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The reports consist of conference and workshop\n results organized by Richardson.","Sub-Series C: Research Notes During Richardson's career,\n part of his responsibility was to develop procedures and\n manuals used by African-American Schools in Virginia. This\n sub-series also contains an interesting log concerning the\n Whitcomb court school in Richmond, VA.","Series III. Video Recordings Taped speeches at different\n functions attended by Richardson. Most of the speeches were\n not delivered by Richardson.","Series IV: Photographs Boxes 21-27","Sub-series A: Family and Personal Photo's of activities at\n Virginia State when Richardson was a student and later as a\n teacher at the Mecklenburg County Training School, conferences\n at Virginia State and other areas.","Sub-series B: Education in Virginia (African American\n Schools) Several thousand 3x5 black and white photographs and\n negatives of schools scenes in Virginia. The Photographs were\n taken between the years 1926 and 1938. The Photographs and\n negatives are of European, Native, and African American school\n buildings, some classes, and other activities. Most of the\n developed photographs are of African American schools and\n include Rosenwald, Slater, and other buildings used by African\n Americans in Virginia. *The origin of the photographs and\n negatives is not known. The folders are arranged\n alphabetically by county and city.","Sub-series C. Negatives of the schools and scenes located\n in some of Virginia's counties and cities. These do not have\n an inventory, but are arranged by county and city. In addition\n there are negatives of activities relating to education\n outside of the state of Virginia.","Box #28 Series V: Scrapbooks and Yearbooks Correspondence\n most of which covers Richardson's retirement, two yearbooks\n from Louisa, Virginia.","Series VI: Printed Printed items including certificates,\n pamphlets, and degrees","Box #29 Sub-series A: Awards and Certificates Awards and\n certificates presented to Richardson over the years.","Sub-series B: Pamphlets Two items: one the By-Laws of the\n Southside Interscholastic Athletic Association, documenting an\n early effort to organize African American sports played in the\n high schools.","Sub-series C: Book The Development of Negro Education in\n Virginia, 1831-1970, published by Phi Delta Kappa.","Sub-series D: Degrees Earned Degrees of Archie and Linnie\n Richardson","Box #30 Series-series E: News clippings News clippings from\n a number of newspapers primary from the state of Virginia.","Archie Gibbs Richardson, was the Associate Director of the\n Division of Secondary Education, State Department of\n Education, Richmond, Virginia. He was born in Lexington,\n Virginia, April 4, 1904. Because there were few high schools\n for African American in Virginia, Richardson's parents sent\n him to the high school at the Virginia Normal and Industrial\n Institute at Petersburg where he completed the program in\n 1923. He received the B.A. Degree from Virginia Normal and\n Industrial Institute, Petersburg, in June 1927; the M.S.\n Degree in education from Butler University, Indianapolis,\n Indiana, in June 1939; and was granted the degree of Doctor of\n Education at Columbia University, New York, in1946. In June\n 1957, Virginia State College conferred upon him the honorary\n degree of Doctor of Laws.","Richardson served as principal of the Mecklenburg County\n Training School, in South Hill, Virginia, 1927-1935; and as\n Director of academics at Saint Paul Normal School,\n Lawrenceville, Virginia. The State Superintendent of Public\n Instruction appointed him Assistant Supervisor of \"Negro\"\n Education in 1936. On January 1, 1951, he was promoted to the\n position of Associate Supervisor of Elementary and Secondary\n Education. He received another promotion on September 1, 1966,\n to Associate Director of the Division of Secondary Education.\n He retired April 4, 1969.","Richardson had two elementary schools and one high school\n named for him. The elementary schools were in Culpepper and\n the other in Blackstone, Virginia. Archie Richardson High\n School was located in Louisa County, Virginia.","During his tenure, he contributed a number of articles to\n State and National journals of education. He also authored The\n Development of Negro Education in Virginia.","Mr. Richardson was married to Linnie Ramey for over fifty\n years. Mrs. Richardson taught at schools in Mecklenburg and\n Richmond, Virginia.","How did Virginia explain educational public policy during\n the era of legal segregation? Archie Richardson's main\n responsibility during his tenure with the Department of\n Education was that of official spokesman to the African\n American Community for the State of Virginia. Correspondence,\n speeches, writings, and photographs documenting Archie\n Richardson's position as the only African American\n professional employed by the Education Department in Virginia\n during the era of legal segregation, Constitutes the majority\n of these materials.","There are no restrictions.","In 1936, Archie Richardson became\n the highest-ranking African American in the State Government.\n In that year, he was appointed assistant to the Assistant for\n Negro education in Virginia. 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In June\n 1957, Virginia State College conferred upon him the honorary\n degree of Doctor of Laws.","Richardson served as principal of the Mecklenburg County\n Training School, in South Hill, Virginia, 1927-1935; and as\n Director of academics at Saint Paul Normal School,\n Lawrenceville, Virginia. The State Superintendent of Public\n Instruction appointed him Assistant Supervisor of \"Negro\"\n Education in 1936. On January 1, 1951, he was promoted to the\n position of Associate Supervisor of Elementary and Secondary\n Education. He received another promotion on September 1, 1966,\n to Associate Director of the Division of Secondary Education.\n He retired April 4, 1969.","Richardson had two elementary schools and one high school\n named for him. The elementary schools were in Culpepper and\n the other in Blackstone, Virginia. 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In 1969, he retired as Associate\n Director of the Division of Secondary Education in Virginia.\n His papers consist of correspondence, speeches, writings and\n more than one thousand photographs of Rosenwald, Slater, and\n other schools constructed in Virginia for African Americans in\n the 1930's and before. Acc. #1997-77 Arranged By: Lucious\n Edwards\u003c/abstract\u003e"],"abstract_tesim":["In 1936, Archie Richardson became\n the highest-ranking African American in the State Government.\n In that year, he was appointed assistant to the Assistant for\n Negro education in Virginia. In 1969, he retired as Associate\n Director of the Division of Secondary Education in Virginia.\n His papers consist of correspondence, speeches, writings and\n more than one thousand photographs of Rosenwald, Slater, and\n other schools constructed in Virginia for African Americans in\n the 1930's and before. 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The Photographs were\n taken between the years 1926 and 1938. The Photographs and\n negatives are of European, Native, and African American school\n buildings, some classes, and other activities. Most of the\n developed photographs are of African American schools and\n include Rosenwald, Slater, and other buildings used by African\n Americans in Virginia. *The origin of the photographs and\n negatives is not known. The folders are arranged\n alphabetically by county and city.","Sub-series C. Negatives of the schools and scenes located\n in some of Virginia's counties and cities. These do not have\n an inventory, but are arranged by county and city. In addition\n there are negatives of activities relating to education\n outside of the state of Virginia.","Box #28 Series V: Scrapbooks and Yearbooks Correspondence\n most of which covers Richardson's retirement, two yearbooks\n from Louisa, Virginia.","Series VI: Printed Printed items including certificates,\n pamphlets, and degrees","Box #29 Sub-series A: Awards and Certificates Awards and\n certificates presented to Richardson over the years.","Sub-series B: Pamphlets Two items: one the By-Laws of the\n Southside Interscholastic Athletic Association, documenting an\n early effort to organize African American sports played in the\n high schools.","Sub-series C: Book The Development of Negro Education in\n Virginia, 1831-1970, published by Phi Delta Kappa.","Sub-series D: Degrees Earned Degrees of Archie and Linnie\n Richardson","Box #30 Series-series E: News clippings News clippings from\n a number of newspapers primary from the state of Virginia.","Archie Gibbs Richardson, was the Associate Director of the\n Division of Secondary Education, State Department of\n Education, Richmond, Virginia. He was born in Lexington,\n Virginia, April 4, 1904. Because there were few high schools\n for African American in Virginia, Richardson's parents sent\n him to the high school at the Virginia Normal and Industrial\n Institute at Petersburg where he completed the program in\n 1923. He received the B.A. Degree from Virginia Normal and\n Industrial Institute, Petersburg, in June 1927; the M.S.\n Degree in education from Butler University, Indianapolis,\n Indiana, in June 1939; and was granted the degree of Doctor of\n Education at Columbia University, New York, in1946. In June\n 1957, Virginia State College conferred upon him the honorary\n degree of Doctor of Laws.","Richardson served as principal of the Mecklenburg County\n Training School, in South Hill, Virginia, 1927-1935; and as\n Director of academics at Saint Paul Normal School,\n Lawrenceville, Virginia. The State Superintendent of Public\n Instruction appointed him Assistant Supervisor of \"Negro\"\n Education in 1936. On January 1, 1951, he was promoted to the\n position of Associate Supervisor of Elementary and Secondary\n Education. He received another promotion on September 1, 1966,\n to Associate Director of the Division of Secondary Education.\n He retired April 4, 1969.","Richardson had two elementary schools and one high school\n named for him. The elementary schools were in Culpepper and\n the other in Blackstone, Virginia. Archie Richardson High\n School was located in Louisa County, Virginia.","During his tenure, he contributed a number of articles to\n State and National journals of education. He also authored The\n Development of Negro Education in Virginia.","Mr. Richardson was married to Linnie Ramey for over fifty\n years. Mrs. Richardson taught at schools in Mecklenburg and\n Richmond, Virginia.","How did Virginia explain educational public policy during\n the era of legal segregation? Archie Richardson's main\n responsibility during his tenure with the Department of\n Education was that of official spokesman to the African\n American Community for the State of Virginia. Correspondence,\n speeches, writings, and photographs documenting Archie\n Richardson's position as the only African American\n professional employed by the Education Department in Virginia\n during the era of legal segregation, Constitutes the majority\n of these materials.","There are no restrictions.","In 1936, Archie Richardson became\n the highest-ranking African American in the State Government.\n In that year, he was appointed assistant to the Assistant for\n Negro education in Virginia. In 1969, he retired as Associate\n Director of the Division of Secondary Education in Virginia.\n His papers consist of correspondence, speeches, writings and\n more than one thousand photographs of Rosenwald, Slater, and\n other schools constructed in Virginia for African Americans in\n the 1930's and before. 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The reports consist of conference and workshop\n results organized by Richardson.","Sub-Series C: Research Notes During Richardson's career,\n part of his responsibility was to develop procedures and\n manuals used by African-American Schools in Virginia. This\n sub-series also contains an interesting log concerning the\n Whitcomb court school in Richmond, VA.","Series III. Video Recordings Taped speeches at different\n functions attended by Richardson. Most of the speeches were\n not delivered by Richardson.","Series IV: Photographs Boxes 21-27","Sub-series A: Family and Personal Photo's of activities at\n Virginia State when Richardson was a student and later as a\n teacher at the Mecklenburg County Training School, conferences\n at Virginia State and other areas.","Sub-series B: Education in Virginia (African American\n Schools) Several thousand 3x5 black and white photographs and\n negatives of schools scenes in Virginia. The Photographs were\n taken between the years 1926 and 1938. The Photographs and\n negatives are of European, Native, and African American school\n buildings, some classes, and other activities. Most of the\n developed photographs are of African American schools and\n include Rosenwald, Slater, and other buildings used by African\n Americans in Virginia. *The origin of the photographs and\n negatives is not known. The folders are arranged\n alphabetically by county and city.","Sub-series C. Negatives of the schools and scenes located\n in some of Virginia's counties and cities. These do not have\n an inventory, but are arranged by county and city. In addition\n there are negatives of activities relating to education\n outside of the state of Virginia.","Box #28 Series V: Scrapbooks and Yearbooks Correspondence\n most of which covers Richardson's retirement, two yearbooks\n from Louisa, Virginia.","Series VI: Printed Printed items including certificates,\n pamphlets, and degrees","Box #29 Sub-series A: Awards and Certificates Awards and\n certificates presented to Richardson over the years.","Sub-series B: Pamphlets Two items: one the By-Laws of the\n Southside Interscholastic Athletic Association, documenting an\n early effort to organize African American sports played in the\n high schools.","Sub-series C: Book The Development of Negro Education in\n Virginia, 1831-1970, published by Phi Delta Kappa.","Sub-series D: Degrees Earned Degrees of Archie and Linnie\n Richardson","Box #30 Series-series E: News clippings News clippings from\n a number of newspapers primary from the state of Virginia."],"bioghist_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eArchie Gibbs Richardson, was the Associate Director of the\n Division of Secondary Education, State Department of\n Education, Richmond, Virginia. He was born in Lexington,\n Virginia, April 4, 1904. Because there were few high schools\n for African American in Virginia, Richardson's parents sent\n him to the high school at the Virginia Normal and Industrial\n Institute at Petersburg where he completed the program in\n 1923. He received the B.A. Degree from Virginia Normal and\n Industrial Institute, Petersburg, in June 1927; the M.S.\n Degree in education from Butler University, Indianapolis,\n Indiana, in June 1939; and was granted the degree of Doctor of\n Education at Columbia University, New York, in1946. In June\n 1957, Virginia State College conferred upon him the honorary\n degree of Doctor of Laws.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRichardson served as principal of the Mecklenburg County\n Training School, in South Hill, Virginia, 1927-1935; and as\n Director of academics at Saint Paul Normal School,\n Lawrenceville, Virginia. The State Superintendent of Public\n Instruction appointed him Assistant Supervisor of \"Negro\"\n Education in 1936. On January 1, 1951, he was promoted to the\n position of Associate Supervisor of Elementary and Secondary\n Education. He received another promotion on September 1, 1966,\n to Associate Director of the Division of Secondary Education.\n He retired April 4, 1969.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRichardson had two elementary schools and one high school\n named for him. The elementary schools were in Culpepper and\n the other in Blackstone, Virginia. Archie Richardson High\n School was located in Louisa County, Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDuring his tenure, he contributed a number of articles to\n State and National journals of education. He also authored The\n Development of Negro Education in Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMr. Richardson was married to Linnie Ramey for over fifty\n years. 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In June\n 1957, Virginia State College conferred upon him the honorary\n degree of Doctor of Laws.","Richardson served as principal of the Mecklenburg County\n Training School, in South Hill, Virginia, 1927-1935; and as\n Director of academics at Saint Paul Normal School,\n Lawrenceville, Virginia. The State Superintendent of Public\n Instruction appointed him Assistant Supervisor of \"Negro\"\n Education in 1936. On January 1, 1951, he was promoted to the\n position of Associate Supervisor of Elementary and Secondary\n Education. He received another promotion on September 1, 1966,\n to Associate Director of the Division of Secondary Education.\n He retired April 4, 1969.","Richardson had two elementary schools and one high school\n named for him. The elementary schools were in Culpepper and\n the other in Blackstone, Virginia. Archie Richardson High\n School was located in Louisa County, Virginia.","During his tenure, he contributed a number of articles to\n State and National journals of education. He also authored The\n Development of Negro Education in Virginia.","Mr. Richardson was married to Linnie Ramey for over fifty\n years. Mrs. Richardson taught at schools in Mecklenburg and\n Richmond, Virginia."],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe Archie G. Richardson Papers, Accession #1997-77 ,\n Special Collections and Archives, Johnston Memorial\n Library, Virginia State University, Petersburg, VA.\u003c/p\u003e"],"prefercite_tesim":["The Archie G. Richardson Papers, Accession #1997-77 ,\n Special Collections and Archives, Johnston Memorial\n Library, Virginia State University, Petersburg, VA."],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eHow did Virginia explain educational public policy during\n the era of legal segregation? 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Correspondence 1932-1979 Personal and Business\n Boxes 1-3","Sub-series A: Correspondence by subject Correspondence,\n most generated by Richardson during his tenure with the\n department of Education. Arranged Alphabetically and then\n chronologically within the folders.","Sub-series B: Correspondence by date Arranged\n Chronologically.","Series II. Literary Boxes 4-19","Sub-Series A: Speeches Arranged by title and date, followed\n by speeches with dates and materials missing both a date and a\n clearly defined title.","Sub-Series B: Writings and Reports Some of the writings\n were used later in Richardson's history of Negro education in\n Virginia. Many of the reports appear to have been used by\n Richardson to carry out his job with the State Department of\n Education. The reports consist of conference and workshop\n results organized by Richardson.","Sub-Series C: Research Notes During Richardson's career,\n part of his responsibility was to develop procedures and\n manuals used by African-American Schools in Virginia. This\n sub-series also contains an interesting log concerning the\n Whitcomb court school in Richmond, VA.","Series III. Video Recordings Taped speeches at different\n functions attended by Richardson. Most of the speeches were\n not delivered by Richardson.","Series IV: Photographs Boxes 21-27","Sub-series A: Family and Personal Photo's of activities at\n Virginia State when Richardson was a student and later as a\n teacher at the Mecklenburg County Training School, conferences\n at Virginia State and other areas.","Sub-series B: Education in Virginia (African American\n Schools) Several thousand 3x5 black and white photographs and\n negatives of schools scenes in Virginia. The Photographs were\n taken between the years 1926 and 1938. The Photographs and\n negatives are of European, Native, and African American school\n buildings, some classes, and other activities. Most of the\n developed photographs are of African American schools and\n include Rosenwald, Slater, and other buildings used by African\n Americans in Virginia. *The origin of the photographs and\n negatives is not known. The folders are arranged\n alphabetically by county and city.","Sub-series C. Negatives of the schools and scenes located\n in some of Virginia's counties and cities. These do not have\n an inventory, but are arranged by county and city. In addition\n there are negatives of activities relating to education\n outside of the state of Virginia.","Box #28 Series V: Scrapbooks and Yearbooks Correspondence\n most of which covers Richardson's retirement, two yearbooks\n from Louisa, Virginia.","Series VI: Printed Printed items including certificates,\n pamphlets, and degrees","Box #29 Sub-series A: Awards and Certificates Awards and\n certificates presented to Richardson over the years.","Sub-series B: Pamphlets Two items: one the By-Laws of the\n Southside Interscholastic Athletic Association, documenting an\n early effort to organize African American sports played in the\n high schools.","Sub-series C: Book The Development of Negro Education in\n Virginia, 1831-1970, published by Phi Delta Kappa.","Sub-series D: Degrees Earned Degrees of Archie and Linnie\n Richardson","Box #30 Series-series E: News clippings News clippings from\n a number of newspapers primary from the state of Virginia.","Archie Gibbs Richardson, was the Associate Director of the\n Division of Secondary Education, State Department of\n Education, Richmond, Virginia. He was born in Lexington,\n Virginia, April 4, 1904. Because there were few high schools\n for African American in Virginia, Richardson's parents sent\n him to the high school at the Virginia Normal and Industrial\n Institute at Petersburg where he completed the program in\n 1923. He received the B.A. Degree from Virginia Normal and\n Industrial Institute, Petersburg, in June 1927; the M.S.\n Degree in education from Butler University, Indianapolis,\n Indiana, in June 1939; and was granted the degree of Doctor of\n Education at Columbia University, New York, in1946. In June\n 1957, Virginia State College conferred upon him the honorary\n degree of Doctor of Laws.","Richardson served as principal of the Mecklenburg County\n Training School, in South Hill, Virginia, 1927-1935; and as\n Director of academics at Saint Paul Normal School,\n Lawrenceville, Virginia. The State Superintendent of Public\n Instruction appointed him Assistant Supervisor of \"Negro\"\n Education in 1936. On January 1, 1951, he was promoted to the\n position of Associate Supervisor of Elementary and Secondary\n Education. He received another promotion on September 1, 1966,\n to Associate Director of the Division of Secondary Education.\n He retired April 4, 1969.","Richardson had two elementary schools and one high school\n named for him. The elementary schools were in Culpepper and\n the other in Blackstone, Virginia. Archie Richardson High\n School was located in Louisa County, Virginia.","During his tenure, he contributed a number of articles to\n State and National journals of education. He also authored The\n Development of Negro Education in Virginia.","Mr. Richardson was married to Linnie Ramey for over fifty\n years. Mrs. Richardson taught at schools in Mecklenburg and\n Richmond, Virginia.","How did Virginia explain educational public policy during\n the era of legal segregation? Archie Richardson's main\n responsibility during his tenure with the Department of\n Education was that of official spokesman to the African\n American Community for the State of Virginia. Correspondence,\n speeches, writings, and photographs documenting Archie\n Richardson's position as the only African American\n professional employed by the Education Department in Virginia\n during the era of legal segregation, Constitutes the majority\n of these materials.","There are no restrictions.","In 1936, Archie Richardson became\n the highest-ranking African American in the State Government.\n In that year, he was appointed assistant to the Assistant for\n Negro education in Virginia. In 1969, he retired as Associate\n Director of the Division of Secondary Education in Virginia.\n His papers consist of correspondence, speeches, writings and\n more than one thousand photographs of Rosenwald, Slater, and\n other schools constructed in Virginia for African Americans in\n the 1930's and before. 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Correspondence 1932-1979 Personal and Business\n Boxes 1-3\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSub-series A: Correspondence by subject Correspondence,\n most generated by Richardson during his tenure with the\n department of Education. Arranged Alphabetically and then\n chronologically within the folders.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSub-series B: Correspondence by date Arranged\n Chronologically.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries II. Literary Boxes 4-19\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSub-Series A: Speeches Arranged by title and date, followed\n by speeches with dates and materials missing both a date and a\n clearly defined title.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSub-Series B: Writings and Reports Some of the writings\n were used later in Richardson's history of Negro education in\n Virginia. Many of the reports appear to have been used by\n Richardson to carry out his job with the State Department of\n Education. The reports consist of conference and workshop\n results organized by Richardson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSub-Series C: Research Notes During Richardson's career,\n part of his responsibility was to develop procedures and\n manuals used by African-American Schools in Virginia. This\n sub-series also contains an interesting log concerning the\n Whitcomb court school in Richmond, VA.