Wheeler, John H (John Hervey)
Person
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Morehouse College Martin Luther King, Jr. Collection: Subseries 1.1: Correspondence: General S-Z
Series
Identifier: 0000-0000-0000-0131d
Scope and Contents of the Subseries
The subseries contains correspondence between Martin Luther King, Jr. and various individuals and organizations from 1953 to 1968. There are letters, telegrams, greeting cards, carbon copies, postcards, invitations, and hate mail. The correspondence is primarily professional often accompanied by enclosures, with few personal letters. Among the topics discussed are civil rights, discrimination, SCLC activities, politics, equal...
Dates:
1936-1968
John H. Wheeler collection
Collection — Box 1-225
Identifier: 0000-0000-0000-0133
Scope and contents note
This collection documents the life and work of John H. Wheeler, a businessman, bank president, community leader, civil rights activist, and lawyer. The collection spans the years from 1897 to 1978 with the bulk of the materials dating from 1950-1978. The majority of the collections consists of items related to the organizations that Wheeler was associated with, both local to Durham, NC and national organizations. Included in the collection are materials related to Wheeler's career as a...
Dates:
1897-1978; Majority of material found within 1940-1978
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- African American Baptists 1
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- African American civic leaders 1
- African American press 1
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- African Americans -- Housing 1
- African Americans -- Politics and government 1
- African Americans -- Segregation 1
- African Americans--Education 1
- African Americans--Georgia--Atlanta 1
- African Americans--Religion 1
- African Americans--Social conditions 1
- Apartheid 1
- Black power 1
- Communism--United States. 1
- Crime 1
- Ephemera 1
- King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968--Correspondence. 1
- King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968--Oratory. 1
- King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968--Public appearances. 1
- Labor 1
- Nobel Prizes 1
- North Carolina 1
- North Carolina--Durham County 1
- Passive resistance. 1
- Poor People’s Campaign. 1
- Publications 1
- Race discrimination 1
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- Records and correspondence 1
- Riots. 1
- Slums. 1
- Vietnam War (1961-1975) 1
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