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Professor Gatlin called an\n         organizational meeting at Virginia State University in 1960,\n         where the purpose and goals were discussed.","Over the course of the next two years a series of meetings\n         were held whic produced a Constitution and By-laws, and the\n         organization was officially established in 1962. The IMA\n         membership was open for all members of the Central\n         Intercollegiate Athletics Association."],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe Intercollegiate Music Association, Accession #\n            1982-45, Special Collections and Archives, Johnston\n            Memorial Library, Virginia State University, Petersburg,\n            VA.\u003c/p\u003e\n      "],"prefercite_tesim":["The Intercollegiate Music Association, Accession #\n            1982-45, Special Collections and Archives, Johnston\n            Memorial Library, Virginia State University, Petersburg,\n            VA."],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence, minutes, photographs, and reports\n         documenting how the IMA attempted to fulfill it's goals of\n         1962.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eThe Intercollegiate Music Association continues today as an\n         organization in improving music education and operate in the\n         Mid-Atlantic.\u003c/p\u003e\n    "],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Content Information"],"scopecontent_tesim":["Correspondence, minutes, photographs, and reports\n         documenting how the IMA attempted to fulfill it's goals of\n         1962.","The Intercollegiate Music Association continues today as an\n         organization in improving music education and operate in the\n         Mid-Atlantic."],"userestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThere are no restrictions.\u003c/p\u003e\n      "],"userestrict_heading_ssm":["Use Restrictions"],"userestrict_tesim":["There are no restrictions."],"abstract_html_tesm":["\u003cabstract label=\"Abstract\"\u003eMinutes, reports and correspondence\n         of this group which was established in 1962 in order to expand\n         and improve all aspects of music in the schools which belonged\n         to the Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association. 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The Mutual Housing Co. 1920-1957 Mitchell\n         established the Mutual Housing Company soon after his arrival\n         in Washington D.C. The series has minutes, financial\n         statements, deeds, and correspondence. A. Ledgers and Reports\n         Minutes, proposals and articles of incorporations B. Minutes\n         1920-1924","Series V. Mitchell v. The United States. Arthurs lawsuit\n         against the Illinois Central Railroad.","Series VI. Literary A. Reports B. Writing Articles C.\n         Speeches","Series VII. Printed A. Political Broadsides B. News\n         Clippings","Arthur W. Mitchell was born in Roanoke, Alabama, December\n         22, 1883 the son of Taylor and Ammar (Patterson) Mitchell, who\n         were also natives of that state. Arthur W. Mitchell obtained\n         his early education in Randolph and Chambers counties of\n         Alabama, attending the public schools, and afterward entered\n         the Snow Hill Industrial School and Tuskegee Normal and\n         Industrial Institute at Tuskegee, Alabama in 1899.","He subsequently taught in the public schools of Alabama,\n         and during this time he established the Armstrong Agricultural\n         School in 1908 at West Butler, Alabama, and served as its\n         principal until he resigned in 1917 to enter military training\n         at Camp Pike, Arkansas. In 1919 he moved to Washington, D.C,\n         read law, for a period of three years, during which time he\n         also engaged in the real estate business. In 1924 he moved to\n         Chicago and was admitted to the practice of law in the State\n         of Illinois.","In 1934 he was selected by the regular Democratic\n         Organization to become the candidate for congress from the\n         first Illinois district and was elected to the congress of the\n         United States House of Representatives, becoming the first\n         African-American elected to the House as a Democrat. Mitchell\n         was reelected in 1936, 1938, and 1940, thus serving four full\n         terms and retired in January 1943.","After retirement Arthur Mitchell moved to Dinwiddie County,\n         Virginia where he built a southern style mansion, in which he\n         enjoyed the life of being a southern gentlemen. His hopes for\n         a political career in Virginia did not come to be. He\n         continued as President of The Mutual Housing Company and was\n         one of the individuals who established Virginians against Jim\n         Crow.","Arthur Mitchell was married several times, in 1904 he\n         married his first wife Eula King and they had a child Arthur\n         W. Mitchell Jr. His first wife Eula King died in 1909, he then\n         married Annie H. Harris in 1911.","When Arthur Mitchell was elected he became the Black\n         Congressional Representative of African-Americans. Mitchell\n         deeply resented this and this is reflected in his\n         correspondence. Nevertheless, African- American and others\n         sought his help and support for a number of different\n         agendas.","Correspondence and speeches in this manuscript group\n         document quite clearly the friction between Mitchell and many\n         Americans. Of particular note. correspondence documenting\n         Mitchell long fight with the NAACP over a national Anti-Lynch\n         law and his Controversial \"Negro Commission\". Most of the\n         correspondence is with the Chicago Democratic Party and\n         concerns political patronage.","Some correspondence with William Hastie, Henry Stimson,\n         Walter White, Roy Wilkins, William Dawson and others.","There are no restrictions.","Copies of the family, personal,\n         business and political correspondence of the first black\n         Democratic Congressman in the United States. Mr. Mitchell\n         represented Chicago in the United States House of\n         Representatives from 1934-1942. The originals are housed at\n         the Chicago Historical Society. Acc. #1968-15","English"],"collection_title_tesim":["Arthur W. Mitchell Papers \n         \n         1910-1950"],"collection_ssim":["Arthur W. 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C. \"Miss B\" 1935-1943 Correspondence with a\n         special person in Mr. Mitchell's life.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eSeries II. Congressional Correspondence A. Interoffice\n         1935-1941 Mitchell corresponding with his office staff. B.\n         Congressional 1935- 1942 Mostly matters pertaining to Party\n         politics. A large number of letters from people seeking jobs\n         and other political favors. Arranged chronologically within\n         the folders. Correspondence about Lynching and the Negro\n         Industrial Community.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eSeries III. Correspondence Post Congressional from a number\n         of individuals seeking assistance and Hoping that Mitchell as\n         an ex-congressman can provide it. A. General Correspondence by\n         date 1942-1968 B. Correspondence N.D., Alpha\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eSeries IV. The Mutual Housing Co. 1920-1957 Mitchell\n         established the Mutual Housing Company soon after his arrival\n         in Washington D.C. The series has minutes, financial\n         statements, deeds, and correspondence. A. Ledgers and Reports\n         Minutes, proposals and articles of incorporations B. Minutes\n         1920-1924\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eSeries V. Mitchell v. The United States. Arthurs lawsuit\n         against the Illinois Central Railroad.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eSeries VI. Literary A. Reports B. Writing Articles C.\n         Speeches\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eSeries VII. Printed A. Political Broadsides B. News\n         Clippings\u003c/p\u003e\n    "],"arrangement_heading_ssm":["Series Description"],"arrangement_tesim":["Series I. Family And Personal Correspondence 1910, 1965 A.\n         Family 1932, 1965 Correspondence between Mitchell and family\n         members. B. 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The Mutual Housing Co. 1920-1957 Mitchell\n         established the Mutual Housing Company soon after his arrival\n         in Washington D.C. The series has minutes, financial\n         statements, deeds, and correspondence. A. Ledgers and Reports\n         Minutes, proposals and articles of incorporations B. Minutes\n         1920-1924","Series V. Mitchell v. The United States. Arthurs lawsuit\n         against the Illinois Central Railroad.","Series VI. Literary A. Reports B. Writing Articles C.\n         Speeches","Series VII. Printed A. Political Broadsides B. News\n         Clippings"],"bioghist_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eArthur W. Mitchell was born in Roanoke, Alabama, December\n         22, 1883 the son of Taylor and Ammar (Patterson) Mitchell, who\n         were also natives of that state. Arthur W. 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In 1924 he moved to\n         Chicago and was admitted to the practice of law in the State\n         of Illinois.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eIn 1934 he was selected by the regular Democratic\n         Organization to become the candidate for congress from the\n         first Illinois district and was elected to the congress of the\n         United States House of Representatives, becoming the first\n         African-American elected to the House as a Democrat. Mitchell\n         was reelected in 1936, 1938, and 1940, thus serving four full\n         terms and retired in January 1943.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eAfter retirement Arthur Mitchell moved to Dinwiddie County,\n         Virginia where he built a southern style mansion, in which he\n         enjoyed the life of being a southern gentlemen. His hopes for\n         a political career in Virginia did not come to be. 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Mitchell obtained\n         his early education in Randolph and Chambers counties of\n         Alabama, attending the public schools, and afterward entered\n         the Snow Hill Industrial School and Tuskegee Normal and\n         Industrial Institute at Tuskegee, Alabama in 1899.","He subsequently taught in the public schools of Alabama,\n         and during this time he established the Armstrong Agricultural\n         School in 1908 at West Butler, Alabama, and served as its\n         principal until he resigned in 1917 to enter military training\n         at Camp Pike, Arkansas. In 1919 he moved to Washington, D.C,\n         read law, for a period of three years, during which time he\n         also engaged in the real estate business. In 1924 he moved to\n         Chicago and was admitted to the practice of law in the State\n         of Illinois.","In 1934 he was selected by the regular Democratic\n         Organization to become the candidate for congress from the\n         first Illinois district and was elected to the congress of the\n         United States House of Representatives, becoming the first\n         African-American elected to the House as a Democrat. Mitchell\n         was reelected in 1936, 1938, and 1940, thus serving four full\n         terms and retired in January 1943.","After retirement Arthur Mitchell moved to Dinwiddie County,\n         Virginia where he built a southern style mansion, in which he\n         enjoyed the life of being a southern gentlemen. His hopes for\n         a political career in Virginia did not come to be. He\n         continued as President of The Mutual Housing Company and was\n         one of the individuals who established Virginians against Jim\n         Crow.","Arthur Mitchell was married several times, in 1904 he\n         married his first wife Eula King and they had a child Arthur\n         W. Mitchell Jr. His first wife Eula King died in 1909, he then\n         married Annie H. Harris in 1911."],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe Arthur W. Mitchell Papers, 1968-15 , Special\n            Collections and Archives, Johnston Memorial Library,\n            Virginia State University, Petersburg, VA.