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Mrs. Lugenia Burns Hope, 1908-1933

 Series

Content Description

This series contains material that document the activities of Mrs. Hope outside of the Neighborhood Union. Included are letters from Jane Adams, Margaret Murray Washington (Mrs. Booker T. Washington), Mary E. McDowell, Georgia Douglass Johnson, Will W. Alexander, and W.E.B. Debois. Other items consist of Mrs. Hope's work with the Y.M.C.A.'s War Council's Hostess Horse Program (World War I) including her contract and letters from various Y.M.C.A. staff among them letters from Eva Bowles. There are also materials from her appointment and subsequent work with the Colored Advisory Commission Flood of 1927, including telegrams from Robert R. Morton and Secretary of Commerce, Herbert Hoover.

Dates

  • Creation: 1908-1933

Extent

From the Collection: 9 Linear feet

Language of Materials

English

Arrangement

Alphabetical order.

Type of Material/Format

Materials include typed and handwritten correspondence, brochures, pamplets, programs, clipplings, notes, notebooks, speeches, lectures, memorbillia, printed material and rosters

Notes

Research notes were included for the benefit of the researcher and were written by Mrs. L.D. Shivery who was an officer and historian for the Neighborhood Union. For additional information see her Atlanta University master's thesis: Organized Social Work Among Negroes 1890-1935.

Creator

Repository Details

Part of the Robert W. Woodruff Library of the Atlanta University Center, Inc. Repository

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