Jan 24, see Wickliffe's letter, 1826 Feb 26)"," William Preston to William Anderson seeking advice in a land claim controversy (1783 Jan 1)"," [Andrew Reid, Jr.] to Thomas J. Stuart writes a social letter to a friend (1807 Sep 5)"," Alexander Farish Robertson Correspondence, chiefly with Philip Alexander Bruce concerning his history of the University of Virginia and especially the Honor System (1921)"," John Steele writes that the Governor [Henry Lee] has written Mr. White asking him to help Archibald Stuart investigate the High Sheriff for embezzlement (1792 Mar 5)"," Robert Sterritt notifies Joseph Janney that he has secured a purchaser for Archibald Stuart 's plantation in Rockbridge County, James D. McCutchen, (1837 Jul 14, see also McCutchen 1839 Mar 25)"," Eleanor Briscoe Stuart to Thomas J. Stuart concerning his studies and vacation while at Washington Academy (1806 Jan 24 \u0026 Mar 2) and to her mother, Mrs. Margaret Briscoe (1808 Feb 19)"," Martha M. Stuart writes to her mother-in-law, Mrs. Eleanor (Briscoe) Stuart concerning family news (n.y. Apr 8)"," [Charles Anderson] Wickliffe (1788-1869) forwards a letter from Garrett Peterson to Archibald Stuart concerning a land sale (1826 Feb 26)"," William Wirt (1772-1834) asks Archibald Stuart to send his anecdote about Patrick Henry for his biography and to furnish the details just as it was originally told (1816 Aug 10)","MISCELLANEOUS PAPERS OF THE STUART FAMILY (BOXES 1-2)","This series contains an architectural drawing; an engraving of Alexander H.H. Stuart by Danforth, Baldwin \u0026 Company; financial and legal papers, including notification of Archibald Stuart 's appointment as a Presidential elector (1792 Nov 12);\n        insurance policies for Archibald Stuart 's barn, grist mill, saw mill, dwelling and kitchen (1811, 1812); Archibald Stuart 's appointment as a commissioner to collect money for a monument to George Washington (1817 Apr 4); stock certificates; accounts\n        and receipts; indentures; land plats; legal cases of both Archibald Stuart and Alexander H.H. Stuart; copies of wills of Alexander Stuart, Robert Stuart, Chapman J. Stuart, and Alexander H.H. Stuart; the military papers of Captain George M. Cochran,\n        Jr., Quartermaster, 52nd Virginian Infantry, Pegram's Brigade, Early's Division; the settlement of Archibald Stuart 's estate, and drafts of several speeches by Alexander H.H. Stuart, one protesting the increase in salary of the superintendent of the\n        Western Asylum because it would be disproportionate to all other salaries allowed by the state of Virginia, another declining the office of President of the branch of the Bank of the Valley and resigning his post as a member of the board, and a third\n        delivered at the fiftieth alumni reunion at the University of Virginia .","CORRESPONDENCE OF ALEXANDER H.H. STUART -SUMMARIES (BOXES 2-4)","Abolitionist (Unidentified) writes a vitriolic letter denouncing slavery and slaveholders and promising his willing participation in the coming revolution to bring about complete democracy (1841 Jun 20)"," William H. Allen writes to Alexander H. H. Stuart while he was member of the House of Representatives (1841-1843) seeking his help in establishing a post office at Green Valley, Virginia; the closest one is at Cloverdale (n.y. May 13)"," Appomattox County, Virginia, Rough \u0026 Ready Club requests Alexander H. H. Stuart to represent the Whig position on the upcoming Presidential election at their next political discussion (1848 Sep 7)"," Henry Carey Baird requests a copy of Alexander H. H. Stuart 's recent address to use in his pamphlet concerning the farmers of the United States (1859 Nov 1)"," C[ornelius ?] C. Baldwin discusses his biographical sketch of his brother [Gerard ?] Baldwin which he hopes will appear in  The Richmond Whig \n        and asks Alexander H. H. Stuart for any comments or additions; he mentions his son, Briscoe G. Baldwin III, a year old and his oldest son, Charles Cornelius (1867 Jan 14)"," John B. Baldwin writes concerning business opportunities in Philadelphia ([1843? Jan 30]); Alexander H. H. Stuart 's appointment as Secretary of the Interior and the care of his former legal clients while he is in Washington, D.C. (1850 Sep 24); his\n        disappointment that Millard Fillmore was defeated for the presidential nomination as the Whig candidate; and as Winfield Scott supports the Whig platform without reserve his only objections to Scott as the Whig candidate lies in his great vanity and\n        his associations (1852 Jun 23); Brigadier General Robert Seldon Garnett (1819-1861), who served under General Taylor in the Mexican War, was proceeding to the region with 2500 men according to Alexander H. H. Stuart 's suggestions; and Baldwin believes\n        that the Convention will hardly be well attended (1861 Jun 8); reports that he is within musket range of the enemy who is building winter quarters and mentions the presence of Early's army coming towards [Richmond ?] (1864 Nov 18); writes about his\n        concern over the asylum releasing Briscoe as \"incurable but harmless\" (1869 Dec 5); and writes to Alexander H. H. Stuart concerning the sale of the \"gum tree lot,\" payment of taxes and an accident of Mayo Cabell; and believes his father may soon be\n        elected Judge ([ca. 1841-1843] Dec 6)"," Joseph G. Baldwin writes his cousin concerning his plan to move to California for the opportunities there (1849 Mar 2); a long jesting letter congratulating Alexander H. H. Stuart on his appointment to be Secretary of the Interior and including\n        family news (1850 Sep 27); and describes San Francisco where he has just opened his law practice (1854 Sep 15)"," I.L. Barbour, President of the Orange and Alexandria Rail Road Company, writes that he is unable to comply with his financial request (1866 Dec 11)"," A.W. Barton urges Alexander H. H. Stuart to help defeat the [ Virginia Reform ?] Convention, \"The tremendous opposition to the mixed basis beyond the Alleghany -the indifference upon the whole subject in the valley counties and some division east of\n        the Blue Ridge will enable us to do it\" (1850 Apr 22)"," S.S. Baxter recommends William D. Delany as Inspector of the Custom House in Norfolk (1851 Nov 24)"," Thomas Hart Benton (1782-1838) writes concerning the Brazeau claimants attempts to get Alexander H. H. Stuart to re-open the case he decided last summer and asks him to leave questions about the decision up to the judiciary ([ca. 1851-1853])"," Berford \u0026 Company, California Express Office, reports a great dissatisfaction of their customers and fellow California Whigs with the appointment of Mr. Beall as Superintendent of Indian Affairs (1852 Apr 12)"," Dr. Edmund Berkeley voices his concern over the increase in smallpox cases and attributes the cause to the lack of a vaccine agent in western and central Virginia and suggests Staunton as a likely location for such an agent and offering himself as a\n        candidate (1837 Jan 20)"," James B. Bingham, editor of  The Intelligencer,  discusses politics in Wheeling, [West] Virginia, and his concern that both the Democrats and\n        Republicans are pulling votes away from the Whig Party (1859 Sep 28)"," David Alexander Bokee (1805-1860) discusses national politics and urges Alexander H. H. Stuart and other conservatives not to make any arrangements with the Republicans preliminary to the organization of the House; refers to the  New York Times  article quoting a correspondent from Ohio who believes \"the South is beginning to prepare the way for union with the Republicans as\n        such in 1860\"; and asks Alexander H. H. Stuart to support the efforts of conservatives of the North \"to induce the Republican Party to abandon `its distinct organization' founded as it is `on foolish abstractions\" (1859 Oct 24)"," Patrick Brady 's letters, from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, all discuss various aspects of his suit against Daniel Brady, including his stolen ledger which later appears to have been altered, his demand for the deed to the Bath Iron Works, and\n        questions about ultimate settlement (1857, 1867-1869)"," Mary Louisa Brooks writes whimsically about how much she misses Washington, D.C., and how unattractive she finds New York City \"this huge temple of Mammon\" (n.y. Mar 18)"," Alexander S. Brown writes his cousin Alexander H. H. Stuart concerning business and family matters (1857-1858)"," Joseph Rodes Buchanan asks Alexander H. H. Stuart to attend the National Democratic Convention to be held on May 7, 1867, in Louisville, Kentucky, discussed in an enclosed editorial from The Louisville Journal which was recently identified with the\n        Democratic Party; the Convention to be composed of the leading men of the Northern Democracy and leading men of the South to secure cooperation between the two groups, \"which is now our only hope\" (1867 Feb 28)"," John C. Bullitt, Patrick Brady 's council in Philadelphia, asks when the first remittance of the Brady v. Brady settlement will arrive (1871 Oct 28)"," William M. Burwell draws Alexander H. H. Stuart 's attention to the political aspects of the negotiations over the Isthmus of Tehuantepec as a quicker route to the western states (1852 Jul 23)"," J.S. Calvert furnishes a financial summary for Alexander H. H. Stuart (1868 Jan 21)"," Samuel D. Campbell asks for help in getting payment for his brother William Campbell who worked to get depositions for Catherine Crider in Wardlaw v. Crider (1830 Nov 30)"," Lewis Cass (1782-1866) discusses two appointments with Alexander H. H. Stuart acceptable to the Whig Party (1852 Jul 20)"," John H. Cassin asks Alexander H. H. Stuart to visit their county and address them concerning the political questions of the day (1859 Apr 13)"," Katherine Chase discusses the circumstances surrounding her divorce from Mr. William Sprague (1883 Mar 18)"," H. Chrisman offers to purchase real estate or other goods for Alexander H. H. Stuart on his trips west if he wishes (Dec 7, 1855)"," Bolivar Christian sends a copy of the Confederate Acts and discusses the problems of setting up the new Confederate Congress (1862 Jan 18)"," C.M. Conrad writes concerning Alexander H. H. Stuart 's order for a cask of table claret wine from New Orleans (1855 Apr 3)"," William Wilson Corcoran says he will be happy to have a copy of the proceedings of the Peabody Board and hopes to see him soon (1855 Oct 23)"," Thomas Corwin (1794-1865) a letter of introduction for [Calhoun Benham], U.S. Attorney for California (1853 Jul 10)"," J.A. Cowardin, Editor of  The Daily Dispatch,  letter of introduction from L.A. Trigg, and a discussion of the Readjuster controversy, and\n        William Mahone, and says \"I do not think Mr. Hunter will suit these times. We want an aggressive man, one who is bold and sagacious too. I think General [James Lawson] Kemper is that man\" (1873 Feb 14)"," John Jordan Crittenden (1786-1863) writes a letter of introduction for his friend Samuel Casey (1851 Sep 26)"," Claudius Crozet writes concerning the Northwest Turnpike and asks if Alexander H. H. Stuart feels that Mr. Eskridge is capable of opening the road himself (1838 Jun 1)","Rector E.A. Dalrymple 's recommendation of Thomas B. Edelin (1852 Jul 15)"," John W. Daniel (1842-1910) does not approve of the Readjuster policies, \"I am firm against repudatum alias enforced readjustment alias stealing. I believe in the Decalogue, and of course in repressing thieves, by whatsoever name they are called\"\n        (1877 Jul 18)"," J.D. Davidson sends the election results for Rockbridge County (1851 Dec 10) and encloses a check for a claim against Seaforth (1852 Jan 2)"," Garrett Davis (1801-1872) discusses a power shift in the House of Representatives away from [John C.] Calhoun toward [Thomas Hart?] Benton who \"will be the dictator this winter \u0026 will wield more power than all others together\"; mentions the\n        numerous job seekers wandering the halls of Congress like unclean birds; discusses the hopes of the Whig Party to gain the Presidency next election and mentions possible opponents and weighs their respective threat to the chances of the Whig candidate;\n        and the need for much organization and work to succeed in the next election (1843 Dec 13); a long and detailed description of the difficulty during the extra session of the 27th Congress in organizing the House caused by the opposition of the Democrats\n        and the division in the Whig Party (1845 Dec 16); the third letter discusses business questions; congratulates Alexander H. H. Stuart on his appointment to be Secretary of the Interior; expresses his appreciation for Millard Fillmore; and comments\n        about South Carolina, \" South Carolina is a little beside herself, but I believe it is the insanity of ambition pride \u0026 arrogance thwarted, and that a good sound drubbing would be an infallible cure.\" (1851 Jan 28)"," George M. Davis thanks Alexander H. H. Stuart for giving his son Carey Davis a job as a clerk in the Pension Office (1851 Jul 27)"," William Wallace Davis, editor of  The District Whig  discusses politics in Norfolk and the loss of the election to the Democrats despite his own\n        efforts to visit various Whigs and get them to the polls on Election Day (1851 Oct 2)"," William Crosby Dawson (1798-1856), Georgia Senator, asks Alexander H. H. Stuart not to fill a vacancy in the General Land Office until he could speak with him (1852 Jul 28)"," Horace H. Day discusses the charges brought against the Commissioner of Patents, Mr. Thomas Ewbanks (1792-1870) saying his official conduct has been one-sided, partial, and not in accordance with the rules and laws of the Patent Office (1851 Feb 7)\n        and asking if the New York papers have correctly reported Alexander H. H. Stuart 's comments about the charges (1851 Mar 12)"," Wills De Hass (1818?-1910) sends a copy of his  History of Western Virginia  (1851 Jul 24); wants Alexander H. H. Stuart to be a candidate for\n        Vice-President (1851 Oct 6); voices concerns over his application for a consulship or another office (1852 Jun 1 \u0026 Oct 18); two letters furnish private details of the Baltimore Convention (1852 Jun 20); and hopes for a position in the Maryland\n        Historical Society (1853 Feb 16)"," William D. Delany tries to enlist Stuart's aid in securing the office of Inspector of the Custom House at Norfolk (1851 Nov 25) or the Postmaster office at Norfolk (1852 Sep 29)"," Charles Devens, Jr., U.S. Marshal, Boston, letter introducing General John S. Tyler (1852 May 24)"," Samuel Dickson writes concerning the Patrick Brady v Daniel C.E. Brady suit for $ 50,000 growing out of the dissolving of a partnership in 1857; and describes the Bath Iron Works and Buffalo Forge property (1867 Apr 24)"," D[orothea] L[ynde] Dix (1802-1887) writes six letters to Alexander H. H. Stuart concerning the establishment of a first class hospital in Washington, D.C. and seeks the aid of Captain Randolph in the Legislature of [Virginia ?] ([ca. 1851-1853])"," James B. Dorman writes that the Whigs of Rockbridge unanimously desire the nomination of Millard Fillmore as President; believes the hostility to Fillmore stems from his approval of the Compromise of 1850 and his \"fidelity to the Constitutional\n        rights of the South\"; and many Whigs object strongly to General Winfield Scott 's Roman Catholic affinities (1852 Jun 7)"," John Doyle writes that he has recommended Alexander H. H. Stuart to the prominent Whigs in Pennsylvania as the best choice for nomination to the Vice-Presidency while he favors Fillmore for the Presidency over Scott (1851 Sep 20); his concern over\n        the imminent split in the Whig Party of Lexington, Virginia (1852 Dec 4); his son, R.L. Doyle, writes concerning their Alum Springs property containing iron deposits and several mineral springs and asks the aid of Alexander H. H. Stuart in securing a\n        loan to convert their property into a viable health resort (1853 Jan 7)"," G.G. Dyer defends his change of political parties from Whig to Democratic based on his open support of the Tariff and the United States Bank and extols the virtue of the new state of Iowa which he describes as a land of beauty and opportunity (1851\n        Sep 27)"," J.L. Edwards, Pension Office, discusses the claims of the descendants of Colonel Alexander McClanahan to land based on his Revolutionary War service, with the Committee of Safety for the Colony of Virginia form appointing Alexander McClanahan to Lt.\n        Col. of the 7th Regiment of Regular Forces attached (1776 Feb 29 \u0026 1843 May 19)"," Vespasian Ellis discusses the plan of organization adopted at the National Council where a Committee of 13 was appointed to take the general charge of the interests of the American Party which was presented to the Council by himself; the plan was\n        adopted unanimously but the Chairman E. Brooks received the credit for the plan; he suggested that Alexander H. H. Stuart would be a good person from Virginia to be on the Central Committee of 13; mentions the efforts of Baldwin of Connecticut and\n        others to \"free soilize\" the party platform and the fact that he opposed and defeated the plan was suppressed in the report on the proceedings in the  Louisville Journal  (1857 Jun 10)"," Erie Railroad Company Board of Directors offers to Alexander H. H. Stuart free use of the railroad as member of the Cabinet (1851 Jul 12)"," Edward Everett (1794-1865), Secretary of State, regrets he will not be able to dine with Alexander H. H. Stuart due to personal illness (1852 Dec 20); and informs Alexander H. H. Stuart that General Franklin Pierce wishes for him to continue to act\n        as Secretary of the Interior until his successor is appointed (1853 Feb 26)"," Charles James Faulkner (1806-1884) thanks him for his interest in James E. Stewart (1852 Aug 25)"," Millard Fillmore letters to Alexander H. H. Stuart -address the question of his feelings toward the South, \"I disclaim most unequivocally now and forever any desire on my part to interfere with the rights on what is termed the property of citizens of\n        other states\" and encloses a copy of the leading [Lewis] Cass paper in the state showing that Fillmore was denounced at the recent anti-slavery convention at Worcester along with Cass and Taylor (1848 Jul 5); excuses Alexander H. H. Stuart from the\n        Cabinet meeting due to the death of Judge Baldwin (1852 May 19); authorizes Alexander H. H. Stuart to take on the duties of the Secretary of the Navy until his return (1852 Sep 25); thanks him for his letter of condolence upon the death of his wife,\n        Abigail Powers on March 30, 1853 (1853 Jul 11); attempts to make arrangements for a Southern tour in the spring, and says, \"This Nebraska matter presents a new phase to things in Washington . But is it wise for the South to set the example repealing\n        the Compromise of 1820 ? If one compromise be disregarded will not another be, and will not the South in the end be left to the tender mercy of Northern fanaticism with an overwhelming numerical majority ?\" (1854 Feb 9); observes that with the latest\n        election it appears that the Whig Party has split into two factions, with the abolitionists joining the [Republicans ?] and the rest joining the American Party of Know Nothings and refers to the nomination of Henry Alexander Wise for Governor and his\n        denunciation of the Know Nothings (1854 Dec 14); and informs Alexander H. H. Stuart that Granger will try to meet him in Washington this winter and mentions the efforts of his friends to unite the national elements opposed to the present federal\n        administration into an American Union Party (1854 Dec 22)"," Millard Fillmore to Daniel Webster sends John P. Scott over to see Webster concerning a position in the State Department in Londonderry, Ireland, now held by an appointee of President Tyler and says he will go along with whatever Webster wants (1851\n        Apr 2)"," Edward H. Fitzhugh refers to the Bridge case in the Wheeling court (1850 Mar 25) *see newsclippings in Box 2*"," E[dmund] Fontaine, Virginia Central Railroad Company, concerning his barley which has been at Waynesboro for some time prior to his letter (1859 Mar 25)"," John S. Gallagher discusses the bestowal of advertising patronage by the federal government (1851 Jul 19); the suitability of Shannondale for a military asylum (1851 Aug 4); encloses a letter from William P. Buford, soliciting Alexander H. H. Stuart\n        's influence to get Mr. Buford's son appointed to a cadetship at West Point (1851 Nov 13); his examination of the controversy about the post office in Winchester and his advice not to remove Milton (1852 Jan 9); encloses letters (not present) from\n        friends desiring positions with the government (1852 Jan 16); introduces Colonel Joseph K. Hartwell (1852 Mar 10); recommends General [James] Singleton for the government position in New Mexico (1852 May 7); and asks for a copy of a letter from the\n        Commissioner of Patents to Dr. James Blake of California (1852 Jul 2)."," Robert H. Gallagher, Bank of the Union, Washington asks that part of the Census Fund and the Pension Fund be deposited with him (1851 Dec 9; 1852 Sep 2)"," Alexander Galt concerning his position as Postmaster at Norfolk (1851 Jul 31)"," J. Garland 's letter of introduction for his relative, Alexander B. Garland (1853 Feb 2)"," William H. Garland requests the position of treasurer of the mint at New Orleans (1850 Oct 29) and writes concerning the outrage committed by the authorities of Cuba on the Crescent City [New Orleans ?] (1852 Oct 7)"," William Garnett, Collector Custom House, Norfolk, Virginia, concerning the effort being made to remove him from the Custom House (1851 Nov 18 \u0026 1852 Aug 11)"," George Washington's Birthday Celebration Committee, Rome, Georgia, requesting Alexander H. H. Stuart 's presence at their celebration and commenting, \"The Southern people are terribly oppressed, but are disposed to preserve their manhood untarnished\n        preferring to submit for a while to military despotism rather than to the ruin and degradation of radical rule and negro supremacy\" (1868 Feb 11)"," R.T. Gibson 's letters are all concerning his futile attempts to secure the position of naval officer at the port of Savannah (1851-1852)"," W.M. Gilliam sends Alexander H. H. Stuart 's horse to Washington by Mr. Brent (1852 Mar 15)"," T.H. Gilmer seeks more appointments for people from Virginia from the Whig administration (1850 Sep 27)"," Thomas W. Gilmer writes that he is sorry that Alexander H. H. Stuart has been involved in controversy, mentions \"old [James Iver ?] McKay \" as chairman of the Ways \u0026 Means Committee, and believes that Texas will come into the Union as fast as it\n        can (1843 Dec 13)"," W.W. Gilmer approves Alexander H. H. Stuart 's stand on the National Bank but is not so fond of the election of [Walter ?] Coles (1841 Apr 15)"," William L. Goggin (1807-1870) his disappointment over his brother's failure to secure a position, the possibility of getting the postmastership at Sacramento City, and his declaration, \"I am a Union man and I have long thought this should be the\n        great issue (irrespective of old party associations) the Union or its Dissolution -God grant it may be perpetual -I repudiate utter fanaticism North or South\" (1850 Nov 3); and asks Alexander H. H. Stuart to remove his letter from the files of the War\n        Department requesting an appointment as Visitor to West Point (1852 Mar 10)"," G. Goldenberg sends two printed pamphlets (present) entitled  Observations Sur La Maladie Des Pommes De Terre  in French and a copy in German,\n        presenting his treatise on the Potato Disease (1849 Feb 2)"," J.T. Gordon explains being detained in the lieu d'aisance while reading Senator [William McKendree] Gwin 's attack on the Administration (1852 Jul 9)"," Willis Arnold Gorman (1816-1876) agrees to a resolution to supply the heads of Departments with copies of the [Presidential Message ?] and accompanying documents (1852 Dec 14)"," J. Thompson Graham solicits money for the American Emigrant's Friend Society whose object is to \"afford protection from fraud, imposition \u0026 extortion to all foreign immigrants of whatever class, nation or creed, and procure for them situations\n        free of charge.\" (1852 Oct 24)"," William A. Graham (1804-1875), Secretary of the Navy, concerning the applications of various persons for assistance or for government positions such as the Virginian Mr. Chapman for purser in the Navy, a term of shore duty for Purser Forrest of the\n        U.S.S. Ohio, David Taylor of North Carolina prosecuting a claim in the Indian Bureau, the application of William E. Hopkins for a commission upon the frigate Cumberland, the appointment of Tobias Wolfe as Naval Storekeeper at Memphis, the application\n        of Commander John Rudd for a command in the Mediterranean Squadron, and inquires about the circumstances surrounding the death of James H. Norwood, Indian Agent, who was killed at Sergeants Bluff on the Missouri River (1850-1852)"," Horace Greeley (1811-1872) discusses the advantages of his new  Whig Almanac  which he sends to Alexander H. H. Stuart, \"I have endeavored in\n        this Almanac to condense into a single view the essential characteristics of the two great antagonist parties which now so evenly divide the country. I think this view, if generally circulated, will exert a salutary influence on the formation of\n        political sentiment in our country and that this may be felt, even in the approaching Presidential contest.\" (1852 Jan 25)"," F. Gremger asks Alexander H. H. Stuart to visit the State Agricultural Fair of New York (1851 Sep 3)"," William Grever asks Stuart to loan him enough money to pay off James J. Trotter in return for a deed of trust upon all his property (1850 Oct 3)"," Benjamin Edwards Grey supplies a testimonial for John B. Temple and explains why he is willing to recommend Colonel Irwin to a clerkship (1852 Mar 17)"," George G. Grove asking for his distributive share of the funds of the B. Buler estate (1851 Oct 12)"," Francis Grund asks for copies of Alexander H. H. Stuart 's Report for  The New York Herald  and other newspapers (1851)"," Hiland Hall (1795-1885) suggests that Judge Thornton's name should precede Mr. W[?]'s in the Secretary's instructions (1851 Sep 20)"," Nathan Kelsey Hall (1810-1874) invites Alexander H. H. Stuart to Buffalo for a little reception for President Fillmore at the conclusion of his term and asks him to convince William A. Graham to attend as well (1853 Jan 5); and writes about Fillmore\n        wondering if the remaining Fillmore Cabinet members would attend a reunion at Buffalo (1871 Jan 5)"," J.K. Hanson encloses a letter from Hugh W. Sheffey referring to the bounty land warrant of his cousin Celly (1852 Apr 3)"," J. Hardesty, President of the Rough and Ready Club of Rockingham County, which procured a silver pitcher to be presented to Alexander H. H. Stuart as a tribute (1848 Oct 25)"," Kenton Harper writes enclosing the wills of Alex Grove and Lewis K Terrill and their effects from Camp Buena Vista following the Mexican War (1847 Dec 13); congratulates Alexander H. H. Stuart on his appointment as Secretary of the Interior (1850 Sep\n        14); mentions his service as commandant of the Port of Parras in the Mexican War (1850 Sep 30); discusses his appointment to the Chickasaw Indian Agency (1851 Mar 18); his report concerning affairs at the Chickasaw Agency and his concern that there are\n        many white persons living in the Agency without regular permission (1851 Sep 15); concern over the run-down condition of the Agency farm and house, cost of hiring \"a negro woman who belongs to an Indian,\" and the probability that he will only stay for\n        one year (1851 Sep 15); encloses a copy of his letter to the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, L. Lea, about purchasing farming implements for \"the Caddos\" and asks Alexander H. H. Stuart 's influence to have his son, George K. Harper, appointed agent\n        for the purchase (1851 Sep 22); the complaints from the Chickasaws about the wild tribes trespassing upon their territory, a recent visit from the chief of the Caddos, George Washington, who said that his tribe had been driven out of Texas, and brought\n        up to this country by his father, Chief Chonena, who asked for and received a strip of land on the Washita from the General Council of the Choctaws, producing a certificate signed by George Folsom, one of the Choctaw District Chiefs, to prove what he\n        said. The Chief also said that General Armstrong had promised them farming implements and other tools so they could settle down on the land allotted to them by the Choctaws, in a group of about 300 to 400. An eleven year old Mexican girl rescued from\n        Indian captivity was left in his care by his predecessor, Colonel Long and he asks what is to be done with her (1851 Sep 22); and his investigation of charges of a wagonload of liquor being brought into the Indian Territory for sale (1851 Oct 5)."," J. Morrison Harris, Maryland Historical Society, informs Alexander H. H. Stuart of his honorary membership (1850 May 20)"," Judge N. Harrison, Salt Sulphur Springs, Monroe County, West Virginia, writes concerning several suits in his court and business matters involving Alexander H. H. Stuart ([1869] Sep 3)"," Solomon George Haven (1810-1861) hopes that Alexander H. H. Stuart will make a great impact in politics in the Old Dominion, and remarks about his own area, \"I cannot tell you much of politics in this section [of New York ], there is almost a torpor.\n        I have no choice between the democrats and the Republicans. The former is made up of the foreign votes here \u0026 the latter partly in the same way and partly of the very dishonest men amongst our native born citizens. The Americans have a most worthy\n        state ticket in this State... Today the chances are in favor of the Republicans carrying the state but the battle has yet got to be set in array before results can be foretold. Perhaps the result of the struggle in Kansas and a full opening of Congress\n        is necessary to give any form whatever, to the future\" (1857 Oct 8)."," A.M. Hay, his cousin, discusses the loss of her husband and the death of Alexander H. H. Stuart 's father, her plans to join her sister Mary in Athens, Greece, to help her run a boarding house for the upper class Greek girls attending the mission\n        school, and requests Alexander H. H. Stuart 's aid in securing letters of introduction from Mr. Webster to the various consuls at ports of call along the way (1852 Aug 25)"," T.S. Haymond explains the causes of the defeat of the Whig candidate for Governor of Virginia, George William Summers (1804-1868) in the recent election, in his area of Virginia, the northwestern section of the state [ Monongalia County, West\n        Virginia ?] (1851 Dec 20)"," Isaac Hazlehurst asks that Alexander H. H. Stuart send him copies of his articles signed \"Madison\" in reference to the American question (1857 Jun 24)"," Richard H. Henderson, Virginia Colonization Society, refers to the \"true policy of Virginia to keep down the free colored population of the state: that her legislature originated the scheme for colonizing this population beyond the borders of the\n        United States; that appropriations have been well received by the people\" and recommends extending the act to those slaves set free by wills; and \"The prohibitions as to the admission of free blacks in the non- slaveholding states are well known; and,\n        should the other southwestern states follow the example set them by Mississippi as they soon will, either a channel must be opened through which this population may flow off to Africa, or it will increase amongst us to a most mischievous extent.