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries III. Video Recordings Taped speeches at different\n functions attended by Richardson. Most of the speeches were\n not delivered by Richardson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries IV: Photographs Boxes 21-27\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSub-series A: Family and Personal Photo's of activities at\n Virginia State when Richardson was a student and later as a\n teacher at the Mecklenburg County Training School, conferences\n at Virginia State and other areas.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSub-series B: Education in Virginia (African American\n Schools) Several thousand 3x5 black and white photographs and\n negatives of schools scenes in Virginia. The Photographs were\n taken between the years 1926 and 1938. The Photographs and\n negatives are of European, Native, and African American school\n buildings, some classes, and other activities. Most of the\n developed photographs are of African American schools and\n include Rosenwald, Slater, and other buildings used by African\n Americans in Virginia. *The origin of the photographs and\n negatives is not known. The folders are arranged\n alphabetically by county and city.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSub-series C. Negatives of the schools and scenes located\n in some of Virginia's counties and cities. These do not have\n an inventory, but are arranged by county and city. In addition\n there are negatives of activities relating to education\n outside of the state of Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox #28 Series V: Scrapbooks and Yearbooks Correspondence\n most of which covers Richardson's retirement, two yearbooks\n from Louisa, Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries VI: Printed Printed items including certificates,\n pamphlets, and degrees\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox #29 Sub-series A: Awards and Certificates Awards and\n certificates presented to Richardson over the years.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSub-series B: Pamphlets Two items: one the By-Laws of the\n Southside Interscholastic Athletic Association, documenting an\n early effort to organize African American sports played in the\n high schools.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSub-series C: Book The Development of Negro Education in\n Virginia, 1831-1970, published by Phi Delta Kappa.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSub-series D: Degrees Earned Degrees of Archie and Linnie\n Richardson\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox #30 Series-series E: News clippings News clippings from\n a number of newspapers primary from the state of Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e"],"arrangement_heading_ssm":["Series Description"],"arrangement_tesim":["Series I. Correspondence 1932-1979 Personal and Business\n Boxes 1-3","Sub-series A: Correspondence by subject Correspondence,\n most generated by Richardson during his tenure with the\n department of Education. Arranged Alphabetically and then\n chronologically within the folders.","Sub-series B: Correspondence by date Arranged\n Chronologically.","Series II. Literary Boxes 4-19","Sub-Series A: Speeches Arranged by title and date, followed\n by speeches with dates and materials missing both a date and a\n clearly defined title.","Sub-Series B: Writings and Reports Some of the writings\n were used later in Richardson's history of Negro education in\n Virginia. Many of the reports appear to have been used by\n Richardson to carry out his job with the State Department of\n Education. The reports consist of conference and workshop\n results organized by Richardson.","Sub-Series C: Research Notes During Richardson's career,\n part of his responsibility was to develop procedures and\n manuals used by African-American Schools in Virginia. This\n sub-series also contains an interesting log concerning the\n Whitcomb court school in Richmond, VA.","Series III. Video Recordings Taped speeches at different\n functions attended by Richardson. Most of the speeches were\n not delivered by Richardson.","Series IV: Photographs Boxes 21-27","Sub-series A: Family and Personal Photo's of activities at\n Virginia State when Richardson was a student and later as a\n teacher at the Mecklenburg County Training School, conferences\n at Virginia State and other areas.","Sub-series B: Education in Virginia (African American\n Schools) Several thousand 3x5 black and white photographs and\n negatives of schools scenes in Virginia. The Photographs were\n taken between the years 1926 and 1938. The Photographs and\n negatives are of European, Native, and African American school\n buildings, some classes, and other activities. Most of the\n developed photographs are of African American schools and\n include Rosenwald, Slater, and other buildings used by African\n Americans in Virginia. *The origin of the photographs and\n negatives is not known. The folders are arranged\n alphabetically by county and city.","Sub-series C. Negatives of the schools and scenes located\n in some of Virginia's counties and cities. These do not have\n an inventory, but are arranged by county and city. In addition\n there are negatives of activities relating to education\n outside of the state of Virginia.","Box #28 Series V: Scrapbooks and Yearbooks Correspondence\n most of which covers Richardson's retirement, two yearbooks\n from Louisa, Virginia.","Series VI: Printed Printed items including certificates,\n pamphlets, and degrees","Box #29 Sub-series A: Awards and Certificates Awards and\n certificates presented to Richardson over the years.","Sub-series B: Pamphlets Two items: one the By-Laws of the\n Southside Interscholastic Athletic Association, documenting an\n early effort to organize African American sports played in the\n high schools.","Sub-series C: Book The Development of Negro Education in\n Virginia, 1831-1970, published by Phi Delta Kappa.","Sub-series D: Degrees Earned Degrees of Archie and Linnie\n Richardson","Box #30 Series-series E: News clippings News clippings from\n a number of newspapers primary from the state of Virginia."],"bioghist_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eArchie Gibbs Richardson, was the Associate Director of the\n Division of Secondary Education, State Department of\n Education, Richmond, Virginia. He was born in Lexington,\n Virginia, April 4, 1904. Because there were few high schools\n for African American in Virginia, Richardson's parents sent\n him to the high school at the Virginia Normal and Industrial\n Institute at Petersburg where he completed the program in\n 1923. He received the B.A. Degree from Virginia Normal and\n Industrial Institute, Petersburg, in June 1927; the M.S.\n Degree in education from Butler University, Indianapolis,\n Indiana, in June 1939; and was granted the degree of Doctor of\n Education at Columbia University, New York, in1946. In June\n 1957, Virginia State College conferred upon him the honorary\n degree of Doctor of Laws.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRichardson served as principal of the Mecklenburg County\n Training School, in South Hill, Virginia, 1927-1935; and as\n Director of academics at Saint Paul Normal School,\n Lawrenceville, Virginia. The State Superintendent of Public\n Instruction appointed him Assistant Supervisor of \"Negro\"\n Education in 1936. On January 1, 1951, he was promoted to the\n position of Associate Supervisor of Elementary and Secondary\n Education. He received another promotion on September 1, 1966,\n to Associate Director of the Division of Secondary Education.\n He retired April 4, 1969.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRichardson had two elementary schools and one high school\n named for him. The elementary schools were in Culpepper and\n the other in Blackstone, Virginia. Archie Richardson High\n School was located in Louisa County, Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDuring his tenure, he contributed a number of articles to\n State and National journals of education. He also authored The\n Development of Negro Education in Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMr. Richardson was married to Linnie Ramey for over fifty\n years. Mrs. Richardson taught at schools in Mecklenburg and\n Richmond, Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e"],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical/Historical Information"],"bioghist_tesim":["Archie Gibbs Richardson, was the Associate Director of the\n Division of Secondary Education, State Department of\n Education, Richmond, Virginia. He was born in Lexington,\n Virginia, April 4, 1904. Because there were few high schools\n for African American in Virginia, Richardson's parents sent\n him to the high school at the Virginia Normal and Industrial\n Institute at Petersburg where he completed the program in\n 1923. He received the B.A. Degree from Virginia Normal and\n Industrial Institute, Petersburg, in June 1927; the M.S.\n Degree in education from Butler University, Indianapolis,\n Indiana, in June 1939; and was granted the degree of Doctor of\n Education at Columbia University, New York, in1946. In June\n 1957, Virginia State College conferred upon him the honorary\n degree of Doctor of Laws.","Richardson served as principal of the Mecklenburg County\n Training School, in South Hill, Virginia, 1927-1935; and as\n Director of academics at Saint Paul Normal School,\n Lawrenceville, Virginia. The State Superintendent of Public\n Instruction appointed him Assistant Supervisor of \"Negro\"\n Education in 1936. On January 1, 1951, he was promoted to the\n position of Associate Supervisor of Elementary and Secondary\n Education. He received another promotion on September 1, 1966,\n to Associate Director of the Division of Secondary Education.\n He retired April 4, 1969.","Richardson had two elementary schools and one high school\n named for him. The elementary schools were in Culpepper and\n the other in Blackstone, Virginia. Archie Richardson High\n School was located in Louisa County, Virginia.","During his tenure, he contributed a number of articles to\n State and National journals of education. He also authored The\n Development of Negro Education in Virginia.","Mr. Richardson was married to Linnie Ramey for over fifty\n years. Mrs. Richardson taught at schools in Mecklenburg and\n Richmond, Virginia."],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe Archie G. Richardson Papers, Accession #1997-77 ,\n Special Collections and Archives, Johnston Memorial\n Library, Virginia State University, Petersburg, VA.\u003c/p\u003e"],"prefercite_tesim":["The Archie G. Richardson Papers, Accession #1997-77 ,\n Special Collections and Archives, Johnston Memorial\n Library, Virginia State University, Petersburg, VA."],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eHow did Virginia explain educational public policy during\n the era of legal segregation? Archie Richardson's main\n responsibility during his tenure with the Department of\n Education was that of official spokesman to the African\n American Community for the State of Virginia. Correspondence,\n speeches, writings, and photographs documenting Archie\n Richardson's position as the only African American\n professional employed by the Education Department in Virginia\n during the era of legal segregation, Constitutes the majority\n of these materials.\u003c/p\u003e"],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Content Information"],"scopecontent_tesim":["How did Virginia explain educational public policy during\n the era of legal segregation? Archie Richardson's main\n responsibility during his tenure with the Department of\n Education was that of official spokesman to the African\n American Community for the State of Virginia. Correspondence,\n speeches, writings, and photographs documenting Archie\n Richardson's position as the only African American\n professional employed by the Education Department in Virginia\n during the era of legal segregation, Constitutes the majority\n of these materials."],"userestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThere are no restrictions.\u003c/p\u003e"],"userestrict_heading_ssm":["Use Restrictions"],"userestrict_tesim":["There are no restrictions."],"abstract_html_tesm":["\u003cabstract label=\"Abstract\"\u003eIn 1936, Archie Richardson became\n the highest-ranking African American in the State Government.\n In that year, he was appointed assistant to the Assistant for\n Negro education in Virginia. In 1969, he retired as Associate\n Director of the Division of Secondary Education in Virginia.\n His papers consist of correspondence, speeches, writings and\n more than one thousand photographs of Rosenwald, Slater, and\n other schools constructed in Virginia for African Americans in\n the 1930's and before. Acc. #1997-77 Arranged By: Lucious\n Edwards\u003c/abstract\u003e"],"abstract_tesim":["In 1936, Archie Richardson became\n the highest-ranking African American in the State Government.\n In that year, he was appointed assistant to the Assistant for\n Negro education in Virginia. In 1969, he retired as Associate\n Director of the Division of Secondary Education in Virginia.\n His papers consist of correspondence, speeches, writings and\n more than one thousand photographs of Rosenwald, Slater, and\n other schools constructed in Virginia for African Americans in\n the 1930's and before. 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Daniels may be\n found in the Virginia State University Archives.","Series I. Correspondences 1926-1960 Some personal and\n business correspondence of Robert P. Daniel. Most of the\n correspondences has to do with Mr. Daniel's leaving Shaw\n University to become the fifth President of Virginia State\n College in 1949-1950. sub-series A. Personal Correspondence.\n sub-series B. Buisness Correspondence","Series II. Organizations and Affiliations Sub-series A.\n Alpha Phi Alpha Sub-Series B. Virginia Union Alumni\n Association Sub-Series C. Class (1924)Reunions","Series III. Literary Speeches, Sermons and radio addresses\n made by Robert P. Daniel from 1936-1966. speeches are arranged\n by subject and location. Writings State Teachers Report.\n sub-series A. speeches. sub- series B. Sermons. sub-series C.\n writings.","Series IV. Photographs. Sub-series A. Personal Sub-series\n B. The International advisory Board on Liberia Sub-series C.\n The Alpha Phi Apha Fraternity","Series V. Printed. Sub-Series A. Programs and Flyers with\n Meetings Attended by Robert Daniel. Sub-Series B. Awards and\n Certificates Presented by Robert Daniel over a period of years\n documenting his involvement in a number of organizations.\n Sub-Series C. Virginia Union University Printed Items\n generated by Virginia Union University which includes\n programs, bullitens, and a short history of Virginia Union\n University. D. Shaw Printed Items such as Bulletins, and other\n programs E. The Sphinx F. . Degrees and Appointments. Earned\n degrees for Robert Daniel and members of the Daniel and Taylor\n Families. Included are appointments for Robert Daniel for\n several commissions G. Newspapers. Several issues of Black\n owned newspapers, which were published in North Carolina,\n Virginia, Massachusetts, and New York. H. Newsclippings.\n Newsclippings from a number of Newspaper mostly from Virginia\n I.Civil Rights in Petersburg. Newsletters and Flyers\n concerning some of the civil rights issues in Petersburg\n during the 1960's","Series VI. Scrapbooks. Two Scrapbooks, The United States\n Army Infantry Center and A testimonial in words and music.","Series VII. Artifacts Three Dimensional Items Awarded to or\n collected by Robert Prentiss Daniel","Robert P. Daniel was elected to become the fifth president\n of Virginia State University(then Virginia State College)in\n December of 1949. He assumed his duties in February of 1950.\n Mr. Daniel however was not a stranger to Virginia State,\n having been born on the campus in 1902. This strange twist of\n fate makes Robert P. Daniel the only President of a\n state-supported institution who was born on the campus, which\n he would later serve as chief administrator.","The historical background, which explains, this unusual\n occurrence lay in the origins of the Daniel Family. The roots\n of this family began in Louisa County Virginia, with Lucy\n Langston, Robert Daniel's great great grandmother, who was\n described as being of African and Virginia Indian origins.","Lucy langston lived as the only wife of Ralph Quarles, a\n white farmer and landholder in Louisa County. Although this\n was not a legal union(black-white marriages had been outlawed\n in Virginia in 1692), the two lived as man and wife for more\n than thirty years.","From this union came four children: Maria (Daniel's great\n grandmother), Gideon, Charles and John Mercer Langston (who\n become the first president of Virginia State in 1886-1887.\n Ralph Quarles had given his common law wife her freedom\n earlier and all four of these children were born free between\n the years of 1800-1829.","Maria Langston married early and her proud father gave her\n a section of his farm as a wedding gift and also from her\n father she recieved as her personal property her husband\n Joseph Powell, who was a slave belonging to Ralph Quarles.\n Maria Langston like other free blacks, (men and women) around\n the state of Virginia were forced to hold their husbands and\n or wives as their personal property in order to keep the\n family unit together.","From this union came Robert Daniel's grandmother Lucinda,\n who like her mother also married a slave and was forced to\n hold him as her enslaved property. Charles Daniel, father of\n Robert Daniel was born in 1845 in Louisa and until around 1870\n lived with his father and learned his trade in shoemaking.","In 1871 he entered the Richmond Institute graduating from\n the Normal Department in 1877 and its Academic Department in\n 1878. He studied law for one year at Howard University and\n then accepted a teaching position in Danville, Virginia.","In 1888 he was invited to become the Secretary of Virginia\n Normal and Collegiate Institute. It was here in the old\n Virginia hall that Robert Daniel and all but one of the eight\n Daniel children were born.","Robert P. Daniel graduated from Virginia Union University\n in 1924. Later, he obtained his MA and his doctorate at\n Teachers College. He also completed a post doctoral study in\n Bible at the Union Theological Seminary in New York during the\n summers of 1943 and 1946.","Robert Daniel began his career in higher education at\n Virginia Union University in Richmond as an instructor in\n mathematics in 1924. Concurrently, Dr. Daniel supervised the\n establishment of the Norfolk division of Virginia Union\n University which later became the Norfork division of Virginia\n State College. He was named president of Shaw University in\n 1936 until 1950.","Dr. Daniel was elected president of Virginia State College\n by the State Board of Education on December 15th 1949\n following the death of Luther H. Foster.","Dr. Daniel was an active member of several state and\n national professional organizations.","The Daniel Papers document primarly his becoming the\n President of Shaw University in 1936 and Virginia State\n University in 1950. There is also correspondence concerning\n his activities with a national radio program \"Wings over\n Jordan\" and with Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity.In the daniel\n papers are also some very interesting newsletters printed by\n the \"Political Action Committee\" of the Petersburg Improvement\n Association. These newsletters address the attempts to\n desegrate public facilities in Petersburg.","There are no restrictions.","Personal and business\n correspondence of the fifth President of Virginia State\n University. Robert P. Daniel was one of the movers in\n establishing what is now Norfolk State University. He was also\n very involved in efforts to integrate the institutions of\n higher learning in Virginia. 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Correspondences 1926-1960 Some personal and\n business correspondence of Robert P. Daniel. Most of the\n correspondences has to do with Mr. Daniel's leaving Shaw\n University to become the fifth President of Virginia State\n College in 1949-1950. sub-series A. Personal Correspondence.\n sub-series B. Buisness Correspondence\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries II. Organizations and Affiliations Sub-series A.\n Alpha Phi Alpha Sub-Series B. Virginia Union Alumni\n Association Sub-Series C. Class (1924)Reunions\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries III. Literary Speeches, Sermons and radio addresses\n made by Robert P. Daniel from 1936-1966. speeches are arranged\n by subject and location. Writings State Teachers Report.\n sub-series A. speeches. sub- series B. Sermons. sub-series C.\n writings.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries IV. Photographs. Sub-series A. Personal Sub-series\n B. The International advisory Board on Liberia Sub-series C.\n The Alpha Phi Apha Fraternity\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries V. Printed. Sub-Series A. Programs and Flyers with\n Meetings Attended by Robert Daniel. Sub-Series B. Awards and\n Certificates Presented by Robert Daniel over a period of years\n documenting his involvement in a number of organizations.\n Sub-Series C. Virginia Union University Printed Items\n generated by Virginia Union University which includes\n programs, bullitens, and a short history of Virginia Union\n University. D. Shaw Printed Items such as Bulletins, and other\n programs E. The Sphinx F. . Degrees and Appointments. Earned\n degrees for Robert Daniel and members of the Daniel and Taylor\n Families. Included are appointments for Robert Daniel for\n several commissions G. Newspapers. Several issues of Black\n owned newspapers, which were published in North Carolina,\n Virginia, Massachusetts, and New York. H. Newsclippings.\n Newsclippings from a number of Newspaper mostly from Virginia\n I.Civil Rights in Petersburg. Newsletters and Flyers\n concerning some of the civil rights issues in Petersburg\n during the 1960's\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries VI. Scrapbooks. Two Scrapbooks, The United States\n Army Infantry Center and A testimonial in words and music.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries VII. Artifacts Three Dimensional Items Awarded to or\n collected by Robert Prentiss Daniel\u003c/p\u003e"],"arrangement_heading_ssm":["Series Description"],"arrangement_tesim":["Series I. Correspondences 1926-1960 Some personal and\n business correspondence of Robert P. Daniel. Most of the\n correspondences has to do with Mr. Daniel's leaving Shaw\n University to become the fifth President of Virginia State\n College in 1949-1950. sub-series A. Personal Correspondence.\n sub-series B. Buisness Correspondence","Series II. Organizations and Affiliations Sub-series A.\n Alpha Phi Alpha Sub-Series B. Virginia Union Alumni\n Association Sub-Series C. Class (1924)Reunions","Series III. Literary Speeches, Sermons and radio addresses\n made by Robert P. Daniel from 1936-1966. speeches are arranged\n by subject and location. Writings State Teachers Report.\n sub-series A. speeches. sub- series B. Sermons. sub-series C.\n writings.","Series IV. Photographs. Sub-series A. Personal Sub-series\n B. The International advisory Board on Liberia Sub-series C.\n The Alpha Phi Apha Fraternity","Series V. Printed. Sub-Series A. Programs and Flyers with\n Meetings Attended by Robert Daniel. Sub-Series B. Awards and\n Certificates Presented by Robert Daniel over a period of years\n documenting his involvement in a number of organizations.\n Sub-Series C. Virginia Union University Printed Items\n generated by Virginia Union University which includes\n programs, bullitens, and a short history of Virginia Union\n University. D. Shaw Printed Items such as Bulletins, and other\n programs E. The Sphinx F. . Degrees and Appointments. Earned\n degrees for Robert Daniel and members of the Daniel and Taylor\n Families. Included are appointments for Robert Daniel for\n several commissions G. Newspapers. Several issues of Black\n owned newspapers, which were published in North Carolina,\n Virginia, Massachusetts, and New York. H. Newsclippings.\n Newsclippings from a number of Newspaper mostly from Virginia\n I.Civil Rights in Petersburg. Newsletters and Flyers\n concerning some of the civil rights issues in Petersburg\n during the 1960's","Series VI. Scrapbooks. Two Scrapbooks, The United States\n Army Infantry Center and A testimonial in words and music.","Series VII. Artifacts Three Dimensional Items Awarded to or\n collected by Robert Prentiss Daniel"],"bioghist_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eRobert P. Daniel was elected to become the fifth president\n of Virginia State University(then Virginia State College)in\n December of 1949. He assumed his duties in February of 1950.\n Mr. Daniel however was not a stranger to Virginia State,\n having been born on the campus in 1902. This strange twist of\n fate makes Robert P. Daniel the only President of a\n state-supported institution who was born on the campus, which\n he would later serve as chief administrator.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe historical background, which explains, this unusual\n occurrence lay in the origins of the Daniel Family. The roots\n of this family began in Louisa County Virginia, with Lucy\n Langston, Robert Daniel's great great grandmother, who was\n described as being of African and Virginia Indian origins.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLucy langston lived as the only wife of Ralph Quarles, a\n white farmer and landholder in Louisa County. Although this\n was not a legal union(black-white marriages had been outlawed\n in Virginia in 1692), the two lived as man and wife for more\n than thirty years.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFrom this union came four children: Maria (Daniel's great\n grandmother), Gideon, Charles and John Mercer Langston (who\n become the first president of Virginia State in 1886-1887.\n Ralph Quarles had given his common law wife her freedom\n earlier and all four of these children were born free between\n the years of 1800-1829.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMaria Langston married early and her proud father gave her\n a section of his farm as a wedding gift and also from her\n father she recieved as her personal property her husband\n Joseph Powell, who was a slave belonging to Ralph Quarles.