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BIOGRAPHICAL DATA (Container 1) \n         Series II. CORRESPONDENCE \u0026 REPORTS (Containers 1-9)\n         A. Family [1. By Date / 2. By Name] \n         B. Personal [1. By Name / 2. By Date] \n         C. Business [1. Azurest Syndicate / 2. U. S. Patent\n         Office] \n         Series III. WORK- V.S.U. (Container 9) \n         Series IV. ALUMNI (Containers 10-12) \n         A. General \n         B. House Committee \n         Series V. ORGANIZATIONAL AFFILIATIONS (Container 12) \n         A. Dunbar High School Class Reunion \n         B. Gillfield Baptist Church \n         C. The Virginia Federation of Colored Women's Club \n         Series VI. SCRAPBOOKS (Containers 13-15, loose books) \n         Series VII. PHOTOGRAPHS (Container 16) \n         Series VIII PRINTED MATERIAL (Container 17) \n         Series IX. ARCHITECTURAL DRAWINGS (Containers 18-20) \n         A. Furniture \n         B. Line Drawings \n         C. Blueprints","Amaza Lee Meredith was born in Lynchburg, Virginia on\n         August 14,1895. She was the daughter of Emma P. Kenny\n         (Meredith) and Samuel P. Meredith. She had two sisters and one\n         brother; the eldest child , Maude, maintained a life-long\n         closeness with Amaza. In 1915, Meredith completed here early\n         schooling in Lynchburg, where she graduated at the top of her\n         class.","Her First teaching job was at a rural ungraded school\n         called Indian Rock, located in Botetourt County, Virginia.\n         Here, Meredith organized the Indian Rock Parent- Teacher's\n         Association, which worked in conjunction with the Negro\n         Organization Society of Virginia to bring improvement to the\n         local school system. In 1918, she returned to Lynchburg, where\n         she taught elementary school. In 1922, she served as\n         Valedictorian for her class at the Virginia Normal and\n         Industrial Institute. This was followed by six years of\n         teaching mathematics at Dunbar High School in Lynchburg.","Ms. Meredith enrolled in the Teacher's College of Columbia\n         University, New York in 1928. It was there where she earned\n         both her Bachelor's and Master's Degrees in Fine Arts\n         Education.","Her career with Virginia State University began in 1930,\n         though she took a leave of absence from 1934-35 to complete\n         her Master's degree. In 1935, she advanced to the position of\n         Department Char, where she remained until her retirement in\n         1958. Amaza Meredith established the schools of Fine Arts\n         department.","Beyond her career at V. S. U., Meredith's life was also\n         rich in contributions. Her artistic self spilled over into\n         these other facets of her life. She exhibited her art at the\n         Virginia Museum of Fine Arts and in galleries in New York and\n         North Carolina. Some works were acquired by groups, such as\n         the Gillfield Baptist Church, where they are still displayed;\n         many others hang in the homes of area residents.","She also developed interior decorating and design skills.\n         In the field of business, she coordinated color schemes for\n         campus buildings. To provide for new shelving units, she\n         created blueprints, which proposed modifications in the art\n         department layouts.","This remarkable person also pursued architectural\n         interests. Though she had no known formal training, Amaza\n         Meredith fully designed her own home - both inside and out,\n         and im1939, it was built on Boisseau Street here in Ettrick.\n         She named it \"Azurest South.\" In the ensuing decades, Meredith\n         laid out the blueprints for several homes, most notably in Sag\n         Harbor, Long Island, New York.","In the 1950's Sag Harbor flourished as resort area for\n         blacks. Amaza and her sister, Maude, worked together to buy,\n         create, and develop the subdivision later called \"Azurest\n         North.\" They worked with others to establish the \"Azurest\n         Syndicate, Inc.\" Syndicate lots were sold to individual\n         investors, who the built summer, or year-round cottages and\n         this land. Ms. Meredith designed at least two of these\n         residences: 1) Terry Cottage, summer home for her sister,\n         Maude Terry: and 2) Edendot, belonging to friends Ed and Dot\n         Spaulding.","Additionally, Meredith provided several sets of blueprints\n         for the proposed V. S. U. Alumni House in 1949. Once these\n         plans fell through, Amaza tried another approach: She willed\n         her half of Azurest South to the V. S. U. Alumni Association\n         in the hopes that the dream for which she had worked so long\n         would become a reality. Joint ownership of Azurest South was\n         held with Ms. Edna Colson, another retired faculty member of\n         V. S. U. In 1985, the Alumni Association purchased the\n         Colson's half of the house, and Azurest South is now the\n         official V. S. U. Alumni House.","Meredith was generally active in the Alumni Association.\n         She was an honorary member of the Gillfield Baptist Church.\n         While she participated in several other organizations and\n         committees, the extent of her involvement is not known.","In 1984, Amaza Lee Meredith died.","The Amaza Lee Meredith Papers, 1912-1983, document a slice\n         of Virginia's history in the twentieth century. This founder\n         of the Fine Arts Department lived a life abundant in\n         contributions well beyond her career at Virginia State\n         University, while some materials relate directly to her work\n         as a faculty member. Her devotion to education spanned over\n         four decades; these papers reflect her efforts. Born in 1895,\n         Meredith was raised in a period which some consider the lowest\n         point in African-American history since the antebellum era. A\n         product of such adversity, she adjusted to work and achieve\n         during and after a time of legal segregation. This collection\n         speaks to her successes in overcoming the \"obstacles\" of both\n         race and gender.","Beginning in 1930, Meredith corresponded frequently with\n         family, most notably, her sister, Maude Terry. These letters\n         reveal the depth of love and loyalty the family cultivated and\n         nurtured for lifetime. They demonstrate the difference in\n         women's roles between the black and white interdependent\n         relationship with men; black women have received greater\n         support from their peers in the arena of independence. In this\n         vein, Meredith's family gave her nothing short of a full\n         endorsement for her outstanding achievements. It is likely\n         that such contributed to her ability to surmount societal\n         resistance.","Many of Meredith's peers were educators. Her papers include\n         correspondence with Helen Edmonds, Anne Crittendon Preston,\n         and Jean Murrell Capers (who later made her mark in politics).\n         The remaining correspondence comes from people of varied\n         backgrounds, also as viable research material.","Another group of personal correspondence related to\n         Stafford Evans, a prized students of Ms. Meredith. While there\n         is some continuation of correspondence into the 1980s, most of\n         these letters were written while Evans served in the navy from\n         1943-45. Included are copies of The Mananan, a WWII Black\n         sailors' March and December of 1945. This sub-series lends\n         expression to the ambiguity, which black soldiers felt while\n         in fighting for a democracy to which they themselves were not\n         privy.","Meredith's business records document the origins of the\n         Azurest Syndicate in 1953. Ms. Meredith worked with her\n         sister, Ms. Terry, to pioneer the development of a Black\n         summer resort area known as the Azurest North. The Syndicate\n         served to regulate the subdivision's lot sales. The unique\n         aspect of this venture are numerous: the development of a\n         black resort in this time period, the syndicate, and the\n         project's creation and development by two Black women - whose\n         careers were unrelated to such a field.","It appears that, from the 1950's through the 1970's some\n         homes in Azurest North were designed by Ms. Meredith. Though\n         she had no known formal architectural schooling, she created\n         countless line and ink drawings as well as blueprints, which\n         are also included in this collection. Several of these\n         projects succeeded in being built. For many more, the end\n         result is as yet undetermined.","Unquestionably, Meredith designed and built her own home,\n         known as Azurest South, which she truly reflects her artistic\n         gift. Blueprints, line drawings, and sketches of this home are\n         available for research.","Found in another series are the plans for the proposed V.\n         S. U. Alumni House. Beginning in 1949 and working through the\n         next decade, Meredith was active with the Alumni House\n         Committee in attempts to produce an Alumni House. She retained\n         general Alumni records from as early as 1936 and ending in\n         1969.","Lastly, she created more than a dozen scrapbooks, devoting\n         each to a different subject and/or person. They contain\n         documents, photos, letters, news clippings, and ephemera,\n         which combine to form a rich source of research on their\n         topics. The materials cut across all the other sub-series in\n         these collections.","Amaza Meredith maintained a life-long friendship with Edna\n         Colson, former head of the Education Department at V. S. U.\n         They also shared a residence and had mutual friends. Clearly,\n         in order to research either person in- depth, it will be\n         necessary to study the other. Some further correspondence\n         exists in Colson/Hill the sub-series of MS. Colson's personal\n         correspondence dating from 1905-79. This includes information\n         of the trip to Europe made by Colson and Meredith. Some\n         materials, however are restricted (Box 29).","This is a collection of cards and programs.\n                  Included in this scrapbook is one of several\n                  telegrams.","This is a photographic record of Azurest South\n                  during its construction and as the home shared by\n                  Amaza Meredith and Edna Colson.","Correspondence, number of letters concerning\n                  Amamza Meredith teaching career in Lynchburg, and her\n                  being recruited to come to Virginia State by John M.\n                  Gandy. The other letters are mainly from friends\n                  concerning a variety of subjects. Included in the\n                  scrapbook is numerous of news-clippings, programs,\n                  tickets and other items collected by her long\n                  life.","Some correspondence, most of the materials consist\n                  of several programs, which were designed by Miss\n                  Meredith. Included in this book are also a number of\n                  speeches most concerning the teaching of or about\n                  art.","A collection of photographs covering a wide\n                  area.","This scrapbook includes a number of poems and\n                  letters written by Amaza Lee Meredith. The Evening\n                  song and Alma Mater of Virginia State is embodied in\n                  this scrapbook. Other letters and poems written or\n                  given to Miss Meredith can also be found. There are\n                  newspaper-clippings of poems written by Miss Amaza\n                  and also others that she collected.","Correspondence, photo's and newspaper-clippings\n                  from some of her former students. Included in this\n                  scrapbook are: James Gault Chander Flymn, Roderick\n                  Taylor, Freddrick F. Kersy, Reyenea Perry, Mildred\n                  Fountain, Huedillard Fitzgerald. Stanford Evens and\n                  others. There is addition some material about\n                  Lynchberg Virginia.","Some correspondence, news-clipping, programs most\n                  of which document the establishment of the Meredith\n                  Art at Virginia State in 1972 Gallery.","This scrapbook contains some correspondence,\n                  programs and printed articles about Anne Spencer of\n                  Lynchburg. Mrs. Spencer was a poet of the Harlem\n                  Renaissance Period. One of Miss Meredith sisters was\n                  married to Miss Spencer sons.","A Scrapbook of letters from a wide group of people\n                  dating from 1941 through 1976.","Some correspondence photographs and cards of\n                  sympathy about the death of Iris Terry Richards. Dr.\n                  Richards was Miss Meredith niece.","News-clippings, newsletters and other material\n                  mostly about Art.","A combination of items includes Miss Meredith's\n                  High School grades and diploma. There are letters of\n                  recognition and certificates.","Most of the material document Miss Meredith\n                  involvement with the Gillfield Baptist Church in\n                  Petersburg, Va.","This scrapbook document Miss Meredith retirement\n                  from Virginia State University in 1958. There are\n                  cards, programs, letters and photographs.","EDIT ME!","The Amaza Lee Meredith papers\n         contain personal and business documents generated by Ms.\n         Meredith which reflect the activities of her lifetime.\n         Included are materials related to her career at Virginia State\n         University, her participation in the V.S.U. Alumni Association\n         the official records of the Azurest North Syndicate, and\n         personal correspondence with several prominent blueprints,\n         line drawings, and sketches of Ms. Meredith's designs which\n         demonstrates her pursuits in architecture.","English"],"collection_title_tesim":["Amaza Lee Meredith Papers, \n         1912,\n         1930-1938"],"collection_ssim":["Amaza Lee Meredith Papers, \n         1912,\n         1930-1938"],"level_ssm":["collection"],"level_ssim":["Collection"],"unitid_ssm":["1982-20"],"unitid_tesim":["1982-20"],"repository_ssm":["Virginia State University"],"repository_ssim":["Virginia State University"],"acqinfo_ssim":["These papers were given to the V.S.U. Archives/ Special\n            Collections Department by decree of Ms. Meredith's Last\n            Will and Testament."],"has_online_content_ssim":["false"],"physdesc_tesim":["This collection\n         contains ca. 5,000 pieces."],"accessrestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe items in Box 29 are restricted; there are no other\n            restrictions in this collection.\u003c/p\u003e\n      "],"accessrestrict_heading_ssm":["Access"],"accessrestrict_tesim":["The items in Box 29 are restricted; there are no other\n            restrictions in this collection."],"arrangement_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eSeries I. BIOGRAPHICAL DATA (Container 1) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eSeries II. CORRESPONDENCE \u0026amp; REPORTS (Containers 1-9)\n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eA. Family [1. By Date / 2. By Name] \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eB. Personal [1. By Name / 2. By Date] \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eC. Business [1. Azurest Syndicate / 2. U. S. Patent\n         Office] \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eSeries III. WORK- V.S.U. (Container 9) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eSeries IV. ALUMNI (Containers 10-12) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eA. General \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eB. House Committee \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eSeries V. ORGANIZATIONAL AFFILIATIONS (Container 12) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eA. Dunbar High School Class Reunion \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eB. Gillfield Baptist Church \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eC. The Virginia Federation of Colored Women's Club \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eSeries VI. 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She had two sisters and one\n         brother; the eldest child , Maude, maintained a life-long\n         closeness with Amaza. In 1915, Meredith completed here early\n         schooling in Lynchburg, where she graduated at the top of her\n         class.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eHer First teaching job was at a rural ungraded school\n         called Indian Rock, located in Botetourt County, Virginia.\n         Here, Meredith organized the Indian Rock Parent- Teacher's\n         Association, which worked in conjunction with the Negro\n         Organization Society of Virginia to bring improvement to the\n         local school system. In 1918, she returned to Lynchburg, where\n         she taught elementary school. In 1922, she served as\n         Valedictorian for her class at the Virginia Normal and\n         Industrial Institute. This was followed by six years of\n         teaching mathematics at Dunbar High School in Lynchburg.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eMs. Meredith enrolled in the Teacher's College of Columbia\n         University, New York in 1928. It was there where she earned\n         both her Bachelor's and Master's Degrees in Fine Arts\n         Education.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eHer career with Virginia State University began in 1930,\n         though she took a leave of absence from 1934-35 to complete\n         her Master's degree. In 1935, she advanced to the position of\n         Department Char, where she remained until her retirement in\n         1958. Amaza Meredith established the schools of Fine Arts\n         department.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eBeyond her career at V. S. U., Meredith's life was also\n         rich in contributions. Her artistic self spilled over into\n         these other facets of her life. She exhibited her art at the\n         Virginia Museum of Fine Arts and in galleries in New York and\n         North Carolina. Some works were acquired by groups, such as\n         the Gillfield Baptist Church, where they are still displayed;\n         many others hang in the homes of area residents.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eShe also developed interior decorating and design skills.\n         In the field of business, she coordinated color schemes for\n         campus buildings. To provide for new shelving units, she\n         created blueprints, which proposed modifications in the art\n         department layouts.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eThis remarkable person also pursued architectural\n         interests. Though she had no known formal training, Amaza\n         Meredith fully designed her own home - both inside and out,\n         and im1939, it was built on Boisseau Street here in Ettrick.\n         She named it \"Azurest South.\" In the ensuing decades, Meredith\n         laid out the blueprints for several homes, most notably in Sag\n         Harbor, Long Island, New York.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eIn the 1950's Sag Harbor flourished as resort area for\n         blacks. Amaza and her sister, Maude, worked together to buy,\n         create, and develop the subdivision later called \"Azurest\n         North.\" They worked with others to establish the \"Azurest\n         Syndicate, Inc.\" Syndicate lots were sold to individual\n         investors, who the built summer, or year-round cottages and\n         this land. Ms. Meredith designed at least two of these\n         residences: 1) Terry Cottage, summer home for her sister,\n         Maude Terry: and 2) Edendot, belonging to friends Ed and Dot\n         Spaulding.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eAdditionally, Meredith provided several sets of blueprints\n         for the proposed V. S. U. Alumni House in 1949. Once these\n         plans fell through, Amaza tried another approach: She willed\n         her half of Azurest South to the V. S. U. Alumni Association\n         in the hopes that the dream for which she had worked so long\n         would become a reality. Joint ownership of Azurest South was\n         held with Ms. Edna Colson, another retired faculty member of\n         V. S. U. In 1985, the Alumni Association purchased the\n         Colson's half of the house, and Azurest South is now the\n         official V. S. U. Alumni House.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eMeredith was generally active in the Alumni Association.\n         She was an honorary member of the Gillfield Baptist Church.\n         While she participated in several other organizations and\n         committees, the extent of her involvement is not known.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eIn 1984, Amaza Lee Meredith died.\u003c/p\u003e\n    "],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical/Historical Information"],"bioghist_tesim":["Amaza Lee Meredith was born in Lynchburg, Virginia on\n         August 14,1895. She was the daughter of Emma P. Kenny\n         (Meredith) and Samuel P. Meredith. She had two sisters and one\n         brother; the eldest child , Maude, maintained a life-long\n         closeness with Amaza. In 1915, Meredith completed here early\n         schooling in Lynchburg, where she graduated at the top of her\n         class.","Her First teaching job was at a rural ungraded school\n         called Indian Rock, located in Botetourt County, Virginia.\n         Here, Meredith organized the Indian Rock Parent- Teacher's\n         Association, which worked in conjunction with the Negro\n         Organization Society of Virginia to bring improvement to the\n         local school system. In 1918, she returned to Lynchburg, where\n         she taught elementary school. In 1922, she served as\n         Valedictorian for her class at the Virginia Normal and\n         Industrial Institute. This was followed by six years of\n         teaching mathematics at Dunbar High School in Lynchburg.","Ms. Meredith enrolled in the Teacher's College of Columbia\n         University, New York in 1928. It was there where she earned\n         both her Bachelor's and Master's Degrees in Fine Arts\n         Education.","Her career with Virginia State University began in 1930,\n         though she took a leave of absence from 1934-35 to complete\n         her Master's degree. In 1935, she advanced to the position of\n         Department Char, where she remained until her retirement in\n         1958. Amaza Meredith established the schools of Fine Arts\n         department.","Beyond her career at V. S. U., Meredith's life was also\n         rich in contributions. Her artistic self spilled over into\n         these other facets of her life. She exhibited her art at the\n         Virginia Museum of Fine Arts and in galleries in New York and\n         North Carolina. Some works were acquired by groups, such as\n         the Gillfield Baptist Church, where they are still displayed;\n         many others hang in the homes of area residents.","She also developed interior decorating and design skills.\n         In the field of business, she coordinated color schemes for\n         campus buildings. To provide for new shelving units, she\n         created blueprints, which proposed modifications in the art\n         department layouts.","This remarkable person also pursued architectural\n         interests. Though she had no known formal training, Amaza\n         Meredith fully designed her own home - both inside and out,\n         and im1939, it was built on Boisseau Street here in Ettrick.\n         She named it \"Azurest South.\" In the ensuing decades, Meredith\n         laid out the blueprints for several homes, most notably in Sag\n         Harbor, Long Island, New York.","In the 1950's Sag Harbor flourished as resort area for\n         blacks. Amaza and her sister, Maude, worked together to buy,\n         create, and develop the subdivision later called \"Azurest\n         North.\" They worked with others to establish the \"Azurest\n         Syndicate, Inc.\" Syndicate lots were sold to individual\n         investors, who the built summer, or year-round cottages and\n         this land. Ms. Meredith designed at least two of these\n         residences: 1) Terry Cottage, summer home for her sister,\n         Maude Terry: and 2) Edendot, belonging to friends Ed and Dot\n         Spaulding.","Additionally, Meredith provided several sets of blueprints\n         for the proposed V. S. U. Alumni House in 1949. Once these\n         plans fell through, Amaza tried another approach: She willed\n         her half of Azurest South to the V. S. U. Alumni Association\n         in the hopes that the dream for which she had worked so long\n         would become a reality. Joint ownership of Azurest South was\n         held with Ms. Edna Colson, another retired faculty member of\n         V. S. U. In 1985, the Alumni Association purchased the\n         Colson's half of the house, and Azurest South is now the\n         official V. S. U. Alumni House.","Meredith was generally active in the Alumni Association.\n         She was an honorary member of the Gillfield Baptist Church.\n         While she participated in several other organizations and\n         committees, the extent of her involvement is not known.","In 1984, Amaza Lee Meredith died."],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eAmaza Lee Meredith Papers, 1912, 1930-1930, Accession\n            #1982-20, Special Collections Dept., Johnson Memorial\n            Library, Virginia State University, Petersburg, Va.\u003c/p\u003e\n      "],"prefercite_tesim":["Amaza Lee Meredith Papers, 1912, 1930-1930, Accession\n            #1982-20, Special Collections Dept., Johnson Memorial\n            Library, Virginia State University, Petersburg, Va."],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe Amaza Lee Meredith Papers, 1912-1983, document a slice\n         of Virginia's history in the twentieth century. This founder\n         of the Fine Arts Department lived a life abundant in\n         contributions well beyond her career at Virginia State\n         University, while some materials relate directly to her work\n         as a faculty member. Her devotion to education spanned over\n         four decades; these papers reflect her efforts. Born in 1895,\n         Meredith was raised in a period which some consider the lowest\n         point in African-American history since the antebellum era. A\n         product of such adversity, she adjusted to work and achieve\n         during and after a time of legal segregation. This collection\n         speaks to her successes in overcoming the \"obstacles\" of both\n         race and gender.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eBeginning in 1930, Meredith corresponded frequently with\n         family, most notably, her sister, Maude Terry. These letters\n         reveal the depth of love and loyalty the family cultivated and\n         nurtured for lifetime. They demonstrate the difference in\n         women's roles between the black and white interdependent\n         relationship with men; black women have received greater\n         support from their peers in the arena of independence. In this\n         vein, Meredith's family gave her nothing short of a full\n         endorsement for her outstanding achievements. It is likely\n         that such contributed to her ability to surmount societal\n         resistance.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eMany of Meredith's peers were educators. Her papers include\n         correspondence with Helen Edmonds, Anne Crittendon Preston,\n         and Jean Murrell Capers (who later made her mark in politics).\n         The remaining correspondence comes from people of varied\n         backgrounds, also as viable research material.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eAnother group of personal correspondence related to\n         Stafford Evans, a prized students of Ms. Meredith. While there\n         is some continuation of correspondence into the 1980s, most of\n         these letters were written while Evans served in the navy from\n         1943-45. Included are copies of The Mananan, a WWII Black\n         sailors' March and December of 1945. This sub-series lends\n         expression to the ambiguity, which black soldiers felt while\n         in fighting for a democracy to which they themselves were not\n         privy.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eMeredith's business records document the origins of the\n         Azurest Syndicate in 1953. Ms. Meredith worked with her\n         sister, Ms. Terry, to pioneer the development of a Black\n         summer resort area known as the Azurest North. The Syndicate\n         served to regulate the subdivision's lot sales. The unique\n         aspect of this venture are numerous: the development of a\n         black resort in this time period, the syndicate, and the\n         project's creation and development by two Black women - whose\n         careers were unrelated to such a field.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eIt appears that, from the 1950's through the 1970's some\n         homes in Azurest North were designed by Ms. Meredith. Though\n         she had no known formal architectural schooling, she created\n         countless line and ink drawings as well as blueprints, which\n         are also included in this collection. Several of these\n         projects succeeded in being built. For many more, the end\n         result is as yet undetermined.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eUnquestionably, Meredith designed and built her own home,\n         known as Azurest South, which she truly reflects her artistic\n         gift. Blueprints, line drawings, and sketches of this home are\n         available for research.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eFound in another series are the plans for the proposed V.\n         S. U. Alumni House. Beginning in 1949 and working through the\n         next decade, Meredith was active with the Alumni House\n         Committee in attempts to produce an Alumni House. She retained\n         general Alumni records from as early as 1936 and ending in\n         1969.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eLastly, she created more than a dozen scrapbooks, devoting\n         each to a different subject and/or person. They contain\n         documents, photos, letters, news clippings, and ephemera,\n         which combine to form a rich source of research on their\n         topics. The materials cut across all the other sub-series in\n         these collections.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eAmaza Meredith maintained a life-long friendship with Edna\n         Colson, former head of the Education Department at V. S. U.\n         They also shared a residence and had mutual friends. Clearly,\n         in order to research either person in- depth, it will be\n         necessary to study the other. Some further correspondence\n         exists in Colson/Hill the sub-series of MS. Colson's personal\n         correspondence dating from 1905-79. This includes information\n         of the trip to Europe made by Colson and Meredith. Some\n         materials, however are restricted (Box 29).\u003c/p\u003e\n    ","\u003cp\u003eThis is a collection of cards and programs.\n                  Included in this scrapbook is one of several\n                  telegrams.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThis is a photographic record of Azurest South\n                  during its construction and as the home shared by\n                  Amaza Meredith and Edna Colson.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence, number of letters concerning\n                  Amamza Meredith teaching career in Lynchburg, and her\n                  being recruited to come to Virginia State by John M.\n                  Gandy. The other letters are mainly from friends\n                  concerning a variety of subjects. Included in the\n                  scrapbook is numerous of news-clippings, programs,\n                  tickets and other items collected by her long\n                  life.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eSome correspondence, most of the materials consist\n                  of several programs, which were designed by Miss\n                  Meredith. Included in this book are also a number of\n                  speeches most concerning the teaching of or about\n                  art.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eA collection of photographs covering a wide\n                  area.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThis scrapbook includes a number of poems and\n                  letters written by Amaza Lee Meredith. The Evening\n                  song and Alma Mater of Virginia State is embodied in\n                  this scrapbook. Other letters and poems written or\n                  given to Miss Meredith can also be found. There are\n                  newspaper-clippings of poems written by Miss Amaza\n                  and also others that she collected.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence, photo's and newspaper-clippings\n                  from some of her former students. Included in this\n                  scrapbook are: James Gault Chander Flymn, Roderick\n                  Taylor, Freddrick F. Kersy, Reyenea Perry, Mildred\n                  Fountain, Huedillard Fitzgerald. Stanford Evens and\n                  others. There is addition some material about\n                  Lynchberg Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eSome correspondence, news-clipping, programs most\n                  of which document the establishment of the Meredith\n                  Art at Virginia State in 1972 Gallery.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThis scrapbook contains some correspondence,\n                  programs and printed articles about Anne Spencer of\n                  Lynchburg. Mrs. Spencer was a poet of the Harlem\n                  Renaissance Period. One of Miss Meredith sisters was\n                  married to Miss Spencer sons.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eA Scrapbook of letters from a wide group of people\n                  dating from 1941 through 1976.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eSome correspondence photographs and cards of\n                  sympathy about the death of Iris Terry Richards. Dr.\n                  Richards was Miss Meredith niece.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eNews-clippings, newsletters and other material\n                  mostly about Art.