\" (1837\n        Oct 28)","Professor Joseph Henry, Smithsonian Institute, letter of introduction for Mr. F. [Bonynge] the author of a work on the culture of tea and indigo in the United States (1852 Aug 4)"," Britton A. Hill writes enclosing his newspaper articles defending Alexander H. H. Stuart 's decision in the Labeaume land grant case which was attacked in  The St. Louis Republican  by the claimant Maguire (1852 Feb 6 \u0026 9)"," William L. Hodge encloses a newsclipping about the decision of Millard Fillmore not to be a candidate for the Presidency and how much such a declaration will injure Fillmore and the party (1852 Jan 20)"," J.E. Holmes asks Alexander H. H. Stuart to recommend to the President that he increase the salary of District Judge Hoffman in San Francisco, California, lest he leave and an inferior officer replace him (1851 Oct 25)","Rev. Samuel Rutherford Houston to Dr. John J. Moorman seeking Alexander H. H. Stuart 's influence to have him appointed Principal of the Institution for the Deaf and Dumb in Staunton, Virginia (1852 Feb 24)"," M.U. Houston both letters discuss the Wheeling Bridge case in which a suit was brought alleging that the Wheeling Bridge was not suitable for railroad purposes and Alexander H. H. Stuart 's role in the matter (1850 Mar 16 \u0026 Jun 8)"," Benjamin Chew Howard refers to the Wheeling Bridge case and asks if Alexander H. H. Stuart wishes his brief to be inserted in his argument (1852 Jul 30)"," Robert Hull acknowledges the receipt of a check which makes them even and encloses a graphic and highly complimentary sketch of Mr. Alexander H. H. Stuart from a Boston paper (1851 Oct 3)"," Andrew Hunter writes about the \"Beeler Case\" and wishes to receive his administration fee now in Alexander H. H. Stuart 's hands (1851 Nov 27); and comments on his grief that Jefferson County has elected two Democrats to the Legislature, mentions\n        other items about local Virginia politics, and the dissatisfaction of the voters at Harpers Ferry due to certain army regulations (1851 Nov 27 \u0026 Dec 9)"," R.M.T. Hunter (1809-1887) asks Alexander H. H. Stuart to send an estimate of the expense of the wings of the Capitol to be included in the Civil and Diplomatic Bill (1852 Feb 3)"," John Daniel Imboden (1823-1895) writes concerning the suit of Daniel Mosby against Thomas Johnson and Thomas Turk over possession of a tract of land and asks if Alexander H. H. Stuart has made any arrangements for someone to take over his legal cases\n        (1850 Sep 23); his introduction of a series of land resolutions concerning the distribution of the proceeds from the sale of public lands approved by an act of Congress on September 4, 1841, and the possible use of such funds for the purpose of\n        education, and asks Alexander H. H. Stuart to get a clerk to make a brief statement as to what appropriations of land have been made for educational and internal improvements, to what states, when, and for what specific objects, has hopes of carrying\n        the Central Railroad this session along with other internal improvements, the great excitement over the next Presidential election with Millard Fillmore being the choice of the Virginia Whigs with Alexander H. H. Stuart being mentioned as the\n        Vice-Presidential candidate (1852 Jan 31); writes again concerning the great Central line of improvement through Virginia, especially a proposition to construct a railroad from Covington to the Ohio River on state account and asks if he can negotiate\n        the sale of stock in London or New York (1853 Jan 22)"," Joseph K. Irving, San Francisco, writes through W.D. Fair, praising the fidelity of James M. Crane, editor of  The California Courier,  to Whig\n        principles and doctrines, discusses \"the gross frauds and outrageous wrongs inflicted and committed by the [Locofocos], in the matter of the contested seats\" (1851 Mar 4); and introduces Dr. Wozencraft, California Indian agent (1852 Nov 30)"," G.W. Israel asks for a donation for a seminary to train teachers of moderate circumstances to educate the lower classes (1853 Feb 8)"," S.D. Jacobs refers to changes of mail routes proposed by R.G. Harmon (1851 Nov 13)"," John Janney (1798-1872) writes concerning the necessity of resigning his position, as the Commissioner to West Virginia, due to his poor eyesight, unless the Legislature decides to settle the state debt question by agreeing to pay two-thirds of the\n        debt and repudiating the balance, leaving the creditors of the state of Virginia to look to West Virginia for the residue (1866-1867)"," G.N. Johnson concerning the legal case of the Bank of the United States vs Samuel Leake (1840 May 14)"," R.[G.] Johnson writes about postponing the argument in a legal case, \"the only question to be argued in the brief case, is, whether the act of Congress does not legalize the Brief\" (1850-1853 all about this case)"," William B. Kayser notifies Alexander H. H. Stuart that Dr. Hall has received payment through the Finley estate and has remitted five hundred dollars to Alexander H. H. Stuart drawn on the Bank of Winchester (1852 Sep 24)"," John P. Kennedy (1795-1870) tries to secure a clerkship for a friend, Mr. Ridgate (1850 Sep 18); regards \"every man now who places the Compromise [of 1850 ?] in the front of his creed a good and true Whig -and every convert to the Administration on\n        that ground a new recruit to the standard of Whig principles\" (1851 Apr 17); arrangements made for the ceremony connected with the committee on the Inauguration of the Statue (1853 Jan 7); attempts to persuade Alexander H. H. Stuart to accompany\n        himself and Mr. Millard Fillmore on a trip south to Richmond, Charleston, Savannah, and then on to Cuba, West Indies, New Orleans and thence to Kentucky and home (1854 Feb 13)"," Joseph C.G. Kennedy, Census Office, writes about various properties (1847 Jun 17); recommends that Mr. Hall be sent to Richmond to retake the census for that city (1851 Apr 2); mentions Alexander H. H. Stuart 's election to the National Institute\n        (1851 Apr 8); beginning in May of 1851, he writes six letters during his trip to Europe to study the European use of statistics and their use in legislation, the census, and agricultural production; visits the Statistical Society of London and\n        discusses the ratio of representation, fractions, and population (1851 Jun 3); visits the President of the Board of Trade to get information on the true basis of statistical knowledge (1851 Jun 10); urged to stay and address the British Association for\n        the Promotion of Science of which Prince Albert was President, his visits to some of the foremost statistical men connected to British government offices and other nations such as Prussia, France, and Belgium (1851 Jun 23); his description of Berlin\n        and Wittenberg, recommendation that a Bureau of Agriculture \u0026 Statistics be created along the lines of those in France and Belgium, prediction that America will march to a degree of honor and prosperity that will far exceed any of the old world\n        (1851 Aug 7); on recommendation of Baron Humboldt he plans to visit Vienna (1851 Aug 17); at home, the mania for rail and plank roads, political news of Pennsylvania, and his expectation that the Scott Whigs will carry the Presidency (1852 Oct 16);\n        discusses the political race between Scott and Harrison in the region of Pittsburgh ([?] Oct 12)"," Kent Lumber Company concerning the payment of drafts incurred by federal agencies (1852 Oct 27)"," Andrew W. Kercheval with a genealogical inquiry about James Wood, a Revolutionary General and Virginia Governor (1867 Feb 14)"," William Kerr seeking whiskey patronage (1851 Nov 14)"," Samuel D. King about California affairs, blames the Whig government for neglecting the state and predicts bad consequences for the upcoming election (1851 Jul 14)"," Jefferson Kinney all three letters deal with business matters such as the sale of Alexander H. H. Stuart 's lots in Staunton for a railroad passenger depot and possible benefits to the town from the railroad (1852)"," Nicholas Kinney refers to the speech of [Mr. Nathaniel Pitcher Tallmadge ?] concerning the Bankruptcy Bill, the Locofocos, his disappointment with his friend [ Thomas Walker?] Gilmer, the conversion of David W. Patteson, who is a possible candidate\n        for Congress, to Methodism (1841 Sep 3); sends a copy of letter from the Rev. B.M. Smith concerning a rumor that Alexander H. H. Stuart contradicted his statement about Dr. Ticknor's qualifications as assistant physician at the Asylum (1851 Feb 18\n        \u0026 26); the strong position of the Whig party at present (1851 Feb 26)"," R.H. Kinney asks Alexander H. H. Stuart to pursue the military claim of the heirs of Dr. Roberts (1841 Jun 25)"," William Kinney reports on several court cases and discusses political appointments, especially Mr. Hagarty for the Liverpool consulate, and Alexander H. H. Stuart 's vote to rescind the 21 rule (1841 Jun 13); complains about the behavior of the Whig\n        Congress so far, discusses Alexander H. H. Stuart 's outline of his plan of operations for this session and not fixing the ratio of representation under the new census for the next Congress, his fear that the Locofocos will gain influence in the\n        Virginia State Legislature, the resignation of \"Extra Billy\" [Governor William Smith ] from his seat in the Senate and his hopes that the House of Representatives would give the seat to Extra \"for really I consider him a great nuisance in the Senate,\"\n        believes that Webster's objections to the appointment of Hagarty to the consulate of Liverpool not valid as he [wrongly !] thinks Nicholas Trist was born in Louisiana and is not a Virginian, and discusses his [Kentz?] suit at length (1841 Jun 23);\n        argues that the success of the suit of Porterfield vs Clark hinges on proving that the country in question belonged to the Cherokees in 1779, found out that Silas E. Burrows is the favorite of Webster for the Liverpool consulate, while the leading\n        merchants of New York favor Hagarty, and says Tucker will accept the professorship of law on condition that they will let him reside out of the precincts of the University [of Virginia] (1841 Jul 22); reports that they have just finished the battle for\n        Speaker of the Virginia Legislature with the election of [Valentine Wood] Southall considered a Whig victory, \"we had a long, I cannot say very able or palatable message from the accidental Gov. of Virginia -coming into office as he did, he ought to\n        have been modest\" (1841 Dec 6); notes that the introduction of a batch of Federal resolutions into the House have alarmed the Locofocos, especially the one urging the repeal of the Distribution Act, which is popular in the Western part of the state,\n        and discusses the prospects of several men for the Governorship of Virginia (1841 Dec 24); reports on election results in Augusta County, urges Alexander H. H. Stuart to write some articles on the Tariff to attract the support of the young farmers and\n        mechanics which are being courted by the Democrats as new voters under the new state constitution (1851 Oct 24); discusses the legal case of Woods vs Brooks and expresses his confidence in the election of General Scott (1852 Jul 13); discusses the\n        election of cashier at the Bank and the appointment of a marshall for the western district of Virginia (1852 Nov 12 \u0026 30); and discusses the affairs of the Staunton Bank, of which he is President, and the Central Railroad (1852 Dec 23)"," O.B. Knode asks Alexander H. H. Stuart 's influence be used to have Colonel Tiernan appointed to a judgeship in Utah (1852 Jan 22)"," F.A. Kownslar writes concerning a debt (1833 Jun 24)"," Daniel Kraber concerning the will of George Lightner with a copy of the will attached (1831 Nov 15)"," J.D. Kurtz concerning cadet appointments (1853 Jan 17)"," John H.B. Latrobe appreciates Alexander H. H. Stuart 's speech and the exposition of the operation of the partnership principle by Alexander H. H. Stuart (1838 Sep 1)"," Joseph S. Leake inquires about the price of one of Mr. Alexander H. H. Stuart 's houses (1831 Nov 3)"," Adam Lee about taking up a land agency in the Transalleghany country (1831 Mar 11)"," John Letcher (1813-1884) hopes Alexander H. H. Stuart has received the seeds sent by his friend Whiting (1856 May 2)"," [Will H. Lewis ?], State Department, sends invitation to dine (n.d.)"," John Tayloe Lomax asks which states are a good market for legal books, expresses his opinion of the need for a protective tariff, his hope that Henry Clay will run as the Whig candidate for President, and the appearance that John C. Calhoun was the\n        most prominent of the Locofocos (1842 Jul 8)"," L. Luckett describes his family's trip to Memphis, [Tennessee] (1859 Aug 1); mentions seeing the manufacture of weapons in Richmond and his trip to New Orleans during the Civil War, the condition of the cotton crop, benefits of the war in uniting the\n        South, the vast difference between the Southerners and the Yankees, the ironclad [Thunderbolt ?] expected to leave New Orleans this week to go against Fort St. Phillip and Jackson (1861 Sep 2); refers to negotiations with England by the South and\n        refers to slavery \"our peculiar institution that they hoped was our weakness, is a tower of strength.\" (1861 Dec 23)"," James Lyons appreciates Alexander H. H. Stuart 's speech upon the subject of a national Bank and recommends the establishment of an Exchange Bank with branches in all of the states and regrets the division that the Bank issue has brought between the\n        executive and legislative branches (1841 Aug 20)"," Joseph S. Machie both letters discuss getting the deposition of James M.H. Beale for a trial (1851-1852)"," James MacDonald wants his younger brother appointed a surgeon either in the Navy or Army (1851 Oct 8)"," Redick McKee reports on the progress of the Commission sent to California to visit the hundreds of small Indian tribes and families, his plans to soon visit the tribes along the Mercede River, Mariposa County, the condition of the Whig Party in\n        California, the upcoming Senatorial contest, and his desire for the San Francisco Custom House position if it comes open (1851 Jan 28); reports signing the first treaty between the United States and the California Indians at Camp Fremont on March 19th\n        with six tribes and the possibility of a treaty with two more tribes near Fresno River, the poor quality of the soil, and his poor opinion of Dr. Wozencraft, California Indian agent (1851 Mar 21); recommends pacifying the Indians with a liberal supply\n        of beef and flour, his disagreement with Wozencraft who entered into a contract with Fremont, a political opponent, to supply beef to the Indians before the treaties were ratified by Congress and signed by the President, mentions other scandals and\n        improprieties in the Indian agency of California, and feels that reorganization of the whole governmental system in California is necessary (1851 Jun 30); desires the newly created position of \"Superintendent of Indian Affairs for the Pacific Coast\"\n        and criticizes the appointment of Lt. Beall as Indian Commissioner for California because he is known as a Democrat (1852 Mar 17 \u0026 May 5)"," Thomas M.S. McKennan letter of introduction for William Mills (1851 Oct 29)"," Lewis McKenzie asks Alexander H. H. Stuart to speak before the Bell \u0026 Everett Club as a friend of the Union (1860 Aug 31)"," William McLaughlin asks if Staunton will support the invitation by the Franklin Club, Washington College, and the Virginia Military Institute, to Edward Everett to speak in Lexington in order to raise money to purchase Mount Vernon (1857 Nov 23)"," Theodorick B. McRobert thanks Alexander H. H. Stuart for the clerkship in the Department of the Interior (1850 Oct 3); includes a letter from Archibald B. Walker concerning a possible pension based on the Revolutionary War service of Alexander Walker\n        (1850 Nov 26 \u0026 1851 Jan 8); includes a letter from the Rev. Luther Emerson, of Cob Bottom, Highland County, who promises to write a series of essays on the Scriptural view of slavery if McRobert will help him get some Northern Whig newspapers to\n        print them (1851 Dec 18 \u0026 26)"," F. Madera requests a promotion in the Pension Office (1851 Dec 30)"," Allan B. Magruder writes to secure a cadetship for his son, John T. Magruder, at West Point, and asks for a letter of introduction to the Secretary of the Navy on behalf of his brother, Captain Magruder (1851-1853); he also expresses his\n        disappointment that Millard Fillmore did not receive the nomination at the Baltimore Convention (1852 Jun 24)"," James Maguire accuses Mr. Bartlett, the Mexican Boundary Survey Commissioner, of embezzling (1851 Mar 29)"," Francis Mallory (1807-1860) congratulates Alexander H. H. Stuart on his appointment to the Cabinet (1851 Jun 13); discusses the case of Mr. Kyle of Norfolk and criticizes Mr. Eubank and his staff over his handling of Kyle's case (1852); and informs\n        Alexander H. H. Stuart that the Whigs of Norfolk want the postmaster position to go to John P. Leigh when Mr. Cohen dies (1852 Sep 29)"," N. Marmion to Messrs. Baldwin \u0026 Stuart, Attorneys-at-Law, concerning the debt of George Nicholson (1834 Mar 6 \u0026 Aug 21)"," Timothy Marmion writes concerning business matters (n.y. Dec 21)"," J.K. Marshall writes concerning a debt owed by Messrs. Harman \u0026 Garber (1852 Jan 30)"," Thomas A. Marshall inquires if Alexander H. H. Stuart can help him determine if James M. Moffit is deceased, Moffit was a plaintiff in the legal case of Miller heirs vs Boatman (1833)"," Thomas Martin notifies Alexander H. H. Stuart that his father, Pleasant Martin, has moved to Tennessee (1830 Jul 27)"," William Martin discusses the upcoming Virginia election for governor and the need for Governor Francis Harrison Pierpont to convince the Legislature to fix the question of the payment of the interest on the public debt (1867 Feb 10)"," Maryland Institute Officers \u0026 Managers ask Alexander H. H. Stuart to deliver their \"Annual Address\" at the opening of the Annual Exhibition of Manufacturers \u0026 Machinery (1851 Oct 6)"," James Murray Mason (1798-1871) regrets that he does not have any of the published documents concerning the Wheeling Bridge case, excepting the  Congressional Globe  at home (1853 Oct 22)"," [John Young] Mason (1799-1859) recommending John Dabney for some Federal government position (1851 Dec 30)","Colonel James W. Massie writes concerning a debt owed to Hugh McClure (1871 Apr 17)"," Thomas E. Massie, Santa Fe, New Mexico, introduces D.V. Whiting, as knowledgeable of modern languages (1852 May 5)"," Joel E. Matthews writes concerning the legal case of Matthews vs Minzes (1851-1852)"," Tyre Maupin informs Alexander H. H. Stuart that the Rough and Ready Club of Rockingham County plan to present him with a silver pitcher for his services to the Whig Party (1848 Sep 3); asks if Alexander H. H. Stuart knows whether James Madison ever\n        offered a Cabinet position to General Scott and informs him that he plans to vote for Scott now that he has the Whig nomination (1852 Jul 17)"," R. Mayo asks for a favorable review of his book now before the Pension Committee of the Senate (1852)"," Thompson G. Martin writes concerning his efforts to sell some Alexander H. H. Stuart land for them in Scott County, Virginia, and Tennessee (1831, 1834)","Members of the Virginia Legislature names Whig candidates favored by themselves for several positions (n.d.)","Memoranda of A.H.H. Stuart while Secretary of the Interior, chiefly concerning appointments and removals for positions in the government under his jurisdiction (ca. 1851-1853)"," C.F. Mercer, President of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company, writes to Alexander H. H. Stuart as their representative (1832 May 28)"," Hugh Mercer asks Daniel Webster to transfer his son, George Weedon Mercer, from the Second Auditor's Office, to the State Department (1851 Feb 22 \u0026 Jul 4)"," [S.]C.M. Merillat asks Alexander H. H. Stuart if he knows if Congress plans on raising the duties on foreign iron in the near future as he has interests in an iron rolling mill and they need to decide what to do with it now that it has suspended\n        operations (1852 Jun 1)"," C.H. Merritt sends Alexander H. H. Stuart a ring made out of native gold of New Mexico (1851 Sep 30) and introduces Judge Houghton of New Mexico (1851 Oct 20)"," Thomas J. Michie (1795-1873) writes concerning various legal cases (1845 Aug 1; 1850 Dec 19; 1852 Jan 18 \u0026 29 and Oct 15); congratulates him on his appointment to the Cabinet and expresses his hopes that the Administration will benefit from any\n        good will generated by the Compromise of 1850, his regret at being without Alexander H. H. Stuart 's companionship during his stay in Washington, and offers to help with any of his legal cases when he is not on the other side (1850 Sep 15); thanks\n        Alexander H. H. Stuart for his gift, comments on the recent election, \"for I could not but believe that a majority of the new made vote would be Democratic, \u0026 I knew the power of the party which, to make men forget every excellence, \u0026 carry out\n        the behests of the party...nor are the Whigs less the slaves of such machinery than the Democrats,\" discusses the plight of Hungarian patriot and statesman, Lajos Kossuth (1802-1894), and mentions \"the young Napoleon\" [ Napoleon III ] (1851 Dec 29);\n        sends a printed copy of his points of law, made in the appeal case of Points, assignee of Hottle vs Crawford, and discusses the case (1852 Jan 14)"," William C. Micou asks for his assistance in a case now before the Supreme Court (1852 Oct 20)"," Daniel F. Miller to Thomas Corwin -asks for Isaac Leffler (1788-1866), a former Whig member of Congress from Virginia, to be appointed to one of the land districts in Iowa; President Millard Fillmore appointed him receiver of public moneys for the\n        Chariton land district of Iowa on August 30th (1852 Aug 17)"," Jacob Welsh Miller (1800-1862) introduces George P. [?], of New Jersey, a member of the U.S. \u0026 Mexican Boundary Commission (1852 May 5)"," James Miller asks Alexander H. H. Stuart to intervene with John P. Kennedy on his brother's behalf for an appointment in the Navy Department (1852 Dec 1)"," Zophar Mills, Chairman of the Seventh Ward Democratic Whig Association of the City of New York, encloses a copy of the Preamble and Constitution of the Association (1851 Jul 8)"," Joseph L. Mitchell acknowledges the receipt of the agricultural book (1852 Feb 7)"," John Moebus requests Alexander H. H. Stuart to furnish him with the money to reach New York (1852 Jun 22)"," John Moffett writes concerning his unhappiness over the nomination of General Winfield Scott and his fears of a military candidate and Roman Catholics in the election (1852 Jun 27)"," Thomas S. Moffett, cousin of Alexander H. H. Stuart, requests he send one hundred dollars to Richmond (1834 Jan 27)"," Henry W. Moncure asks for a letter of introduction to Abbott Lawrence, the United States Minister to Great Britain, to facilitate his tour of Europe (1852 Jun 9)"," Charles P. Montague volunteers to carry dispatches abroad for the Federal government (1852 Jun 8)"," D.E. Moore expresses dismay at the election of John Tyler as President (1841 Aug 26)"," John K. Moore asks that Alexander H. H. Stuart remember his son, John B. Moore, who was unable to continue his plan of working in the mines due to dysentery caught while waiting in Panama for a ship, if any appointments open up in California (1850\n        Nov 27); and expresses his disgust at the nomination of General Scott (1852 Jul 6)"," L.T. Moore writes concerning the Beeler family estate (1851 Oct 10,18, 21)"," Samuel McDowell Moore writes letters concerning political events in Virginia and the Virginia Legislature, including: the \"Senatorial Lottery,\" his own possible candidacy for office in the Virginia Senate to oppose the \"unworthy\" David W. Patteson, a\n        bill for a Railroad from Staunton to Harpers Ferry to Baltimore, the reorganization of the courts, and his opposition to amalgamating the Common Law and Chancery Court (1830 Jan 24); his busy schedule with the Committee on Elections which sent Barbour\n        and Davis back to try again, returning the elections to the people for a revote, with no information about Alexander H. H. Stuart 's Senator (1830 Dec 25); passage of the Railway Bill from Staunton to the Potomac, and tells about the nephew of Chief\n        Justice John Marshall shooting and killing William Gott after he refused to duel with him (1831 Feb 23-24); news that Jefferson [Kinney?] plans to run as a candidate for the Senate against Patteson and his own indecision about whether to run as well\n        (1831 Mar 2); thanks Alexander H. H. Stuart for his opinions about Moore running for the Virginia Senate in order to unseat David W. Patteson, speaks about his opposition to the odious amendment to Alexander H. H. Stuart 's Railroad Bill introduced\n        into the House of Delegates which prohibited the government from subscribing to any part of the stock, the 29th section of the bill was stricken out, discusses all of his work to secure the passage of the bill as Alexander H. H. Stuart submitted it,\n        and mentions the Judiciary Bill (1831 Mar 17); discusses the bill affecting court clerk fees, his decision not to run for the Virginia Senate seat, and the Railroad Bill (1831 Apr 10); furnishes his opinion of the elections at Rockbridge and Augusta,\n        Mr. Dorman's efforts for David W. Patteson and against his own candidate (1831 Jun 30, Jul 4 \u0026 5); discusses the bill for internal improvements, the work of the Special Committee regarding the subject of removing free Negroes and Mulattoes, the\n        emancipation of slaves, the majority of the Committee refused to pay for the Negroes killed in Southampton, and other propositions concerning slaves and their removal from western Virginia (1832 Jan 5); following Moore's election to the House of\n        Representatives, he believes the followers of Martin Van Buren have the political advantage, the President seems anxious to get Daniel Webster into the Democratic Party in order to carry the Senate in their favor, Nullifiers also want Webster to switch\n        parties to alienate Southerners, destroy the Union, and establish a Southern Confederacy, the inadvisability of Henry Clay running for President, and mention of Richard M. Johnson of Kentucky as a probable candidate for Vice-President with Van Buren\n        (1833 Dec 24); discusses the election of [Littleton Waller] Tazewell (1774-1860) as evidence that the \"Old Dominion\" is dead set against Martin Van Buren for President and other political matters, and includes an amusing story of his social life (1834\n        Jan 11); his concern over the Banking Bill and false accusations against Moore printed by the editor of  The Fincastle Patriot  1834 Apr 7);\n        encouraged by the results of the Virginia elections and other political gossip (1834 May 20); discusses the resolutions regarding the Sub-Treasury scheme, Calhoun's speech supporting the scheme, and Clay's speech against it and Calhoun, and mention of\n        the Locofoco Party (1838 Feb 22); some of the Whigs uneasy over Alexander H. H. Stuart 's vote on the 21st Rule which vote Moore approved, \"I consider the true ground on which to meet the abolitionists is that they are prohibited by the Constitution\n        from interfering with our domestic concerns, and we should meet them on the ramparts of the Constitution. And not in endeavoring to defend a rule of order of at least doubtful justice and propriety,\" and furnishes his version of the history of the\n        \"abolition humbug\" beginning with General Jackson kicking Calhoun out of the \"Kitchen Cabinet\" and continuing with Calhoun's attempt to fan the flames of sectional division for his own political purposes; and his belief that the Whigs should pass Mr.\n        Ewing's Bank Bill with as little alteration as possible, and mentions Extra Billy Smith 's letter expressing his opinion that Tyler will veto any bill chartering a U.S. Bank (1841 June 22); the defeat of the Bank Bill in Congress, Tyler's attack on the\n        Whig Party as the enemy of States' Rights, the controversy over the nature of the proposed National Bank and his own solution to the problem, and his contention that the Bankruptcy Bill should not be passed at present (1841 Aug 22); complains about\n        [John Minor] Botts giving Whigs a bad name, discusses flaws in the Bank Bill, notes that Whigs are dissatisfied with [William Cabell ?] Rives course in countering the Whig Party, and complains about [Henry Alexander ?] Wise (1841 Aug 27); and discusses\n        the Firebaugh Will legal case (1850 Oct 18; 1852 Jan 5 \u0026 Mar 16)"," John Moorman recommends the Rev. Samuel R. Houston as Superintendent of the Deaf and Dumb Asylum at Staunton, Virginia (1852 Mar 4)"," [W.?] Morris seeks a position in the State Department (1852 Dec 1)"," C.L. Mosby writes concerning claims against the Thomas Wells estate (1831 May 18); and asks if he knows of a purser position in the Navy for his brother, William W. Mosby (1851 Dec 15)"," [Alexander] Moseley expresses his concern with President Tyler and Edward Everett 's reply to the abolitionists (1841 Jul-Aug); discusses the idea of acquiring Cuba from Spain and the widespread aversion to Spanish rule in Cuba and his hopes that\n        [John Minor ?] Botts would not be elected (1851 Jun 13 \u0026 Oct 20); believes that Millard Fillmore will be nominated at the Baltimore Convention (1852 Mar 20); the need for a full Whig vote in Virginia to defeat Franklin Pierce (1852 Oct 5 \u0026\n        7)"," J.W. Myers questions Stuart about the meaning of President Millard Fillmore 's latest message in regard to military intervention on behalf of the Hungarian Lajos Kossuth or in any European conflict (1851 Dec 11)"," Thomas Nairu writes concerning federal appointments in Iowa (1850 Oct 23)"," C.W. Newton, one of the Commissioners chosen to select a site for the Norfolk Custom House, discusses the matter, and recommends that the other commissioners be retained as superintendents to continue with the construction of the Custom House (1851\n        May 1); asks why the delay in the appointment of his friend, Walter H. Taylor (1852 Aug 20); recommends John P. Leigh for the Postmaster position at Norfolk (1852 Sep 29)"," Isaac C. Newton regrets his defence of Bryant who was removed from office by his own misconduct and not through prejudice as he claimed (1853 Jan 15)"," Dr. C.N. Nichols concerning the purchase of \" Woodstock, \" the farm of Mrs. Brent and a note from John Carroll Brent (1852 Nov 23)"," William Ogden Niles writes concerning the prosecution of parties arrested for frauds upon the Departments of the Interior and the Treasury (1850 Nov 12)"," John A. North furnishes information in several cases in which Alexander H. H. Stuart is listed as Counsel in Judge Thompson's Circuit (1852 Aug 14)"," John A. [Parker ?] thanks Alexander H. H. Stuart for his recent speech on the slavery question and Mr. Lincoln's plan to purchase land to colonize the freed Negroes (1873 Oct 27)"," William Elisha Peters (1829-1906) urges Alexander H. H. Stuart through another faculty member not to use the revenue from the Corcoran fund for the general purposes of the University of Virginia or to any other than the benefit of the Professors\n        which will assure the future of the institution (1876 Nov 23)","[Sir Flinders ?] Petrie, Secretary of the Victoria Institute or Philosophical Society of Great Britain, invites Alexander H. H. Stuart to join the society (1878 Aug 12)"," Eb Phlegar furnishes a table of voting in the precincts of Montgomery County and Pulaski County (1841 Apr 24)"," L.M. Powell expresses his concern over Alexander H. H. Stuart 's fall into the water and tells about the loss of his trunk (1860 Oct 23)"," W.A. Powell statement of interest due (1868 Dec 16)"," William Ballard Preston (1805-1862) discusses the Whig Convention in Philadelphia, the nomination of Zachary Taylor, the vulnerability of Lewis Cass, and mentions [John Minor] Botts (1848 Jun 15)"," Charles Radziminski asks for a leave of absence to be arranged so he can travel to Europe and check on his family whom he has not heard from since his exile from Poland for revolutionary activity in 1834 (1852 Aug 1)"," Robert Ridgway (1823-1870) asks Alexander H. H. Stuart if he would accept the opposition nomination for Governor and discusses others who might accept a position on the ticket (1859 Jan 9)"," Lawrence Riggs writes about the desire of Rev. F.W. Hatch for the Chaplaincy to the U.S. Marine Hospital at St. Louis (1851 Jan 8)"," Alexander Rives discusses the idea of secession, \"A vague fear distresses us, lest our people should be maddened by occurrences at the South and dragged after the seceding states. I am clean for keeping the state out of that vortex.\" He also suggests\n        that the Southern representatives meet with their Stephen Douglass allies and agree to serve in Lincoln's Cabinet if asked (1860 Nov 20) and \"You can well conceive that I am not favorably inclined to our unceremonious \u0026 unexpected transfer to Jeff.\n        Davis \u0026 Co. I did not like the Convention's adoption of Judge Allen's sophism in the preamble to the Act of Secession; -it is a false gloss and unworthy of the state;\" (1861 May 13)"," William Cabell Rives expresses hopes that they can create a great National Conservative Party to preserve the Union and avoid the extremism proclaimed by Mr. Seward in recent speeches in New York (1859 Jan 5); and fears his health will not permit him\n        to give the speech on behalf of the Committee to the people of the United States; he died on April 25 (1868 Jan 7)"," William Barton Rogers hesitates to endorse any mining and economical surveys, and mentions that he enjoyed the address of his friend Judge Bradley at the public exercises at the University of Virginia (1881 Jul 7)"," W.H. Ruffner wishes that Alexander H. H. Stuart would receive the nomination for the Vice-Presidency and asks Alexander H. H. Stuart to come to Philadelphia to make a speech before the Convention, \"A little glorification of Hungary -some leanings\n        toward our `Manifest Destiny' -a few digs at `European despotisms' -a compliment to the Sultan -a javelin at Nicholas -in short `much ado about nothing' is all that is needed.\" (1851 Dec 5)"," Benjamin Rush expresses his admiration for Alexander H. H. Stuart and his efforts to avoid the dissolution of the Union before the Civil War and hopes to further reconciliation between the North and South should he be elected to Congress (1874 Aug\n        4)"," John C. Rusmisell discusses the popular election of Joseph Johnson for Governor in Virginia under the new state constitution (1851 Dec 25)"," N[athan] Sargent (1794-1875), author of  Public Men and Events,  in several letters that reveal the turbulent condition of American politics\n        during the period immediately preceding the Civil War, Sargent urges that articles be published in the  Richmond Whig  supporting his and\n        Alexander H. H. Stuart 's positions in the upcoming elections, mentions the controversy over the Crittenden Amendment, violent feelings on both sides of the slavery issue, and urges a meeting of representatives of various Conservative groups who wish\n        to work to preserve the Union, hopes for the defeat of John Letcher (1858-1859); and deplores the course of Goggin and Bell of Kentucky, \"I can never subscribe to the doctrine that Congress must protect slavery in the Territories; never. We must\n        repudiate that vagary.