\n Maria Langston like other free blacks, (men and women) around\n the state of Virginia were forced to hold their husbands and\n or wives as their personal property in order to keep the\n family unit together.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFrom this union came Robert Daniel's grandmother Lucinda,\n who like her mother also married a slave and was forced to\n hold him as her enslaved property. Charles Daniel, father of\n Robert Daniel was born in 1845 in Louisa and until around 1870\n lived with his father and learned his trade in shoemaking.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIn 1871 he entered the Richmond Institute graduating from\n the Normal Department in 1877 and its Academic Department in\n 1878. He studied law for one year at Howard University and\n then accepted a teaching position in Danville, Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIn 1888 he was invited to become the Secretary of Virginia\n Normal and Collegiate Institute. It was here in the old\n Virginia hall that Robert Daniel and all but one of the eight\n Daniel children were born.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRobert P. Daniel graduated from Virginia Union University\n in 1924. Later, he obtained his MA and his doctorate at\n Teachers College. He also completed a post doctoral study in\n Bible at the Union Theological Seminary in New York during the\n summers of 1943 and 1946.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRobert Daniel began his career in higher education at\n Virginia Union University in Richmond as an instructor in\n mathematics in 1924. Concurrently, Dr. Daniel supervised the\n establishment of the Norfolk division of Virginia Union\n University which later became the Norfork division of Virginia\n State College. He was named president of Shaw University in\n 1936 until 1950.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Daniel was elected president of Virginia State College\n by the State Board of Education on December 15th 1949\n following the death of Luther H. Foster.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Daniel was an active member of several state and\n national professional organizations.\u003c/p\u003e"],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical/Historical Information"],"bioghist_tesim":["Robert P. Daniel was elected to become the fifth president\n of Virginia State University(then Virginia State College)in\n December of 1949. He assumed his duties in February of 1950.\n Mr. Daniel however was not a stranger to Virginia State,\n having been born on the campus in 1902. This strange twist of\n fate makes Robert P. Daniel the only President of a\n state-supported institution who was born on the campus, which\n he would later serve as chief administrator.","The historical background, which explains, this unusual\n occurrence lay in the origins of the Daniel Family. The roots\n of this family began in Louisa County Virginia, with Lucy\n Langston, Robert Daniel's great great grandmother, who was\n described as being of African and Virginia Indian origins.","Lucy langston lived as the only wife of Ralph Quarles, a\n white farmer and landholder in Louisa County. Although this\n was not a legal union(black-white marriages had been outlawed\n in Virginia in 1692), the two lived as man and wife for more\n than thirty years.","From this union came four children: Maria (Daniel's great\n grandmother), Gideon, Charles and John Mercer Langston (who\n become the first president of Virginia State in 1886-1887.\n Ralph Quarles had given his common law wife her freedom\n earlier and all four of these children were born free between\n the years of 1800-1829.","Maria Langston married early and her proud father gave her\n a section of his farm as a wedding gift and also from her\n father she recieved as her personal property her husband\n Joseph Powell, who was a slave belonging to Ralph Quarles.\n Maria Langston like other free blacks, (men and women) around\n the state of Virginia were forced to hold their husbands and\n or wives as their personal property in order to keep the\n family unit together.","From this union came Robert Daniel's grandmother Lucinda,\n who like her mother also married a slave and was forced to\n hold him as her enslaved property. Charles Daniel, father of\n Robert Daniel was born in 1845 in Louisa and until around 1870\n lived with his father and learned his trade in shoemaking.","In 1871 he entered the Richmond Institute graduating from\n the Normal Department in 1877 and its Academic Department in\n 1878. He studied law for one year at Howard University and\n then accepted a teaching position in Danville, Virginia.","In 1888 he was invited to become the Secretary of Virginia\n Normal and Collegiate Institute. It was here in the old\n Virginia hall that Robert Daniel and all but one of the eight\n Daniel children were born.","Robert P. Daniel graduated from Virginia Union University\n in 1924. Later, he obtained his MA and his doctorate at\n Teachers College. He also completed a post doctoral study in\n Bible at the Union Theological Seminary in New York during the\n summers of 1943 and 1946.","Robert Daniel began his career in higher education at\n Virginia Union University in Richmond as an instructor in\n mathematics in 1924. Concurrently, Dr. Daniel supervised the\n establishment of the Norfolk division of Virginia Union\n University which later became the Norfork division of Virginia\n State College. He was named president of Shaw University in\n 1936 until 1950.","Dr. Daniel was elected president of Virginia State College\n by the State Board of Education on December 15th 1949\n following the death of Luther H. Foster.","Dr. Daniel was an active member of several state and\n national professional organizations."],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eRobert Prentiss Daniel Papers, Accession # 1976-16,\n Special Collections and University Archives, Johnston\n Memorial Library, Virginia State University, Petersburg,\n VA.\u003c/p\u003e"],"prefercite_tesim":["Robert Prentiss Daniel Papers, Accession # 1976-16,\n Special Collections and University Archives, Johnston\n Memorial Library, Virginia State University, Petersburg,\n VA."],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe Daniel Papers document primarly his becoming the\n President of Shaw University in 1936 and Virginia State\n University in 1950. There is also correspondence concerning\n his activities with a national radio program \"Wings over\n Jordan\" and with Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity.In the daniel\n papers are also some very interesting newsletters printed by\n the \"Political Action Committee\" of the Petersburg Improvement\n Association. These newsletters address the attempts to\n desegrate public facilities in Petersburg.\u003c/p\u003e"],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Content Information"],"scopecontent_tesim":["The Daniel Papers document primarly his becoming the\n President of Shaw University in 1936 and Virginia State\n University in 1950. There is also correspondence concerning\n his activities with a national radio program \"Wings over\n Jordan\" and with Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity.In the daniel\n papers are also some very interesting newsletters printed by\n the \"Political Action Committee\" of the Petersburg Improvement\n Association. These newsletters address the attempts to\n desegrate public facilities in Petersburg."],"userestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThere are no restrictions.\u003c/p\u003e"],"userestrict_heading_ssm":["Use Restrictions"],"userestrict_tesim":["There are no restrictions."],"abstract_html_tesm":["\u003cabstract label=\"Abstract\"\u003ePersonal and business\n correspondence of the fifth President of Virginia State\n University. Robert P. Daniel was one of the movers in\n establishing what is now Norfolk State University. He was also\n very involved in efforts to integrate the institutions of\n higher learning in Virginia. Acc.#1976-16\u003c/abstract\u003e"],"abstract_tesim":["Personal and business\n correspondence of the fifth President of Virginia State\n University. Robert P. Daniel was one of the movers in\n establishing what is now Norfolk State University. He was also\n very involved in efforts to integrate the institutions of\n higher learning in Virginia. 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Correspondence 1932-1979 Personal and Business\n Boxes 1-3","Sub-series A: Correspondence by subject Correspondence,\n most generated by Richardson during his tenure with the\n department of Education. Arranged Alphabetically and then\n chronologically within the folders.","Sub-series B: Correspondence by date Arranged\n Chronologically.","Series II. Literary Boxes 4-19","Sub-Series A: Speeches Arranged by title and date, followed\n by speeches with dates and materials missing both a date and a\n clearly defined title.","Sub-Series B: Writings and Reports Some of the writings\n were used later in Richardson's history of Negro education in\n Virginia. Many of the reports appear to have been used by\n Richardson to carry out his job with the State Department of\n Education. The reports consist of conference and workshop\n results organized by Richardson.","Sub-Series C: Research Notes During Richardson's career,\n part of his responsibility was to develop procedures and\n manuals used by African-American Schools in Virginia. This\n sub-series also contains an interesting log concerning the\n Whitcomb court school in Richmond, VA.","Series III. Video Recordings Taped speeches at different\n functions attended by Richardson. Most of the speeches were\n not delivered by Richardson.","Series IV: Photographs Boxes 21-27","Sub-series A: Family and Personal Photo's of activities at\n Virginia State when Richardson was a student and later as a\n teacher at the Mecklenburg County Training School, conferences\n at Virginia State and other areas.","Sub-series B: Education in Virginia (African American\n Schools) Several thousand 3x5 black and white photographs and\n negatives of schools scenes in Virginia. The Photographs were\n taken between the years 1926 and 1938. The Photographs and\n negatives are of European, Native, and African American school\n buildings, some classes, and other activities. Most of the\n developed photographs are of African American schools and\n include Rosenwald, Slater, and other buildings used by African\n Americans in Virginia. *The origin of the photographs and\n negatives is not known. The folders are arranged\n alphabetically by county and city.","Sub-series C. Negatives of the schools and scenes located\n in some of Virginia's counties and cities. These do not have\n an inventory, but are arranged by county and city. In addition\n there are negatives of activities relating to education\n outside of the state of Virginia.","Box #28 Series V: Scrapbooks and Yearbooks Correspondence\n most of which covers Richardson's retirement, two yearbooks\n from Louisa, Virginia.","Series VI: Printed Printed items including certificates,\n pamphlets, and degrees","Box #29 Sub-series A: Awards and Certificates Awards and\n certificates presented to Richardson over the years.","Sub-series B: Pamphlets Two items: one the By-Laws of the\n Southside Interscholastic Athletic Association, documenting an\n early effort to organize African American sports played in the\n high schools.","Sub-series C: Book The Development of Negro Education in\n Virginia, 1831-1970, published by Phi Delta Kappa.","Sub-series D: Degrees Earned Degrees of Archie and Linnie\n Richardson","Box #30 Series-series E: News clippings News clippings from\n a number of newspapers primary from the state of Virginia.","Archie Gibbs Richardson, was the Associate Director of the\n Division of Secondary Education, State Department of\n Education, Richmond, Virginia. He was born in Lexington,\n Virginia, April 4, 1904. Because there were few high schools\n for African American in Virginia, Richardson's parents sent\n him to the high school at the Virginia Normal and Industrial\n Institute at Petersburg where he completed the program in\n 1923. He received the B.A. Degree from Virginia Normal and\n Industrial Institute, Petersburg, in June 1927; the M.S.\n Degree in education from Butler University, Indianapolis,\n Indiana, in June 1939; and was granted the degree of Doctor of\n Education at Columbia University, New York, in1946. In June\n 1957, Virginia State College conferred upon him the honorary\n degree of Doctor of Laws.","Richardson served as principal of the Mecklenburg County\n Training School, in South Hill, Virginia, 1927-1935; and as\n Director of academics at Saint Paul Normal School,\n Lawrenceville, Virginia. The State Superintendent of Public\n Instruction appointed him Assistant Supervisor of \"Negro\"\n Education in 1936. On January 1, 1951, he was promoted to the\n position of Associate Supervisor of Elementary and Secondary\n Education. He received another promotion on September 1, 1966,\n to Associate Director of the Division of Secondary Education.\n He retired April 4, 1969.","Richardson had two elementary schools and one high school\n named for him. The elementary schools were in Culpepper and\n the other in Blackstone, Virginia. Archie Richardson High\n School was located in Louisa County, Virginia.","During his tenure, he contributed a number of articles to\n State and National journals of education. He also authored The\n Development of Negro Education in Virginia.","Mr. Richardson was married to Linnie Ramey for over fifty\n years. Mrs. Richardson taught at schools in Mecklenburg and\n Richmond, Virginia.","How did Virginia explain educational public policy during\n the era of legal segregation? Archie Richardson's main\n responsibility during his tenure with the Department of\n Education was that of official spokesman to the African\n American Community for the State of Virginia. Correspondence,\n speeches, writings, and photographs documenting Archie\n Richardson's position as the only African American\n professional employed by the Education Department in Virginia\n during the era of legal segregation, Constitutes the majority\n of these materials.","There are no restrictions.","In 1936, Archie Richardson became\n the highest-ranking African American in the State Government.\n In that year, he was appointed assistant to the Assistant for\n Negro education in Virginia. In 1969, he retired as Associate\n Director of the Division of Secondary Education in Virginia.\n His papers consist of correspondence, speeches, writings and\n more than one thousand photographs of Rosenwald, Slater, and\n other schools constructed in Virginia for African Americans in\n the 1930's and before. 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Correspondence 1932-1979 Personal and Business\n Boxes 1-3\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSub-series A: Correspondence by subject Correspondence,\n most generated by Richardson during his tenure with the\n department of Education. Arranged Alphabetically and then\n chronologically within the folders.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSub-series B: Correspondence by date Arranged\n Chronologically.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries II. Literary Boxes 4-19\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSub-Series A: Speeches Arranged by title and date, followed\n by speeches with dates and materials missing both a date and a\n clearly defined title.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSub-Series B: Writings and Reports Some of the writings\n were used later in Richardson's history of Negro education in\n Virginia. Many of the reports appear to have been used by\n Richardson to carry out his job with the State Department of\n Education. The reports consist of conference and workshop\n results organized by Richardson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSub-Series C: Research Notes During Richardson's career,\n part of his responsibility was to develop procedures and\n manuals used by African-American Schools in Virginia. This\n sub-series also contains an interesting log concerning the\n Whitcomb court school in Richmond, VA.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries III. Video Recordings Taped speeches at different\n functions attended by Richardson. Most of the speeches were\n not delivered by Richardson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries IV: Photographs Boxes 21-27\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSub-series A: Family and Personal Photo's of activities at\n Virginia State when Richardson was a student and later as a\n teacher at the Mecklenburg County Training School, conferences\n at Virginia State and other areas.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSub-series B: Education in Virginia (African American\n Schools) Several thousand 3x5 black and white photographs and\n negatives of schools scenes in Virginia. The Photographs were\n taken between the years 1926 and 1938. The Photographs and\n negatives are of European, Native, and African American school\n buildings, some classes, and other activities. Most of the\n developed photographs are of African American schools and\n include Rosenwald, Slater, and other buildings used by African\n Americans in Virginia. *The origin of the photographs and\n negatives is not known. The folders are arranged\n alphabetically by county and city.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSub-series C. Negatives of the schools and scenes located\n in some of Virginia's counties and cities. These do not have\n an inventory, but are arranged by county and city. In addition\n there are negatives of activities relating to education\n outside of the state of Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox #28 Series V: Scrapbooks and Yearbooks Correspondence\n most of which covers Richardson's retirement, two yearbooks\n from Louisa, Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries VI: Printed Printed items including certificates,\n pamphlets, and degrees\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox #29 Sub-series A: Awards and Certificates Awards and\n certificates presented to Richardson over the years.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSub-series B: Pamphlets Two items: one the By-Laws of the\n Southside Interscholastic Athletic Association, documenting an\n early effort to organize African American sports played in the\n high schools.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSub-series C: Book The Development of Negro Education in\n Virginia, 1831-1970, published by Phi Delta Kappa.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSub-series D: Degrees Earned Degrees of Archie and Linnie\n Richardson\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox #30 Series-series E: News clippings News clippings from\n a number of newspapers primary from the state of Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e"],"arrangement_heading_ssm":["Series Description"],"arrangement_tesim":["Series I. Correspondence 1932-1979 Personal and Business\n Boxes 1-3","Sub-series A: Correspondence by subject Correspondence,\n most generated by Richardson during his tenure with the\n department of Education. Arranged Alphabetically and then\n chronologically within the folders.","Sub-series B: Correspondence by date Arranged\n Chronologically.","Series II. Literary Boxes 4-19","Sub-Series A: Speeches Arranged by title and date, followed\n by speeches with dates and materials missing both a date and a\n clearly defined title.","Sub-Series B: Writings and Reports Some of the writings\n were used later in Richardson's history of Negro education in\n Virginia. Many of the reports appear to have been used by\n Richardson to carry out his job with the State Department of\n Education. The reports consist of conference and workshop\n results organized by Richardson.","Sub-Series C: Research Notes During Richardson's career,\n part of his responsibility was to develop procedures and\n manuals used by African-American Schools in Virginia. This\n sub-series also contains an interesting log concerning the\n Whitcomb court school in Richmond, VA.","Series III. Video Recordings Taped speeches at different\n functions attended by Richardson. Most of the speeches were\n not delivered by Richardson.","Series IV: Photographs Boxes 21-27","Sub-series A: Family and Personal Photo's of activities at\n Virginia State when Richardson was a student and later as a\n teacher at the Mecklenburg County Training School, conferences\n at Virginia State and other areas.","Sub-series B: Education in Virginia (African American\n Schools) Several thousand 3x5 black and white photographs and\n negatives of schools scenes in Virginia. The Photographs were\n taken between the years 1926 and 1938. The Photographs and\n negatives are of European, Native, and African American school\n buildings, some classes, and other activities. Most of the\n developed photographs are of African American schools and\n include Rosenwald, Slater, and other buildings used by African\n Americans in Virginia. *The origin of the photographs and\n negatives is not known. The folders are arranged\n alphabetically by county and city.","Sub-series C. Negatives of the schools and scenes located\n in some of Virginia's counties and cities. These do not have\n an inventory, but are arranged by county and city. In addition\n there are negatives of activities relating to education\n outside of the state of Virginia.","Box #28 Series V: Scrapbooks and Yearbooks Correspondence\n most of which covers Richardson's retirement, two yearbooks\n from Louisa, Virginia.","Series VI: Printed Printed items including certificates,\n pamphlets, and degrees","Box #29 Sub-series A: Awards and Certificates Awards and\n certificates presented to Richardson over the years.","Sub-series B: Pamphlets Two items: one the By-Laws of the\n Southside Interscholastic Athletic Association, documenting an\n early effort to organize African American sports played in the\n high schools.","Sub-series C: Book The Development of Negro Education in\n Virginia, 1831-1970, published by Phi Delta Kappa.","Sub-series D: Degrees Earned Degrees of Archie and Linnie\n Richardson","Box #30 Series-series E: News clippings News clippings from\n a number of newspapers primary from the state of Virginia."],"bioghist_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eArchie Gibbs Richardson, was the Associate Director of the\n Division of Secondary Education, State Department of\n Education, Richmond, Virginia. He was born in Lexington,\n Virginia, April 4, 1904. Because there were few high schools\n for African American in Virginia, Richardson's parents sent\n him to the high school at the Virginia Normal and Industrial\n Institute at Petersburg where he completed the program in\n 1923. He received the B.A. Degree from Virginia Normal and\n Industrial Institute, Petersburg, in June 1927; the M.S.\n Degree in education from Butler University, Indianapolis,\n Indiana, in June 1939; and was granted the degree of Doctor of\n Education at Columbia University, New York, in1946. In June\n 1957, Virginia State College conferred upon him the honorary\n degree of Doctor of Laws.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRichardson served as principal of the Mecklenburg County\n Training School, in South Hill, Virginia, 1927-1935; and as\n Director of academics at Saint Paul Normal School,\n Lawrenceville, Virginia. The State Superintendent of Public\n Instruction appointed him Assistant Supervisor of \"Negro\"\n Education in 1936. On January 1, 1951, he was promoted to the\n position of Associate Supervisor of Elementary and Secondary\n Education. He received another promotion on September 1, 1966,\n to Associate Director of the Division of Secondary Education.\n He retired April 4, 1969.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRichardson had two elementary schools and one high school\n named for him. The elementary schools were in Culpepper and\n the other in Blackstone, Virginia. Archie Richardson High\n School was located in Louisa County, Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDuring his tenure, he contributed a number of articles to\n State and National journals of education. He also authored The\n Development of Negro Education in Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMr. Richardson was married to Linnie Ramey for over fifty\n years. 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In June\n 1957, Virginia State College conferred upon him the honorary\n degree of Doctor of Laws.","Richardson served as principal of the Mecklenburg County\n Training School, in South Hill, Virginia, 1927-1935; and as\n Director of academics at Saint Paul Normal School,\n Lawrenceville, Virginia. The State Superintendent of Public\n Instruction appointed him Assistant Supervisor of \"Negro\"\n Education in 1936. On January 1, 1951, he was promoted to the\n position of Associate Supervisor of Elementary and Secondary\n Education. He received another promotion on September 1, 1966,\n to Associate Director of the Division of Secondary Education.\n He retired April 4, 1969.","Richardson had two elementary schools and one high school\n named for him. The elementary schools were in Culpepper and\n the other in Blackstone, Virginia. Archie Richardson High\n School was located in Louisa County, Virginia.","During his tenure, he contributed a number of articles to\n State and National journals of education. He also authored The\n Development of Negro Education in Virginia.","Mr. Richardson was married to Linnie Ramey for over fifty\n years. Mrs. Richardson taught at schools in Mecklenburg and\n Richmond, Virginia."],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe Archie G. Richardson Papers, Accession #1997-77 ,\n Special Collections and Archives, Johnston Memorial\n Library, Virginia State University, Petersburg, VA.