African American Documentary Resources
Enhancing African American Documentary Resources in the Southern Historical Collection at UNC-Chapel Hill
Creator: Sutton, Brett.
Collection number: 20041
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Abstract: Folklorist and librarian Brett Sutton was born in 1948 and raised in Champaign-Urbana, Ill. He enrolled in the Curriculum of Folklore at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Continue reading “Brett Sutton collection, 1974-1975.”
Creator: Davis and Walker family.
Collection number: 4172
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Abstract: Davis and Walker families of Wilmington, N.C. Prominent family members included George Davis (1820-1896), lawyer, attorney-general of the Confederacy, and well-known orator; and his son, Junius (1845-1916), who practiced law with Continue reading “Davis and Walker family papers, 1755-1962.”
Creator: Tullos, Allen, 1950-
Collection number: 20043
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Abstract: Allen Tullos graduated in 1976 from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with a Masters degree in folklore; he also earned a Ph.D. in American Studies from Yale University. Continue reading “Allen Tullos collection, 1973-1985.”
Creator: Johnson, Guy Benton, 1901-1991.
Collection number: 3826
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Abstract: Guy Benton Johnson was one of the original research assistants at the Institute for Research in Social Science and joined the faculty of the University of North Carolina in 1927, retiring in 1969. In 1923, he married Guion Continue reading “Guy Benton Johnson papers, 1830-1987.”
Creator: Carawan, Guy and Candie.
Collection number: 20008
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Abstract: Candie Anderson and Guy Carawan met as a result of their mutual involvement in the civil rights movement and were married in 1960. The Carawans have been involved in the work of the Highlander Research and Education Center (formerly the Highlander Folk School) in Tennessee, an institution that supports and provides educational Continue reading “Guy and Candie Carawan collection, 1959-1985.”
Abstract: Dub of a disc submitted with master’s thesis: “A Study of Negro Folk Songs from Greensboro, N.C., and Surrounding Towns” (University of North Carolina, M.A., 1965). Material contains mostly unaccompanied singing by African American Continue reading “Portia Crawford collection, 1960-1963.”
Creator: Valentine, Herbert E. (Herbert Eugene), b. 1841.
Collection number: 4397
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Abstract: Herbert Eugene Valentine (1841-1917) was a private in Company F of the 23rd Massachusetts Volunteers, who served in the United States Army between 1861 and 1864 in Continue reading “Herbert E. Valentine papers, 1861-1864.”
Creator: McIntosh family.
Collection number: 1212
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Abstract: Sixteen letters from Alexander Campbell McIntosh of Taylorsville, N.C., to his wife, Amanda, and son, William Preston McIntosh, while he was serving in the North Carolina Continue reading “McIntosh family letters, 1848-1849.”
Creator: Hinson, Glenn.
Collection number: 20045
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Abstract: Anthropology professor Glenn Hinson of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has focused this research on the music, language, and belief systems of African American Continue reading “Glenn Hinson collection of gospel music posters, 1984-2004.”
Creator: Dabbs, Edith M.
Collection number: 4285
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Abstract: Edith Mitchell Dabbs was born in 1906 in Dalzell, Sumter County, S.C. She married James McBride Dabbs in 1935, and, in 1937, settled at Rip Raps Plantation, the Dabbs family home just outside Sumter. She was active in documenting the Continue reading “Edith M. Dabbs collection of papers relating to Saint Helena Island, S.C., 1791; 1860-1963.”