\" (1859 Aug 12); and discusses the effect of the outbreak at Harpers Ferry (1859 Oct 24)"," R.E. Scott furnishes his views as to the nomination to be made at the Baltimore Convention (1852 May 22)"," Joseph Segar writes concerning the Presidential nomination; his support for Millard Fillmore and his distaste for Scott (1852 Mar 11)"," Hugh W. Sheffey compares the advantages of investing in state bonds and U.S. stock, asks his opinion of \"Thompson's Revolution\" before the General Assembly which means to reduce the number of circuit courts and increase the pay of judges, the House\n        of Delegates will soon begin examining the criminal code, expects passage of the Covington and Ohio Railroad Bill, anxious that all the state internal improvements be completed so that Virginia can tap the great Western wealth, and the bill enlarging\n        the limits of Staunton has passed (1848 Feb 12); discusses his recent attempt to pass a bill to reapportion the delegates and senators throughout the Commonwealth and Mr. Scott of Fauquier County 's proposed bill re reapportionment, failure of the bill\n        to extend the Louisa Railroad towards Harrisonburg, his concern over the Whig nomination, \"Stuart, I am satisfied that the nomination of Mr. Clay will prostrate the Whig party in the South -no young man in the South can for twenty years to come expect\n        to rise to any post of honour or distinction if Clay should ever be elected by the Wilmot proviso vote of the North\" (1848 Feb 16); the Virginia Whig Convention voted to support Zachary Taylor for the Presidential candidate (1848 Feb 25); notifies\n        Alexander H. H. Stuart that an appropriation of six thousand dollars was made by the General Assembly to the Deaf \u0026 Dumb \u0026 Blind Institution to square its debts and warns him as its President not to come to the General Assembly for more\n        assistance (1850 Mar 14); and writes concerning the bounty land warrant of his cousin Celly (1852 Apr 2)"," W.G. [Snethen ?] asks that the Department of the Interior award land sale advertisements to the newspaper  The Virginian  edited by Terry and\n        Shields (1852 Oct 9)"," Lord Stirling sends a copy of  The Democratic Review  containing the first of a series of articles concerning his legally established rights in\n        British North America (1852 Sep 11)"," Samuel Strong writes concerning the bids for the extension of the marble work of the Capitol (1851 Nov 5)"," James French Strother (1811-1860) asks Alexander H. H. Stuart to write to Mr. Hall and tell him that he believes the bill authorizing the appointment of an assistant agent will pass (1852 Jun 8)"," Alexander H.H. Stuart Letters writes in great detail to Thomas Michie concerning the subjects of internal improvements, especially the James River Company, \u0026 the increase of Banking capital and the opposition of Joseph C. Cabell to their plans,\n        and the Democratic Party being forced to accept David Campbell as Governor (1837 Jan 29); to an unknown correspondent, tries to correct the allegation by John Minor Botts that the resolution offered by Alexander H. H. Stuart at the extra session of\n        Congress in June 1841 was copied by Alexander H. H. Stuart from Botts' resolution and presented as his own and asks for his correspondent to be a witness to what actually transpired (1845 Dec 12); furnishes a testimonial to the worthy service W.D.C.\n        Goddard has performed in the Department of the Interior (1852 Jun 30); to his brother, Gerald B. Stuart, writes that William H. Clarke wants a barrel of his best whiskey sent, William Stuart needs a good horse, predicts big battles soon, probably at\n        Yorktown, Harpers Ferry, or Manassas Gap, and says of the Convention, \"We have a most miserable spirit prevailing in the Convention -a spirit of carping \u0026 bitter hostility to Letcher -such men as Harris, Ambler, Garnett seem disposed to assail him\n        on every frivolous pretext\" (1861 Jun 15); writes to his daughter, Maggie B. Stuart, concerning her schooling (1873 Feb 7); from the University of Virginia, to his mother, Eleanor Stuart, about his brother Archibald Stuart 's engagement (Oct 7); and to\n        his wife, informing her that he hoped to be home from Washington soon, neither the Whig nor Democratic Parties can command the full loyalty of their followers in the present debate, and describes his anxiety about his children (n.d.)"," Archibald P. Stuart assures him of his best wishes and support as he leaves for Washington and thanks him for the frock coat and the beautiful wheat (1850 Sep 29)"," Eleanor Briscoe Stuart writes concerning the settling of an estate (n.d.)"," J.E.B. Stuart while at West Point, answers Alexander H. H. Stuart 's questions about the annuity left him by Uncle Chapman (1851 Dec 25); and writes concerning the opportunities in real estate in Kansas where he is now serving at Fort Leavenworth\n        (1857 Jan 28)"," Oscar J.C. Stuart writes concerning Alexander H. H. Stuart 's bereavement, the genealogy of his father's family, particularly his grandfather, John Stockton, and comments on the state of Virginia politics (1859 August 8)"," Isaac H. Sturgeon encloses newsclippings concerning the Labaume case (1852 Feb 4)"," George William Summers (1804-1868) describes the death of their friend, Secretary of the Navy Thomas Walker Gilmer (1802-1844), who was killed by the bursting of a gun called \"the Peacemaker\" on board the U.S.S. Princeton on the Potomac River, near\n        Washington, D.C. and what the loss of Secretary of State Abel P. Upshur would mean in the negotiations over the Oregon Territory with the new minister from Great Britain; feels that the quality of this Congress is decidedly inferior to the last, and\n        his approval of Alexander H. H. Stuart 's articles in  The Richmond Whig  (1844 Feb 28); and comments extensively on the \"farce\" of the\n        Democratic-Locofoco nomination of James Polk for President (1844 May 30)"," William T. Sutherlin regrets the error of the people of Virginia at not returning Alexander H. H. Stuart to office, although he was instrumental in restoring Virginia to the Union, Alexander H. H. Stuart was not elected to public office in 1870 (1870\n        Nov 9); refers to the speech by William Mahone as a \"campaign document\" in favor of his Virginia policy and against the free Railroad Law, his desire to get rid of the obligation to build the Cumberland Gap Road and to make several other changes in the\n        Act of Consolidation, and expresses his low opinion of Mahone and his \"Radicals\" (1873 Apr 4)"," [J.H. Tagart ?] insists that Alexander H. H. Stuart accept his invitation to \"eat a little Virginia venison with some Maryland canvass back ducks with an old friend\" (1852 Nov 28)"," William H. Terrill asks that Alexander H. H. Stuart exchange autographs and photographs with him (1871 Nov 17)"," Lucas P. Thompson writes that various persons have urged him to suggest to Alexander H. H. Stuart that his best chance of election is to join the Know Nothing Party and run as one of their candidates but hesitates because \"I entertain a prejudice not\n        so much against the principles or what are said to be the principles of the new party as the secrecy of their organization and action\" (1855 Jan 21)"," Nicholas K. Trout, Senate of Virginia, addresses the re-adjustment of the public debt question with West Virginia and informs Alexander H. H. Stuart of the fate of several bills in the Legislature (1867 Jan 20)","Unidentified Letters include the following subjects: the failure to revive interest in an Act promoting a railroad from Staunton to Scottsville or the James River, the need to pursue the James River improvements, especially with the Louisa Railroad,\n        but has little hopes of resolution until the settlement of the Bank Bill which he discusses and discusses the selection of a site for the Deaf \u0026 Dumb Asylum (1839 Mar 1); the terrible disaster on the lower Mississippi claiming the life of B.B.\n        Stuart (1859 May 2); the editor of  The Sandy Valley Advocate  writes concerning the development of the great coal field in the Great Sandy Valley\n        of Kentucky and asks what the Kentucky Whigs should do in the present political crisis (1859 Aug 27); and a Civil War letter from Bristoe Station, Virginia, where a Confederate soldier sends home fifty dollars in care of Alexander H. H. Stuart ([1861\n        ?] Sep 12)"," Upshur County Citizens asks that Alexander H. H. Stuart come and speak to them on the issues of the day and express their support for William Leftwich Goggin (1807-1870) for Governor of Virginia (1859 Apr 6)"," Thomas Walter, Architect for the Extension of the U.S. Capitol, furnishes a report on the cost of the work during the residue of fiscal year (1851 Nov 6)"," Washington College Literary Society requests Alexander H. H. Stuart to give a speech before the Society on July 2nd (1857 Apr 28)"," John Watt asks if Alexander H. H. Stuart will send him a copy of the appendix published in connection with his report on John Brown 's raid on Harpers Ferry, containing extracts from the personal liberty bills passed by several of the Northern states\n        (1861 Dec 3)"," Daniel Webster regrets that the information obtained in the Census Records is not particularly useful in answering Alexander H. H. Stuart 's questions about blind persons in the state of Virginia for the Virginia Institute for the Education of the\n        Blind but suggests that an agent of the Institute might be given access to the records to compile the necessary information (1842 Aug 2); introduces Fitzhenry Warren of the General Post Office (1850 Oct 2); and regrets that the President has decided he\n        cannot appoint Virginians to offices other than local offices (1851 Feb 8)"," William J. Willey warns that \"Since the action of the Convention, handing the state of Virginia over to the Confederate states, without the knowledge or consent of the people, like a lot of horses or slaves, the excitement in N.W. Virginia, is\n        becoming most intense, and indeed, in some quarters, terrible...The clamor here for a division of the state is becoming loud and universal -I fear it will become uncontrollable\" (1861 May 7)"," Robert Winthrop encloses a seal, with a mistaken superscription to \"Cha\" Winthrop by Dr. Stuart, belonging to his great-grandfather, John Winthrop, who was a Fellow of the Royal Society, discusses family genealogy and the motto on the seal and asks\n        him to take care of the seal while it is in his possession (1851 Apr 21); encloses a letter from Judge Thomas C. Manning (present) concerning the Mississippi Bonds question, and mentions Slater's Fund for educating the Freedmen (1882 Apr 28); regrets\n        not seeing Alexander H. H. Stuart at the meeting of the Peabody Education Fund of which both he and Alexander H. H. Stuart were Trustees, describes the meeting and discusses politics (1884 Oct 8); discusses the death of Jefferson Davis and his opinion\n        of the man (1889 Dec 16)"," Henry Wise (1806-1876) offended at personal references in  The Valley Virginian  which gave a report on Alexander H. H. Stuart 's speech to the\n        Citizens of Augusta County, at Staunton, \"On the New Movement\" which claimed Governor Wise had opposed the work of Alexander H. H. Stuart and had worked closely with carpet-baggers, Wise asks Alexander H. H. Stuart if he had approved the report and was\n        it correct (1869 Feb 3); a copy of Alexander H. H. Stuart 's reply to Wise, in his speech he referred to, \"parties holding the most antagonistic opinions, and having the most diverse objects in view -one party desiring the adoption of the Underwood\n        Constitution, while the other was unalterably opposed to it -This while Governor Wells \u0026 his committee were assailing our proposition in Washington, Governor Wise \u0026 others, were attacking it at home -Thus extremes seem to meet, \u0026 the\n        singular spectacle was presented of Gov. Wells \u0026 Gov. Wise, who probably held no other opinion in common, pulling together as it were in the same team, in opposition to the scheme\" (1869 Feb 5); Wise reiterates his opposition to the \"New Movement\"\n        and opposes both Governor Wells and \"Negro Suffrage\" (1869 Feb 8)"," R.N. Wood discusses members of the American Party recently elected to Congress and fears that unless they can unify the old Whigs with the \"American Organization\" Millard Fillmore will not be re-elected (1856 Apr 13)","*Unless otherwise noted the recipient of the letter is Alexander H.H. Stuart*","Positive copies of microfilms produced by The Library of Virginia","See the   University of Virginia Library’s use policy.","","English"],"unitid_tesim":["228-a"],"normalized_title_ssm":["Papers of Alexander H. H. Stuart and the related Stuart and Baldwin families 1754-1921"],"collection_title_tesim":["Papers of Alexander H. H. Stuart and the related Stuart and Baldwin families 1754-1921"],"collection_ssim":["Papers of Alexander H. H. 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Stuart and the related Stuart and Baldwin families, Accession #228-a, Special Collections, University of Virginia Library, Charlottevsille, Va."],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Content"],"scopecontent_tesim":["This collection consists of the additional papers of the Stuart and Baldwin families, chiefly Archibald Stuart (1757-1832) and Alexander H.H. Stuart (1807-1891), of Staunton, Virginia, ca. 1754-1921, ca. 800 items (4 Hollinger boxes, 1.5 linear feet),\n        including correspondence; financial and legal papers; printed items; microfilm; an architectural drawing; Civil War military papers of Captain George M. Cochran, Jr.; nineteenth century newsclippings; drafts of speeches by Alexander H.H. Stuart; land\n        grants signed by Virginia governors, including Beverley Randolph, Robert Brooke, John Floyd, and James Monroe; two engravings of Alexander H.H. Stuart; and papers regarding the settlement of the estate of Archibald Stuart . Since Alexander H.H. Stuart\n        was a prominent member of the Virginia Whig Party, there is considerable material in this collection concerning the Whig Party and Virginia politics.","CORRESPONDENCE OF THE STUART-BALDWIN FAMILY -SUMMARIES (BOX 1)"," Martha S. Baldwin forwards a letter to her husband General Briscoe Gerard Baldwin (d. 1852) from their daughter Mary Baldwin regarding her health (n.d.)"," James Barbour (1775-1842), Secretary of War, mentions an interview with [Henry] Clay concerning the participation of members of the administration in the political convention [of the National Republican Party ] and discusses his knowledge of the true\n        charges leveled against Andrew Jackson while in control of Louisiana during the War of 1812, Jackson's conflict with Louisiana Governor William Charles Claiborne and the Governor of Georgia, his refusal to obey the orders of President Monroe, his\n        denunciation of Madison, and his behavior as acting Governor of Florida (1827 Dec 16); Barbour also mentions his involvement in \"a controversy of mixed vexation,\" his retirement, \" and says, \" [John C.] Calhoun 's pamphlet is the final act in the drama\n        -and I apprehend the breach will become wider and wider\" (1831 Feb 19)"," G.A. Baxter, member of the Board of Visitors of Washington Academy, informs Archibald Stuart of his election to the Board, and explains why his resignation was errantly reported in their minutes (1807 Sep 29)"," Robert Beverley discusses a possible land sale (1791 May 5); asks Archibald Stuart to attend to his properties near Staunton and make sure all back taxes are paid (1791 Nov 24); discusses land business and court matters (1791-1797); makes reference\n        to the slave revolt in the French colony of Haiti in the West Indies and the declaration of independence by Toussaint L'Ouverture (1743-1803), criticizing George Washington for his early acknowledgement of the French Republic, believing he acted\n        unconstitutionally, and expresses great confidence in the talents, integrity, and firmness of Mr. [John] Adams (1798 Dec 17)"," John Breckinridge writes business letters (1788 \u0026 1790), his son, J.C. Breckinridge, asks for information from Archibald Stuart for a biographical essay about his father (1815 Apr 30)"," Gerald Briscoe, [Jr.?] writes about a land dispute in \"Caintucke\" (all three letters, 1794-1796, n.d.)"," Cuthbert Bullitt to Archibald Stuart and General John Brown discusses a suit involving Colonel Clendenning for lack of payment on a bond (1790 Jan 2); and the death of his brother, Thomas Bullitt, asking for a petition in the Legislature of Virginia\n        for their financial relief (1823 Dec 16)"," Joseph C. Cabell refers to a pamphlet containing Mr. Madison's letter and an appendix establishing the point that the Tariff Policy is the true Republican doctrine; Cabell paid T.W. White, Richmond printer, for 3,000 copies and will have more printed\n        if necessary; claims that the opposition party is exerting every effort to destroy Madison's influence in the state (1829 Feb 24)"," Arthur Campbell requests an investigation into the circumstances surrounding the sickness and death of the boy Charles H. Campbell; speaks of the opposition to the federal constitution and the value of the controversy over the amendments to point out\n        the real motives of those trying to keep Virginia and North Carolina from approving the Constitution (1789 Sep 2); discusses difficulties in obtaining land warrants due to the boundary dispute with Kentucky and refers to the petition to revise the\n        Virginia State Constitution opposed by the friends of [Patrick ?] Henry (1795 Sep 30); refers to Thomas Jefferson and the success of the \"friends of monarchy\" who won the late election for President, and the French Revolution (1797 Feb 20); and\n        mentions his desire that the land law in the Act of 1795 would be repealed or amended (1798 Dec 22)"," John Coalter discusses a debt against Mrs. Reid, and declares \"I have no hopes of the republic since New Jersey has proved recreant\" (1812 Nov 6)"," George Davis discusses legal and business matters (1792 Aug 17)"," R. Gamble discusses legal and business matters (1791-1800)"," Hugh Holmes writes concerning the competition between Winchester and Staunton to be the branch of the Virginia Bank which he believes must be kept exclusively under a Republican direction; asks for Archibald Stuart to secure a loan for five hundred\n        dollars; discusses the rumor that merchants believe that the Eastern and Northern Tories have devised a stratagem to defeat the loan requested by the government to conduct the War of 1812 with Great Britain (1814 Mar 9); speaks of his pain from\n        numerous operations; the raids of the Tunisian corsairs upon British ships in the English Channel (1817 Jul 12); and the death of Mary, the daughter of Archibald's brother Alexander (1823 May 6)"," [Chapman ?] Johnson (1779-1849) sends a copy of a decree from the court of appeals in the case of [Doneghe ?] and Campbell to Archibald Stuart; sent a copy of Archibald Stuart 's letter about the seat of government to the Editor of  The Enquirer  for publication; refers to the failure of their efforts to establish the University of Virginia and his belief that nothing will be done\n        for it this winter; the non-effect of political essays upon the public mind, and mention of \"the great James River project\" (1822 Mar 2)"," John Lewis to Dabney Carr notes \"my seeing Mr. Jefferson\" is very uncertain, and writes about the Mayo v Lewis lawsuit (1768 Jan 23)"," John Lewis to Thomas Jefferson writes regarding his lawsuit Mayo v Lewis, docketed in Thomas Jefferson 's hand (1772 Oct 4)"," J. Marshall speaks of the fickleness of political parties in reference to \"Zach.\" and refers to a business matter (n.d.)"," George Mathews (1739-1812) writes of his safe arrival in Georgia where he was asked to sit for election to political office (1791 Oct 10); and details concerning his dispute over a land sale in Virginia and his motive in accepting the office of\n        [Governor of Georgia?] (1794 Apr 4)"," James D. McCutchen to Joseph Janney writes concerning his inability to make his payment for land due to the drought, high feed costs and poor crops and his proposal to work out an alternative method of payment (1839 Mar 25)"," Andrew Moore (1752-1821), elected to the first four Congresses, March 4, 1789-March 3, 1797, writes from New York and Philadelphia, sends copies of all laws passed, wages established at six dollars per day, set the budget for the staff of the\n        President and Vice-President, discusses office seekers, mentions that the amendments to the constitution are being conducted with a great deal of warmth, believes the amendments \"will quiet the public mind and remove in a great measure the opposition\n        to government\" (1789 Aug 12); asks for help in securing compensation for a slave who escaped into Pennsylvania and proved that he was a free black unjustly sold to Moore who was unaware of his status by a previous owner (1791 Nov 5); the preoccupation\n        of Congress with a bill fixing the rates of representation in Congress and the disputed election between General Anthony Wayne (1745-1796) and General James Jackson (1757-1806) before Congress (1792 Mar 15); his disappointment in the bill fixing the\n        ratio of representation and the decision made in the House concerning the contested election which declared the seat vacant (1792 Mar 26); discusses the resignation of Thomas Jefferson as Secretary of State who appeared determined never to enter public\n        life again, with the former Attorney General Edmund Randolph succeeding Jefferson as Secretary of State; mentions the great loss suffered by the country by Jefferson's resignation at this critical time and praises Jefferson highly; encloses a number of\n        resolutions introduced by Mr. Madison, the conflict over the payment of interest on the debt of the United States; cites Jefferson's opinion on the same subject; forwards copies of the correspondence between Thomas Jefferson and Citizen Edmond Charles\n        Genet and Jefferson's report on United States trade with Europe (1793 Jan 4); the attempt by Washington and Congress to have Citizen Genet recalled to France due to his insolent and insulting conduct (1793 Dec 8); the situation of the United States\n        becoming more and more critical due to the increase of British spoliation on American shipping, detaining our vessels, and alleging that an old law precluded the United States from Britain's West Indian ports; the purchase of flour and beef and the\n        chartering of United States vessels to transport it because the United States was bound by treaty to guarantee the French West Indies; Madison's resolutions; the empowerment of the President to impose an embargo on all shipping coming into American\n        ports; the arming of small vessels to use against the Algerians; a bill providing for the defence of our ports and harbors; the establishment of arsenals, and a resolution for the enlistment of 15,000 troops, with training during 24 days a year, and\n        the need for a direct tax to fund national defence (1794 Mar 14)"," Garrett Peterson asks [Charles Anderson] Wickliffe for help in locating Archibald Stuart and buying a piece of land belonging to Archibald Stuart to make his title to his plantation more secure (1826 Jan 24, see Wickliffe's letter, 1826 Feb 26)"," William Preston to William Anderson seeking advice in a land claim controversy (1783 Jan 1)"," [Andrew Reid, Jr.] to Thomas J. Stuart writes a social letter to a friend (1807 Sep 5)"," Alexander Farish Robertson Correspondence, chiefly with Philip Alexander Bruce concerning his history of the University of Virginia and especially the Honor System (1921)"," John Steele writes that the Governor [Henry Lee] has written Mr. White asking him to help Archibald Stuart investigate the High Sheriff for embezzlement (1792 Mar 5)"," Robert Sterritt notifies Joseph Janney that he has secured a purchaser for Archibald Stuart 's plantation in Rockbridge County, James D. McCutchen, (1837 Jul 14, see also McCutchen 1839 Mar 25)"," Eleanor Briscoe Stuart to Thomas J. Stuart concerning his studies and vacation while at Washington Academy (1806 Jan 24 \u0026 Mar 2) and to her mother, Mrs. Margaret Briscoe (1808 Feb 19)"," Martha M. Stuart writes to her mother-in-law, Mrs. Eleanor (Briscoe) Stuart concerning family news (n.y. Apr 8)"," [Charles Anderson] Wickliffe (1788-1869) forwards a letter from Garrett Peterson to Archibald Stuart concerning a land sale (1826 Feb 26)"," William Wirt (1772-1834) asks Archibald Stuart to send his anecdote about Patrick Henry for his biography and to furnish the details just as it was originally told (1816 Aug 10)","MISCELLANEOUS PAPERS OF THE STUART FAMILY (BOXES 1-2)","This series contains an architectural drawing; an engraving of Alexander H.H. Stuart by Danforth, Baldwin \u0026 Company; financial and legal papers, including notification of Archibald Stuart 's appointment as a Presidential elector (1792 Nov 12);\n        insurance policies for Archibald Stuart 's barn, grist mill, saw mill, dwelling and kitchen (1811, 1812); Archibald Stuart 's appointment as a commissioner to collect money for a monument to George Washington (1817 Apr 4); stock certificates; accounts\n        and receipts; indentures; land plats; legal cases of both Archibald Stuart and Alexander H.H. Stuart; copies of wills of Alexander Stuart, Robert Stuart, Chapman J. Stuart, and Alexander H.H. Stuart; the military papers of Captain George M. Cochran,\n        Jr., Quartermaster, 52nd Virginian Infantry, Pegram's Brigade, Early's Division; the settlement of Archibald Stuart 's estate, and drafts of several speeches by Alexander H.H. Stuart, one protesting the increase in salary of the superintendent of the\n        Western Asylum because it would be disproportionate to all other salaries allowed by the state of Virginia, another declining the office of President of the branch of the Bank of the Valley and resigning his post as a member of the board, and a third\n        delivered at the fiftieth alumni reunion at the University of Virginia .","CORRESPONDENCE OF ALEXANDER H.H. STUART -SUMMARIES (BOXES 2-4)","Abolitionist (Unidentified) writes a vitriolic letter denouncing slavery and slaveholders and promising his willing participation in the coming revolution to bring about complete democracy (1841 Jun 20)"," William H. Allen writes to Alexander H. H. Stuart while he was member of the House of Representatives (1841-1843) seeking his help in establishing a post office at Green Valley, Virginia; the closest one is at Cloverdale (n.y. May 13)"," Appomattox County, Virginia, Rough \u0026 Ready Club requests Alexander H. H. Stuart to represent the Whig position on the upcoming Presidential election at their next political discussion (1848 Sep 7)"," Henry Carey Baird requests a copy of Alexander H. H. Stuart 's recent address to use in his pamphlet concerning the farmers of the United States (1859 Nov 1)"," C[ornelius ?] C. Baldwin discusses his biographical sketch of his brother [Gerard ?] Baldwin which he hopes will appear in  The Richmond Whig \n        and asks Alexander H. H. Stuart for any comments or additions; he mentions his son, Briscoe G. Baldwin III, a year old and his oldest son, Charles Cornelius (1867 Jan 14)"," John B. Baldwin writes concerning business opportunities in Philadelphia ([1843? Jan 30]); Alexander H. H. Stuart 's appointment as Secretary of the Interior and the care of his former legal clients while he is in Washington, D.C. (1850 Sep 24); his\n        disappointment that Millard Fillmore was defeated for the presidential nomination as the Whig candidate; and as Winfield Scott supports the Whig platform without reserve his only objections to Scott as the Whig candidate lies in his great vanity and\n        his associations (1852 Jun 23); Brigadier General Robert Seldon Garnett (1819-1861), who served under General Taylor in the Mexican War, was proceeding to the region with 2500 men according to Alexander H. H. Stuart 's suggestions; and Baldwin believes\n        that the Convention will hardly be well attended (1861 Jun 8); reports that he is within musket range of the enemy who is building winter quarters and mentions the presence of Early's army coming towards [Richmond ?] (1864 Nov 18); writes about his\n        concern over the asylum releasing Briscoe as \"incurable but harmless\" (1869 Dec 5); and writes to Alexander H. H. Stuart concerning the sale of the \"gum tree lot,\" payment of taxes and an accident of Mayo Cabell; and believes his father may soon be\n        elected Judge ([ca. 1841-1843] Dec 6)"," Joseph G. Baldwin writes his cousin concerning his plan to move to California for the opportunities there (1849 Mar 2); a long jesting letter congratulating Alexander H. H. Stuart on his appointment to be Secretary of the Interior and including\n        family news (1850 Sep 27); and describes San Francisco where he has just opened his law practice (1854 Sep 15)"," I.L. Barbour, President of the Orange and Alexandria Rail Road Company, writes that he is unable to comply with his financial request (1866 Dec 11)"," A.W. Barton urges Alexander H. H. Stuart to help defeat the [ Virginia Reform ?] Convention, \"The tremendous opposition to the mixed basis beyond the Alleghany -the indifference upon the whole subject in the valley counties and some division east of\n        the Blue Ridge will enable us to do it\" (1850 Apr 22)"," S.S. Baxter recommends William D. Delany as Inspector of the Custom House in Norfolk (1851 Nov 24)"," Thomas Hart Benton (1782-1838) writes concerning the Brazeau claimants attempts to get Alexander H. H. Stuart to re-open the case he decided last summer and asks him to leave questions about the decision up to the judiciary ([ca. 1851-1853])"," Berford \u0026 Company, California Express Office, reports a great dissatisfaction of their customers and fellow California Whigs with the appointment of Mr. Beall as Superintendent of Indian Affairs (1852 Apr 12)"," Dr. Edmund Berkeley voices his concern over the increase in smallpox cases and attributes the cause to the lack of a vaccine agent in western and central Virginia and suggests Staunton as a likely location for such an agent and offering himself as a\n        candidate (1837 Jan 20)"," James B. Bingham, editor of  The Intelligencer,  discusses politics in Wheeling, [West] Virginia, and his concern that both the Democrats and\n        Republicans are pulling votes away from the Whig Party (1859 Sep 28)"," David Alexander Bokee (1805-1860) discusses national politics and urges Alexander H. H. Stuart and other conservatives not to make any arrangements with the Republicans preliminary to the organization of the House; refers to the  New York Times  article quoting a correspondent from Ohio who believes \"the South is beginning to prepare the way for union with the Republicans as\n        such in 1860\"; and asks Alexander H. H. Stuart to support the efforts of conservatives of the North \"to induce the Republican Party to abandon `its distinct organization' founded as it is `on foolish abstractions\" (1859 Oct 24)"," Patrick Brady 's letters, from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, all discuss various aspects of his suit against Daniel Brady, including his stolen ledger which later appears to have been altered, his demand for the deed to the Bath Iron Works, and\n        questions about ultimate settlement (1857, 1867-1869)"," Mary Louisa Brooks writes whimsically about how much she misses Washington, D.C., and how unattractive she finds New York City \"this huge temple of Mammon\" (n.y. Mar 18)"," Alexander S. Brown writes his cousin Alexander H. H. Stuart concerning business and family matters (1857-1858)"," Joseph Rodes Buchanan asks Alexander H. H. Stuart to attend the National Democratic Convention to be held on May 7, 1867, in Louisville, Kentucky, discussed in an enclosed editorial from The Louisville Journal which was recently identified with the\n        Democratic Party; the Convention to be composed of the leading men of the Northern Democracy and leading men of the South to secure cooperation between the two groups, \"which is now our only hope\" (1867 Feb 28)"," John C. Bullitt, Patrick Brady 's council in Philadelphia, asks when the first remittance of the Brady v. Brady settlement will arrive (1871 Oct 28)"," William M. Burwell draws Alexander H. H. Stuart 's attention to the political aspects of the negotiations over the Isthmus of Tehuantepec as a quicker route to the western states (1852 Jul 23)"," J.S. Calvert furnishes a financial summary for Alexander H. H. Stuart (1868 Jan 21)"," Samuel D. Campbell asks for help in getting payment for his brother William Campbell who worked to get depositions for Catherine Crider in Wardlaw v. Crider (1830 Nov 30)"," Lewis Cass (1782-1866) discusses two appointments with Alexander H. H. Stuart acceptable to the Whig Party (1852 Jul 20)"," John H. Cassin asks Alexander H. H. Stuart to visit their county and address them concerning the political questions of the day (1859 Apr 13)"," Katherine Chase discusses the circumstances surrounding her divorce from Mr. William Sprague (1883 Mar 18)"," H. Chrisman offers to purchase real estate or other goods for Alexander H. H. Stuart on his trips west if he wishes (Dec 7, 1855)"," Bolivar Christian sends a copy of the Confederate Acts and discusses the problems of setting up the new Confederate Congress (1862 Jan 18)"," C.M. Conrad writes concerning Alexander H. H. Stuart 's order for a cask of table claret wine from New Orleans (1855 Apr 3)"," William Wilson Corcoran says he will be happy to have a copy of the proceedings of the Peabody Board and hopes to see him soon (1855 Oct 23)"," Thomas Corwin (1794-1865) a letter of introduction for [Calhoun Benham], U.S. Attorney for California (1853 Jul 10)"," J.A. Cowardin, Editor of  The Daily Dispatch,  letter of introduction from L.A. Trigg, and a discussion of the Readjuster controversy, and\n        William Mahone, and says \"I do not think Mr. Hunter will suit these times. We want an aggressive man, one who is bold and sagacious too. I think General [James Lawson] Kemper is that man\" (1873 Feb 14)"," John Jordan Crittenden (1786-1863) writes a letter of introduction for his friend Samuel Casey (1851 Sep 26)"," Claudius Crozet writes concerning the Northwest Turnpike and asks if Alexander H. H. Stuart feels that Mr. Eskridge is capable of opening the road himself (1838 Jun 1)","Rector E.A. Dalrymple 's recommendation of Thomas B. Edelin (1852 Jul 15)"," John W. Daniel (1842-1910) does not approve of the Readjuster policies, \"I am firm against repudatum alias enforced readjustment alias stealing. I believe in the Decalogue, and of course in repressing thieves, by whatsoever name they are called\"\n        (1877 Jul 18)"," J.D. Davidson sends the election results for Rockbridge County (1851 Dec 10) and encloses a check for a claim against Seaforth (1852 Jan 2)"," Garrett Davis (1801-1872) discusses a power shift in the House of Representatives away from [John C.] Calhoun toward [Thomas Hart?] Benton who \"will be the dictator this winter \u0026 will wield more power than all others together\"; mentions the\n        numerous job seekers wandering the halls of Congress like unclean birds; discusses the hopes of the Whig Party to gain the Presidency next election and mentions possible opponents and weighs their respective threat to the chances of the Whig candidate;\n        and the need for much organization and work to succeed in the next election (1843 Dec 13); a long and detailed description of the difficulty during the extra session of the 27th Congress in organizing the House caused by the opposition of the Democrats\n        and the division in the Whig Party (1845 Dec 16); the third letter discusses business questions; congratulates Alexander H. H. Stuart on his appointment to be Secretary of the Interior; expresses his appreciation for Millard Fillmore; and comments\n        about South Carolina, \" South Carolina is a little beside herself, but I believe it is the insanity of ambition pride \u0026 arrogance thwarted, and that a good sound drubbing would be an infallible cure.