\u003c/p\u003e"],"prefercite_tesim":["The Archie G. Richardson Papers, Accession #1997-77 ,\n Special Collections and Archives, Johnston Memorial\n Library, Virginia State University, Petersburg, VA."],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eHow did Virginia explain educational public policy during\n the era of legal segregation? Archie Richardson's main\n responsibility during his tenure with the Department of\n Education was that of official spokesman to the African\n American Community for the State of Virginia. Correspondence,\n speeches, writings, and photographs documenting Archie\n Richardson's position as the only African American\n professional employed by the Education Department in Virginia\n during the era of legal segregation, Constitutes the majority\n of these materials.\u003c/p\u003e"],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Content Information"],"scopecontent_tesim":["How did Virginia explain educational public policy during\n the era of legal segregation? Archie Richardson's main\n responsibility during his tenure with the Department of\n Education was that of official spokesman to the African\n American Community for the State of Virginia. 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In 1969, he retired as Associate\n Director of the Division of Secondary Education in Virginia.\n His papers consist of correspondence, speeches, writings and\n more than one thousand photographs of Rosenwald, Slater, and\n other schools constructed in Virginia for African Americans in\n the 1930's and before. Acc. #1997-77 Arranged By: Lucious\n Edwards\u003c/abstract\u003e"],"abstract_tesim":["In 1936, Archie Richardson became\n the highest-ranking African American in the State Government.\n In that year, he was appointed assistant to the Assistant for\n Negro education in Virginia. In 1969, he retired as Associate\n Director of the Division of Secondary Education in Virginia.\n His papers consist of correspondence, speeches, writings and\n more than one thousand photographs of Rosenwald, Slater, and\n other schools constructed in Virginia for African Americans in\n the 1930's and before. 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Correspondence 1932-1979 Personal and Business\n Boxes 1-3","Sub-series A: Correspondence by subject Correspondence,\n most generated by Richardson during his tenure with the\n department of Education. Arranged Alphabetically and then\n chronologically within the folders.","Sub-series B: Correspondence by date Arranged\n Chronologically.","Series II. Literary Boxes 4-19","Sub-Series A: Speeches Arranged by title and date, followed\n by speeches with dates and materials missing both a date and a\n clearly defined title.","Sub-Series B: Writings and Reports Some of the writings\n were used later in Richardson's history of Negro education in\n Virginia. Many of the reports appear to have been used by\n Richardson to carry out his job with the State Department of\n Education. The reports consist of conference and workshop\n results organized by Richardson.","Sub-Series C: Research Notes During Richardson's career,\n part of his responsibility was to develop procedures and\n manuals used by African-American Schools in Virginia. This\n sub-series also contains an interesting log concerning the\n Whitcomb court school in Richmond, VA.","Series III. Video Recordings Taped speeches at different\n functions attended by Richardson. Most of the speeches were\n not delivered by Richardson.","Series IV: Photographs Boxes 21-27","Sub-series A: Family and Personal Photo's of activities at\n Virginia State when Richardson was a student and later as a\n teacher at the Mecklenburg County Training School, conferences\n at Virginia State and other areas.","Sub-series B: Education in Virginia (African American\n Schools) Several thousand 3x5 black and white photographs and\n negatives of schools scenes in Virginia. The Photographs were\n taken between the years 1926 and 1938. The Photographs and\n negatives are of European, Native, and African American school\n buildings, some classes, and other activities. Most of the\n developed photographs are of African American schools and\n include Rosenwald, Slater, and other buildings used by African\n Americans in Virginia. *The origin of the photographs and\n negatives is not known. The folders are arranged\n alphabetically by county and city.","Sub-series C. Negatives of the schools and scenes located\n in some of Virginia's counties and cities. These do not have\n an inventory, but are arranged by county and city. In addition\n there are negatives of activities relating to education\n outside of the state of Virginia.","Box #28 Series V: Scrapbooks and Yearbooks Correspondence\n most of which covers Richardson's retirement, two yearbooks\n from Louisa, Virginia.","Series VI: Printed Printed items including certificates,\n pamphlets, and degrees","Box #29 Sub-series A: Awards and Certificates Awards and\n certificates presented to Richardson over the years.","Sub-series B: Pamphlets Two items: one the By-Laws of the\n Southside Interscholastic Athletic Association, documenting an\n early effort to organize African American sports played in the\n high schools.","Sub-series C: Book The Development of Negro Education in\n Virginia, 1831-1970, published by Phi Delta Kappa.","Sub-series D: Degrees Earned Degrees of Archie and Linnie\n Richardson","Box #30 Series-series E: News clippings News clippings from\n a number of newspapers primary from the state of Virginia.","Archie Gibbs Richardson, was the Associate Director of the\n Division of Secondary Education, State Department of\n Education, Richmond, Virginia. He was born in Lexington,\n Virginia, April 4, 1904. Because there were few high schools\n for African American in Virginia, Richardson's parents sent\n him to the high school at the Virginia Normal and Industrial\n Institute at Petersburg where he completed the program in\n 1923. He received the B.A. Degree from Virginia Normal and\n Industrial Institute, Petersburg, in June 1927; the M.S.\n Degree in education from Butler University, Indianapolis,\n Indiana, in June 1939; and was granted the degree of Doctor of\n Education at Columbia University, New York, in1946. In June\n 1957, Virginia State College conferred upon him the honorary\n degree of Doctor of Laws.","Richardson served as principal of the Mecklenburg County\n Training School, in South Hill, Virginia, 1927-1935; and as\n Director of academics at Saint Paul Normal School,\n Lawrenceville, Virginia. The State Superintendent of Public\n Instruction appointed him Assistant Supervisor of \"Negro\"\n Education in 1936. On January 1, 1951, he was promoted to the\n position of Associate Supervisor of Elementary and Secondary\n Education. He received another promotion on September 1, 1966,\n to Associate Director of the Division of Secondary Education.\n He retired April 4, 1969.","Richardson had two elementary schools and one high school\n named for him. The elementary schools were in Culpepper and\n the other in Blackstone, Virginia. Archie Richardson High\n School was located in Louisa County, Virginia.","During his tenure, he contributed a number of articles to\n State and National journals of education. He also authored The\n Development of Negro Education in Virginia.","Mr. Richardson was married to Linnie Ramey for over fifty\n years. Mrs. Richardson taught at schools in Mecklenburg and\n Richmond, Virginia.","How did Virginia explain educational public policy during\n the era of legal segregation? 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In June\n 1957, Virginia State College conferred upon him the honorary\n degree of Doctor of Laws.","Richardson served as principal of the Mecklenburg County\n Training School, in South Hill, Virginia, 1927-1935; and as\n Director of academics at Saint Paul Normal School,\n Lawrenceville, Virginia. The State Superintendent of Public\n Instruction appointed him Assistant Supervisor of \"Negro\"\n Education in 1936. On January 1, 1951, he was promoted to the\n position of Associate Supervisor of Elementary and Secondary\n Education. He received another promotion on September 1, 1966,\n to Associate Director of the Division of Secondary Education.\n He retired April 4, 1969.","Richardson had two elementary schools and one high school\n named for him. The elementary schools were in Culpepper and\n the other in Blackstone, Virginia. 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In 1969, he retired as Associate\n Director of the Division of Secondary Education in Virginia.\n His papers consist of correspondence, speeches, writings and\n more than one thousand photographs of Rosenwald, Slater, and\n other schools constructed in Virginia for African Americans in\n the 1930's and before. Acc. #1997-77 Arranged By: Lucious\n Edwards\u003c/abstract\u003e"],"abstract_tesim":["In 1936, Archie Richardson became\n the highest-ranking African American in the State Government.\n In that year, he was appointed assistant to the Assistant for\n Negro education in Virginia. In 1969, he retired as Associate\n Director of the Division of Secondary Education in Virginia.\n His papers consist of correspondence, speeches, writings and\n more than one thousand photographs of Rosenwald, Slater, and\n other schools constructed in Virginia for African Americans in\n the 1930's and before. 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BIOGRAPHICAL DATA (Container 1) \n Series II. CORRESPONDENCE \u0026 REPORTS (Containers 1-9)\n A. Family [1. By Date / 2. By Name] \n B. Personal [1. By Name / 2. By Date] \n C. Business [1. Azurest Syndicate / 2. U. S. Patent\n Office] \n Series III. WORK- V.S.U. (Container 9) \n Series IV. ALUMNI (Containers 10-12) \n A. General \n B. House Committee \n Series V. ORGANIZATIONAL AFFILIATIONS (Container 12) \n A. Dunbar High School Class Reunion \n B. Gillfield Baptist Church \n C. The Virginia Federation of Colored Women's Club \n Series VI. SCRAPBOOKS (Containers 13-15, loose books) \n Series VII. PHOTOGRAPHS (Container 16) \n Series VIII PRINTED MATERIAL (Container 17) \n Series IX. ARCHITECTURAL DRAWINGS (Containers 18-20) \n A. Furniture \n B. Line Drawings \n C. Blueprints","Amaza Lee Meredith was born in Lynchburg, Virginia on\n August 14,1895. She was the daughter of Emma P. Kenny\n (Meredith) and Samuel P. Meredith. She had two sisters and one\n brother; the eldest child , Maude, maintained a life-long\n closeness with Amaza. In 1915, Meredith completed here early\n schooling in Lynchburg, where she graduated at the top of her\n class.","Her First teaching job was at a rural ungraded school\n called Indian Rock, located in Botetourt County, Virginia.\n Here, Meredith organized the Indian Rock Parent- Teacher's\n Association, which worked in conjunction with the Negro\n Organization Society of Virginia to bring improvement to the\n local school system. In 1918, she returned to Lynchburg, where\n she taught elementary school. In 1922, she served as\n Valedictorian for her class at the Virginia Normal and\n Industrial Institute. This was followed by six years of\n teaching mathematics at Dunbar High School in Lynchburg.","Ms. Meredith enrolled in the Teacher's College of Columbia\n University, New York in 1928. It was there where she earned\n both her Bachelor's and Master's Degrees in Fine Arts\n Education.","Her career with Virginia State University began in 1930,\n though she took a leave of absence from 1934-35 to complete\n her Master's degree. In 1935, she advanced to the position of\n Department Char, where she remained until her retirement in\n 1958. Amaza Meredith established the schools of Fine Arts\n department.","Beyond her career at V. S. U., Meredith's life was also\n rich in contributions. Her artistic self spilled over into\n these other facets of her life. She exhibited her art at the\n Virginia Museum of Fine Arts and in galleries in New York and\n North Carolina. Some works were acquired by groups, such as\n the Gillfield Baptist Church, where they are still displayed;\n many others hang in the homes of area residents.","She also developed interior decorating and design skills.\n In the field of business, she coordinated color schemes for\n campus buildings. To provide for new shelving units, she\n created blueprints, which proposed modifications in the art\n department layouts.","This remarkable person also pursued architectural\n interests. Though she had no known formal training, Amaza\n Meredith fully designed her own home - both inside and out,\n and im1939, it was built on Boisseau Street here in Ettrick.\n She named it \"Azurest South.\" In the ensuing decades, Meredith\n laid out the blueprints for several homes, most notably in Sag\n Harbor, Long Island, New York.","In the 1950's Sag Harbor flourished as resort area for\n blacks. Amaza and her sister, Maude, worked together to buy,\n create, and develop the subdivision later called \"Azurest\n North.\" They worked with others to establish the \"Azurest\n Syndicate, Inc.\" Syndicate lots were sold to individual\n investors, who the built summer, or year-round cottages and\n this land. Ms. Meredith designed at least two of these\n residences: 1) Terry Cottage, summer home for her sister,\n Maude Terry: and 2) Edendot, belonging to friends Ed and Dot\n Spaulding.","Additionally, Meredith provided several sets of blueprints\n for the proposed V. S. U. Alumni House in 1949. Once these\n plans fell through, Amaza tried another approach: She willed\n her half of Azurest South to the V. S. U. Alumni Association\n in the hopes that the dream for which she had worked so long\n would become a reality. Joint ownership of Azurest South was\n held with Ms. Edna Colson, another retired faculty member of\n V. S. U. In 1985, the Alumni Association purchased the\n Colson's half of the house, and Azurest South is now the\n official V. S. U. Alumni House.","Meredith was generally active in the Alumni Association.\n She was an honorary member of the Gillfield Baptist Church.\n While she participated in several other organizations and\n committees, the extent of her involvement is not known.","In 1984, Amaza Lee Meredith died.","The Amaza Lee Meredith Papers, 1912-1983, document a slice\n of Virginia's history in the twentieth century. This founder\n of the Fine Arts Department lived a life abundant in\n contributions well beyond her career at Virginia State\n University, while some materials relate directly to her work\n as a faculty member. Her devotion to education spanned over\n four decades; these papers reflect her efforts. Born in 1895,\n Meredith was raised in a period which some consider the lowest\n point in African-American history since the antebellum era. A\n product of such adversity, she adjusted to work and achieve\n during and after a time of legal segregation. This collection\n speaks to her successes in overcoming the \"obstacles\" of both\n race and gender.","Beginning in 1930, Meredith corresponded frequently with\n family, most notably, her sister, Maude Terry. These letters\n reveal the depth of love and loyalty the family cultivated and\n nurtured for lifetime. They demonstrate the difference in\n women's roles between the black and white interdependent\n relationship with men; black women have received greater\n support from their peers in the arena of independence. In this\n vein, Meredith's family gave her nothing short of a full\n endorsement for her outstanding achievements. It is likely\n that such contributed to her ability to surmount societal\n resistance.","Many of Meredith's peers were educators. Her papers include\n correspondence with Helen Edmonds, Anne Crittendon Preston,\n and Jean Murrell Capers (who later made her mark in politics).\n The remaining correspondence comes from people of varied\n backgrounds, also as viable research material.","Another group of personal correspondence related to\n Stafford Evans, a prized students of Ms. Meredith. While there\n is some continuation of correspondence into the 1980s, most of\n these letters were written while Evans served in the navy from\n 1943-45. Included are copies of The Mananan, a WWII Black\n sailors' March and December of 1945. This sub-series lends\n expression to the ambiguity, which black soldiers felt while\n in fighting for a democracy to which they themselves were not\n privy.","Meredith's business records document the origins of the\n Azurest Syndicate in 1953. Ms. Meredith worked with her\n sister, Ms. Terry, to pioneer the development of a Black\n summer resort area known as the Azurest North. The Syndicate\n served to regulate the subdivision's lot sales. The unique\n aspect of this venture are numerous: the development of a\n black resort in this time period, the syndicate, and the\n project's creation and development by two Black women - whose\n careers were unrelated to such a field.","It appears that, from the 1950's through the 1970's some\n homes in Azurest North were designed by Ms. Meredith. Though\n she had no known formal architectural schooling, she created\n countless line and ink drawings as well as blueprints, which\n are also included in this collection. Several of these\n projects succeeded in being built. For many more, the end\n result is as yet undetermined.","Unquestionably, Meredith designed and built her own home,\n known as Azurest South, which she truly reflects her artistic\n gift. Blueprints, line drawings, and sketches of this home are\n available for research.","Found in another series are the plans for the proposed V.\n S. U. Alumni House. Beginning in 1949 and working through the\n next decade, Meredith was active with the Alumni House\n Committee in attempts to produce an Alumni House. She retained\n general Alumni records from as early as 1936 and ending in\n 1969.","Lastly, she created more than a dozen scrapbooks, devoting\n each to a different subject and/or person. They contain\n documents, photos, letters, news clippings, and ephemera,\n which combine to form a rich source of research on their\n topics. The materials cut across all the other sub-series in\n these collections.","Amaza Meredith maintained a life-long friendship with Edna\n Colson, former head of the Education Department at V. S. U.\n They also shared a residence and had mutual friends. Clearly,\n in order to research either person in- depth, it will be\n necessary to study the other. Some further correspondence\n exists in Colson/Hill the sub-series of MS. Colson's personal\n correspondence dating from 1905-79. This includes information\n of the trip to Europe made by Colson and Meredith. Some\n materials, however are restricted (Box 29).","This is a collection of cards and programs.\n Included in this scrapbook is one of several\n telegrams.","This is a photographic record of Azurest South\n during its construction and as the home shared by\n Amaza Meredith and Edna Colson.","Correspondence, number of letters concerning\n Amamza Meredith teaching career in Lynchburg, and her\n being recruited to come to Virginia State by John M.\n Gandy. The other letters are mainly from friends\n concerning a variety of subjects. Included in the\n scrapbook is numerous of news-clippings, programs,\n tickets and other items collected by her long\n life.","Some correspondence, most of the materials consist\n of several programs, which were designed by Miss\n Meredith. Included in this book are also a number of\n speeches most concerning the teaching of or about\n art.","A collection of photographs covering a wide\n area.","This scrapbook includes a number of poems and\n letters written by Amaza Lee Meredith. The Evening\n song and Alma Mater of Virginia State is embodied in\n this scrapbook. Other letters and poems written or\n given to Miss Meredith can also be found. There are\n newspaper-clippings of poems written by Miss Amaza\n and also others that she collected.","Correspondence, photo's and newspaper-clippings\n from some of her former students. Included in this\n scrapbook are: James Gault Chander Flymn, Roderick\n Taylor, Freddrick F. Kersy, Reyenea Perry, Mildred\n Fountain, Huedillard Fitzgerald. Stanford Evens and\n others. There is addition some material about\n Lynchberg Virginia.","Some correspondence, news-clipping, programs most\n of which document the establishment of the Meredith\n Art at Virginia State in 1972 Gallery.","This scrapbook contains some correspondence,\n programs and printed articles about Anne Spencer of\n Lynchburg. Mrs. Spencer was a poet of the Harlem\n Renaissance Period. One of Miss Meredith sisters was\n married to Miss Spencer sons.","A Scrapbook of letters from a wide group of people\n dating from 1941 through 1976.","Some correspondence photographs and cards of\n sympathy about the death of Iris Terry Richards. Dr.\n Richards was Miss Meredith niece.","News-clippings, newsletters and other material\n mostly about Art.","A combination of items includes Miss Meredith's\n High School grades and diploma. There are letters of\n recognition and certificates.","Most of the material document Miss Meredith\n involvement with the Gillfield Baptist Church in\n Petersburg, Va.","This scrapbook document Miss Meredith retirement\n from Virginia State University in 1958. There are\n cards, programs, letters and photographs.","EDIT ME!","The Amaza Lee Meredith papers\n contain personal and business documents generated by Ms.\n Meredith which reflect the activities of her lifetime.\n Included are materials related to her career at Virginia State\n University, her participation in the V.S.U. Alumni Association\n the official records of the Azurest North Syndicate, and\n personal correspondence with several prominent blueprints,\n line drawings, and sketches of Ms. Meredith's designs which\n demonstrates her pursuits in architecture.","English"],"unitid_tesim":["1982-20"],"normalized_title_ssm":["Amaza Lee Meredith Papers, \n 1912,\n 1930-1938"],"collection_title_tesim":["Amaza Lee Meredith Papers, \n 1912,\n 1930-1938"],"collection_ssim":["Amaza Lee Meredith Papers, \n 1912,\n 1930-1938"],"repository_ssm":["Virginia State University"],"repository_ssim":["Virginia State University"],"acqinfo_ssim":["These papers were given to the V.S.U. 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In 1915, Meredith completed here early\n schooling in Lynchburg, where she graduated at the top of her\n class.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHer First teaching job was at a rural ungraded school\n called Indian Rock, located in Botetourt County, Virginia.\n Here, Meredith organized the Indian Rock Parent- Teacher's\n Association, which worked in conjunction with the Negro\n Organization Society of Virginia to bring improvement to the\n local school system. In 1918, she returned to Lynchburg, where\n she taught elementary school. In 1922, she served as\n Valedictorian for her class at the Virginia Normal and\n Industrial Institute. This was followed by six years of\n teaching mathematics at Dunbar High School in Lynchburg.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMs. Meredith enrolled in the Teacher's College of Columbia\n University, New York in 1928. It was there where she earned\n both her Bachelor's and Master's Degrees in Fine Arts\n Education.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHer career with Virginia State University began in 1930,\n though she took a leave of absence from 1934-35 to complete\n her Master's degree. In 1935, she advanced to the position of\n Department Char, where she remained until her retirement in\n 1958. Amaza Meredith established the schools of Fine Arts\n department.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBeyond her career at V. S. U., Meredith's life was also\n rich in contributions. Her artistic self spilled over into\n these other facets of her life. She exhibited her art at the\n Virginia Museum of Fine Arts and in galleries in New York and\n North Carolina. Some works were acquired by groups, such as\n the Gillfield Baptist Church, where they are still displayed;\n many others hang in the homes of area residents.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eShe also developed interior decorating and design skills.\n In the field of business, she coordinated color schemes for\n campus buildings. To provide for new shelving units, she\n created blueprints, which proposed modifications in the art\n department layouts.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis remarkable person also pursued architectural\n interests. Though she had no known formal training, Amaza\n Meredith fully designed her own home - both inside and out,\n and im1939, it was built on Boisseau Street here in Ettrick.\n She named it \"Azurest South.\" In the ensuing decades, Meredith\n laid out the blueprints for several homes, most notably in Sag\n Harbor, Long Island, New York.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIn the 1950's Sag Harbor flourished as resort area for\n blacks. Amaza and her sister, Maude, worked together to buy,\n create, and develop the subdivision later called \"Azurest\n North.\" They worked with others to establish the \"Azurest\n Syndicate, Inc.\" Syndicate lots were sold to individual\n investors, who the built summer, or year-round cottages and\n this land. Ms. Meredith designed at least two of these\n residences: 1) Terry Cottage, summer home for her sister,\n Maude Terry: and 2) Edendot, belonging to friends Ed and Dot\n Spaulding.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAdditionally, Meredith provided several sets of blueprints\n for the proposed V. S. U. Alumni House in 1949. Once these\n plans fell through, Amaza tried another approach: She willed\n her half of Azurest South to the V. S. U. Alumni Association\n in the hopes that the dream for which she had worked so long\n would become a reality. Joint ownership of Azurest South was\n held with Ms. Edna Colson, another retired faculty member of\n V. S. U. In 1985, the Alumni Association purchased the\n Colson's half of the house, and Azurest South is now the\n official V. S. U. Alumni House.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMeredith was generally active in the Alumni Association.\n She was an honorary member of the Gillfield Baptist Church.\n While she participated in several other organizations and\n committees, the extent of her involvement is not known.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIn 1984, Amaza Lee Meredith died.