\u003c/p\u003e\n      "],"prefercite_tesim":["The Arthur W. Mitchell Papers, 1968-15 , Special\n            Collections and Archives, Johnston Memorial Library,\n            Virginia State University, Petersburg, VA."],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eWhen Arthur Mitchell was elected he became the Black\n         Congressional Representative of African-Americans. 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Most of the\n         correspondence is with the Chicago Democratic Party and\n         concerns political patronage.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eSome correspondence with William Hastie, Henry Stimson,\n         Walter White, Roy Wilkins, William Dawson and others.\u003c/p\u003e\n    "],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Content Information"],"scopecontent_tesim":["When Arthur Mitchell was elected he became the Black\n         Congressional Representative of African-Americans. Mitchell\n         deeply resented this and this is reflected in his\n         correspondence. Nevertheless, African- American and others\n         sought his help and support for a number of different\n         agendas.","Correspondence and speeches in this manuscript group\n         document quite clearly the friction between Mitchell and many\n         Americans. Of particular note. correspondence documenting\n         Mitchell long fight with the NAACP over a national Anti-Lynch\n         law and his Controversial \"Negro Commission\". Most of the\n         correspondence is with the Chicago Democratic Party and\n         concerns political patronage.","Some correspondence with William Hastie, Henry Stimson,\n         Walter White, Roy Wilkins, William Dawson and others."],"userestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThere are no restrictions.\u003c/p\u003e\n      "],"userestrict_heading_ssm":["Use Restrictions"],"userestrict_tesim":["There are no restrictions."],"abstract_html_tesm":["\u003cabstract label=\"Abstract\"\u003eCopies of the family, personal,\n         business and political correspondence of the first black\n         Democratic Congressman in the United States. Mr. Mitchell\n         represented Chicago in the United States House of\n         Representatives from 1934-1942. The originals are housed at\n         the Chicago Historical Society. Acc. #1968-15\u003c/abstract\u003e\n      "],"abstract_tesim":["Copies of the family, personal,\n         business and political correspondence of the first black\n         Democratic Congressman in the United States. Mr. Mitchell\n         represented Chicago in the United States House of\n         Representatives from 1934-1942. The originals are housed at\n         the Chicago Historical Society. 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History of the Colson Family Box # 1 Obituaries,\n         records of birth, marriages and short sketches of members of\n         the Colson-Hill Family","Sub-Series A. Family History A family history compiled by\n         Alice A. Jackson for an exhibit about the Colson family.\n         Included are copies of various documents and sketches of a\n         number of family members.","Sub-Series B. Obituaries Funeral programs and several\n         sketches of deceased family members.","Series II. Estate Correspodence and family documents Box #2\n         Legal documents covering various matters of the Colson-Hill\n         family. This series includes Colson estate correspondence,\n         wills, State and local tax receipts and leases for property Of\n         special interest is an application for Canadian citizenship\n         for John Henry Hill, who had escaped from the institution of\n         slavery in 1857.","Series III. Family Correspondence, Telegrams and\n         Postcards","Sub-Series A. Family Correspondence Boxes 3-15 Letters\n         between members of this family for more than one hundred\n         years. Subjects discussed, the underground railroad, family\n         problems, education, politics, sound issues wars, politics and\n         civil rights. The materials are arranged chronically\n         Correspondence without dates are arranged by alphabet.","Sub-Series B. William Nelson Colson Boxes 16- A interesting\n         number of letters written by William Nelson Colson (1890-1922)\n         were found together and have been arranged accordingly. The\n         materials include family correspondence, personal\n         correspondence and correspondence pertaining to his days at\n         Virginia Union University.","Sub-Series C: The Colson/Woody 1950-1967 Mainly\n         correspondence having to do with Mary Colson's interest in the\n         family estate. Included in this material is her will.","Sub-Series D: The John and Mary Colson Shore Papers\n         1844-1877 John K. Shore was married to Mary Colson and lived\n         and worked in Petersburg. Shore was a barber, and after the\n         Civil War served on the Common Council. The Shore papers\n         consist mainly of tax and business receipts.","Sub-Series E: The John and Susie Hill Harris Papers\n         1900,1924 Papers of Susie Hill, sister of Kate Hill Colson.\n         Photo, some correspondence.","Sub-Series F. Family Personal Box 20 Family correspondence\n         with friends and associates. Very interesting letter from\n         William Still to John Henry Hill.","Sub-Series G. Family Business Boxes 21-22 Records of family\n         business activities from the anlebellum through the 1950's.\n         Most of correspondece documents ownership and rents from\n         family owned properties. Included in this sub-series are\n         records of the House of Roberts and Colson (1833-1836) a\n         merticle Company established by William Neslon Colson and\n         Joseph Jenkins Roberts who became the first president of\n         Liberia.","Sub-Series H. Family Work Box 23 James Major and Kate Hill\n         Colsons work at the John A. Dix School in Dinwiddle County.\n         John A. Dix was one of many little Tuskeeges established in\n         the United States. Interesting Correspondence with and Colson\n         work with the school improvement league. Series Includes\n         records of the John A. Dix Industrial School.","Series IV. Edna Colson (Personal, Colson/Meredith,\n         Education, Employment) 1905-1984","Sub-Series A. Correspondence Personal Box 24-28\n         Correspondence with friends and associates beginning in 1905\n         and continuting until 1980. This sub-series is arranged with\n         Men Colson's correspondence maintained by date, and her\n         correspondence kept by subject heading. Some of the\n         correspondents, Ambrose Caliver, Gordan Hancock Jackson Davis,\n         A.G. Richardson, and Carrie Gandy.","Sub-Series B. Colson/Meredith Correspondence Boxes 29-32\n         Correspondence between Edna Meade Colson and Amaza Meredith\n         beginning in 1916 and continuing until 1982. Education, work,\n         social and polilical and home ownership. The sub-series\n         documents their vacation. Mister Colson and Meredith were\n         companion for over fifty years.","Sub-Series C. Correspondence (Education) Box 33 Documents\n         Ms.Colson's efforts to acquire graduated training during the\n         era of segregation. Miss Colson's association with Teacher\n         College began in 1924 and continued until 1964. Correspondence\n         documents curriculum, research, problems faced by African\n         American students encounted such as housing Colson's\n         involvement with the Negro Education Club is also covered. The\n         bulk of the correspondence is with Miss Mable Carney who was\n         Edna Colson's major Professor at Columbia.","Sub-Series D. Correspondence (Employment) Box 34-47\n         Correspondence documenting Edna Meade Colson's forty-four\n         years at Virginia State University. Arranged in there\n         sections, correspondence with the presidents of Virginia\n         State, by Subject heading and by alphabet. There are manuals\n         of committees, information about public education in Virginia,\n         reports. Arranged alphabetically and chronologically within\n         the folder. Correspondence with John M. Gandy, Mable Carney,\n         Luther Foster, Jackson Davis, Charles S. Johnson, and\n         others.","Series V. Organizations and Affiliations of Edna Meade\n         Colson Box # 48-60 This series contains material documenting\n         Edna M. Colson's activities on and off the campus during her\n         career at Virginia State University. Included in this series\n         are records of: The Virginia Federation of Colored Women\n         Clubs, the National Association of College Women, the Alpha\n         Kappa Alpha Sorority, the Chesterfield County \"Colored\" red\n         Cross and others.","Sub-Series A. The Virginia Federation Of Colored Women's\n         Clubs 1931,1961, Boxes 48-53 Records and Correspondence of the\n         Petersburg Chapter of the Federation of Colored Women.\n         Included are materials from the Petersburg Women's Council and\n         the Virginia State College Education Club.","Sub-Series B. The National Association of College Women\n         1925-1964 Boxes 54-56 The National Association of Colored\n         Women was organized in 1923 at Howard University. At this\n         meeting a temporary NACW was established. One year later a\n         larger group of African-American women met in Washington and\n         formed a permanent \"National Association of College Women.\"\n         The Virginia State University Chapter was organized March 8th\n         1925 by Ms. Pauline Puryear. Edna Colson was one of the\n         charter members. Mrs. Colson served as President of the\n         Petersburg Branch, sectional director for the South and\n         National Vice President. The materials include minutes,\n         records, programs, photographs, and Correspondence.","Sub-Series C. Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Inc. Boxes 57- 57\n         A, 57 B Correspondence, minutes and reports of the Delta Omega\n         Graduate Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority. Miss Colson\n         was one of the charter members of this chapter, which was\n         established at Virginia State University in 1925.","Sub-Series D. The Chesterfield County Red Cross 1929-1948\n         Box 58 Minutes, correspondence, reports and By-Laws of the\n         Chesterfield County Red Cross. Miss Colson was the Chairman of\n         the \"Colored Auxiliary\". The \"Colored Auxiliary\" attempted to\n         ensure fair treatment in dispersing services being provided\n         during the depression and the War years.","Sub-Series E. The Virginia Society for Research 1930-1934\n         Box 58 The Virginia Society for Research was established to\n         promote and encourage serious research in the field of\n         education, and to demonstrate that information derived from\n         these efforts. Correspondence, minutes, and constitution.","Sub-Series F. The Negro Organizational Society 1912-1952\n         Box 59 The NOS was organized in 1912 to work on improving the\n         schools, health, and homes of African American. This\n         sub-series contains correspondence, reports and newsletters of\n         this groups activities. Included in the materials are some\n         correspondence concerning the School Improvement League.","Sub-Series G. The Gillfield Baptist Church 1910, 1974 Box\n         59 Correspondence, Parish Minister and information about\n         placing stained glass windows in Gillfield.","Sub-Series H. The Links Incorporated 1958,1965 Container 59\n         Some materials about the Eastern Area Conference of the \"Links\n         Incorporated\" one folder.","Sub-Series I. The Virginia Commission on Interracial\n         Cooperation Box 59 One folder of correspondence","Sub-Series J. The Committee for Virginia 1940,1946 Box 59\n         One folder, includes a Constitution written in 1940 and some\n         correspondence","Sub-Series K. The N.A.A.C.P 1949 Two folders,\n         Correspondence to Edna Colson about membership. One Folder\n         contains a copy of a Petersburg Chapter Newsletters.","Sub-Series L The Virginia Council On Human Relations\n         1955-1975 Box 60 Correspondence, Reports, minutes, and printed\n         items. The correspondence and addresses a number of social and\n         political issues which were of great concern during this time.\n         Miss Colson was a member of the board of Directors.","Sub-Series M. The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee\n         1960 Box 60 Newsletters and hand-bills","Sub-Series N. The SCLC 1961-1964 Box 60 SCLC Newsletter\n         1961, 1966","Series VI. Literary Box # 61-63 Diaries, speeches and\n         articles produced by family members. In this series are a\n         number of diaries of James Major Colson. While he was a\n         student at Dartmouth College. The majority of the materials\n         however are writings and speeches of Edna M. Colson.","Series VII. Financial Records Boxes # 64-66 Receipts and\n         bills for school, rental household (including furniture, food,\n         and clothing). There are a number of ledgers.","Sub-Series A. Receipts and Bills Boxes # 64-65 A unique\n         array of receipts and bills of the Colson-Hill Family.\n         Included are receipts for rent, school bills, medical\n         receipts, household (including furniture, food, and clothing),\n         and contractors.","Sub-Series B. Ledgers and Bank Books Box # 66 Rental books\n         maintained by the Colson-Hill family. The Ledgers also contain\n         information about family purchases and receipts for building\n         and contractors.","Series VIII. Photographs Boxes 67-74 Photographs of family\n         and friends. The material is arranged into several\n         sub-series.","Sub-Series A. Family ,Many of the photos in these paper\n         were taken on the 1870's and 80's.","Sub-Series B. William Nelson Colson III. Colson, was a\n         student studying law at Harvard University in 1917 when he\n         decided to join the United State Army. The photo's which\n         William Nelson sent home from Fort Ames,Iowa gave his family\n         and friends some idea of what he was doing in officers\n         training school. The photos incude some postcards of camp\n         scenes.","Sub-series C. Photographs- Friends(by name), of Edna Meade\n         Colson or school affiliations. In addition there are a number\n         of photographs of individuals,quit a few were friends or\n         former students of Kate Colson. Many of the photographs are\n         not identified by name. Many of the photographs were taken in\n         the following locations: The Leath Company, Rockwell and the\n         New York Gallery were all in Petersburg others were taken in\n         Richmond, Danville, New York, Winston-Salem, Baltimore,\n         Philadelphia and Washington D.C.","Sub-Series D. Photograph Book Photo Book containing mostly\n         tin-types of friends of the Colson-Hill family. Most are in\n         color.","Series IX. Scrapbooks Twelve scrapbooks generated by Edna\n         Meade Colson. Each book is titled. Most of the books consist\n         of photo's some correspondence, news-clippings and\n         postcards.","Series X. Printed","Sub-Series A. Programs, Invitations, Pamphlets Programs,\n         Invitations, and Pamphlets collected by family members.","Sub-Series B. Degrees Grade reports for several members of\n         the Colson family. Of particular interest James Major Colson\n         Jr's prep school reports.","Sub-Series C. Newspaper Clippings News clippings of\n         particular interest to members of the family.","The Beginnings of the Colson Family can be traced back to\n         1791. The Person of record was James Colson (1768-1824) who\n         had been enslaved by a William Nelson of York County Virginia.\n         He was emancipated in Williamsburg around 1791 and it is\n         certain that by 1794 James Colson was living in Petersburg\n         Virginia.","James Colson became a barber. This was one of the\n         occupations free African American men were allowed to engage\n         in. In 1804, Colson purchased a lot on Union Street and around\n         1820 another piece of property on Oak Street. James Colson\n         died in 1825 and his son William took over the Business. In\n         1826 William Colson married Sarah Elebek. One of five children\n         fathered by Major Elebek. Elebek like Colson was also a barber\n         and a free African American.","William Colson became interested in the American\n         Colonization Society's (1817-1895) efforts to remove to Africa\n         all African Americans to what would become Liberia. At this\n         time in Petersburg the Colson and Elebek families were members\n         of the Methodist Church. Here they met another family by the\n         name of Roberts. The Roberts and Colson family combined and\n         formed a mercantile business, and Roberts and his family\n         emigrated to Liberia. William Nelson Colson remained in\n         Petersburg and managed the business from the U.S. side. In\n         1835 William Colson went to Liberia to confer with Roberts\n         where he became ill and died.","Three children came from the Union of William and Sarah\n         Elebek Colson. James Major, Mary Alexena and William Nelson\n         Colson. Mary Alexena Colson married John K. Shore and William\n         Nelson married Milvina and moved to Boston, Massachusetts.\n         James Major Colson married Fannie Meade Bolling of Petersburg\n         in 1850. Nine children were born to this couple.","The other component of this family were a mixture of free\n         African American and enslaved family. John Henry Hill was born\n         in King and Queen county Virginia in 1828. Like many others\n         born into bondage, Hill was trained as a carpenter and was\n         hired out by his owner. Although a native of King and Queen,\n         Hill was either sold or rented out in Petersburg and in1853\n         was owned by a John Mitchell. Hill had also married a free\n         African American woman, Rose McCray and they were the parents\n         of two young sons.","Hill was enslaved and in 1853 his owner had decided to sell\n         him. It is unclear how Hill found out. His possible sale and\n         instead of being sold, he escaped. Hill found his way to\n         Canada where his wife later joined him, and the seven Hill\n         daughters were born. After the Civil War Hill returned to\n         Petersburg, became a prosperous Businessman and engaged in\n         local politics.","Edna Meade Colson was born October 7, 1888, in Petersburg,\n         Virginia, the oldest of five children to James Major Colson,\n         Jr., and his wife Kate Hill Colson who was one of the\n         daughters of John Henry Hill.","Included in these materials is an interesting letter from\n         William Still and in the Alice and Henry Colson Jackson Papers\n         correspondence regarding the House of Roberts and Colson.","Edna Meade Colson was a product of the Petersburg public\n         school system. After graduation from Peabody High School in\n         1904, she continued her education at Fisk University in\n         Nashville, Tennessee. In 1908 she completed the Normal Course\n         and joined the staff of Virginia State (then the Virginia\n         Normal and Industrial Institute) in 1909. Edna Colson returned\n         to Fisk and earned the Bachelor of Education in 1915. She\n         later earned the Degrees of Bachelor of Science in 1923,\n         Master of Arts in 1924, and Doctor of Philosophy in 1940 from\n         Columbia Teachers College, New York. Her dissertation was An\n         Analysis of Specific References to Negroes in Selected\n         Curricula for the Education of Teachers.","During her career at Virginia State University Miss Colson\n         served as classroom teacher, Supervisor of Student Teaching,\n         Director of the Normal School, and Director of the Division of\n         Education through the changing phases of the development of\n         the University. In 1951 she became the Director of the newly\n         created School of Education.","Miss Colson was very active in school functions at\n         Teachers. She was Vice President of the Negro Education Club,\n         and in 1931 she was a representative of the Club to the White\n         House Conference on Education, and in the summer of 1939 she\n         studied workshop organization at the University of\n         Chicago.","Miss Colson was: affiliated with the American Association\n         of University Professors, The Association for Supervision and\n         Curriculum Development, The Virginia Teachers Association, The\n         Virginia Association of Jeanes Supervisors, and the Virginia\n         Academy of Science, a life member of the American Teachers\n         Association, a charter member of the Virginia Research\n         Society, the National Association of College Women. The\n         Virginia Interracial Commission, the Negro Organization\n         Society, The American Red Cross, The National Association for\n         the Advancement of Colored People, a charter member of the\n         Delta Omega Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha, and the Virginia\n         State Federation of Colored Women's Clubs.","Miss Colson was a prolific writer and a highly sought after\n         speaker throughout the state of Virginia. During her career\n         she contributed articles to the Virginia State College\n         Gazette, The Quarterly Journal of Higher Education for Negroes\n         and the Journal of Negro Education.","Edna Colson was considered an authority on curriculum\n         development and on source materials which could be used in\n         teaching about the African American experience in America. She\n         was considered by many to be the most influential person in\n         the development of African American teachers, and teacher\n         education.","Edna Colson corresponded with J.L. Blair, H.C. Newbold, L.