\" (1851 Jan 28)"," George M. Davis thanks Alexander H. H. Stuart for giving his son Carey Davis a job as a clerk in the Pension Office (1851 Jul 27)"," William Wallace Davis, editor of  The District Whig  discusses politics in Norfolk and the loss of the election to the Democrats despite his own\n        efforts to visit various Whigs and get them to the polls on Election Day (1851 Oct 2)"," William Crosby Dawson (1798-1856), Georgia Senator, asks Alexander H. H. Stuart not to fill a vacancy in the General Land Office until he could speak with him (1852 Jul 28)"," Horace H. Day discusses the charges brought against the Commissioner of Patents, Mr. Thomas Ewbanks (1792-1870) saying his official conduct has been one-sided, partial, and not in accordance with the rules and laws of the Patent Office (1851 Feb 7)\n        and asking if the New York papers have correctly reported Alexander H. H. Stuart 's comments about the charges (1851 Mar 12)"," Wills De Hass (1818?-1910) sends a copy of his  History of Western Virginia  (1851 Jul 24); wants Alexander H. H. Stuart to be a candidate for\n        Vice-President (1851 Oct 6); voices concerns over his application for a consulship or another office (1852 Jun 1 \u0026 Oct 18); two letters furnish private details of the Baltimore Convention (1852 Jun 20); and hopes for a position in the Maryland\n        Historical Society (1853 Feb 16)"," William D. Delany tries to enlist Stuart's aid in securing the office of Inspector of the Custom House at Norfolk (1851 Nov 25) or the Postmaster office at Norfolk (1852 Sep 29)"," Charles Devens, Jr., U.S. Marshal, Boston, letter introducing General John S. Tyler (1852 May 24)"," Samuel Dickson writes concerning the Patrick Brady v Daniel C.E. Brady suit for $ 50,000 growing out of the dissolving of a partnership in 1857; and describes the Bath Iron Works and Buffalo Forge property (1867 Apr 24)"," D[orothea] L[ynde] Dix (1802-1887) writes six letters to Alexander H. H. Stuart concerning the establishment of a first class hospital in Washington, D.C. and seeks the aid of Captain Randolph in the Legislature of [Virginia ?] ([ca. 1851-1853])"," James B. Dorman writes that the Whigs of Rockbridge unanimously desire the nomination of Millard Fillmore as President; believes the hostility to Fillmore stems from his approval of the Compromise of 1850 and his \"fidelity to the Constitutional\n        rights of the South\"; and many Whigs object strongly to General Winfield Scott 's Roman Catholic affinities (1852 Jun 7)"," John Doyle writes that he has recommended Alexander H. H. Stuart to the prominent Whigs in Pennsylvania as the best choice for nomination to the Vice-Presidency while he favors Fillmore for the Presidency over Scott (1851 Sep 20); his concern over\n        the imminent split in the Whig Party of Lexington, Virginia (1852 Dec 4); his son, R.L. Doyle, writes concerning their Alum Springs property containing iron deposits and several mineral springs and asks the aid of Alexander H. H. Stuart in securing a\n        loan to convert their property into a viable health resort (1853 Jan 7)"," G.G. Dyer defends his change of political parties from Whig to Democratic based on his open support of the Tariff and the United States Bank and extols the virtue of the new state of Iowa which he describes as a land of beauty and opportunity (1851\n        Sep 27)"," J.L. Edwards, Pension Office, discusses the claims of the descendants of Colonel Alexander McClanahan to land based on his Revolutionary War service, with the Committee of Safety for the Colony of Virginia form appointing Alexander McClanahan to Lt.\n        Col. of the 7th Regiment of Regular Forces attached (1776 Feb 29 \u0026 1843 May 19)"," Vespasian Ellis discusses the plan of organization adopted at the National Council where a Committee of 13 was appointed to take the general charge of the interests of the American Party which was presented to the Council by himself; the plan was\n        adopted unanimously but the Chairman E. Brooks received the credit for the plan; he suggested that Alexander H. H. Stuart would be a good person from Virginia to be on the Central Committee of 13; mentions the efforts of Baldwin of Connecticut and\n        others to \"free soilize\" the party platform and the fact that he opposed and defeated the plan was suppressed in the report on the proceedings in the  Louisville Journal  (1857 Jun 10)"," Erie Railroad Company Board of Directors offers to Alexander H. H. Stuart free use of the railroad as member of the Cabinet (1851 Jul 12)"," Edward Everett (1794-1865), Secretary of State, regrets he will not be able to dine with Alexander H. H. Stuart due to personal illness (1852 Dec 20); and informs Alexander H. H. Stuart that General Franklin Pierce wishes for him to continue to act\n        as Secretary of the Interior until his successor is appointed (1853 Feb 26)"," Charles James Faulkner (1806-1884) thanks him for his interest in James E. Stewart (1852 Aug 25)"," Millard Fillmore letters to Alexander H. H. Stuart -address the question of his feelings toward the South, \"I disclaim most unequivocally now and forever any desire on my part to interfere with the rights on what is termed the property of citizens of\n        other states\" and encloses a copy of the leading [Lewis] Cass paper in the state showing that Fillmore was denounced at the recent anti-slavery convention at Worcester along with Cass and Taylor (1848 Jul 5); excuses Alexander H. H. Stuart from the\n        Cabinet meeting due to the death of Judge Baldwin (1852 May 19); authorizes Alexander H. H. Stuart to take on the duties of the Secretary of the Navy until his return (1852 Sep 25); thanks him for his letter of condolence upon the death of his wife,\n        Abigail Powers on March 30, 1853 (1853 Jul 11); attempts to make arrangements for a Southern tour in the spring, and says, \"This Nebraska matter presents a new phase to things in Washington . But is it wise for the South to set the example repealing\n        the Compromise of 1820 ? If one compromise be disregarded will not another be, and will not the South in the end be left to the tender mercy of Northern fanaticism with an overwhelming numerical majority ?\" (1854 Feb 9); observes that with the latest\n        election it appears that the Whig Party has split into two factions, with the abolitionists joining the [Republicans ?] and the rest joining the American Party of Know Nothings and refers to the nomination of Henry Alexander Wise for Governor and his\n        denunciation of the Know Nothings (1854 Dec 14); and informs Alexander H. H. Stuart that Granger will try to meet him in Washington this winter and mentions the efforts of his friends to unite the national elements opposed to the present federal\n        administration into an American Union Party (1854 Dec 22)"," Millard Fillmore to Daniel Webster sends John P. Scott over to see Webster concerning a position in the State Department in Londonderry, Ireland, now held by an appointee of President Tyler and says he will go along with whatever Webster wants (1851\n        Apr 2)"," Edward H. Fitzhugh refers to the Bridge case in the Wheeling court (1850 Mar 25) *see newsclippings in Box 2*"," E[dmund] Fontaine, Virginia Central Railroad Company, concerning his barley which has been at Waynesboro for some time prior to his letter (1859 Mar 25)"," John S. Gallagher discusses the bestowal of advertising patronage by the federal government (1851 Jul 19); the suitability of Shannondale for a military asylum (1851 Aug 4); encloses a letter from William P. Buford, soliciting Alexander H. H. Stuart\n        's influence to get Mr. Buford's son appointed to a cadetship at West Point (1851 Nov 13); his examination of the controversy about the post office in Winchester and his advice not to remove Milton (1852 Jan 9); encloses letters (not present) from\n        friends desiring positions with the government (1852 Jan 16); introduces Colonel Joseph K. Hartwell (1852 Mar 10); recommends General [James] Singleton for the government position in New Mexico (1852 May 7); and asks for a copy of a letter from the\n        Commissioner of Patents to Dr. James Blake of California (1852 Jul 2)."," Robert H. Gallagher, Bank of the Union, Washington asks that part of the Census Fund and the Pension Fund be deposited with him (1851 Dec 9; 1852 Sep 2)"," Alexander Galt concerning his position as Postmaster at Norfolk (1851 Jul 31)"," J. Garland 's letter of introduction for his relative, Alexander B. Garland (1853 Feb 2)"," William H. Garland requests the position of treasurer of the mint at New Orleans (1850 Oct 29) and writes concerning the outrage committed by the authorities of Cuba on the Crescent City [New Orleans ?] (1852 Oct 7)"," William Garnett, Collector Custom House, Norfolk, Virginia, concerning the effort being made to remove him from the Custom House (1851 Nov 18 \u0026 1852 Aug 11)"," George Washington's Birthday Celebration Committee, Rome, Georgia, requesting Alexander H. H. Stuart 's presence at their celebration and commenting, \"The Southern people are terribly oppressed, but are disposed to preserve their manhood untarnished\n        preferring to submit for a while to military despotism rather than to the ruin and degradation of radical rule and negro supremacy\" (1868 Feb 11)"," R.T. Gibson 's letters are all concerning his futile attempts to secure the position of naval officer at the port of Savannah (1851-1852)"," W.M. Gilliam sends Alexander H. H. Stuart 's horse to Washington by Mr. Brent (1852 Mar 15)"," T.H. Gilmer seeks more appointments for people from Virginia from the Whig administration (1850 Sep 27)"," Thomas W. Gilmer writes that he is sorry that Alexander H. H. Stuart has been involved in controversy, mentions \"old [James Iver ?] McKay \" as chairman of the Ways \u0026 Means Committee, and believes that Texas will come into the Union as fast as it\n        can (1843 Dec 13)"," W.W. Gilmer approves Alexander H. H. Stuart 's stand on the National Bank but is not so fond of the election of [Walter ?] Coles (1841 Apr 15)"," William L. Goggin (1807-1870) his disappointment over his brother's failure to secure a position, the possibility of getting the postmastership at Sacramento City, and his declaration, \"I am a Union man and I have long thought this should be the\n        great issue (irrespective of old party associations) the Union or its Dissolution -God grant it may be perpetual -I repudiate utter fanaticism North or South\" (1850 Nov 3); and asks Alexander H. H. Stuart to remove his letter from the files of the War\n        Department requesting an appointment as Visitor to West Point (1852 Mar 10)"," G. Goldenberg sends two printed pamphlets (present) entitled  Observations Sur La Maladie Des Pommes De Terre  in French and a copy in German,\n        presenting his treatise on the Potato Disease (1849 Feb 2)"," J.T. Gordon explains being detained in the lieu d'aisance while reading Senator [William McKendree] Gwin 's attack on the Administration (1852 Jul 9)"," Willis Arnold Gorman (1816-1876) agrees to a resolution to supply the heads of Departments with copies of the [Presidential Message ?] and accompanying documents (1852 Dec 14)"," J. Thompson Graham solicits money for the American Emigrant's Friend Society whose object is to \"afford protection from fraud, imposition \u0026 extortion to all foreign immigrants of whatever class, nation or creed, and procure for them situations\n        free of charge.\" (1852 Oct 24)"," William A. Graham (1804-1875), Secretary of the Navy, concerning the applications of various persons for assistance or for government positions such as the Virginian Mr. Chapman for purser in the Navy, a term of shore duty for Purser Forrest of the\n        U.S.S. Ohio, David Taylor of North Carolina prosecuting a claim in the Indian Bureau, the application of William E. Hopkins for a commission upon the frigate Cumberland, the appointment of Tobias Wolfe as Naval Storekeeper at Memphis, the application\n        of Commander John Rudd for a command in the Mediterranean Squadron, and inquires about the circumstances surrounding the death of James H. Norwood, Indian Agent, who was killed at Sergeants Bluff on the Missouri River (1850-1852)"," Horace Greeley (1811-1872) discusses the advantages of his new  Whig Almanac  which he sends to Alexander H. H. Stuart, \"I have endeavored in\n        this Almanac to condense into a single view the essential characteristics of the two great antagonist parties which now so evenly divide the country. I think this view, if generally circulated, will exert a salutary influence on the formation of\n        political sentiment in our country and that this may be felt, even in the approaching Presidential contest.\" (1852 Jan 25)"," F. Gremger asks Alexander H. H. Stuart to visit the State Agricultural Fair of New York (1851 Sep 3)"," William Grever asks Stuart to loan him enough money to pay off James J. Trotter in return for a deed of trust upon all his property (1850 Oct 3)"," Benjamin Edwards Grey supplies a testimonial for John B. Temple and explains why he is willing to recommend Colonel Irwin to a clerkship (1852 Mar 17)"," George G. Grove asking for his distributive share of the funds of the B. Buler estate (1851 Oct 12)"," Francis Grund asks for copies of Alexander H. H. Stuart 's Report for  The New York Herald  and other newspapers (1851)"," Hiland Hall (1795-1885) suggests that Judge Thornton's name should precede Mr. W[?]'s in the Secretary's instructions (1851 Sep 20)"," Nathan Kelsey Hall (1810-1874) invites Alexander H. H. Stuart to Buffalo for a little reception for President Fillmore at the conclusion of his term and asks him to convince William A. Graham to attend as well (1853 Jan 5); and writes about Fillmore\n        wondering if the remaining Fillmore Cabinet members would attend a reunion at Buffalo (1871 Jan 5)"," J.K. Hanson encloses a letter from Hugh W. Sheffey referring to the bounty land warrant of his cousin Celly (1852 Apr 3)"," J. Hardesty, President of the Rough and Ready Club of Rockingham County, which procured a silver pitcher to be presented to Alexander H. H. Stuart as a tribute (1848 Oct 25)"," Kenton Harper writes enclosing the wills of Alex Grove and Lewis K Terrill and their effects from Camp Buena Vista following the Mexican War (1847 Dec 13); congratulates Alexander H. H. Stuart on his appointment as Secretary of the Interior (1850 Sep\n        14); mentions his service as commandant of the Port of Parras in the Mexican War (1850 Sep 30); discusses his appointment to the Chickasaw Indian Agency (1851 Mar 18); his report concerning affairs at the Chickasaw Agency and his concern that there are\n        many white persons living in the Agency without regular permission (1851 Sep 15); concern over the run-down condition of the Agency farm and house, cost of hiring \"a negro woman who belongs to an Indian,\" and the probability that he will only stay for\n        one year (1851 Sep 15); encloses a copy of his letter to the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, L. Lea, about purchasing farming implements for \"the Caddos\" and asks Alexander H. H. Stuart 's influence to have his son, George K. Harper, appointed agent\n        for the purchase (1851 Sep 22); the complaints from the Chickasaws about the wild tribes trespassing upon their territory, a recent visit from the chief of the Caddos, George Washington, who said that his tribe had been driven out of Texas, and brought\n        up to this country by his father, Chief Chonena, who asked for and received a strip of land on the Washita from the General Council of the Choctaws, producing a certificate signed by George Folsom, one of the Choctaw District Chiefs, to prove what he\n        said. The Chief also said that General Armstrong had promised them farming implements and other tools so they could settle down on the land allotted to them by the Choctaws, in a group of about 300 to 400. An eleven year old Mexican girl rescued from\n        Indian captivity was left in his care by his predecessor, Colonel Long and he asks what is to be done with her (1851 Sep 22); and his investigation of charges of a wagonload of liquor being brought into the Indian Territory for sale (1851 Oct 5)."," J. Morrison Harris, Maryland Historical Society, informs Alexander H. H. Stuart of his honorary membership (1850 May 20)"," Judge N. Harrison, Salt Sulphur Springs, Monroe County, West Virginia, writes concerning several suits in his court and business matters involving Alexander H. H. Stuart ([1869] Sep 3)"," Solomon George Haven (1810-1861) hopes that Alexander H. H. Stuart will make a great impact in politics in the Old Dominion, and remarks about his own area, \"I cannot tell you much of politics in this section [of New York ], there is almost a torpor.\n        I have no choice between the democrats and the Republicans. The former is made up of the foreign votes here \u0026 the latter partly in the same way and partly of the very dishonest men amongst our native born citizens. The Americans have a most worthy\n        state ticket in this State... Today the chances are in favor of the Republicans carrying the state but the battle has yet got to be set in array before results can be foretold. Perhaps the result of the struggle in Kansas and a full opening of Congress\n        is necessary to give any form whatever, to the future\" (1857 Oct 8)."," A.M. Hay, his cousin, discusses the loss of her husband and the death of Alexander H. H. Stuart 's father, her plans to join her sister Mary in Athens, Greece, to help her run a boarding house for the upper class Greek girls attending the mission\n        school, and requests Alexander H. H. Stuart 's aid in securing letters of introduction from Mr. Webster to the various consuls at ports of call along the way (1852 Aug 25)"," T.S. Haymond explains the causes of the defeat of the Whig candidate for Governor of Virginia, George William Summers (1804-1868) in the recent election, in his area of Virginia, the northwestern section of the state [ Monongalia County, West\n        Virginia ?] (1851 Dec 20)"," Isaac Hazlehurst asks that Alexander H. H. Stuart send him copies of his articles signed \"Madison\" in reference to the American question (1857 Jun 24)"," Richard H. Henderson, Virginia Colonization Society, refers to the \"true policy of Virginia to keep down the free colored population of the state: that her legislature originated the scheme for colonizing this population beyond the borders of the\n        United States; that appropriations have been well received by the people\" and recommends extending the act to those slaves set free by wills; and \"The prohibitions as to the admission of free blacks in the non- slaveholding states are well known; and,\n        should the other southwestern states follow the example set them by Mississippi as they soon will, either a channel must be opened through which this population may flow off to Africa, or it will increase amongst us to a most mischievous extent.\" (1837\n        Oct 28)","Professor Joseph Henry, Smithsonian Institute, letter of introduction for Mr. F. [Bonynge] the author of a work on the culture of tea and indigo in the United States (1852 Aug 4)"," Britton A. Hill writes enclosing his newspaper articles defending Alexander H. H. Stuart 's decision in the Labeaume land grant case which was attacked in  The St. Louis Republican  by the claimant Maguire (1852 Feb 6 \u0026 9)"," William L. Hodge encloses a newsclipping about the decision of Millard Fillmore not to be a candidate for the Presidency and how much such a declaration will injure Fillmore and the party (1852 Jan 20)"," J.E. Holmes asks Alexander H. H. Stuart to recommend to the President that he increase the salary of District Judge Hoffman in San Francisco, California, lest he leave and an inferior officer replace him (1851 Oct 25)","Rev. Samuel Rutherford Houston to Dr. John J. Moorman seeking Alexander H. H. Stuart 's influence to have him appointed Principal of the Institution for the Deaf and Dumb in Staunton, Virginia (1852 Feb 24)"," M.U. Houston both letters discuss the Wheeling Bridge case in which a suit was brought alleging that the Wheeling Bridge was not suitable for railroad purposes and Alexander H. H. Stuart 's role in the matter (1850 Mar 16 \u0026 Jun 8)"," Benjamin Chew Howard refers to the Wheeling Bridge case and asks if Alexander H. H. Stuart wishes his brief to be inserted in his argument (1852 Jul 30)"," Robert Hull acknowledges the receipt of a check which makes them even and encloses a graphic and highly complimentary sketch of Mr. Alexander H. H. Stuart from a Boston paper (1851 Oct 3)"," Andrew Hunter writes about the \"Beeler Case\" and wishes to receive his administration fee now in Alexander H. H. Stuart 's hands (1851 Nov 27); and comments on his grief that Jefferson County has elected two Democrats to the Legislature, mentions\n        other items about local Virginia politics, and the dissatisfaction of the voters at Harpers Ferry due to certain army regulations (1851 Nov 27 \u0026 Dec 9)"," R.M.T. Hunter (1809-1887) asks Alexander H. H. Stuart to send an estimate of the expense of the wings of the Capitol to be included in the Civil and Diplomatic Bill (1852 Feb 3)"," John Daniel Imboden (1823-1895) writes concerning the suit of Daniel Mosby against Thomas Johnson and Thomas Turk over possession of a tract of land and asks if Alexander H. H. Stuart has made any arrangements for someone to take over his legal cases\n        (1850 Sep 23); his introduction of a series of land resolutions concerning the distribution of the proceeds from the sale of public lands approved by an act of Congress on September 4, 1841, and the possible use of such funds for the purpose of\n        education, and asks Alexander H. H. Stuart to get a clerk to make a brief statement as to what appropriations of land have been made for educational and internal improvements, to what states, when, and for what specific objects, has hopes of carrying\n        the Central Railroad this session along with other internal improvements, the great excitement over the next Presidential election with Millard Fillmore being the choice of the Virginia Whigs with Alexander H. H. Stuart being mentioned as the\n        Vice-Presidential candidate (1852 Jan 31); writes again concerning the great Central line of improvement through Virginia, especially a proposition to construct a railroad from Covington to the Ohio River on state account and asks if he can negotiate\n        the sale of stock in London or New York (1853 Jan 22)"," Joseph K. Irving, San Francisco, writes through W.D. Fair, praising the fidelity of James M. Crane, editor of  The California Courier,  to Whig\n        principles and doctrines, discusses \"the gross frauds and outrageous wrongs inflicted and committed by the [Locofocos], in the matter of the contested seats\" (1851 Mar 4); and introduces Dr. Wozencraft, California Indian agent (1852 Nov 30)"," G.W. Israel asks for a donation for a seminary to train teachers of moderate circumstances to educate the lower classes (1853 Feb 8)"," S.D. Jacobs refers to changes of mail routes proposed by R.G. Harmon (1851 Nov 13)"," John Janney (1798-1872) writes concerning the necessity of resigning his position, as the Commissioner to West Virginia, due to his poor eyesight, unless the Legislature decides to settle the state debt question by agreeing to pay two-thirds of the\n        debt and repudiating the balance, leaving the creditors of the state of Virginia to look to West Virginia for the residue (1866-1867)"," G.N. Johnson concerning the legal case of the Bank of the United States vs Samuel Leake (1840 May 14)"," R.[G.] Johnson writes about postponing the argument in a legal case, \"the only question to be argued in the brief case, is, whether the act of Congress does not legalize the Brief\" (1850-1853 all about this case)"," William B. Kayser notifies Alexander H. H. Stuart that Dr. Hall has received payment through the Finley estate and has remitted five hundred dollars to Alexander H. H. Stuart drawn on the Bank of Winchester (1852 Sep 24)"," John P. Kennedy (1795-1870) tries to secure a clerkship for a friend, Mr. Ridgate (1850 Sep 18); regards \"every man now who places the Compromise [of 1850 ?] in the front of his creed a good and true Whig -and every convert to the Administration on\n        that ground a new recruit to the standard of Whig principles\" (1851 Apr 17); arrangements made for the ceremony connected with the committee on the Inauguration of the Statue (1853 Jan 7); attempts to persuade Alexander H. H. Stuart to accompany\n        himself and Mr. Millard Fillmore on a trip south to Richmond, Charleston, Savannah, and then on to Cuba, West Indies, New Orleans and thence to Kentucky and home (1854 Feb 13)"," Joseph C.G. Kennedy, Census Office, writes about various properties (1847 Jun 17); recommends that Mr. Hall be sent to Richmond to retake the census for that city (1851 Apr 2); mentions Alexander H. H. Stuart 's election to the National Institute\n        (1851 Apr 8); beginning in May of 1851, he writes six letters during his trip to Europe to study the European use of statistics and their use in legislation, the census, and agricultural production; visits the Statistical Society of London and\n        discusses the ratio of representation, fractions, and population (1851 Jun 3); visits the President of the Board of Trade to get information on the true basis of statistical knowledge (1851 Jun 10); urged to stay and address the British Association for\n        the Promotion of Science of which Prince Albert was President, his visits to some of the foremost statistical men connected to British government offices and other nations such as Prussia, France, and Belgium (1851 Jun 23); his description of Berlin\n        and Wittenberg, recommendation that a Bureau of Agriculture \u0026 Statistics be created along the lines of those in France and Belgium, prediction that America will march to a degree of honor and prosperity that will far exceed any of the old world\n        (1851 Aug 7); on recommendation of Baron Humboldt he plans to visit Vienna (1851 Aug 17); at home, the mania for rail and plank roads, political news of Pennsylvania, and his expectation that the Scott Whigs will carry the Presidency (1852 Oct 16);\n        discusses the political race between Scott and Harrison in the region of Pittsburgh ([?] Oct 12)"," Kent Lumber Company concerning the payment of drafts incurred by federal agencies (1852 Oct 27)"," Andrew W. Kercheval with a genealogical inquiry about James Wood, a Revolutionary General and Virginia Governor (1867 Feb 14)"," William Kerr seeking whiskey patronage (1851 Nov 14)"," Samuel D. King about California affairs, blames the Whig government for neglecting the state and predicts bad consequences for the upcoming election (1851 Jul 14)"," Jefferson Kinney all three letters deal with business matters such as the sale of Alexander H. H. Stuart 's lots in Staunton for a railroad passenger depot and possible benefits to the town from the railroad (1852)"," Nicholas Kinney refers to the speech of [Mr. Nathaniel Pitcher Tallmadge ?] concerning the Bankruptcy Bill, the Locofocos, his disappointment with his friend [ Thomas Walker?] Gilmer, the conversion of David W. Patteson, who is a possible candidate\n        for Congress, to Methodism (1841 Sep 3); sends a copy of letter from the Rev. B.M. Smith concerning a rumor that Alexander H. H. Stuart contradicted his statement about Dr. Ticknor's qualifications as assistant physician at the Asylum (1851 Feb 18\n        \u0026 26); the strong position of the Whig party at present (1851 Feb 26)"," R.H. Kinney asks Alexander H. H. Stuart to pursue the military claim of the heirs of Dr. Roberts (1841 Jun 25)"," William Kinney reports on several court cases and discusses political appointments, especially Mr. Hagarty for the Liverpool consulate, and Alexander H. H. Stuart 's vote to rescind the 21 rule (1841 Jun 13); complains about the behavior of the Whig\n        Congress so far, discusses Alexander H. H. Stuart 's outline of his plan of operations for this session and not fixing the ratio of representation under the new census for the next Congress, his fear that the Locofocos will gain influence in the\n        Virginia State Legislature, the resignation of \"Extra Billy\" [Governor William Smith ] from his seat in the Senate and his hopes that the House of Representatives would give the seat to Extra \"for really I consider him a great nuisance in the Senate,\"\n        believes that Webster's objections to the appointment of Hagarty to the consulate of Liverpool not valid as he [wrongly !] thinks Nicholas Trist was born in Louisiana and is not a Virginian, and discusses his [Kentz?] suit at length (1841 Jun 23);\n        argues that the success of the suit of Porterfield vs Clark hinges on proving that the country in question belonged to the Cherokees in 1779, found out that Silas E. Burrows is the favorite of Webster for the Liverpool consulate, while the leading\n        merchants of New York favor Hagarty, and says Tucker will accept the professorship of law on condition that they will let him reside out of the precincts of the University [of Virginia] (1841 Jul 22); reports that they have just finished the battle for\n        Speaker of the Virginia Legislature with the election of [Valentine Wood] Southall considered a Whig victory, \"we had a long, I cannot say very able or palatable message from the accidental Gov. of Virginia -coming into office as he did, he ought to\n        have been modest\" (1841 Dec 6); notes that the introduction of a batch of Federal resolutions into the House have alarmed the Locofocos, especially the one urging the repeal of the Distribution Act, which is popular in the Western part of the state,\n        and discusses the prospects of several men for the Governorship of Virginia (1841 Dec 24); reports on election results in Augusta County, urges Alexander H. H. Stuart to write some articles on the Tariff to attract the support of the young farmers and\n        mechanics which are being courted by the Democrats as new voters under the new state constitution (1851 Oct 24); discusses the legal case of Woods vs Brooks and expresses his confidence in the election of General Scott (1852 Jul 13); discusses the\n        election of cashier at the Bank and the appointment of a marshall for the western district of Virginia (1852 Nov 12 \u0026 30); and discusses the affairs of the Staunton Bank, of which he is President, and the Central Railroad (1852 Dec 23)"," O.B. Knode asks Alexander H. H. Stuart 's influence be used to have Colonel Tiernan appointed to a judgeship in Utah (1852 Jan 22)"," F.A. Kownslar writes concerning a debt (1833 Jun 24)"," Daniel Kraber concerning the will of George Lightner with a copy of the will attached (1831 Nov 15)"," J.D. Kurtz concerning cadet appointments (1853 Jan 17)"," John H.B. Latrobe appreciates Alexander H. H. Stuart 's speech and the exposition of the operation of the partnership principle by Alexander H. H. Stuart (1838 Sep 1)"," Joseph S. Leake inquires about the price of one of Mr. Alexander H. H. Stuart 's houses (1831 Nov 3)"," Adam Lee about taking up a land agency in the Transalleghany country (1831 Mar 11)"," John Letcher (1813-1884) hopes Alexander H. H. Stuart has received the seeds sent by his friend Whiting (1856 May 2)"," [Will H. Lewis ?], State Department, sends invitation to dine (n.d.)"," John Tayloe Lomax asks which states are a good market for legal books, expresses his opinion of the need for a protective tariff, his hope that Henry Clay will run as the Whig candidate for President, and the appearance that John C. Calhoun was the\n        most prominent of the Locofocos (1842 Jul 8)"," L. Luckett describes his family's trip to Memphis, [Tennessee] (1859 Aug 1); mentions seeing the manufacture of weapons in Richmond and his trip to New Orleans during the Civil War, the condition of the cotton crop, benefits of the war in uniting the\n        South, the vast difference between the Southerners and the Yankees, the ironclad [Thunderbolt ?] expected to leave New Orleans this week to go against Fort St. Phillip and Jackson (1861 Sep 2); refers to negotiations with England by the South and\n        refers to slavery \"our peculiar institution that they hoped was our weakness, is a tower of strength.