\u003c/p\u003e"],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical/Historical Information"],"bioghist_tesim":["Amaza Lee Meredith was born in Lynchburg, Virginia on\n August 14,1895. She was the daughter of Emma P. Kenny\n (Meredith) and Samuel P. Meredith. She had two sisters and one\n brother; the eldest child , Maude, maintained a life-long\n closeness with Amaza. In 1915, Meredith completed here early\n schooling in Lynchburg, where she graduated at the top of her\n class.","Her First teaching job was at a rural ungraded school\n called Indian Rock, located in Botetourt County, Virginia.\n Here, Meredith organized the Indian Rock Parent- Teacher's\n Association, which worked in conjunction with the Negro\n Organization Society of Virginia to bring improvement to the\n local school system. In 1918, she returned to Lynchburg, where\n she taught elementary school. In 1922, she served as\n Valedictorian for her class at the Virginia Normal and\n Industrial Institute. This was followed by six years of\n teaching mathematics at Dunbar High School in Lynchburg.","Ms. Meredith enrolled in the Teacher's College of Columbia\n University, New York in 1928. It was there where she earned\n both her Bachelor's and Master's Degrees in Fine Arts\n Education.","Her career with Virginia State University began in 1930,\n though she took a leave of absence from 1934-35 to complete\n her Master's degree. In 1935, she advanced to the position of\n Department Char, where she remained until her retirement in\n 1958. Amaza Meredith established the schools of Fine Arts\n department.","Beyond her career at V. S. U., Meredith's life was also\n rich in contributions. Her artistic self spilled over into\n these other facets of her life. She exhibited her art at the\n Virginia Museum of Fine Arts and in galleries in New York and\n North Carolina. Some works were acquired by groups, such as\n the Gillfield Baptist Church, where they are still displayed;\n many others hang in the homes of area residents.","She also developed interior decorating and design skills.\n In the field of business, she coordinated color schemes for\n campus buildings. To provide for new shelving units, she\n created blueprints, which proposed modifications in the art\n department layouts.","This remarkable person also pursued architectural\n interests. Though she had no known formal training, Amaza\n Meredith fully designed her own home - both inside and out,\n and im1939, it was built on Boisseau Street here in Ettrick.\n She named it \"Azurest South.\" In the ensuing decades, Meredith\n laid out the blueprints for several homes, most notably in Sag\n Harbor, Long Island, New York.","In the 1950's Sag Harbor flourished as resort area for\n blacks. Amaza and her sister, Maude, worked together to buy,\n create, and develop the subdivision later called \"Azurest\n North.\" They worked with others to establish the \"Azurest\n Syndicate, Inc.\" Syndicate lots were sold to individual\n investors, who the built summer, or year-round cottages and\n this land. Ms. Meredith designed at least two of these\n residences: 1) Terry Cottage, summer home for her sister,\n Maude Terry: and 2) Edendot, belonging to friends Ed and Dot\n Spaulding.","Additionally, Meredith provided several sets of blueprints\n for the proposed V. S. U. Alumni House in 1949. Once these\n plans fell through, Amaza tried another approach: She willed\n her half of Azurest South to the V. S. U. Alumni Association\n in the hopes that the dream for which she had worked so long\n would become a reality. Joint ownership of Azurest South was\n held with Ms. Edna Colson, another retired faculty member of\n V. S. U. In 1985, the Alumni Association purchased the\n Colson's half of the house, and Azurest South is now the\n official V. S. U. Alumni House.","Meredith was generally active in the Alumni Association.\n She was an honorary member of the Gillfield Baptist Church.\n While she participated in several other organizations and\n committees, the extent of her involvement is not known.","In 1984, Amaza Lee Meredith died."],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eAmaza Lee Meredith Papers, 1912, 1930-1930, Accession\n #1982-20, Special Collections Dept., Johnson Memorial\n Library, Virginia State University, Petersburg, Va.\u003c/p\u003e"],"prefercite_tesim":["Amaza Lee Meredith Papers, 1912, 1930-1930, Accession\n #1982-20, Special Collections Dept., Johnson Memorial\n Library, Virginia State University, Petersburg, Va."],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe Amaza Lee Meredith Papers, 1912-1983, document a slice\n of Virginia's history in the twentieth century. This founder\n of the Fine Arts Department lived a life abundant in\n contributions well beyond her career at Virginia State\n University, while some materials relate directly to her work\n as a faculty member. Her devotion to education spanned over\n four decades; these papers reflect her efforts. Born in 1895,\n Meredith was raised in a period which some consider the lowest\n point in African-American history since the antebellum era. A\n product of such adversity, she adjusted to work and achieve\n during and after a time of legal segregation. This collection\n speaks to her successes in overcoming the \"obstacles\" of both\n race and gender.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBeginning in 1930, Meredith corresponded frequently with\n family, most notably, her sister, Maude Terry. These letters\n reveal the depth of love and loyalty the family cultivated and\n nurtured for lifetime. They demonstrate the difference in\n women's roles between the black and white interdependent\n relationship with men; black women have received greater\n support from their peers in the arena of independence. In this\n vein, Meredith's family gave her nothing short of a full\n endorsement for her outstanding achievements. It is likely\n that such contributed to her ability to surmount societal\n resistance.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMany of Meredith's peers were educators. Her papers include\n correspondence with Helen Edmonds, Anne Crittendon Preston,\n and Jean Murrell Capers (who later made her mark in politics).\n The remaining correspondence comes from people of varied\n backgrounds, also as viable research material.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAnother group of personal correspondence related to\n Stafford Evans, a prized students of Ms. Meredith. While there\n is some continuation of correspondence into the 1980s, most of\n these letters were written while Evans served in the navy from\n 1943-45. Included are copies of The Mananan, a WWII Black\n sailors' March and December of 1945. This sub-series lends\n expression to the ambiguity, which black soldiers felt while\n in fighting for a democracy to which they themselves were not\n privy.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMeredith's business records document the origins of the\n Azurest Syndicate in 1953. Ms. Meredith worked with her\n sister, Ms. Terry, to pioneer the development of a Black\n summer resort area known as the Azurest North. The Syndicate\n served to regulate the subdivision's lot sales. The unique\n aspect of this venture are numerous: the development of a\n black resort in this time period, the syndicate, and the\n project's creation and development by two Black women - whose\n careers were unrelated to such a field.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIt appears that, from the 1950's through the 1970's some\n homes in Azurest North were designed by Ms. Meredith. Though\n she had no known formal architectural schooling, she created\n countless line and ink drawings as well as blueprints, which\n are also included in this collection. Several of these\n projects succeeded in being built. For many more, the end\n result is as yet undetermined.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eUnquestionably, Meredith designed and built her own home,\n known as Azurest South, which she truly reflects her artistic\n gift. Blueprints, line drawings, and sketches of this home are\n available for research.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFound in another series are the plans for the proposed V.\n S. U. Alumni House. Beginning in 1949 and working through the\n next decade, Meredith was active with the Alumni House\n Committee in attempts to produce an Alumni House. She retained\n general Alumni records from as early as 1936 and ending in\n 1969.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLastly, she created more than a dozen scrapbooks, devoting\n each to a different subject and/or person. They contain\n documents, photos, letters, news clippings, and ephemera,\n which combine to form a rich source of research on their\n topics. The materials cut across all the other sub-series in\n these collections.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAmaza Meredith maintained a life-long friendship with Edna\n Colson, former head of the Education Department at V. S. U.\n They also shared a residence and had mutual friends. Clearly,\n in order to research either person in- depth, it will be\n necessary to study the other. Some further correspondence\n exists in Colson/Hill the sub-series of MS. Colson's personal\n correspondence dating from 1905-79. This includes information\n of the trip to Europe made by Colson and Meredith. Some\n materials, however are restricted (Box 29).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis is a collection of cards and programs.\n Included in this scrapbook is one of several\n telegrams.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis is a photographic record of Azurest South\n during its construction and as the home shared by\n Amaza Meredith and Edna Colson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence, number of letters concerning\n Amamza Meredith teaching career in Lynchburg, and her\n being recruited to come to Virginia State by John M.\n Gandy. The other letters are mainly from friends\n concerning a variety of subjects. Included in the\n scrapbook is numerous of news-clippings, programs,\n tickets and other items collected by her long\n life.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSome correspondence, most of the materials consist\n of several programs, which were designed by Miss\n Meredith. Included in this book are also a number of\n speeches most concerning the teaching of or about\n art.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA collection of photographs covering a wide\n area.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis scrapbook includes a number of poems and\n letters written by Amaza Lee Meredith. The Evening\n song and Alma Mater of Virginia State is embodied in\n this scrapbook. Other letters and poems written or\n given to Miss Meredith can also be found. There are\n newspaper-clippings of poems written by Miss Amaza\n and also others that she collected.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence, photo's and newspaper-clippings\n from some of her former students. Included in this\n scrapbook are: James Gault Chander Flymn, Roderick\n Taylor, Freddrick F. Kersy, Reyenea Perry, Mildred\n Fountain, Huedillard Fitzgerald. Stanford Evens and\n others. There is addition some material about\n Lynchberg Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSome correspondence, news-clipping, programs most\n of which document the establishment of the Meredith\n Art at Virginia State in 1972 Gallery.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis scrapbook contains some correspondence,\n programs and printed articles about Anne Spencer of\n Lynchburg. Mrs. Spencer was a poet of the Harlem\n Renaissance Period. One of Miss Meredith sisters was\n married to Miss Spencer sons.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA Scrapbook of letters from a wide group of people\n dating from 1941 through 1976.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSome correspondence photographs and cards of\n sympathy about the death of Iris Terry Richards. Dr.\n Richards was Miss Meredith niece.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNews-clippings, newsletters and other material\n mostly about Art.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA combination of items includes Miss Meredith's\n High School grades and diploma. There are letters of\n recognition and certificates.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMost of the material document Miss Meredith\n involvement with the Gillfield Baptist Church in\n Petersburg, Va.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis scrapbook document Miss Meredith retirement\n from Virginia State University in 1958. There are\n cards, programs, letters and photographs.\u003c/p\u003e"],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Content Information"],"scopecontent_tesim":["The Amaza Lee Meredith Papers, 1912-1983, document a slice\n of Virginia's history in the twentieth century. This founder\n of the Fine Arts Department lived a life abundant in\n contributions well beyond her career at Virginia State\n University, while some materials relate directly to her work\n as a faculty member. Her devotion to education spanned over\n four decades; these papers reflect her efforts. Born in 1895,\n Meredith was raised in a period which some consider the lowest\n point in African-American history since the antebellum era. A\n product of such adversity, she adjusted to work and achieve\n during and after a time of legal segregation. This collection\n speaks to her successes in overcoming the \"obstacles\" of both\n race and gender.","Beginning in 1930, Meredith corresponded frequently with\n family, most notably, her sister, Maude Terry. These letters\n reveal the depth of love and loyalty the family cultivated and\n nurtured for lifetime. They demonstrate the difference in\n women's roles between the black and white interdependent\n relationship with men; black women have received greater\n support from their peers in the arena of independence. In this\n vein, Meredith's family gave her nothing short of a full\n endorsement for her outstanding achievements. It is likely\n that such contributed to her ability to surmount societal\n resistance.","Many of Meredith's peers were educators. Her papers include\n correspondence with Helen Edmonds, Anne Crittendon Preston,\n and Jean Murrell Capers (who later made her mark in politics).\n The remaining correspondence comes from people of varied\n backgrounds, also as viable research material.","Another group of personal correspondence related to\n Stafford Evans, a prized students of Ms. Meredith. While there\n is some continuation of correspondence into the 1980s, most of\n these letters were written while Evans served in the navy from\n 1943-45. Included are copies of The Mananan, a WWII Black\n sailors' March and December of 1945. This sub-series lends\n expression to the ambiguity, which black soldiers felt while\n in fighting for a democracy to which they themselves were not\n privy.","Meredith's business records document the origins of the\n Azurest Syndicate in 1953. Ms. Meredith worked with her\n sister, Ms. Terry, to pioneer the development of a Black\n summer resort area known as the Azurest North. The Syndicate\n served to regulate the subdivision's lot sales. The unique\n aspect of this venture are numerous: the development of a\n black resort in this time period, the syndicate, and the\n project's creation and development by two Black women - whose\n careers were unrelated to such a field.","It appears that, from the 1950's through the 1970's some\n homes in Azurest North were designed by Ms. Meredith. Though\n she had no known formal architectural schooling, she created\n countless line and ink drawings as well as blueprints, which\n are also included in this collection. Several of these\n projects succeeded in being built. For many more, the end\n result is as yet undetermined.","Unquestionably, Meredith designed and built her own home,\n known as Azurest South, which she truly reflects her artistic\n gift. Blueprints, line drawings, and sketches of this home are\n available for research.","Found in another series are the plans for the proposed V.\n S. U. Alumni House. Beginning in 1949 and working through the\n next decade, Meredith was active with the Alumni House\n Committee in attempts to produce an Alumni House. She retained\n general Alumni records from as early as 1936 and ending in\n 1969.","Lastly, she created more than a dozen scrapbooks, devoting\n each to a different subject and/or person. They contain\n documents, photos, letters, news clippings, and ephemera,\n which combine to form a rich source of research on their\n topics. The materials cut across all the other sub-series in\n these collections.","Amaza Meredith maintained a life-long friendship with Edna\n Colson, former head of the Education Department at V. S. U.\n They also shared a residence and had mutual friends. Clearly,\n in order to research either person in- depth, it will be\n necessary to study the other. Some further correspondence\n exists in Colson/Hill the sub-series of MS. Colson's personal\n correspondence dating from 1905-79. This includes information\n of the trip to Europe made by Colson and Meredith. Some\n materials, however are restricted (Box 29).","This is a collection of cards and programs.\n Included in this scrapbook is one of several\n telegrams.","This is a photographic record of Azurest South\n during its construction and as the home shared by\n Amaza Meredith and Edna Colson.","Correspondence, number of letters concerning\n Amamza Meredith teaching career in Lynchburg, and her\n being recruited to come to Virginia State by John M.\n Gandy. The other letters are mainly from friends\n concerning a variety of subjects. Included in the\n scrapbook is numerous of news-clippings, programs,\n tickets and other items collected by her long\n life.","Some correspondence, most of the materials consist\n of several programs, which were designed by Miss\n Meredith. Included in this book are also a number of\n speeches most concerning the teaching of or about\n art.","A collection of photographs covering a wide\n area.","This scrapbook includes a number of poems and\n letters written by Amaza Lee Meredith. The Evening\n song and Alma Mater of Virginia State is embodied in\n this scrapbook. Other letters and poems written or\n given to Miss Meredith can also be found. There are\n newspaper-clippings of poems written by Miss Amaza\n and also others that she collected.","Correspondence, photo's and newspaper-clippings\n from some of her former students. Included in this\n scrapbook are: James Gault Chander Flymn, Roderick\n Taylor, Freddrick F. Kersy, Reyenea Perry, Mildred\n Fountain, Huedillard Fitzgerald. Stanford Evens and\n others. There is addition some material about\n Lynchberg Virginia.","Some correspondence, news-clipping, programs most\n of which document the establishment of the Meredith\n Art at Virginia State in 1972 Gallery.","This scrapbook contains some correspondence,\n programs and printed articles about Anne Spencer of\n Lynchburg. Mrs. Spencer was a poet of the Harlem\n Renaissance Period. One of Miss Meredith sisters was\n married to Miss Spencer sons.","A Scrapbook of letters from a wide group of people\n dating from 1941 through 1976.","Some correspondence photographs and cards of\n sympathy about the death of Iris Terry Richards. Dr.\n Richards was Miss Meredith niece.","News-clippings, newsletters and other material\n mostly about Art.","A combination of items includes Miss Meredith's\n High School grades and diploma. There are letters of\n recognition and certificates.","Most of the material document Miss Meredith\n involvement with the Gillfield Baptist Church in\n Petersburg, Va.","This scrapbook document Miss Meredith retirement\n from Virginia State University in 1958. There are\n cards, programs, letters and photographs."],"userestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eEDIT ME!\u003c/p\u003e"],"userestrict_heading_ssm":["Publication Rights"],"userestrict_tesim":["EDIT ME!"],"abstract_html_tesm":["\u003cabstract label=\"Abstract\"\u003eThe Amaza Lee Meredith papers\n contain personal and business documents generated by Ms.\n Meredith which reflect the activities of her lifetime.\n Included are materials related to her career at Virginia State\n University, her participation in the V.S.U. Alumni Association\n the official records of the Azurest North Syndicate, and\n personal correspondence with several prominent blueprints,\n line drawings, and sketches of Ms. Meredith's designs which\n demonstrates her pursuits in architecture.\u003c/abstract\u003e"],"abstract_tesim":["The Amaza Lee Meredith papers\n contain personal and business documents generated by Ms.\n Meredith which reflect the activities of her lifetime.\n Included are materials related to her career at Virginia State\n University, her participation in the V.S.U. Alumni Association\n the official records of the Azurest North Syndicate, and\n personal correspondence with several prominent blueprints,\n line drawings, and sketches of Ms. Meredith's designs which\n demonstrates her pursuits in architecture."],"language_ssim":["English"],"total_component_count_is":369,"online_item_count_is":0,"component_level_isim":[0],"sort_isi":0,"timestamp":"2026-05-20T18:22:00.819Z"}]}},"label":"Breadcrumbs"}}},"links":{"self":"https://arvasarchive.org/catalog/vipets_vipets00005_c02_c03_c03"}},{"id":"vipets_vipets00005_c02_c03_c04","type":"Item","attributes":{"title":"112 Azurest Syndicate, Inc. 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BIOGRAPHICAL DATA (Container 1) \n Series II. CORRESPONDENCE \u0026 REPORTS (Containers 1-9)\n A. Family [1. By Date / 2. By Name] \n B. Personal [1. By Name / 2. By Date] \n C. Business [1. Azurest Syndicate / 2. U. S. Patent\n Office] \n Series III. WORK- V.S.U. (Container 9) \n Series IV. ALUMNI (Containers 10-12) \n A. General \n B. House Committee \n Series V. ORGANIZATIONAL AFFILIATIONS (Container 12) \n A. Dunbar High School Class Reunion \n B. Gillfield Baptist Church \n C. The Virginia Federation of Colored Women's Club \n Series VI. SCRAPBOOKS (Containers 13-15, loose books) \n Series VII. PHOTOGRAPHS (Container 16) \n Series VIII PRINTED MATERIAL (Container 17) \n Series IX. ARCHITECTURAL DRAWINGS (Containers 18-20) \n A. Furniture \n B. Line Drawings \n C. Blueprints","Amaza Lee Meredith was born in Lynchburg, Virginia on\n August 14,1895. She was the daughter of Emma P. Kenny\n (Meredith) and Samuel P. Meredith. She had two sisters and one\n brother; the eldest child , Maude, maintained a life-long\n closeness with Amaza. In 1915, Meredith completed here early\n schooling in Lynchburg, where she graduated at the top of her\n class.","Her First teaching job was at a rural ungraded school\n called Indian Rock, located in Botetourt County, Virginia.\n Here, Meredith organized the Indian Rock Parent- Teacher's\n Association, which worked in conjunction with the Negro\n Organization Society of Virginia to bring improvement to the\n local school system. In 1918, she returned to Lynchburg, where\n she taught elementary school. In 1922, she served as\n Valedictorian for her class at the Virginia Normal and\n Industrial Institute. This was followed by six years of\n teaching mathematics at Dunbar High School in Lynchburg.","Ms. Meredith enrolled in the Teacher's College of Columbia\n University, New York in 1928. It was there where she earned\n both her Bachelor's and Master's Degrees in Fine Arts\n Education.","Her career with Virginia State University began in 1930,\n though she took a leave of absence from 1934-35 to complete\n her Master's degree. In 1935, she advanced to the position of\n Department Char, where she remained until her retirement in\n 1958. Amaza Meredith established the schools of Fine Arts\n department.","Beyond her career at V. S. U., Meredith's life was also\n rich in contributions. Her artistic self spilled over into\n these other facets of her life. She exhibited her art at the\n Virginia Museum of Fine Arts and in galleries in New York and\n North Carolina. Some works were acquired by groups, such as\n the Gillfield Baptist Church, where they are still displayed;\n many others hang in the homes of area residents.","She also developed interior decorating and design skills.\n In the field of business, she coordinated color schemes for\n campus buildings. To provide for new shelving units, she\n created blueprints, which proposed modifications in the art\n department layouts.","This remarkable person also pursued architectural\n interests. Though she had no known formal training, Amaza\n Meredith fully designed her own home - both inside and out,\n and im1939, it was built on Boisseau Street here in Ettrick.\n She named it \"Azurest South.\" In the ensuing decades, Meredith\n laid out the blueprints for several homes, most notably in Sag\n Harbor, Long Island, New York.","In the 1950's Sag Harbor flourished as resort area for\n blacks. Amaza and her sister, Maude, worked together to buy,\n create, and develop the subdivision later called \"Azurest\n North.\" They worked with others to establish the \"Azurest\n Syndicate, Inc.\" Syndicate lots were sold to individual\n investors, who the built summer, or year-round cottages and\n this land. Ms. Meredith designed at least two of these\n residences: 1) Terry Cottage, summer home for her sister,\n Maude Terry: and 2) Edendot, belonging to friends Ed and Dot\n Spaulding.","Additionally, Meredith provided several sets of blueprints\n for the proposed V. S. U. Alumni House in 1949. Once these\n plans fell through, Amaza tried another approach: She willed\n her half of Azurest South to the V. S. U. Alumni Association\n in the hopes that the dream for which she had worked so long\n would become a reality. Joint ownership of Azurest South was\n held with Ms. Edna Colson, another retired faculty member of\n V. S. U. In 1985, the Alumni Association purchased the\n Colson's half of the house, and Azurest South is now the\n official V. S. U. Alumni House.","Meredith was generally active in the Alumni Association.\n She was an honorary member of the Gillfield Baptist Church.