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eA combination of items includes Miss Meredith's\n                  High School grades and diploma. There are letters of\n                  recognition and certificates.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMost of the material document Miss Meredith\n                  involvement with the Gillfield Baptist Church in\n                  Petersburg, Va.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThis scrapbook document Miss Meredith retirement\n                  from Virginia State University in 1958. There are\n                  cards, programs, letters and photographs.\u003c/p\u003e\n          "],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Content Information"],"scopecontent_tesim":["The Amaza Lee Meredith Papers, 1912-1983, document a slice\n         of Virginia's history in the twentieth century. This founder\n         of the Fine Arts Department lived a life abundant in\n         contributions well beyond her career at Virginia State\n         University, while some materials relate directly to her work\n         as a faculty member. Her devotion to education spanned over\n         four decades; these papers reflect her efforts. Born in 1895,\n         Meredith was raised in a period which some consider the lowest\n         point in African-American history since the antebellum era. A\n         product of such adversity, she adjusted to work and achieve\n         during and after a time of legal segregation. This collection\n         speaks to her successes in overcoming the \"obstacles\" of both\n         race and gender.","Beginning in 1930, Meredith corresponded frequently with\n         family, most notably, her sister, Maude Terry. These letters\n         reveal the depth of love and loyalty the family cultivated and\n         nurtured for lifetime. They demonstrate the difference in\n         women's roles between the black and white interdependent\n         relationship with men; black women have received greater\n         support from their peers in the arena of independence. In this\n         vein, Meredith's family gave her nothing short of a full\n         endorsement for her outstanding achievements. It is likely\n         that such contributed to her ability to surmount societal\n         resistance.","Many of Meredith's peers were educators. Her papers include\n         correspondence with Helen Edmonds, Anne Crittendon Preston,\n         and Jean Murrell Capers (who later made her mark in politics).\n         The remaining correspondence comes from people of varied\n         backgrounds, also as viable research material.","Another group of personal correspondence related to\n         Stafford Evans, a prized students of Ms. Meredith. While there\n         is some continuation of correspondence into the 1980s, most of\n         these letters were written while Evans served in the navy from\n         1943-45. Included are copies of The Mananan, a WWII Black\n         sailors' March and December of 1945. This sub-series lends\n         expression to the ambiguity, which black soldiers felt while\n         in fighting for a democracy to which they themselves were not\n         privy.","Meredith's business records document the origins of the\n         Azurest Syndicate in 1953. Ms. Meredith worked with her\n         sister, Ms. Terry, to pioneer the development of a Black\n         summer resort area known as the Azurest North. The Syndicate\n         served to regulate the subdivision's lot sales. The unique\n         aspect of this venture are numerous: the development of a\n         black resort in this time period, the syndicate, and the\n         project's creation and development by two Black women - whose\n         careers were unrelated to such a field.","It appears that, from the 1950's through the 1970's some\n         homes in Azurest North were designed by Ms. Meredith. Though\n         she had no known formal architectural schooling, she created\n         countless line and ink drawings as well as blueprints, which\n         are also included in this collection. Several of these\n         projects succeeded in being built. For many more, the end\n         result is as yet undetermined.","Unquestionably, Meredith designed and built her own home,\n         known as Azurest South, which she truly reflects her artistic\n         gift. Blueprints, line drawings, and sketches of this home are\n         available for research.","Found in another series are the plans for the proposed V.\n         S. U. Alumni House. Beginning in 1949 and working through the\n         next decade, Meredith was active with the Alumni House\n         Committee in attempts to produce an Alumni House. She retained\n         general Alumni records from as early as 1936 and ending in\n         1969.","Lastly, she created more than a dozen scrapbooks, devoting\n         each to a different subject and/or person. They contain\n         documents, photos, letters, news clippings, and ephemera,\n         which combine to form a rich source of research on their\n         topics. The materials cut across all the other sub-series in\n         these collections.","Amaza Meredith maintained a life-long friendship with Edna\n         Colson, former head of the Education Department at V. S. U.\n         They also shared a residence and had mutual friends. Clearly,\n         in order to research either person in- depth, it will be\n         necessary to study the other. Some further correspondence\n         exists in Colson/Hill the sub-series of MS. Colson's personal\n         correspondence dating from 1905-79. This includes information\n         of the trip to Europe made by Colson and Meredith. Some\n         materials, however are restricted (Box 29).","This is a collection of cards and programs.\n                  Included in this scrapbook is one of several\n                  telegrams.","This is a photographic record of Azurest South\n                  during its construction and as the home shared by\n                  Amaza Meredith and Edna Colson.","Correspondence, number of letters concerning\n                  Amamza Meredith teaching career in Lynchburg, and her\n                  being recruited to come to Virginia State by John M.\n                  Gandy. The other letters are mainly from friends\n                  concerning a variety of subjects. Included in the\n                  scrapbook is numerous of news-clippings, programs,\n                  tickets and other items collected by her long\n                  life.","Some correspondence, most of the materials consist\n                  of several programs, which were designed by Miss\n                  Meredith. Included in this book are also a number of\n                  speeches most concerning the teaching of or about\n                  art.","A collection of photographs covering a wide\n                  area.","This scrapbook includes a number of poems and\n                  letters written by Amaza Lee Meredith. The Evening\n                  song and Alma Mater of Virginia State is embodied in\n                  this scrapbook. Other letters and poems written or\n                  given to Miss Meredith can also be found. There are\n                  newspaper-clippings of poems written by Miss Amaza\n                  and also others that she collected.","Correspondence, photo's and newspaper-clippings\n                  from some of her former students. Included in this\n                  scrapbook are: James Gault Chander Flymn, Roderick\n                  Taylor, Freddrick F. Kersy, Reyenea Perry, Mildred\n                  Fountain, Huedillard Fitzgerald. Stanford Evens and\n                  others. There is addition some material about\n                  Lynchberg Virginia.","Some correspondence, news-clipping, programs most\n                  of which document the establishment of the Meredith\n                  Art at Virginia State in 1972 Gallery.","This scrapbook contains some correspondence,\n                  programs and printed articles about Anne Spencer of\n                  Lynchburg. Mrs. Spencer was a poet of the Harlem\n                  Renaissance Period. One of Miss Meredith sisters was\n                  married to Miss Spencer sons.","A Scrapbook of letters from a wide group of people\n                  dating from 1941 through 1976.","Some correspondence photographs and cards of\n                  sympathy about the death of Iris Terry Richards. Dr.\n                  Richards was Miss Meredith niece.","News-clippings, newsletters and other material\n                  mostly about Art.","A combination of items includes Miss Meredith's\n                  High School grades and diploma. There are letters of\n                  recognition and certificates.","Most of the material document Miss Meredith\n                  involvement with the Gillfield Baptist Church in\n                  Petersburg, Va.","This scrapbook document Miss Meredith retirement\n                  from Virginia State University in 1958. There are\n                  cards, programs, letters and photographs."],"userestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eEDIT ME!\u003c/p\u003e\n      "],"userestrict_heading_ssm":["Publication Rights"],"userestrict_tesim":["EDIT ME!"],"abstract_html_tesm":["\u003cabstract label=\"Abstract\"\u003eThe Amaza Lee Meredith papers\n         contain personal and business documents generated by Ms.\n         Meredith which reflect the activities of her lifetime.\n         Included are materials related to her career at Virginia State\n         University, her participation in the V.S.U. Alumni Association\n         the official records of the Azurest North Syndicate, and\n         personal correspondence with several prominent blueprints,\n         line drawings, and sketches of Ms. Meredith's designs which\n         demonstrates her pursuits in architecture.\u003c/abstract\u003e\n    "],"abstract_tesim":["The Amaza Lee Meredith papers\n         contain personal and business documents generated by Ms.\n         Meredith which reflect the activities of her lifetime.\n         Included are materials related to her career at Virginia State\n         University, her participation in the V.S.U. 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BIOGRAPHICAL DATA \n         The first five folders contain writings about Jackson.\n         Some material is not a part of the original manuscript group.\n         (Box 1) \n         SERIES II. CORRESPONDENCE \n         A. \n         Family, 1920-1960The correspondence between Luther and Johnella Jackson\n         are arranged chronologically from 1920-1950. Additionally,\n         letters, postcards and telegrams are arranged alphabetically\n         by the other members of the family. (Boxes 1-5) \n         B. \n         Business, 1922-1950Office correspondence, extensive, arranged\n         chronologically. (Boxes 5-12) \n         C. \n         Personal, 1918- 1960Letters arranged alphabetically by writer. (Boxes 13-16)\n         SERIES III. FINANCIAL \u0026 LEGAL \n         Family bills, tax statements, school bills and stocks.\n         Arranged by type. Copyright for Jackson's \n         Negro Office Holders in Virginia,\n         1865-1895(Box 17) \n         SERIES IV. ORGANIZATIONAL AFFILIATIONS \n         A. \n         The Virginia Voters League,\n         1934-1950Letters, postcards, and telegrams arranged by county,\n         and city. Records include minutes and reports. (Boxes 18-27) \n         B. \n         The Virginia Teachers Association Office\n         of the \"Civic Education Secretaries Office,\" 1941- 1950The Association for the Study of Negro Life and History,\n         Inc., 1923-1950 (Boxes 28-34) \n         C. \n         Correspondence with Carter G.\n         WoodsonArranged chronologically. Other correspondence arranged\n         by county, City, and organization. (Boxes 35-41) \n         D. \n         The NAACP, 1937- 1950Correspondence with officials of the NAACP (state and\n         local), arranged chronologically. (Box 42) \n         E. \n         The I.B.P.O.E. of W.(the Elks),\n         1943-1950General correspondence arranged chronologically and the\n         Lodge's alphabetically by lodge. (Box 43) \n         F. \n         The Virginia World War II History\n         Commission, 1944-1948Correspondence, minutes and reports of the commission\n         arranged chronologically. Some personal war service records\n         arranged alphabetically. Photographs in container 109. Numbers\n         on folders correspond with folder numbers in the original\n         series. (Box 44) \n         G. \n         The Southern Regional Council, 1942-\n         1950Correspondence arranged chronologically; minutes for\n         some meetings. (Box 45) \n         H. \n         The Negro Organizational Society, 1941-\n         1950Correspondence with the president and field secretaries,\n         minutes (1944-1949) arranged chronologically. (Box 46) \n         I. \n         The Committee for Virginia,\n         1944-1950Letters arranged chronologically, a few minutes,\n         reports. (Box 47) \n         J. \n         The Petersburg Negro Business League,\n         1935-1946Correspondence between Jackson, national and local\n         leaders. Chronologically arranged; one article, one report and\n         one skit. (Box 48) \n         K. \n         The Virginia Society for Research,\n         1942-1950(Box 48) \n         L. \n         The Petersburg Community ChoirA history, a financial report and membership rosters.\n         Photographs in container 109. (Box 48) \n         M. \n         The Southern School for Workers,\n         1944-1949Correspondence arranged chronologically. (Box 48) \n         N. \n         The Old Dominion Medical SocietyNames of some of the members. (Box 48) \n         O. \n         The Petersburg Interracial Committee,\n         1948One letter and a proposed constitution. (Box 48) \n         SERIES V. MATERIAL RELATING TO THE DEATH OF LUTHER\n         JACKSON \n         Letters, telegrams and postcards, arranged\n         chronologically. One box of sympathy cards and one of floral\n         cards. (Boxes 49 \u0026 50) \n         SERIES VI. RESEARCH DATA: COLLECTED \n         A. \n         Blacks voting in the South,\n         1947-1948Letters arranged alphabetically by state and then\n         chronologically within the state. (Box 50) \n         B. \n         The Butler Papers, 1813-1888Tax receipts, identification papers, general receipts\n         and a marriage license. Chronologically arranged. (Box 51) \n         C. \n         The Dews Papers, 1802-1880Deeds for properties, tax receipts and general receipts,\n         arranged chronologically. (Box 52) \n         D. \n         The Layton Papers, 1861-1898Tax receipts, deeds for properties, teaching\n         certificates. Arranged chronologically. (Box 53) \n         E. \n         The Woolridge Papers, 1883-1910Tax receipts and general receipts. Few items about the\n         \"Jordan Baptist Church.\" Chronologically arranged. (Box 54) \n         F. \n         By CountyPapers concerning ante and postpellum blacks in some\n         Virginia Counties. Identification papers, receipts. Arranged\n         chronologically within each county and then arranged\n         alphabetically by county also. (Boxes 55-56) \n         G. \n         By CityThe same as above. Arranged alphabetically by city and\n         then chronologically within each city. (Box 57) \n         H. \n         MiscellaneousPapers of antebellum free blacks and slaves. Receipts,\n         identification papers, arranged chronologically. (Box 58) \n         I. \n         Printed and DiaryPrinted pamphlets; handwritten diary belonging to Samuel\n         T. Miller, a missionary in South Africa, 1881-1882. (Box 59) \n         J. \n         Research Notes(Box 60) \n         K. \n         Ledgers GeneralStockholders ledges, one ledger used as a news clipping\n         scrapbook. (Box 61) \n         L. \n         NotebooksHandwritten and typed data, no arrangement, subject\n         varies. (Boxes 62- 63) \n         SERIES VII. MATERIAL WRITTEN BY LUTHER P. JACKSON \n         A. \n         News articles: \n         The Journal and\n         Guide(Norfolk,VA), 1942-1947 \n         Typewritten news column. Arranged chronologically. Box\n         list available. (Boxes 64- 66) \n         B. \n         News Articles: Various PapersHandwritten and typed sheets, chronological order, some\n         without titles. Box list available. (Box 66) \n         C. \n         Articles in JournalPublished items, handwritten and typed, copy of printed\n         articles. (Box 66) \n         D. \n         AddressesTyped and handwritten speeches, arranged\n         chronologically. (Box 67) \n         E. \n         Papers, Reports, and Lecture NotesVarious papers and reports, few lecture notes, skits,\n         radio broadcast, handwritten and typed;separated by type, but\n         otherwise there is no arrangement. (Box 67) \n         F. \n         UnpublishedPapers and term papers, essay, handwritten and typed; no\n         arrangement. (Box 68) \n         G. \n         BooksTypewritten manuscripts. (Boxes 69- 70) \n         SERIES VIII. MATERIAL WRITTEN BY OTHER MEMBERS OF THE\n         FAMILY \n         Articles written by Luther P. Jackson Jr. (Box 71) \n         SERIES IX. AWARDS \u0026 GRADES \n         Family awards and a few grades of some family members.\n         (Box 72) \n         SERIES X. PRINTED \n         Broadsides, leaflets, programs relating to Jackson. (Box\n         73) \n         SERIES XI. VISUAL \n         A. \n         PhotographsFamily, friends and Va. World War II History Commision,\n         organizations; some unidentifiable. (Box 74-76) \n         B. \n         Printer's BlocksWood cuts used for publication. (Boxes 77- 80) \n         SERIES XII. ARTIFACTS \n         Cufflinks, tie clamp, neck scarf, doctoral gown, hood\n         and mortarboard. (Box 81) \n         SERIES XII. MEMORABILIA \n         Baby books, collected programs, Christmas, general\n         greeting and get-well cards, etc. Arranged by type. (Boxes\n         82-84) \n         SERIES XIV. NEWSCLIPPINGS \n         Loose newsclippings from various newspapers on a variety\n         of subjects, no arrangement (Boxes 85) \n         SERIES XV. OVERSIZED ITEMS \n         Newspaper, awards and research data.","Luther Porter Jackson Sr. was born July 11, 1892 in\n         Lexington, Kentucky. He was the ninth child of Delilah\n         (Culvrson) Jackson and Edward Jackson. He early schooling was\n         at Chandler Normal School in Lexington, where he completed his\n         studies in 1910. Upon completion of his secondary education he\n         entered Fisk University where he received the A.B. degree in\n         1914. He remained at Fisk for another semester and in 1916 was\n         awarded the A.M. degree.","In 1915, at the ripe old age of twenty-three, he began his\n         teaching career at Vorhees Industrial School, Denmark, South\n         Carolina, where he was also Director of the Academic\n         Department. Jackson left South Carolina in 1918 and joined the\n         staff of the Topeka Industrial Institute, Topeka, Kansas, as\n         Instructor of history and music.","Desiring more education, he returned to the east and sought\n         graduate training at Columbia University in 1920. Here he was\n         to receive one of his many setbacks, which took in stride and\n         proceeded to correct. Writing to a former instructor at Fisk,\n         Jackson stated that Columbia did not consider his A.B. and\n         A.M. from Fisk up to their standards. He, therefore, enrolled\n         for one year at New York City College. Finally, in 1921, he\n         began his studies at Columbia, where he was graduated from\n         their Teachers College in 1922.","After completing his second masters degree, Luther Jackson\n         joined the faculty of what was then the Virginia Normal and\n         Industrial Institute, now Virginia State University. While on\n         staff of the university, Luther Jackson continued his studies,\n         first at Columbia University and then at the University of\n         Chicago, where he received the Ph.D. in history in 1937. Soon\n         after arrival at V.N. \u0026 I.I., Jackson took over the\n         College High School and directed its activities from\n         1923-1928. He headed the history department from 1930-1950,\n         formed the \" League of Negro Voters\" in 1934, and in 1937\n         organized the \" Petersburg Business League\", which became the\n         Virginia Trade Association in 1941.","In 1935, Carter G. Woodson asked Luther Jackson to head all\n         fund-raising activities for the Association for the Study of\n         Negro Life and History. As chairman of the Virginia chapter,\n         Jackson went on to establish that chapter as one of the most\n         productive of all state chapters. Somehow he still found time\n         to conduct the Petersburg Community Choir of 100 voices, have\n         his doctoral dissertation, write a column for \n         The Journal and Guide(Norfolk,\n         Virginia) under the general heading of \"Rights and Duties in a\n         Democracy\" between 1942 until 1948. Although he was now\n         holding down enough work for two people, Jackson was appointed\n         to the Virginia World War II History Commission in 1944 and\n         worked with the N.A.A.C.P, which led to his receiving a plague\n         for service in 1948.","Jackson authored these books: \n         Free Negro Labor and Property Holding\n         in Virginia, 1830-1860(1942) \n         The History of the Virginia Stated\n         Teachers Association(1937) \n         Negro Office-Holders in Virginia,\n         1865-1895(1945) \n         A Short History of the Gillfield\n         Baptist Church of Petersburg, Virginia(1941) \n         Virginia Negro Soldiers and Seaman in\n         the Revolutionary War(1944)","In addition to joining the faculty, Luther Jackson married\n         a young lady whom he had met while they were both students at\n         Fisk University. The young lady was Johnella M. Frazer\n         (1897-), a native of Shelbyville, Kentucky, the daughter of\n         Laura and Patterson Tilford Frazer; her father was President\n         of Hopkinsville College in Kentucky. Mrs. Jackson completed\n         the conservatory course at Fisk at the age of seventeen(17)\n         and toured with the Fisk \"Jubilee Singers\" for two years under\n         John Work. She joined the staff of Virginia Normal and\n         Industrial Institute in 1916, a full nine years before there\n         was a music department, as the University's first full time\n         instructor of piano.","Mrs. Jackson, like Luther, also recognized the need for\n         additional training. During the summer vacation she studied at\n         Temple University at the Chicago Music College and at Columbia\n         University. She remained at Virginia State University for\n         forty-nine years, retiring in 1965.","Additional Biographical Data:1. Lucious Edwards, Jr.\" The Luther Porter Jackson,\n         Sr.(1892-1950) Papers\" (paper presented at the 63rd meeting of\n         the Association for the Study of Afro-American Life and\n         History, Los Angeles, CA, October 13, 1978) \n         2. Marva D. Curtis, \"The Virginia Voters League\"\n         (unpublished masters thesis, Virginia State University, 1979) \n         3. Lucious Edwards, Jr., \"Luther Jackson Leaves a Legacy\n         of History in Papers to Virginia State University,\" \n         Progress Index, February\n         26,1980, p.4.","The Luther Porter Jackson are one of the most valuable\n         manuscript groups from a historical point of view in the\n         nation, for this former professor of history at Virginia State\n         University lived and worked during an era when the concept of\n         black inferiority was the accepted rule. In addition, this was\n         the time of \"Jim Crowism.\" Segregation was not \"de facto,\" it\n         was legal and challenged by few people, black and white.","During the major time span of these papers, 1920-1950, a\n         number of political and civil rights organizations developed\n         into potent forces and others were born: the NAACP, the Negro\n         Organizational Society, the Southern Regional Council, and the\n         Southern School for Workers. This manuscript group is rich in\n         correspondence with most of the leaders of these movements.\n         Some of the correspondence includes Walter White, Lorenzo C.\n         White, P. Bernard Young, Gordon Hancock and others.","Correspondence with Virginia based political and civil\n         rights groups is strong and gives a good picture of the tempo\n         of the era in the State: the Virginia Voters League, the\n         Committee for Virginia, the Petersburg Negro Business\n         League.","In addition to correspondence with major political and\n         civil rights organizations, Jackson maintained as interesting\n         relationship with others across the U.S. The business or\n         office correspondence of Luther P. Jackson from 1920-1950\n         include correspondence with John Hope Franklin, W.E.B. DuBois,\n         Hugh Smythe, Helen Edmonds, P. Bernard Young, E. Franklin\n         Frazier, Charles S. Johnson, Rayford Logan, Alrutheus Ambush\n         Taylor, Lorenzo J. Green and others.","The collection also consists of ledgers, pamphlets,\n         financial and legal documents, photographs, speeches,\n         newspaper articles, cards, telegrams, notebooks, artifacts and\n         Jackson's research materials.","Jackson collected personal papers of ante-bellum and\n         post-bellum black families in Virginia: The Butler Papers, the\n         Layton Papers, and the Stephen Wooldrige Papers. In his\n         research of free black property owners in Virginia, he\n         acquired a substantial amount of materials from various\n         counties and cities of the Commonwealth of Virginia.","This box contains articles about Negroes in the\n                  United States, race vote in Tampa, colored men's\n                  progressive club, Negro principal to stay as school\n                  integrates, a sample form of application for\n                  registration to vote in the state of Louisiana. A \n                  Virginia Statesmanfor\n                  April 21, 1950, the \n                  Southern Patriot, New\n                  Orleans, Louisiana, December 1948. \"The Boswell\n                  Amendment: Reaction in Alabama,\" \n                  Virginias Journal and\n                  GuideApril 22, 1950, the Progress Index.","There are no restrictions.","The Luther Porter Jackson papers\n         include documents collected by Jackson to support his research\n         as well as the correspondence produced by Dr. and Mrs. Jackson\n         in connection with their work, interest, and friends. They\n         reflect Luther Jackson's life as a professor and researcher of\n         history and his connections with various political and\n         educational organizations; the official records of the\n         Virginia Voters League and the official records of all fund\n         raising for the Virginia Branch of the Association for the\n         Study of Negro Life and History Inc.","English"],"collection_title_tesim":["Luther Porter Jackson Papers, \n         \n         1772-1960"],"collection_ssim":["Luther Porter Jackson Papers, \n         \n         1772-1960"],"level_ssm":["collection"],"level_ssim":["Collection"],"unitid_ssm":["1952-l"],"unitid_tesim":["1952-l"],"repository_ssm":["Virginia State University"],"repository_ssim":["Virginia State University"],"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_heading_ssm":["Organization"],"arrangement_tesim":["SERIES I. BIOGRAPHICAL DATA \n         The first five folders contain writings about Jackson.\n         Some material is not a part of the original manuscript group.\n         (Box 1) \n         SERIES II. CORRESPONDENCE \n         A. \n         Family, 1920-1960The correspondence between Luther and Johnella Jackson\n         are arranged chronologically from 1920-1950. Additionally,\n         letters, postcards and telegrams are arranged alphabetically\n         by the other members of the family. (Boxes 1-5) \n         B. \n         Business, 1922-1950Office correspondence, extensive, arranged\n         chronologically. (Boxes 5-12) \n         C. \n         Personal, 1918- 1960Letters arranged alphabetically by writer. (Boxes 13-16)\n         SERIES III. FINANCIAL \u0026 LEGAL \n         Family bills, tax statements, school bills and stocks.\n         Arranged by type. Copyright for Jackson's \n         Negro Office Holders in Virginia,\n         1865-1895(Box 17) \n         SERIES IV. ORGANIZATIONAL AFFILIATIONS \n         A. \n         The Virginia Voters League,\n         1934-1950Letters, postcards, and telegrams arranged by county,\n         and city. Records include minutes and reports. (Boxes 18-27) \n         B. \n         The Virginia Teachers Association Office\n         of the \"Civic Education Secretaries Office,\" 1941- 1950The Association for the Study of Negro Life and History,\n         Inc., 1923-1950 (Boxes 28-34) \n         C. \n         Correspondence with Carter G.\n         WoodsonArranged chronologically. Other correspondence arranged\n         by county, City, and organization. (Boxes 35-41) \n         D. \n         The NAACP, 1937- 1950Correspondence with officials of the NAACP (state and\n         local), arranged chronologically. (Box 42) \n         E. \n         The I.B.P.O.E. of W.(the Elks),\n         1943-1950General correspondence arranged chronologically and the\n         Lodge's alphabetically by lodge. (Box 43) \n         F. \n         The Virginia World War II History\n         Commission, 1944-1948Correspondence, minutes and reports of the commission\n         arranged chronologically. Some personal war service records\n         arranged alphabetically. Photographs in container 109. Numbers\n         on folders correspond with folder numbers in the original\n         series. (Box 44) \n         G. \n         The Southern Regional Council, 1942-\n         1950Correspondence arranged chronologically; minutes for\n         some meetings. (Box 45) \n         H. \n         The Negro Organizational Society, 1941-\n         1950Correspondence with the president and field secretaries,\n         minutes (1944-1949) arranged chronologically. (Box 46) \n         I. \n         The Committee for Virginia,\n         1944-1950Letters arranged chronologically, a few minutes,\n         reports. (Box 47) \n         J. \n         The Petersburg Negro Business League,\n         1935-1946Correspondence between Jackson, national and local\n         leaders. Chronologically arranged; one article, one report and\n         one skit. (Box 48) \n         K. \n         The Virginia Society for Research,\n         1942-1950(Box 48) \n         L. \n         The Petersburg Community ChoirA history, a financial report and membership rosters.\n         Photographs in container 109. (Box 48) \n         M. \n         The Southern School for Workers,\n         1944-1949Correspondence arranged chronologically. (Box 48) \n         N. \n         The Old Dominion Medical SocietyNames of some of the members. (Box 48) \n         O. \n         The Petersburg Interracial Committee,\n         1948One letter and a proposed constitution. (Box 48) \n         SERIES V. MATERIAL RELATING TO THE DEATH OF LUTHER\n         JACKSON \n         Letters, telegrams and postcards, arranged\n         chronologically. One box of sympathy cards and one of floral\n         cards. (Boxes 49 \u0026 50) \n         SERIES VI. RESEARCH DATA: COLLECTED \n         A. \n         Blacks voting in the South,\n         1947-1948Letters arranged alphabetically by state and then\n         chronologically within the state. (Box 50) \n         B. \n         The Butler Papers, 1813-1888Tax receipts, identification papers, general receipts\n         and a marriage license. Chronologically arranged. (Box 51) \n         C. \n         The Dews Papers, 1802-1880Deeds for properties, tax receipts and general receipts,\n         arranged chronologically. (Box 52) \n         D. \n         The Layton Papers, 1861-1898Tax receipts, deeds for properties, teaching\n         certificates. Arranged chronologically. (Box 53) \n         E. \n         The Woolridge Papers, 1883-1910Tax receipts and general receipts. Few items about the\n         \"Jordan Baptist Church.\" Chronologically arranged. (Box 54) \n         F. \n         By CountyPapers concerning ante and postpellum blacks in some\n         Virginia Counties. Identification papers, receipts. Arranged\n         chronologically within each county and then arranged\n         alphabetically by county also. (Boxes 55-56) \n         G. \n         By CityThe same as above. Arranged alphabetically by city and\n         then chronologically within each city. (Box 57) \n         H. \n         MiscellaneousPapers of antebellum free blacks and slaves. Receipts,\n         identification papers, arranged chronologically. (Box 58) \n         I. \n         Printed and DiaryPrinted pamphlets; handwritten diary belonging to Samuel\n         T. Miller, a missionary in South Africa, 1881-1882. (Box 59) \n         J. \n         Research Notes(Box 60) \n         K. \n         Ledgers GeneralStockholders ledges, one ledger used as a news clipping\n         scrapbook. (Box 61) \n         L. \n         NotebooksHandwritten and typed data, no arrangement, subject\n         varies. (Boxes 62- 63) \n         SERIES VII. MATERIAL WRITTEN BY LUTHER P. JACKSON \n         A. \n         News articles: \n         The Journal and\n         Guide(Norfolk,VA), 1942-1947 \n         Typewritten news column. Arranged chronologically. Box\n         list available. (Boxes 64- 66) \n         B. \n         News Articles: Various PapersHandwritten and typed sheets, chronological order, some\n         without titles. Box list available. (Box 66) \n         C. \n         Articles in JournalPublished items, handwritten and typed, copy of printed\n         articles. (Box 66) \n         D. \n         AddressesTyped and handwritten speeches, arranged\n         chronologically. (Box 67) \n         E. \n         Papers, Reports, and Lecture NotesVarious papers and reports, few lecture notes, skits,\n         radio broadcast, handwritten and typed;separated by type, but\n         otherwise there is no arrangement. (Box 67) \n         F. \n         UnpublishedPapers and term papers, essay, handwritten and typed; no\n         arrangement. (Box 68) \n         G. \n         BooksTypewritten manuscripts. (Boxes 69- 70) \n         SERIES VIII. MATERIAL WRITTEN BY OTHER MEMBERS OF THE\n         FAMILY \n         Articles written by Luther P. Jackson Jr. (Box 71) \n         SERIES IX. AWARDS \u0026 GRADES \n         Family awards and a few grades of some family members.