\" (1861 Dec 23)"," James Lyons appreciates Alexander H. H. Stuart 's speech upon the subject of a national Bank and recommends the establishment of an Exchange Bank with branches in all of the states and regrets the division that the Bank issue has brought between the\n        executive and legislative branches (1841 Aug 20)"," Joseph S. Machie both letters discuss getting the deposition of James M.H. Beale for a trial (1851-1852)"," James MacDonald wants his younger brother appointed a surgeon either in the Navy or Army (1851 Oct 8)"," Redick McKee reports on the progress of the Commission sent to California to visit the hundreds of small Indian tribes and families, his plans to soon visit the tribes along the Mercede River, Mariposa County, the condition of the Whig Party in\n        California, the upcoming Senatorial contest, and his desire for the San Francisco Custom House position if it comes open (1851 Jan 28); reports signing the first treaty between the United States and the California Indians at Camp Fremont on March 19th\n        with six tribes and the possibility of a treaty with two more tribes near Fresno River, the poor quality of the soil, and his poor opinion of Dr. Wozencraft, California Indian agent (1851 Mar 21); recommends pacifying the Indians with a liberal supply\n        of beef and flour, his disagreement with Wozencraft who entered into a contract with Fremont, a political opponent, to supply beef to the Indians before the treaties were ratified by Congress and signed by the President, mentions other scandals and\n        improprieties in the Indian agency of California, and feels that reorganization of the whole governmental system in California is necessary (1851 Jun 30); desires the newly created position of \"Superintendent of Indian Affairs for the Pacific Coast\"\n        and criticizes the appointment of Lt. Beall as Indian Commissioner for California because he is known as a Democrat (1852 Mar 17 \u0026 May 5)"," Thomas M.S. McKennan letter of introduction for William Mills (1851 Oct 29)"," Lewis McKenzie asks Alexander H. H. Stuart to speak before the Bell \u0026 Everett Club as a friend of the Union (1860 Aug 31)"," William McLaughlin asks if Staunton will support the invitation by the Franklin Club, Washington College, and the Virginia Military Institute, to Edward Everett to speak in Lexington in order to raise money to purchase Mount Vernon (1857 Nov 23)"," Theodorick B. McRobert thanks Alexander H. H. Stuart for the clerkship in the Department of the Interior (1850 Oct 3); includes a letter from Archibald B. Walker concerning a possible pension based on the Revolutionary War service of Alexander Walker\n        (1850 Nov 26 \u0026 1851 Jan 8); includes a letter from the Rev. Luther Emerson, of Cob Bottom, Highland County, who promises to write a series of essays on the Scriptural view of slavery if McRobert will help him get some Northern Whig newspapers to\n        print them (1851 Dec 18 \u0026 26)"," F. Madera requests a promotion in the Pension Office (1851 Dec 30)"," Allan B. Magruder writes to secure a cadetship for his son, John T. Magruder, at West Point, and asks for a letter of introduction to the Secretary of the Navy on behalf of his brother, Captain Magruder (1851-1853); he also expresses his\n        disappointment that Millard Fillmore did not receive the nomination at the Baltimore Convention (1852 Jun 24)"," James Maguire accuses Mr. Bartlett, the Mexican Boundary Survey Commissioner, of embezzling (1851 Mar 29)"," Francis Mallory (1807-1860) congratulates Alexander H. H. Stuart on his appointment to the Cabinet (1851 Jun 13); discusses the case of Mr. Kyle of Norfolk and criticizes Mr. Eubank and his staff over his handling of Kyle's case (1852); and informs\n        Alexander H. H. Stuart that the Whigs of Norfolk want the postmaster position to go to John P. Leigh when Mr. Cohen dies (1852 Sep 29)"," N. Marmion to Messrs. Baldwin \u0026 Stuart, Attorneys-at-Law, concerning the debt of George Nicholson (1834 Mar 6 \u0026 Aug 21)"," Timothy Marmion writes concerning business matters (n.y. Dec 21)"," J.K. Marshall writes concerning a debt owed by Messrs. Harman \u0026 Garber (1852 Jan 30)"," Thomas A. Marshall inquires if Alexander H. H. Stuart can help him determine if James M. Moffit is deceased, Moffit was a plaintiff in the legal case of Miller heirs vs Boatman (1833)"," Thomas Martin notifies Alexander H. H. Stuart that his father, Pleasant Martin, has moved to Tennessee (1830 Jul 27)"," William Martin discusses the upcoming Virginia election for governor and the need for Governor Francis Harrison Pierpont to convince the Legislature to fix the question of the payment of the interest on the public debt (1867 Feb 10)"," Maryland Institute Officers \u0026 Managers ask Alexander H. H. Stuart to deliver their \"Annual Address\" at the opening of the Annual Exhibition of Manufacturers \u0026 Machinery (1851 Oct 6)"," James Murray Mason (1798-1871) regrets that he does not have any of the published documents concerning the Wheeling Bridge case, excepting the  Congressional Globe  at home (1853 Oct 22)"," [John Young] Mason (1799-1859) recommending John Dabney for some Federal government position (1851 Dec 30)","Colonel James W. Massie writes concerning a debt owed to Hugh McClure (1871 Apr 17)"," Thomas E. Massie, Santa Fe, New Mexico, introduces D.V. Whiting, as knowledgeable of modern languages (1852 May 5)"," Joel E. Matthews writes concerning the legal case of Matthews vs Minzes (1851-1852)"," Tyre Maupin informs Alexander H. H. Stuart that the Rough and Ready Club of Rockingham County plan to present him with a silver pitcher for his services to the Whig Party (1848 Sep 3); asks if Alexander H. H. Stuart knows whether James Madison ever\n        offered a Cabinet position to General Scott and informs him that he plans to vote for Scott now that he has the Whig nomination (1852 Jul 17)"," R. Mayo asks for a favorable review of his book now before the Pension Committee of the Senate (1852)"," Thompson G. Martin writes concerning his efforts to sell some Alexander H. H. Stuart land for them in Scott County, Virginia, and Tennessee (1831, 1834)","Members of the Virginia Legislature names Whig candidates favored by themselves for several positions (n.d.)","Memoranda of A.H.H. Stuart while Secretary of the Interior, chiefly concerning appointments and removals for positions in the government under his jurisdiction (ca. 1851-1853)"," C.F. Mercer, President of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company, writes to Alexander H. H. Stuart as their representative (1832 May 28)"," Hugh Mercer asks Daniel Webster to transfer his son, George Weedon Mercer, from the Second Auditor's Office, to the State Department (1851 Feb 22 \u0026 Jul 4)"," [S.]C.M. Merillat asks Alexander H. H. Stuart if he knows if Congress plans on raising the duties on foreign iron in the near future as he has interests in an iron rolling mill and they need to decide what to do with it now that it has suspended\n        operations (1852 Jun 1)"," C.H. Merritt sends Alexander H. H. Stuart a ring made out of native gold of New Mexico (1851 Sep 30) and introduces Judge Houghton of New Mexico (1851 Oct 20)"," Thomas J. Michie (1795-1873) writes concerning various legal cases (1845 Aug 1; 1850 Dec 19; 1852 Jan 18 \u0026 29 and Oct 15); congratulates him on his appointment to the Cabinet and expresses his hopes that the Administration will benefit from any\n        good will generated by the Compromise of 1850, his regret at being without Alexander H. H. Stuart 's companionship during his stay in Washington, and offers to help with any of his legal cases when he is not on the other side (1850 Sep 15); thanks\n        Alexander H. H. Stuart for his gift, comments on the recent election, \"for I could not but believe that a majority of the new made vote would be Democratic, \u0026 I knew the power of the party which, to make men forget every excellence, \u0026 carry out\n        the behests of the party...nor are the Whigs less the slaves of such machinery than the Democrats,\" discusses the plight of Hungarian patriot and statesman, Lajos Kossuth (1802-1894), and mentions \"the young Napoleon\" [ Napoleon III ] (1851 Dec 29);\n        sends a printed copy of his points of law, made in the appeal case of Points, assignee of Hottle vs Crawford, and discusses the case (1852 Jan 14)"," William C. Micou asks for his assistance in a case now before the Supreme Court (1852 Oct 20)"," Daniel F. Miller to Thomas Corwin -asks for Isaac Leffler (1788-1866), a former Whig member of Congress from Virginia, to be appointed to one of the land districts in Iowa; President Millard Fillmore appointed him receiver of public moneys for the\n        Chariton land district of Iowa on August 30th (1852 Aug 17)"," Jacob Welsh Miller (1800-1862) introduces George P. [?], of New Jersey, a member of the U.S. \u0026 Mexican Boundary Commission (1852 May 5)"," James Miller asks Alexander H. H. Stuart to intervene with John P. Kennedy on his brother's behalf for an appointment in the Navy Department (1852 Dec 1)"," Zophar Mills, Chairman of the Seventh Ward Democratic Whig Association of the City of New York, encloses a copy of the Preamble and Constitution of the Association (1851 Jul 8)"," Joseph L. Mitchell acknowledges the receipt of the agricultural book (1852 Feb 7)"," John Moebus requests Alexander H. H. Stuart to furnish him with the money to reach New York (1852 Jun 22)"," John Moffett writes concerning his unhappiness over the nomination of General Winfield Scott and his fears of a military candidate and Roman Catholics in the election (1852 Jun 27)"," Thomas S. Moffett, cousin of Alexander H. H. Stuart, requests he send one hundred dollars to Richmond (1834 Jan 27)"," Henry W. Moncure asks for a letter of introduction to Abbott Lawrence, the United States Minister to Great Britain, to facilitate his tour of Europe (1852 Jun 9)"," Charles P. Montague volunteers to carry dispatches abroad for the Federal government (1852 Jun 8)"," D.E. Moore expresses dismay at the election of John Tyler as President (1841 Aug 26)"," John K. Moore asks that Alexander H. H. Stuart remember his son, John B. Moore, who was unable to continue his plan of working in the mines due to dysentery caught while waiting in Panama for a ship, if any appointments open up in California (1850\n        Nov 27); and expresses his disgust at the nomination of General Scott (1852 Jul 6)"," L.T. Moore writes concerning the Beeler family estate (1851 Oct 10,18, 21)"," Samuel McDowell Moore writes letters concerning political events in Virginia and the Virginia Legislature, including: the \"Senatorial Lottery,\" his own possible candidacy for office in the Virginia Senate to oppose the \"unworthy\" David W. Patteson, a\n        bill for a Railroad from Staunton to Harpers Ferry to Baltimore, the reorganization of the courts, and his opposition to amalgamating the Common Law and Chancery Court (1830 Jan 24); his busy schedule with the Committee on Elections which sent Barbour\n        and Davis back to try again, returning the elections to the people for a revote, with no information about Alexander H. H. Stuart 's Senator (1830 Dec 25); passage of the Railway Bill from Staunton to the Potomac, and tells about the nephew of Chief\n        Justice John Marshall shooting and killing William Gott after he refused to duel with him (1831 Feb 23-24); news that Jefferson [Kinney?] plans to run as a candidate for the Senate against Patteson and his own indecision about whether to run as well\n        (1831 Mar 2); thanks Alexander H. H. Stuart for his opinions about Moore running for the Virginia Senate in order to unseat David W. Patteson, speaks about his opposition to the odious amendment to Alexander H. H. Stuart 's Railroad Bill introduced\n        into the House of Delegates which prohibited the government from subscribing to any part of the stock, the 29th section of the bill was stricken out, discusses all of his work to secure the passage of the bill as Alexander H. H. Stuart submitted it,\n        and mentions the Judiciary Bill (1831 Mar 17); discusses the bill affecting court clerk fees, his decision not to run for the Virginia Senate seat, and the Railroad Bill (1831 Apr 10); furnishes his opinion of the elections at Rockbridge and Augusta,\n        Mr. Dorman's efforts for David W. Patteson and against his own candidate (1831 Jun 30, Jul 4 \u0026 5); discusses the bill for internal improvements, the work of the Special Committee regarding the subject of removing free Negroes and Mulattoes, the\n        emancipation of slaves, the majority of the Committee refused to pay for the Negroes killed in Southampton, and other propositions concerning slaves and their removal from western Virginia (1832 Jan 5); following Moore's election to the House of\n        Representatives, he believes the followers of Martin Van Buren have the political advantage, the President seems anxious to get Daniel Webster into the Democratic Party in order to carry the Senate in their favor, Nullifiers also want Webster to switch\n        parties to alienate Southerners, destroy the Union, and establish a Southern Confederacy, the inadvisability of Henry Clay running for President, and mention of Richard M. Johnson of Kentucky as a probable candidate for Vice-President with Van Buren\n        (1833 Dec 24); discusses the election of [Littleton Waller] Tazewell (1774-1860) as evidence that the \"Old Dominion\" is dead set against Martin Van Buren for President and other political matters, and includes an amusing story of his social life (1834\n        Jan 11); his concern over the Banking Bill and false accusations against Moore printed by the editor of  The Fincastle Patriot  1834 Apr 7);\n        encouraged by the results of the Virginia elections and other political gossip (1834 May 20); discusses the resolutions regarding the Sub-Treasury scheme, Calhoun's speech supporting the scheme, and Clay's speech against it and Calhoun, and mention of\n        the Locofoco Party (1838 Feb 22); some of the Whigs uneasy over Alexander H. H. Stuart 's vote on the 21st Rule which vote Moore approved, \"I consider the true ground on which to meet the abolitionists is that they are prohibited by the Constitution\n        from interfering with our domestic concerns, and we should meet them on the ramparts of the Constitution. And not in endeavoring to defend a rule of order of at least doubtful justice and propriety,\" and furnishes his version of the history of the\n        \"abolition humbug\" beginning with General Jackson kicking Calhoun out of the \"Kitchen Cabinet\" and continuing with Calhoun's attempt to fan the flames of sectional division for his own political purposes; and his belief that the Whigs should pass Mr.\n        Ewing's Bank Bill with as little alteration as possible, and mentions Extra Billy Smith 's letter expressing his opinion that Tyler will veto any bill chartering a U.S. Bank (1841 June 22); the defeat of the Bank Bill in Congress, Tyler's attack on the\n        Whig Party as the enemy of States' Rights, the controversy over the nature of the proposed National Bank and his own solution to the problem, and his contention that the Bankruptcy Bill should not be passed at present (1841 Aug 22); complains about\n        [John Minor] Botts giving Whigs a bad name, discusses flaws in the Bank Bill, notes that Whigs are dissatisfied with [William Cabell ?] Rives course in countering the Whig Party, and complains about [Henry Alexander ?] Wise (1841 Aug 27); and discusses\n        the Firebaugh Will legal case (1850 Oct 18; 1852 Jan 5 \u0026 Mar 16)"," John Moorman recommends the Rev. Samuel R. Houston as Superintendent of the Deaf and Dumb Asylum at Staunton, Virginia (1852 Mar 4)"," [W.?] Morris seeks a position in the State Department (1852 Dec 1)"," C.L. Mosby writes concerning claims against the Thomas Wells estate (1831 May 18); and asks if he knows of a purser position in the Navy for his brother, William W. Mosby (1851 Dec 15)"," [Alexander] Moseley expresses his concern with President Tyler and Edward Everett 's reply to the abolitionists (1841 Jul-Aug); discusses the idea of acquiring Cuba from Spain and the widespread aversion to Spanish rule in Cuba and his hopes that\n        [John Minor ?] Botts would not be elected (1851 Jun 13 \u0026 Oct 20); believes that Millard Fillmore will be nominated at the Baltimore Convention (1852 Mar 20); the need for a full Whig vote in Virginia to defeat Franklin Pierce (1852 Oct 5 \u0026\n        7)"," J.W. Myers questions Stuart about the meaning of President Millard Fillmore 's latest message in regard to military intervention on behalf of the Hungarian Lajos Kossuth or in any European conflict (1851 Dec 11)"," Thomas Nairu writes concerning federal appointments in Iowa (1850 Oct 23)"," C.W. Newton, one of the Commissioners chosen to select a site for the Norfolk Custom House, discusses the matter, and recommends that the other commissioners be retained as superintendents to continue with the construction of the Custom House (1851\n        May 1); asks why the delay in the appointment of his friend, Walter H. Taylor (1852 Aug 20); recommends John P. Leigh for the Postmaster position at Norfolk (1852 Sep 29)"," Isaac C. Newton regrets his defence of Bryant who was removed from office by his own misconduct and not through prejudice as he claimed (1853 Jan 15)"," Dr. C.N. Nichols concerning the purchase of \" Woodstock, \" the farm of Mrs. Brent and a note from John Carroll Brent (1852 Nov 23)"," William Ogden Niles writes concerning the prosecution of parties arrested for frauds upon the Departments of the Interior and the Treasury (1850 Nov 12)"," John A. North furnishes information in several cases in which Alexander H. H. Stuart is listed as Counsel in Judge Thompson's Circuit (1852 Aug 14)"," John A. [Parker ?] thanks Alexander H. H. Stuart for his recent speech on the slavery question and Mr. Lincoln's plan to purchase land to colonize the freed Negroes (1873 Oct 27)"," William Elisha Peters (1829-1906) urges Alexander H. H. Stuart through another faculty member not to use the revenue from the Corcoran fund for the general purposes of the University of Virginia or to any other than the benefit of the Professors\n        which will assure the future of the institution (1876 Nov 23)","[Sir Flinders ?] Petrie, Secretary of the Victoria Institute or Philosophical Society of Great Britain, invites Alexander H. H. Stuart to join the society (1878 Aug 12)"," Eb Phlegar furnishes a table of voting in the precincts of Montgomery County and Pulaski County (1841 Apr 24)"," L.M. Powell expresses his concern over Alexander H. H. Stuart 's fall into the water and tells about the loss of his trunk (1860 Oct 23)"," W.A. Powell statement of interest due (1868 Dec 16)"," William Ballard Preston (1805-1862) discusses the Whig Convention in Philadelphia, the nomination of Zachary Taylor, the vulnerability of Lewis Cass, and mentions [John Minor] Botts (1848 Jun 15)"," Charles Radziminski asks for a leave of absence to be arranged so he can travel to Europe and check on his family whom he has not heard from since his exile from Poland for revolutionary activity in 1834 (1852 Aug 1)"," Robert Ridgway (1823-1870) asks Alexander H. H. Stuart if he would accept the opposition nomination for Governor and discusses others who might accept a position on the ticket (1859 Jan 9)"," Lawrence Riggs writes about the desire of Rev. F.W. Hatch for the Chaplaincy to the U.S. Marine Hospital at St. Louis (1851 Jan 8)"," Alexander Rives discusses the idea of secession, \"A vague fear distresses us, lest our people should be maddened by occurrences at the South and dragged after the seceding states. I am clean for keeping the state out of that vortex.\" He also suggests\n        that the Southern representatives meet with their Stephen Douglass allies and agree to serve in Lincoln's Cabinet if asked (1860 Nov 20) and \"You can well conceive that I am not favorably inclined to our unceremonious \u0026 unexpected transfer to Jeff.\n        Davis \u0026 Co. I did not like the Convention's adoption of Judge Allen's sophism in the preamble to the Act of Secession; -it is a false gloss and unworthy of the state;\" (1861 May 13)"," William Cabell Rives expresses hopes that they can create a great National Conservative Party to preserve the Union and avoid the extremism proclaimed by Mr. Seward in recent speeches in New York (1859 Jan 5); and fears his health will not permit him\n        to give the speech on behalf of the Committee to the people of the United States; he died on April 25 (1868 Jan 7)"," William Barton Rogers hesitates to endorse any mining and economical surveys, and mentions that he enjoyed the address of his friend Judge Bradley at the public exercises at the University of Virginia (1881 Jul 7)"," W.H. Ruffner wishes that Alexander H. H. Stuart would receive the nomination for the Vice-Presidency and asks Alexander H. H. Stuart to come to Philadelphia to make a speech before the Convention, \"A little glorification of Hungary -some leanings\n        toward our `Manifest Destiny' -a few digs at `European despotisms' -a compliment to the Sultan -a javelin at Nicholas -in short `much ado about nothing' is all that is needed.\" (1851 Dec 5)"," Benjamin Rush expresses his admiration for Alexander H. H. Stuart and his efforts to avoid the dissolution of the Union before the Civil War and hopes to further reconciliation between the North and South should he be elected to Congress (1874 Aug\n        4)"," John C. Rusmisell discusses the popular election of Joseph Johnson for Governor in Virginia under the new state constitution (1851 Dec 25)"," N[athan] Sargent (1794-1875), author of  Public Men and Events,  in several letters that reveal the turbulent condition of American politics\n        during the period immediately preceding the Civil War, Sargent urges that articles be published in the  Richmond Whig  supporting his and\n        Alexander H. H. Stuart 's positions in the upcoming elections, mentions the controversy over the Crittenden Amendment, violent feelings on both sides of the slavery issue, and urges a meeting of representatives of various Conservative groups who wish\n        to work to preserve the Union, hopes for the defeat of John Letcher (1858-1859); and deplores the course of Goggin and Bell of Kentucky, \"I can never subscribe to the doctrine that Congress must protect slavery in the Territories; never. We must\n        repudiate that vagary.\" (1859 Aug 12); and discusses the effect of the outbreak at Harpers Ferry (1859 Oct 24)"," R.E. Scott furnishes his views as to the nomination to be made at the Baltimore Convention (1852 May 22)"," Joseph Segar writes concerning the Presidential nomination; his support for Millard Fillmore and his distaste for Scott (1852 Mar 11)"," Hugh W. Sheffey compares the advantages of investing in state bonds and U.S. stock, asks his opinion of \"Thompson's Revolution\" before the General Assembly which means to reduce the number of circuit courts and increase the pay of judges, the House\n        of Delegates will soon begin examining the criminal code, expects passage of the Covington and Ohio Railroad Bill, anxious that all the state internal improvements be completed so that Virginia can tap the great Western wealth, and the bill enlarging\n        the limits of Staunton has passed (1848 Feb 12); discusses his recent attempt to pass a bill to reapportion the delegates and senators throughout the Commonwealth and Mr. Scott of Fauquier County 's proposed bill re reapportionment, failure of the bill\n        to extend the Louisa Railroad towards Harrisonburg, his concern over the Whig nomination, \"Stuart, I am satisfied that the nomination of Mr. Clay will prostrate the Whig party in the South -no young man in the South can for twenty years to come expect\n        to rise to any post of honour or distinction if Clay should ever be elected by the Wilmot proviso vote of the North\" (1848 Feb 16); the Virginia Whig Convention voted to support Zachary Taylor for the Presidential candidate (1848 Feb 25); notifies\n        Alexander H. H. Stuart that an appropriation of six thousand dollars was made by the General Assembly to the Deaf \u0026 Dumb \u0026 Blind Institution to square its debts and warns him as its President not to come to the General Assembly for more\n        assistance (1850 Mar 14); and writes concerning the bounty land warrant of his cousin Celly (1852 Apr 2)"," W.G. [Snethen ?] asks that the Department of the Interior award land sale advertisements to the newspaper  The Virginian  edited by Terry and\n        Shields (1852 Oct 9)"," Lord Stirling sends a copy of  The Democratic Review  containing the first of a series of articles concerning his legally established rights in\n        British North America (1852 Sep 11)"," Samuel Strong writes concerning the bids for the extension of the marble work of the Capitol (1851 Nov 5)"," James French Strother (1811-1860) asks Alexander H. H. Stuart to write to Mr. Hall and tell him that he believes the bill authorizing the appointment of an assistant agent will pass (1852 Jun 8)"," Alexander H.H. Stuart Letters writes in great detail to Thomas Michie concerning the subjects of internal improvements, especially the James River Company, \u0026 the increase of Banking capital and the opposition of Joseph C. Cabell to their plans,\n        and the Democratic Party being forced to accept David Campbell as Governor (1837 Jan 29); to an unknown correspondent, tries to correct the allegation by John Minor Botts that the resolution offered by Alexander H. H. Stuart at the extra session of\n        Congress in June 1841 was copied by Alexander H. H. Stuart from Botts' resolution and presented as his own and asks for his correspondent to be a witness to what actually transpired (1845 Dec 12); furnishes a testimonial to the worthy service W.D.C.\n        Goddard has performed in the Department of the Interior (1852 Jun 30); to his brother, Gerald B. Stuart, writes that William H. Clarke wants a barrel of his best whiskey sent, William Stuart needs a good horse, predicts big battles soon, probably at\n        Yorktown, Harpers Ferry, or Manassas Gap, and says of the Convention, \"We have a most miserable spirit prevailing in the Convention -a spirit of carping \u0026 bitter hostility to Letcher -such men as Harris, Ambler, Garnett seem disposed to assail him\n        on every frivolous pretext\" (1861 Jun 15); writes to his daughter, Maggie B. Stuart, concerning her schooling (1873 Feb 7); from the University of Virginia, to his mother, Eleanor Stuart, about his brother Archibald Stuart 's engagement (Oct 7); and to\n        his wife, informing her that he hoped to be home from Washington soon, neither the Whig nor Democratic Parties can command the full loyalty of their followers in the present debate, and describes his anxiety about his children (n.d.)"," Archibald P. Stuart assures him of his best wishes and support as he leaves for Washington and thanks him for the frock coat and the beautiful wheat (1850 Sep 29)"," Eleanor Briscoe Stuart writes concerning the settling of an estate (n.d.)"," J.E.B. Stuart while at West Point, answers Alexander H. H. Stuart 's questions about the annuity left him by Uncle Chapman (1851 Dec 25); and writes concerning the opportunities in real estate in Kansas where he is now serving at Fort Leavenworth\n        (1857 Jan 28)"," Oscar J.C. Stuart writes concerning Alexander H. H. Stuart 's bereavement, the genealogy of his father's family, particularly his grandfather, John Stockton, and comments on the state of Virginia politics (1859 August 8)"," Isaac H. Sturgeon encloses newsclippings concerning the Labaume case (1852 Feb 4)"," George William Summers (1804-1868) describes the death of their friend, Secretary of the Navy Thomas Walker Gilmer (1802-1844), who was killed by the bursting of a gun called \"the Peacemaker\" on board the U.S.S. Princeton on the Potomac River, near\n        Washington, D.C. and what the loss of Secretary of State Abel P. Upshur would mean in the negotiations over the Oregon Territory with the new minister from Great Britain; feels that the quality of this Congress is decidedly inferior to the last, and\n        his approval of Alexander H. H. Stuart 's articles in  The Richmond Whig  (1844 Feb 28); and comments extensively on the \"farce\" of the\n        Democratic-Locofoco nomination of James Polk for President (1844 May 30)"," William T. Sutherlin regrets the error of the people of Virginia at not returning Alexander H. H. Stuart to office, although he was instrumental in restoring Virginia to the Union, Alexander H. H. Stuart was not elected to public office in 1870 (1870\n        Nov 9); refers to the speech by William Mahone as a \"campaign document\" in favor of his Virginia policy and against the free Railroad Law, his desire to get rid of the obligation to build the Cumberland Gap Road and to make several other changes in the\n        Act of Consolidation, and expresses his low opinion of Mahone and his \"Radicals\" (1873 Apr 4)"," [J.H. Tagart ?] insists that Alexander H. H. Stuart accept his invitation to \"eat a little Virginia venison with some Maryland canvass back ducks with an old friend\" (1852 Nov 28)"," William H. Terrill asks that Alexander H. H. Stuart exchange autographs and photographs with him (1871 Nov 17)"," Lucas P. Thompson writes that various persons have urged him to suggest to Alexander H. H. Stuart that his best chance of election is to join the Know Nothing Party and run as one of their candidates but hesitates because \"I entertain a prejudice not\n        so much against the principles or what are said to be the principles of the new party as the secrecy of their organization and action\" (1855 Jan 21)"," Nicholas K. Trout, Senate of Virginia, addresses the re-adjustment of the public debt question with West Virginia and informs Alexander H. H. Stuart of the fate of several bills in the Legislature (1867 Jan 20)","Unidentified Letters include the following subjects: the failure to revive interest in an Act promoting a railroad from Staunton to Scottsville or the James River, the need to pursue the James River improvements, especially with the Louisa Railroad,\n        but has little hopes of resolution until the settlement of the Bank Bill which he discusses and discusses the selection of a site for the Deaf \u0026 Dumb Asylum (1839 Mar 1); the terrible disaster on the lower Mississippi claiming the life of B.B.