\n While she participated in several other organizations and\n committees, the extent of her involvement is not known.","In 1984, Amaza Lee Meredith died.","The Amaza Lee Meredith Papers, 1912-1983, document a slice\n of Virginia's history in the twentieth century. This founder\n of the Fine Arts Department lived a life abundant in\n contributions well beyond her career at Virginia State\n University, while some materials relate directly to her work\n as a faculty member. Her devotion to education spanned over\n four decades; these papers reflect her efforts. Born in 1895,\n Meredith was raised in a period which some consider the lowest\n point in African-American history since the antebellum era. A\n product of such adversity, she adjusted to work and achieve\n during and after a time of legal segregation. This collection\n speaks to her successes in overcoming the \"obstacles\" of both\n race and gender.","Beginning in 1930, Meredith corresponded frequently with\n family, most notably, her sister, Maude Terry. These letters\n reveal the depth of love and loyalty the family cultivated and\n nurtured for lifetime. They demonstrate the difference in\n women's roles between the black and white interdependent\n relationship with men; black women have received greater\n support from their peers in the arena of independence. In this\n vein, Meredith's family gave her nothing short of a full\n endorsement for her outstanding achievements. It is likely\n that such contributed to her ability to surmount societal\n resistance.","Many of Meredith's peers were educators. Her papers include\n correspondence with Helen Edmonds, Anne Crittendon Preston,\n and Jean Murrell Capers (who later made her mark in politics).\n The remaining correspondence comes from people of varied\n backgrounds, also as viable research material.","Another group of personal correspondence related to\n Stafford Evans, a prized students of Ms. Meredith. While there\n is some continuation of correspondence into the 1980s, most of\n these letters were written while Evans served in the navy from\n 1943-45. Included are copies of The Mananan, a WWII Black\n sailors' March and December of 1945. This sub-series lends\n expression to the ambiguity, which black soldiers felt while\n in fighting for a democracy to which they themselves were not\n privy.","Meredith's business records document the origins of the\n Azurest Syndicate in 1953. Ms. Meredith worked with her\n sister, Ms. Terry, to pioneer the development of a Black\n summer resort area known as the Azurest North. The Syndicate\n served to regulate the subdivision's lot sales. The unique\n aspect of this venture are numerous: the development of a\n black resort in this time period, the syndicate, and the\n project's creation and development by two Black women - whose\n careers were unrelated to such a field.","It appears that, from the 1950's through the 1970's some\n homes in Azurest North were designed by Ms. Meredith. Though\n she had no known formal architectural schooling, she created\n countless line and ink drawings as well as blueprints, which\n are also included in this collection. Several of these\n projects succeeded in being built. For many more, the end\n result is as yet undetermined.","Unquestionably, Meredith designed and built her own home,\n known as Azurest South, which she truly reflects her artistic\n gift. Blueprints, line drawings, and sketches of this home are\n available for research.","Found in another series are the plans for the proposed V.\n S. U. Alumni House. Beginning in 1949 and working through the\n next decade, Meredith was active with the Alumni House\n Committee in attempts to produce an Alumni House. She retained\n general Alumni records from as early as 1936 and ending in\n 1969.","Lastly, she created more than a dozen scrapbooks, devoting\n each to a different subject and/or person. They contain\n documents, photos, letters, news clippings, and ephemera,\n which combine to form a rich source of research on their\n topics. The materials cut across all the other sub-series in\n these collections.","Amaza Meredith maintained a life-long friendship with Edna\n Colson, former head of the Education Department at V. S. U.\n They also shared a residence and had mutual friends. Clearly,\n in order to research either person in- depth, it will be\n necessary to study the other. Some further correspondence\n exists in Colson/Hill the sub-series of MS. Colson's personal\n correspondence dating from 1905-79. This includes information\n of the trip to Europe made by Colson and Meredith. Some\n materials, however are restricted (Box 29).","This is a collection of cards and programs.\n Included in this scrapbook is one of several\n telegrams.","This is a photographic record of Azurest South\n during its construction and as the home shared by\n Amaza Meredith and Edna Colson.","Correspondence, number of letters concerning\n Amamza Meredith teaching career in Lynchburg, and her\n being recruited to come to Virginia State by John M.\n Gandy. The other letters are mainly from friends\n concerning a variety of subjects. Included in the\n scrapbook is numerous of news-clippings, programs,\n tickets and other items collected by her long\n life.","Some correspondence, most of the materials consist\n of several programs, which were designed by Miss\n Meredith. Included in this book are also a number of\n speeches most concerning the teaching of or about\n art.","A collection of photographs covering a wide\n area.","This scrapbook includes a number of poems and\n letters written by Amaza Lee Meredith. The Evening\n song and Alma Mater of Virginia State is embodied in\n this scrapbook. Other letters and poems written or\n given to Miss Meredith can also be found. There are\n newspaper-clippings of poems written by Miss Amaza\n and also others that she collected.","Correspondence, photo's and newspaper-clippings\n from some of her former students. Included in this\n scrapbook are: James Gault Chander Flymn, Roderick\n Taylor, Freddrick F. Kersy, Reyenea Perry, Mildred\n Fountain, Huedillard Fitzgerald. Stanford Evens and\n others. There is addition some material about\n Lynchberg Virginia.","Some correspondence, news-clipping, programs most\n of which document the establishment of the Meredith\n Art at Virginia State in 1972 Gallery.","This scrapbook contains some correspondence,\n programs and printed articles about Anne Spencer of\n Lynchburg. Mrs. Spencer was a poet of the Harlem\n Renaissance Period. One of Miss Meredith sisters was\n married to Miss Spencer sons.","A Scrapbook of letters from a wide group of people\n dating from 1941 through 1976.","Some correspondence photographs and cards of\n sympathy about the death of Iris Terry Richards. Dr.\n Richards was Miss Meredith niece.","News-clippings, newsletters and other material\n mostly about Art.","A combination of items includes Miss Meredith's\n High School grades and diploma. There are letters of\n recognition and certificates.","Most of the material document Miss Meredith\n involvement with the Gillfield Baptist Church in\n Petersburg, Va.","This scrapbook document Miss Meredith retirement\n from Virginia State University in 1958. There are\n cards, programs, letters and photographs.","EDIT ME!","The Amaza Lee Meredith papers\n contain personal and business documents generated by Ms.\n Meredith which reflect the activities of her lifetime.\n Included are materials related to her career at Virginia State\n University, her participation in the V.S.U. Alumni Association\n the official records of the Azurest North Syndicate, and\n personal correspondence with several prominent blueprints,\n line drawings, and sketches of Ms. Meredith's designs which\n demonstrates her pursuits in architecture.","English"],"unitid_tesim":["1982-20"],"normalized_title_ssm":["Amaza Lee Meredith Papers, \n 1912,\n 1930-1938"],"collection_title_tesim":["Amaza Lee Meredith Papers, \n 1912,\n 1930-1938"],"collection_ssim":["Amaza Lee Meredith Papers, \n 1912,\n 1930-1938"],"repository_ssm":["Virginia State University"],"repository_ssim":["Virginia State University"],"acqinfo_ssim":["These papers were given to the V.S.U. Archives/ Special\n Collections Department by decree of Ms. Meredith's Last\n Will and Testament."],"has_online_content_ssim":["false"],"physdesc_tesim":["This collection\n contains ca. 5,000 pieces."],"accessrestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe items in Box 29 are restricted; there are no other\n restrictions in this collection.\u003c/p\u003e"],"accessrestrict_heading_ssm":["Access"],"accessrestrict_tesim":["The items in Box 29 are restricted; there are no other\n restrictions in this collection."],"arrangement_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eSeries I. BIOGRAPHICAL DATA (Container 1) \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eSeries II. CORRESPONDENCE \u0026amp; REPORTS (Containers 1-9)\n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eA. Family [1. By Date / 2. By Name] \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eB. Personal [1. By Name / 2. By Date] \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eC. Business [1. Azurest Syndicate / 2. U. S. Patent\n Office] \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eSeries III. WORK- V.S.U. (Container 9) \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eSeries IV. ALUMNI (Containers 10-12) \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eA. General \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eB. House Committee \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eSeries V. ORGANIZATIONAL AFFILIATIONS (Container 12) \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eA. Dunbar High School Class Reunion \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eB. Gillfield Baptist Church \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eC. The Virginia Federation of Colored Women's Club \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eSeries VI. SCRAPBOOKS (Containers 13-15, loose books) \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eSeries VII. PHOTOGRAPHS (Container 16) \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eSeries VIII PRINTED MATERIAL (Container 17) \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eSeries IX. ARCHITECTURAL DRAWINGS (Containers 18-20) \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eA. Furniture \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eB. Line Drawings \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eC. Blueprints\u003c/p\u003e"],"arrangement_heading_ssm":["Organization"],"arrangement_tesim":["Series I. BIOGRAPHICAL DATA (Container 1) \n Series II. CORRESPONDENCE \u0026 REPORTS (Containers 1-9)\n A. Family [1. By Date / 2. By Name] \n B. Personal [1. By Name / 2. By Date] \n C. Business [1. Azurest Syndicate / 2. U. S. Patent\n Office] \n Series III. WORK- V.S.U. (Container 9) \n Series IV. ALUMNI (Containers 10-12) \n A. General \n B. House Committee \n Series V. ORGANIZATIONAL AFFILIATIONS (Container 12) \n A. Dunbar High School Class Reunion \n B. Gillfield Baptist Church \n C. The Virginia Federation of Colored Women's Club \n Series VI. SCRAPBOOKS (Containers 13-15, loose books) \n Series VII. PHOTOGRAPHS (Container 16) \n Series VIII PRINTED MATERIAL (Container 17) \n Series IX. ARCHITECTURAL DRAWINGS (Containers 18-20) \n A. Furniture \n B. Line Drawings \n C. Blueprints"],"bioghist_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eAmaza Lee Meredith was born in Lynchburg, Virginia on\n August 14,1895. She was the daughter of Emma P. Kenny\n (Meredith) and Samuel P. Meredith. She had two sisters and one\n brother; the eldest child , Maude, maintained a life-long\n closeness with Amaza. In 1915, Meredith completed here early\n schooling in Lynchburg, where she graduated at the top of her\n class.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHer First teaching job was at a rural ungraded school\n called Indian Rock, located in Botetourt County, Virginia.\n Here, Meredith organized the Indian Rock Parent- Teacher's\n Association, which worked in conjunction with the Negro\n Organization Society of Virginia to bring improvement to the\n local school system. In 1918, she returned to Lynchburg, where\n she taught elementary school. In 1922, she served as\n Valedictorian for her class at the Virginia Normal and\n Industrial Institute. This was followed by six years of\n teaching mathematics at Dunbar High School in Lynchburg.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMs. Meredith enrolled in the Teacher's College of Columbia\n University, New York in 1928. It was there where she earned\n both her Bachelor's and Master's Degrees in Fine Arts\n Education.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHer career with Virginia State University began in 1930,\n though she took a leave of absence from 1934-35 to complete\n her Master's degree. In 1935, she advanced to the position of\n Department Char, where she remained until her retirement in\n 1958. Amaza Meredith established the schools of Fine Arts\n department.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBeyond her career at V. S. U., Meredith's life was also\n rich in contributions. Her artistic self spilled over into\n these other facets of her life. She exhibited her art at the\n Virginia Museum of Fine Arts and in galleries in New York and\n North Carolina. Some works were acquired by groups, such as\n the Gillfield Baptist Church, where they are still displayed;\n many others hang in the homes of area residents.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eShe also developed interior decorating and design skills.\n In the field of business, she coordinated color schemes for\n campus buildings. To provide for new shelving units, she\n created blueprints, which proposed modifications in the art\n department layouts.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis remarkable person also pursued architectural\n interests. Though she had no known formal training, Amaza\n Meredith fully designed her own home - both inside and out,\n and im1939, it was built on Boisseau Street here in Ettrick.\n She named it \"Azurest South.\" In the ensuing decades, Meredith\n laid out the blueprints for several homes, most notably in Sag\n Harbor, Long Island, New York.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIn the 1950's Sag Harbor flourished as resort area for\n blacks. Amaza and her sister, Maude, worked together to buy,\n create, and develop the subdivision later called \"Azurest\n North.\" They worked with others to establish the \"Azurest\n Syndicate, Inc.\" Syndicate lots were sold to individual\n investors, who the built summer, or year-round cottages and\n this land. Ms. Meredith designed at least two of these\n residences: 1) Terry Cottage, summer home for her sister,\n Maude Terry: and 2) Edendot, belonging to friends Ed and Dot\n Spaulding.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAdditionally, Meredith provided several sets of blueprints\n for the proposed V. S. U. Alumni House in 1949. Once these\n plans fell through, Amaza tried another approach: She willed\n her half of Azurest South to the V. S. U. Alumni Association\n in the hopes that the dream for which she had worked so long\n would become a reality. Joint ownership of Azurest South was\n held with Ms. Edna Colson, another retired faculty member of\n V. S. U. In 1985, the Alumni Association purchased the\n Colson's half of the house, and Azurest South is now the\n official V. S. U. Alumni House.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMeredith was generally active in the Alumni Association.\n She was an honorary member of the Gillfield Baptist Church.\n While she participated in several other organizations and\n committees, the extent of her involvement is not known.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIn 1984, Amaza Lee Meredith died.\u003c/p\u003e"],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical/Historical Information"],"bioghist_tesim":["Amaza Lee Meredith was born in Lynchburg, Virginia on\n August 14,1895. She was the daughter of Emma P. Kenny\n (Meredith) and Samuel P. Meredith. She had two sisters and one\n brother; the eldest child , Maude, maintained a life-long\n closeness with Amaza. In 1915, Meredith completed here early\n schooling in Lynchburg, where she graduated at the top of her\n class.","Her First teaching job was at a rural ungraded school\n called Indian Rock, located in Botetourt County, Virginia.\n Here, Meredith organized the Indian Rock Parent- Teacher's\n Association, which worked in conjunction with the Negro\n Organization Society of Virginia to bring improvement to the\n local school system. In 1918, she returned to Lynchburg, where\n she taught elementary school. In 1922, she served as\n Valedictorian for her class at the Virginia Normal and\n Industrial Institute. This was followed by six years of\n teaching mathematics at Dunbar High School in Lynchburg.","Ms. Meredith enrolled in the Teacher's College of Columbia\n University, New York in 1928. It was there where she earned\n both her Bachelor's and Master's Degrees in Fine Arts\n Education.","Her career with Virginia State University began in 1930,\n though she took a leave of absence from 1934-35 to complete\n her Master's degree. In 1935, she advanced to the position of\n Department Char, where she remained until her retirement in\n 1958. Amaza Meredith established the schools of Fine Arts\n department.","Beyond her career at V. S. U., Meredith's life was also\n rich in contributions. Her artistic self spilled over into\n these other facets of her life. She exhibited her art at the\n Virginia Museum of Fine Arts and in galleries in New York and\n North Carolina. Some works were acquired by groups, such as\n the Gillfield Baptist Church, where they are still displayed;\n many others hang in the homes of area residents.","She also developed interior decorating and design skills.\n In the field of business, she coordinated color schemes for\n campus buildings. To provide for new shelving units, she\n created blueprints, which proposed modifications in the art\n department layouts.","This remarkable person also pursued architectural\n interests. Though she had no known formal training, Amaza\n Meredith fully designed her own home - both inside and out,\n and im1939, it was built on Boisseau Street here in Ettrick.\n She named it \"Azurest South.\" In the ensuing decades, Meredith\n laid out the blueprints for several homes, most notably in Sag\n Harbor, Long Island, New York.","In the 1950's Sag Harbor flourished as resort area for\n blacks. Amaza and her sister, Maude, worked together to buy,\n create, and develop the subdivision later called \"Azurest\n North.\" They worked with others to establish the \"Azurest\n Syndicate, Inc.\" Syndicate lots were sold to individual\n investors, who the built summer, or year-round cottages and\n this land. Ms. Meredith designed at least two of these\n residences: 1) Terry Cottage, summer home for her sister,\n Maude Terry: and 2) Edendot, belonging to friends Ed and Dot\n Spaulding.","Additionally, Meredith provided several sets of blueprints\n for the proposed V. S. U. Alumni House in 1949. Once these\n plans fell through, Amaza tried another approach: She willed\n her half of Azurest South to the V. S. U. Alumni Association\n in the hopes that the dream for which she had worked so long\n would become a reality. Joint ownership of Azurest South was\n held with Ms. Edna Colson, another retired faculty member of\n V. S. U. In 1985, the Alumni Association purchased the\n Colson's half of the house, and Azurest South is now the\n official V. S. U. Alumni House.","Meredith was generally active in the Alumni Association.\n She was an honorary member of the Gillfield Baptist Church.\n While she participated in several other organizations and\n committees, the extent of her involvement is not known.","In 1984, Amaza Lee Meredith died."],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eAmaza Lee Meredith Papers, 1912, 1930-1930, Accession\n #1982-20, Special Collections Dept., Johnson Memorial\n Library, Virginia State University, Petersburg, Va.\u003c/p\u003e"],"prefercite_tesim":["Amaza Lee Meredith Papers, 1912, 1930-1930, Accession\n #1982-20, Special Collections Dept., Johnson Memorial\n Library, Virginia State University, Petersburg, Va."],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe Amaza Lee Meredith Papers, 1912-1983, document a slice\n of Virginia's history in the twentieth century. This founder\n of the Fine Arts Department lived a life abundant in\n contributions well beyond her career at Virginia State\n University, while some materials relate directly to her work\n as a faculty member. Her devotion to education spanned over\n four decades; these papers reflect her efforts. Born in 1895,\n Meredith was raised in a period which some consider the lowest\n point in African-American history since the antebellum era. A\n product of such adversity, she adjusted to work and achieve\n during and after a time of legal segregation. This collection\n speaks to her successes in overcoming the \"obstacles\" of both\n race and gender.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBeginning in 1930, Meredith corresponded frequently with\n family, most notably, her sister, Maude Terry. These letters\n reveal the depth of love and loyalty the family cultivated and\n nurtured for lifetime. They demonstrate the difference in\n women's roles between the black and white interdependent\n relationship with men; black women have received greater\n support from their peers in the arena of independence. In this\n vein, Meredith's family gave her nothing short of a full\n endorsement for her outstanding achievements. It is likely\n that such contributed to her ability to surmount societal\n resistance.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMany of Meredith's peers were educators. Her papers include\n correspondence with Helen Edmonds, Anne Crittendon Preston,\n and Jean Murrell Capers (who later made her mark in politics).\n The remaining correspondence comes from people of varied\n backgrounds, also as viable research material.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAnother group of personal correspondence related to\n Stafford Evans, a prized students of Ms. Meredith. While there\n is some continuation of correspondence into the 1980s, most of\n these letters were written while Evans served in the navy from\n 1943-45. Included are copies of The Mananan, a WWII Black\n sailors' March and December of 1945. This sub-series lends\n expression to the ambiguity, which black soldiers felt while\n in fighting for a democracy to which they themselves were not\n privy.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMeredith's business records document the origins of the\n Azurest Syndicate in 1953. Ms. Meredith worked with her\n sister, Ms. Terry, to pioneer the development of a Black\n summer resort area known as the Azurest North. The Syndicate\n served to regulate the subdivision's lot sales. The unique\n aspect of this venture are numerous: the development of a\n black resort in this time period, the syndicate, and the\n project's creation and development by two Black women - whose\n careers were unrelated to such a field.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIt appears that, from the 1950's through the 1970's some\n homes in Azurest North were designed by Ms. Meredith. Though\n she had no known formal architectural schooling, she created\n countless line and ink drawings as well as blueprints, which\n are also included in this collection. Several of these\n projects succeeded in being built. For many more, the end\n result is as yet undetermined.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eUnquestionably, Meredith designed and built her own home,\n known as Azurest South, which she truly reflects her artistic\n gift. Blueprints, line drawings, and sketches of this home are\n available for research.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFound in another series are the plans for the proposed V.\n S. U. Alumni House. Beginning in 1949 and working through the\n next decade, Meredith was active with the Alumni House\n Committee in attempts to produce an Alumni House. She retained\n general Alumni records from as early as 1936 and ending in\n 1969.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLastly, she created more than a dozen scrapbooks, devoting\n each to a different subject and/or person. They contain\n documents, photos, letters, news clippings, and ephemera,\n which combine to form a rich source of research on their\n topics. The materials cut across all the other sub-series in\n these collections.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAmaza Meredith maintained a life-long friendship with Edna\n Colson, former head of the Education Department at V. S. U.\n They also shared a residence and had mutual friends. Clearly,\n in order to research either person in- depth, it will be\n necessary to study the other. Some further correspondence\n exists in Colson/Hill the sub-series of MS. Colson's personal\n correspondence dating from 1905-79. This includes information\n of the trip to Europe made by Colson and Meredith. Some\n materials, however are restricted (Box 29).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis is a collection of cards and programs.\n Included in this scrapbook is one of several\n telegrams.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis is a photographic record of Azurest South\n during its construction and as the home shared by\n Amaza Meredith and Edna Colson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence, number of letters concerning\n Amamza Meredith teaching career in Lynchburg, and her\n being recruited to come to Virginia State by John M.\n Gandy. The other letters are mainly from friends\n concerning a variety of subjects. Included in the\n scrapbook is numerous of news-clippings, programs,\n tickets and other items collected by her long\n life.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSome correspondence, most of the materials consist\n of several programs, which were designed by Miss\n Meredith. Included in this book are also a number of\n speeches most concerning the teaching of or about\n art.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA collection of photographs covering a wide\n area.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis scrapbook includes a number of poems and\n letters written by Amaza Lee Meredith. The Evening\n song and Alma Mater of Virginia State is embodied in\n this scrapbook. Other letters and poems written or\n given to Miss Meredith can also be found. There are\n newspaper-clippings of poems written by Miss Amaza\n and also others that she collected.