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Contains 31 Results:

"A Salute to Youth", undated

 File — Box: 5, 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

"Self-Improvement in the Use of English", 1904-1905

 File — Box: 5, 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: 1904-1905

"The Sharecropper", undated

 File — Box: 5, 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: undated

"The Source of the Traditions of Atlanta University," remarks to the Atlanta University Alumni Association, 1958 March 30

 File — Box: 5, 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: 1958 March 30

"To Horace Bumstead", undated

 File — Box: 5, Folder: 5
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

"To James Weldon Johnson", undated

 File — Box: 5, Folder: 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

"To Marion Anderson", undated

 File — Box: 5, 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

"To N.M.T.", 1939

 File — Box: 5, 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: 1939

"Today's Frontier for Christian Brotherhood", undated

 File — Box: 5, 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

"A Tribute to Mr. A. F. Herndon", undated

 File — Box: 5, 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: undated