\n         C. Reynolds, Jannie Porter Barrett, A.G. Richardson, Eva\n         Mitchell, Fred M. Alexander, D.A. Wilkerson, Rose Butler\n         Brown, Mary Branch, Belle Boone Beard, and Mable Carney.","The Colson Hill Family Papers document one of the most\n         unique African-American families in the United States. This\n         manuscript group covers this family's life and activities in\n         the Commonwealth of Virginia from 1834-1984. These papers\n         document the family's involvement with: The establishment of\n         Liberia, the Underground Railroad, the establishment of\n         Virginia State University, public education in Petersburg and\n         in Virginia, the readjuster party, business in Petersburg and\n         the social and community activities in the African American\n         community as well. Not only did Miss Colson become keeper of\n         the family papers, her long an outstanding career led to the\n         creation of a large number of records documenting her\n         productive life as well. Miss Colson was a teacher and a\n         teacher of teachers. She was a student and believer in the\n         idea that education could solve societies social, political,\n         and economic ills. The papers provide a window into several\n         aspects of African American society rarely scene. The bulk of\n         the materials is in the form on correspondence, however, there\n         are numerous printed items and photographs as well. The papers\n         are quite useful for the study of: History of Education,\n         Women's History, Local History, Family History, and Social and\n         Economic History.","Four diaries maintained by James Major Colson Jr.\n                  beginning in January of 1878 and continuing through\n                  1899. Not only did James Major Colson maintain a\n                  diary, his wife Kate also began in 1887 her first\n                  diray. Mrs. Colson's diary,however, only covers a few\n                  months of that year. Also, In this sub-series is a\n                  diary belonging to William Nelson Colson II, son of\n                  James and Kate Colson. The Diary begins in the summer\n                  of 1914 and continues to February 1915. During this\n                  time Mr.Colson was a member of the faculty at\n                  Virginia Union University in Richmond, VA.","Notebooks kept by James Major Colson and Kate Hill\n                  as students. Mr.Colson's notebook covers a variety of\n                  subjects taken taken at Dartmouth. Included is a\n                  notebook maintained for his class in Physics\n                  (1881-1882) other subjects include language, natural\n                  history, physiology, and literature. Mrs. Colson\n                  notebook covers a number of subjects, which would\n                  have been included in the study for a teaching\n                  certificate at this time.","A Composition notebook kept by Edna M. Colson. The\n                  notebook appears to have been used to teach Sunday\n                  School classes. Two autograph books, one belonging to\n                  Miss Kate Hill (later Kate Colson) and dates from\n                  1882-through Aug 1883. The other autograph book\n                  belongs to Miss Edna Meade Colson and covers the time\n                  span from 1907 through 1909. There is also a travel\n                  log which was kept by Edna M. Colson, no date.","Photo Book containing mostly tin-types of\n                     friends of the Colson/Hill Family. Most are in\n                     color.","Twelve Scrapbooks generated by Edna Meade Colson.\n               Each book is titled. Most of the books consist of\n               photo's some correspondence, news-clippings and\n               postcards.","2 boxes loose news clipping from a number of\n                  newspapers from around the United States no order or\n                  no arrangement","There are no restrictions.","English"],"collection_title_tesim":["A Guide to the Papers of The\n         Colson-Hill Family \n         \n         1833-1984"],"collection_ssim":["A Guide to the Papers of The\n         Colson-Hill Family \n         \n         1833-1984"],"level_ssm":["collection"],"level_ssim":["Collection"],"unitid_ssm":["1965-13"],"unitid_tesim":["1965-13"],"repository_ssm":["Virginia State University"],"repository_ssim":["Virginia State University"],"creator_ssm":["The Colson-Hill Papers are a\n         gift of the Colson Family."],"creator_ssim":["The Colson-Hill Papers are a\n         gift of the Colson Family."],"has_online_content_ssim":["false"],"accessrestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThere are no restrictions.\u003c/p\u003e\n      "],"accessrestrict_heading_ssm":["Access"],"accessrestrict_tesim":["There are no restrictions."],"arrangement_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eSeries I. History of the Colson Family Box # 1 Obituaries,\n         records of birth, marriages and short sketches of members of\n         the Colson-Hill Family\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eSub-Series A. Family History A family history compiled by\n         Alice A. Jackson for an exhibit about the Colson family.\n         Included are copies of various documents and sketches of a\n         number of family members.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eSub-Series B. Obituaries Funeral programs and several\n         sketches of deceased family members.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eSeries II. Estate Correspodence and family documents Box #2\n         Legal documents covering various matters of the Colson-Hill\n         family. This series includes Colson estate correspondence,\n         wills, State and local tax receipts and leases for property Of\n         special interest is an application for Canadian citizenship\n         for John Henry Hill, who had escaped from the institution of\n         slavery in 1857.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eSeries III. Family Correspondence, Telegrams and\n         Postcards\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eSub-Series A. Family Correspondence Boxes 3-15 Letters\n         between members of this family for more than one hundred\n         years. Subjects discussed, the underground railroad, family\n         problems, education, politics, sound issues wars, politics and\n         civil rights. The materials are arranged chronically\n         Correspondence without dates are arranged by alphabet.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eSub-Series B. William Nelson Colson Boxes 16- A interesting\n         number of letters written by William Nelson Colson (1890-1922)\n         were found together and have been arranged accordingly. The\n         materials include family correspondence, personal\n         correspondence and correspondence pertaining to his days at\n         Virginia Union University.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eSub-Series C: The Colson/Woody 1950-1967 Mainly\n         correspondence having to do with Mary Colson's interest in the\n         family estate. Included in this material is her will.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eSub-Series D: The John and Mary Colson Shore Papers\n         1844-1877 John K. Shore was married to Mary Colson and lived\n         and worked in Petersburg. Shore was a barber, and after the\n         Civil War served on the Common Council. The Shore papers\n         consist mainly of tax and business receipts.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eSub-Series E: The John and Susie Hill Harris Papers\n         1900,1924 Papers of Susie Hill, sister of Kate Hill Colson.\n         Photo, some correspondence.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eSub-Series F. Family Personal Box 20 Family correspondence\n         with friends and associates. Very interesting letter from\n         William Still to John Henry Hill.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eSub-Series G. Family Business Boxes 21-22 Records of family\n         business activities from the anlebellum through the 1950's.\n         Most of correspondece documents ownership and rents from\n         family owned properties. Included in this sub-series are\n         records of the House of Roberts and Colson (1833-1836) a\n         merticle Company established by William Neslon Colson and\n         Joseph Jenkins Roberts who became the first president of\n         Liberia.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eSub-Series H. Family Work Box 23 James Major and Kate Hill\n         Colsons work at the John A. Dix School in Dinwiddle County.\n         John A. Dix was one of many little Tuskeeges established in\n         the United States. Interesting Correspondence with and Colson\n         work with the school improvement league. Series Includes\n         records of the John A. Dix Industrial School.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eSeries IV. Edna Colson (Personal, Colson/Meredith,\n         Education, Employment) 1905-1984\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eSub-Series A. Correspondence Personal Box 24-28\n         Correspondence with friends and associates beginning in 1905\n         and continuting until 1980. This sub-series is arranged with\n         Men Colson's correspondence maintained by date, and her\n         correspondence kept by subject heading. Some of the\n         correspondents, Ambrose Caliver, Gordan Hancock Jackson Davis,\n         A.G. Richardson, and Carrie Gandy.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eSub-Series B. Colson/Meredith Correspondence Boxes 29-32\n         Correspondence between Edna Meade Colson and Amaza Meredith\n         beginning in 1916 and continuing until 1982. Education, work,\n         social and polilical and home ownership. The sub-series\n         documents their vacation. Mister Colson and Meredith were\n         companion for over fifty years.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eSub-Series C. Correspondence (Education) Box 33 Documents\n         Ms.Colson's efforts to acquire graduated training during the\n         era of segregation. Miss Colson's association with Teacher\n         College began in 1924 and continued until 1964. Correspondence\n         documents curriculum, research, problems faced by African\n         American students encounted such as housing Colson's\n         involvement with the Negro Education Club is also covered. The\n         bulk of the correspondence is with Miss Mable Carney who was\n         Edna Colson's major Professor at Columbia.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eSub-Series D. Correspondence (Employment) Box 34-47\n         Correspondence documenting Edna Meade Colson's forty-four\n         years at Virginia State University. Arranged in there\n         sections, correspondence with the presidents of Virginia\n         State, by Subject heading and by alphabet. There are manuals\n         of committees, information about public education in Virginia,\n         reports. Arranged alphabetically and chronologically within\n         the folder. Correspondence with John M. Gandy, Mable Carney,\n         Luther Foster, Jackson Davis, Charles S. Johnson, and\n         others.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eSeries V. Organizations and Affiliations of Edna Meade\n         Colson Box # 48-60 This series contains material documenting\n         Edna M. Colson's activities on and off the campus during her\n         career at Virginia State University. Included in this series\n         are records of: The Virginia Federation of Colored Women\n         Clubs, the National Association of College Women, the Alpha\n         Kappa Alpha Sorority, the Chesterfield County \"Colored\" red\n         Cross and others.