Reminiscences of John Warren Davis, 1976.

Biographical Note

Educator

Scope and Contents

Georgia childhood; University of Chicago; YMCA administrator, 1917-19; history of black colleges in Atlanta; evolution of segregated land-grant colleges in West Virginia; President, West Virginia State College, 1919-50: faculty recruitment, building program, establishment in North Central Association, 1926, Reserve Officers Training Corps for black colleges; black masonic lodges; first black member of National Education Association; American technical assistance to Liberia, role of Firestone in diplomatic relations; National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Legal Defense and Educational Fund, 1954- : impressions of Ralph Bunche, Mary McLeod Bethune, Roy Wilkins, Whitney Young, Carter Woodson, Harry S. Truman, Thurgood Marshall

Subjects

• African Americans--Education.
• African Americans--Legal status, laws, etc.
• African Americans--Segregation.
• African American universities and colleges--Administration.
• African American universities and colleges.
• College presidents--Interviews.
• Davis, John W. (John Warren), 1888-1980--Interviews.
• Gellhorn, Kitty, interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Interviews.
• NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund.
• National Education Association of the United States.
• North Central Association of Colleges and Schools (U.S.)
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Race discrimination--United States.
• United States--Civil rights.
• West Virginia State College (Institute, W. Va.)
• YMCA of the USA.

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