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Start Over Collection Ancella Bickley, Historian, Research Papers regarding African-Americans Date range 1915

Ancella Bickley, Historian, Research Papers regarding African-Americans 13.1 Linear Feet 13 ft. 1/2 in. (9 record cartons, 15 in. each); (3 document cases, 5 in. each); (2 document cases, 2 1/2 in. each); (1 flat storage box, 1 1/2 in.)

Bickley, Ancella R.

This collection documents the research, public service, and life of Ancella Bickley, writer, educator, speaker, and historian. Includes writings, research materials, and more, focusing on the history of African Americans in West Virginia and the black experience in West Virginia. Collected research materials are predominantly facsimiles. Printed formats include correspondence, clippings, interview transcripts, typescript writings, publications, pamphlets, ephemera, speeches, articles, military records, and more. Other formats include photographs, slides, and audiocassettes.

  1. West Virginia and Regional History Center

Black Women in Military, William Cathay Box 10, Folder 31

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.

  1. West Virginia and Regional History Center
  2. Ancella Bickley, Historian, Research Papers regarding African-Americans
  3. Series 8. Research Notes and Collected Materials
  4. Series 8. Research Notes and Collected Materials--Biography

Blennerhassett Island & Sumner School Box 10, Folder 2

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.

  1. West Virginia and Regional History Center
  2. Ancella Bickley, Historian, Research Papers regarding African-Americans
  3. Series 8. Research Notes and Collected Materials
  4. Series 8. Research Notes and Collected Materials--Other WV Counties

Cabell County Box 5, Folder 5

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.

  1. West Virginia and Regional History Center
  2. Ancella Bickley, Historian, Research Papers regarding African-Americans
  3. Series 8. Research Notes and Collected Materials
  4. Series 8. Research Notes and Collected Materials--Cabell County, WV

Desegregation, WVU Documents, DuBois High School, Slavery, etc. Box 10, Folder 30

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.

  1. West Virginia and Regional History Center
  2. Ancella Bickley, Historian, Research Papers regarding African-Americans
  3. Series 8. Research Notes and Collected Materials
  4. Series 8. Research Notes and Collected Materials--General

Douglass School, Huntington Box 9, Folder 28

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

  1. West Virginia and Regional History Center
  2. Ancella Bickley, Historian, Research Papers regarding African-Americans
  3. Series 8. Research Notes and Collected Materials
  4. Series 8. Research Notes and Collected Materials--Cabell County, WV

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