\n         (Box 72) \n         SERIES X. PRINTED \n         Broadsides, leaflets, programs relating to Jackson. (Box\n         73) \n         SERIES XI. VISUAL \n         A. \n         PhotographsFamily, friends and Va. World War II History Commision,\n         organizations; some unidentifiable. (Box 74-76) \n         B. \n         Printer's BlocksWood cuts used for publication. (Boxes 77- 80) \n         SERIES XII. ARTIFACTS \n         Cufflinks, tie clamp, neck scarf, doctoral gown, hood\n         and mortarboard. (Box 81) \n         SERIES XII. MEMORABILIA \n         Baby books, collected programs, Christmas, general\n         greeting and get-well cards, etc. Arranged by type. (Boxes\n         82-84) \n         SERIES XIV. NEWSCLIPPINGS \n         Loose newsclippings from various newspapers on a variety\n         of subjects, no arrangement (Boxes 85) \n         SERIES XV. OVERSIZED ITEMS \n         Newspaper, awards and research data."],"bioghist_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eLuther Porter Jackson Sr. was born July 11, 1892 in\n         Lexington, Kentucky. He was the ninth child of Delilah\n         (Culvrson) Jackson and Edward Jackson. He early schooling was\n         at Chandler Normal School in Lexington, where he completed his\n         studies in 1910. Upon completion of his secondary education he\n         entered Fisk University where he received the A.B. degree in\n         1914. He remained at Fisk for another semester and in 1916 was\n         awarded the A.M. degree.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eIn 1915, at the ripe old age of twenty-three, he began his\n         teaching career at Vorhees Industrial School, Denmark, South\n         Carolina, where he was also Director of the Academic\n         Department. Jackson left South Carolina in 1918 and joined the\n         staff of the Topeka Industrial Institute, Topeka, Kansas, as\n         Instructor of history and music.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eDesiring more education, he returned to the east and sought\n         graduate training at Columbia University in 1920. Here he was\n         to receive one of his many setbacks, which took in stride and\n         proceeded to correct. Writing to a former instructor at Fisk,\n         Jackson stated that Columbia did not consider his A.B. and\n         A.M. from Fisk up to their standards. He, therefore, enrolled\n         for one year at New York City College. Finally, in 1921, he\n         began his studies at Columbia, where he was graduated from\n         their Teachers College in 1922.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eAfter completing his second masters degree, Luther Jackson\n         joined the faculty of what was then the Virginia Normal and\n         Industrial Institute, now Virginia State University. While on\n         staff of the university, Luther Jackson continued his studies,\n         first at Columbia University and then at the University of\n         Chicago, where he received the Ph.D. in history in 1937. Soon\n         after arrival at V.N. \u0026amp; I.I., Jackson took over the\n         College High School and directed its activities from\n         1923-1928. He headed the history department from 1930-1950,\n         formed the \" League of Negro Voters\" in 1934, and in 1937\n         organized the \" Petersburg Business League\", which became the\n         Virginia Trade Association in 1941.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eIn 1935, Carter G. Woodson asked Luther Jackson to head all\n         fund-raising activities for the Association for the Study of\n         Negro Life and History. As chairman of the Virginia chapter,\n         Jackson went on to establish that chapter as one of the most\n         productive of all state chapters. Somehow he still found time\n         to conduct the Petersburg Community Choir of 100 voices, have\n         his doctoral dissertation, write a column for \n         \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eThe Journal and Guide\u003c/title\u003e(Norfolk,\n         Virginia) under the general heading of \"Rights and Duties in a\n         Democracy\" between 1942 until 1948. Although he was now\n         holding down enough work for two people, Jackson was appointed\n         to the Virginia World War II History Commission in 1944 and\n         worked with the N.A.A.C.P, which led to his receiving a plague\n         for service in 1948.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eJackson authored these books: \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eFree Negro Labor and Property Holding\n         in Virginia, 1830-1860\u003c/title\u003e(1942) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eThe History of the Virginia Stated\n         Teachers Association\u003c/title\u003e(1937) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eNegro Office-Holders in Virginia,\n         1865-1895\u003c/title\u003e(1945) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eA Short History of the Gillfield\n         Baptist Church of Petersburg, Virginia\u003c/title\u003e(1941) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eVirginia Negro Soldiers and Seaman in\n         the Revolutionary War\u003c/title\u003e(1944) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eIn addition to joining the faculty, Luther Jackson married\n         a young lady whom he had met while they were both students at\n         Fisk University. The young lady was Johnella M. Frazer\n         (1897-), a native of Shelbyville, Kentucky, the daughter of\n         Laura and Patterson Tilford Frazer; her father was President\n         of Hopkinsville College in Kentucky. Mrs. Jackson completed\n         the conservatory course at Fisk at the age of seventeen(17)\n         and toured with the Fisk \"Jubilee Singers\" for two years under\n         John Work. She joined the staff of Virginia Normal and\n         Industrial Institute in 1916, a full nine years before there\n         was a music department, as the University's first full time\n         instructor of piano.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Jackson, like Luther, also recognized the need for\n         additional training. During the summer vacation she studied at\n         Temple University at the Chicago Music College and at Columbia\n         University. She remained at Virginia State University for\n         forty-nine years, retiring in 1965.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eAdditional Biographical Data:\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e1. Lucious Edwards, Jr.\" The Luther Porter Jackson,\n         Sr.(1892-1950) Papers\" (paper presented at the 63rd meeting of\n         the Association for the Study of Afro-American Life and\n         History, Los Angeles, CA, October 13, 1978) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e2. Marva D. Curtis, \"The Virginia Voters League\"\n         (unpublished masters thesis, Virginia State University, 1979) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e3. Lucious Edwards, Jr., \"Luther Jackson Leaves a Legacy\n         of History in Papers to Virginia State University,\" \n         \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eProgress Index\u003c/title\u003e, February\n         26,1980, p.4.\u003c/p\u003e\n    "],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical/Historical Information"],"bioghist_tesim":["Luther Porter Jackson Sr. was born July 11, 1892 in\n         Lexington, Kentucky. He was the ninth child of Delilah\n         (Culvrson) Jackson and Edward Jackson. He early schooling was\n         at Chandler Normal School in Lexington, where he completed his\n         studies in 1910. Upon completion of his secondary education he\n         entered Fisk University where he received the A.B. degree in\n         1914. He remained at Fisk for another semester and in 1916 was\n         awarded the A.M. degree.","In 1915, at the ripe old age of twenty-three, he began his\n         teaching career at Vorhees Industrial School, Denmark, South\n         Carolina, where he was also Director of the Academic\n         Department. Jackson left South Carolina in 1918 and joined the\n         staff of the Topeka Industrial Institute, Topeka, Kansas, as\n         Instructor of history and music.","Desiring more education, he returned to the east and sought\n         graduate training at Columbia University in 1920. Here he was\n         to receive one of his many setbacks, which took in stride and\n         proceeded to correct. Writing to a former instructor at Fisk,\n         Jackson stated that Columbia did not consider his A.B. and\n         A.M. from Fisk up to their standards. He, therefore, enrolled\n         for one year at New York City College. Finally, in 1921, he\n         began his studies at Columbia, where he was graduated from\n         their Teachers College in 1922.","After completing his second masters degree, Luther Jackson\n         joined the faculty of what was then the Virginia Normal and\n         Industrial Institute, now Virginia State University. While on\n         staff of the university, Luther Jackson continued his studies,\n         first at Columbia University and then at the University of\n         Chicago, where he received the Ph.D. in history in 1937. Soon\n         after arrival at V.N. \u0026 I.I., Jackson took over the\n         College High School and directed its activities from\n         1923-1928. He headed the history department from 1930-1950,\n         formed the \" League of Negro Voters\" in 1934, and in 1937\n         organized the \" Petersburg Business League\", which became the\n         Virginia Trade Association in 1941.","In 1935, Carter G. Woodson asked Luther Jackson to head all\n         fund-raising activities for the Association for the Study of\n         Negro Life and History. As chairman of the Virginia chapter,\n         Jackson went on to establish that chapter as one of the most\n         productive of all state chapters. Somehow he still found time\n         to conduct the Petersburg Community Choir of 100 voices, have\n         his doctoral dissertation, write a column for \n         The Journal and Guide(Norfolk,\n         Virginia) under the general heading of \"Rights and Duties in a\n         Democracy\" between 1942 until 1948. Although he was now\n         holding down enough work for two people, Jackson was appointed\n         to the Virginia World War II History Commission in 1944 and\n         worked with the N.A.A.C.P, which led to his receiving a plague\n         for service in 1948.","Jackson authored these books: \n         Free Negro Labor and Property Holding\n         in Virginia, 1830-1860(1942) \n         The History of the Virginia Stated\n         Teachers Association(1937) \n         Negro Office-Holders in Virginia,\n         1865-1895(1945) \n         A Short History of the Gillfield\n         Baptist Church of Petersburg, Virginia(1941) \n         Virginia Negro Soldiers and Seaman in\n         the Revolutionary War(1944)","In addition to joining the faculty, Luther Jackson married\n         a young lady whom he had met while they were both students at\n         Fisk University. The young lady was Johnella M. Frazer\n         (1897-), a native of Shelbyville, Kentucky, the daughter of\n         Laura and Patterson Tilford Frazer; her father was President\n         of Hopkinsville College in Kentucky. Mrs. Jackson completed\n         the conservatory course at Fisk at the age of seventeen(17)\n         and toured with the Fisk \"Jubilee Singers\" for two years under\n         John Work. She joined the staff of Virginia Normal and\n         Industrial Institute in 1916, a full nine years before there\n         was a music department, as the University's first full time\n         instructor of piano.","Mrs. Jackson, like Luther, also recognized the need for\n         additional training. During the summer vacation she studied at\n         Temple University at the Chicago Music College and at Columbia\n         University. She remained at Virginia State University for\n         forty-nine years, retiring in 1965.","Additional Biographical Data:1. Lucious Edwards, Jr.\" The Luther Porter Jackson,\n         Sr.(1892-1950) Papers\" (paper presented at the 63rd meeting of\n         the Association for the Study of Afro-American Life and\n         History, Los Angeles, CA, October 13, 1978) \n         2. Marva D. Curtis, \"The Virginia Voters League\"\n         (unpublished masters thesis, Virginia State University, 1979) \n         3. Lucious Edwards, Jr., \"Luther Jackson Leaves a Legacy\n         of History in Papers to Virginia State University,\" \n         Progress Index, February\n         26,1980, p.4."],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eLuther Porter Jackson Papers, 1772-1960, Accession\n            #1952-l, Special Collections and Archives, Johnston\n            Memorial Library, Virginia State University, Petersburg,\n            VA.\u003c/p\u003e\n      "],"prefercite_tesim":["Luther Porter Jackson Papers, 1772-1960, Accession\n            #1952-l, Special Collections and Archives, Johnston\n            Memorial Library, Virginia State University, Petersburg,\n            VA."],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe Luther Porter Jackson are one of the most valuable\n         manuscript groups from a historical point of view in the\n         nation, for this former professor of history at Virginia State\n         University lived and worked during an era when the concept of\n         black inferiority was the accepted rule. In addition, this was\n         the time of \"Jim Crowism.\" Segregation was not \"de facto,\" it\n         was legal and challenged by few people, black and white.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eDuring the major time span of these papers, 1920-1950, a\n         number of political and civil rights organizations developed\n         into potent forces and others were born: the NAACP, the Negro\n         Organizational Society, the Southern Regional Council, and the\n         Southern School for Workers. This manuscript group is rich in\n         correspondence with most of the leaders of these movements.\n         Some of the correspondence includes Walter White, Lorenzo C.\n         White, P. Bernard Young, Gordon Hancock and others.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence with Virginia based political and civil\n         rights groups is strong and gives a good picture of the tempo\n         of the era in the State: the Virginia Voters League, the\n         Committee for Virginia, the Petersburg Negro Business\n         League.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eIn addition to correspondence with major political and\n         civil rights organizations, Jackson maintained as interesting\n         relationship with others across the U.S. The business or\n         office correspondence of Luther P. Jackson from 1920-1950\n         include correspondence with John Hope Franklin, W.E.B. DuBois,\n         Hugh Smythe, Helen Edmonds, P. Bernard Young, E. Franklin\n         Frazier, Charles S. Johnson, Rayford Logan, Alrutheus Ambush\n         Taylor, Lorenzo J. Green and others.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eThe collection also consists of ledgers, pamphlets,\n         financial and legal documents, photographs, speeches,\n         newspaper articles, cards, telegrams, notebooks, artifacts and\n         Jackson's research materials.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eJackson collected personal papers of ante-bellum and\n         post-bellum black families in Virginia: The Butler Papers, the\n         Layton Papers, and the Stephen Wooldrige Papers. In his\n         research of free black property owners in Virginia, he\n         acquired a substantial amount of materials from various\n         counties and cities of the Commonwealth of Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e\n    ","\u003cp\u003eThis box contains articles about Negroes in the\n                  United States, race vote in Tampa, colored men's\n                  progressive club, Negro principal to stay as school\n                  integrates, a sample form of application for\n                  registration to vote in the state of Louisiana. A \n                  \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eVirginia Statesman\u003c/title\u003efor\n                  April 21, 1950, the \n                  \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eSouthern Patriot\u003c/title\u003e, New\n                  Orleans, Louisiana, December 1948. \"The Boswell\n                  Amendment: Reaction in Alabama,\" \n                  \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eVirginias Journal and\n                  Guide\u003c/title\u003eApril 22, 1950, the Progress Index.\u003c/p\u003e\n          "],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Content Information"],"scopecontent_tesim":["The Luther Porter Jackson are one of the most valuable\n         manuscript groups from a historical point of view in the\n         nation, for this former professor of history at Virginia State\n         University lived and worked during an era when the concept of\n         black inferiority was the accepted rule. In addition, this was\n         the time of \"Jim Crowism.\" Segregation was not \"de facto,\" it\n         was legal and challenged by few people, black and white.","During the major time span of these papers, 1920-1950, a\n         number of political and civil rights organizations developed\n         into potent forces and others were born: the NAACP, the Negro\n         Organizational Society, the Southern Regional Council, and the\n         Southern School for Workers. This manuscript group is rich in\n         correspondence with most of the leaders of these movements.\n         Some of the correspondence includes Walter White, Lorenzo C.\n         White, P. Bernard Young, Gordon Hancock and others.","Correspondence with Virginia based political and civil\n         rights groups is strong and gives a good picture of the tempo\n         of the era in the State: the Virginia Voters League, the\n         Committee for Virginia, the Petersburg Negro Business\n         League.","In addition to correspondence with major political and\n         civil rights organizations, Jackson maintained as interesting\n         relationship with others across the U.S. The business or\n         office correspondence of Luther P. Jackson from 1920-1950\n         include correspondence with John Hope Franklin, W.E.B. DuBois,\n         Hugh Smythe, Helen Edmonds, P. Bernard Young, E. Franklin\n         Frazier, Charles S. Johnson, Rayford Logan, Alrutheus Ambush\n         Taylor, Lorenzo J. Green and others.","The collection also consists of ledgers, pamphlets,\n         financial and legal documents, photographs, speeches,\n         newspaper articles, cards, telegrams, notebooks, artifacts and\n         Jackson's research materials.","Jackson collected personal papers of ante-bellum and\n         post-bellum black families in Virginia: The Butler Papers, the\n         Layton Papers, and the Stephen Wooldrige Papers. In his\n         research of free black property owners in Virginia, he\n         acquired a substantial amount of materials from various\n         counties and cities of the Commonwealth of Virginia.","This box contains articles about Negroes in the\n                  United States, race vote in Tampa, colored men's\n                  progressive club, Negro principal to stay as school\n                  integrates, a sample form of application for\n                  registration to vote in the state of Louisiana. A \n                  Virginia Statesmanfor\n                  April 21, 1950, the \n                  Southern Patriot, New\n                  Orleans, Louisiana, December 1948. \"The Boswell\n                  Amendment: Reaction in Alabama,\" \n                  Virginias Journal and\n                  GuideApril 22, 1950, the Progress Index."],"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 Luther Porter Jackson papers\n         include documents collected by Jackson to support his research\n         as well as the correspondence produced by Dr. and Mrs. Jackson\n         in connection with their work, interest, and friends. They\n         reflect Luther Jackson's life as a professor and researcher of\n         history and his connections with various political and\n         educational organizations; the official records of the\n         Virginia Voters League and the official records of all fund\n         raising for the Virginia Branch of the Association for the\n         Study of Negro Life and History Inc.\u003c/abstract\u003e\n    "],"abstract_tesim":["The Luther Porter Jackson papers\n         include documents collected by Jackson to support his research\n         as well as the correspondence produced by Dr. and Mrs. Jackson\n         in connection with their work, interest, and friends. They\n         reflect Luther Jackson's life as a professor and researcher of\n         history and his connections with various political and\n         educational organizations; the official records of the\n         Virginia Voters League and the official records of all fund\n         raising for the Virginia Branch of the Association for the\n         Study of Negro Life and History Inc."],"language_ssim":["English"],"total_component_count_is":2288,"online_item_count_is":0,"component_level_isim":[0],"sort_isi":0,"timestamp":"2026-06-23T07:05:55.361Z","arrangement_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eSERIES I. BIOGRAPHICAL DATA \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eThe first five folders contain writings about Jackson.\n         Some material is not a part of the original manuscript group.\n         (Box 1) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eSERIES II. CORRESPONDENCE \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eA. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eFamily, 1920-1960\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eThe correspondence between Luther and Johnella Jackson\n         are arranged chronologically from 1920-1950. Additionally,\n         letters, postcards and telegrams are arranged alphabetically\n         by the other members of the family. (Boxes 1-5) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eB. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eBusiness, 1922-1950\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eOffice correspondence, extensive, arranged\n         chronologically. (Boxes 5-12) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eC. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003ePersonal, 1918- 1960\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eLetters arranged alphabetically by writer. (Boxes 13-16)\n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eSERIES III. FINANCIAL \u0026amp; LEGAL \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eFamily bills, tax statements, school bills and stocks.\n         Arranged by type. Copyright for Jackson's \n         \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eNegro Office Holders in Virginia,\n         1865-1895\u003c/title\u003e(Box 17) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eSERIES IV. ORGANIZATIONAL AFFILIATIONS \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eA. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eThe Virginia Voters League,\n         1934-1950\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eLetters, postcards, and telegrams arranged by county,\n         and city. Records include minutes and reports. (Boxes 18-27) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eB. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eThe Virginia Teachers Association Office\n         of the \"Civic Education Secretaries Office,\" 1941- 1950\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eThe Association for the Study of Negro Life and History,\n         Inc., 1923-1950 (Boxes 28-34) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eC. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eCorrespondence with Carter G.\n         Woodson\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eArranged chronologically. Other correspondence arranged\n         by county, City, and organization. (Boxes 35-41) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eD. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eThe NAACP, 1937- 1950\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eCorrespondence with officials of the NAACP (state and\n         local), arranged chronologically. (Box 42) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eE. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eThe I.B.P.O.E. of W.(the Elks),\n         1943-1950\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eGeneral correspondence arranged chronologically and the\n         Lodge's alphabetically by lodge. (Box 43) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eF. \n         \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eThe Virginia World War II History\n         Commission, 1944-1948\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eCorrespondence, minutes and reports of the commission\n         arranged chronologically. Some personal war service records\n         arranged alphabetically. Photographs in container 109. Numbers\n         on folders correspond with folder numbers in the original\n         series. (Box 44) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eG. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eThe Southern Regional Council, 1942-\n         1950\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eCorrespondence arranged chronologically; minutes for\n         some meetings. (Box 45) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eH. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eThe Negro Organizational Society, 1941-\n         1950\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eCorrespondence with the president and field secretaries,\n         minutes (1944-1949) arranged chronologically. (Box 46) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eI. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eThe Committee for Virginia,\n         1944-1950\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eLetters arranged chronologically, a few minutes,\n         reports. (Box 47) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eJ. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eThe Petersburg Negro Business League,\n         1935-1946\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eCorrespondence between Jackson, national and local\n         leaders. Chronologically arranged; one article, one report and\n         one skit. (Box 48) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eK. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eThe Virginia Society for Research,\n         1942-1950\u003c/emph\u003e(Box 48) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eL. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eThe Petersburg Community Choir\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eA history, a financial report and membership rosters.\n         Photographs in container 109. (Box 48) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eM. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eThe Southern School for Workers,\n         1944-1949\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eCorrespondence arranged chronologically. (Box 48) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eN. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eThe Old Dominion Medical Society\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eNames of some of the members. (Box 48) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eO. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eThe Petersburg Interracial Committee,\n         1948\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eOne letter and a proposed constitution. (Box 48) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eSERIES V. MATERIAL RELATING TO THE DEATH OF LUTHER\n         JACKSON \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eLetters, telegrams and postcards, arranged\n         chronologically. One box of sympathy cards and one of floral\n         cards. (Boxes 49 \u0026amp; 50) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eSERIES VI. RESEARCH DATA: COLLECTED \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eA. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eBlacks voting in the South,\n         1947-1948\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eLetters arranged alphabetically by state and then\n         chronologically within the state. (Box 50) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eB. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eThe Butler Papers, 1813-1888\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eTax receipts, identification papers, general receipts\n         and a marriage license. Chronologically arranged. (Box 51) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eC. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eThe Dews Papers, 1802-1880\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eDeeds for properties, tax receipts and general receipts,\n         arranged chronologically. (Box 52) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eD. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eThe Layton Papers, 1861-1898\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eTax receipts, deeds for properties, teaching\n         certificates. Arranged chronologically. (Box 53) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eE. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eThe Woolridge Papers, 1883-1910\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eTax receipts and general receipts. Few items about the\n         \"Jordan Baptist Church.\" Chronologically arranged. (Box 54) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eF. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eBy County\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003ePapers concerning ante and postpellum blacks in some\n         Virginia Counties. Identification papers, receipts. Arranged\n         chronologically within each county and then arranged\n         alphabetically by county also. (Boxes 55-56) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eG. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eBy City\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eThe same as above. Arranged alphabetically by city and\n         then chronologically within each city. (Box 57) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eH. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eMiscellaneous\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003ePapers of antebellum free blacks and slaves. Receipts,\n         identification papers, arranged chronologically. (Box 58) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eI. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003ePrinted and Diary\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003ePrinted pamphlets; handwritten diary belonging to Samuel\n         T. Miller, a missionary in South Africa, 1881-1882. (Box 59) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eJ. \n         \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eResearch Notes\u003c/emph\u003e(Box 60) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eK. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eLedgers General\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eStockholders ledges, one ledger used as a news clipping\n         scrapbook. (Box 61) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eL. \n         \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eNotebooks\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eHandwritten and typed data, no arrangement, subject\n         varies. (Boxes 62- 63) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eSERIES VII. MATERIAL WRITTEN BY LUTHER P. JACKSON \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eA. \n         \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eNews articles\u003c/emph\u003e: \n         \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eThe Journal and\n         Guide\u003c/title\u003e(Norfolk,VA), 1942-1947 \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eTypewritten news column. Arranged chronologically. Box\n         list available. (Boxes 64- 66) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eB. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eNews Articles: Various Papers\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eHandwritten and typed sheets, chronological order, some\n         without titles. Box list available. (Box 66) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eC. \n         \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eArticles in Journal\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003ePublished items, handwritten and typed, copy of printed\n         articles. (Box 66) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eD. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eAddresses\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eTyped and handwritten speeches, arranged\n         chronologically. (Box 67) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eE. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003ePapers, Reports, and Lecture Notes\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eVarious papers and reports, few lecture notes, skits,\n         radio broadcast, handwritten and typed;separated by type, but\n         otherwise there is no arrangement. (Box 67) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eF. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eUnpublished\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003ePapers and term papers, essay, handwritten and typed; no\n         arrangement. (Box 68) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eG. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eBooks\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eTypewritten manuscripts. (Boxes 69- 70) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eSERIES VIII. MATERIAL WRITTEN BY OTHER MEMBERS OF THE\n         FAMILY \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eArticles written by Luther P. Jackson Jr. (Box 71) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eSERIES IX. AWARDS \u0026amp; GRADES \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eFamily awards and a few grades of some family members.\n         (Box 72) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eSERIES X. PRINTED \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eBroadsides, leaflets, programs relating to Jackson. (Box\n         73) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eSERIES XI. VISUAL \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eA. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003ePhotographs\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eFamily, friends and Va. World War II History Commision,\n         organizations; some unidentifiable. (Box 74-76) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eB. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003ePrinter's Blocks\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eWood cuts used for publication. (Boxes 77- 80) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eSERIES XII. ARTIFACTS \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eCufflinks, tie clamp, neck scarf, doctoral gown, hood\n         and mortarboard. (Box 81) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eSERIES XII. MEMORABILIA \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eBaby books, collected programs, Christmas, general\n         greeting and get-well cards, etc. Arranged by type. (Boxes\n         82-84) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eSERIES XIV. 