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Facsimile of photo of "Gabriel, Pardoned by VA Governor Tim Kaine, June 26, 2007." Research notes. Paper "Major General Gwen McMillion Bingham," ca. 2011 with newspaper clipping. Facsimile of unidentified photograph of woman in uniform. Paper "'Who Was William Cathay?' adapted from a piece in the St. Louis Daily Times, January 2, 1876." Poem "Cathay Williams," 1997. Facsimile of enlarged photo of face of unidentified soldier. Summary/timeline for Cathay Williams/William Cathay.

Facsimiles of newspaper articles. Correspondence with Ray Swick, Blennerhassett Island State Park. Research materials about blacks in Wood County. Research notes. "A History of Sumner School" written by Sally Browning, 1996. The Island Packet from the Friends of Blennerhassett Island.

Documents pertaining to the Twyman Family. Facsimile of pages from The Promised Land by J. Earl Pratt [1964]. Facsimile of newspaper legal notices from The Ironton Register, Oct. 27 and Dec. 15, 1870.

Resources about blacks in Huntington and Cabell County. Includes a bibliography of Goldenseal articles about blacks. Other resources are church histories, listings of names, facsimiles of book chapters and papers, newspaper clippings, interviews, handwritten research notes, and more.

Handwritten Cabell Family tree and notes on the Cabell Family in Institute. Transcription of letter from J. S. Cunningham to Governor A.I. Boreman. Facsimile of newspaper ad for sale of slave.

Aesculapius, Ebony by Nelson L. Barnett. Brief biography of Carl Eugene Barnett. Facsimile of photograph of "Reverend Nelson Barnett, Circa 1900."

Variety of copies of historical photographs, most not identified, 1912-1918. Note stapled to folder removed, 10/17/1990.

Paper titled " School Desegregation Since Brown (1954): 30-Year Perspective" by Franklin Parker, WVU Professor of Education, 1984. Two pages of annotated text of a speech about education of black West Virginians, [delivered at WVU]. Daily Athenaeum article re: interview Nelson Bickley about discrimination in housing in Morgantown, 1971. Program for "The West Virginia Experience in Higher Education: an Historical Perspective" at WVU, 1984, when AB was on a panel. Facsimile of the pamphlet "The Black Student at WVU" 1971-72. Correspondence from the Ohio University Press re: manuscript review of the book Memphis Tennessee Garrison by William H. Turner, 1999. "History of DuBois High School" from a book. Map of slave plantations in Wood County, Va. Map of Underground Railroad routes to Canada, 1898.

Research notes on Douglass School. Typewritten notes on Douglass School, 1891-1924. Notes from conversation with Nellie Francisco. Handwritten transcription of article, 1902.

Facsimiles of: newpaper slave ads; Virginia law re: Kanawha Slave Insurance Company; Dunsmore's Proclamation freeing slaves; Va. Law to send slave to Liberia; slaves in Bunker Hill; New York Times article re: slave uprising; and drawing of [Harpers Ferry]. Harpers Ferry National Historical Park Afro-American materials. "History of Gerrardstown" in The Berkeley Journal. Handwritten list of properties, including slave names, of Richard B. Washington, [1864]. Letter of transmittl and facsimile of bill of sale for slave, 18[4]5. Transcription of Rumsey-Polk letters re: slaves.