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eSub-Series A. The Virginia Federation Of Colored Women's\n         Clubs 1931,1961, Boxes 48-53 Records and Correspondence of the\n         Petersburg Chapter of the Federation of Colored Women.\n         Included are materials from the Petersburg Women's Council and\n         the Virginia State College Education Club.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eSub-Series B. The National Association of College Women\n         1925-1964 Boxes 54-56 The National Association of Colored\n         Women was organized in 1923 at Howard University. At this\n         meeting a temporary NACW was established. One year later a\n         larger group of African-American women met in Washington and\n         formed a permanent \"National Association of College Women.\"\n         The Virginia State University Chapter was organized March 8th\n         1925 by Ms. Pauline Puryear. Edna Colson was one of the\n         charter members. Mrs. Colson served as President of the\n         Petersburg Branch, sectional director for the South and\n         National Vice President. The materials include minutes,\n         records, programs, photographs, and Correspondence.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eSub-Series C. Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Inc. Boxes 57- 57\n         A, 57 B Correspondence, minutes and reports of the Delta Omega\n         Graduate Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority. Miss Colson\n         was one of the charter members of this chapter, which was\n         established at Virginia State University in 1925.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eSub-Series D. The Chesterfield County Red Cross 1929-1948\n         Box 58 Minutes, correspondence, reports and By-Laws of the\n         Chesterfield County Red Cross. Miss Colson was the Chairman of\n         the \"Colored Auxiliary\". The \"Colored Auxiliary\" attempted to\n         ensure fair treatment in dispersing services being provided\n         during the depression and the War years.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eSub-Series E. The Virginia Society for Research 1930-1934\n         Box 58 The Virginia Society for Research was established to\n         promote and encourage serious research in the field of\n         education, and to demonstrate that information derived from\n         these efforts. Correspondence, minutes, and constitution.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eSub-Series F. The Negro Organizational Society 1912-1952\n         Box 59 The NOS was organized in 1912 to work on improving the\n         schools, health, and homes of African American. This\n         sub-series contains correspondence, reports and newsletters of\n         this groups activities. Included in the materials are some\n         correspondence concerning the School Improvement League.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eSub-Series G. The Gillfield Baptist Church 1910, 1974 Box\n         59 Correspondence, Parish Minister and information about\n         placing stained glass windows in Gillfield.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eSub-Series H. The Links Incorporated 1958,1965 Container 59\n         Some materials about the Eastern Area Conference of the \"Links\n         Incorporated\" one folder.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eSub-Series I. The Virginia Commission on Interracial\n         Cooperation Box 59 One folder of correspondence\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eSub-Series J. The Committee for Virginia 1940,1946 Box 59\n         One folder, includes a Constitution written in 1940 and some\n         correspondence\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eSub-Series K. The N.A.A.C.P 1949 Two folders,\n         Correspondence to Edna Colson about membership. One Folder\n         contains a copy of a Petersburg Chapter Newsletters.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eSub-Series L The Virginia Council On Human Relations\n         1955-1975 Box 60 Correspondence, Reports, minutes, and printed\n         items. The correspondence and addresses a number of social and\n         political issues which were of great concern during this time.\n         Miss Colson was a member of the board of Directors.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eSub-Series M. The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee\n         1960 Box 60 Newsletters and hand-bills\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eSub-Series N. The SCLC 1961-1964 Box 60 SCLC Newsletter\n         1961, 1966\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eSeries VI. Literary Box # 61-63 Diaries, speeches and\n         articles produced by family members. In this series are a\n         number of diaries of James Major Colson. While he was a\n         student at Dartmouth College. The majority of the materials\n         however are writings and speeches of Edna M. Colson.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eSeries VII. Financial Records Boxes # 64-66 Receipts and\n         bills for school, rental household (including furniture, food,\n         and clothing). There are a number of ledgers.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eSub-Series A. Receipts and Bills Boxes # 64-65 A unique\n         array of receipts and bills of the Colson-Hill Family.\n         Included are receipts for rent, school bills, medical\n         receipts, household (including furniture, food, and clothing),\n         and contractors.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eSub-Series B. Ledgers and Bank Books Box # 66 Rental books\n         maintained by the Colson-Hill family. The Ledgers also contain\n         information about family purchases and receipts for building\n         and contractors.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eSeries VIII. Photographs Boxes 67-74 Photographs of family\n         and friends. The material is arranged into several\n         sub-series.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eSub-Series A. Family ,Many of the photos in these paper\n         were taken on the 1870's and 80's.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eSub-Series B. William Nelson Colson III. Colson, was a\n         student studying law at Harvard University in 1917 when he\n         decided to join the United State Army. The photo's which\n         William Nelson sent home from Fort Ames,Iowa gave his family\n         and friends some idea of what he was doing in officers\n         training school. The photos incude some postcards of camp\n         scenes.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eSub-series C. Photographs- Friends(by name), of Edna Meade\n         Colson or school affiliations. In addition there are a number\n         of photographs of individuals,quit a few were friends or\n         former students of Kate Colson. Many of the photographs are\n         not identified by name. Many of the photographs were taken in\n         the following locations: The Leath Company, Rockwell and the\n         New York Gallery were all in Petersburg others were taken in\n         Richmond, Danville, New York, Winston-Salem, Baltimore,\n         Philadelphia and Washington D.C.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eSub-Series D. Photograph Book Photo Book containing mostly\n         tin-types of friends of the Colson-Hill family. Most are in\n         color.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eSeries IX. Scrapbooks Twelve scrapbooks generated by Edna\n         Meade Colson. Each book is titled. Most of the books consist\n         of photo's some correspondence, news-clippings and\n         postcards.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eSeries X. Printed\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eSub-Series A. Programs, Invitations, Pamphlets Programs,\n         Invitations, and Pamphlets collected by family members.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eSub-Series B. Degrees Grade reports for several members of\n         the Colson family. Of particular interest James Major Colson\n         Jr's prep school reports.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eSub-Series C. Newspaper Clippings News clippings of\n         particular interest to members of the family.\u003c/p\u003e\n    "],"arrangement_heading_ssm":["Series Description"],"arrangement_tesim":["Series I. History of the Colson Family Box # 1 Obituaries,\n         records of birth, marriages and short sketches of members of\n         the Colson-Hill Family","Sub-Series A. Family History A family history compiled by\n         Alice A. Jackson for an exhibit about the Colson family.\n         Included are copies of various documents and sketches of a\n         number of family members.","Sub-Series B. Obituaries Funeral programs and several\n         sketches of deceased family members.","Series II. Estate Correspodence and family documents Box #2\n         Legal documents covering various matters of the Colson-Hill\n         family. This series includes Colson estate correspondence,\n         wills, State and local tax receipts and leases for property Of\n         special interest is an application for Canadian citizenship\n         for John Henry Hill, who had escaped from the institution of\n         slavery in 1857.","Series III. Family Correspondence, Telegrams and\n         Postcards","Sub-Series A. Family Correspondence Boxes 3-15 Letters\n         between members of this family for more than one hundred\n         years. Subjects discussed, the underground railroad, family\n         problems, education, politics, sound issues wars, politics and\n         civil rights. The materials are arranged chronically\n         Correspondence without dates are arranged by alphabet.","Sub-Series B. William Nelson Colson Boxes 16- A interesting\n         number of letters written by William Nelson Colson (1890-1922)\n         were found together and have been arranged accordingly. The\n         materials include family correspondence, personal\n         correspondence and correspondence pertaining to his days at\n         Virginia Union University.","Sub-Series C: The Colson/Woody 1950-1967 Mainly\n         correspondence having to do with Mary Colson's interest in the\n         family estate. Included in this material is her will.","Sub-Series D: The John and Mary Colson Shore Papers\n         1844-1877 John K. Shore was married to Mary Colson and lived\n         and worked in Petersburg. Shore was a barber, and after the\n         Civil War served on the Common Council. The Shore papers\n         consist mainly of tax and business receipts.","Sub-Series E: The John and Susie Hill Harris Papers\n         1900,1924 Papers of Susie Hill, sister of Kate Hill Colson.\n         Photo, some correspondence.","Sub-Series F. Family Personal Box 20 Family correspondence\n         with friends and associates. Very interesting letter from\n         William Still to John Henry Hill.","Sub-Series G. Family Business Boxes 21-22 Records of family\n         business activities from the anlebellum through the 1950's.\n         Most of correspondece documents ownership and rents from\n         family owned properties. Included in this sub-series are\n         records of the House of Roberts and Colson (1833-1836) a\n         merticle Company established by William Neslon Colson and\n         Joseph Jenkins Roberts who became the first president of\n         Liberia.","Sub-Series H. Family Work Box 23 James Major and Kate Hill\n         Colsons work at the John A. Dix School in Dinwiddle County.