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BIOGRAPHICAL DATA \n         The first five folders contain writings about Jackson.\n         Some material is not a part of the original manuscript group.\n         (Box 1) \n         SERIES II. CORRESPONDENCE \n         A. \n         Family, 1920-1960The correspondence between Luther and Johnella Jackson\n         are arranged chronologically from 1920-1950. Additionally,\n         letters, postcards and telegrams are arranged alphabetically\n         by the other members of the family. (Boxes 1-5) \n         B. \n         Business, 1922-1950Office correspondence, extensive, arranged\n         chronologically. (Boxes 5-12) \n         C. \n         Personal, 1918- 1960Letters arranged alphabetically by writer. (Boxes 13-16)\n         SERIES III. FINANCIAL \u0026 LEGAL \n         Family bills, tax statements, school bills and stocks.\n         Arranged by type. Copyright for Jackson's \n         Negro Office Holders in Virginia,\n         1865-1895(Box 17) \n         SERIES IV. ORGANIZATIONAL AFFILIATIONS \n         A. \n         The Virginia Voters League,\n         1934-1950Letters, postcards, and telegrams arranged by county,\n         and city. Records include minutes and reports. (Boxes 18-27) \n         B. \n         The Virginia Teachers Association Office\n         of the \"Civic Education Secretaries Office,\" 1941- 1950The Association for the Study of Negro Life and History,\n         Inc., 1923-1950 (Boxes 28-34) \n         C. \n         Correspondence with Carter G.\n         WoodsonArranged chronologically. Other correspondence arranged\n         by county, City, and organization. (Boxes 35-41) \n         D. \n         The NAACP, 1937- 1950Correspondence with officials of the NAACP (state and\n         local), arranged chronologically. (Box 42) \n         E. \n         The I.B.P.O.E. of W.(the Elks),\n         1943-1950General correspondence arranged chronologically and the\n         Lodge's alphabetically by lodge. (Box 43) \n         F. \n         The Virginia World War II History\n         Commission, 1944-1948Correspondence, minutes and reports of the commission\n         arranged chronologically. Some personal war service records\n         arranged alphabetically. Photographs in container 109. Numbers\n         on folders correspond with folder numbers in the original\n         series. (Box 44) \n         G. \n         The Southern Regional Council, 1942-\n         1950Correspondence arranged chronologically; minutes for\n         some meetings. (Box 45) \n         H. \n         The Negro Organizational Society, 1941-\n         1950Correspondence with the president and field secretaries,\n         minutes (1944-1949) arranged chronologically. (Box 46) \n         I. \n         The Committee for Virginia,\n         1944-1950Letters arranged chronologically, a few minutes,\n         reports. (Box 47) \n         J. \n         The Petersburg Negro Business League,\n         1935-1946Correspondence between Jackson, national and local\n         leaders. Chronologically arranged; one article, one report and\n         one skit. (Box 48) \n         K. \n         The Virginia Society for Research,\n         1942-1950(Box 48) \n         L. \n         The Petersburg Community ChoirA history, a financial report and membership rosters.\n         Photographs in container 109. (Box 48) \n         M. \n         The Southern School for Workers,\n         1944-1949Correspondence arranged chronologically. (Box 48) \n         N. \n         The Old Dominion Medical SocietyNames of some of the members. (Box 48) \n         O. \n         The Petersburg Interracial Committee,\n         1948One letter and a proposed constitution. (Box 48) \n         SERIES V. MATERIAL RELATING TO THE DEATH OF LUTHER\n         JACKSON \n         Letters, telegrams and postcards, arranged\n         chronologically. One box of sympathy cards and one of floral\n         cards. (Boxes 49 \u0026 50) \n         SERIES VI. RESEARCH DATA: COLLECTED \n         A. \n         Blacks voting in the South,\n         1947-1948Letters arranged alphabetically by state and then\n         chronologically within the state. (Box 50) \n         B. \n         The Butler Papers, 1813-1888Tax receipts, identification papers, general receipts\n         and a marriage license. Chronologically arranged. (Box 51) \n         C. \n         The Dews Papers, 1802-1880Deeds for properties, tax receipts and general receipts,\n         arranged chronologically. (Box 52) \n         D. \n         The Layton Papers, 1861-1898Tax receipts, deeds for properties, teaching\n         certificates. Arranged chronologically. (Box 53) \n         E. \n         The Woolridge Papers, 1883-1910Tax receipts and general receipts. Few items about the\n         \"Jordan Baptist Church.\" Chronologically arranged. (Box 54) \n         F. \n         By CountyPapers concerning ante and postpellum blacks in some\n         Virginia Counties. Identification papers, receipts. Arranged\n         chronologically within each county and then arranged\n         alphabetically by county also. (Boxes 55-56) \n         G. \n         By CityThe same as above. Arranged alphabetically by city and\n         then chronologically within each city. (Box 57) \n         H. \n         MiscellaneousPapers of antebellum free blacks and slaves. Receipts,\n         identification papers, arranged chronologically. (Box 58) \n         I. \n         Printed and DiaryPrinted pamphlets; handwritten diary belonging to Samuel\n         T. Miller, a missionary in South Africa, 1881-1882. (Box 59) \n         J. \n         Research Notes(Box 60) \n         K. \n         Ledgers GeneralStockholders ledges, one ledger used as a news clipping\n         scrapbook. (Box 61) \n         L. \n         NotebooksHandwritten and typed data, no arrangement, subject\n         varies. (Boxes 62- 63) \n         SERIES VII. MATERIAL WRITTEN BY LUTHER P. JACKSON \n         A. \n         News articles: \n         The Journal and\n         Guide(Norfolk,VA), 1942-1947 \n         Typewritten news column. Arranged chronologically. Box\n         list available. (Boxes 64- 66) \n         B. \n         News Articles: Various PapersHandwritten and typed sheets, chronological order, some\n         without titles. Box list available. (Box 66) \n         C. \n         Articles in JournalPublished items, handwritten and typed, copy of printed\n         articles. (Box 66) \n         D. \n         AddressesTyped and handwritten speeches, arranged\n         chronologically. (Box 67) \n         E. \n         Papers, Reports, and Lecture NotesVarious papers and reports, few lecture notes, skits,\n         radio broadcast, handwritten and typed;separated by type, but\n         otherwise there is no arrangement. (Box 67) \n         F. \n         UnpublishedPapers and term papers, essay, handwritten and typed; no\n         arrangement. (Box 68) \n         G. \n         BooksTypewritten manuscripts. (Boxes 69- 70) \n         SERIES VIII. MATERIAL WRITTEN BY OTHER MEMBERS OF THE\n         FAMILY \n         Articles written by Luther P. Jackson Jr. (Box 71) \n         SERIES IX. AWARDS \u0026 GRADES \n         Family awards and a few grades of some family members.\n         (Box 72) \n         SERIES X. PRINTED \n         Broadsides, leaflets, programs relating to Jackson. (Box\n         73) \n         SERIES XI. VISUAL \n         A. \n         PhotographsFamily, friends and Va. World War II History Commision,\n         organizations; some unidentifiable. (Box 74-76) \n         B. \n         Printer's BlocksWood cuts used for publication. (Boxes 77- 80) \n         SERIES XII. ARTIFACTS \n         Cufflinks, tie clamp, neck scarf, doctoral gown, hood\n         and mortarboard. (Box 81) \n         SERIES XII. MEMORABILIA \n         Baby books, collected programs, Christmas, general\n         greeting and get-well cards, etc. Arranged by type. (Boxes\n         82-84) \n         SERIES XIV. NEWSCLIPPINGS \n         Loose newsclippings from various newspapers on a variety\n         of subjects, no arrangement (Boxes 85) \n         SERIES XV. OVERSIZED ITEMS \n         Newspaper, awards and research data.","Luther Porter Jackson Sr. was born July 11, 1892 in\n         Lexington, Kentucky. He was the ninth child of Delilah\n         (Culvrson) Jackson and Edward Jackson. He early schooling was\n         at Chandler Normal School in Lexington, where he completed his\n         studies in 1910. Upon completion of his secondary education he\n         entered Fisk University where he received the A.B. degree in\n         1914. He remained at Fisk for another semester and in 1916 was\n         awarded the A.M. degree.","In 1915, at the ripe old age of twenty-three, he began his\n         teaching career at Vorhees Industrial School, Denmark, South\n         Carolina, where he was also Director of the Academic\n         Department. Jackson left South Carolina in 1918 and joined the\n         staff of the Topeka Industrial Institute, Topeka, Kansas, as\n         Instructor of history and music.","Desiring more education, he returned to the east and sought\n         graduate training at Columbia University in 1920. Here he was\n         to receive one of his many setbacks, which took in stride and\n         proceeded to correct. Writing to a former instructor at Fisk,\n         Jackson stated that Columbia did not consider his A.B. and\n         A.M. from Fisk up to their standards. He, therefore, enrolled\n         for one year at New York City College. Finally, in 1921, he\n         began his studies at Columbia, where he was graduated from\n         their Teachers College in 1922.","After completing his second masters degree, Luther Jackson\n         joined the faculty of what was then the Virginia Normal and\n         Industrial Institute, now Virginia State University. While on\n         staff of the university, Luther Jackson continued his studies,\n         first at Columbia University and then at the University of\n         Chicago, where he received the Ph.D. in history in 1937. Soon\n         after arrival at V.N. \u0026 I.I., Jackson took over the\n         College High School and directed its activities from\n         1923-1928. He headed the history department from 1930-1950,\n         formed the \" League of Negro Voters\" in 1934, and in 1937\n         organized the \" Petersburg Business League\", which became the\n         Virginia Trade Association in 1941.","In 1935, Carter G. Woodson asked Luther Jackson to head all\n         fund-raising activities for the Association for the Study of\n         Negro Life and History. As chairman of the Virginia chapter,\n         Jackson went on to establish that chapter as one of the most\n         productive of all state chapters. Somehow he still found time\n         to conduct the Petersburg Community Choir of 100 voices, have\n         his doctoral dissertation, write a column for \n         The Journal and Guide(Norfolk,\n         Virginia) under the general heading of \"Rights and Duties in a\n         Democracy\" between 1942 until 1948. Although he was now\n         holding down enough work for two people, Jackson was appointed\n         to the Virginia World War II History Commission in 1944 and\n         worked with the N.A.A.C.P, which led to his receiving a plague\n         for service in 1948.","Jackson authored these books: \n         Free Negro Labor and Property Holding\n         in Virginia, 1830-1860(1942) \n         The History of the Virginia Stated\n         Teachers Association(1937) \n         Negro Office-Holders in Virginia,\n         1865-1895(1945) \n         A Short History of the Gillfield\n         Baptist Church of Petersburg, Virginia(1941) \n         Virginia Negro Soldiers and Seaman in\n         the Revolutionary War(1944)","In addition to joining the faculty, Luther Jackson married\n         a young lady whom he had met while they were both students at\n         Fisk University. The young lady was Johnella M. Frazer\n         (1897-), a native of Shelbyville, Kentucky, the daughter of\n         Laura and Patterson Tilford Frazer; her father was President\n         of Hopkinsville College in Kentucky. Mrs. Jackson completed\n         the conservatory course at Fisk at the age of seventeen(17)\n         and toured with the Fisk \"Jubilee Singers\" for two years under\n         John Work. She joined the staff of Virginia Normal and\n         Industrial Institute in 1916, a full nine years before there\n         was a music department, as the University's first full time\n         instructor of piano.","Mrs. Jackson, like Luther, also recognized the need for\n         additional training. During the summer vacation she studied at\n         Temple University at the Chicago Music College and at Columbia\n         University. She remained at Virginia State University for\n         forty-nine years, retiring in 1965.","Additional Biographical Data:1. Lucious Edwards, Jr.\" The Luther Porter Jackson,\n         Sr.(1892-1950) Papers\" (paper presented at the 63rd meeting of\n         the Association for the Study of Afro-American Life and\n         History, Los Angeles, CA, October 13, 1978) \n         2. Marva D. Curtis, \"The Virginia Voters League\"\n         (unpublished masters thesis, Virginia State University, 1979) \n         3. Lucious Edwards, Jr., \"Luther Jackson Leaves a Legacy\n         of History in Papers to Virginia State University,\" \n         Progress Index, February\n         26,1980, p.4.","The Luther Porter Jackson are one of the most valuable\n         manuscript groups from a historical point of view in the\n         nation, for this former professor of history at Virginia State\n         University lived and worked during an era when the concept of\n         black inferiority was the accepted rule. In addition, this was\n         the time of \"Jim Crowism.\" Segregation was not \"de facto,\" it\n         was legal and challenged by few people, black and white.","During the major time span of these papers, 1920-1950, a\n         number of political and civil rights organizations developed\n         into potent forces and others were born: the NAACP, the Negro\n         Organizational Society, the Southern Regional Council, and the\n         Southern School for Workers. This manuscript group is rich in\n         correspondence with most of the leaders of these movements.\n         Some of the correspondence includes Walter White, Lorenzo C.\n         White, P. Bernard Young, Gordon Hancock and others.","Correspondence with Virginia based political and civil\n         rights groups is strong and gives a good picture of the tempo\n         of the era in the State: the Virginia Voters League, the\n         Committee for Virginia, the Petersburg Negro Business\n         League.","In addition to correspondence with major political and\n         civil rights organizations, Jackson maintained as interesting\n         relationship with others across the U.S. The business or\n         office correspondence of Luther P. Jackson from 1920-1950\n         include correspondence with John Hope Franklin, W.E.B. DuBois,\n         Hugh Smythe, Helen Edmonds, P. Bernard Young, E. Franklin\n         Frazier, Charles S. Johnson, Rayford Logan, Alrutheus Ambush\n         Taylor, Lorenzo J. Green and others.","The collection also consists of ledgers, pamphlets,\n         financial and legal documents, photographs, speeches,\n         newspaper articles, cards, telegrams, notebooks, artifacts and\n         Jackson's research materials.","Jackson collected personal papers of ante-bellum and\n         post-bellum black families in Virginia: The Butler Papers, the\n         Layton Papers, and the Stephen Wooldrige Papers. In his\n         research of free black property owners in Virginia, he\n         acquired a substantial amount of materials from various\n         counties and cities of the Commonwealth of Virginia.","This box contains articles about Negroes in the\n                  United States, race vote in Tampa, colored men's\n                  progressive club, Negro principal to stay as school\n                  integrates, a sample form of application for\n                  registration to vote in the state of Louisiana. A \n                  Virginia Statesmanfor\n                  April 21, 1950, the \n                  Southern Patriot, New\n                  Orleans, Louisiana, December 1948. \"The Boswell\n                  Amendment: Reaction in Alabama,\" \n                  Virginias Journal and\n                  GuideApril 22, 1950, the Progress Index.","There are no restrictions.","The Luther Porter Jackson papers\n         include documents collected by Jackson to support his research\n         as well as the correspondence produced by Dr. and Mrs. Jackson\n         in connection with their work, interest, and friends. They\n         reflect Luther Jackson's life as a professor and researcher of\n         history and his connections with various political and\n         educational organizations; the official records of the\n         Virginia Voters League and the official records of all fund\n         raising for the Virginia Branch of the Association for the\n         Study of Negro Life and History Inc.","English"],"collection_title_tesim":["Luther Porter Jackson Papers, \n         \n         1772-1960"],"collection_ssim":["Luther Porter Jackson Papers, \n         \n         1772-1960"],"level_ssm":["collection"],"level_ssim":["Collection"],"unitid_ssm":["1952-l"],"unitid_tesim":["1952-l"],"repository_ssm":["Virginia State University"],"repository_ssim":["Virginia State University"],"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_heading_ssm":["Organization"],"arrangement_tesim":["SERIES I. BIOGRAPHICAL DATA \n         The first five folders contain writings about Jackson.\n         Some material is not a part of the original manuscript group.\n         (Box 1) \n         SERIES II. CORRESPONDENCE \n         A. \n         Family, 1920-1960The correspondence between Luther and Johnella Jackson\n         are arranged chronologically from 1920-1950. Additionally,\n         letters, postcards and telegrams are arranged alphabetically\n         by the other members of the family. (Boxes 1-5) \n         B. \n         Business, 1922-1950Office correspondence, extensive, arranged\n         chronologically. (Boxes 5-12) \n         C. \n         Personal, 1918- 1960Letters arranged alphabetically by writer. (Boxes 13-16)\n         SERIES III. FINANCIAL \u0026 LEGAL \n         Family bills, tax statements, school bills and stocks.\n         Arranged by type. Copyright for Jackson's \n         Negro Office Holders in Virginia,\n         1865-1895(Box 17) \n         SERIES IV. ORGANIZATIONAL AFFILIATIONS \n         A. \n         The Virginia Voters League,\n         1934-1950Letters, postcards, and telegrams arranged by county,\n         and city. Records include minutes and reports. (Boxes 18-27) \n         B. \n         The Virginia Teachers Association Office\n         of the \"Civic Education Secretaries Office,\" 1941- 1950The Association for the Study of Negro Life and History,\n         Inc., 1923-1950 (Boxes 28-34) \n         C. \n         Correspondence with Carter G.\n         WoodsonArranged chronologically. Other correspondence arranged\n         by county, City, and organization. (Boxes 35-41) \n         D. \n         The NAACP, 1937- 1950Correspondence with officials of the NAACP (state and\n         local), arranged chronologically. (Box 42) \n         E. \n         The I.B.P.O.E. of W.(the Elks),\n         1943-1950General correspondence arranged chronologically and the\n         Lodge's alphabetically by lodge. (Box 43) \n         F. \n         The Virginia World War II History\n         Commission, 1944-1948Correspondence, minutes and reports of the commission\n         arranged chronologically. Some personal war service records\n         arranged alphabetically. Photographs in container 109. Numbers\n         on folders correspond with folder numbers in the original\n         series. (Box 44) \n         G. \n         The Southern Regional Council, 1942-\n         1950Correspondence arranged chronologically; minutes for\n         some meetings. (Box 45) \n         H. \n         The Negro Organizational Society, 1941-\n         1950Correspondence with the president and field secretaries,\n         minutes (1944-1949) arranged chronologically. (Box 46) \n         I. \n         The Committee for Virginia,\n         1944-1950Letters arranged chronologically, a few minutes,\n         reports. (Box 47) \n         J. \n         The Petersburg Negro Business League,\n         1935-1946Correspondence between Jackson, national and local\n         leaders. Chronologically arranged; one article, one report and\n         one skit. (Box 48) \n         K. \n         The Virginia Society for Research,\n         1942-1950(Box 48) \n         L. \n         The Petersburg Community ChoirA history, a financial report and membership rosters.\n         Photographs in container 109. (Box 48) \n         M. \n         The Southern School for Workers,\n         1944-1949Correspondence arranged chronologically. (Box 48) \n         N. \n         The Old Dominion Medical SocietyNames of some of the members. (Box 48) \n         O. \n         The Petersburg Interracial Committee,\n         1948One letter and a proposed constitution. (Box 48) \n         SERIES V. MATERIAL RELATING TO THE DEATH OF LUTHER\n         JACKSON \n         Letters, telegrams and postcards, arranged\n         chronologically. One box of sympathy cards and one of floral\n         cards. (Boxes 49 \u0026 50) \n         SERIES VI. RESEARCH DATA: COLLECTED \n         A. \n         Blacks voting in the South,\n         1947-1948Letters arranged alphabetically by state and then\n         chronologically within the state. (Box 50) \n         B. \n         The Butler Papers, 1813-1888Tax receipts, identification papers, general receipts\n         and a marriage license. Chronologically arranged. (Box 51) \n         C. \n         The Dews Papers, 1802-1880Deeds for properties, tax receipts and general receipts,\n         arranged chronologically. (Box 52) \n         D. \n         The Layton Papers, 1861-1898Tax receipts, deeds for properties, teaching\n         certificates. Arranged chronologically. (Box 53) \n         E. \n         The Woolridge Papers, 1883-1910Tax receipts and general receipts. Few items about the\n         \"Jordan Baptist Church.\" Chronologically arranged. (Box 54) \n         F. \n         By CountyPapers concerning ante and postpellum blacks in some\n         Virginia Counties. Identification papers, receipts. Arranged\n         chronologically within each county and then arranged\n         alphabetically by county also. (Boxes 55-56) \n         G. \n         By CityThe same as above. Arranged alphabetically by city and\n         then chronologically within each city. (Box 57) \n         H. \n         MiscellaneousPapers of antebellum free blacks and slaves. Receipts,\n         identification papers, arranged chronologically. (Box 58) \n         I. \n         Printed and DiaryPrinted pamphlets; handwritten diary belonging to Samuel\n         T. Miller, a missionary in South Africa, 1881-1882. (Box 59) \n         J. \n         Research Notes(Box 60) \n         K. \n         Ledgers GeneralStockholders ledges, one ledger used as a news clipping\n         scrapbook. (Box 61) \n         L. \n         NotebooksHandwritten and typed data, no arrangement, subject\n         varies. (Boxes 62- 63) \n         SERIES VII. MATERIAL WRITTEN BY LUTHER P. JACKSON \n         A. \n         News articles: \n         The Journal and\n         Guide(Norfolk,VA), 1942-1947 \n         Typewritten news column. Arranged chronologically. Box\n         list available. (Boxes 64- 66) \n         B. \n         News Articles: Various PapersHandwritten and typed sheets, chronological order, some\n         without titles. Box list available. (Box 66) \n         C. \n         Articles in JournalPublished items, handwritten and typed, copy of printed\n         articles. (Box 66) \n         D. \n         AddressesTyped and handwritten speeches, arranged\n         chronologically. (Box 67) \n         E. \n         Papers, Reports, and Lecture NotesVarious papers and reports, few lecture notes, skits,\n         radio broadcast, handwritten and typed;separated by type, but\n         otherwise there is no arrangement. (Box 67) \n         F. \n         UnpublishedPapers and term papers, essay, handwritten and typed; no\n         arrangement. (Box 68) \n         G. \n         BooksTypewritten manuscripts. (Boxes 69- 70) \n         SERIES VIII. MATERIAL WRITTEN BY OTHER MEMBERS OF THE\n         FAMILY \n         Articles written by Luther P. Jackson Jr. (Box 71) \n         SERIES IX. AWARDS \u0026 GRADES \n         Family awards and a few grades of some family members.\n         (Box 72) \n         SERIES X. PRINTED \n         Broadsides, leaflets, programs relating to Jackson. (Box\n         73) \n         SERIES XI. VISUAL \n         A. \n         PhotographsFamily, friends and Va. World War II History Commision,\n         organizations; some unidentifiable. (Box 74-76) \n         B. \n         Printer's BlocksWood cuts used for publication. (Boxes 77- 80) \n         SERIES XII. ARTIFACTS \n         Cufflinks, tie clamp, neck scarf, doctoral gown, hood\n         and mortarboard. (Box 81) \n         SERIES XII. MEMORABILIA \n         Baby books, collected programs, Christmas, general\n         greeting and get-well cards, etc. Arranged by type. (Boxes\n         82-84) \n         SERIES XIV. NEWSCLIPPINGS \n         Loose newsclippings from various newspapers on a variety\n         of subjects, no arrangement (Boxes 85) \n         SERIES XV. OVERSIZED ITEMS \n         Newspaper, awards and research data."],"bioghist_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eLuther Porter Jackson Sr. was born July 11, 1892 in\n         Lexington, Kentucky. He was the ninth child of Delilah\n         (Culvrson) Jackson and Edward Jackson. He early schooling was\n         at Chandler Normal School in Lexington, where he completed his\n         studies in 1910. Upon completion of his secondary education he\n         entered Fisk University where he received the A.B. degree in\n         1914. He remained at Fisk for another semester and in 1916 was\n         awarded the A.M. degree.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eIn 1915, at the ripe old age of twenty-three, he began his\n         teaching career at Vorhees Industrial School, Denmark, South\n         Carolina, where he was also Director of the Academic\n         Department. Jackson left South Carolina in 1918 and joined the\n         staff of the Topeka Industrial Institute, Topeka, Kansas, as\n         Instructor of history and music.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eDesiring more education, he returned to the east and sought\n         graduate training at Columbia University in 1920. Here he was\n         to receive one of his many setbacks, which took in stride and\n         proceeded to correct. Writing to a former instructor at Fisk,\n         Jackson stated that Columbia did not consider his A.B. and\n         A.M. from Fisk up to their standards. He, therefore, enrolled\n         for one year at New York City College. Finally, in 1921, he\n         began his studies at Columbia, where he was graduated from\n         their Teachers College in 1922.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eAfter completing his second masters degree, Luther Jackson\n         joined the faculty of what was then the Virginia Normal and\n         Industrial Institute, now Virginia State University. While on\n         staff of the university, Luther Jackson continued his studies,\n         first at Columbia University and then at the University of\n         Chicago, where he received the Ph.D. in history in 1937. Soon\n         after arrival at V.N. \u0026amp; I.I., Jackson took over the\n         College High School and directed its activities from\n         1923-1928. He headed the history department from 1930-1950,\n         formed the \" League of Negro Voters\" in 1934, and in 1937\n         organized the \" Petersburg Business League\", which became the\n         Virginia Trade Association in 1941.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eIn 1935, Carter G. Woodson asked Luther Jackson to head all\n         fund-raising activities for the Association for the Study of\n         Negro Life and History. As chairman of the Virginia chapter,\n         Jackson went on to establish that chapter as one of the most\n         productive of all state chapters. Somehow he still found time\n         to conduct the Petersburg Community Choir of 100 voices, have\n         his doctoral dissertation, write a column for \n         \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eThe Journal and Guide\u003c/title\u003e(Norfolk,\n         Virginia) under the general heading of \"Rights and Duties in a\n         Democracy\" between 1942 until 1948. Although he was now\n         holding down enough work for two people, Jackson was appointed\n         to the Virginia World War II History Commission in 1944 and\n         worked with the N.A.A.C.P, which led to his receiving a plague\n         for service in 1948.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eJackson authored these books: \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eFree Negro Labor and Property Holding\n         in Virginia, 1830-1860\u003c/title\u003e(1942) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eThe History of the Virginia Stated\n         Teachers Association\u003c/title\u003e(1937) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eNegro Office-Holders in Virginia,\n         1865-1895\u003c/title\u003e(1945) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eA Short History of the Gillfield\n         Baptist Church of Petersburg, Virginia\u003c/title\u003e(1941) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eVirginia Negro Soldiers and Seaman in\n         the Revolutionary War\u003c/title\u003e(1944) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eIn addition to joining the faculty, Luther Jackson married\n         a young lady whom he had met while they were both students at\n         Fisk University. The young lady was Johnella M. Frazer\n         (1897-), a native of Shelbyville, Kentucky, the daughter of\n         Laura and Patterson Tilford Frazer; her father was President\n         of Hopkinsville College in Kentucky. Mrs. Jackson completed\n         the conservatory course at Fisk at the age of seventeen(17)\n         and toured with the Fisk \"Jubilee Singers\" for two years under\n         John Work. She joined the staff of Virginia Normal and\n         Industrial Institute in 1916, a full nine years before there\n         was a music department, as the University's first full time\n         instructor of piano.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Jackson, like Luther, also recognized the need for\n         additional training. During the summer vacation she studied at\n         Temple University at the Chicago Music College and at Columbia\n         University. She remained at Virginia State University for\n         forty-nine years, retiring in 1965.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eAdditional Biographical Data:\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e1. Lucious Edwards, Jr.\" The Luther Porter Jackson,\n         Sr.(1892-1950) Papers\" (paper presented at the 63rd meeting of\n         the Association for the Study of Afro-American Life and\n         History, Los Angeles, CA, October 13, 1978) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e2. Marva D. Curtis, \"The Virginia Voters League\"\n         (unpublished masters thesis, Virginia State University, 1979) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e3. Lucious Edwards, Jr., \"Luther Jackson Leaves a Legacy\n         of History in Papers to Virginia State University,\" \n         \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eProgress Index\u003c/title\u003e, February\n         26,1980, p.4.\u003c/p\u003e\n    "],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical/Historical Information"],"bioghist_tesim":["Luther Porter Jackson Sr. was born July 11, 1892 in\n         Lexington, Kentucky. He was the ninth child of Delilah\n         (Culvrson) Jackson and Edward Jackson. He early schooling was\n         at Chandler Normal School in Lexington, where he completed his\n         studies in 1910. Upon completion of his secondary education he\n         entered Fisk University where he received the A.B. degree in\n         1914. He remained at Fisk for another semester and in 1916 was\n         awarded the A.M. degree.","In 1915, at the ripe old age of twenty-three, he began his\n         teaching career at Vorhees Industrial School, Denmark, South\n         Carolina, where he was also Director of the Academic\n         Department. Jackson left South Carolina in 1918 and joined the\n         staff of the Topeka Industrial Institute, Topeka, Kansas, as\n         Instructor of history and music.","Desiring more education, he returned to the east and sought\n         graduate training at Columbia University in 1920. Here he was\n         to receive one of his many setbacks, which took in stride and\n         proceeded to correct. Writing to a former instructor at Fisk,\n         Jackson stated that Columbia did not consider his A.B. and\n         A.M. from Fisk up to their standards. He, therefore, enrolled\n         for one year at New York City College. Finally, in 1921, he\n         began his studies at Columbia, where he was graduated from\n         their Teachers College in 1922.","After completing his second masters degree, Luther Jackson\n         joined the faculty of what was then the Virginia Normal and\n         Industrial Institute, now Virginia State University. While on\n         staff of the university, Luther Jackson continued his studies,\n         first at Columbia University and then at the University of\n         Chicago, where he received the Ph.D. in history in 1937. Soon\n         after arrival at V.N. \u0026 I.I., Jackson took over the\n         College High School and directed its activities from\n         1923-1928. He headed the history department from 1930-1950,\n         formed the \" League of Negro Voters\" in 1934, and in 1937\n         organized the \" Petersburg Business League\", which became the\n         Virginia Trade Association in 1941.","In 1935, Carter G. Woodson asked Luther Jackson to head all\n         fund-raising activities for the Association for the Study of\n         Negro Life and History. As chairman of the Virginia chapter,\n         Jackson went on to establish that chapter as one of the most\n         productive of all state chapters. Somehow he still found time\n         to conduct the Petersburg Community Choir of 100 voices, have\n         his doctoral dissertation, write a column for \n         The Journal and Guide(Norfolk,\n         Virginia) under the general heading of \"Rights and Duties in a\n         Democracy\" between 1942 until 1948. Although he was now\n         holding down enough work for two people, Jackson was appointed\n         to the Virginia World War II History Commission in 1944 and\n         worked with the N.A.A.C.P, which led to his receiving a plague\n         for service in 1948.","Jackson authored these books: \n         Free Negro Labor and Property Holding\n         in Virginia, 1830-1860(1942) \n         The History of the Virginia Stated\n         Teachers Association(1937) \n         Negro Office-Holders in Virginia,\n         1865-1895(1945) \n         A Short History of the Gillfield\n         Baptist Church of Petersburg, Virginia(1941) \n         Virginia Negro Soldiers and Seaman in\n         the Revolutionary War(1944)","In addition to joining the faculty, Luther Jackson married\n         a young lady whom he had met while they were both students at\n         Fisk University. The young lady was Johnella M. Frazer\n         (1897-), a native of Shelbyville, Kentucky, the daughter of\n         Laura and Patterson Tilford Frazer; her father was President\n         of Hopkinsville College in Kentucky. Mrs. Jackson completed\n         the conservatory course at Fisk at the age of seventeen(17)\n         and toured with the Fisk \"Jubilee Singers\" for two years under\n         John Work. She joined the staff of Virginia Normal and\n         Industrial Institute in 1916, a full nine years before there\n         was a music department, as the University's first full time\n         instructor of piano.","Mrs. Jackson, like Luther, also recognized the need for\n         additional training. During the summer vacation she studied at\n         Temple University at the Chicago Music College and at Columbia\n         University. She remained at Virginia State University for\n         forty-nine years, retiring in 1965.","Additional Biographical Data:1. Lucious Edwards, Jr.