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Contains 40 Results:

"The Administration of President Horace Bumstead", undated

 File — Box: 4, Folder: 1
Scope and contents From the Series:

This series is mainly Towns’ poetry, but also includes essays, odes, songs, speeches and his unfinished novel, “Breasting the Blows”. Of note is his play in one act The Sharecropper, self-published in 1932 and performed at Fort Valley State College. His biographical notes on James Weldon Johnson and biographical sketch of William Henry Crogman (Clark College’s first president) are fascinating portraits of two men dear to Towns.

Dates: undated

"Anniversary Hymn," First Congregational Church (Atlanta, GA), 1942

 File — Box: 4, Folder: 2
Scope and contents From the Series:

This series is mainly Towns’ poetry, but also includes essays, odes, songs, speeches and his unfinished novel, “Breasting the Blows”. Of note is his play in one act The Sharecropper, self-published in 1932 and performed at Fort Valley State College. His biographical notes on James Weldon Johnson and biographical sketch of William Henry Crogman (Clark College’s first president) are fascinating portraits of two men dear to Towns.

Dates: 1942

"Anniversary Thoughts," George and Nellie Towns' 50th anniversary, 1952

 File — Box: 4, Folder: 3
Scope and contents From the Series:

This series is mainly Towns’ poetry, but also includes essays, odes, songs, speeches and his unfinished novel, “Breasting the Blows”. Of note is his play in one act The Sharecropper, self-published in 1932 and performed at Fort Valley State College. His biographical notes on James Weldon Johnson and biographical sketch of William Henry Crogman (Clark College’s first president) are fascinating portraits of two men dear to Towns.

Dates: 1952

Autobiographical notes, undated

 File — Box: 4, Folder: 4
Scope and contents From the Series:

This series is mainly Towns’ poetry, but also includes essays, odes, songs, speeches and his unfinished novel, “Breasting the Blows”. Of note is his play in one act The Sharecropper, self-published in 1932 and performed at Fort Valley State College. His biographical notes on James Weldon Johnson and biographical sketch of William Henry Crogman (Clark College’s first president) are fascinating portraits of two men dear to Towns.

Dates: undated

"Breasting the Blows", undated

 File — Box: 4, Folder: 5-6
Scope and contents From the Series:

This series is mainly Towns’ poetry, but also includes essays, odes, songs, speeches and his unfinished novel, “Breasting the Blows”. Of note is his play in one act The Sharecropper, self-published in 1932 and performed at Fort Valley State College. His biographical notes on James Weldon Johnson and biographical sketch of William Henry Crogman (Clark College’s first president) are fascinating portraits of two men dear to Towns.

Dates: undated

"A Child's Querry" [sic], undated

 File — Box: 4, Folder: 7
Scope and contents From the Series:

This series is mainly Towns’ poetry, but also includes essays, odes, songs, speeches and his unfinished novel, “Breasting the Blows”. Of note is his play in one act The Sharecropper, self-published in 1932 and performed at Fort Valley State College. His biographical notes on James Weldon Johnson and biographical sketch of William Henry Crogman (Clark College’s first president) are fascinating portraits of two men dear to Towns.

Dates: undated

"Colored Inductee", undated

 File — Box: 4, Folder: 8
Scope and contents From the Series:

This series is mainly Towns’ poetry, but also includes essays, odes, songs, speeches and his unfinished novel, “Breasting the Blows”. Of note is his play in one act The Sharecropper, self-published in 1932 and performed at Fort Valley State College. His biographical notes on James Weldon Johnson and biographical sketch of William Henry Crogman (Clark College’s first president) are fascinating portraits of two men dear to Towns.

Dates: undated

"Consistency", undated

 File — Box: 4, Folder: 9
Scope and contents From the Series:

This series is mainly Towns’ poetry, but also includes essays, odes, songs, speeches and his unfinished novel, “Breasting the Blows”. Of note is his play in one act The Sharecropper, self-published in 1932 and performed at Fort Valley State College. His biographical notes on James Weldon Johnson and biographical sketch of William Henry Crogman (Clark College’s first president) are fascinating portraits of two men dear to Towns.

Dates: undated

"Consolation of Memories", 1953

 File — Box: 4, Folder: 10
Scope and contents From the Series:

This series is mainly Towns’ poetry, but also includes essays, odes, songs, speeches and his unfinished novel, “Breasting the Blows”. Of note is his play in one act The Sharecropper, self-published in 1932 and performed at Fort Valley State College. His biographical notes on James Weldon Johnson and biographical sketch of William Henry Crogman (Clark College’s first president) are fascinating portraits of two men dear to Towns.

Dates: 1953

"Dan Duncan's License", undated

 File — Box: 4, Folder: 11
Scope and contents From the Series:

This series is mainly Towns’ poetry, but also includes essays, odes, songs, speeches and his unfinished novel, “Breasting the Blows”. Of note is his play in one act The Sharecropper, self-published in 1932 and performed at Fort Valley State College. His biographical notes on James Weldon Johnson and biographical sketch of William Henry Crogman (Clark College’s first president) are fascinating portraits of two men dear to Towns.

Dates: undated