\n        Stuart (1859 May 2); the editor of  The Sandy Valley Advocate  writes concerning the development of the great coal field in the Great Sandy Valley\n        of Kentucky and asks what the Kentucky Whigs should do in the present political crisis (1859 Aug 27); and a Civil War letter from Bristoe Station, Virginia, where a Confederate soldier sends home fifty dollars in care of Alexander H. H. Stuart ([1861\n        ?] Sep 12)"," Upshur County Citizens asks that Alexander H. H. Stuart come and speak to them on the issues of the day and express their support for William Leftwich Goggin (1807-1870) for Governor of Virginia (1859 Apr 6)"," Thomas Walter, Architect for the Extension of the U.S. Capitol, furnishes a report on the cost of the work during the residue of fiscal year (1851 Nov 6)"," Washington College Literary Society requests Alexander H. H. Stuart to give a speech before the Society on July 2nd (1857 Apr 28)"," John Watt asks if Alexander H. H. Stuart will send him a copy of the appendix published in connection with his report on John Brown 's raid on Harpers Ferry, containing extracts from the personal liberty bills passed by several of the Northern states\n        (1861 Dec 3)"," Daniel Webster regrets that the information obtained in the Census Records is not particularly useful in answering Alexander H. H. Stuart 's questions about blind persons in the state of Virginia for the Virginia Institute for the Education of the\n        Blind but suggests that an agent of the Institute might be given access to the records to compile the necessary information (1842 Aug 2); introduces Fitzhenry Warren of the General Post Office (1850 Oct 2); and regrets that the President has decided he\n        cannot appoint Virginians to offices other than local offices (1851 Feb 8)"," William J. Willey warns that \"Since the action of the Convention, handing the state of Virginia over to the Confederate states, without the knowledge or consent of the people, like a lot of horses or slaves, the excitement in N.W. Virginia, is\n        becoming most intense, and indeed, in some quarters, terrible...The clamor here for a division of the state is becoming loud and universal -I fear it will become uncontrollable\" (1861 May 7)"," Robert Winthrop encloses a seal, with a mistaken superscription to \"Cha\" Winthrop by Dr. Stuart, belonging to his great-grandfather, John Winthrop, who was a Fellow of the Royal Society, discusses family genealogy and the motto on the seal and asks\n        him to take care of the seal while it is in his possession (1851 Apr 21); encloses a letter from Judge Thomas C. Manning (present) concerning the Mississippi Bonds question, and mentions Slater's Fund for educating the Freedmen (1882 Apr 28); regrets\n        not seeing Alexander H. H. Stuart at the meeting of the Peabody Education Fund of which both he and Alexander H. H. Stuart were Trustees, describes the meeting and discusses politics (1884 Oct 8); discusses the death of Jefferson Davis and his opinion\n        of the man (1889 Dec 16)"," Henry Wise (1806-1876) offended at personal references in  The Valley Virginian  which gave a report on Alexander H. H. Stuart 's speech to the\n        Citizens of Augusta County, at Staunton, \"On the New Movement\" which claimed Governor Wise had opposed the work of Alexander H. H. Stuart and had worked closely with carpet-baggers, Wise asks Alexander H. H. Stuart if he had approved the report and was\n        it correct (1869 Feb 3); a copy of Alexander H. H. Stuart 's reply to Wise, in his speech he referred to, \"parties holding the most antagonistic opinions, and having the most diverse objects in view -one party desiring the adoption of the Underwood\n        Constitution, while the other was unalterably opposed to it -This while Governor Wells \u0026 his committee were assailing our proposition in Washington, Governor Wise \u0026 others, were attacking it at home -Thus extremes seem to meet, \u0026 the\n        singular spectacle was presented of Gov. Wells \u0026 Gov. Wise, who probably held no other opinion in common, pulling together as it were in the same team, in opposition to the scheme\" (1869 Feb 5); Wise reiterates his opposition to the \"New Movement\"\n        and opposes both Governor Wells and \"Negro Suffrage\" (1869 Feb 8)"," R.N. Wood discusses members of the American Party recently elected to Congress and fears that unless they can unify the old Whigs with the \"American Organization\" Millard Fillmore will not be re-elected (1856 Apr 13)","*Unless otherwise noted the recipient of the letter is Alexander H.H. Stuart*","Positive copies of microfilms produced by The Library of Virginia"],"userestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eSee the \u003cextref type=\"simple\" href=\"https://www.library.virginia.edu/policies/use-of-materials\"\u003e University of Virginia Library’s use policy.\u003c/extref\u003e\u003c/p\u003e"],"userestrict_heading_ssm":["Use Restrictions "],"userestrict_tesim":["See the   University of Virginia Library’s use policy."],"physloc_html_tesm":["\u003cphysloc/\u003e"],"physloc_tesim":[""],"language_ssim":["English"],"total_component_count_is":298,"online_item_count_is":0,"component_level_isim":[0],"sort_isi":0,"timestamp":"2026-05-21T12:20:53.100Z","scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThis collection consists of the additional papers of the Stuart and Baldwin families, chiefly Archibald Stuart (1757-1832) and Alexander H.H. Stuart (1807-1891), of Staunton, Virginia, ca. 1754-1921, ca. 800 items (4 Hollinger boxes, 1.5 linear feet),\n        including correspondence; financial and legal papers; printed items; microfilm; an architectural drawing; Civil War military papers of Captain George M. Cochran, Jr.; nineteenth century newsclippings; drafts of speeches by Alexander H.H. Stuart; land\n        grants signed by Virginia governors, including Beverley Randolph, Robert Brooke, John Floyd, and James Monroe; two engravings of Alexander H.H. Stuart; and papers regarding the settlement of the estate of Archibald Stuart . Since Alexander H.H. Stuart\n        was a prominent member of the Virginia Whig Party, there is considerable material in this collection concerning the Whig Party and Virginia politics.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCORRESPONDENCE OF THE STUART-BALDWIN FAMILY -SUMMARIES (BOX 1)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Martha S. Baldwin forwards a letter to her husband General Briscoe Gerard Baldwin (d. 1852) from their daughter Mary Baldwin regarding her health (n.d.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e James Barbour (1775-1842), Secretary of War, mentions an interview with [Henry] Clay concerning the participation of members of the administration in the political convention [of the National Republican Party ] and discusses his knowledge of the true\n        charges leveled against Andrew Jackson while in control of Louisiana during the War of 1812, Jackson's conflict with Louisiana Governor William Charles Claiborne and the Governor of Georgia, his refusal to obey the orders of President Monroe, his\n        denunciation of Madison, and his behavior as acting Governor of Florida (1827 Dec 16); Barbour also mentions his involvement in \"a controversy of mixed vexation,\" his retirement, \" and says, \" [John C.] Calhoun 's pamphlet is the final act in the drama\n        -and I apprehend the breach will become wider and wider\" (1831 Feb 19)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e G.A. Baxter, member of the Board of Visitors of Washington Academy, informs Archibald Stuart of his election to the Board, and explains why his resignation was errantly reported in their minutes (1807 Sep 29)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Robert Beverley discusses a possible land sale (1791 May 5); asks Archibald Stuart to attend to his properties near Staunton and make sure all back taxes are paid (1791 Nov 24); discusses land business and court matters (1791-1797); makes reference\n        to the slave revolt in the French colony of Haiti in the West Indies and the declaration of independence by Toussaint L'Ouverture (1743-1803), criticizing George Washington for his early acknowledgement of the French Republic, believing he acted\n        unconstitutionally, and expresses great confidence in the talents, integrity, and firmness of Mr. [John] Adams (1798 Dec 17)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e John Breckinridge writes business letters (1788 \u0026amp; 1790), his son, J.C. Breckinridge, asks for information from Archibald Stuart for a biographical essay about his father (1815 Apr 30)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Gerald Briscoe, [Jr.?] writes about a land dispute in \"Caintucke\" (all three letters, 1794-1796, n.d.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Cuthbert Bullitt to Archibald Stuart and General John Brown discusses a suit involving Colonel Clendenning for lack of payment on a bond (1790 Jan 2); and the death of his brother, Thomas Bullitt, asking for a petition in the Legislature of Virginia\n        for their financial relief (1823 Dec 16)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Joseph C. Cabell refers to a pamphlet containing Mr. Madison's letter and an appendix establishing the point that the Tariff Policy is the true Republican doctrine; Cabell paid T.W. White, Richmond printer, for 3,000 copies and will have more printed\n        if necessary; claims that the opposition party is exerting every effort to destroy Madison's influence in the state (1829 Feb 24)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Arthur Campbell requests an investigation into the circumstances surrounding the sickness and death of the boy Charles H. Campbell; speaks of the opposition to the federal constitution and the value of the controversy over the amendments to point out\n        the real motives of those trying to keep Virginia and North Carolina from approving the Constitution (1789 Sep 2); discusses difficulties in obtaining land warrants due to the boundary dispute with Kentucky and refers to the petition to revise the\n        Virginia State Constitution opposed by the friends of [Patrick ?] Henry (1795 Sep 30); refers to Thomas Jefferson and the success of the \"friends of monarchy\" who won the late election for President, and the French Revolution (1797 Feb 20); and\n        mentions his desire that the land law in the Act of 1795 would be repealed or amended (1798 Dec 22)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e John Coalter discusses a debt against Mrs. Reid, and declares \"I have no hopes of the republic since New Jersey has proved recreant\" (1812 Nov 6)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e George Davis discusses legal and business matters (1792 Aug 17)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e R. Gamble discusses legal and business matters (1791-1800)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Hugh Holmes writes concerning the competition between Winchester and Staunton to be the branch of the Virginia Bank which he believes must be kept exclusively under a Republican direction; asks for Archibald Stuart to secure a loan for five hundred\n        dollars; discusses the rumor that merchants believe that the Eastern and Northern Tories have devised a stratagem to defeat the loan requested by the government to conduct the War of 1812 with Great Britain (1814 Mar 9); speaks of his pain from\n        numerous operations; the raids of the Tunisian corsairs upon British ships in the English Channel (1817 Jul 12); and the death of Mary, the daughter of Archibald's brother Alexander (1823 May 6)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e [Chapman ?] Johnson (1779-1849) sends a copy of a decree from the court of appeals in the case of [Doneghe ?] and Campbell to Archibald Stuart; sent a copy of Archibald Stuart 's letter about the seat of government to the Editor of \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eThe Enquirer\u003c/title\u003e for publication; refers to the failure of their efforts to establish the University of Virginia and his belief that nothing will be done\n        for it this winter; the non-effect of political essays upon the public mind, and mention of \"the great James River project\" (1822 Mar 2)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e John Lewis to Dabney Carr notes \"my seeing Mr. Jefferson\" is very uncertain, and writes about the Mayo v Lewis lawsuit (1768 Jan 23)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e John Lewis to Thomas Jefferson writes regarding his lawsuit Mayo v Lewis, docketed in Thomas Jefferson 's hand (1772 Oct 4)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e J. Marshall speaks of the fickleness of political parties in reference to \"Zach.\" and refers to a business matter (n.d.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e George Mathews (1739-1812) writes of his safe arrival in Georgia where he was asked to sit for election to political office (1791 Oct 10); and details concerning his dispute over a land sale in Virginia and his motive in accepting the office of\n        [Governor of Georgia?] (1794 Apr 4)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e James D. McCutchen to Joseph Janney writes concerning his inability to make his payment for land due to the drought, high feed costs and poor crops and his proposal to work out an alternative method of payment (1839 Mar 25)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Andrew Moore (1752-1821), elected to the first four Congresses, March 4, 1789-March 3, 1797, writes from New York and Philadelphia, sends copies of all laws passed, wages established at six dollars per day, set the budget for the staff of the\n        President and Vice-President, discusses office seekers, mentions that the amendments to the constitution are being conducted with a great deal of warmth, believes the amendments \"will quiet the public mind and remove in a great measure the opposition\n        to government\" (1789 Aug 12); asks for help in securing compensation for a slave who escaped into Pennsylvania and proved that he was a free black unjustly sold to Moore who was unaware of his status by a previous owner (1791 Nov 5); the preoccupation\n        of Congress with a bill fixing the rates of representation in Congress and the disputed election between General Anthony Wayne (1745-1796) and General James Jackson (1757-1806) before Congress (1792 Mar 15); his disappointment in the bill fixing the\n        ratio of representation and the decision made in the House concerning the contested election which declared the seat vacant (1792 Mar 26); discusses the resignation of Thomas Jefferson as Secretary of State who appeared determined never to enter public\n        life again, with the former Attorney General Edmund Randolph succeeding Jefferson as Secretary of State; mentions the great loss suffered by the country by Jefferson's resignation at this critical time and praises Jefferson highly; encloses a number of\n        resolutions introduced by Mr. Madison, the conflict over the payment of interest on the debt of the United States; cites Jefferson's opinion on the same subject; forwards copies of the correspondence between Thomas Jefferson and Citizen Edmond Charles\n        Genet and Jefferson's report on United States trade with Europe (1793 Jan 4); the attempt by Washington and Congress to have Citizen Genet recalled to France due to his insolent and insulting conduct (1793 Dec 8); the situation of the United States\n        becoming more and more critical due to the increase of British spoliation on American shipping, detaining our vessels, and alleging that an old law precluded the United States from Britain's West Indian ports; the purchase of flour and beef and the\n        chartering of United States vessels to transport it because the United States was bound by treaty to guarantee the French West Indies; Madison's resolutions; the empowerment of the President to impose an embargo on all shipping coming into American\n        ports; the arming of small vessels to use against the Algerians; a bill providing for the defence of our ports and harbors; the establishment of arsenals, and a resolution for the enlistment of 15,000 troops, with training during 24 days a year, and\n        the need for a direct tax to fund national defence (1794 Mar 14)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Garrett Peterson asks [Charles Anderson] Wickliffe for help in locating Archibald Stuart and buying a piece of land belonging to Archibald Stuart to make his title to his plantation more secure (1826 Jan 24, see Wickliffe's letter, 1826 Feb 26)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e William Preston to William Anderson seeking advice in a land claim controversy (1783 Jan 1)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e [Andrew Reid, Jr.] to Thomas J. Stuart writes a social letter to a friend (1807 Sep 5)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Alexander Farish Robertson Correspondence, chiefly with Philip Alexander Bruce concerning his history of the University of Virginia and especially the Honor System (1921)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e John Steele writes that the Governor [Henry Lee] has written Mr. White asking him to help Archibald Stuart investigate the High Sheriff for embezzlement (1792 Mar 5)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Robert Sterritt notifies Joseph Janney that he has secured a purchaser for Archibald Stuart 's plantation in Rockbridge County, James D. McCutchen, (1837 Jul 14, see also McCutchen 1839 Mar 25)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Eleanor Briscoe Stuart to Thomas J. Stuart concerning his studies and vacation while at Washington Academy (1806 Jan 24 \u0026amp; Mar 2) and to her mother, Mrs. Margaret Briscoe (1808 Feb 19)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Martha M. Stuart writes to her mother-in-law, Mrs. Eleanor (Briscoe) Stuart concerning family news (n.y. Apr 8)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e [Charles Anderson] Wickliffe (1788-1869) forwards a letter from Garrett Peterson to Archibald Stuart concerning a land sale (1826 Feb 26)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e William Wirt (1772-1834) asks Archibald Stuart to send his anecdote about Patrick Henry for his biography and to furnish the details just as it was originally told (1816 Aug 10)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMISCELLANEOUS PAPERS OF THE STUART FAMILY (BOXES 1-2)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series contains an architectural drawing; an engraving of Alexander H.H. Stuart by Danforth, Baldwin \u0026amp; Company; financial and legal papers, including notification of Archibald Stuart 's appointment as a Presidential elector (1792 Nov 12);\n        insurance policies for Archibald Stuart 's barn, grist mill, saw mill, dwelling and kitchen (1811, 1812); Archibald Stuart 's appointment as a commissioner to collect money for a monument to George Washington (1817 Apr 4); stock certificates; accounts\n        and receipts; indentures; land plats; legal cases of both Archibald Stuart and Alexander H.H. Stuart; copies of wills of Alexander Stuart, Robert Stuart, Chapman J. Stuart, and Alexander H.H. Stuart; the military papers of Captain George M. Cochran,\n        Jr., Quartermaster, 52nd Virginian Infantry, Pegram's Brigade, Early's Division; the settlement of Archibald Stuart 's estate, and drafts of several speeches by Alexander H.H. Stuart, one protesting the increase in salary of the superintendent of the\n        Western Asylum because it would be disproportionate to all other salaries allowed by the state of Virginia, another declining the office of President of the branch of the Bank of the Valley and resigning his post as a member of the board, and a third\n        delivered at the fiftieth alumni reunion at the University of Virginia .\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCORRESPONDENCE OF ALEXANDER H.H. STUART -SUMMARIES (BOXES 2-4)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAbolitionist (Unidentified) writes a vitriolic letter denouncing slavery and slaveholders and promising his willing participation in the coming revolution to bring about complete democracy (1841 Jun 20)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e William H. Allen writes to Alexander H. H. Stuart while he was member of the House of Representatives (1841-1843) seeking his help in establishing a post office at Green Valley, Virginia; the closest one is at Cloverdale (n.y. May 13)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Appomattox County, Virginia, Rough \u0026amp; Ready Club requests Alexander H. H. Stuart to represent the Whig position on the upcoming Presidential election at their next political discussion (1848 Sep 7)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Henry Carey Baird requests a copy of Alexander H. H. Stuart 's recent address to use in his pamphlet concerning the farmers of the United States (1859 Nov 1)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e C[ornelius ?] C. Baldwin discusses his biographical sketch of his brother [Gerard ?] Baldwin which he hopes will appear in \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eThe Richmond Whig\u003c/title\u003e\n        and asks Alexander H. H. Stuart for any comments or additions; he mentions his son, Briscoe G. Baldwin III, a year old and his oldest son, Charles Cornelius (1867 Jan 14)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e John B. Baldwin writes concerning business opportunities in Philadelphia ([1843? Jan 30]); Alexander H. H. Stuart 's appointment as Secretary of the Interior and the care of his former legal clients while he is in Washington, D.C. (1850 Sep 24); his\n        disappointment that Millard Fillmore was defeated for the presidential nomination as the Whig candidate; and as Winfield Scott supports the Whig platform without reserve his only objections to Scott as the Whig candidate lies in his great vanity and\n        his associations (1852 Jun 23); Brigadier General Robert Seldon Garnett (1819-1861), who served under General Taylor in the Mexican War, was proceeding to the region with 2500 men according to Alexander H. H. Stuart 's suggestions; and Baldwin believes\n        that the Convention will hardly be well attended (1861 Jun 8); reports that he is within musket range of the enemy who is building winter quarters and mentions the presence of Early's army coming towards [Richmond ?] (1864 Nov 18); writes about his\n        concern over the asylum releasing Briscoe as \"incurable but harmless\" (1869 Dec 5); and writes to Alexander H. H. Stuart concerning the sale of the \"gum tree lot,\" payment of taxes and an accident of Mayo Cabell; and believes his father may soon be\n        elected Judge ([ca. 1841-1843] Dec 6)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Joseph G. Baldwin writes his cousin concerning his plan to move to California for the opportunities there (1849 Mar 2); a long jesting letter congratulating Alexander H. H. Stuart on his appointment to be Secretary of the Interior and including\n        family news (1850 Sep 27); and describes San Francisco where he has just opened his law practice (1854 Sep 15)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e I.L. Barbour, President of the Orange and Alexandria Rail Road Company, writes that he is unable to comply with his financial request (1866 Dec 11)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e A.W. Barton urges Alexander H. H. Stuart to help defeat the [ Virginia Reform ?] Convention, \"The tremendous opposition to the mixed basis beyond the Alleghany -the indifference upon the whole subject in the valley counties and some division east of\n        the Blue Ridge will enable us to do it\" (1850 Apr 22)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e S.S. Baxter recommends William D. Delany as Inspector of the Custom House in Norfolk (1851 Nov 24)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Thomas Hart Benton (1782-1838) writes concerning the Brazeau claimants attempts to get Alexander H. H. Stuart to re-open the case he decided last summer and asks him to leave questions about the decision up to the judiciary ([ca. 1851-1853])\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Berford \u0026amp; Company, California Express Office, reports a great dissatisfaction of their customers and fellow California Whigs with the appointment of Mr. Beall as Superintendent of Indian Affairs (1852 Apr 12)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Dr. Edmund Berkeley voices his concern over the increase in smallpox cases and attributes the cause to the lack of a vaccine agent in western and central Virginia and suggests Staunton as a likely location for such an agent and offering himself as a\n        candidate (1837 Jan 20)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e James B. Bingham, editor of \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eThe Intelligencer,\u003c/title\u003e discusses politics in Wheeling, [West] Virginia, and his concern that both the Democrats and\n        Republicans are pulling votes away from the Whig Party (1859 Sep 28)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e David Alexander Bokee (1805-1860) discusses national politics and urges Alexander H. H. Stuart and other conservatives not to make any arrangements with the Republicans preliminary to the organization of the House; refers to the \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eNew York Times\u003c/title\u003e article quoting a correspondent from Ohio who believes \"the South is beginning to prepare the way for union with the Republicans as\n        such in 1860\"; and asks Alexander H. H. Stuart to support the efforts of conservatives of the North \"to induce the Republican Party to abandon `its distinct organization' founded as it is `on foolish abstractions\" (1859 Oct 24)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Patrick Brady 's letters, from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, all discuss various aspects of his suit against Daniel Brady, including his stolen ledger which later appears to have been altered, his demand for the deed to the Bath Iron Works, and\n        questions about ultimate settlement (1857, 1867-1869)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Mary Louisa Brooks writes whimsically about how much she misses Washington, D.C., and how unattractive she finds New York City \"this huge temple of Mammon\" (n.y. Mar 18)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Alexander S. Brown writes his cousin Alexander H. H. Stuart concerning business and family matters (1857-1858)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Joseph Rodes Buchanan asks Alexander H. H. Stuart to attend the National Democratic Convention to be held on May 7, 1867, in Louisville, Kentucky, discussed in an enclosed editorial from The Louisville Journal which was recently identified with the\n        Democratic Party; the Convention to be composed of the leading men of the Northern Democracy and leading men of the South to secure cooperation between the two groups, \"which is now our only hope\" (1867 Feb 28)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e John C. Bullitt, Patrick Brady 's council in Philadelphia, asks when the first remittance of the Brady v. Brady settlement will arrive (1871 Oct 28)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e William M. Burwell draws Alexander H. H. Stuart 's attention to the political aspects of the negotiations over the Isthmus of Tehuantepec as a quicker route to the western states (1852 Jul 23)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e J.S. Calvert furnishes a financial summary for Alexander H. H. Stuart (1868 Jan 21)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Samuel D. Campbell asks for help in getting payment for his brother William Campbell who worked to get depositions for Catherine Crider in Wardlaw v. Crider (1830 Nov 30)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Lewis Cass (1782-1866) discusses two appointments with Alexander H. H. Stuart acceptable to the Whig Party (1852 Jul 20)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e John H. Cassin asks Alexander H. H. Stuart to visit their county and address them concerning the political questions of the day (1859 Apr 13)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Katherine Chase discusses the circumstances surrounding her divorce from Mr. William Sprague (1883 Mar 18)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e H. Chrisman offers to purchase real estate or other goods for Alexander H. H. Stuart on his trips west if he wishes (Dec 7, 1855)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Bolivar Christian sends a copy of the Confederate Acts and discusses the problems of setting up the new Confederate Congress (1862 Jan 18)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e C.M. Conrad writes concerning Alexander H. H. Stuart 's order for a cask of table claret wine from New Orleans (1855 Apr 3)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e William Wilson Corcoran says he will be happy to have a copy of the proceedings of the Peabody Board and hopes to see him soon (1855 Oct 23)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Thomas Corwin (1794-1865) a letter of introduction for [Calhoun Benham], U.S. Attorney for California (1853 Jul 10)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e J.A. Cowardin, Editor of \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eThe Daily Dispatch,\u003c/title\u003e letter of introduction from L.A. Trigg, and a discussion of the Readjuster controversy, and\n        William Mahone, and says \"I do not think Mr. Hunter will suit these times. We want an aggressive man, one who is bold and sagacious too. I think General [James Lawson] Kemper is that man\" (1873 Feb 14)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e John Jordan Crittenden (1786-1863) writes a letter of introduction for his friend Samuel Casey (1851 Sep 26)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Claudius Crozet writes concerning the Northwest Turnpike and asks if Alexander H. H. Stuart feels that Mr. Eskridge is capable of opening the road himself (1838 Jun 1)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRector E.A. Dalrymple 's recommendation of Thomas B. Edelin (1852 Jul 15)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e John W. Daniel (1842-1910) does not approve of the Readjuster policies, \"I am firm against repudatum alias enforced readjustment alias stealing. I believe in the Decalogue, and of course in repressing thieves, by whatsoever name they are called\"\n        (1877 Jul 18)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e J.D. Davidson sends the election results for Rockbridge County (1851 Dec 10) and encloses a check for a claim against Seaforth (1852 Jan 2)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Garrett Davis (1801-1872) discusses a power shift in the House of Representatives away from [John C.] Calhoun toward [Thomas Hart?] Benton who \"will be the dictator this winter \u0026amp; will wield more power than all others together\"; mentions the\n        numerous job seekers wandering the halls of Congress like unclean birds; discusses the hopes of the Whig Party to gain the Presidency next election and mentions possible opponents and weighs their respective threat to the chances of the Whig candidate;\n        and the need for much organization and work to succeed in the next election (1843 Dec 13); a long and detailed description of the difficulty during the extra session of the 27th Congress in organizing the House caused by the opposition of the Democrats\n        and the division in the Whig Party (1845 Dec 16); the third letter discusses business questions; congratulates Alexander H. H. Stuart on his appointment to be Secretary of the Interior; expresses his appreciation for Millard Fillmore; and comments\n        about South Carolina, \" South Carolina is a little beside herself, but I believe it is the insanity of ambition pride \u0026amp; arrogance thwarted, and that a good sound drubbing would be an infallible cure.\" (1851 Jan 28)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e George M. Davis thanks Alexander H. H. Stuart for giving his son Carey Davis a job as a clerk in the Pension Office (1851 Jul 27)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e William Wallace Davis, editor of \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eThe District Whig\u003c/title\u003e discusses politics in Norfolk and the loss of the election to the Democrats despite his own\n        efforts to visit various Whigs and get them to the polls on Election Day (1851 Oct 2)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e William Crosby Dawson (1798-1856), Georgia Senator, asks Alexander H. H. Stuart not to fill a vacancy in the General Land Office until he could speak with him (1852 Jul 28)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Horace H. Day discusses the charges brought against the Commissioner of Patents, Mr. Thomas Ewbanks (1792-1870) saying his official conduct has been one-sided, partial, and not in accordance with the rules and laws of the Patent Office (1851 Feb 7)\n        and asking if the New York papers have correctly reported Alexander H. H. Stuart 's comments about the charges (1851 Mar 12)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Wills De Hass (1818?-1910) sends a copy of his \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eHistory of Western Virginia\u003c/title\u003e (1851 Jul 24); wants Alexander H. H. Stuart to be a candidate for\n        Vice-President (1851 Oct 6); voices concerns over his application for a consulship or another office (1852 Jun 1 \u0026amp; Oct 18); two letters furnish private details of the Baltimore Convention (1852 Jun 20); and hopes for a position in the Maryland\n        Historical Society (1853 Feb 16)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e William D. Delany tries to enlist Stuart's aid in securing the office of Inspector of the Custom House at Norfolk (1851 Nov 25) or the Postmaster office at Norfolk (1852 Sep 29)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Charles Devens, Jr., U.S. Marshal, Boston, letter introducing General John S. Tyler (1852 May 24)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Samuel Dickson writes concerning the Patrick Brady v Daniel C.E. Brady suit for $ 50,000 growing out of the dissolving of a partnership in 1857; and describes the Bath Iron Works and Buffalo Forge property (1867 Apr 24)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e D[orothea] L[ynde] Dix (1802-1887) writes six letters to Alexander H. H. Stuart concerning the establishment of a first class hospital in Washington, D.C. and seeks the aid of Captain Randolph in the Legislature of [Virginia ?] ([ca. 1851-1853])\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e James B. Dorman writes that the Whigs of Rockbridge unanimously desire the nomination of Millard Fillmore as President; believes the hostility to Fillmore stems from his approval of the Compromise of 1850 and his \"fidelity to the Constitutional\n        rights of the South\"; and many Whigs object strongly to General Winfield Scott 's Roman Catholic affinities (1852 Jun 7)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e John Doyle writes that he has recommended Alexander H. H. Stuart to the prominent Whigs in Pennsylvania as the best choice for nomination to the Vice-Presidency while he favors Fillmore for the Presidency over Scott (1851 Sep 20); his concern over\n        the imminent split in the Whig Party of Lexington, Virginia (1852 Dec 4); his son, R.L. Doyle, writes concerning their Alum Springs property containing iron deposits and several mineral springs and asks the aid of Alexander H. H. Stuart in securing a\n        loan to convert their property into a viable health resort (1853 Jan 7)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e G.G. Dyer defends his change of political parties from Whig to Democratic based on his open support of the Tariff and the United States Bank and extols the virtue of the new state of Iowa which he describes as a land of beauty and opportunity (1851\n        Sep 27)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e J.L. Edwards, Pension Office, discusses the claims of the descendants of Colonel Alexander McClanahan to land based on his Revolutionary War service, with the Committee of Safety for the Colony of Virginia form appointing Alexander McClanahan to Lt.