\n         John A. Dix was one of many little Tuskeeges established in\n         the United States. Interesting Correspondence with and Colson\n         work with the school improvement league. Series Includes\n         records of the John A. Dix Industrial School.","Series IV. Edna Colson (Personal, Colson/Meredith,\n         Education, Employment) 1905-1984","Sub-Series A. Correspondence Personal Box 24-28\n         Correspondence with friends and associates beginning in 1905\n         and continuting until 1980. This sub-series is arranged with\n         Men Colson's correspondence maintained by date, and her\n         correspondence kept by subject heading. Some of the\n         correspondents, Ambrose Caliver, Gordan Hancock Jackson Davis,\n         A.G. Richardson, and Carrie Gandy.","Sub-Series B. Colson/Meredith Correspondence Boxes 29-32\n         Correspondence between Edna Meade Colson and Amaza Meredith\n         beginning in 1916 and continuing until 1982. Education, work,\n         social and polilical and home ownership. The sub-series\n         documents their vacation. Mister Colson and Meredith were\n         companion for over fifty years.","Sub-Series C. Correspondence (Education) Box 33 Documents\n         Ms.Colson's efforts to acquire graduated training during the\n         era of segregation. Miss Colson's association with Teacher\n         College began in 1924 and continued until 1964. Correspondence\n         documents curriculum, research, problems faced by African\n         American students encounted such as housing Colson's\n         involvement with the Negro Education Club is also covered. The\n         bulk of the correspondence is with Miss Mable Carney who was\n         Edna Colson's major Professor at Columbia.","Sub-Series D. Correspondence (Employment) Box 34-47\n         Correspondence documenting Edna Meade Colson's forty-four\n         years at Virginia State University. Arranged in there\n         sections, correspondence with the presidents of Virginia\n         State, by Subject heading and by alphabet. There are manuals\n         of committees, information about public education in Virginia,\n         reports. Arranged alphabetically and chronologically within\n         the folder. Correspondence with John M. Gandy, Mable Carney,\n         Luther Foster, Jackson Davis, Charles S. Johnson, and\n         others.","Series V. Organizations and Affiliations of Edna Meade\n         Colson Box # 48-60 This series contains material documenting\n         Edna M. Colson's activities on and off the campus during her\n         career at Virginia State University. Included in this series\n         are records of: The Virginia Federation of Colored Women\n         Clubs, the National Association of College Women, the Alpha\n         Kappa Alpha Sorority, the Chesterfield County \"Colored\" red\n         Cross and others.","Sub-Series A. The Virginia Federation Of Colored Women's\n         Clubs 1931,1961, Boxes 48-53 Records and Correspondence of the\n         Petersburg Chapter of the Federation of Colored Women.\n         Included are materials from the Petersburg Women's Council and\n         the Virginia State College Education Club.","Sub-Series B. The National Association of College Women\n         1925-1964 Boxes 54-56 The National Association of Colored\n         Women was organized in 1923 at Howard University. At this\n         meeting a temporary NACW was established. One year later a\n         larger group of African-American women met in Washington and\n         formed a permanent \"National Association of College Women.\"\n         The Virginia State University Chapter was organized March 8th\n         1925 by Ms. Pauline Puryear. Edna Colson was one of the\n         charter members. Mrs. Colson served as President of the\n         Petersburg Branch, sectional director for the South and\n         National Vice President. The materials include minutes,\n         records, programs, photographs, and Correspondence.","Sub-Series C. Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Inc. Boxes 57- 57\n         A, 57 B Correspondence, minutes and reports of the Delta Omega\n         Graduate Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority. Miss Colson\n         was one of the charter members of this chapter, which was\n         established at Virginia State University in 1925.","Sub-Series D. The Chesterfield County Red Cross 1929-1948\n         Box 58 Minutes, correspondence, reports and By-Laws of the\n         Chesterfield County Red Cross. Miss Colson was the Chairman of\n         the \"Colored Auxiliary\". The \"Colored Auxiliary\" attempted to\n         ensure fair treatment in dispersing services being provided\n         during the depression and the War years.","Sub-Series E. The Virginia Society for Research 1930-1934\n         Box 58 The Virginia Society for Research was established to\n         promote and encourage serious research in the field of\n         education, and to demonstrate that information derived from\n         these efforts. Correspondence, minutes, and constitution.","Sub-Series F. The Negro Organizational Society 1912-1952\n         Box 59 The NOS was organized in 1912 to work on improving the\n         schools, health, and homes of African American. This\n         sub-series contains correspondence, reports and newsletters of\n         this groups activities. Included in the materials are some\n         correspondence concerning the School Improvement League.","Sub-Series G. The Gillfield Baptist Church 1910, 1974 Box\n         59 Correspondence, Parish Minister and information about\n         placing stained glass windows in Gillfield.","Sub-Series H. The Links Incorporated 1958,1965 Container 59\n         Some materials about the Eastern Area Conference of the \"Links\n         Incorporated\" one folder.","Sub-Series I. The Virginia Commission on Interracial\n         Cooperation Box 59 One folder of correspondence","Sub-Series J. The Committee for Virginia 1940,1946 Box 59\n         One folder, includes a Constitution written in 1940 and some\n         correspondence","Sub-Series K. The N.A.A.C.P 1949 Two folders,\n         Correspondence to Edna Colson about membership. One Folder\n         contains a copy of a Petersburg Chapter Newsletters.","Sub-Series L The Virginia Council On Human Relations\n         1955-1975 Box 60 Correspondence, Reports, minutes, and printed\n         items. The correspondence and addresses a number of social and\n         political issues which were of great concern during this time.\n         Miss Colson was a member of the board of Directors.","Sub-Series M. The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee\n         1960 Box 60 Newsletters and hand-bills","Sub-Series N. The SCLC 1961-1964 Box 60 SCLC Newsletter\n         1961, 1966","Series VI. Literary Box # 61-63 Diaries, speeches and\n         articles produced by family members. In this series are a\n         number of diaries of James Major Colson. While he was a\n         student at Dartmouth College. The majority of the materials\n         however are writings and speeches of Edna M. Colson.","Series VII. Financial Records Boxes # 64-66 Receipts and\n         bills for school, rental household (including furniture, food,\n         and clothing). There are a number of ledgers.","Sub-Series A. Receipts and Bills Boxes # 64-65 A unique\n         array of receipts and bills of the Colson-Hill Family.\n         Included are receipts for rent, school bills, medical\n         receipts, household (including furniture, food, and clothing),\n         and contractors.","Sub-Series B. Ledgers and Bank Books Box # 66 Rental books\n         maintained by the Colson-Hill family. The Ledgers also contain\n         information about family purchases and receipts for building\n         and contractors.","Series VIII. Photographs Boxes 67-74 Photographs of family\n         and friends. The material is arranged into several\n         sub-series.","Sub-Series A. Family ,Many of the photos in these paper\n         were taken on the 1870's and 80's.","Sub-Series B. William Nelson Colson III. Colson, was a\n         student studying law at Harvard University in 1917 when he\n         decided to join the United State Army. The photo's which\n         William Nelson sent home from Fort Ames,Iowa gave his family\n         and friends some idea of what he was doing in officers\n         training school. The photos incude some postcards of camp\n         scenes.","Sub-series C. Photographs- Friends(by name), of Edna Meade\n         Colson or school affiliations. In addition there are a number\n         of photographs of individuals,quit a few were friends or\n         former students of Kate Colson. Many of the photographs are\n         not identified by name. Many of the photographs were taken in\n         the following locations: The Leath Company, Rockwell and the\n         New York Gallery were all in Petersburg others were taken in\n         Richmond, Danville, New York, Winston-Salem, Baltimore,\n         Philadelphia and Washington D.C.","Sub-Series D. Photograph Book Photo Book containing mostly\n         tin-types of friends of the Colson-Hill family. Most are in\n         color.","Series IX. Scrapbooks Twelve scrapbooks generated by Edna\n         Meade Colson. Each book is titled. Most of the books consist\n         of photo's some correspondence, news-clippings and\n         postcards.","Series X. Printed","Sub-Series A. Programs, Invitations, Pamphlets Programs,\n         Invitations, and Pamphlets collected by family members.","Sub-Series B. Degrees Grade reports for several members of\n         the Colson family. Of particular interest James Major Colson\n         Jr's prep school reports.","Sub-Series C. Newspaper Clippings News clippings of\n         particular interest to members of the family."],"bioghist_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe Beginnings of the Colson Family can be traced back to\n         1791. The Person of record was James Colson (1768-1824) who\n         had been enslaved by a William Nelson of York County Virginia.\n         He was emancipated in Williamsburg around 1791 and it is\n         certain that by 1794 James Colson was living in Petersburg\n         Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eJames Colson became a barber. This was one of the\n         occupations free African American men were allowed to engage\n         in. In 1804, Colson purchased a lot on Union Street and around\n         1820 another piece of property on Oak Street. James Colson\n         died in 1825 and his son William took over the Business. In\n         1826 William Colson married Sarah Elebek. One of five children\n         fathered by Major Elebek. Elebek like Colson was also a barber\n         and a free African American.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eWilliam Colson became interested in the American\n         Colonization Society's (1817-1895) efforts to remove to Africa\n         all African Americans to what would become Liberia. At this\n         time in Petersburg the Colson and Elebek families were members\n         of the Methodist Church. Here they met another family by the\n         name of Roberts. The Roberts and Colson family combined and\n         formed a mercantile business, and Roberts and his family\n         emigrated to Liberia. William Nelson Colson remained in\n         Petersburg and managed the business from the U.S. side. In\n         1835 William Colson went to Liberia to confer with Roberts\n         where he became ill and died.