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence, photo's and newspaper-clippings\n from some of her former students. Included in this\n scrapbook are: James Gault Chander Flymn, Roderick\n Taylor, Freddrick F. Kersy, Reyenea Perry, Mildred\n Fountain, Huedillard Fitzgerald. Stanford Evens and\n others. There is addition some material about\n Lynchberg Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSome correspondence, news-clipping, programs most\n of which document the establishment of the Meredith\n Art at Virginia State in 1972 Gallery.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis scrapbook contains some correspondence,\n programs and printed articles about Anne Spencer of\n Lynchburg. Mrs. Spencer was a poet of the Harlem\n Renaissance Period. One of Miss Meredith sisters was\n married to Miss Spencer sons.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA Scrapbook of letters from a wide group of people\n dating from 1941 through 1976.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSome correspondence photographs and cards of\n sympathy about the death of Iris Terry Richards. Dr.\n Richards was Miss Meredith niece.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNews-clippings, newsletters and other material\n mostly about Art.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA combination of items includes Miss Meredith's\n High School grades and diploma. There are letters of\n recognition and certificates.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMost of the material document Miss Meredith\n involvement with the Gillfield Baptist Church in\n Petersburg, Va.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis scrapbook document Miss Meredith retirement\n from Virginia State University in 1958. There are\n cards, programs, letters and photographs.\u003c/p\u003e"],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Content Information"],"scopecontent_tesim":["The Amaza Lee Meredith Papers, 1912-1983, document a slice\n of Virginia's history in the twentieth century. This founder\n of the Fine Arts Department lived a life abundant in\n contributions well beyond her career at Virginia State\n University, while some materials relate directly to her work\n as a faculty member. Her devotion to education spanned over\n four decades; these papers reflect her efforts. Born in 1895,\n Meredith was raised in a period which some consider the lowest\n point in African-American history since the antebellum era. A\n product of such adversity, she adjusted to work and achieve\n during and after a time of legal segregation. This collection\n speaks to her successes in overcoming the \"obstacles\" of both\n race and gender.","Beginning in 1930, Meredith corresponded frequently with\n family, most notably, her sister, Maude Terry. These letters\n reveal the depth of love and loyalty the family cultivated and\n nurtured for lifetime. They demonstrate the difference in\n women's roles between the black and white interdependent\n relationship with men; black women have received greater\n support from their peers in the arena of independence. In this\n vein, Meredith's family gave her nothing short of a full\n endorsement for her outstanding achievements. It is likely\n that such contributed to her ability to surmount societal\n resistance.","Many of Meredith's peers were educators. Her papers include\n correspondence with Helen Edmonds, Anne Crittendon Preston,\n and Jean Murrell Capers (who later made her mark in politics).\n The remaining correspondence comes from people of varied\n backgrounds, also as viable research material.","Another group of personal correspondence related to\n Stafford Evans, a prized students of Ms. Meredith. While there\n is some continuation of correspondence into the 1980s, most of\n these letters were written while Evans served in the navy from\n 1943-45. Included are copies of The Mananan, a WWII Black\n sailors' March and December of 1945. This sub-series lends\n expression to the ambiguity, which black soldiers felt while\n in fighting for a democracy to which they themselves were not\n privy.","Meredith's business records document the origins of the\n Azurest Syndicate in 1953. Ms. Meredith worked with her\n sister, Ms. Terry, to pioneer the development of a Black\n summer resort area known as the Azurest North. The Syndicate\n served to regulate the subdivision's lot sales. The unique\n aspect of this venture are numerous: the development of a\n black resort in this time period, the syndicate, and the\n project's creation and development by two Black women - whose\n careers were unrelated to such a field.","It appears that, from the 1950's through the 1970's some\n homes in Azurest North were designed by Ms. Meredith. Though\n she had no known formal architectural schooling, she created\n countless line and ink drawings as well as blueprints, which\n are also included in this collection. Several of these\n projects succeeded in being built. For many more, the end\n result is as yet undetermined.","Unquestionably, Meredith designed and built her own home,\n known as Azurest South, which she truly reflects her artistic\n gift. Blueprints, line drawings, and sketches of this home are\n available for research.","Found in another series are the plans for the proposed V.\n S. U. Alumni House. Beginning in 1949 and working through the\n next decade, Meredith was active with the Alumni House\n Committee in attempts to produce an Alumni House. She retained\n general Alumni records from as early as 1936 and ending in\n 1969.","Lastly, she created more than a dozen scrapbooks, devoting\n each to a different subject and/or person. They contain\n documents, photos, letters, news clippings, and ephemera,\n which combine to form a rich source of research on their\n topics. The materials cut across all the other sub-series in\n these collections.","Amaza Meredith maintained a life-long friendship with Edna\n Colson, former head of the Education Department at V. S. U.\n They also shared a residence and had mutual friends. Clearly,\n in order to research either person in- depth, it will be\n necessary to study the other. Some further correspondence\n exists in Colson/Hill the sub-series of MS. Colson's personal\n correspondence dating from 1905-79. This includes information\n of the trip to Europe made by Colson and Meredith. Some\n materials, however are restricted (Box 29).","This is a collection of cards and programs.\n Included in this scrapbook is one of several\n telegrams.","This is a photographic record of Azurest South\n during its construction and as the home shared by\n Amaza Meredith and Edna Colson.","Correspondence, number of letters concerning\n Amamza Meredith teaching career in Lynchburg, and her\n being recruited to come to Virginia State by John M.\n Gandy. The other letters are mainly from friends\n concerning a variety of subjects. Included in the\n scrapbook is numerous of news-clippings, programs,\n tickets and other items collected by her long\n life.","Some correspondence, most of the materials consist\n of several programs, which were designed by Miss\n Meredith. Included in this book are also a number of\n speeches most concerning the teaching of or about\n art.","A collection of photographs covering a wide\n area.","This scrapbook includes a number of poems and\n letters written by Amaza Lee Meredith. The Evening\n song and Alma Mater of Virginia State is embodied in\n this scrapbook. Other letters and poems written or\n given to Miss Meredith can also be found. There are\n newspaper-clippings of poems written by Miss Amaza\n and also others that she collected.","Correspondence, photo's and newspaper-clippings\n from some of her former students. Included in this\n scrapbook are: James Gault Chander Flymn, Roderick\n Taylor, Freddrick F. Kersy, Reyenea Perry, Mildred\n Fountain, Huedillard Fitzgerald. Stanford Evens and\n others. There is addition some material about\n Lynchberg Virginia.","Some correspondence, news-clipping, programs most\n of which document the establishment of the Meredith\n Art at Virginia State in 1972 Gallery.","This scrapbook contains some correspondence,\n programs and printed articles about Anne Spencer of\n Lynchburg. Mrs. Spencer was a poet of the Harlem\n Renaissance Period. One of Miss Meredith sisters was\n married to Miss Spencer sons.","A Scrapbook of letters from a wide group of people\n dating from 1941 through 1976.","Some correspondence photographs and cards of\n sympathy about the death of Iris Terry Richards. Dr.\n Richards was Miss Meredith niece.","News-clippings, newsletters and other material\n mostly about Art.","A combination of items includes Miss Meredith's\n High School grades and diploma. There are letters of\n recognition and certificates.","Most of the material document Miss Meredith\n involvement with the Gillfield Baptist Church in\n Petersburg, Va.","This scrapbook document Miss Meredith retirement\n from Virginia State University in 1958. There are\n cards, programs, letters and photographs."],"userestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eEDIT ME!\u003c/p\u003e"],"userestrict_heading_ssm":["Publication Rights"],"userestrict_tesim":["EDIT ME!"],"abstract_html_tesm":["\u003cabstract label=\"Abstract\"\u003eThe Amaza Lee Meredith papers\n contain personal and business documents generated by Ms.\n Meredith which reflect the activities of her lifetime.\n Included are materials related to her career at Virginia State\n University, her participation in the V.S.U. 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BIOGRAPHICAL DATA (Container 1) \n Series II. CORRESPONDENCE \u0026 REPORTS (Containers 1-9)\n A. Family [1. By Date / 2. By Name] \n B. Personal [1. By Name / 2. By Date] \n C. Business [1. Azurest Syndicate / 2. U. S. Patent\n Office] \n Series III. WORK- V.S.U. (Container 9) \n Series IV. ALUMNI (Containers 10-12) \n A. General \n B. House Committee \n Series V. ORGANIZATIONAL AFFILIATIONS (Container 12) \n A. Dunbar High School Class Reunion \n B. Gillfield Baptist Church \n C. The Virginia Federation of Colored Women's Club \n Series VI. SCRAPBOOKS (Containers 13-15, loose books) \n Series VII. PHOTOGRAPHS (Container 16) \n Series VIII PRINTED MATERIAL (Container 17) \n Series IX. ARCHITECTURAL DRAWINGS (Containers 18-20) \n A. Furniture \n B. Line Drawings \n C. Blueprints","Amaza Lee Meredith was born in Lynchburg, Virginia on\n August 14,1895. She was the daughter of Emma P. Kenny\n (Meredith) and Samuel P. Meredith. She had two sisters and one\n brother; the eldest child , Maude, maintained a life-long\n closeness with Amaza. In 1915, Meredith completed here early\n schooling in Lynchburg, where she graduated at the top of her\n class.","Her First teaching job was at a rural ungraded school\n called Indian Rock, located in Botetourt County, Virginia.\n Here, Meredith organized the Indian Rock Parent- Teacher's\n Association, which worked in conjunction with the Negro\n Organization Society of Virginia to bring improvement to the\n local school system. In 1918, she returned to Lynchburg, where\n she taught elementary school. In 1922, she served as\n Valedictorian for her class at the Virginia Normal and\n Industrial Institute. This was followed by six years of\n teaching mathematics at Dunbar High School in Lynchburg.","Ms. Meredith enrolled in the Teacher's College of Columbia\n University, New York in 1928. It was there where she earned\n both her Bachelor's and Master's Degrees in Fine Arts\n Education.","Her career with Virginia State University began in 1930,\n though she took a leave of absence from 1934-35 to complete\n her Master's degree. In 1935, she advanced to the position of\n Department Char, where she remained until her retirement in\n 1958. Amaza Meredith established the schools of Fine Arts\n department.","Beyond her career at V. S. U., Meredith's life was also\n rich in contributions. Her artistic self spilled over into\n these other facets of her life. She exhibited her art at the\n Virginia Museum of Fine Arts and in galleries in New York and\n North Carolina. Some works were acquired by groups, such as\n the Gillfield Baptist Church, where they are still displayed;\n many others hang in the homes of area residents.","She also developed interior decorating and design skills.\n In the field of business, she coordinated color schemes for\n campus buildings. To provide for new shelving units, she\n created blueprints, which proposed modifications in the art\n department layouts.","This remarkable person also pursued architectural\n interests. Though she had no known formal training, Amaza\n Meredith fully designed her own home - both inside and out,\n and im1939, it was built on Boisseau Street here in Ettrick.\n She named it \"Azurest South.\" In the ensuing decades, Meredith\n laid out the blueprints for several homes, most notably in Sag\n Harbor, Long Island, New York.","In the 1950's Sag Harbor flourished as resort area for\n blacks. Amaza and her sister, Maude, worked together to buy,\n create, and develop the subdivision later called \"Azurest\n North.\" They worked with others to establish the \"Azurest\n Syndicate, Inc.\" Syndicate lots were sold to individual\n investors, who the built summer, or year-round cottages and\n this land. Ms. Meredith designed at least two of these\n residences: 1) Terry Cottage, summer home for her sister,\n Maude Terry: and 2) Edendot, belonging to friends Ed and Dot\n Spaulding.","Additionally, Meredith provided several sets of blueprints\n for the proposed V. S. U. Alumni House in 1949. Once these\n plans fell through, Amaza tried another approach: She willed\n her half of Azurest South to the V. S. U. Alumni Association\n in the hopes that the dream for which she had worked so long\n would become a reality. Joint ownership of Azurest South was\n held with Ms. Edna Colson, another retired faculty member of\n V. S. U. In 1985, the Alumni Association purchased the\n Colson's half of the house, and Azurest South is now the\n official V. S. U. Alumni House.","Meredith was generally active in the Alumni Association.\n She was an honorary member of the Gillfield Baptist Church.\n While she participated in several other organizations and\n committees, the extent of her involvement is not known.","In 1984, Amaza Lee Meredith died.","The Amaza Lee Meredith Papers, 1912-1983, document a slice\n of Virginia's history in the twentieth century. This founder\n of the Fine Arts Department lived a life abundant in\n contributions well beyond her career at Virginia State\n University, while some materials relate directly to her work\n as a faculty member. Her devotion to education spanned over\n four decades; these papers reflect her efforts. Born in 1895,\n Meredith was raised in a period which some consider the lowest\n point in African-American history since the antebellum era. A\n product of such adversity, she adjusted to work and achieve\n during and after a time of legal segregation. This collection\n speaks to her successes in overcoming the \"obstacles\" of both\n race and gender.","Beginning in 1930, Meredith corresponded frequently with\n family, most notably, her sister, Maude Terry. These letters\n reveal the depth of love and loyalty the family cultivated and\n nurtured for lifetime. They demonstrate the difference in\n women's roles between the black and white interdependent\n relationship with men; black women have received greater\n support from their peers in the arena of independence. In this\n vein, Meredith's family gave her nothing short of a full\n endorsement for her outstanding achievements. It is likely\n that such contributed to her ability to surmount societal\n resistance.","Many of Meredith's peers were educators. Her papers include\n correspondence with Helen Edmonds, Anne Crittendon Preston,\n and Jean Murrell Capers (who later made her mark in politics).\n The remaining correspondence comes from people of varied\n backgrounds, also as viable research material.","Another group of personal correspondence related to\n Stafford Evans, a prized students of Ms. Meredith. While there\n is some continuation of correspondence into the 1980s, most of\n these letters were written while Evans served in the navy from\n 1943-45. Included are copies of The Mananan, a WWII Black\n sailors' March and December of 1945. This sub-series lends\n expression to the ambiguity, which black soldiers felt while\n in fighting for a democracy to which they themselves were not\n privy.","Meredith's business records document the origins of the\n Azurest Syndicate in 1953. Ms. Meredith worked with her\n sister, Ms. Terry, to pioneer the development of a Black\n summer resort area known as the Azurest North. The Syndicate\n served to regulate the subdivision's lot sales. The unique\n aspect of this venture are numerous: the development of a\n black resort in this time period, the syndicate, and the\n project's creation and development by two Black women - whose\n careers were unrelated to such a field.","It appears that, from the 1950's through the 1970's some\n homes in Azurest North were designed by Ms. Meredith. Though\n she had no known formal architectural schooling, she created\n countless line and ink drawings as well as blueprints, which\n are also included in this collection. Several of these\n projects succeeded in being built. For many more, the end\n result is as yet undetermined.","Unquestionably, Meredith designed and built her own home,\n known as Azurest South, which she truly reflects her artistic\n gift. Blueprints, line drawings, and sketches of this home are\n available for research.","Found in another series are the plans for the proposed V.\n S. U. Alumni House. Beginning in 1949 and working through the\n next decade, Meredith was active with the Alumni House\n Committee in attempts to produce an Alumni House. She retained\n general Alumni records from as early as 1936 and ending in\n 1969.","Lastly, she created more than a dozen scrapbooks, devoting\n each to a different subject and/or person. They contain\n documents, photos, letters, news clippings, and ephemera,\n which combine to form a rich source of research on their\n topics. The materials cut across all the other sub-series in\n these collections.","Amaza Meredith maintained a life-long friendship with Edna\n Colson, former head of the Education Department at V. S. U.\n They also shared a residence and had mutual friends. Clearly,\n in order to research either person in- depth, it will be\n necessary to study the other. Some further correspondence\n exists in Colson/Hill the sub-series of MS. Colson's personal\n correspondence dating from 1905-79. This includes information\n of the trip to Europe made by Colson and Meredith. Some\n materials, however are restricted (Box 29).","This is a collection of cards and programs.\n Included in this scrapbook is one of several\n telegrams.","This is a photographic record of Azurest South\n during its construction and as the home shared by\n Amaza Meredith and Edna Colson.","Correspondence, number of letters concerning\n Amamza Meredith teaching career in Lynchburg, and her\n being recruited to come to Virginia State by John M.\n Gandy. The other letters are mainly from friends\n concerning a variety of subjects. Included in the\n scrapbook is numerous of news-clippings, programs,\n tickets and other items collected by her long\n life.","Some correspondence, most of the materials consist\n of several programs, which were designed by Miss\n Meredith. Included in this book are also a number of\n speeches most concerning the teaching of or about\n art.","A collection of photographs covering a wide\n area.","This scrapbook includes a number of poems and\n letters written by Amaza Lee Meredith. The Evening\n song and Alma Mater of Virginia State is embodied in\n this scrapbook. Other letters and poems written or\n given to Miss Meredith can also be found. There are\n newspaper-clippings of poems written by Miss Amaza\n and also others that she collected.","Correspondence, photo's and newspaper-clippings\n from some of her former students. Included in this\n scrapbook are: James Gault Chander Flymn, Roderick\n Taylor, Freddrick F. Kersy, Reyenea Perry, Mildred\n Fountain, Huedillard Fitzgerald. Stanford Evens and\n others. There is addition some material about\n Lynchberg Virginia.","Some correspondence, news-clipping, programs most\n of which document the establishment of the Meredith\n Art at Virginia State in 1972 Gallery.","This scrapbook contains some correspondence,\n programs and printed articles about Anne Spencer of\n Lynchburg. Mrs. Spencer was a poet of the Harlem\n Renaissance Period. One of Miss Meredith sisters was\n married to Miss Spencer sons.","A Scrapbook of letters from a wide group of people\n dating from 1941 through 1976.","Some correspondence photographs and cards of\n sympathy about the death of Iris Terry Richards. Dr.\n Richards was Miss Meredith niece.","News-clippings, newsletters and other material\n mostly about Art.","A combination of items includes Miss Meredith's\n High School grades and diploma. There are letters of\n recognition and certificates.","Most of the material document Miss Meredith\n involvement with the Gillfield Baptist Church in\n Petersburg, Va.","This scrapbook document Miss Meredith retirement\n from Virginia State University in 1958. There are\n cards, programs, letters and photographs.","EDIT ME!","The Amaza Lee Meredith papers\n contain personal and business documents generated by Ms.\n Meredith which reflect the activities of her lifetime.\n Included are materials related to her career at Virginia State\n University, her participation in the V.S.U. Alumni Association\n the official records of the Azurest North Syndicate, and\n personal correspondence with several prominent blueprints,\n line drawings, and sketches of Ms. Meredith's designs which\n demonstrates her pursuits in architecture.","English"],"unitid_tesim":["1982-20"],"normalized_title_ssm":["Amaza Lee Meredith Papers, \n 1912,\n 1930-1938"],"collection_title_tesim":["Amaza Lee Meredith Papers, \n 1912,\n 1930-1938"],"collection_ssim":["Amaza Lee Meredith Papers, \n 1912,\n 1930-1938"],"repository_ssm":["Virginia State University"],"repository_ssim":["Virginia State University"],"acqinfo_ssim":["These papers were given to the V.S.U. 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It was there where she earned\n both her Bachelor's and Master's Degrees in Fine Arts\n Education.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHer career with Virginia State University began in 1930,\n though she took a leave of absence from 1934-35 to complete\n her Master's degree. In 1935, she advanced to the position of\n Department Char, where she remained until her retirement in\n 1958. Amaza Meredith established the schools of Fine Arts\n department.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBeyond her career at V. S. U., Meredith's life was also\n rich in contributions. Her artistic self spilled over into\n these other facets of her life. She exhibited her art at the\n Virginia Museum of Fine Arts and in galleries in New York and\n North Carolina. Some works were acquired by groups, such as\n the Gillfield Baptist Church, where they are still displayed;\n many others hang in the homes of area residents.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eShe also developed interior decorating and design skills.\n In the field of business, she coordinated color schemes for\n campus buildings. To provide for new shelving units, she\n created blueprints, which proposed modifications in the art\n department layouts.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis remarkable person also pursued architectural\n interests. Though she had no known formal training, Amaza\n Meredith fully designed her own home - both inside and out,\n and im1939, it was built on Boisseau Street here in Ettrick.\n She named it \"Azurest South.\" In the ensuing decades, Meredith\n laid out the blueprints for several homes, most notably in Sag\n Harbor, Long Island, New York.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIn the 1950's Sag Harbor flourished as resort area for\n blacks. Amaza and her sister, Maude, worked together to buy,\n create, and develop the subdivision later called \"Azurest\n North.\" They worked with others to establish the \"Azurest\n Syndicate, Inc.\" Syndicate lots were sold to individual\n investors, who the built summer, or year-round cottages and\n this land. Ms. Meredith designed at least two of these\n residences: 1) Terry Cottage, summer home for her sister,\n Maude Terry: and 2) Edendot, belonging to friends Ed and Dot\n Spaulding.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAdditionally, Meredith provided several sets of blueprints\n for the proposed V. S. U. Alumni House in 1949. Once these\n plans fell through, Amaza tried another approach: She willed\n her half of Azurest South to the V. S. U. Alumni Association\n in the hopes that the dream for which she had worked so long\n would become a reality. Joint ownership of Azurest South was\n held with Ms. Edna Colson, another retired faculty member of\n V. S. U. In 1985, the Alumni Association purchased the\n Colson's half of the house, and Azurest South is now the\n official V. S. U. Alumni House.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMeredith was generally active in the Alumni Association.\n She was an honorary member of the Gillfield Baptist Church.\n While she participated in several other organizations and\n committees, the extent of her involvement is not known.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIn 1984, Amaza Lee Meredith died.\u003c/p\u003e"],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical/Historical Information"],"bioghist_tesim":["Amaza Lee Meredith was born in Lynchburg, Virginia on\n August 14,1895. She was the daughter of Emma P. Kenny\n (Meredith) and Samuel P. Meredith. She had two sisters and one\n brother; the eldest child , Maude, maintained a life-long\n closeness with Amaza. In 1915, Meredith completed here early\n schooling in Lynchburg, where she graduated at the top of her\n class.","Her First teaching job was at a rural ungraded school\n called Indian Rock, located in Botetourt County, Virginia.