\" The Luther Porter Jackson,\n         Sr.(1892-1950) Papers\" (paper presented at the 63rd meeting of\n         the Association for the Study of Afro-American Life and\n         History, Los Angeles, CA, October 13, 1978) \n         2. Marva D. Curtis, \"The Virginia Voters League\"\n         (unpublished masters thesis, Virginia State University, 1979) \n         3. Lucious Edwards, Jr., \"Luther Jackson Leaves a Legacy\n         of History in Papers to Virginia State University,\" \n         Progress Index, February\n         26,1980, p.4."],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eLuther Porter Jackson Papers, 1772-1960, Accession\n            #1952-l, Special Collections and Archives, Johnston\n            Memorial Library, Virginia State University, Petersburg,\n            VA.\u003c/p\u003e\n      "],"prefercite_tesim":["Luther Porter Jackson Papers, 1772-1960, Accession\n            #1952-l, Special Collections and Archives, Johnston\n            Memorial Library, Virginia State University, Petersburg,\n            VA."],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe Luther Porter Jackson are one of the most valuable\n         manuscript groups from a historical point of view in the\n         nation, for this former professor of history at Virginia State\n         University lived and worked during an era when the concept of\n         black inferiority was the accepted rule. In addition, this was\n         the time of \"Jim Crowism.\" Segregation was not \"de facto,\" it\n         was legal and challenged by few people, black and white.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eDuring the major time span of these papers, 1920-1950, a\n         number of political and civil rights organizations developed\n         into potent forces and others were born: the NAACP, the Negro\n         Organizational Society, the Southern Regional Council, and the\n         Southern School for Workers. This manuscript group is rich in\n         correspondence with most of the leaders of these movements.\n         Some of the correspondence includes Walter White, Lorenzo C.\n         White, P. Bernard Young, Gordon Hancock and others.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence with Virginia based political and civil\n         rights groups is strong and gives a good picture of the tempo\n         of the era in the State: the Virginia Voters League, the\n         Committee for Virginia, the Petersburg Negro Business\n         League.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eIn addition to correspondence with major political and\n         civil rights organizations, Jackson maintained as interesting\n         relationship with others across the U.S. The business or\n         office correspondence of Luther P. Jackson from 1920-1950\n         include correspondence with John Hope Franklin, W.E.B. DuBois,\n         Hugh Smythe, Helen Edmonds, P. Bernard Young, E. Franklin\n         Frazier, Charles S. Johnson, Rayford Logan, Alrutheus Ambush\n         Taylor, Lorenzo J. Green and others.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eThe collection also consists of ledgers, pamphlets,\n         financial and legal documents, photographs, speeches,\n         newspaper articles, cards, telegrams, notebooks, artifacts and\n         Jackson's research materials.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eJackson collected personal papers of ante-bellum and\n         post-bellum black families in Virginia: The Butler Papers, the\n         Layton Papers, and the Stephen Wooldrige Papers. In his\n         research of free black property owners in Virginia, he\n         acquired a substantial amount of materials from various\n         counties and cities of the Commonwealth of Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e\n    ","\u003cp\u003eThis box contains articles about Negroes in the\n                  United States, race vote in Tampa, colored men's\n                  progressive club, Negro principal to stay as school\n                  integrates, a sample form of application for\n                  registration to vote in the state of Louisiana. A \n                  \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eVirginia Statesman\u003c/title\u003efor\n                  April 21, 1950, the \n                  \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eSouthern Patriot\u003c/title\u003e, New\n                  Orleans, Louisiana, December 1948. \"The Boswell\n                  Amendment: Reaction in Alabama,\" \n                  \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eVirginias Journal and\n                  Guide\u003c/title\u003eApril 22, 1950, the Progress Index.\u003c/p\u003e\n          "],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Content Information"],"scopecontent_tesim":["The Luther Porter Jackson are one of the most valuable\n         manuscript groups from a historical point of view in the\n         nation, for this former professor of history at Virginia State\n         University lived and worked during an era when the concept of\n         black inferiority was the accepted rule. In addition, this was\n         the time of \"Jim Crowism.\" Segregation was not \"de facto,\" it\n         was legal and challenged by few people, black and white.","During the major time span of these papers, 1920-1950, a\n         number of political and civil rights organizations developed\n         into potent forces and others were born: the NAACP, the Negro\n         Organizational Society, the Southern Regional Council, and the\n         Southern School for Workers. This manuscript group is rich in\n         correspondence with most of the leaders of these movements.\n         Some of the correspondence includes Walter White, Lorenzo C.\n         White, P. Bernard Young, Gordon Hancock and others.","Correspondence with Virginia based political and civil\n         rights groups is strong and gives a good picture of the tempo\n         of the era in the State: the Virginia Voters League, the\n         Committee for Virginia, the Petersburg Negro Business\n         League.","In addition to correspondence with major political and\n         civil rights organizations, Jackson maintained as interesting\n         relationship with others across the U.S. The business or\n         office correspondence of Luther P. Jackson from 1920-1950\n         include correspondence with John Hope Franklin, W.E.B. DuBois,\n         Hugh Smythe, Helen Edmonds, P. Bernard Young, E. Franklin\n         Frazier, Charles S. Johnson, Rayford Logan, Alrutheus Ambush\n         Taylor, Lorenzo J. Green and others.","The collection also consists of ledgers, pamphlets,\n         financial and legal documents, photographs, speeches,\n         newspaper articles, cards, telegrams, notebooks, artifacts and\n         Jackson's research materials.","Jackson collected personal papers of ante-bellum and\n         post-bellum black families in Virginia: The Butler Papers, the\n         Layton Papers, and the Stephen Wooldrige Papers. In his\n         research of free black property owners in Virginia, he\n         acquired a substantial amount of materials from various\n         counties and cities of the Commonwealth of Virginia.","This box contains articles about Negroes in the\n                  United States, race vote in Tampa, colored men's\n                  progressive club, Negro principal to stay as school\n                  integrates, a sample form of application for\n                  registration to vote in the state of Louisiana. A \n                  Virginia Statesmanfor\n                  April 21, 1950, the \n                  Southern Patriot, New\n                  Orleans, Louisiana, December 1948. \"The Boswell\n                  Amendment: Reaction in Alabama,\" \n                  Virginias Journal and\n                  GuideApril 22, 1950, the Progress Index."],"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 Luther Porter Jackson papers\n         include documents collected by Jackson to support his research\n         as well as the correspondence produced by Dr. and Mrs. Jackson\n         in connection with their work, interest, and friends. They\n         reflect Luther Jackson's life as a professor and researcher of\n         history and his connections with various political and\n         educational organizations; the official records of the\n         Virginia Voters League and the official records of all fund\n         raising for the Virginia Branch of the Association for the\n         Study of Negro Life and History Inc.\u003c/abstract\u003e\n    "],"abstract_tesim":["The Luther Porter Jackson papers\n         include documents collected by Jackson to support his research\n         as well as the correspondence produced by Dr. and Mrs. Jackson\n         in connection with their work, interest, and friends. They\n         reflect Luther Jackson's life as a professor and researcher of\n         history and his connections with various political and\n         educational organizations; the official records of the\n         Virginia Voters League and the official records of all fund\n         raising for the Virginia Branch of the Association for the\n         Study of Negro Life and History Inc."],"language_ssim":["English"],"total_component_count_is":2288,"online_item_count_is":0,"component_level_isim":[0],"sort_isi":0,"timestamp":"2026-06-23T07:05:55.361Z","arrangement_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eSERIES I. BIOGRAPHICAL DATA \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eThe first five folders contain writings about Jackson.\n         Some material is not a part of the original manuscript group.\n         (Box 1) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eSERIES II. CORRESPONDENCE \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eA. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eFamily, 1920-1960\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eThe correspondence between Luther and Johnella Jackson\n         are arranged chronologically from 1920-1950. Additionally,\n         letters, postcards and telegrams are arranged alphabetically\n         by the other members of the family. (Boxes 1-5) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eB. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eBusiness, 1922-1950\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eOffice correspondence, extensive, arranged\n         chronologically. (Boxes 5-12) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eC. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003ePersonal, 1918- 1960\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eLetters arranged alphabetically by writer. (Boxes 13-16)\n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eSERIES III. FINANCIAL \u0026amp; LEGAL \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eFamily bills, tax statements, school bills and stocks.\n         Arranged by type. Copyright for Jackson's \n         \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eNegro Office Holders in Virginia,\n         1865-1895\u003c/title\u003e(Box 17) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eSERIES IV. ORGANIZATIONAL AFFILIATIONS \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eA. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eThe Virginia Voters League,\n         1934-1950\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eLetters, postcards, and telegrams arranged by county,\n         and city. Records include minutes and reports. (Boxes 18-27) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eB. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eThe Virginia Teachers Association Office\n         of the \"Civic Education Secretaries Office,\" 1941- 1950\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eThe Association for the Study of Negro Life and History,\n         Inc., 1923-1950 (Boxes 28-34) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eC. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eCorrespondence with Carter G.\n         Woodson\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eArranged chronologically. Other correspondence arranged\n         by county, City, and organization. (Boxes 35-41) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eD. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eThe NAACP, 1937- 1950\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eCorrespondence with officials of the NAACP (state and\n         local), arranged chronologically. (Box 42) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eE. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eThe I.B.P.O.E. of W.(the Elks),\n         1943-1950\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eGeneral correspondence arranged chronologically and the\n         Lodge's alphabetically by lodge. (Box 43) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eF. \n         \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eThe Virginia World War II History\n         Commission, 1944-1948\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eCorrespondence, minutes and reports of the commission\n         arranged chronologically. Some personal war service records\n         arranged alphabetically. Photographs in container 109. Numbers\n         on folders correspond with folder numbers in the original\n         series. (Box 44) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eG. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eThe Southern Regional Council, 1942-\n         1950\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eCorrespondence arranged chronologically; minutes for\n         some meetings. (Box 45) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eH. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eThe Negro Organizational Society, 1941-\n         1950\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eCorrespondence with the president and field secretaries,\n         minutes (1944-1949) arranged chronologically. (Box 46) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eI. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eThe Committee for Virginia,\n         1944-1950\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eLetters arranged chronologically, a few minutes,\n         reports. (Box 47) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eJ. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eThe Petersburg Negro Business League,\n         1935-1946\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eCorrespondence between Jackson, national and local\n         leaders. Chronologically arranged; one article, one report and\n         one skit. (Box 48) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eK. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eThe Virginia Society for Research,\n         1942-1950\u003c/emph\u003e(Box 48) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eL. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eThe Petersburg Community Choir\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eA history, a financial report and membership rosters.\n         Photographs in container 109. (Box 48) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eM. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eThe Southern School for Workers,\n         1944-1949\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eCorrespondence arranged chronologically. (Box 48) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eN. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eThe Old Dominion Medical Society\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eNames of some of the members. (Box 48) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eO. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eThe Petersburg Interracial Committee,\n         1948\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eOne letter and a proposed constitution. (Box 48) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eSERIES V. MATERIAL RELATING TO THE DEATH OF LUTHER\n         JACKSON \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eLetters, telegrams and postcards, arranged\n         chronologically. One box of sympathy cards and one of floral\n         cards. (Boxes 49 \u0026amp; 50) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eSERIES VI. RESEARCH DATA: COLLECTED \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eA. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eBlacks voting in the South,\n         1947-1948\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eLetters arranged alphabetically by state and then\n         chronologically within the state. (Box 50) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eB. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eThe Butler Papers, 1813-1888\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eTax receipts, identification papers, general receipts\n         and a marriage license. Chronologically arranged. (Box 51) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eC. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eThe Dews Papers, 1802-1880\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eDeeds for properties, tax receipts and general receipts,\n         arranged chronologically. (Box 52) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eD. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eThe Layton Papers, 1861-1898\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eTax receipts, deeds for properties, teaching\n         certificates. Arranged chronologically. (Box 53) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eE. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eThe Woolridge Papers, 1883-1910\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eTax receipts and general receipts. Few items about the\n         \"Jordan Baptist Church.\" Chronologically arranged. (Box 54) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eF. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eBy County\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003ePapers concerning ante and postpellum blacks in some\n         Virginia Counties. Identification papers, receipts. Arranged\n         chronologically within each county and then arranged\n         alphabetically by county also. (Boxes 55-56) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eG. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eBy City\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eThe same as above. Arranged alphabetically by city and\n         then chronologically within each city. (Box 57) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eH. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eMiscellaneous\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003ePapers of antebellum free blacks and slaves. Receipts,\n         identification papers, arranged chronologically. (Box 58) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eI. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003ePrinted and Diary\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003ePrinted pamphlets; handwritten diary belonging to Samuel\n         T. Miller, a missionary in South Africa, 1881-1882. (Box 59) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eJ. \n         \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eResearch Notes\u003c/emph\u003e(Box 60) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eK. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eLedgers General\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eStockholders ledges, one ledger used as a news clipping\n         scrapbook. (Box 61) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eL. \n         \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eNotebooks\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eHandwritten and typed data, no arrangement, subject\n         varies. (Boxes 62- 63) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eSERIES VII. MATERIAL WRITTEN BY LUTHER P. JACKSON \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eA. \n         \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eNews articles\u003c/emph\u003e: \n         \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eThe Journal and\n         Guide\u003c/title\u003e(Norfolk,VA), 1942-1947 \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eTypewritten news column. Arranged chronologically. Box\n         list available. (Boxes 64- 66) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eB. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eNews Articles: Various Papers\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eHandwritten and typed sheets, chronological order, some\n         without titles. Box list available. (Box 66) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eC. \n         \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eArticles in Journal\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003ePublished items, handwritten and typed, copy of printed\n         articles. (Box 66) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eD. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eAddresses\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eTyped and handwritten speeches, arranged\n         chronologically. (Box 67) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eE. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003ePapers, Reports, and Lecture Notes\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eVarious papers and reports, few lecture notes, skits,\n         radio broadcast, handwritten and typed;separated by type, but\n         otherwise there is no arrangement. (Box 67) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eF. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eUnpublished\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003ePapers and term papers, essay, handwritten and typed; no\n         arrangement. (Box 68) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eG. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eBooks\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eTypewritten manuscripts. (Boxes 69- 70) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eSERIES VIII. MATERIAL WRITTEN BY OTHER MEMBERS OF THE\n         FAMILY \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eArticles written by Luther P. Jackson Jr. (Box 71) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eSERIES IX. AWARDS \u0026amp; GRADES \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eFamily awards and a few grades of some family members.\n         (Box 72) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eSERIES X. PRINTED \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eBroadsides, leaflets, programs relating to Jackson. (Box\n         73) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eSERIES XI. VISUAL \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eA. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003ePhotographs\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eFamily, friends and Va. World War II History Commision,\n         organizations; some unidentifiable. (Box 74-76) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eB. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003ePrinter's Blocks\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eWood cuts used for publication. (Boxes 77- 80) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eSERIES XII. ARTIFACTS \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eCufflinks, tie clamp, neck scarf, doctoral gown, hood\n         and mortarboard. (Box 81) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eSERIES XII. MEMORABILIA \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eBaby books, collected programs, Christmas, general\n         greeting and get-well cards, etc. Arranged by type. (Boxes\n         82-84) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eSERIES XIV. NEWSCLIPPINGS \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eLoose newsclippings from various newspapers on a variety\n         of subjects, no arrangement (Boxes 85) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eSERIES XV. OVERSIZED ITEMS \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eNewspaper, awards and research data.\u003c/p\u003e\n    "]}]}},"label":"Breadcrumbs"}}},"links":{"self":"https://search.arvasarchive.org/catalog/vipets_vipets00009_c01_c03"}},{"id":"vipets_vipets00009_c01_c02","type":"Sub-Series","attributes":{"title":"Biographical Data--Funeral Service\n                  Programs \n                  n.d.","breadcrumbs":{"id":"https://search.arvasarchive.org/catalog/vipets_vipets00009_c01_c02#breadcrumbs","type":"document_value","attributes":{"value":{"ref_ssi":"vipets_vipets00009_c01_c02","ref_ssm":["vipets_vipets00009_c01_c02"],"id":"vipets_vipets00009_c01_c02","ead_ssi":"vipets_vipets00009","_root_":"vipets_vipets00009","_nest_parent_":"vipets_vipets00009_c01","parent_ssi":"vipets_vipets00009_c01","parent_ssim":["Luther Porter Jackson Papers, \n         \n         1772-1960","SERIES I. 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BIOGRAPHICAL DATA \n         The first five folders contain writings about Jackson.\n         Some material is not a part of the original manuscript group.\n         (Box 1) \n         SERIES II. CORRESPONDENCE \n         A. \n         Family, 1920-1960The correspondence between Luther and Johnella Jackson\n         are arranged chronologically from 1920-1950. Additionally,\n         letters, postcards and telegrams are arranged alphabetically\n         by the other members of the family. (Boxes 1-5) \n         B. \n         Business, 1922-1950Office correspondence, extensive, arranged\n         chronologically. (Boxes 5-12) \n         C. \n         Personal, 1918- 1960Letters arranged alphabetically by writer. (Boxes 13-16)\n         SERIES III. FINANCIAL \u0026 LEGAL \n         Family bills, tax statements, school bills and stocks.\n         Arranged by type. Copyright for Jackson's \n         Negro Office Holders in Virginia,\n         1865-1895(Box 17) \n         SERIES IV. ORGANIZATIONAL AFFILIATIONS \n         A. \n         The Virginia Voters League,\n         1934-1950Letters, postcards, and telegrams arranged by county,\n         and city. Records include minutes and reports. (Boxes 18-27) \n         B. \n         The Virginia Teachers Association Office\n         of the \"Civic Education Secretaries Office,\" 1941- 1950The Association for the Study of Negro Life and History,\n         Inc., 1923-1950 (Boxes 28-34) \n         C. \n         Correspondence with Carter G.\n         WoodsonArranged chronologically. Other correspondence arranged\n         by county, City, and organization. (Boxes 35-41) \n         D. \n         The NAACP, 1937- 1950Correspondence with officials of the NAACP (state and\n         local), arranged chronologically. (Box 42) \n         E. \n         The I.B.P.O.E. of W.(the Elks),\n         1943-1950General correspondence arranged chronologically and the\n         Lodge's alphabetically by lodge. (Box 43) \n         F. \n         The Virginia World War II History\n         Commission, 1944-1948Correspondence, minutes and reports of the commission\n         arranged chronologically. Some personal war service records\n         arranged alphabetically. Photographs in container 109. Numbers\n         on folders correspond with folder numbers in the original\n         series. (Box 44) \n         G. \n         The Southern Regional Council, 1942-\n         1950Correspondence arranged chronologically; minutes for\n         some meetings. (Box 45) \n         H. \n         The Negro Organizational Society, 1941-\n         1950Correspondence with the president and field secretaries,\n         minutes (1944-1949) arranged chronologically. (Box 46) \n         I. \n         The Committee for Virginia,\n         1944-1950Letters arranged chronologically, a few minutes,\n         reports. (Box 47) \n         J. \n         The Petersburg Negro Business League,\n         1935-1946Correspondence between Jackson, national and local\n         leaders. Chronologically arranged; one article, one report and\n         one skit. (Box 48) \n         K. \n         The Virginia Society for Research,\n         1942-1950(Box 48) \n         L. \n         The Petersburg Community ChoirA history, a financial report and membership rosters.\n         Photographs in container 109. (Box 48) \n         M. \n         The Southern School for Workers,\n         1944-1949Correspondence arranged chronologically. (Box 48) \n         N. \n         The Old Dominion Medical SocietyNames of some of the members. (Box 48) \n         O. \n         The Petersburg Interracial Committee,\n         1948One letter and a proposed constitution. (Box 48) \n         SERIES V. MATERIAL RELATING TO THE DEATH OF LUTHER\n         JACKSON \n         Letters, telegrams and postcards, arranged\n         chronologically. One box of sympathy cards and one of floral\n         cards. (Boxes 49 \u0026 50) \n         SERIES VI. RESEARCH DATA: COLLECTED \n         A. \n         Blacks voting in the South,\n         1947-1948Letters arranged alphabetically by state and then\n         chronologically within the state. (Box 50) \n         B. \n         The Butler Papers, 1813-1888Tax receipts, identification papers, general receipts\n         and a marriage license. Chronologically arranged. (Box 51) \n         C. \n         The Dews Papers, 1802-1880Deeds for properties, tax receipts and general receipts,\n         arranged chronologically. (Box 52) \n         D. \n         The Layton Papers, 1861-1898Tax receipts, deeds for properties, teaching\n         certificates. Arranged chronologically. (Box 53) \n         E. \n         The Woolridge Papers, 1883-1910Tax receipts and general receipts. Few items about the\n         \"Jordan Baptist Church.\" Chronologically arranged. (Box 54) \n         F. \n         By CountyPapers concerning ante and postpellum blacks in some\n         Virginia Counties. Identification papers, receipts. Arranged\n         chronologically within each county and then arranged\n         alphabetically by county also. (Boxes 55-56) \n         G. \n         By CityThe same as above. Arranged alphabetically by city and\n         then chronologically within each city. (Box 57) \n         H. \n         MiscellaneousPapers of antebellum free blacks and slaves. Receipts,\n         identification papers, arranged chronologically. (Box 58) \n         I. \n         Printed and DiaryPrinted pamphlets; handwritten diary belonging to Samuel\n         T. Miller, a missionary in South Africa, 1881-1882. (Box 59) \n         J. \n         Research Notes(Box 60) \n         K. \n         Ledgers GeneralStockholders ledges, one ledger used as a news clipping\n         scrapbook. (Box 61) \n         L. \n         NotebooksHandwritten and typed data, no arrangement, subject\n         varies. (Boxes 62- 63) \n         SERIES VII. MATERIAL WRITTEN BY LUTHER P. JACKSON \n         A. \n         News articles: \n         The Journal and\n         Guide(Norfolk,VA), 1942-1947 \n         Typewritten news column. Arranged chronologically. Box\n         list available. (Boxes 64- 66) \n         B. \n         News Articles: Various PapersHandwritten and typed sheets, chronological order, some\n         without titles. Box list available. (Box 66) \n         C. \n         Articles in JournalPublished items, handwritten and typed, copy of printed\n         articles. (Box 66) \n         D. \n         AddressesTyped and handwritten speeches, arranged\n         chronologically. (Box 67) \n         E. \n         Papers, Reports, and Lecture NotesVarious papers and reports, few lecture notes, skits,\n         radio broadcast, handwritten and typed;separated by type, but\n         otherwise there is no arrangement. (Box 67) \n         F. \n         UnpublishedPapers and term papers, essay, handwritten and typed; no\n         arrangement. (Box 68) \n         G. \n         BooksTypewritten manuscripts. (Boxes 69- 70) \n         SERIES VIII. MATERIAL WRITTEN BY OTHER MEMBERS OF THE\n         FAMILY \n         Articles written by Luther P. Jackson Jr. (Box 71) \n         SERIES IX. AWARDS \u0026 GRADES \n         Family awards and a few grades of some family members.