\n        Col. of the 7th Regiment of Regular Forces attached (1776 Feb 29 \u0026amp; 1843 May 19)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Vespasian Ellis discusses the plan of organization adopted at the National Council where a Committee of 13 was appointed to take the general charge of the interests of the American Party which was presented to the Council by himself; the plan was\n        adopted unanimously but the Chairman E. Brooks received the credit for the plan; he suggested that Alexander H. H. Stuart would be a good person from Virginia to be on the Central Committee of 13; mentions the efforts of Baldwin of Connecticut and\n        others to \"free soilize\" the party platform and the fact that he opposed and defeated the plan was suppressed in the report on the proceedings in the \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eLouisville Journal\u003c/title\u003e (1857 Jun 10)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Erie Railroad Company Board of Directors offers to Alexander H. H. Stuart free use of the railroad as member of the Cabinet (1851 Jul 12)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Edward Everett (1794-1865), Secretary of State, regrets he will not be able to dine with Alexander H. H. Stuart due to personal illness (1852 Dec 20); and informs Alexander H. H. Stuart that General Franklin Pierce wishes for him to continue to act\n        as Secretary of the Interior until his successor is appointed (1853 Feb 26)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Charles James Faulkner (1806-1884) thanks him for his interest in James E. Stewart (1852 Aug 25)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Millard Fillmore letters to Alexander H. H. Stuart -address the question of his feelings toward the South, \"I disclaim most unequivocally now and forever any desire on my part to interfere with the rights on what is termed the property of citizens of\n        other states\" and encloses a copy of the leading [Lewis] Cass paper in the state showing that Fillmore was denounced at the recent anti-slavery convention at Worcester along with Cass and Taylor (1848 Jul 5); excuses Alexander H. H. Stuart from the\n        Cabinet meeting due to the death of Judge Baldwin (1852 May 19); authorizes Alexander H. H. Stuart to take on the duties of the Secretary of the Navy until his return (1852 Sep 25); thanks him for his letter of condolence upon the death of his wife,\n        Abigail Powers on March 30, 1853 (1853 Jul 11); attempts to make arrangements for a Southern tour in the spring, and says, \"This Nebraska matter presents a new phase to things in Washington . But is it wise for the South to set the example repealing\n        the Compromise of 1820 ? If one compromise be disregarded will not another be, and will not the South in the end be left to the tender mercy of Northern fanaticism with an overwhelming numerical majority ?\" (1854 Feb 9); observes that with the latest\n        election it appears that the Whig Party has split into two factions, with the abolitionists joining the [Republicans ?] and the rest joining the American Party of Know Nothings and refers to the nomination of Henry Alexander Wise for Governor and his\n        denunciation of the Know Nothings (1854 Dec 14); and informs Alexander H. H. Stuart that Granger will try to meet him in Washington this winter and mentions the efforts of his friends to unite the national elements opposed to the present federal\n        administration into an American Union Party (1854 Dec 22)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Millard Fillmore to Daniel Webster sends John P. Scott over to see Webster concerning a position in the State Department in Londonderry, Ireland, now held by an appointee of President Tyler and says he will go along with whatever Webster wants (1851\n        Apr 2)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Edward H. Fitzhugh refers to the Bridge case in the Wheeling court (1850 Mar 25) *see newsclippings in Box 2*\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e E[dmund] Fontaine, Virginia Central Railroad Company, concerning his barley which has been at Waynesboro for some time prior to his letter (1859 Mar 25)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e John S. Gallagher discusses the bestowal of advertising patronage by the federal government (1851 Jul 19); the suitability of Shannondale for a military asylum (1851 Aug 4); encloses a letter from William P. Buford, soliciting Alexander H. H. Stuart\n        's influence to get Mr. Buford's son appointed to a cadetship at West Point (1851 Nov 13); his examination of the controversy about the post office in Winchester and his advice not to remove Milton (1852 Jan 9); encloses letters (not present) from\n        friends desiring positions with the government (1852 Jan 16); introduces Colonel Joseph K. Hartwell (1852 Mar 10); recommends General [James] Singleton for the government position in New Mexico (1852 May 7); and asks for a copy of a letter from the\n        Commissioner of Patents to Dr. James Blake of California (1852 Jul 2).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Robert H. Gallagher, Bank of the Union, Washington asks that part of the Census Fund and the Pension Fund be deposited with him (1851 Dec 9; 1852 Sep 2)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Alexander Galt concerning his position as Postmaster at Norfolk (1851 Jul 31)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e J. Garland 's letter of introduction for his relative, Alexander B. Garland (1853 Feb 2)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e William H. Garland requests the position of treasurer of the mint at New Orleans (1850 Oct 29) and writes concerning the outrage committed by the authorities of Cuba on the Crescent City [New Orleans ?] (1852 Oct 7)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e William Garnett, Collector Custom House, Norfolk, Virginia, concerning the effort being made to remove him from the Custom House (1851 Nov 18 \u0026amp; 1852 Aug 11)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e George Washington's Birthday Celebration Committee, Rome, Georgia, requesting Alexander H. H. Stuart 's presence at their celebration and commenting, \"The Southern people are terribly oppressed, but are disposed to preserve their manhood untarnished\n        preferring to submit for a while to military despotism rather than to the ruin and degradation of radical rule and negro supremacy\" (1868 Feb 11)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e R.T. Gibson 's letters are all concerning his futile attempts to secure the position of naval officer at the port of Savannah (1851-1852)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e W.M. Gilliam sends Alexander H. H. Stuart 's horse to Washington by Mr. Brent (1852 Mar 15)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e T.H. Gilmer seeks more appointments for people from Virginia from the Whig administration (1850 Sep 27)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Thomas W. Gilmer writes that he is sorry that Alexander H. H. Stuart has been involved in controversy, mentions \"old [James Iver ?] McKay \" as chairman of the Ways \u0026amp; Means Committee, and believes that Texas will come into the Union as fast as it\n        can (1843 Dec 13)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e W.W. Gilmer approves Alexander H. H. Stuart 's stand on the National Bank but is not so fond of the election of [Walter ?] Coles (1841 Apr 15)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e William L. Goggin (1807-1870) his disappointment over his brother's failure to secure a position, the possibility of getting the postmastership at Sacramento City, and his declaration, \"I am a Union man and I have long thought this should be the\n        great issue (irrespective of old party associations) the Union or its Dissolution -God grant it may be perpetual -I repudiate utter fanaticism North or South\" (1850 Nov 3); and asks Alexander H. H. Stuart to remove his letter from the files of the War\n        Department requesting an appointment as Visitor to West Point (1852 Mar 10)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e G. Goldenberg sends two printed pamphlets (present) entitled \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eObservations Sur La Maladie Des Pommes De Terre\u003c/title\u003e in French and a copy in German,\n        presenting his treatise on the Potato Disease (1849 Feb 2)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e J.T. Gordon explains being detained in the lieu d'aisance while reading Senator [William McKendree] Gwin 's attack on the Administration (1852 Jul 9)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Willis Arnold Gorman (1816-1876) agrees to a resolution to supply the heads of Departments with copies of the [Presidential Message ?] and accompanying documents (1852 Dec 14)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e J. Thompson Graham solicits money for the American Emigrant's Friend Society whose object is to \"afford protection from fraud, imposition \u0026amp; extortion to all foreign immigrants of whatever class, nation or creed, and procure for them situations\n        free of charge.\" (1852 Oct 24)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e William A. Graham (1804-1875), Secretary of the Navy, concerning the applications of various persons for assistance or for government positions such as the Virginian Mr. Chapman for purser in the Navy, a term of shore duty for Purser Forrest of the\n        U.S.S. Ohio, David Taylor of North Carolina prosecuting a claim in the Indian Bureau, the application of William E. Hopkins for a commission upon the frigate Cumberland, the appointment of Tobias Wolfe as Naval Storekeeper at Memphis, the application\n        of Commander John Rudd for a command in the Mediterranean Squadron, and inquires about the circumstances surrounding the death of James H. Norwood, Indian Agent, who was killed at Sergeants Bluff on the Missouri River (1850-1852)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Horace Greeley (1811-1872) discusses the advantages of his new \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eWhig Almanac\u003c/title\u003e which he sends to Alexander H. H. Stuart, \"I have endeavored in\n        this Almanac to condense into a single view the essential characteristics of the two great antagonist parties which now so evenly divide the country. I think this view, if generally circulated, will exert a salutary influence on the formation of\n        political sentiment in our country and that this may be felt, even in the approaching Presidential contest.\" (1852 Jan 25)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e F. Gremger asks Alexander H. H. Stuart to visit the State Agricultural Fair of New York (1851 Sep 3)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e William Grever asks Stuart to loan him enough money to pay off James J. Trotter in return for a deed of trust upon all his property (1850 Oct 3)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Benjamin Edwards Grey supplies a testimonial for John B. Temple and explains why he is willing to recommend Colonel Irwin to a clerkship (1852 Mar 17)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e George G. Grove asking for his distributive share of the funds of the B. Buler estate (1851 Oct 12)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Francis Grund asks for copies of Alexander H. H. Stuart 's Report for \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eThe New York Herald\u003c/title\u003e and other newspapers (1851)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Hiland Hall (1795-1885) suggests that Judge Thornton's name should precede Mr. W[?]'s in the Secretary's instructions (1851 Sep 20)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Nathan Kelsey Hall (1810-1874) invites Alexander H. H. Stuart to Buffalo for a little reception for President Fillmore at the conclusion of his term and asks him to convince William A. Graham to attend as well (1853 Jan 5); and writes about Fillmore\n        wondering if the remaining Fillmore Cabinet members would attend a reunion at Buffalo (1871 Jan 5)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e J.K. Hanson encloses a letter from Hugh W. Sheffey referring to the bounty land warrant of his cousin Celly (1852 Apr 3)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e J. Hardesty, President of the Rough and Ready Club of Rockingham County, which procured a silver pitcher to be presented to Alexander H. H. Stuart as a tribute (1848 Oct 25)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Kenton Harper writes enclosing the wills of Alex Grove and Lewis K Terrill and their effects from Camp Buena Vista following the Mexican War (1847 Dec 13); congratulates Alexander H. H. Stuart on his appointment as Secretary of the Interior (1850 Sep\n        14); mentions his service as commandant of the Port of Parras in the Mexican War (1850 Sep 30); discusses his appointment to the Chickasaw Indian Agency (1851 Mar 18); his report concerning affairs at the Chickasaw Agency and his concern that there are\n        many white persons living in the Agency without regular permission (1851 Sep 15); concern over the run-down condition of the Agency farm and house, cost of hiring \"a negro woman who belongs to an Indian,\" and the probability that he will only stay for\n        one year (1851 Sep 15); encloses a copy of his letter to the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, L. Lea, about purchasing farming implements for \"the Caddos\" and asks Alexander H. H. Stuart 's influence to have his son, George K. Harper, appointed agent\n        for the purchase (1851 Sep 22); the complaints from the Chickasaws about the wild tribes trespassing upon their territory, a recent visit from the chief of the Caddos, George Washington, who said that his tribe had been driven out of Texas, and brought\n        up to this country by his father, Chief Chonena, who asked for and received a strip of land on the Washita from the General Council of the Choctaws, producing a certificate signed by George Folsom, one of the Choctaw District Chiefs, to prove what he\n        said. The Chief also said that General Armstrong had promised them farming implements and other tools so they could settle down on the land allotted to them by the Choctaws, in a group of about 300 to 400. An eleven year old Mexican girl rescued from\n        Indian captivity was left in his care by his predecessor, Colonel Long and he asks what is to be done with her (1851 Sep 22); and his investigation of charges of a wagonload of liquor being brought into the Indian Territory for sale (1851 Oct 5).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e J. Morrison Harris, Maryland Historical Society, informs Alexander H. H. Stuart of his honorary membership (1850 May 20)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Judge N. Harrison, Salt Sulphur Springs, Monroe County, West Virginia, writes concerning several suits in his court and business matters involving Alexander H. H. Stuart ([1869] Sep 3)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Solomon George Haven (1810-1861) hopes that Alexander H. H. Stuart will make a great impact in politics in the Old Dominion, and remarks about his own area, \"I cannot tell you much of politics in this section [of New York ], there is almost a torpor.\n        I have no choice between the democrats and the Republicans. The former is made up of the foreign votes here \u0026amp; the latter partly in the same way and partly of the very dishonest men amongst our native born citizens. The Americans have a most worthy\n        state ticket in this State... Today the chances are in favor of the Republicans carrying the state but the battle has yet got to be set in array before results can be foretold. Perhaps the result of the struggle in Kansas and a full opening of Congress\n        is necessary to give any form whatever, to the future\" (1857 Oct 8).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e A.M. Hay, his cousin, discusses the loss of her husband and the death of Alexander H. H. Stuart 's father, her plans to join her sister Mary in Athens, Greece, to help her run a boarding house for the upper class Greek girls attending the mission\n        school, and requests Alexander H. H. Stuart 's aid in securing letters of introduction from Mr. Webster to the various consuls at ports of call along the way (1852 Aug 25)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e T.S. Haymond explains the causes of the defeat of the Whig candidate for Governor of Virginia, George William Summers (1804-1868) in the recent election, in his area of Virginia, the northwestern section of the state [ Monongalia County, West\n        Virginia ?] (1851 Dec 20)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Isaac Hazlehurst asks that Alexander H. H. Stuart send him copies of his articles signed \"Madison\" in reference to the American question (1857 Jun 24)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Richard H. Henderson, Virginia Colonization Society, refers to the \"true policy of Virginia to keep down the free colored population of the state: that her legislature originated the scheme for colonizing this population beyond the borders of the\n        United States; that appropriations have been well received by the people\" and recommends extending the act to those slaves set free by wills; and \"The prohibitions as to the admission of free blacks in the non- slaveholding states are well known; and,\n        should the other southwestern states follow the example set them by Mississippi as they soon will, either a channel must be opened through which this population may flow off to Africa, or it will increase amongst us to a most mischievous extent.\" (1837\n        Oct 28)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eProfessor Joseph Henry, Smithsonian Institute, letter of introduction for Mr. F. [Bonynge] the author of a work on the culture of tea and indigo in the United States (1852 Aug 4)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Britton A. Hill writes enclosing his newspaper articles defending Alexander H. H. Stuart 's decision in the Labeaume land grant case which was attacked in \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eThe St. Louis Republican\u003c/title\u003e by the claimant Maguire (1852 Feb 6 \u0026amp; 9)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e William L. Hodge encloses a newsclipping about the decision of Millard Fillmore not to be a candidate for the Presidency and how much such a declaration will injure Fillmore and the party (1852 Jan 20)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e J.E. Holmes asks Alexander H. H. Stuart to recommend to the President that he increase the salary of District Judge Hoffman in San Francisco, California, lest he leave and an inferior officer replace him (1851 Oct 25)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRev. Samuel Rutherford Houston to Dr. John J. Moorman seeking Alexander H. H. Stuart 's influence to have him appointed Principal of the Institution for the Deaf and Dumb in Staunton, Virginia (1852 Feb 24)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e M.U. Houston both letters discuss the Wheeling Bridge case in which a suit was brought alleging that the Wheeling Bridge was not suitable for railroad purposes and Alexander H. H. Stuart 's role in the matter (1850 Mar 16 \u0026amp; Jun 8)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Benjamin Chew Howard refers to the Wheeling Bridge case and asks if Alexander H. H. Stuart wishes his brief to be inserted in his argument (1852 Jul 30)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Robert Hull acknowledges the receipt of a check which makes them even and encloses a graphic and highly complimentary sketch of Mr. Alexander H. H. Stuart from a Boston paper (1851 Oct 3)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Andrew Hunter writes about the \"Beeler Case\" and wishes to receive his administration fee now in Alexander H. H. Stuart 's hands (1851 Nov 27); and comments on his grief that Jefferson County has elected two Democrats to the Legislature, mentions\n        other items about local Virginia politics, and the dissatisfaction of the voters at Harpers Ferry due to certain army regulations (1851 Nov 27 \u0026amp; Dec 9)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e R.M.T. Hunter (1809-1887) asks Alexander H. H. Stuart to send an estimate of the expense of the wings of the Capitol to be included in the Civil and Diplomatic Bill (1852 Feb 3)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e John Daniel Imboden (1823-1895) writes concerning the suit of Daniel Mosby against Thomas Johnson and Thomas Turk over possession of a tract of land and asks if Alexander H. H. Stuart has made any arrangements for someone to take over his legal cases\n        (1850 Sep 23); his introduction of a series of land resolutions concerning the distribution of the proceeds from the sale of public lands approved by an act of Congress on September 4, 1841, and the possible use of such funds for the purpose of\n        education, and asks Alexander H. H. Stuart to get a clerk to make a brief statement as to what appropriations of land have been made for educational and internal improvements, to what states, when, and for what specific objects, has hopes of carrying\n        the Central Railroad this session along with other internal improvements, the great excitement over the next Presidential election with Millard Fillmore being the choice of the Virginia Whigs with Alexander H. H. Stuart being mentioned as the\n        Vice-Presidential candidate (1852 Jan 31); writes again concerning the great Central line of improvement through Virginia, especially a proposition to construct a railroad from Covington to the Ohio River on state account and asks if he can negotiate\n        the sale of stock in London or New York (1853 Jan 22)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Joseph K. Irving, San Francisco, writes through W.D. Fair, praising the fidelity of James M. Crane, editor of \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eThe California Courier,\u003c/title\u003e to Whig\n        principles and doctrines, discusses \"the gross frauds and outrageous wrongs inflicted and committed by the [Locofocos], in the matter of the contested seats\" (1851 Mar 4); and introduces Dr. Wozencraft, California Indian agent (1852 Nov 30)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e G.W. Israel asks for a donation for a seminary to train teachers of moderate circumstances to educate the lower classes (1853 Feb 8)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e S.D. Jacobs refers to changes of mail routes proposed by R.G. Harmon (1851 Nov 13)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e John Janney (1798-1872) writes concerning the necessity of resigning his position, as the Commissioner to West Virginia, due to his poor eyesight, unless the Legislature decides to settle the state debt question by agreeing to pay two-thirds of the\n        debt and repudiating the balance, leaving the creditors of the state of Virginia to look to West Virginia for the residue (1866-1867)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e G.N. Johnson concerning the legal case of the Bank of the United States vs Samuel Leake (1840 May 14)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e R.[G.] Johnson writes about postponing the argument in a legal case, \"the only question to be argued in the brief case, is, whether the act of Congress does not legalize the Brief\" (1850-1853 all about this case)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e William B. Kayser notifies Alexander H. H. Stuart that Dr. Hall has received payment through the Finley estate and has remitted five hundred dollars to Alexander H. H. Stuart drawn on the Bank of Winchester (1852 Sep 24)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e John P. Kennedy (1795-1870) tries to secure a clerkship for a friend, Mr. Ridgate (1850 Sep 18); regards \"every man now who places the Compromise [of 1850 ?] in the front of his creed a good and true Whig -and every convert to the Administration on\n        that ground a new recruit to the standard of Whig principles\" (1851 Apr 17); arrangements made for the ceremony connected with the committee on the Inauguration of the Statue (1853 Jan 7); attempts to persuade Alexander H. H. Stuart to accompany\n        himself and Mr. Millard Fillmore on a trip south to Richmond, Charleston, Savannah, and then on to Cuba, West Indies, New Orleans and thence to Kentucky and home (1854 Feb 13)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Joseph C.G. Kennedy, Census Office, writes about various properties (1847 Jun 17); recommends that Mr. Hall be sent to Richmond to retake the census for that city (1851 Apr 2); mentions Alexander H. H. Stuart 's election to the National Institute\n        (1851 Apr 8); beginning in May of 1851, he writes six letters during his trip to Europe to study the European use of statistics and their use in legislation, the census, and agricultural production; visits the Statistical Society of London and\n        discusses the ratio of representation, fractions, and population (1851 Jun 3); visits the President of the Board of Trade to get information on the true basis of statistical knowledge (1851 Jun 10); urged to stay and address the British Association for\n        the Promotion of Science of which Prince Albert was President, his visits to some of the foremost statistical men connected to British government offices and other nations such as Prussia, France, and Belgium (1851 Jun 23); his description of Berlin\n        and Wittenberg, recommendation that a Bureau of Agriculture \u0026amp; Statistics be created along the lines of those in France and Belgium, prediction that America will march to a degree of honor and prosperity that will far exceed any of the old world\n        (1851 Aug 7); on recommendation of Baron Humboldt he plans to visit Vienna (1851 Aug 17); at home, the mania for rail and plank roads, political news of Pennsylvania, and his expectation that the Scott Whigs will carry the Presidency (1852 Oct 16);\n        discusses the political race between Scott and Harrison in the region of Pittsburgh ([?] Oct 12)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Kent Lumber Company concerning the payment of drafts incurred by federal agencies (1852 Oct 27)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Andrew W. Kercheval with a genealogical inquiry about James Wood, a Revolutionary General and Virginia Governor (1867 Feb 14)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e William Kerr seeking whiskey patronage (1851 Nov 14)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Samuel D. King about California affairs, blames the Whig government for neglecting the state and predicts bad consequences for the upcoming election (1851 Jul 14)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Jefferson Kinney all three letters deal with business matters such as the sale of Alexander H. H. Stuart 's lots in Staunton for a railroad passenger depot and possible benefits to the town from the railroad (1852)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Nicholas Kinney refers to the speech of [Mr. Nathaniel Pitcher Tallmadge ?] concerning the Bankruptcy Bill, the Locofocos, his disappointment with his friend [ Thomas Walker?] Gilmer, the conversion of David W. Patteson, who is a possible candidate\n        for Congress, to Methodism (1841 Sep 3); sends a copy of letter from the Rev. B.M. Smith concerning a rumor that Alexander H. H. Stuart contradicted his statement about Dr. Ticknor's qualifications as assistant physician at the Asylum (1851 Feb 18\n        \u0026amp; 26); the strong position of the Whig party at present (1851 Feb 26)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e R.H. Kinney asks Alexander H. H. Stuart to pursue the military claim of the heirs of Dr. Roberts (1841 Jun 25)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e William Kinney reports on several court cases and discusses political appointments, especially Mr. Hagarty for the Liverpool consulate, and Alexander H. H. Stuart 's vote to rescind the 21 rule (1841 Jun 13); complains about the behavior of the Whig\n        Congress so far, discusses Alexander H. H. Stuart 's outline of his plan of operations for this session and not fixing the ratio of representation under the new census for the next Congress, his fear that the Locofocos will gain influence in the\n        Virginia State Legislature, the resignation of \"Extra Billy\" [Governor William Smith ] from his seat in the Senate and his hopes that the House of Representatives would give the seat to Extra \"for really I consider him a great nuisance in the Senate,\"\n        believes that Webster's objections to the appointment of Hagarty to the consulate of Liverpool not valid as he [wrongly !] thinks Nicholas Trist was born in Louisiana and is not a Virginian, and discusses his [Kentz?] suit at length (1841 Jun 23);\n        argues that the success of the suit of Porterfield vs Clark hinges on proving that the country in question belonged to the Cherokees in 1779, found out that Silas E. Burrows is the favorite of Webster for the Liverpool consulate, while the leading\n        merchants of New York favor Hagarty, and says Tucker will accept the professorship of law on condition that they will let him reside out of the precincts of the University [of Virginia] (1841 Jul 22); reports that they have just finished the battle for\n        Speaker of the Virginia Legislature with the election of [Valentine Wood] Southall considered a Whig victory, \"we had a long, I cannot say very able or palatable message from the accidental Gov. of Virginia -coming into office as he did, he ought to\n        have been modest\" (1841 Dec 6); notes that the introduction of a batch of Federal resolutions into the House have alarmed the Locofocos, especially the one urging the repeal of the Distribution Act, which is popular in the Western part of the state,\n        and discusses the prospects of several men for the Governorship of Virginia (1841 Dec 24); reports on election results in Augusta County, urges Alexander H. H. Stuart to write some articles on the Tariff to attract the support of the young farmers and\n        mechanics which are being courted by the Democrats as new voters under the new state constitution (1851 Oct 24); discusses the legal case of Woods vs Brooks and expresses his confidence in the election of General Scott (1852 Jul 13); discusses the\n        election of cashier at the Bank and the appointment of a marshall for the western district of Virginia (1852 Nov 12 \u0026amp; 30); and discusses the affairs of the Staunton Bank, of which he is President, and the Central Railroad (1852 Dec 23)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e O.B. Knode asks Alexander H. H. Stuart 's influence be used to have Colonel Tiernan appointed to a judgeship in Utah (1852 Jan 22)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e F.A. Kownslar writes concerning a debt (1833 Jun 24)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Daniel Kraber concerning the will of George Lightner with a copy of the will attached (1831 Nov 15)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e J.D. Kurtz concerning cadet appointments (1853 Jan 17)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e John H.B. Latrobe appreciates Alexander H. H. Stuart 's speech and the exposition of the operation of the partnership principle by Alexander H. H. Stuart (1838 Sep 1)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Joseph S. Leake inquires about the price of one of Mr. Alexander H. H. Stuart 's houses (1831 Nov 3)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Adam Lee about taking up a land agency in the Transalleghany country (1831 Mar 11)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e John Letcher (1813-1884) hopes Alexander H. H. Stuart has received the seeds sent by his friend Whiting (1856 May 2)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e [Will H. Lewis ?], State Department, sends invitation to dine (n.d.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e John Tayloe Lomax asks which states are a good market for legal books, expresses his opinion of the need for a protective tariff, his hope that Henry Clay will run as the Whig candidate for President, and the appearance that John C. Calhoun was the\n        most prominent of the Locofocos (1842 Jul 8)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e L. Luckett describes his family's trip to Memphis, [Tennessee] (1859 Aug 1); mentions seeing the manufacture of weapons in Richmond and his trip to New Orleans during the Civil War, the condition of the cotton crop, benefits of the war in uniting the\n        South, the vast difference between the Southerners and the Yankees, the ironclad [Thunderbolt ?] expected to leave New Orleans this week to go against Fort St. Phillip and Jackson (1861 Sep 2); refers to negotiations with England by the South and\n        refers to slavery \"our peculiar institution that they hoped was our weakness, is a tower of strength.