\n Here, Meredith organized the Indian Rock Parent- Teacher's\n Association, which worked in conjunction with the Negro\n Organization Society of Virginia to bring improvement to the\n local school system. In 1918, she returned to Lynchburg, where\n she taught elementary school. In 1922, she served as\n Valedictorian for her class at the Virginia Normal and\n Industrial Institute. This was followed by six years of\n teaching mathematics at Dunbar High School in Lynchburg.","Ms. Meredith enrolled in the Teacher's College of Columbia\n University, New York in 1928. It was there where she earned\n both her Bachelor's and Master's Degrees in Fine Arts\n Education.","Her career with Virginia State University began in 1930,\n though she took a leave of absence from 1934-35 to complete\n her Master's degree. In 1935, she advanced to the position of\n Department Char, where she remained until her retirement in\n 1958. Amaza Meredith established the schools of Fine Arts\n department.","Beyond her career at V. S. U., Meredith's life was also\n rich in contributions. Her artistic self spilled over into\n these other facets of her life. She exhibited her art at the\n Virginia Museum of Fine Arts and in galleries in New York and\n North Carolina. Some works were acquired by groups, such as\n the Gillfield Baptist Church, where they are still displayed;\n many others hang in the homes of area residents.","She also developed interior decorating and design skills.\n In the field of business, she coordinated color schemes for\n campus buildings. To provide for new shelving units, she\n created blueprints, which proposed modifications in the art\n department layouts.","This remarkable person also pursued architectural\n interests. Though she had no known formal training, Amaza\n Meredith fully designed her own home - both inside and out,\n and im1939, it was built on Boisseau Street here in Ettrick.\n She named it \"Azurest South.\" In the ensuing decades, Meredith\n laid out the blueprints for several homes, most notably in Sag\n Harbor, Long Island, New York.","In the 1950's Sag Harbor flourished as resort area for\n blacks. Amaza and her sister, Maude, worked together to buy,\n create, and develop the subdivision later called \"Azurest\n North.\" They worked with others to establish the \"Azurest\n Syndicate, Inc.\" Syndicate lots were sold to individual\n investors, who the built summer, or year-round cottages and\n this land. Ms. Meredith designed at least two of these\n residences: 1) Terry Cottage, summer home for her sister,\n Maude Terry: and 2) Edendot, belonging to friends Ed and Dot\n Spaulding.","Additionally, Meredith provided several sets of blueprints\n for the proposed V. S. U. Alumni House in 1949. Once these\n plans fell through, Amaza tried another approach: She willed\n her half of Azurest South to the V. S. U. Alumni Association\n in the hopes that the dream for which she had worked so long\n would become a reality. Joint ownership of Azurest South was\n held with Ms. Edna Colson, another retired faculty member of\n V. S. U. In 1985, the Alumni Association purchased the\n Colson's half of the house, and Azurest South is now the\n official V. S. U. Alumni House.","Meredith was generally active in the Alumni Association.\n She was an honorary member of the Gillfield Baptist Church.\n While she participated in several other organizations and\n committees, the extent of her involvement is not known.","In 1984, Amaza Lee Meredith died."],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eAmaza Lee Meredith Papers, 1912, 1930-1930, Accession\n #1982-20, Special Collections Dept., Johnson Memorial\n Library, Virginia State University, Petersburg, Va.\u003c/p\u003e"],"prefercite_tesim":["Amaza Lee Meredith Papers, 1912, 1930-1930, Accession\n #1982-20, Special Collections Dept., Johnson Memorial\n Library, Virginia State University, Petersburg, Va."],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe Amaza Lee Meredith Papers, 1912-1983, document a slice\n of Virginia's history in the twentieth century. This founder\n of the Fine Arts Department lived a life abundant in\n contributions well beyond her career at Virginia State\n University, while some materials relate directly to her work\n as a faculty member. Her devotion to education spanned over\n four decades; these papers reflect her efforts. Born in 1895,\n Meredith was raised in a period which some consider the lowest\n point in African-American history since the antebellum era. A\n product of such adversity, she adjusted to work and achieve\n during and after a time of legal segregation. This collection\n speaks to her successes in overcoming the \"obstacles\" of both\n race and gender.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBeginning in 1930, Meredith corresponded frequently with\n family, most notably, her sister, Maude Terry. These letters\n reveal the depth of love and loyalty the family cultivated and\n nurtured for lifetime. They demonstrate the difference in\n women's roles between the black and white interdependent\n relationship with men; black women have received greater\n support from their peers in the arena of independence. In this\n vein, Meredith's family gave her nothing short of a full\n endorsement for her outstanding achievements. It is likely\n that such contributed to her ability to surmount societal\n resistance.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMany of Meredith's peers were educators. Her papers include\n correspondence with Helen Edmonds, Anne Crittendon Preston,\n and Jean Murrell Capers (who later made her mark in politics).\n The remaining correspondence comes from people of varied\n backgrounds, also as viable research material.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAnother group of personal correspondence related to\n Stafford Evans, a prized students of Ms. Meredith. While there\n is some continuation of correspondence into the 1980s, most of\n these letters were written while Evans served in the navy from\n 1943-45. Included are copies of The Mananan, a WWII Black\n sailors' March and December of 1945. This sub-series lends\n expression to the ambiguity, which black soldiers felt while\n in fighting for a democracy to which they themselves were not\n privy.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMeredith's business records document the origins of the\n Azurest Syndicate in 1953. Ms. Meredith worked with her\n sister, Ms. Terry, to pioneer the development of a Black\n summer resort area known as the Azurest North. The Syndicate\n served to regulate the subdivision's lot sales. The unique\n aspect of this venture are numerous: the development of a\n black resort in this time period, the syndicate, and the\n project's creation and development by two Black women - whose\n careers were unrelated to such a field.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIt appears that, from the 1950's through the 1970's some\n homes in Azurest North were designed by Ms. Meredith. Though\n she had no known formal architectural schooling, she created\n countless line and ink drawings as well as blueprints, which\n are also included in this collection. Several of these\n projects succeeded in being built. For many more, the end\n result is as yet undetermined.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eUnquestionably, Meredith designed and built her own home,\n known as Azurest South, which she truly reflects her artistic\n gift. Blueprints, line drawings, and sketches of this home are\n available for research.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFound in another series are the plans for the proposed V.\n S. U. Alumni House. Beginning in 1949 and working through the\n next decade, Meredith was active with the Alumni House\n Committee in attempts to produce an Alumni House. She retained\n general Alumni records from as early as 1936 and ending in\n 1969.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLastly, she created more than a dozen scrapbooks, devoting\n each to a different subject and/or person. They contain\n documents, photos, letters, news clippings, and ephemera,\n which combine to form a rich source of research on their\n topics. The materials cut across all the other sub-series in\n these collections.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAmaza Meredith maintained a life-long friendship with Edna\n Colson, former head of the Education Department at V. S. U.\n They also shared a residence and had mutual friends. Clearly,\n in order to research either person in- depth, it will be\n necessary to study the other. Some further correspondence\n exists in Colson/Hill the sub-series of MS. Colson's personal\n correspondence dating from 1905-79. This includes information\n of the trip to Europe made by Colson and Meredith. Some\n materials, however are restricted (Box 29).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis is a collection of cards and programs.\n Included in this scrapbook is one of several\n telegrams.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis is a photographic record of Azurest South\n during its construction and as the home shared by\n Amaza Meredith and Edna Colson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence, number of letters concerning\n Amamza Meredith teaching career in Lynchburg, and her\n being recruited to come to Virginia State by John M.\n Gandy. The other letters are mainly from friends\n concerning a variety of subjects. Included in the\n scrapbook is numerous of news-clippings, programs,\n tickets and other items collected by her long\n life.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSome correspondence, most of the materials consist\n of several programs, which were designed by Miss\n Meredith. Included in this book are also a number of\n speeches most concerning the teaching of or about\n art.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA collection of photographs covering a wide\n area.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis scrapbook includes a number of poems and\n letters written by Amaza Lee Meredith. The Evening\n song and Alma Mater of Virginia State is embodied in\n this scrapbook. Other letters and poems written or\n given to Miss Meredith can also be found. There are\n newspaper-clippings of poems written by Miss Amaza\n and also others that she collected.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence, photo's and newspaper-clippings\n from some of her former students. Included in this\n scrapbook are: James Gault Chander Flymn, Roderick\n Taylor, Freddrick F. Kersy, Reyenea Perry, Mildred\n Fountain, Huedillard Fitzgerald. Stanford Evens and\n others. There is addition some material about\n Lynchberg Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSome correspondence, news-clipping, programs most\n of which document the establishment of the Meredith\n Art at Virginia State in 1972 Gallery.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis scrapbook contains some correspondence,\n programs and printed articles about Anne Spencer of\n Lynchburg. Mrs. Spencer was a poet of the Harlem\n Renaissance Period. One of Miss Meredith sisters was\n married to Miss Spencer sons.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA Scrapbook of letters from a wide group of people\n dating from 1941 through 1976.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSome correspondence photographs and cards of\n sympathy about the death of Iris Terry Richards. Dr.\n Richards was Miss Meredith niece.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNews-clippings, newsletters and other material\n mostly about Art.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA combination of items includes Miss Meredith's\n High School grades and diploma. There are letters of\n recognition and certificates.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMost of the material document Miss Meredith\n involvement with the Gillfield Baptist Church in\n Petersburg, Va.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis scrapbook document Miss Meredith retirement\n from Virginia State University in 1958. There are\n cards, programs, letters and photographs.\u003c/p\u003e"],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Content Information"],"scopecontent_tesim":["The Amaza Lee Meredith Papers, 1912-1983, document a slice\n of Virginia's history in the twentieth century. This founder\n of the Fine Arts Department lived a life abundant in\n contributions well beyond her career at Virginia State\n University, while some materials relate directly to her work\n as a faculty member. Her devotion to education spanned over\n four decades; these papers reflect her efforts. Born in 1895,\n Meredith was raised in a period which some consider the lowest\n point in African-American history since the antebellum era. A\n product of such adversity, she adjusted to work and achieve\n during and after a time of legal segregation. This collection\n speaks to her successes in overcoming the \"obstacles\" of both\n race and gender.","Beginning in 1930, Meredith corresponded frequently with\n family, most notably, her sister, Maude Terry. These letters\n reveal the depth of love and loyalty the family cultivated and\n nurtured for lifetime. They demonstrate the difference in\n women's roles between the black and white interdependent\n relationship with men; black women have received greater\n support from their peers in the arena of independence. In this\n vein, Meredith's family gave her nothing short of a full\n endorsement for her outstanding achievements. It is likely\n that such contributed to her ability to surmount societal\n resistance.","Many of Meredith's peers were educators. Her papers include\n correspondence with Helen Edmonds, Anne Crittendon Preston,\n and Jean Murrell Capers (who later made her mark in politics).\n The remaining correspondence comes from people of varied\n backgrounds, also as viable research material.","Another group of personal correspondence related to\n Stafford Evans, a prized students of Ms. Meredith. While there\n is some continuation of correspondence into the 1980s, most of\n these letters were written while Evans served in the navy from\n 1943-45. Included are copies of The Mananan, a WWII Black\n sailors' March and December of 1945. This sub-series lends\n expression to the ambiguity, which black soldiers felt while\n in fighting for a democracy to which they themselves were not\n privy.","Meredith's business records document the origins of the\n Azurest Syndicate in 1953. Ms. Meredith worked with her\n sister, Ms. Terry, to pioneer the development of a Black\n summer resort area known as the Azurest North. The Syndicate\n served to regulate the subdivision's lot sales. The unique\n aspect of this venture are numerous: the development of a\n black resort in this time period, the syndicate, and the\n project's creation and development by two Black women - whose\n careers were unrelated to such a field.","It appears that, from the 1950's through the 1970's some\n homes in Azurest North were designed by Ms. Meredith. Though\n she had no known formal architectural schooling, she created\n countless line and ink drawings as well as blueprints, which\n are also included in this collection. Several of these\n projects succeeded in being built. For many more, the end\n result is as yet undetermined.","Unquestionably, Meredith designed and built her own home,\n known as Azurest South, which she truly reflects her artistic\n gift. Blueprints, line drawings, and sketches of this home are\n available for research.","Found in another series are the plans for the proposed V.\n S. U. Alumni House. Beginning in 1949 and working through the\n next decade, Meredith was active with the Alumni House\n Committee in attempts to produce an Alumni House. She retained\n general Alumni records from as early as 1936 and ending in\n 1969.","Lastly, she created more than a dozen scrapbooks, devoting\n each to a different subject and/or person. They contain\n documents, photos, letters, news clippings, and ephemera,\n which combine to form a rich source of research on their\n topics. The materials cut across all the other sub-series in\n these collections.","Amaza Meredith maintained a life-long friendship with Edna\n Colson, former head of the Education Department at V. S. U.\n They also shared a residence and had mutual friends. Clearly,\n in order to research either person in- depth, it will be\n necessary to study the other. Some further correspondence\n exists in Colson/Hill the sub-series of MS. Colson's personal\n correspondence dating from 1905-79. This includes information\n of the trip to Europe made by Colson and Meredith. Some\n materials, however are restricted (Box 29).","This is a collection of cards and programs.\n Included in this scrapbook is one of several\n telegrams.","This is a photographic record of Azurest South\n during its construction and as the home shared by\n Amaza Meredith and Edna Colson.","Correspondence, number of letters concerning\n Amamza Meredith teaching career in Lynchburg, and her\n being recruited to come to Virginia State by John M.\n Gandy. The other letters are mainly from friends\n concerning a variety of subjects. Included in the\n scrapbook is numerous of news-clippings, programs,\n tickets and other items collected by her long\n life.","Some correspondence, most of the materials consist\n of several programs, which were designed by Miss\n Meredith. Included in this book are also a number of\n speeches most concerning the teaching of or about\n art.","A collection of photographs covering a wide\n area.","This scrapbook includes a number of poems and\n letters written by Amaza Lee Meredith. The Evening\n song and Alma Mater of Virginia State is embodied in\n this scrapbook. Other letters and poems written or\n given to Miss Meredith can also be found. There are\n newspaper-clippings of poems written by Miss Amaza\n and also others that she collected.","Correspondence, photo's and newspaper-clippings\n from some of her former students. Included in this\n scrapbook are: James Gault Chander Flymn, Roderick\n Taylor, Freddrick F. Kersy, Reyenea Perry, Mildred\n Fountain, Huedillard Fitzgerald. Stanford Evens and\n others. There is addition some material about\n Lynchberg Virginia.","Some correspondence, news-clipping, programs most\n of which document the establishment of the Meredith\n Art at Virginia State in 1972 Gallery.","This scrapbook contains some correspondence,\n programs and printed articles about Anne Spencer of\n Lynchburg. Mrs. Spencer was a poet of the Harlem\n Renaissance Period. One of Miss Meredith sisters was\n married to Miss Spencer sons.","A Scrapbook of letters from a wide group of people\n dating from 1941 through 1976.","Some correspondence photographs and cards of\n sympathy about the death of Iris Terry Richards. Dr.\n Richards was Miss Meredith niece.","News-clippings, newsletters and other material\n mostly about Art.","A combination of items includes Miss Meredith's\n High School grades and diploma. There are letters of\n recognition and certificates.","Most of the material document Miss Meredith\n involvement with the Gillfield Baptist Church in\n Petersburg, Va.","This scrapbook document Miss Meredith retirement\n from Virginia State University in 1958. There are\n cards, programs, letters and photographs."],"userestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eEDIT ME!\u003c/p\u003e"],"userestrict_heading_ssm":["Publication Rights"],"userestrict_tesim":["EDIT ME!"],"abstract_html_tesm":["\u003cabstract label=\"Abstract\"\u003eThe Amaza Lee Meredith papers\n contain personal and business documents generated by Ms.\n Meredith which reflect the activities of her lifetime.\n Included are materials related to her career at Virginia State\n University, her participation in the V.S.U. Alumni Association\n the official records of the Azurest North Syndicate, and\n personal correspondence with several prominent blueprints,\n line drawings, and sketches of Ms. Meredith's designs which\n demonstrates her pursuits in architecture.\u003c/abstract\u003e"],"abstract_tesim":["The Amaza Lee Meredith papers\n contain personal and business documents generated by Ms.\n Meredith which reflect the activities of her lifetime.\n Included are materials related to her career at Virginia State\n University, her participation in the V.S.U. 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Correspondence 1932-1979 Personal and Business\n Boxes 1-3","Sub-series A: Correspondence by subject Correspondence,\n most generated by Richardson during his tenure with the\n department of Education. Arranged Alphabetically and then\n chronologically within the folders.","Sub-series B: Correspondence by date Arranged\n Chronologically.","Series II. Literary Boxes 4-19","Sub-Series A: Speeches Arranged by title and date, followed\n by speeches with dates and materials missing both a date and a\n clearly defined title.","Sub-Series B: Writings and Reports Some of the writings\n were used later in Richardson's history of Negro education in\n Virginia. Many of the reports appear to have been used by\n Richardson to carry out his job with the State Department of\n Education. The reports consist of conference and workshop\n results organized by Richardson.","Sub-Series C: Research Notes During Richardson's career,\n part of his responsibility was to develop procedures and\n manuals used by African-American Schools in Virginia. This\n sub-series also contains an interesting log concerning the\n Whitcomb court school in Richmond, VA.","Series III. Video Recordings Taped speeches at different\n functions attended by Richardson. Most of the speeches were\n not delivered by Richardson.","Series IV: Photographs Boxes 21-27","Sub-series A: Family and Personal Photo's of activities at\n Virginia State when Richardson was a student and later as a\n teacher at the Mecklenburg County Training School, conferences\n at Virginia State and other areas.","Sub-series B: Education in Virginia (African American\n Schools) Several thousand 3x5 black and white photographs and\n negatives of schools scenes in Virginia. The Photographs were\n taken between the years 1926 and 1938. The Photographs and\n negatives are of European, Native, and African American school\n buildings, some classes, and other activities. Most of the\n developed photographs are of African American schools and\n include Rosenwald, Slater, and other buildings used by African\n Americans in Virginia. *The origin of the photographs and\n negatives is not known. The folders are arranged\n alphabetically by county and city.","Sub-series C. Negatives of the schools and scenes located\n in some of Virginia's counties and cities. These do not have\n an inventory, but are arranged by county and city. In addition\n there are negatives of activities relating to education\n outside of the state of Virginia.","Box #28 Series V: Scrapbooks and Yearbooks Correspondence\n most of which covers Richardson's retirement, two yearbooks\n from Louisa, Virginia.","Series VI: Printed Printed items including certificates,\n pamphlets, and degrees","Box #29 Sub-series A: Awards and Certificates Awards and\n certificates presented to Richardson over the years.","Sub-series B: Pamphlets Two items: one the By-Laws of the\n Southside Interscholastic Athletic Association, documenting an\n early effort to organize African American sports played in the\n high schools.","Sub-series C: Book The Development of Negro Education in\n Virginia, 1831-1970, published by Phi Delta Kappa.","Sub-series D: Degrees Earned Degrees of Archie and Linnie\n Richardson","Box #30 Series-series E: News clippings News clippings from\n a number of newspapers primary from the state of Virginia.","Archie Gibbs Richardson, was the Associate Director of the\n Division of Secondary Education, State Department of\n Education, Richmond, Virginia. He was born in Lexington,\n Virginia, April 4, 1904. Because there were few high schools\n for African American in Virginia, Richardson's parents sent\n him to the high school at the Virginia Normal and Industrial\n Institute at Petersburg where he completed the program in\n 1923. He received the B.A. Degree from Virginia Normal and\n Industrial Institute, Petersburg, in June 1927; the M.S.\n Degree in education from Butler University, Indianapolis,\n Indiana, in June 1939; and was granted the degree of Doctor of\n Education at Columbia University, New York, in1946. In June\n 1957, Virginia State College conferred upon him the honorary\n degree of Doctor of Laws.","Richardson served as principal of the Mecklenburg County\n Training School, in South Hill, Virginia, 1927-1935; and as\n Director of academics at Saint Paul Normal School,\n Lawrenceville, Virginia. The State Superintendent of Public\n Instruction appointed him Assistant Supervisor of \"Negro\"\n Education in 1936. On January 1, 1951, he was promoted to the\n position of Associate Supervisor of Elementary and Secondary\n Education. He received another promotion on September 1, 1966,\n to Associate Director of the Division of Secondary Education.\n He retired April 4, 1969.","Richardson had two elementary schools and one high school\n named for him. The elementary schools were in Culpepper and\n the other in Blackstone, Virginia. Archie Richardson High\n School was located in Louisa County, Virginia.","During his tenure, he contributed a number of articles to\n State and National journals of education. He also authored The\n Development of Negro Education in Virginia.","Mr. Richardson was married to Linnie Ramey for over fifty\n years. Mrs. Richardson taught at schools in Mecklenburg and\n Richmond, Virginia.","How did Virginia explain educational public policy during\n the era of legal segregation? Archie Richardson's main\n responsibility during his tenure with the Department of\n Education was that of official spokesman to the African\n American Community for the State of Virginia. Correspondence,\n speeches, writings, and photographs documenting Archie\n Richardson's position as the only African American\n professional employed by the Education Department in Virginia\n during the era of legal segregation, Constitutes the majority\n of these materials.","There are no restrictions.","In 1936, Archie Richardson became\n the highest-ranking African American in the State Government.\n In that year, he was appointed assistant to the Assistant for\n Negro education in Virginia. 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