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Start Over Collection Ancella Bickley, Historian, Research Papers regarding African-Americans, 1775/2018, bulk 1970/2011 Date range 1987

Parkersburg, 1847/1990 Box 8, Folder 5

Research notes re: Parkersburg black history. Facsimile of letter and transcription of letter from ex-slave Isaac Fairfax to George Washington Henderson.

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  2. Ancella Bickley, Historian, Research Papers regarding African-Americans, 1775/2018, bulk 1970/2011
  3. Series 8. Research Notes and Collected Materials, 1775/2013
  4. Series 8. Research Notes and Collected Materials--Other WV Counties, 1818/2006

Parkersburg, 1870/1992 Box 9, Folder 34

Transcripts of interviews with Mr. Waldo Lacy and Mrs. Gladys Lacy. Facsimile of newspaper article of speech by T.J. Ferguson, 1870. Research materials on the Sumner School. History of Parkersburg from Bernie Allen. Facsimile of books pages, newspaper articles, and transcription of newspaper articles. Parkersburg Art Center brochure featuring Joseph Eldridge Dodd. Text for slide show (no slides). Typewritten outline of "Parkersburg Study."

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  2. Ancella Bickley, Historian, Research Papers regarding African-Americans, 1775/2018, bulk 1970/2011
  3. Series 8. Research Notes and Collected Materials, 1775/2013
  4. Series 8. Research Notes and Collected Materials--Other WV Counties, 1818/2006

Parkersburg & Sumner School, 1867/1992 Box 9, Folder 33

WV Humanities Council grant application for a presentation on black education in Parkersburg. Research materials and notes. Handwritten and typed notes from interviews with Mrs. Dorsey, Mr. James Emondson, Mrs. Hattie Gazelle Turner, and Mrs. Elizabeth Mitchell. Particular focus on the Sumner School.

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  2. Ancella Bickley, Historian, Research Papers regarding African-Americans, 1775/2018, bulk 1970/2011
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  4. Series 8. Research Notes and Collected Materials--Education, 1867/2006

Radford Family, etc., 1904/1994 Box 5, Folder 49

Typed "Conversation with Nellie Redford Francisco--about 1985." Handwritten "Discussion w/Henry Radford, 1/14/93." Radford Family genealogy. Peters Family genealogy. Newspaper articles regarding Negro education in Huntington and Kimball, 1904-1923. Cemetery lot receipts to Willard Radford. Program for Sterberger Elementary School 1999 Graduation Ceremony; Akil Livers listed as student. Funeral service program for Lily Van Sykes Kelly, 1994. Transcribed obituaries for Joseph T. Payne, 1948, and Minnie Bell Powell, 1936.

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  3. Series 3. Genealogy, 1844/2013

Research Materials on Many Topics, 1850/2011 Box 1, Folder 23

Post card from Mabel Hunter with Storer College Brackett Hall dorm room circled (1946). Photo of statue of Carter G. Woodson. 1850 mortality statistics for western section of Virginia. Bulletin of the West Virginia State Teachers' Association, 1940. Program for the Mountain State Bar Association, Inc. Annual Awards Banquet, June 18, 1988. Partial transcript of "Interview with Doris Miller, Huntington, WV" regarding house purported to be on the underground railroad. Marriage records, 1869, Trinity Church, Parkersburg. "Reading the Names" program at Virginia Sate University of those lynched, 1868-1935; AB read the WV names, ca. 2011. Handwritten research notes. Notes on census slave records. Proposed black history highway markers, 2001. Newspaper clipping about Huntington Tuskegee Airmen, 2009. Email from Brucella Jordan requesting a recommendation; paragraph regarding the founding of the African American Heritage Family Tree Museum, 2010. Email from David Trobridge invitation to speak at Marshall University, 2011. Facsimile of pages from the Bureau of Negro Welfare and Statistics regarding the Episcopal Church in West Virginia. Roster of Negroes serving in state and local government, ca. 1968. "The West Virginia Medical Society [Black]." "Slavery in Western Virginia" (notes for an exhibit?)

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  2. Ancella Bickley, Historian, Research Papers regarding African-Americans, 1775/2018, bulk 1970/2011
  3. Series 8. Research Notes and Collected Materials, 1775/2013
  4. Series 8. Research Notes and Collected Materials--General, 1850/2011

School Integration, 1961/1993 Box 2, Folder 10

Research materials on the integration of WV schools: facsimiles of WV newspaper articles regarding integration of schools; "How Black Students Saw Themselves through the Decades of Change at Bluefield State College (founded in 1895) as It Changed from Predominately Black Institution to a Predominantly White Institution" by James Worsham

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  2. Ancella Bickley, Historian, Research Papers regarding African-Americans, 1775/2018, bulk 1970/2011
  3. Series 8. Research Notes and Collected Materials, 1775/2013
  4. Series 8. Research Notes and Collected Materials--Education, 1867/2006

Scott-Carter-Mumford Families, 1979/1990 Box 1, Folder 4

A Memorial to the Scott, Carter, Mumford Families and the Journey from the Hills of North Carolina to the Beautiful Ohio Shore in the Year 1844 by Edith Dove Bryant, original and one facsimile. Article "Midwifery in West Virginia" 1990.

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  3. Series 5. Others' Works, 1900/2006

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