\n         (Box 72) \n         SERIES X. PRINTED \n         Broadsides, leaflets, programs relating to Jackson. (Box\n         73) \n         SERIES XI. VISUAL \n         A. \n         PhotographsFamily, friends and Va. World War II History Commision,\n         organizations; some unidentifiable. (Box 74-76) \n         B. \n         Printer's BlocksWood cuts used for publication. (Boxes 77- 80) \n         SERIES XII. ARTIFACTS \n         Cufflinks, tie clamp, neck scarf, doctoral gown, hood\n         and mortarboard. (Box 81) \n         SERIES XII. MEMORABILIA \n         Baby books, collected programs, Christmas, general\n         greeting and get-well cards, etc. Arranged by type. (Boxes\n         82-84) \n         SERIES XIV. NEWSCLIPPINGS \n         Loose newsclippings from various newspapers on a variety\n         of subjects, no arrangement (Boxes 85) \n         SERIES XV. OVERSIZED ITEMS \n         Newspaper, awards and research data.","Luther Porter Jackson Sr. was born July 11, 1892 in\n         Lexington, Kentucky. He was the ninth child of Delilah\n         (Culvrson) Jackson and Edward Jackson. He early schooling was\n         at Chandler Normal School in Lexington, where he completed his\n         studies in 1910. Upon completion of his secondary education he\n         entered Fisk University where he received the A.B. degree in\n         1914. He remained at Fisk for another semester and in 1916 was\n         awarded the A.M. degree.","In 1915, at the ripe old age of twenty-three, he began his\n         teaching career at Vorhees Industrial School, Denmark, South\n         Carolina, where he was also Director of the Academic\n         Department. Jackson left South Carolina in 1918 and joined the\n         staff of the Topeka Industrial Institute, Topeka, Kansas, as\n         Instructor of history and music.","Desiring more education, he returned to the east and sought\n         graduate training at Columbia University in 1920. Here he was\n         to receive one of his many setbacks, which took in stride and\n         proceeded to correct. Writing to a former instructor at Fisk,\n         Jackson stated that Columbia did not consider his A.B. and\n         A.M. from Fisk up to their standards. He, therefore, enrolled\n         for one year at New York City College. Finally, in 1921, he\n         began his studies at Columbia, where he was graduated from\n         their Teachers College in 1922.","After completing his second masters degree, Luther Jackson\n         joined the faculty of what was then the Virginia Normal and\n         Industrial Institute, now Virginia State University. While on\n         staff of the university, Luther Jackson continued his studies,\n         first at Columbia University and then at the University of\n         Chicago, where he received the Ph.D. in history in 1937. Soon\n         after arrival at V.N. \u0026 I.I., Jackson took over the\n         College High School and directed its activities from\n         1923-1928. He headed the history department from 1930-1950,\n         formed the \" League of Negro Voters\" in 1934, and in 1937\n         organized the \" Petersburg Business League\", which became the\n         Virginia Trade Association in 1941.","In 1935, Carter G. Woodson asked Luther Jackson to head all\n         fund-raising activities for the Association for the Study of\n         Negro Life and History. As chairman of the Virginia chapter,\n         Jackson went on to establish that chapter as one of the most\n         productive of all state chapters. Somehow he still found time\n         to conduct the Petersburg Community Choir of 100 voices, have\n         his doctoral dissertation, write a column for \n         The Journal and Guide(Norfolk,\n         Virginia) under the general heading of \"Rights and Duties in a\n         Democracy\" between 1942 until 1948. Although he was now\n         holding down enough work for two people, Jackson was appointed\n         to the Virginia World War II History Commission in 1944 and\n         worked with the N.A.A.C.P, which led to his receiving a plague\n         for service in 1948.","Jackson authored these books: \n         Free Negro Labor and Property Holding\n         in Virginia, 1830-1860(1942) \n         The History of the Virginia Stated\n         Teachers Association(1937) \n         Negro Office-Holders in Virginia,\n         1865-1895(1945) \n         A Short History of the Gillfield\n         Baptist Church of Petersburg, Virginia(1941) \n         Virginia Negro Soldiers and Seaman in\n         the Revolutionary War(1944)","In addition to joining the faculty, Luther Jackson married\n         a young lady whom he had met while they were both students at\n         Fisk University. The young lady was Johnella M. Frazer\n         (1897-), a native of Shelbyville, Kentucky, the daughter of\n         Laura and Patterson Tilford Frazer; her father was President\n         of Hopkinsville College in Kentucky. Mrs. Jackson completed\n         the conservatory course at Fisk at the age of seventeen(17)\n         and toured with the Fisk \"Jubilee Singers\" for two years under\n         John Work. She joined the staff of Virginia Normal and\n         Industrial Institute in 1916, a full nine years before there\n         was a music department, as the University's first full time\n         instructor of piano.","Mrs. Jackson, like Luther, also recognized the need for\n         additional training. During the summer vacation she studied at\n         Temple University at the Chicago Music College and at Columbia\n         University. She remained at Virginia State University for\n         forty-nine years, retiring in 1965.","Additional Biographical Data:1. Lucious Edwards, Jr.\" The Luther Porter Jackson,\n         Sr.(1892-1950) Papers\" (paper presented at the 63rd meeting of\n         the Association for the Study of Afro-American Life and\n         History, Los Angeles, CA, October 13, 1978) \n         2. Marva D. Curtis, \"The Virginia Voters League\"\n         (unpublished masters thesis, Virginia State University, 1979) \n         3. Lucious Edwards, Jr., \"Luther Jackson Leaves a Legacy\n         of History in Papers to Virginia State University,\" \n         Progress Index, February\n         26,1980, p.4.","The Luther Porter Jackson are one of the most valuable\n         manuscript groups from a historical point of view in the\n         nation, for this former professor of history at Virginia State\n         University lived and worked during an era when the concept of\n         black inferiority was the accepted rule. In addition, this was\n         the time of \"Jim Crowism.\" Segregation was not \"de facto,\" it\n         was legal and challenged by few people, black and white.","During the major time span of these papers, 1920-1950, a\n         number of political and civil rights organizations developed\n         into potent forces and others were born: the NAACP, the Negro\n         Organizational Society, the Southern Regional Council, and the\n         Southern School for Workers. This manuscript group is rich in\n         correspondence with most of the leaders of these movements.\n         Some of the correspondence includes Walter White, Lorenzo C.\n         White, P. Bernard Young, Gordon Hancock and others.","Correspondence with Virginia based political and civil\n         rights groups is strong and gives a good picture of the tempo\n         of the era in the State: the Virginia Voters League, the\n         Committee for Virginia, the Petersburg Negro Business\n         League.","In addition to correspondence with major political and\n         civil rights organizations, Jackson maintained as interesting\n         relationship with others across the U.S. The business or\n         office correspondence of Luther P. Jackson from 1920-1950\n         include correspondence with John Hope Franklin, W.E.B. DuBois,\n         Hugh Smythe, Helen Edmonds, P. Bernard Young, E. Franklin\n         Frazier, Charles S. Johnson, Rayford Logan, Alrutheus Ambush\n         Taylor, Lorenzo J. Green and others.","The collection also consists of ledgers, pamphlets,\n         financial and legal documents, photographs, speeches,\n         newspaper articles, cards, telegrams, notebooks, artifacts and\n         Jackson's research materials.","Jackson collected personal papers of ante-bellum and\n         post-bellum black families in Virginia: The Butler Papers, the\n         Layton Papers, and the Stephen Wooldrige Papers. In his\n         research of free black property owners in Virginia, he\n         acquired a substantial amount of materials from various\n         counties and cities of the Commonwealth of Virginia.","This box contains articles about Negroes in the\n                  United States, race vote in Tampa, colored men's\n                  progressive club, Negro principal to stay as school\n                  integrates, a sample form of application for\n                  registration to vote in the state of Louisiana. A \n                  Virginia Statesmanfor\n                  April 21, 1950, the \n                  Southern Patriot, New\n                  Orleans, Louisiana, December 1948. \"The Boswell\n                  Amendment: Reaction in Alabama,\" \n                  Virginias Journal and\n                  GuideApril 22, 1950, the Progress Index.","There are no restrictions.","The Luther Porter Jackson papers\n         include documents collected by Jackson to support his research\n         as well as the correspondence produced by Dr. and Mrs. Jackson\n         in connection with their work, interest, and friends. They\n         reflect Luther Jackson's life as a professor and researcher of\n         history and his connections with various political and\n         educational organizations; the official records of the\n         Virginia Voters League and the official records of all fund\n         raising for the Virginia Branch of the Association for the\n         Study of Negro Life and History Inc.","English"],"collection_title_tesim":["Luther Porter Jackson Papers, \n         \n         1772-1960"],"collection_ssim":["Luther Porter Jackson Papers, \n         \n         1772-1960"],"level_ssm":["collection"],"level_ssim":["Collection"],"unitid_ssm":["1952-l"],"unitid_tesim":["1952-l"],"repository_ssm":["Virginia State University"],"repository_ssim":["Virginia State University"],"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_heading_ssm":["Organization"],"arrangement_tesim":["SERIES I. BIOGRAPHICAL DATA \n         The first five folders contain writings about Jackson.\n         Some material is not a part of the original manuscript group.\n         (Box 1) \n         SERIES II. CORRESPONDENCE \n         A. \n         Family, 1920-1960The correspondence between Luther and Johnella Jackson\n         are arranged chronologically from 1920-1950. Additionally,\n         letters, postcards and telegrams are arranged alphabetically\n         by the other members of the family. (Boxes 1-5) \n         B. \n         Business, 1922-1950Office correspondence, extensive, arranged\n         chronologically. (Boxes 5-12) \n         C. \n         Personal, 1918- 1960Letters arranged alphabetically by writer. (Boxes 13-16)\n         SERIES III. FINANCIAL \u0026 LEGAL \n         Family bills, tax statements, school bills and stocks.\n         Arranged by type. Copyright for Jackson's \n         Negro Office Holders in Virginia,\n         1865-1895(Box 17) \n         SERIES IV. ORGANIZATIONAL AFFILIATIONS \n         A. \n         The Virginia Voters League,\n         1934-1950Letters, postcards, and telegrams arranged by county,\n         and city. Records include minutes and reports. (Boxes 18-27) \n         B. \n         The Virginia Teachers Association Office\n         of the \"Civic Education Secretaries Office,\" 1941- 1950The Association for the Study of Negro Life and History,\n         Inc., 1923-1950 (Boxes 28-34) \n         C. \n         Correspondence with Carter G.\n         WoodsonArranged chronologically. Other correspondence arranged\n         by county, City, and organization. (Boxes 35-41) \n         D. \n         The NAACP, 1937- 1950Correspondence with officials of the NAACP (state and\n         local), arranged chronologically. (Box 42) \n         E. \n         The I.B.P.O.E. of W.(the Elks),\n         1943-1950General correspondence arranged chronologically and the\n         Lodge's alphabetically by lodge. (Box 43) \n         F. \n         The Virginia World War II History\n         Commission, 1944-1948Correspondence, minutes and reports of the commission\n         arranged chronologically. Some personal war service records\n         arranged alphabetically. Photographs in container 109. Numbers\n         on folders correspond with folder numbers in the original\n         series. (Box 44) \n         G. \n         The Southern Regional Council, 1942-\n         1950Correspondence arranged chronologically; minutes for\n         some meetings. (Box 45) \n         H. \n         The Negro Organizational Society, 1941-\n         1950Correspondence with the president and field secretaries,\n         minutes (1944-1949) arranged chronologically. (Box 46) \n         I. \n         The Committee for Virginia,\n         1944-1950Letters arranged chronologically, a few minutes,\n         reports. (Box 47) \n         J. \n         The Petersburg Negro Business League,\n         1935-1946Correspondence between Jackson, national and local\n         leaders. Chronologically arranged; one article, one report and\n         one skit. (Box 48) \n         K. \n         The Virginia Society for Research,\n         1942-1950(Box 48) \n         L. \n         The Petersburg Community ChoirA history, a financial report and membership rosters.\n         Photographs in container 109. (Box 48) \n         M. \n         The Southern School for Workers,\n         1944-1949Correspondence arranged chronologically. (Box 48) \n         N. \n         The Old Dominion Medical SocietyNames of some of the members. (Box 48) \n         O. \n         The Petersburg Interracial Committee,\n         1948One letter and a proposed constitution. (Box 48) \n         SERIES V. MATERIAL RELATING TO THE DEATH OF LUTHER\n         JACKSON \n         Letters, telegrams and postcards, arranged\n         chronologically. One box of sympathy cards and one of floral\n         cards. (Boxes 49 \u0026 50) \n         SERIES VI. RESEARCH DATA: COLLECTED \n         A. \n         Blacks voting in the South,\n         1947-1948Letters arranged alphabetically by state and then\n         chronologically within the state. (Box 50) \n         B. \n         The Butler Papers, 1813-1888Tax receipts, identification papers, general receipts\n         and a marriage license. Chronologically arranged. (Box 51) \n         C. \n         The Dews Papers, 1802-1880Deeds for properties, tax receipts and general receipts,\n         arranged chronologically. (Box 52) \n         D. \n         The Layton Papers, 1861-1898Tax receipts, deeds for properties, teaching\n         certificates. Arranged chronologically. (Box 53) \n         E. \n         The Woolridge Papers, 1883-1910Tax receipts and general receipts. Few items about the\n         \"Jordan Baptist Church.\" Chronologically arranged. (Box 54) \n         F. \n         By CountyPapers concerning ante and postpellum blacks in some\n         Virginia Counties. Identification papers, receipts. Arranged\n         chronologically within each county and then arranged\n         alphabetically by county also. (Boxes 55-56) \n         G. \n         By CityThe same as above. Arranged alphabetically by city and\n         then chronologically within each city. (Box 57) \n         H. \n         MiscellaneousPapers of antebellum free blacks and slaves. Receipts,\n         identification papers, arranged chronologically. (Box 58) \n         I. \n         Printed and DiaryPrinted pamphlets; handwritten diary belonging to Samuel\n         T. Miller, a missionary in South Africa, 1881-1882. (Box 59) \n         J. \n         Research Notes(Box 60) \n         K. \n         Ledgers GeneralStockholders ledges, one ledger used as a news clipping\n         scrapbook. (Box 61) \n         L. \n         NotebooksHandwritten and typed data, no arrangement, subject\n         varies. (Boxes 62- 63) \n         SERIES VII. MATERIAL WRITTEN BY LUTHER P. JACKSON \n         A. \n         News articles: \n         The Journal and\n         Guide(Norfolk,VA), 1942-1947 \n         Typewritten news column. Arranged chronologically. Box\n         list available. (Boxes 64- 66) \n         B. \n         News Articles: Various PapersHandwritten and typed sheets, chronological order, some\n         without titles. Box list available. (Box 66) \n         C. \n         Articles in JournalPublished items, handwritten and typed, copy of printed\n         articles. (Box 66) \n         D. \n         AddressesTyped and handwritten speeches, arranged\n         chronologically. (Box 67) \n         E. \n         Papers, Reports, and Lecture NotesVarious papers and reports, few lecture notes, skits,\n         radio broadcast, handwritten and typed;separated by type, but\n         otherwise there is no arrangement. (Box 67) \n         F. \n         UnpublishedPapers and term papers, essay, handwritten and typed; no\n         arrangement. (Box 68) \n         G. \n         BooksTypewritten manuscripts. (Boxes 69- 70) \n         SERIES VIII. MATERIAL WRITTEN BY OTHER MEMBERS OF THE\n         FAMILY \n         Articles written by Luther P. Jackson Jr. (Box 71) \n         SERIES IX. AWARDS \u0026 GRADES \n         Family awards and a few grades of some family members.\n         (Box 72) \n         SERIES X. PRINTED \n         Broadsides, leaflets, programs relating to Jackson. (Box\n         73) \n         SERIES XI. VISUAL \n         A. \n         PhotographsFamily, friends and Va. World War II History Commision,\n         organizations; some unidentifiable. (Box 74-76) \n         B. \n         Printer's BlocksWood cuts used for publication. (Boxes 77- 80) \n         SERIES XII. ARTIFACTS \n         Cufflinks, tie clamp, neck scarf, doctoral gown, hood\n         and mortarboard. (Box 81) \n         SERIES XII. MEMORABILIA \n         Baby books, collected programs, Christmas, general\n         greeting and get-well cards, etc. Arranged by type. (Boxes\n         82-84) \n         SERIES XIV. NEWSCLIPPINGS \n         Loose newsclippings from various newspapers on a variety\n         of subjects, no arrangement (Boxes 85) \n         SERIES XV. OVERSIZED ITEMS \n         Newspaper, awards and research data."],"bioghist_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eLuther Porter Jackson Sr. was born July 11, 1892 in\n         Lexington, Kentucky. He was the ninth child of Delilah\n         (Culvrson) Jackson and Edward Jackson. He early schooling was\n         at Chandler Normal School in Lexington, where he completed his\n         studies in 1910. Upon completion of his secondary education he\n         entered Fisk University where he received the A.B. degree in\n         1914. He remained at Fisk for another semester and in 1916 was\n         awarded the A.M. degree.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eIn 1915, at the ripe old age of twenty-three, he began his\n         teaching career at Vorhees Industrial School, Denmark, South\n         Carolina, where he was also Director of the Academic\n         Department. Jackson left South Carolina in 1918 and joined the\n         staff of the Topeka Industrial Institute, Topeka, Kansas, as\n         Instructor of history and music.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eDesiring more education, he returned to the east and sought\n         graduate training at Columbia University in 1920. Here he was\n         to receive one of his many setbacks, which took in stride and\n         proceeded to correct. Writing to a former instructor at Fisk,\n         Jackson stated that Columbia did not consider his A.B. and\n         A.M. from Fisk up to their standards. He, therefore, enrolled\n         for one year at New York City College. Finally, in 1921, he\n         began his studies at Columbia, where he was graduated from\n         their Teachers College in 1922.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eAfter completing his second masters degree, Luther Jackson\n         joined the faculty of what was then the Virginia Normal and\n         Industrial Institute, now Virginia State University. While on\n         staff of the university, Luther Jackson continued his studies,\n         first at Columbia University and then at the University of\n         Chicago, where he received the Ph.D. in history in 1937. Soon\n         after arrival at V.N. \u0026amp; I.I., Jackson took over the\n         College High School and directed its activities from\n         1923-1928. He headed the history department from 1930-1950,\n         formed the \" League of Negro Voters\" in 1934, and in 1937\n         organized the \" Petersburg Business League\", which became the\n         Virginia Trade Association in 1941.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eIn 1935, Carter G. Woodson asked Luther Jackson to head all\n         fund-raising activities for the Association for the Study of\n         Negro Life and History. As chairman of the Virginia chapter,\n         Jackson went on to establish that chapter as one of the most\n         productive of all state chapters. Somehow he still found time\n         to conduct the Petersburg Community Choir of 100 voices, have\n         his doctoral dissertation, write a column for \n         \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eThe Journal and Guide\u003c/title\u003e(Norfolk,\n         Virginia) under the general heading of \"Rights and Duties in a\n         Democracy\" between 1942 until 1948. Although he was now\n         holding down enough work for two people, Jackson was appointed\n         to the Virginia World War II History Commission in 1944 and\n         worked with the N.A.A.C.P, which led to his receiving a plague\n         for service in 1948.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eJackson authored these books: \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eFree Negro Labor and Property Holding\n         in Virginia, 1830-1860\u003c/title\u003e(1942) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eThe History of the Virginia Stated\n         Teachers Association\u003c/title\u003e(1937) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eNegro Office-Holders in Virginia,\n         1865-1895\u003c/title\u003e(1945) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eA Short History of the Gillfield\n         Baptist Church of Petersburg, Virginia\u003c/title\u003e(1941) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eVirginia Negro Soldiers and Seaman in\n         the Revolutionary War\u003c/title\u003e(1944) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eIn addition to joining the faculty, Luther Jackson married\n         a young lady whom he had met while they were both students at\n         Fisk University. The young lady was Johnella M. Frazer\n         (1897-), a native of Shelbyville, Kentucky, the daughter of\n         Laura and Patterson Tilford Frazer; her father was President\n         of Hopkinsville College in Kentucky. Mrs. Jackson completed\n         the conservatory course at Fisk at the age of seventeen(17)\n         and toured with the Fisk \"Jubilee Singers\" for two years under\n         John Work. She joined the staff of Virginia Normal and\n         Industrial Institute in 1916, a full nine years before there\n         was a music department, as the University's first full time\n         instructor of piano.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Jackson, like Luther, also recognized the need for\n         additional training. During the summer vacation she studied at\n         Temple University at the Chicago Music College and at Columbia\n         University. She remained at Virginia State University for\n         forty-nine years, retiring in 1965.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eAdditional Biographical Data:\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e1. Lucious Edwards, Jr.\" The Luther Porter Jackson,\n         Sr.(1892-1950) Papers\" (paper presented at the 63rd meeting of\n         the Association for the Study of Afro-American Life and\n         History, Los Angeles, CA, October 13, 1978) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e2. Marva D. Curtis, \"The Virginia Voters League\"\n         (unpublished masters thesis, Virginia State University, 1979) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e3. Lucious Edwards, Jr., \"Luther Jackson Leaves a Legacy\n         of History in Papers to Virginia State University,\" \n         \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eProgress Index\u003c/title\u003e, February\n         26,1980, p.4.\u003c/p\u003e\n    "],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical/Historical Information"],"bioghist_tesim":["Luther Porter Jackson Sr. was born July 11, 1892 in\n         Lexington, Kentucky. He was the ninth child of Delilah\n         (Culvrson) Jackson and Edward Jackson. He early schooling was\n         at Chandler Normal School in Lexington, where he completed his\n         studies in 1910. Upon completion of his secondary education he\n         entered Fisk University where he received the A.B. degree in\n         1914. He remained at Fisk for another semester and in 1916 was\n         awarded the A.M. degree.","In 1915, at the ripe old age of twenty-three, he began his\n         teaching career at Vorhees Industrial School, Denmark, South\n         Carolina, where he was also Director of the Academic\n         Department. Jackson left South Carolina in 1918 and joined the\n         staff of the Topeka Industrial Institute, Topeka, Kansas, as\n         Instructor of history and music.","Desiring more education, he returned to the east and sought\n         graduate training at Columbia University in 1920. Here he was\n         to receive one of his many setbacks, which took in stride and\n         proceeded to correct. Writing to a former instructor at Fisk,\n         Jackson stated that Columbia did not consider his A.B. and\n         A.M. from Fisk up to their standards. He, therefore, enrolled\n         for one year at New York City College. Finally, in 1921, he\n         began his studies at Columbia, where he was graduated from\n         their Teachers College in 1922.","After completing his second masters degree, Luther Jackson\n         joined the faculty of what was then the Virginia Normal and\n         Industrial Institute, now Virginia State University. While on\n         staff of the university, Luther Jackson continued his studies,\n         first at Columbia University and then at the University of\n         Chicago, where he received the Ph.D. in history in 1937. Soon\n         after arrival at V.N. \u0026 I.I., Jackson took over the\n         College High School and directed its activities from\n         1923-1928. He headed the history department from 1930-1950,\n         formed the \" League of Negro Voters\" in 1934, and in 1937\n         organized the \" Petersburg Business League\", which became the\n         Virginia Trade Association in 1941.","In 1935, Carter G. Woodson asked Luther Jackson to head all\n         fund-raising activities for the Association for the Study of\n         Negro Life and History. As chairman of the Virginia chapter,\n         Jackson went on to establish that chapter as one of the most\n         productive of all state chapters. Somehow he still found time\n         to conduct the Petersburg Community Choir of 100 voices, have\n         his doctoral dissertation, write a column for \n         The Journal and Guide(Norfolk,\n         Virginia) under the general heading of \"Rights and Duties in a\n         Democracy\" between 1942 until 1948. Although he was now\n         holding down enough work for two people, Jackson was appointed\n         to the Virginia World War II History Commission in 1944 and\n         worked with the N.A.A.C.P, which led to his receiving a plague\n         for service in 1948.","Jackson authored these books: \n         Free Negro Labor and Property Holding\n         in Virginia, 1830-1860(1942) \n         The History of the Virginia Stated\n         Teachers Association(1937) \n         Negro Office-Holders in Virginia,\n         1865-1895(1945) \n         A Short History of the Gillfield\n         Baptist Church of Petersburg, Virginia(1941) \n         Virginia Negro Soldiers and Seaman in\n         the Revolutionary War(1944)","In addition to joining the faculty, Luther Jackson married\n         a young lady whom he had met while they were both students at\n         Fisk University. The young lady was Johnella M. Frazer\n         (1897-), a native of Shelbyville, Kentucky, the daughter of\n         Laura and Patterson Tilford Frazer; her father was President\n         of Hopkinsville College in Kentucky. Mrs. Jackson completed\n         the conservatory course at Fisk at the age of seventeen(17)\n         and toured with the Fisk \"Jubilee Singers\" for two years under\n         John Work. She joined the staff of Virginia Normal and\n         Industrial Institute in 1916, a full nine years before there\n         was a music department, as the University's first full time\n         instructor of piano.","Mrs. Jackson, like Luther, also recognized the need for\n         additional training. During the summer vacation she studied at\n         Temple University at the Chicago Music College and at Columbia\n         University. She remained at Virginia State University for\n         forty-nine years, retiring in 1965.","Additional Biographical Data:1. Lucious Edwards, Jr.\" The Luther Porter Jackson,\n         Sr.(1892-1950) Papers\" (paper presented at the 63rd meeting of\n         the Association for the Study of Afro-American Life and\n         History, Los Angeles, CA, October 13, 1978) \n         2. Marva D. Curtis, \"The Virginia Voters League\"\n         (unpublished masters thesis, Virginia State University, 1979) \n         3. Lucious Edwards, Jr., \"Luther Jackson Leaves a Legacy\n         of History in Papers to Virginia State University,\" \n         Progress Index, February\n         26,1980, p.4."],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eLuther Porter Jackson Papers, 1772-1960, Accession\n            #1952-l, Special Collections and Archives, Johnston\n            Memorial Library, Virginia State University, Petersburg,\n            VA.\u003c/p\u003e\n      "],"prefercite_tesim":["Luther Porter Jackson Papers, 1772-1960, Accession\n            #1952-l, Special Collections and Archives, Johnston\n            Memorial Library, Virginia State University, Petersburg,\n            VA."],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe Luther Porter Jackson are one of the most valuable\n         manuscript groups from a historical point of view in the\n         nation, for this former professor of history at Virginia State\n         University lived and worked during an era when the concept of\n         black inferiority was the accepted rule. In addition, this was\n         the time of \"Jim Crowism.\" Segregation was not \"de facto,\" it\n         was legal and challenged by few people, black and white.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eDuring the major time span of these papers, 1920-1950, a\n         number of political and civil rights organizations developed\n         into potent forces and others were born: the NAACP, the Negro\n         Organizational Society, the Southern Regional Council, and the\n         Southern School for Workers. This manuscript group is rich in\n         correspondence with most of the leaders of these movements.\n         Some of the correspondence includes Walter White, Lorenzo C.\n         White, P. Bernard Young, Gordon Hancock and others.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence with Virginia based political and civil\n         rights groups is strong and gives a good picture of the tempo\n         of the era in the State: the Virginia Voters League, the\n         Committee for Virginia, the Petersburg Negro Business\n         League.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eIn addition to correspondence with major political and\n         civil rights organizations, Jackson maintained as interesting\n         relationship with others across the U.S. The business or\n         office correspondence of Luther P. Jackson from 1920-1950\n         include correspondence with John Hope Franklin, W.E.B. DuBois,\n         Hugh Smythe, Helen Edmonds, P. Bernard Young, E. Franklin\n         Frazier, Charles S. Johnson, Rayford Logan, Alrutheus Ambush\n         Taylor, Lorenzo J. Green and others.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eThe collection also consists of ledgers, pamphlets,\n         financial and legal documents, photographs, speeches,\n         newspaper articles, cards, telegrams, notebooks, artifacts and\n         Jackson's research materials.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eJackson collected personal papers of ante-bellum and\n         post-bellum black families in Virginia: The Butler Papers, the\n         Layton Papers, and the Stephen Wooldrige Papers. In his\n         research of free black property owners in Virginia, he\n         acquired a substantial amount of materials from various\n         counties and cities of the Commonwealth of Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e\n    ","\u003cp\u003eThis box contains articles about Negroes in the\n                  United States, race vote in Tampa, colored men's\n                  progressive club, Negro principal to stay as school\n                  integrates, a sample form of application for\n                  registration to vote in the state of Louisiana. A \n                  \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eVirginia Statesman\u003c/title\u003efor\n                  April 21, 1950, the \n                  \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eSouthern Patriot\u003c/title\u003e, New\n                  Orleans, Louisiana, December 1948. \"The Boswell\n                  Amendment: Reaction in Alabama,\" \n                  \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eVirginias Journal and\n                  Guide\u003c/title\u003eApril 22, 1950, the Progress Index.\u003c/p\u003e\n          "],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Content Information"],"scopecontent_tesim":["The Luther Porter Jackson are one of the most valuable\n         manuscript groups from a historical point of view in the\n         nation, for this former professor of history at Virginia State\n         University lived and worked during an era when the concept of\n         black inferiority was the accepted rule. In addition, this was\n         the time of \"Jim Crowism.\" Segregation was not \"de facto,\" it\n         was legal and challenged by few people, black and white.","During the major time span of these papers, 1920-1950, a\n         number of political and civil rights organizations developed\n         into potent forces and others were born: the NAACP, the Negro\n         Organizational Society, the Southern Regional Council, and the\n         Southern School for Workers. This manuscript group is rich in\n         correspondence with most of the leaders of these movements.\n         Some of the correspondence includes Walter White, Lorenzo C.