\" (1861 Dec 23)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e James Lyons appreciates Alexander H. H. Stuart 's speech upon the subject of a national Bank and recommends the establishment of an Exchange Bank with branches in all of the states and regrets the division that the Bank issue has brought between the\n        executive and legislative branches (1841 Aug 20)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Joseph S. Machie both letters discuss getting the deposition of James M.H. Beale for a trial (1851-1852)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e James MacDonald wants his younger brother appointed a surgeon either in the Navy or Army (1851 Oct 8)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Redick McKee reports on the progress of the Commission sent to California to visit the hundreds of small Indian tribes and families, his plans to soon visit the tribes along the Mercede River, Mariposa County, the condition of the Whig Party in\n        California, the upcoming Senatorial contest, and his desire for the San Francisco Custom House position if it comes open (1851 Jan 28); reports signing the first treaty between the United States and the California Indians at Camp Fremont on March 19th\n        with six tribes and the possibility of a treaty with two more tribes near Fresno River, the poor quality of the soil, and his poor opinion of Dr. Wozencraft, California Indian agent (1851 Mar 21); recommends pacifying the Indians with a liberal supply\n        of beef and flour, his disagreement with Wozencraft who entered into a contract with Fremont, a political opponent, to supply beef to the Indians before the treaties were ratified by Congress and signed by the President, mentions other scandals and\n        improprieties in the Indian agency of California, and feels that reorganization of the whole governmental system in California is necessary (1851 Jun 30); desires the newly created position of \"Superintendent of Indian Affairs for the Pacific Coast\"\n        and criticizes the appointment of Lt. Beall as Indian Commissioner for California because he is known as a Democrat (1852 Mar 17 \u0026amp; May 5)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Thomas M.S. McKennan letter of introduction for William Mills (1851 Oct 29)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Lewis McKenzie asks Alexander H. H. Stuart to speak before the Bell \u0026amp; Everett Club as a friend of the Union (1860 Aug 31)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e William McLaughlin asks if Staunton will support the invitation by the Franklin Club, Washington College, and the Virginia Military Institute, to Edward Everett to speak in Lexington in order to raise money to purchase Mount Vernon (1857 Nov 23)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Theodorick B. McRobert thanks Alexander H. H. Stuart for the clerkship in the Department of the Interior (1850 Oct 3); includes a letter from Archibald B. Walker concerning a possible pension based on the Revolutionary War service of Alexander Walker\n        (1850 Nov 26 \u0026amp; 1851 Jan 8); includes a letter from the Rev. Luther Emerson, of Cob Bottom, Highland County, who promises to write a series of essays on the Scriptural view of slavery if McRobert will help him get some Northern Whig newspapers to\n        print them (1851 Dec 18 \u0026amp; 26)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e F. Madera requests a promotion in the Pension Office (1851 Dec 30)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Allan B. Magruder writes to secure a cadetship for his son, John T. Magruder, at West Point, and asks for a letter of introduction to the Secretary of the Navy on behalf of his brother, Captain Magruder (1851-1853); he also expresses his\n        disappointment that Millard Fillmore did not receive the nomination at the Baltimore Convention (1852 Jun 24)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e James Maguire accuses Mr. Bartlett, the Mexican Boundary Survey Commissioner, of embezzling (1851 Mar 29)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Francis Mallory (1807-1860) congratulates Alexander H. H. Stuart on his appointment to the Cabinet (1851 Jun 13); discusses the case of Mr. Kyle of Norfolk and criticizes Mr. Eubank and his staff over his handling of Kyle's case (1852); and informs\n        Alexander H. H. Stuart that the Whigs of Norfolk want the postmaster position to go to John P. Leigh when Mr. Cohen dies (1852 Sep 29)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e N. Marmion to Messrs. Baldwin \u0026amp; Stuart, Attorneys-at-Law, concerning the debt of George Nicholson (1834 Mar 6 \u0026amp; Aug 21)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Timothy Marmion writes concerning business matters (n.y. Dec 21)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e J.K. Marshall writes concerning a debt owed by Messrs. Harman \u0026amp; Garber (1852 Jan 30)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Thomas A. Marshall inquires if Alexander H. H. Stuart can help him determine if James M. Moffit is deceased, Moffit was a plaintiff in the legal case of Miller heirs vs Boatman (1833)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Thomas Martin notifies Alexander H. H. Stuart that his father, Pleasant Martin, has moved to Tennessee (1830 Jul 27)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e William Martin discusses the upcoming Virginia election for governor and the need for Governor Francis Harrison Pierpont to convince the Legislature to fix the question of the payment of the interest on the public debt (1867 Feb 10)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Maryland Institute Officers \u0026amp; Managers ask Alexander H. H. Stuart to deliver their \"Annual Address\" at the opening of the Annual Exhibition of Manufacturers \u0026amp; Machinery (1851 Oct 6)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e James Murray Mason (1798-1871) regrets that he does not have any of the published documents concerning the Wheeling Bridge case, excepting the \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eCongressional Globe\u003c/title\u003e at home (1853 Oct 22)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e [John Young] Mason (1799-1859) recommending John Dabney for some Federal government position (1851 Dec 30)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eColonel James W. Massie writes concerning a debt owed to Hugh McClure (1871 Apr 17)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Thomas E. Massie, Santa Fe, New Mexico, introduces D.V. Whiting, as knowledgeable of modern languages (1852 May 5)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Joel E. Matthews writes concerning the legal case of Matthews vs Minzes (1851-1852)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Tyre Maupin informs Alexander H. H. Stuart that the Rough and Ready Club of Rockingham County plan to present him with a silver pitcher for his services to the Whig Party (1848 Sep 3); asks if Alexander H. H. Stuart knows whether James Madison ever\n        offered a Cabinet position to General Scott and informs him that he plans to vote for Scott now that he has the Whig nomination (1852 Jul 17)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e R. Mayo asks for a favorable review of his book now before the Pension Committee of the Senate (1852)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Thompson G. Martin writes concerning his efforts to sell some Alexander H. H. Stuart land for them in Scott County, Virginia, and Tennessee (1831, 1834)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMembers of the Virginia Legislature names Whig candidates favored by themselves for several positions (n.d.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMemoranda of A.H.H. Stuart while Secretary of the Interior, chiefly concerning appointments and removals for positions in the government under his jurisdiction (ca. 1851-1853)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e C.F. Mercer, President of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company, writes to Alexander H. H. Stuart as their representative (1832 May 28)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Hugh Mercer asks Daniel Webster to transfer his son, George Weedon Mercer, from the Second Auditor's Office, to the State Department (1851 Feb 22 \u0026amp; Jul 4)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e [S.]C.M. Merillat asks Alexander H. H. Stuart if he knows if Congress plans on raising the duties on foreign iron in the near future as he has interests in an iron rolling mill and they need to decide what to do with it now that it has suspended\n        operations (1852 Jun 1)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e C.H. Merritt sends Alexander H. H. Stuart a ring made out of native gold of New Mexico (1851 Sep 30) and introduces Judge Houghton of New Mexico (1851 Oct 20)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Thomas J. Michie (1795-1873) writes concerning various legal cases (1845 Aug 1; 1850 Dec 19; 1852 Jan 18 \u0026amp; 29 and Oct 15); congratulates him on his appointment to the Cabinet and expresses his hopes that the Administration will benefit from any\n        good will generated by the Compromise of 1850, his regret at being without Alexander H. H. Stuart 's companionship during his stay in Washington, and offers to help with any of his legal cases when he is not on the other side (1850 Sep 15); thanks\n        Alexander H. H. Stuart for his gift, comments on the recent election, \"for I could not but believe that a majority of the new made vote would be Democratic, \u0026amp; I knew the power of the party which, to make men forget every excellence, \u0026amp; carry out\n        the behests of the party...nor are the Whigs less the slaves of such machinery than the Democrats,\" discusses the plight of Hungarian patriot and statesman, Lajos Kossuth (1802-1894), and mentions \"the young Napoleon\" [ Napoleon III ] (1851 Dec 29);\n        sends a printed copy of his points of law, made in the appeal case of Points, assignee of Hottle vs Crawford, and discusses the case (1852 Jan 14)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e William C. Micou asks for his assistance in a case now before the Supreme Court (1852 Oct 20)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Daniel F. Miller to Thomas Corwin -asks for Isaac Leffler (1788-1866), a former Whig member of Congress from Virginia, to be appointed to one of the land districts in Iowa; President Millard Fillmore appointed him receiver of public moneys for the\n        Chariton land district of Iowa on August 30th (1852 Aug 17)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Jacob Welsh Miller (1800-1862) introduces George P. [?], of New Jersey, a member of the U.S. \u0026amp; Mexican Boundary Commission (1852 May 5)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e James Miller asks Alexander H. H. Stuart to intervene with John P. Kennedy on his brother's behalf for an appointment in the Navy Department (1852 Dec 1)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Zophar Mills, Chairman of the Seventh Ward Democratic Whig Association of the City of New York, encloses a copy of the Preamble and Constitution of the Association (1851 Jul 8)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Joseph L. Mitchell acknowledges the receipt of the agricultural book (1852 Feb 7)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e John Moebus requests Alexander H. H. Stuart to furnish him with the money to reach New York (1852 Jun 22)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e John Moffett writes concerning his unhappiness over the nomination of General Winfield Scott and his fears of a military candidate and Roman Catholics in the election (1852 Jun 27)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Thomas S. Moffett, cousin of Alexander H. H. Stuart, requests he send one hundred dollars to Richmond (1834 Jan 27)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Henry W. Moncure asks for a letter of introduction to Abbott Lawrence, the United States Minister to Great Britain, to facilitate his tour of Europe (1852 Jun 9)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Charles P. Montague volunteers to carry dispatches abroad for the Federal government (1852 Jun 8)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e D.E. Moore expresses dismay at the election of John Tyler as President (1841 Aug 26)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e John K. Moore asks that Alexander H. H. Stuart remember his son, John B. Moore, who was unable to continue his plan of working in the mines due to dysentery caught while waiting in Panama for a ship, if any appointments open up in California (1850\n        Nov 27); and expresses his disgust at the nomination of General Scott (1852 Jul 6)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e L.T. Moore writes concerning the Beeler family estate (1851 Oct 10,18, 21)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Samuel McDowell Moore writes letters concerning political events in Virginia and the Virginia Legislature, including: the \"Senatorial Lottery,\" his own possible candidacy for office in the Virginia Senate to oppose the \"unworthy\" David W. Patteson, a\n        bill for a Railroad from Staunton to Harpers Ferry to Baltimore, the reorganization of the courts, and his opposition to amalgamating the Common Law and Chancery Court (1830 Jan 24); his busy schedule with the Committee on Elections which sent Barbour\n        and Davis back to try again, returning the elections to the people for a revote, with no information about Alexander H. H. Stuart 's Senator (1830 Dec 25); passage of the Railway Bill from Staunton to the Potomac, and tells about the nephew of Chief\n        Justice John Marshall shooting and killing William Gott after he refused to duel with him (1831 Feb 23-24); news that Jefferson [Kinney?] plans to run as a candidate for the Senate against Patteson and his own indecision about whether to run as well\n        (1831 Mar 2); thanks Alexander H. H. Stuart for his opinions about Moore running for the Virginia Senate in order to unseat David W. Patteson, speaks about his opposition to the odious amendment to Alexander H. H. Stuart 's Railroad Bill introduced\n        into the House of Delegates which prohibited the government from subscribing to any part of the stock, the 29th section of the bill was stricken out, discusses all of his work to secure the passage of the bill as Alexander H. H. Stuart submitted it,\n        and mentions the Judiciary Bill (1831 Mar 17); discusses the bill affecting court clerk fees, his decision not to run for the Virginia Senate seat, and the Railroad Bill (1831 Apr 10); furnishes his opinion of the elections at Rockbridge and Augusta,\n        Mr. Dorman's efforts for David W. Patteson and against his own candidate (1831 Jun 30, Jul 4 \u0026amp; 5); discusses the bill for internal improvements, the work of the Special Committee regarding the subject of removing free Negroes and Mulattoes, the\n        emancipation of slaves, the majority of the Committee refused to pay for the Negroes killed in Southampton, and other propositions concerning slaves and their removal from western Virginia (1832 Jan 5); following Moore's election to the House of\n        Representatives, he believes the followers of Martin Van Buren have the political advantage, the President seems anxious to get Daniel Webster into the Democratic Party in order to carry the Senate in their favor, Nullifiers also want Webster to switch\n        parties to alienate Southerners, destroy the Union, and establish a Southern Confederacy, the inadvisability of Henry Clay running for President, and mention of Richard M. Johnson of Kentucky as a probable candidate for Vice-President with Van Buren\n        (1833 Dec 24); discusses the election of [Littleton Waller] Tazewell (1774-1860) as evidence that the \"Old Dominion\" is dead set against Martin Van Buren for President and other political matters, and includes an amusing story of his social life (1834\n        Jan 11); his concern over the Banking Bill and false accusations against Moore printed by the editor of \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eThe Fincastle Patriot\u003c/title\u003e 1834 Apr 7);\n        encouraged by the results of the Virginia elections and other political gossip (1834 May 20); discusses the resolutions regarding the Sub-Treasury scheme, Calhoun's speech supporting the scheme, and Clay's speech against it and Calhoun, and mention of\n        the Locofoco Party (1838 Feb 22); some of the Whigs uneasy over Alexander H. H. Stuart 's vote on the 21st Rule which vote Moore approved, \"I consider the true ground on which to meet the abolitionists is that they are prohibited by the Constitution\n        from interfering with our domestic concerns, and we should meet them on the ramparts of the Constitution. And not in endeavoring to defend a rule of order of at least doubtful justice and propriety,\" and furnishes his version of the history of the\n        \"abolition humbug\" beginning with General Jackson kicking Calhoun out of the \"Kitchen Cabinet\" and continuing with Calhoun's attempt to fan the flames of sectional division for his own political purposes; and his belief that the Whigs should pass Mr.\n        Ewing's Bank Bill with as little alteration as possible, and mentions Extra Billy Smith 's letter expressing his opinion that Tyler will veto any bill chartering a U.S. Bank (1841 June 22); the defeat of the Bank Bill in Congress, Tyler's attack on the\n        Whig Party as the enemy of States' Rights, the controversy over the nature of the proposed National Bank and his own solution to the problem, and his contention that the Bankruptcy Bill should not be passed at present (1841 Aug 22); complains about\n        [John Minor] Botts giving Whigs a bad name, discusses flaws in the Bank Bill, notes that Whigs are dissatisfied with [William Cabell ?] Rives course in countering the Whig Party, and complains about [Henry Alexander ?] Wise (1841 Aug 27); and discusses\n        the Firebaugh Will legal case (1850 Oct 18; 1852 Jan 5 \u0026amp; Mar 16)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e John Moorman recommends the Rev. Samuel R. Houston as Superintendent of the Deaf and Dumb Asylum at Staunton, Virginia (1852 Mar 4)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e [W.?] Morris seeks a position in the State Department (1852 Dec 1)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e C.L. Mosby writes concerning claims against the Thomas Wells estate (1831 May 18); and asks if he knows of a purser position in the Navy for his brother, William W. Mosby (1851 Dec 15)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e [Alexander] Moseley expresses his concern with President Tyler and Edward Everett 's reply to the abolitionists (1841 Jul-Aug); discusses the idea of acquiring Cuba from Spain and the widespread aversion to Spanish rule in Cuba and his hopes that\n        [John Minor ?] Botts would not be elected (1851 Jun 13 \u0026amp; Oct 20); believes that Millard Fillmore will be nominated at the Baltimore Convention (1852 Mar 20); the need for a full Whig vote in Virginia to defeat Franklin Pierce (1852 Oct 5 \u0026amp;\n        7)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e J.W. Myers questions Stuart about the meaning of President Millard Fillmore 's latest message in regard to military intervention on behalf of the Hungarian Lajos Kossuth or in any European conflict (1851 Dec 11)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Thomas Nairu writes concerning federal appointments in Iowa (1850 Oct 23)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e C.W. Newton, one of the Commissioners chosen to select a site for the Norfolk Custom House, discusses the matter, and recommends that the other commissioners be retained as superintendents to continue with the construction of the Custom House (1851\n        May 1); asks why the delay in the appointment of his friend, Walter H. Taylor (1852 Aug 20); recommends John P. Leigh for the Postmaster position at Norfolk (1852 Sep 29)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Isaac C. Newton regrets his defence of Bryant who was removed from office by his own misconduct and not through prejudice as he claimed (1853 Jan 15)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Dr. C.N. Nichols concerning the purchase of \" Woodstock, \" the farm of Mrs. Brent and a note from John Carroll Brent (1852 Nov 23)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e William Ogden Niles writes concerning the prosecution of parties arrested for frauds upon the Departments of the Interior and the Treasury (1850 Nov 12)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e John A. North furnishes information in several cases in which Alexander H. H. Stuart is listed as Counsel in Judge Thompson's Circuit (1852 Aug 14)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e John A. [Parker ?] thanks Alexander H. H. Stuart for his recent speech on the slavery question and Mr. Lincoln's plan to purchase land to colonize the freed Negroes (1873 Oct 27)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e William Elisha Peters (1829-1906) urges Alexander H. H. Stuart through another faculty member not to use the revenue from the Corcoran fund for the general purposes of the University of Virginia or to any other than the benefit of the Professors\n        which will assure the future of the institution (1876 Nov 23)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[Sir Flinders ?] Petrie, Secretary of the Victoria Institute or Philosophical Society of Great Britain, invites Alexander H. H. Stuart to join the society (1878 Aug 12)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Eb Phlegar furnishes a table of voting in the precincts of Montgomery County and Pulaski County (1841 Apr 24)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e L.M. Powell expresses his concern over Alexander H. H. Stuart 's fall into the water and tells about the loss of his trunk (1860 Oct 23)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e W.A. Powell statement of interest due (1868 Dec 16)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e William Ballard Preston (1805-1862) discusses the Whig Convention in Philadelphia, the nomination of Zachary Taylor, the vulnerability of Lewis Cass, and mentions [John Minor] Botts (1848 Jun 15)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Charles Radziminski asks for a leave of absence to be arranged so he can travel to Europe and check on his family whom he has not heard from since his exile from Poland for revolutionary activity in 1834 (1852 Aug 1)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Robert Ridgway (1823-1870) asks Alexander H. H. Stuart if he would accept the opposition nomination for Governor and discusses others who might accept a position on the ticket (1859 Jan 9)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Lawrence Riggs writes about the desire of Rev. F.W. Hatch for the Chaplaincy to the U.S. Marine Hospital at St. Louis (1851 Jan 8)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Alexander Rives discusses the idea of secession, \"A vague fear distresses us, lest our people should be maddened by occurrences at the South and dragged after the seceding states. I am clean for keeping the state out of that vortex.\" He also suggests\n        that the Southern representatives meet with their Stephen Douglass allies and agree to serve in Lincoln's Cabinet if asked (1860 Nov 20) and \"You can well conceive that I am not favorably inclined to our unceremonious \u0026amp; unexpected transfer to Jeff.\n        Davis \u0026amp; Co. I did not like the Convention's adoption of Judge Allen's sophism in the preamble to the Act of Secession; -it is a false gloss and unworthy of the state;\" (1861 May 13)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e William Cabell Rives expresses hopes that they can create a great National Conservative Party to preserve the Union and avoid the extremism proclaimed by Mr. Seward in recent speeches in New York (1859 Jan 5); and fears his health will not permit him\n        to give the speech on behalf of the Committee to the people of the United States; he died on April 25 (1868 Jan 7)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e William Barton Rogers hesitates to endorse any mining and economical surveys, and mentions that he enjoyed the address of his friend Judge Bradley at the public exercises at the University of Virginia (1881 Jul 7)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e W.H. Ruffner wishes that Alexander H. H. Stuart would receive the nomination for the Vice-Presidency and asks Alexander H. H. Stuart to come to Philadelphia to make a speech before the Convention, \"A little glorification of Hungary -some leanings\n        toward our `Manifest Destiny' -a few digs at `European despotisms' -a compliment to the Sultan -a javelin at Nicholas -in short `much ado about nothing' is all that is needed.\" (1851 Dec 5)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Benjamin Rush expresses his admiration for Alexander H. H. Stuart and his efforts to avoid the dissolution of the Union before the Civil War and hopes to further reconciliation between the North and South should he be elected to Congress (1874 Aug\n        4)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e John C. Rusmisell discusses the popular election of Joseph Johnson for Governor in Virginia under the new state constitution (1851 Dec 25)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e N[athan] Sargent (1794-1875), author of \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003ePublic Men and Events,\u003c/title\u003e in several letters that reveal the turbulent condition of American politics\n        during the period immediately preceding the Civil War, Sargent urges that articles be published in the \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eRichmond Whig\u003c/title\u003e supporting his and\n        Alexander H. H. Stuart 's positions in the upcoming elections, mentions the controversy over the Crittenden Amendment, violent feelings on both sides of the slavery issue, and urges a meeting of representatives of various Conservative groups who wish\n        to work to preserve the Union, hopes for the defeat of John Letcher (1858-1859); and deplores the course of Goggin and Bell of Kentucky, \"I can never subscribe to the doctrine that Congress must protect slavery in the Territories; never. We must\n        repudiate that vagary.\" (1859 Aug 12); and discusses the effect of the outbreak at Harpers Ferry (1859 Oct 24)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e R.E. Scott furnishes his views as to the nomination to be made at the Baltimore Convention (1852 May 22)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Joseph Segar writes concerning the Presidential nomination; his support for Millard Fillmore and his distaste for Scott (1852 Mar 11)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Hugh W. Sheffey compares the advantages of investing in state bonds and U.S. stock, asks his opinion of \"Thompson's Revolution\" before the General Assembly which means to reduce the number of circuit courts and increase the pay of judges, the House\n        of Delegates will soon begin examining the criminal code, expects passage of the Covington and Ohio Railroad Bill, anxious that all the state internal improvements be completed so that Virginia can tap the great Western wealth, and the bill enlarging\n        the limits of Staunton has passed (1848 Feb 12); discusses his recent attempt to pass a bill to reapportion the delegates and senators throughout the Commonwealth and Mr. Scott of Fauquier County 's proposed bill re reapportionment, failure of the bill\n        to extend the Louisa Railroad towards Harrisonburg, his concern over the Whig nomination, \"Stuart, I am satisfied that the nomination of Mr. Clay will prostrate the Whig party in the South -no young man in the South can for twenty years to come expect\n        to rise to any post of honour or distinction if Clay should ever be elected by the Wilmot proviso vote of the North\" (1848 Feb 16); the Virginia Whig Convention voted to support Zachary Taylor for the Presidential candidate (1848 Feb 25); notifies\n        Alexander H. H. Stuart that an appropriation of six thousand dollars was made by the General Assembly to the Deaf \u0026amp; Dumb \u0026amp; Blind Institution to square its debts and warns him as its President not to come to the General Assembly for more\n        assistance (1850 Mar 14); and writes concerning the bounty land warrant of his cousin Celly (1852 Apr 2)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e W.G. [Snethen ?] asks that the Department of the Interior award land sale advertisements to the newspaper \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eThe Virginian\u003c/title\u003e edited by Terry and\n        Shields (1852 Oct 9)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Lord Stirling sends a copy of \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eThe Democratic Review \u003c/title\u003econtaining the first of a series of articles concerning his legally established rights in\n        British North America (1852 Sep 11)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Samuel Strong writes concerning the bids for the extension of the marble work of the Capitol (1851 Nov 5)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e James French Strother (1811-1860) asks Alexander H. H. Stuart to write to Mr. Hall and tell him that he believes the bill authorizing the appointment of an assistant agent will pass (1852 Jun 8)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Alexander H.H. Stuart Letters writes in great detail to Thomas Michie concerning the subjects of internal improvements, especially the James River Company, \u0026amp; the increase of Banking capital and the opposition of Joseph C. Cabell to their plans,\n        and the Democratic Party being forced to accept David Campbell as Governor (1837 Jan 29); to an unknown correspondent, tries to correct the allegation by John Minor Botts that the resolution offered by Alexander H. H. Stuart at the extra session of\n        Congress in June 1841 was copied by Alexander H. H. Stuart from Botts' resolution and presented as his own and asks for his correspondent to be a witness to what actually transpired (1845 Dec 12); furnishes a testimonial to the worthy service W.D.C.\n        Goddard has performed in the Department of the Interior (1852 Jun 30); to his brother, Gerald B. Stuart, writes that William H. Clarke wants a barrel of his best whiskey sent, William Stuart needs a good horse, predicts big battles soon, probably at\n        Yorktown, Harpers Ferry, or Manassas Gap, and says of the Convention, \"We have a most miserable spirit prevailing in the Convention -a spirit of carping \u0026amp; bitter hostility to Letcher -such men as Harris, Ambler, Garnett seem disposed to assail him\n        on every frivolous pretext\" (1861 Jun 15); writes to his daughter, Maggie B. Stuart, concerning her schooling (1873 Feb 7); from the University of Virginia, to his mother, Eleanor Stuart, about his brother Archibald Stuart 's engagement (Oct 7); and to\n        his wife, informing her that he hoped to be home from Washington soon, neither the Whig nor Democratic Parties can command the full loyalty of their followers in the present debate, and describes his anxiety about his children (n.d.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Archibald P. Stuart assures him of his best wishes and support as he leaves for Washington and thanks him for the frock coat and the beautiful wheat (1850 Sep 29)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Eleanor Briscoe Stuart writes concerning the settling of an estate (n.d.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e J.E.B. Stuart while at West Point, answers Alexander H. H. Stuart 's questions about the annuity left him by Uncle Chapman (1851 Dec 25); and writes concerning the opportunities in real estate in Kansas where he is now serving at Fort Leavenworth\n        (1857 Jan 28)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Oscar J.C. Stuart writes concerning Alexander H. H. Stuart 's bereavement, the genealogy of his father's family, particularly his grandfather, John Stockton, and comments on the state of Virginia politics (1859 August 8)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Isaac H. Sturgeon encloses newsclippings concerning the Labaume case (1852 Feb 4)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e George William Summers (1804-1868) describes the death of their friend, Secretary of the Navy Thomas Walker Gilmer (1802-1844), who was killed by the bursting of a gun called \"the Peacemaker\" on board the U.S.S. Princeton on the Potomac River, near\n        Washington, D.C. and what the loss of Secretary of State Abel P. Upshur would mean in the negotiations over the Oregon Territory with the new minister from Great Britain; feels that the quality of this Congress is decidedly inferior to the last, and\n        his approval of Alexander H. H. Stuart 's articles in \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eThe Richmond Whig\u003c/title\u003e (1844 Feb 28); and comments extensively on the \"farce\" of the\n        Democratic-Locofoco nomination of James Polk for President (1844 May 30)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e William T. 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