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eThree children came from the Union of William and Sarah\n         Elebek Colson. James Major, Mary Alexena and William Nelson\n         Colson. Mary Alexena Colson married John K. Shore and William\n         Nelson married Milvina and moved to Boston, Massachusetts.\n         James Major Colson married Fannie Meade Bolling of Petersburg\n         in 1850. Nine children were born to this couple.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eThe other component of this family were a mixture of free\n         African American and enslaved family. John Henry Hill was born\n         in King and Queen county Virginia in 1828. Like many others\n         born into bondage, Hill was trained as a carpenter and was\n         hired out by his owner. Although a native of King and Queen,\n         Hill was either sold or rented out in Petersburg and in1853\n         was owned by a John Mitchell. Hill had also married a free\n         African American woman, Rose McCray and they were the parents\n         of two young sons.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eHill was enslaved and in 1853 his owner had decided to sell\n         him. It is unclear how Hill found out. His possible sale and\n         instead of being sold, he escaped. Hill found his way to\n         Canada where his wife later joined him, and the seven Hill\n         daughters were born. After the Civil War Hill returned to\n         Petersburg, became a prosperous Businessman and engaged in\n         local politics.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eEdna Meade Colson was born October 7, 1888, in Petersburg,\n         Virginia, the oldest of five children to James Major Colson,\n         Jr., and his wife Kate Hill Colson who was one of the\n         daughters of John Henry Hill.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eIncluded in these materials is an interesting letter from\n         William Still and in the Alice and Henry Colson Jackson Papers\n         correspondence regarding the House of Roberts and Colson.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eEdna Meade Colson was a product of the Petersburg public\n         school system. After graduation from Peabody High School in\n         1904, she continued her education at Fisk University in\n         Nashville, Tennessee. In 1908 she completed the Normal Course\n         and joined the staff of Virginia State (then the Virginia\n         Normal and Industrial Institute) in 1909. Edna Colson returned\n         to Fisk and earned the Bachelor of Education in 1915. She\n         later earned the Degrees of Bachelor of Science in 1923,\n         Master of Arts in 1924, and Doctor of Philosophy in 1940 from\n         Columbia Teachers College, New York. Her dissertation was An\n         Analysis of Specific References to Negroes in Selected\n         Curricula for the Education of Teachers.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eDuring her career at Virginia State University Miss Colson\n         served as classroom teacher, Supervisor of Student Teaching,\n         Director of the Normal School, and Director of the Division of\n         Education through the changing phases of the development of\n         the University. In 1951 she became the Director of the newly\n         created School of Education.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eMiss Colson was very active in school functions at\n         Teachers. She was Vice President of the Negro Education Club,\n         and in 1931 she was a representative of the Club to the White\n         House Conference on Education, and in the summer of 1939 she\n         studied workshop organization at the University of\n         Chicago.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eMiss Colson was: affiliated with the American Association\n         of University Professors, The Association for Supervision and\n         Curriculum Development, The Virginia Teachers Association, The\n         Virginia Association of Jeanes Supervisors, and the Virginia\n         Academy of Science, a life member of the American Teachers\n         Association, a charter member of the Virginia Research\n         Society, the National Association of College Women. The\n         Virginia Interracial Commission, the Negro Organization\n         Society, The American Red Cross, The National Association for\n         the Advancement of Colored People, a charter member of the\n         Delta Omega Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha, and the Virginia\n         State Federation of Colored Women's Clubs.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eMiss Colson was a prolific writer and a highly sought after\n         speaker throughout the state of Virginia. During her career\n         she contributed articles to the Virginia State College\n         Gazette, The Quarterly Journal of Higher Education for Negroes\n         and the Journal of Negro Education.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eEdna Colson was considered an authority on curriculum\n         development and on source materials which could be used in\n         teaching about the African American experience in America. She\n         was considered by many to be the most influential person in\n         the development of African American teachers, and teacher\n         education.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eEdna Colson corresponded with J.L. Blair, H.C. Newbold, L.\n         C. Reynolds, Jannie Porter Barrett, A.G. Richardson, Eva\n         Mitchell, Fred M. Alexander, D.A. Wilkerson, Rose Butler\n         Brown, Mary Branch, Belle Boone Beard, and Mable Carney.\u003c/p\u003e\n    "],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical/Historical Information"],"bioghist_tesim":["The Beginnings of the Colson Family can be traced back to\n         1791. The Person of record was James Colson (1768-1824) who\n         had been enslaved by a William Nelson of York County Virginia.\n         He was emancipated in Williamsburg around 1791 and it is\n         certain that by 1794 James Colson was living in Petersburg\n         Virginia.","James Colson became a barber. This was one of the\n         occupations free African American men were allowed to engage\n         in. In 1804, Colson purchased a lot on Union Street and around\n         1820 another piece of property on Oak Street. James Colson\n         died in 1825 and his son William took over the Business. In\n         1826 William Colson married Sarah Elebek. One of five children\n         fathered by Major Elebek. Elebek like Colson was also a barber\n         and a free African American.","William Colson became interested in the American\n         Colonization Society's (1817-1895) efforts to remove to Africa\n         all African Americans to what would become Liberia. At this\n         time in Petersburg the Colson and Elebek families were members\n         of the Methodist Church. Here they met another family by the\n         name of Roberts. The Roberts and Colson family combined and\n         formed a mercantile business, and Roberts and his family\n         emigrated to Liberia. William Nelson Colson remained in\n         Petersburg and managed the business from the U.S. side. In\n         1835 William Colson went to Liberia to confer with Roberts\n         where he became ill and died.","Three children came from the Union of William and Sarah\n         Elebek Colson. James Major, Mary Alexena and William Nelson\n         Colson. Mary Alexena Colson married John K. Shore and William\n         Nelson married Milvina and moved to Boston, Massachusetts.\n         James Major Colson married Fannie Meade Bolling of Petersburg\n         in 1850. Nine children were born to this couple.","The other component of this family were a mixture of free\n         African American and enslaved family. John Henry Hill was born\n         in King and Queen county Virginia in 1828. Like many others\n         born into bondage, Hill was trained as a carpenter and was\n         hired out by his owner. Although a native of King and Queen,\n         Hill was either sold or rented out in Petersburg and in1853\n         was owned by a John Mitchell. Hill had also married a free\n         African American woman, Rose McCray and they were the parents\n         of two young sons.","Hill was enslaved and in 1853 his owner had decided to sell\n         him. It is unclear how Hill found out. His possible sale and\n         instead of being sold, he escaped. Hill found his way to\n         Canada where his wife later joined him, and the seven Hill\n         daughters were born. After the Civil War Hill returned to\n         Petersburg, became a prosperous Businessman and engaged in\n         local politics.","Edna Meade Colson was born October 7, 1888, in Petersburg,\n         Virginia, the oldest of five children to James Major Colson,\n         Jr., and his wife Kate Hill Colson who was one of the\n         daughters of John Henry Hill.","Included in these materials is an interesting letter from\n         William Still and in the Alice and Henry Colson Jackson Papers\n         correspondence regarding the House of Roberts and Colson.","Edna Meade Colson was a product of the Petersburg public\n         school system. After graduation from Peabody High School in\n         1904, she continued her education at Fisk University in\n         Nashville, Tennessee. In 1908 she completed the Normal Course\n         and joined the staff of Virginia State (then the Virginia\n         Normal and Industrial Institute) in 1909. Edna Colson returned\n         to Fisk and earned the Bachelor of Education in 1915. She\n         later earned the Degrees of Bachelor of Science in 1923,\n         Master of Arts in 1924, and Doctor of Philosophy in 1940 from\n         Columbia Teachers College, New York. Her dissertation was An\n         Analysis of Specific References to Negroes in Selected\n         Curricula for the Education of Teachers.","During her career at Virginia State University Miss Colson\n         served as classroom teacher, Supervisor of Student Teaching,\n         Director of the Normal School, and Director of the Division of\n         Education through the changing phases of the development of\n         the University. In 1951 she became the Director of the newly\n         created School of Education.","Miss Colson was very active in school functions at\n         Teachers. She was Vice President of the Negro Education Club,\n         and in 1931 she was a representative of the Club to the White\n         House Conference on Education, and in the summer of 1939 she\n         studied workshop organization at the University of\n         Chicago.","Miss Colson was: affiliated with the American Association\n         of University Professors, The Association for Supervision and\n         Curriculum Development, The Virginia Teachers Association, The\n         Virginia Association of Jeanes Supervisors, and the Virginia\n         Academy of Science, a life member of the American Teachers\n         Association, a charter member of the Virginia Research\n         Society, the National Association of College Women. The\n         Virginia Interracial Commission, the Negro Organization\n         Society, The American Red Cross, The National Association for\n         the Advancement of Colored People, a charter member of the\n         Delta Omega Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha, and the Virginia\n         State Federation of Colored Women's Clubs.","Miss Colson was a prolific writer and a highly sought after\n         speaker throughout the state of Virginia. During her career\n         she contributed articles to the Virginia State College\n         Gazette, The Quarterly Journal of Higher Education for Negroes\n         and the Journal of Negro Education.","Edna Colson was considered an authority on curriculum\n         development and on source materials which could be used in\n         teaching about the African American experience in America. She\n         was considered by many to be the most influential person in\n         the development of African American teachers, and teacher\n         education.","Edna Colson corresponded with J.L. Blair, H.C. Newbold, L.