\n         White, P. Bernard Young, Gordon Hancock and others.","Correspondence with Virginia based political and civil\n         rights groups is strong and gives a good picture of the tempo\n         of the era in the State: the Virginia Voters League, the\n         Committee for Virginia, the Petersburg Negro Business\n         League.","In addition to correspondence with major political and\n         civil rights organizations, Jackson maintained as interesting\n         relationship with others across the U.S. The business or\n         office correspondence of Luther P. Jackson from 1920-1950\n         include correspondence with John Hope Franklin, W.E.B. DuBois,\n         Hugh Smythe, Helen Edmonds, P. Bernard Young, E. Franklin\n         Frazier, Charles S. Johnson, Rayford Logan, Alrutheus Ambush\n         Taylor, Lorenzo J. Green and others.","The collection also consists of ledgers, pamphlets,\n         financial and legal documents, photographs, speeches,\n         newspaper articles, cards, telegrams, notebooks, artifacts and\n         Jackson's research materials.","Jackson collected personal papers of ante-bellum and\n         post-bellum black families in Virginia: The Butler Papers, the\n         Layton Papers, and the Stephen Wooldrige Papers. In his\n         research of free black property owners in Virginia, he\n         acquired a substantial amount of materials from various\n         counties and cities of the Commonwealth of Virginia.","This box contains articles about Negroes in the\n                  United States, race vote in Tampa, colored men's\n                  progressive club, Negro principal to stay as school\n                  integrates, a sample form of application for\n                  registration to vote in the state of Louisiana. A \n                  Virginia Statesmanfor\n                  April 21, 1950, the \n                  Southern Patriot, New\n                  Orleans, Louisiana, December 1948. \"The Boswell\n                  Amendment: Reaction in Alabama,\" \n                  Virginias Journal and\n                  GuideApril 22, 1950, the Progress Index."],"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 Luther Porter Jackson papers\n         include documents collected by Jackson to support his research\n         as well as the correspondence produced by Dr. and Mrs. Jackson\n         in connection with their work, interest, and friends. They\n         reflect Luther Jackson's life as a professor and researcher of\n         history and his connections with various political and\n         educational organizations; the official records of the\n         Virginia Voters League and the official records of all fund\n         raising for the Virginia Branch of the Association for the\n         Study of Negro Life and History Inc.\u003c/abstract\u003e\n    "],"abstract_tesim":["The Luther Porter Jackson papers\n         include documents collected by Jackson to support his research\n         as well as the correspondence produced by Dr. and Mrs. Jackson\n         in connection with their work, interest, and friends. They\n         reflect Luther Jackson's life as a professor and researcher of\n         history and his connections with various political and\n         educational organizations; the official records of the\n         Virginia Voters League and the official records of all fund\n         raising for the Virginia Branch of the Association for the\n         Study of Negro Life and History Inc."],"language_ssim":["English"],"total_component_count_is":2288,"online_item_count_is":0,"component_level_isim":[0],"sort_isi":0,"timestamp":"2026-06-23T07:05:55.361Z","arrangement_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eSERIES I. BIOGRAPHICAL DATA \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eThe first five folders contain writings about Jackson.\n         Some material is not a part of the original manuscript group.\n         (Box 1) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eSERIES II. CORRESPONDENCE \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eA. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eFamily, 1920-1960\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eThe correspondence between Luther and Johnella Jackson\n         are arranged chronologically from 1920-1950. Additionally,\n         letters, postcards and telegrams are arranged alphabetically\n         by the other members of the family. (Boxes 1-5) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eB. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eBusiness, 1922-1950\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eOffice correspondence, extensive, arranged\n         chronologically. (Boxes 5-12) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eC. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003ePersonal, 1918- 1960\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eLetters arranged alphabetically by writer. (Boxes 13-16)\n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eSERIES III. FINANCIAL \u0026amp; LEGAL \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eFamily bills, tax statements, school bills and stocks.\n         Arranged by type. Copyright for Jackson's \n         \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eNegro Office Holders in Virginia,\n         1865-1895\u003c/title\u003e(Box 17) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eSERIES IV. ORGANIZATIONAL AFFILIATIONS \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eA. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eThe Virginia Voters League,\n         1934-1950\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eLetters, postcards, and telegrams arranged by county,\n         and city. Records include minutes and reports. (Boxes 18-27) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eB. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eThe Virginia Teachers Association Office\n         of the \"Civic Education Secretaries Office,\" 1941- 1950\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eThe Association for the Study of Negro Life and History,\n         Inc., 1923-1950 (Boxes 28-34) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eC. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eCorrespondence with Carter G.\n         Woodson\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eArranged chronologically. Other correspondence arranged\n         by county, City, and organization. (Boxes 35-41) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eD. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eThe NAACP, 1937- 1950\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eCorrespondence with officials of the NAACP (state and\n         local), arranged chronologically. (Box 42) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eE. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eThe I.B.P.O.E. of W.(the Elks),\n         1943-1950\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eGeneral correspondence arranged chronologically and the\n         Lodge's alphabetically by lodge. (Box 43) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eF. \n         \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eThe Virginia World War II History\n         Commission, 1944-1948\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eCorrespondence, minutes and reports of the commission\n         arranged chronologically. Some personal war service records\n         arranged alphabetically. Photographs in container 109. Numbers\n         on folders correspond with folder numbers in the original\n         series. (Box 44) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eG. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eThe Southern Regional Council, 1942-\n         1950\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eCorrespondence arranged chronologically; minutes for\n         some meetings. (Box 45) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eH. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eThe Negro Organizational Society, 1941-\n         1950\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eCorrespondence with the president and field secretaries,\n         minutes (1944-1949) arranged chronologically. (Box 46) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eI. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eThe Committee for Virginia,\n         1944-1950\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eLetters arranged chronologically, a few minutes,\n         reports. (Box 47) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eJ. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eThe Petersburg Negro Business League,\n         1935-1946\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eCorrespondence between Jackson, national and local\n         leaders. Chronologically arranged; one article, one report and\n         one skit. (Box 48) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eK. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eThe Virginia Society for Research,\n         1942-1950\u003c/emph\u003e(Box 48) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eL. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eThe Petersburg Community Choir\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eA history, a financial report and membership rosters.\n         Photographs in container 109. (Box 48) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eM. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eThe Southern School for Workers,\n         1944-1949\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eCorrespondence arranged chronologically. (Box 48) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eN. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eThe Old Dominion Medical Society\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eNames of some of the members. (Box 48) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eO. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eThe Petersburg Interracial Committee,\n         1948\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eOne letter and a proposed constitution. (Box 48) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eSERIES V. MATERIAL RELATING TO THE DEATH OF LUTHER\n         JACKSON \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eLetters, telegrams and postcards, arranged\n         chronologically. One box of sympathy cards and one of floral\n         cards. (Boxes 49 \u0026amp; 50) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eSERIES VI. RESEARCH DATA: COLLECTED \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eA. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eBlacks voting in the South,\n         1947-1948\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eLetters arranged alphabetically by state and then\n         chronologically within the state. (Box 50) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eB. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eThe Butler Papers, 1813-1888\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eTax receipts, identification papers, general receipts\n         and a marriage license. Chronologically arranged. (Box 51) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eC. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eThe Dews Papers, 1802-1880\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eDeeds for properties, tax receipts and general receipts,\n         arranged chronologically. (Box 52) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eD. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eThe Layton Papers, 1861-1898\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eTax receipts, deeds for properties, teaching\n         certificates. Arranged chronologically. (Box 53) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eE. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eThe Woolridge Papers, 1883-1910\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eTax receipts and general receipts. Few items about the\n         \"Jordan Baptist Church.\" Chronologically arranged. (Box 54) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eF. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eBy County\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003ePapers concerning ante and postpellum blacks in some\n         Virginia Counties. Identification papers, receipts. Arranged\n         chronologically within each county and then arranged\n         alphabetically by county also. (Boxes 55-56) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eG. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eBy City\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eThe same as above. Arranged alphabetically by city and\n         then chronologically within each city. (Box 57) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eH. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eMiscellaneous\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003ePapers of antebellum free blacks and slaves. Receipts,\n         identification papers, arranged chronologically. (Box 58) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eI. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003ePrinted and Diary\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003ePrinted pamphlets; handwritten diary belonging to Samuel\n         T. Miller, a missionary in South Africa, 1881-1882. (Box 59) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eJ. \n         \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eResearch Notes\u003c/emph\u003e(Box 60) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eK. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eLedgers General\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eStockholders ledges, one ledger used as a news clipping\n         scrapbook. (Box 61) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eL. \n         \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eNotebooks\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eHandwritten and typed data, no arrangement, subject\n         varies. (Boxes 62- 63) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eSERIES VII. MATERIAL WRITTEN BY LUTHER P. JACKSON \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eA. \n         \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eNews articles\u003c/emph\u003e: \n         \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eThe Journal and\n         Guide\u003c/title\u003e(Norfolk,VA), 1942-1947 \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eTypewritten news column. Arranged chronologically. Box\n         list available. (Boxes 64- 66) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eB. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eNews Articles: Various Papers\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eHandwritten and typed sheets, chronological order, some\n         without titles. Box list available. (Box 66) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eC. \n         \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eArticles in Journal\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003ePublished items, handwritten and typed, copy of printed\n         articles. (Box 66) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eD. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eAddresses\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eTyped and handwritten speeches, arranged\n         chronologically. (Box 67) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eE. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003ePapers, Reports, and Lecture Notes\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eVarious papers and reports, few lecture notes, skits,\n         radio broadcast, handwritten and typed;separated by type, but\n         otherwise there is no arrangement. (Box 67) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eF. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eUnpublished\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003ePapers and term papers, essay, handwritten and typed; no\n         arrangement. (Box 68) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eG. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eBooks\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eTypewritten manuscripts. (Boxes 69- 70) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eSERIES VIII. MATERIAL WRITTEN BY OTHER MEMBERS OF THE\n         FAMILY \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eArticles written by Luther P. Jackson Jr. (Box 71) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eSERIES IX. AWARDS \u0026amp; GRADES \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eFamily awards and a few grades of some family members.\n         (Box 72) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eSERIES X. PRINTED \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eBroadsides, leaflets, programs relating to Jackson. (Box\n         73) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eSERIES XI. VISUAL \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eA. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003ePhotographs\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eFamily, friends and Va. World War II History Commision,\n         organizations; some unidentifiable. (Box 74-76) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eB. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003ePrinter's Blocks\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eWood cuts used for publication. (Boxes 77- 80) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eSERIES XII. ARTIFACTS \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eCufflinks, tie clamp, neck scarf, doctoral gown, hood\n         and mortarboard. (Box 81) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eSERIES XII. MEMORABILIA \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eBaby books, collected programs, Christmas, general\n         greeting and get-well cards, etc. Arranged by type. (Boxes\n         82-84) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eSERIES XIV. NEWSCLIPPINGS \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eLoose newsclippings from various newspapers on a variety\n         of subjects, no arrangement (Boxes 85) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eSERIES XV. OVERSIZED ITEMS \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eNewspaper, awards and research data.\u003c/p\u003e\n    "]}]}},"label":"Breadcrumbs"}}},"links":{"self":"https://search.arvasarchive.org/catalog/vipets_vipets00009_c01_c02"}},{"id":"vipets_vipets00009_c01_c07","type":"Sub-Series","attributes":{"title":"Biographical Data \n                  n.d.","breadcrumbs":{"id":"https://search.arvasarchive.org/catalog/vipets_vipets00009_c01_c07#breadcrumbs","type":"document_value","attributes":{"value":{"ref_ssi":"vipets_vipets00009_c01_c07","ref_ssm":["vipets_vipets00009_c01_c07"],"id":"vipets_vipets00009_c01_c07","ead_ssi":"vipets_vipets00009","_root_":"vipets_vipets00009","_nest_parent_":"vipets_vipets00009_c01","parent_ssi":"vipets_vipets00009_c01","parent_ssim":["Luther Porter Jackson Papers, \n         \n         1772-1960","SERIES I. 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BIOGRAPHICAL DATA \n         The first five folders contain writings about Jackson.\n         Some material is not a part of the original manuscript group.\n         (Box 1) \n         SERIES II. CORRESPONDENCE \n         A. \n         Family, 1920-1960The correspondence between Luther and Johnella Jackson\n         are arranged chronologically from 1920-1950. Additionally,\n         letters, postcards and telegrams are arranged alphabetically\n         by the other members of the family. (Boxes 1-5) \n         B. \n         Business, 1922-1950Office correspondence, extensive, arranged\n         chronologically. (Boxes 5-12) \n         C. \n         Personal, 1918- 1960Letters arranged alphabetically by writer. (Boxes 13-16)\n         SERIES III. FINANCIAL \u0026 LEGAL \n         Family bills, tax statements, school bills and stocks.\n         Arranged by type. Copyright for Jackson's \n         Negro Office Holders in Virginia,\n         1865-1895(Box 17) \n         SERIES IV. ORGANIZATIONAL AFFILIATIONS \n         A. \n         The Virginia Voters League,\n         1934-1950Letters, postcards, and telegrams arranged by county,\n         and city. Records include minutes and reports. (Boxes 18-27) \n         B. \n         The Virginia Teachers Association Office\n         of the \"Civic Education Secretaries Office,\" 1941- 1950The Association for the Study of Negro Life and History,\n         Inc., 1923-1950 (Boxes 28-34) \n         C. \n         Correspondence with Carter G.\n         WoodsonArranged chronologically. Other correspondence arranged\n         by county, City, and organization. (Boxes 35-41) \n         D. \n         The NAACP, 1937- 1950Correspondence with officials of the NAACP (state and\n         local), arranged chronologically. (Box 42) \n         E. \n         The I.B.P.O.E. of W.(the Elks),\n         1943-1950General correspondence arranged chronologically and the\n         Lodge's alphabetically by lodge. (Box 43) \n         F. \n         The Virginia World War II History\n         Commission, 1944-1948Correspondence, minutes and reports of the commission\n         arranged chronologically. Some personal war service records\n         arranged alphabetically. Photographs in container 109. Numbers\n         on folders correspond with folder numbers in the original\n         series. (Box 44) \n         G. \n         The Southern Regional Council, 1942-\n         1950Correspondence arranged chronologically; minutes for\n         some meetings. (Box 45) \n         H. \n         The Negro Organizational Society, 1941-\n         1950Correspondence with the president and field secretaries,\n         minutes (1944-1949) arranged chronologically. (Box 46) \n         I. \n         The Committee for Virginia,\n         1944-1950Letters arranged chronologically, a few minutes,\n         reports. (Box 47) \n         J. \n         The Petersburg Negro Business League,\n         1935-1946Correspondence between Jackson, national and local\n         leaders. Chronologically arranged; one article, one report and\n         one skit. (Box 48) \n         K. \n         The Virginia Society for Research,\n         1942-1950(Box 48) \n         L. \n         The Petersburg Community ChoirA history, a financial report and membership rosters.\n         Photographs in container 109. (Box 48) \n         M. \n         The Southern School for Workers,\n         1944-1949Correspondence arranged chronologically. (Box 48) \n         N. \n         The Old Dominion Medical SocietyNames of some of the members. (Box 48) \n         O. \n         The Petersburg Interracial Committee,\n         1948One letter and a proposed constitution. (Box 48) \n         SERIES V. MATERIAL RELATING TO THE DEATH OF LUTHER\n         JACKSON \n         Letters, telegrams and postcards, arranged\n         chronologically. One box of sympathy cards and one of floral\n         cards. (Boxes 49 \u0026 50) \n         SERIES VI. RESEARCH DATA: COLLECTED \n         A. \n         Blacks voting in the South,\n         1947-1948Letters arranged alphabetically by state and then\n         chronologically within the state. (Box 50) \n         B. \n         The Butler Papers, 1813-1888Tax receipts, identification papers, general receipts\n         and a marriage license. Chronologically arranged. (Box 51) \n         C. \n         The Dews Papers, 1802-1880Deeds for properties, tax receipts and general receipts,\n         arranged chronologically. (Box 52) \n         D. \n         The Layton Papers, 1861-1898Tax receipts, deeds for properties, teaching\n         certificates. Arranged chronologically. (Box 53) \n         E. \n         The Woolridge Papers, 1883-1910Tax receipts and general receipts. Few items about the\n         \"Jordan Baptist Church.\" Chronologically arranged. (Box 54) \n         F. \n         By CountyPapers concerning ante and postpellum blacks in some\n         Virginia Counties. Identification papers, receipts. Arranged\n         chronologically within each county and then arranged\n         alphabetically by county also. (Boxes 55-56) \n         G. \n         By CityThe same as above. Arranged alphabetically by city and\n         then chronologically within each city. (Box 57) \n         H. \n         MiscellaneousPapers of antebellum free blacks and slaves. Receipts,\n         identification papers, arranged chronologically. (Box 58) \n         I. \n         Printed and DiaryPrinted pamphlets; handwritten diary belonging to Samuel\n         T. Miller, a missionary in South Africa, 1881-1882. (Box 59) \n         J. \n         Research Notes(Box 60) \n         K. \n         Ledgers GeneralStockholders ledges, one ledger used as a news clipping\n         scrapbook. (Box 61) \n         L. \n         NotebooksHandwritten and typed data, no arrangement, subject\n         varies. (Boxes 62- 63) \n         SERIES VII. MATERIAL WRITTEN BY LUTHER P. JACKSON \n         A. \n         News articles: \n         The Journal and\n         Guide(Norfolk,VA), 1942-1947 \n         Typewritten news column. Arranged chronologically. Box\n         list available. (Boxes 64- 66) \n         B. \n         News Articles: Various PapersHandwritten and typed sheets, chronological order, some\n         without titles. Box list available. (Box 66) \n         C. \n         Articles in JournalPublished items, handwritten and typed, copy of printed\n         articles. (Box 66) \n         D. \n         AddressesTyped and handwritten speeches, arranged\n         chronologically. (Box 67) \n         E. \n         Papers, Reports, and Lecture NotesVarious papers and reports, few lecture notes, skits,\n         radio broadcast, handwritten and typed;separated by type, but\n         otherwise there is no arrangement. (Box 67) \n         F. \n         UnpublishedPapers and term papers, essay, handwritten and typed; no\n         arrangement. (Box 68) \n         G. \n         BooksTypewritten manuscripts. (Boxes 69- 70) \n         SERIES VIII. MATERIAL WRITTEN BY OTHER MEMBERS OF THE\n         FAMILY \n         Articles written by Luther P. Jackson Jr. (Box 71) \n         SERIES IX. AWARDS \u0026 GRADES \n         Family awards and a few grades of some family members.\n         (Box 72) \n         SERIES X. PRINTED \n         Broadsides, leaflets, programs relating to Jackson. (Box\n         73) \n         SERIES XI. VISUAL \n         A. \n         PhotographsFamily, friends and Va. World War II History Commision,\n         organizations; some unidentifiable. (Box 74-76) \n         B. \n         Printer's BlocksWood cuts used for publication. (Boxes 77- 80) \n         SERIES XII. ARTIFACTS \n         Cufflinks, tie clamp, neck scarf, doctoral gown, hood\n         and mortarboard. (Box 81) \n         SERIES XII. MEMORABILIA \n         Baby books, collected programs, Christmas, general\n         greeting and get-well cards, etc. Arranged by type. (Boxes\n         82-84) \n         SERIES XIV. NEWSCLIPPINGS \n         Loose newsclippings from various newspapers on a variety\n         of subjects, no arrangement (Boxes 85) \n         SERIES XV. OVERSIZED ITEMS \n         Newspaper, awards and research data.","Luther Porter Jackson Sr. was born July 11, 1892 in\n         Lexington, Kentucky. He was the ninth child of Delilah\n         (Culvrson) Jackson and Edward Jackson. He early schooling was\n         at Chandler Normal School in Lexington, where he completed his\n         studies in 1910. Upon completion of his secondary education he\n         entered Fisk University where he received the A.B. degree in\n         1914. He remained at Fisk for another semester and in 1916 was\n         awarded the A.M. degree.","In 1915, at the ripe old age of twenty-three, he began his\n         teaching career at Vorhees Industrial School, Denmark, South\n         Carolina, where he was also Director of the Academic\n         Department. Jackson left South Carolina in 1918 and joined the\n         staff of the Topeka Industrial Institute, Topeka, Kansas, as\n         Instructor of history and music.","Desiring more education, he returned to the east and sought\n         graduate training at Columbia University in 1920. Here he was\n         to receive one of his many setbacks, which took in stride and\n         proceeded to correct. Writing to a former instructor at Fisk,\n         Jackson stated that Columbia did not consider his A.B. and\n         A.M. from Fisk up to their standards. He, therefore, enrolled\n         for one year at New York City College. Finally, in 1921, he\n         began his studies at Columbia, where he was graduated from\n         their Teachers College in 1922.","After completing his second masters degree, Luther Jackson\n         joined the faculty of what was then the Virginia Normal and\n         Industrial Institute, now Virginia State University. While on\n         staff of the university, Luther Jackson continued his studies,\n         first at Columbia University and then at the University of\n         Chicago, where he received the Ph.D. in history in 1937. Soon\n         after arrival at V.N. \u0026 I.I., Jackson took over the\n         College High School and directed its activities from\n         1923-1928. He headed the history department from 1930-1950,\n         formed the \" League of Negro Voters\" in 1934, and in 1937\n         organized the \" Petersburg Business League\", which became the\n         Virginia Trade Association in 1941.","In 1935, Carter G. Woodson asked Luther Jackson to head all\n         fund-raising activities for the Association for the Study of\n         Negro Life and History. As chairman of the Virginia chapter,\n         Jackson went on to establish that chapter as one of the most\n         productive of all state chapters. Somehow he still found time\n         to conduct the Petersburg Community Choir of 100 voices, have\n         his doctoral dissertation, write a column for \n         The Journal and Guide(Norfolk,\n         Virginia) under the general heading of \"Rights and Duties in a\n         Democracy\" between 1942 until 1948. Although he was now\n         holding down enough work for two people, Jackson was appointed\n         to the Virginia World War II History Commission in 1944 and\n         worked with the N.A.A.C.P, which led to his receiving a plague\n         for service in 1948.","Jackson authored these books: \n         Free Negro Labor and Property Holding\n         in Virginia, 1830-1860(1942) \n         The History of the Virginia Stated\n         Teachers Association(1937) \n         Negro Office-Holders in Virginia,\n         1865-1895(1945) \n         A Short History of the Gillfield\n         Baptist Church of Petersburg, Virginia(1941) \n         Virginia Negro Soldiers and Seaman in\n         the Revolutionary War(1944)","In addition to joining the faculty, Luther Jackson married\n         a young lady whom he had met while they were both students at\n         Fisk University. The young lady was Johnella M. Frazer\n         (1897-), a native of Shelbyville, Kentucky, the daughter of\n         Laura and Patterson Tilford Frazer; her father was President\n         of Hopkinsville College in Kentucky. Mrs. Jackson completed\n         the conservatory course at Fisk at the age of seventeen(17)\n         and toured with the Fisk \"Jubilee Singers\" for two years under\n         John Work. She joined the staff of Virginia Normal and\n         Industrial Institute in 1916, a full nine years before there\n         was a music department, as the University's first full time\n         instructor of piano.","Mrs. Jackson, like Luther, also recognized the need for\n         additional training. During the summer vacation she studied at\n         Temple University at the Chicago Music College and at Columbia\n         University. She remained at Virginia State University for\n         forty-nine years, retiring in 1965.","Additional Biographical Data:1. Lucious Edwards, Jr.\" The Luther Porter Jackson,\n         Sr.(1892-1950) Papers\" (paper presented at the 63rd meeting of\n         the Association for the Study of Afro-American Life and\n         History, Los Angeles, CA, October 13, 1978) \n         2. Marva D. Curtis, \"The Virginia Voters League\"\n         (unpublished masters thesis, Virginia State University, 1979) \n         3. Lucious Edwards, Jr., \"Luther Jackson Leaves a Legacy\n         of History in Papers to Virginia State University,\" \n         Progress Index, February\n         26,1980, p.4.","The Luther Porter Jackson are one of the most valuable\n         manuscript groups from a historical point of view in the\n         nation, for this former professor of history at Virginia State\n         University lived and worked during an era when the concept of\n         black inferiority was the accepted rule. In addition, this was\n         the time of \"Jim Crowism.\" Segregation was not \"de facto,\" it\n         was legal and challenged by few people, black and white.","During the major time span of these papers, 1920-1950, a\n         number of political and civil rights organizations developed\n         into potent forces and others were born: the NAACP, the Negro\n         Organizational Society, the Southern Regional Council, and the\n         Southern School for Workers. This manuscript group is rich in\n         correspondence with most of the leaders of these movements.\n         Some of the correspondence includes Walter White, Lorenzo C.\n         White, P. Bernard Young, Gordon Hancock and others.","Correspondence with Virginia based political and civil\n         rights groups is strong and gives a good picture of the tempo\n         of the era in the State: the Virginia Voters League, the\n         Committee for Virginia, the Petersburg Negro Business\n         League.","In addition to correspondence with major political and\n         civil rights organizations, Jackson maintained as interesting\n         relationship with others across the U.S. The business or\n         office correspondence of Luther P. Jackson from 1920-1950\n         include correspondence with John Hope Franklin, W.E.B. DuBois,\n         Hugh Smythe, Helen Edmonds, P. Bernard Young, E. Franklin\n         Frazier, Charles S. Johnson, Rayford Logan, Alrutheus Ambush\n         Taylor, Lorenzo J. Green and others.","The collection also consists of ledgers, pamphlets,\n         financial and legal documents, photographs, speeches,\n         newspaper articles, cards, telegrams, notebooks, artifacts and\n         Jackson's research materials.","Jackson collected personal papers of ante-bellum and\n         post-bellum black families in Virginia: The Butler Papers, the\n         Layton Papers, and the Stephen Wooldrige Papers. In his\n         research of free black property owners in Virginia, he\n         acquired a substantial amount of materials from various\n         counties and cities of the Commonwealth of Virginia.","This box contains articles about Negroes in the\n                  United States, race vote in Tampa, colored men's\n                  progressive club, Negro principal to stay as school\n                  integrates, a sample form of application for\n                  registration to vote in the state of Louisiana. A \n                  Virginia Statesmanfor\n                  April 21, 1950, the \n                  Southern Patriot, New\n                  Orleans, Louisiana, December 1948. \"The Boswell\n                  Amendment: Reaction in Alabama,\" \n                  Virginias Journal and\n                  GuideApril 22, 1950, the Progress Index.","There are no restrictions.","The Luther Porter Jackson papers\n         include documents collected by Jackson to support his research\n         as well as the correspondence produced by Dr. and Mrs. Jackson\n         in connection with their work, interest, and friends. They\n         reflect Luther Jackson's life as a professor and researcher of\n         history and his connections with various political and\n         educational organizations; the official records of the\n         Virginia Voters League and the official records of all fund\n         raising for the Virginia Branch of the Association for the\n         Study of Negro Life and History Inc.","English"],"collection_title_tesim":["Luther Porter Jackson Papers, \n         \n         1772-1960"],"collection_ssim":["Luther Porter Jackson Papers, \n         \n         1772-1960"],"level_ssm":["collection"],"level_ssim":["Collection"],"unitid_ssm":["1952-l"],"unitid_tesim":["1952-l"],"repository_ssm":["Virginia State University"],"repository_ssim":["Virginia State University"],"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_heading_ssm":["Organization"],"arrangement_tesim":["SERIES I. BIOGRAPHICAL DATA \n         The first five folders contain writings about Jackson.