\n         C. Reynolds, Jannie Porter Barrett, A.G. Richardson, Eva\n         Mitchell, Fred M. Alexander, D.A. Wilkerson, Rose Butler\n         Brown, Mary Branch, Belle Boone Beard, and Mable Carney."],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe Colson-Hill Family Papers, Accession #1965-13 ,\n            Special Collections and Archives, Johnston Memorial\n            Library, Virginia State University, Petersburg, VA.\u003c/p\u003e\n      "],"prefercite_tesim":["The Colson-Hill Family Papers, Accession #1965-13 ,\n            Special Collections and Archives, Johnston Memorial\n            Library, Virginia State University, Petersburg, VA."],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe Colson Hill Family Papers document one of the most\n         unique African-American families in the United States. This\n         manuscript group covers this family's life and activities in\n         the Commonwealth of Virginia from 1834-1984. 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The bulk of\n         the materials is in the form on correspondence, however, there\n         are numerous printed items and photographs as well. The papers\n         are quite useful for the study of: History of Education,\n         Women's History, Local History, Family History, and Social and\n         Economic History.\u003c/p\u003e\n    ","\u003cp\u003eFour diaries maintained by James Major Colson Jr.\n                  beginning in January of 1878 and continuing through\n                  1899. Not only did James Major Colson maintain a\n                  diary, his wife Kate also began in 1887 her first\n                  diray. Mrs. Colson's diary,however, only covers a few\n                  months of that year. Also, In this sub-series is a\n                  diary belonging to William Nelson Colson II, son of\n                  James and Kate Colson. The Diary begins in the summer\n                  of 1914 and continues to February 1915. 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Two autograph books, one belonging to\n                  Miss Kate Hill (later Kate Colson) and dates from\n                  1882-through Aug 1883. The other autograph book\n                  belongs to Miss Edna Meade Colson and covers the time\n                  span from 1907 through 1909. There is also a travel\n                  log which was kept by Edna M. Colson, no date.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003ePhoto Book containing mostly tin-types of\n                     friends of the Colson/Hill Family. Most are in\n                     color.\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003eTwelve Scrapbooks generated by Edna Meade Colson.\n               Each book is titled. 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These papers\n         document the family's involvement with: The establishment of\n         Liberia, the Underground Railroad, the establishment of\n         Virginia State University, public education in Petersburg and\n         in Virginia, the readjuster party, business in Petersburg and\n         the social and community activities in the African American\n         community as well. Not only did Miss Colson become keeper of\n         the family papers, her long an outstanding career led to the\n         creation of a large number of records documenting her\n         productive life as well. Miss Colson was a teacher and a\n         teacher of teachers. She was a student and believer in the\n         idea that education could solve societies social, political,\n         and economic ills. The papers provide a window into several\n         aspects of African American society rarely scene. The bulk of\n         the materials is in the form on correspondence, however, there\n         are numerous printed items and photographs as well. The papers\n         are quite useful for the study of: History of Education,\n         Women's History, Local History, Family History, and Social and\n         Economic History.","Four diaries maintained by James Major Colson Jr.\n                  beginning in January of 1878 and continuing through\n                  1899. Not only did James Major Colson maintain a\n                  diary, his wife Kate also began in 1887 her first\n                  diray. Mrs. Colson's diary,however, only covers a few\n                  months of that year. Also, In this sub-series is a\n                  diary belonging to William Nelson Colson II, son of\n                  James and Kate Colson. The Diary begins in the summer\n                  of 1914 and continues to February 1915. During this\n                  time Mr.Colson was a member of the faculty at\n                  Virginia Union University in Richmond, VA.","Notebooks kept by James Major Colson and Kate Hill\n                  as students. Mr.Colson's notebook covers a variety of\n                  subjects taken taken at Dartmouth. Included is a\n                  notebook maintained for his class in Physics\n                  (1881-1882) other subjects include language, natural\n                  history, physiology, and literature. Mrs. Colson\n                  notebook covers a number of subjects, which would\n                  have been included in the study for a teaching\n                  certificate at this time.","A Composition notebook kept by Edna M. Colson. The\n                  notebook appears to have been used to teach Sunday\n                  School classes. 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He began in the lowest grade of the system and\n         made his way upward until he was elected principal of the\n         Baker Street group of schools, having twelve teachers under\n         him.","Because of his work at the Baker Street School the State\n         Superintendent of Public Instruction, John L. Buchanan, made\n         him conductor of the Peabody Institute for \"colored\" teachers\n         held at Lynchburg, Virginia. This was one of the largest and\n         most successful institutes ever held in the state. Here was\n         organized the Virginia Teachers' Reading Circle, and the\n         conductor of the Institute was elected President.","In 1886, Governor Fitzbugh Lee, appointed him a member of\n         the Board of Vistors of the Virginia Normal and Collegiate\n         Institute. He was also elected Secretay of the Board because\n         of his record at the Baker Street School. Mr. Johnston would\n         also tahe under his administration a three year; Course of\n         study was approved by the State Superintendent and begun in\n         the Institute in June 1889.","In addition to serving as President, he ws professor of\n         Philospohy, Moral Philosphy, and Political Economy. It was in\n         recognition of his ability and worth that Shaw University, as\n         its commencement held on May 23, 1889, conferred on him the\n         degree of A.M.; and in 1882, the Ph. D.","For three years he was corresponding secretary of the\n         Virginia Baptist Sunday School Convention. Mr. Johnston was an\n         active Mason and has worked his way to the highest level in\n         that order. He served two terms each as Grand Master and Grand\n         Commander of the State.","As a member of the chapter, he attended the National\n         Masonic convention held at Chicago in 1887. Here he delivered\n         the opening address, \"The True Status of Negro Masonry in\n         America.\"","The records of the Peabody Reading Circle and the \"Virginia\n         Teachers Reading\" document the development of profesionalism\n         of Africn american Teachers in Virginia. Minutes, reports and\n         programs covering the period is all that remains of what would\n         become the largest African American profesional organization\n         in Virginia. 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Here was\n         organized the Virginia Teachers' Reading Circle, and the\n         conductor of the Institute was elected President.","In 1886, Governor Fitzbugh Lee, appointed him a member of\n         the Board of Vistors of the Virginia Normal and Collegiate\n         Institute. He was also elected Secretay of the Board because\n         of his record at the Baker Street School. Mr. Johnston would\n         also tahe under his administration a three year; Course of\n         study was approved by the State Superintendent and begun in\n         the Institute in June 1889.","In addition to serving as President, he ws professor of\n         Philospohy, Moral Philosphy, and Political Economy. It was in\n         recognition of his ability and worth that Shaw University, as\n         its commencement held on May 23, 1889, conferred on him the\n         degree of A.M.; and in 1882, the Ph. 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Here he delivered\n         the opening address, \"The True Status of Negro Masonry in\n         America.\""],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eJames Hugo Johnston, Sr., 1865-1914 , Johnston Memorial\n            Library, Virginia State University, Petersburg, VA.\u003c/p\u003e\n      "],"prefercite_tesim":["James Hugo Johnston, Sr., 1865-1914 , Johnston Memorial\n            Library, Virginia State University, Petersburg, VA."],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe records of the Peabody Reading Circle and the \"Virginia\n         Teachers Reading\" document the development of profesionalism\n         of Africn american Teachers in Virginia. Minutes, reports and\n         programs covering the period is all that remains of what would\n         become the largest African American profesional organization\n         in Virginia. 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The record books which were used to keep an\n         account of the family's household expense are also useful for\n         social and family history.","State Normal and Industrial School, Alabama\n                     Commencement- Invitation 1892, Livingstone College\n                     North Carolina commencement 1891, St.Augustine\n                     Normal School and Collegiate Institute North\n                     Carolina Annual Commencement 1892, The Trustees of\n                     Wellesley College Commencement 1889, Fisk\n                     University Annual Commencement 1892.","Masonic Order 1899"],"userestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThere are no restrictions.\u003c/p\u003e\n      "],"userestrict_heading_ssm":["Use Restrictions"],"userestrict_tesim":["There are no restrictions."],"abstract_html_tesm":["\u003cabstract label=\"Abstract\"\u003eThe James Hugo Johnston, Sr. papers\n         do not contain any correspondence of a personal nature.\n         Although there is very little correspondence, there are\n         several notebooks maintained by Mr. Johnston; during his\n         lifetime. 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