\n         Some material is not a part of the original manuscript group.\n         (Box 1) \n         SERIES II. CORRESPONDENCE \n         A. \n         Family, 1920-1960The correspondence between Luther and Johnella Jackson\n         are arranged chronologically from 1920-1950. Additionally,\n         letters, postcards and telegrams are arranged alphabetically\n         by the other members of the family. (Boxes 1-5) \n         B. \n         Business, 1922-1950Office correspondence, extensive, arranged\n         chronologically. (Boxes 5-12) \n         C. \n         Personal, 1918- 1960Letters arranged alphabetically by writer. (Boxes 13-16)\n         SERIES III. FINANCIAL \u0026 LEGAL \n         Family bills, tax statements, school bills and stocks.\n         Arranged by type. Copyright for Jackson's \n         Negro Office Holders in Virginia,\n         1865-1895(Box 17) \n         SERIES IV. ORGANIZATIONAL AFFILIATIONS \n         A. \n         The Virginia Voters League,\n         1934-1950Letters, postcards, and telegrams arranged by county,\n         and city. Records include minutes and reports. (Boxes 18-27) \n         B. \n         The Virginia Teachers Association Office\n         of the \"Civic Education Secretaries Office,\" 1941- 1950The Association for the Study of Negro Life and History,\n         Inc., 1923-1950 (Boxes 28-34) \n         C. \n         Correspondence with Carter G.\n         WoodsonArranged chronologically. Other correspondence arranged\n         by county, City, and organization. (Boxes 35-41) \n         D. \n         The NAACP, 1937- 1950Correspondence with officials of the NAACP (state and\n         local), arranged chronologically. (Box 42) \n         E. \n         The I.B.P.O.E. of W.(the Elks),\n         1943-1950General correspondence arranged chronologically and the\n         Lodge's alphabetically by lodge. (Box 43) \n         F. \n         The Virginia World War II History\n         Commission, 1944-1948Correspondence, minutes and reports of the commission\n         arranged chronologically. Some personal war service records\n         arranged alphabetically. Photographs in container 109. Numbers\n         on folders correspond with folder numbers in the original\n         series. (Box 44) \n         G. \n         The Southern Regional Council, 1942-\n         1950Correspondence arranged chronologically; minutes for\n         some meetings. (Box 45) \n         H. \n         The Negro Organizational Society, 1941-\n         1950Correspondence with the president and field secretaries,\n         minutes (1944-1949) arranged chronologically. (Box 46) \n         I. \n         The Committee for Virginia,\n         1944-1950Letters arranged chronologically, a few minutes,\n         reports. (Box 47) \n         J. \n         The Petersburg Negro Business League,\n         1935-1946Correspondence between Jackson, national and local\n         leaders. Chronologically arranged; one article, one report and\n         one skit. (Box 48) \n         K. \n         The Virginia Society for Research,\n         1942-1950(Box 48) \n         L. \n         The Petersburg Community ChoirA history, a financial report and membership rosters.\n         Photographs in container 109. (Box 48) \n         M. \n         The Southern School for Workers,\n         1944-1949Correspondence arranged chronologically. (Box 48) \n         N. \n         The Old Dominion Medical SocietyNames of some of the members. (Box 48) \n         O. \n         The Petersburg Interracial Committee,\n         1948One letter and a proposed constitution. (Box 48) \n         SERIES V. MATERIAL RELATING TO THE DEATH OF LUTHER\n         JACKSON \n         Letters, telegrams and postcards, arranged\n         chronologically. One box of sympathy cards and one of floral\n         cards. (Boxes 49 \u0026 50) \n         SERIES VI. RESEARCH DATA: COLLECTED \n         A. \n         Blacks voting in the South,\n         1947-1948Letters arranged alphabetically by state and then\n         chronologically within the state. (Box 50) \n         B. \n         The Butler Papers, 1813-1888Tax receipts, identification papers, general receipts\n         and a marriage license. Chronologically arranged. (Box 51) \n         C. \n         The Dews Papers, 1802-1880Deeds for properties, tax receipts and general receipts,\n         arranged chronologically. (Box 52) \n         D. \n         The Layton Papers, 1861-1898Tax receipts, deeds for properties, teaching\n         certificates. Arranged chronologically. (Box 53) \n         E. \n         The Woolridge Papers, 1883-1910Tax receipts and general receipts. Few items about the\n         \"Jordan Baptist Church.\" Chronologically arranged. (Box 54) \n         F. \n         By CountyPapers concerning ante and postpellum blacks in some\n         Virginia Counties. Identification papers, receipts. Arranged\n         chronologically within each county and then arranged\n         alphabetically by county also. (Boxes 55-56) \n         G. \n         By CityThe same as above. Arranged alphabetically by city and\n         then chronologically within each city. (Box 57) \n         H. \n         MiscellaneousPapers of antebellum free blacks and slaves. Receipts,\n         identification papers, arranged chronologically. (Box 58) \n         I. \n         Printed and DiaryPrinted pamphlets; handwritten diary belonging to Samuel\n         T. Miller, a missionary in South Africa, 1881-1882. (Box 59) \n         J. \n         Research Notes(Box 60) \n         K. \n         Ledgers GeneralStockholders ledges, one ledger used as a news clipping\n         scrapbook. (Box 61) \n         L. \n         NotebooksHandwritten and typed data, no arrangement, subject\n         varies. (Boxes 62- 63) \n         SERIES VII. MATERIAL WRITTEN BY LUTHER P. JACKSON \n         A. \n         News articles: \n         The Journal and\n         Guide(Norfolk,VA), 1942-1947 \n         Typewritten news column. Arranged chronologically. Box\n         list available. (Boxes 64- 66) \n         B. \n         News Articles: Various PapersHandwritten and typed sheets, chronological order, some\n         without titles. Box list available. (Box 66) \n         C. \n         Articles in JournalPublished items, handwritten and typed, copy of printed\n         articles. (Box 66) \n         D. \n         AddressesTyped and handwritten speeches, arranged\n         chronologically. (Box 67) \n         E. \n         Papers, Reports, and Lecture NotesVarious papers and reports, few lecture notes, skits,\n         radio broadcast, handwritten and typed;separated by type, but\n         otherwise there is no arrangement. (Box 67) \n         F. \n         UnpublishedPapers and term papers, essay, handwritten and typed; no\n         arrangement. (Box 68) \n         G. \n         BooksTypewritten manuscripts. (Boxes 69- 70) \n         SERIES VIII. MATERIAL WRITTEN BY OTHER MEMBERS OF THE\n         FAMILY \n         Articles written by Luther P. Jackson Jr. (Box 71) \n         SERIES IX. AWARDS \u0026 GRADES \n         Family awards and a few grades of some family members.\n         (Box 72) \n         SERIES X. PRINTED \n         Broadsides, leaflets, programs relating to Jackson. (Box\n         73) \n         SERIES XI. VISUAL \n         A. \n         PhotographsFamily, friends and Va. World War II History Commision,\n         organizations; some unidentifiable. (Box 74-76) \n         B. \n         Printer's BlocksWood cuts used for publication. (Boxes 77- 80) \n         SERIES XII. ARTIFACTS \n         Cufflinks, tie clamp, neck scarf, doctoral gown, hood\n         and mortarboard. (Box 81) \n         SERIES XII. MEMORABILIA \n         Baby books, collected programs, Christmas, general\n         greeting and get-well cards, etc. Arranged by type. (Boxes\n         82-84) \n         SERIES XIV. NEWSCLIPPINGS \n         Loose newsclippings from various newspapers on a variety\n         of subjects, no arrangement (Boxes 85) \n         SERIES XV. OVERSIZED ITEMS \n         Newspaper, awards and research data."],"bioghist_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eLuther Porter Jackson Sr. was born July 11, 1892 in\n         Lexington, Kentucky. He was the ninth child of Delilah\n         (Culvrson) Jackson and Edward Jackson. He early schooling was\n         at Chandler Normal School in Lexington, where he completed his\n         studies in 1910. Upon completion of his secondary education he\n         entered Fisk University where he received the A.B. degree in\n         1914. He remained at Fisk for another semester and in 1916 was\n         awarded the A.M. degree.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eIn 1915, at the ripe old age of twenty-three, he began his\n         teaching career at Vorhees Industrial School, Denmark, South\n         Carolina, where he was also Director of the Academic\n         Department. Jackson left South Carolina in 1918 and joined the\n         staff of the Topeka Industrial Institute, Topeka, Kansas, as\n         Instructor of history and music.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eDesiring more education, he returned to the east and sought\n         graduate training at Columbia University in 1920. Here he was\n         to receive one of his many setbacks, which took in stride and\n         proceeded to correct. Writing to a former instructor at Fisk,\n         Jackson stated that Columbia did not consider his A.B. and\n         A.M. from Fisk up to their standards. He, therefore, enrolled\n         for one year at New York City College. Finally, in 1921, he\n         began his studies at Columbia, where he was graduated from\n         their Teachers College in 1922.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eAfter completing his second masters degree, Luther Jackson\n         joined the faculty of what was then the Virginia Normal and\n         Industrial Institute, now Virginia State University. While on\n         staff of the university, Luther Jackson continued his studies,\n         first at Columbia University and then at the University of\n         Chicago, where he received the Ph.D. in history in 1937. Soon\n         after arrival at V.N. \u0026amp; I.I., Jackson took over the\n         College High School and directed its activities from\n         1923-1928. He headed the history department from 1930-1950,\n         formed the \" League of Negro Voters\" in 1934, and in 1937\n         organized the \" Petersburg Business League\", which became the\n         Virginia Trade Association in 1941.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eIn 1935, Carter G. Woodson asked Luther Jackson to head all\n         fund-raising activities for the Association for the Study of\n         Negro Life and History. As chairman of the Virginia chapter,\n         Jackson went on to establish that chapter as one of the most\n         productive of all state chapters. Somehow he still found time\n         to conduct the Petersburg Community Choir of 100 voices, have\n         his doctoral dissertation, write a column for \n         \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eThe Journal and Guide\u003c/title\u003e(Norfolk,\n         Virginia) under the general heading of \"Rights and Duties in a\n         Democracy\" between 1942 until 1948. Although he was now\n         holding down enough work for two people, Jackson was appointed\n         to the Virginia World War II History Commission in 1944 and\n         worked with the N.A.A.C.P, which led to his receiving a plague\n         for service in 1948.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eJackson authored these books: \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eFree Negro Labor and Property Holding\n         in Virginia, 1830-1860\u003c/title\u003e(1942) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eThe History of the Virginia Stated\n         Teachers Association\u003c/title\u003e(1937) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eNegro Office-Holders in Virginia,\n         1865-1895\u003c/title\u003e(1945) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eA Short History of the Gillfield\n         Baptist Church of Petersburg, Virginia\u003c/title\u003e(1941) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eVirginia Negro Soldiers and Seaman in\n         the Revolutionary War\u003c/title\u003e(1944) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eIn addition to joining the faculty, Luther Jackson married\n         a young lady whom he had met while they were both students at\n         Fisk University. The young lady was Johnella M. Frazer\n         (1897-), a native of Shelbyville, Kentucky, the daughter of\n         Laura and Patterson Tilford Frazer; her father was President\n         of Hopkinsville College in Kentucky. Mrs. Jackson completed\n         the conservatory course at Fisk at the age of seventeen(17)\n         and toured with the Fisk \"Jubilee Singers\" for two years under\n         John Work. She joined the staff of Virginia Normal and\n         Industrial Institute in 1916, a full nine years before there\n         was a music department, as the University's first full time\n         instructor of piano.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Jackson, like Luther, also recognized the need for\n         additional training. During the summer vacation she studied at\n         Temple University at the Chicago Music College and at Columbia\n         University. She remained at Virginia State University for\n         forty-nine years, retiring in 1965.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eAdditional Biographical Data:\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e1. Lucious Edwards, Jr.\" The Luther Porter Jackson,\n         Sr.(1892-1950) Papers\" (paper presented at the 63rd meeting of\n         the Association for the Study of Afro-American Life and\n         History, Los Angeles, CA, October 13, 1978) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e2. Marva D. Curtis, \"The Virginia Voters League\"\n         (unpublished masters thesis, Virginia State University, 1979) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e3. Lucious Edwards, Jr., \"Luther Jackson Leaves a Legacy\n         of History in Papers to Virginia State University,\" \n         \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eProgress Index\u003c/title\u003e, February\n         26,1980, p.4.\u003c/p\u003e\n    "],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical/Historical Information"],"bioghist_tesim":["Luther Porter Jackson Sr. was born July 11, 1892 in\n         Lexington, Kentucky. He was the ninth child of Delilah\n         (Culvrson) Jackson and Edward Jackson. He early schooling was\n         at Chandler Normal School in Lexington, where he completed his\n         studies in 1910. Upon completion of his secondary education he\n         entered Fisk University where he received the A.B. degree in\n         1914. He remained at Fisk for another semester and in 1916 was\n         awarded the A.M. degree.","In 1915, at the ripe old age of twenty-three, he began his\n         teaching career at Vorhees Industrial School, Denmark, South\n         Carolina, where he was also Director of the Academic\n         Department. Jackson left South Carolina in 1918 and joined the\n         staff of the Topeka Industrial Institute, Topeka, Kansas, as\n         Instructor of history and music.","Desiring more education, he returned to the east and sought\n         graduate training at Columbia University in 1920. Here he was\n         to receive one of his many setbacks, which took in stride and\n         proceeded to correct. Writing to a former instructor at Fisk,\n         Jackson stated that Columbia did not consider his A.B. and\n         A.M. from Fisk up to their standards. He, therefore, enrolled\n         for one year at New York City College. Finally, in 1921, he\n         began his studies at Columbia, where he was graduated from\n         their Teachers College in 1922.","After completing his second masters degree, Luther Jackson\n         joined the faculty of what was then the Virginia Normal and\n         Industrial Institute, now Virginia State University. While on\n         staff of the university, Luther Jackson continued his studies,\n         first at Columbia University and then at the University of\n         Chicago, where he received the Ph.D. in history in 1937. Soon\n         after arrival at V.N. \u0026 I.I., Jackson took over the\n         College High School and directed its activities from\n         1923-1928. He headed the history department from 1930-1950,\n         formed the \" League of Negro Voters\" in 1934, and in 1937\n         organized the \" Petersburg Business League\", which became the\n         Virginia Trade Association in 1941.","In 1935, Carter G. Woodson asked Luther Jackson to head all\n         fund-raising activities for the Association for the Study of\n         Negro Life and History. As chairman of the Virginia chapter,\n         Jackson went on to establish that chapter as one of the most\n         productive of all state chapters. Somehow he still found time\n         to conduct the Petersburg Community Choir of 100 voices, have\n         his doctoral dissertation, write a column for \n         The Journal and Guide(Norfolk,\n         Virginia) under the general heading of \"Rights and Duties in a\n         Democracy\" between 1942 until 1948. Although he was now\n         holding down enough work for two people, Jackson was appointed\n         to the Virginia World War II History Commission in 1944 and\n         worked with the N.A.A.C.P, which led to his receiving a plague\n         for service in 1948.","Jackson authored these books: \n         Free Negro Labor and Property Holding\n         in Virginia, 1830-1860(1942) \n         The History of the Virginia Stated\n         Teachers Association(1937) \n         Negro Office-Holders in Virginia,\n         1865-1895(1945) \n         A Short History of the Gillfield\n         Baptist Church of Petersburg, Virginia(1941) \n         Virginia Negro Soldiers and Seaman in\n         the Revolutionary War(1944)","In addition to joining the faculty, Luther Jackson married\n         a young lady whom he had met while they were both students at\n         Fisk University. The young lady was Johnella M. Frazer\n         (1897-), a native of Shelbyville, Kentucky, the daughter of\n         Laura and Patterson Tilford Frazer; her father was President\n         of Hopkinsville College in Kentucky. Mrs. Jackson completed\n         the conservatory course at Fisk at the age of seventeen(17)\n         and toured with the Fisk \"Jubilee Singers\" for two years under\n         John Work. She joined the staff of Virginia Normal and\n         Industrial Institute in 1916, a full nine years before there\n         was a music department, as the University's first full time\n         instructor of piano.","Mrs. Jackson, like Luther, also recognized the need for\n         additional training. During the summer vacation she studied at\n         Temple University at the Chicago Music College and at Columbia\n         University. She remained at Virginia State University for\n         forty-nine years, retiring in 1965.","Additional Biographical Data:1. Lucious Edwards, Jr.\" The Luther Porter Jackson,\n         Sr.(1892-1950) Papers\" (paper presented at the 63rd meeting of\n         the Association for the Study of Afro-American Life and\n         History, Los Angeles, CA, October 13, 1978) \n         2. Marva D. Curtis, \"The Virginia Voters League\"\n         (unpublished masters thesis, Virginia State University, 1979) \n         3. Lucious Edwards, Jr., \"Luther Jackson Leaves a Legacy\n         of History in Papers to Virginia State University,\" \n         Progress Index, February\n         26,1980, p.4."],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eLuther Porter Jackson Papers, 1772-1960, Accession\n            #1952-l, Special Collections and Archives, Johnston\n            Memorial Library, Virginia State University, Petersburg,\n            VA.\u003c/p\u003e\n      "],"prefercite_tesim":["Luther Porter Jackson Papers, 1772-1960, Accession\n            #1952-l, Special Collections and Archives, Johnston\n            Memorial Library, Virginia State University, Petersburg,\n            VA."],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe Luther Porter Jackson are one of the most valuable\n         manuscript groups from a historical point of view in the\n         nation, for this former professor of history at Virginia State\n         University lived and worked during an era when the concept of\n         black inferiority was the accepted rule. In addition, this was\n         the time of \"Jim Crowism.\" Segregation was not \"de facto,\" it\n         was legal and challenged by few people, black and white.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eDuring the major time span of these papers, 1920-1950, a\n         number of political and civil rights organizations developed\n         into potent forces and others were born: the NAACP, the Negro\n         Organizational Society, the Southern Regional Council, and the\n         Southern School for Workers. This manuscript group is rich in\n         correspondence with most of the leaders of these movements.\n         Some of the correspondence includes Walter White, Lorenzo C.\n         White, P. Bernard Young, Gordon Hancock and others.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence with Virginia based political and civil\n         rights groups is strong and gives a good picture of the tempo\n         of the era in the State: the Virginia Voters League, the\n         Committee for Virginia, the Petersburg Negro Business\n         League.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eIn addition to correspondence with major political and\n         civil rights organizations, Jackson maintained as interesting\n         relationship with others across the U.S. The business or\n         office correspondence of Luther P. Jackson from 1920-1950\n         include correspondence with John Hope Franklin, W.E.B. DuBois,\n         Hugh Smythe, Helen Edmonds, P. Bernard Young, E. Franklin\n         Frazier, Charles S. Johnson, Rayford Logan, Alrutheus Ambush\n         Taylor, Lorenzo J. Green and others.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eThe collection also consists of ledgers, pamphlets,\n         financial and legal documents, photographs, speeches,\n         newspaper articles, cards, telegrams, notebooks, artifacts and\n         Jackson's research materials.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eJackson collected personal papers of ante-bellum and\n         post-bellum black families in Virginia: The Butler Papers, the\n         Layton Papers, and the Stephen Wooldrige Papers. In his\n         research of free black property owners in Virginia, he\n         acquired a substantial amount of materials from various\n         counties and cities of the Commonwealth of Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e\n    ","\u003cp\u003eThis box contains articles about Negroes in the\n                  United States, race vote in Tampa, colored men's\n                  progressive club, Negro principal to stay as school\n                  integrates, a sample form of application for\n                  registration to vote in the state of Louisiana. A \n                  \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eVirginia Statesman\u003c/title\u003efor\n                  April 21, 1950, the \n                  \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eSouthern Patriot\u003c/title\u003e, New\n                  Orleans, Louisiana, December 1948. \"The Boswell\n                  Amendment: Reaction in Alabama,\" \n                  \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eVirginias Journal and\n                  Guide\u003c/title\u003eApril 22, 1950, the Progress Index.\u003c/p\u003e\n          "],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Content Information"],"scopecontent_tesim":["The Luther Porter Jackson are one of the most valuable\n         manuscript groups from a historical point of view in the\n         nation, for this former professor of history at Virginia State\n         University lived and worked during an era when the concept of\n         black inferiority was the accepted rule. In addition, this was\n         the time of \"Jim Crowism.\" Segregation was not \"de facto,\" it\n         was legal and challenged by few people, black and white.","During the major time span of these papers, 1920-1950, a\n         number of political and civil rights organizations developed\n         into potent forces and others were born: the NAACP, the Negro\n         Organizational Society, the Southern Regional Council, and the\n         Southern School for Workers. This manuscript group is rich in\n         correspondence with most of the leaders of these movements.\n         Some of the correspondence includes Walter White, Lorenzo C.\n         White, P. Bernard Young, Gordon Hancock and others.","Correspondence with Virginia based political and civil\n         rights groups is strong and gives a good picture of the tempo\n         of the era in the State: the Virginia Voters League, the\n         Committee for Virginia, the Petersburg Negro Business\n         League.","In addition to correspondence with major political and\n         civil rights organizations, Jackson maintained as interesting\n         relationship with others across the U.S. The business or\n         office correspondence of Luther P. Jackson from 1920-1950\n         include correspondence with John Hope Franklin, W.E.B. DuBois,\n         Hugh Smythe, Helen Edmonds, P. Bernard Young, E. Franklin\n         Frazier, Charles S. Johnson, Rayford Logan, Alrutheus Ambush\n         Taylor, Lorenzo J. Green and others.","The collection also consists of ledgers, pamphlets,\n         financial and legal documents, photographs, speeches,\n         newspaper articles, cards, telegrams, notebooks, artifacts and\n         Jackson's research materials.","Jackson collected personal papers of ante-bellum and\n         post-bellum black families in Virginia: The Butler Papers, the\n         Layton Papers, and the Stephen Wooldrige Papers. In his\n         research of free black property owners in Virginia, he\n         acquired a substantial amount of materials from various\n         counties and cities of the Commonwealth of Virginia.","This box contains articles about Negroes in the\n                  United States, race vote in Tampa, colored men's\n                  progressive club, Negro principal to stay as school\n                  integrates, a sample form of application for\n                  registration to vote in the state of Louisiana. A \n                  Virginia Statesmanfor\n                  April 21, 1950, the \n                  Southern Patriot, New\n                  Orleans, Louisiana, December 1948. \"The Boswell\n                  Amendment: Reaction in Alabama,\" \n                  Virginias Journal and\n                  GuideApril 22, 1950, the Progress Index."],"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 Luther Porter Jackson papers\n         include documents collected by Jackson to support his research\n         as well as the correspondence produced by Dr. and Mrs. Jackson\n         in connection with their work, interest, and friends. They\n         reflect Luther Jackson's life as a professor and researcher of\n         history and his connections with various political and\n         educational organizations; the official records of the\n         Virginia Voters League and the official records of all fund\n         raising for the Virginia Branch of the Association for the\n         Study of Negro Life and History Inc.\u003c/abstract\u003e\n    "],"abstract_tesim":["The Luther Porter Jackson papers\n         include documents collected by Jackson to support his research\n         as well as the correspondence produced by Dr. and Mrs. Jackson\n         in connection with their work, interest, and friends. They\n         reflect Luther Jackson's life as a professor and researcher of\n         history and his connections with various political and\n         educational organizations; the official records of the\n         Virginia Voters League and the official records of all fund\n         raising for the Virginia Branch of the Association for the\n         Study of Negro Life and History Inc."],"language_ssim":["English"],"total_component_count_is":2288,"online_item_count_is":0,"component_level_isim":[0],"sort_isi":0,"timestamp":"2026-06-23T07:05:55.361Z","arrangement_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eSERIES I. BIOGRAPHICAL DATA \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eThe first five folders contain writings about Jackson.\n         Some material is not a part of the original manuscript group.\n         (Box 1) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eSERIES II. CORRESPONDENCE \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eA. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eFamily, 1920-1960\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eThe correspondence between Luther and Johnella Jackson\n         are arranged chronologically from 1920-1950. Additionally,\n         letters, postcards and telegrams are arranged alphabetically\n         by the other members of the family. (Boxes 1-5) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eB. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eBusiness, 1922-1950\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eOffice correspondence, extensive, arranged\n         chronologically. (Boxes 5-12) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eC. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003ePersonal, 1918- 1960\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eLetters arranged alphabetically by writer. (Boxes 13-16)\n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eSERIES III. FINANCIAL \u0026amp; LEGAL \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eFamily bills, tax statements, school bills and stocks.\n         Arranged by type. Copyright for Jackson's \n         \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eNegro Office Holders in Virginia,\n         1865-1895\u003c/title\u003e(Box 17) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eSERIES IV. ORGANIZATIONAL AFFILIATIONS \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eA. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eThe Virginia Voters League,\n         1934-1950\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eLetters, postcards, and telegrams arranged by county,\n         and city. Records include minutes and reports. (Boxes 18-27) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eB. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eThe Virginia Teachers Association Office\n         of the \"Civic Education Secretaries Office,\" 1941- 1950\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eThe Association for the Study of Negro Life and History,\n         Inc., 1923-1950 (Boxes 28-34) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eC. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eCorrespondence with Carter G.\n         Woodson\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eArranged chronologically. Other correspondence arranged\n         by county, City, and organization. (Boxes 35-41) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eD. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eThe NAACP, 1937- 1950\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eCorrespondence with officials of the NAACP (state and\n         local), arranged chronologically. (Box 42) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eE. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eThe I.B.P.O.E. of W.(the Elks),\n         1943-1950\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eGeneral correspondence arranged chronologically and the\n         Lodge's alphabetically by lodge. (Box 43) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eF. \n         \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eThe Virginia World War II History\n         Commission, 1944-1948\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eCorrespondence, minutes and reports of the commission\n         arranged chronologically. Some personal war service records\n         arranged alphabetically. Photographs in container 109. Numbers\n         on folders correspond with folder numbers in the original\n         series. (Box 44) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eG. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eThe Southern Regional Council, 1942-\n         1950\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eCorrespondence arranged chronologically; minutes for\n         some meetings. (Box 45) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eH. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eThe Negro Organizational Society, 1941-\n         1950\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eCorrespondence with the president and field secretaries,\n         minutes (1944-1949) arranged chronologically. (Box 46) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eI. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eThe Committee for Virginia,\n         1944-1950\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eLetters arranged chronologically, a few minutes,\n         reports. (Box 47) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eJ. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eThe Petersburg Negro Business League,\n         1935-1946\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eCorrespondence between Jackson, national and local\n         leaders. Chronologically arranged; one article, one report and\n         one skit. (Box 48) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eK. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eThe Virginia Society for Research,\n         1942-1950\u003c/emph\u003e(Box 48) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eL. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eThe Petersburg Community Choir\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eA history, a financial report and membership rosters.\n         Photographs in container 109. (Box 48) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eM. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eThe Southern School for Workers,\n         1944-1949\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eCorrespondence arranged chronologically. (Box 48) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eN. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eThe Old Dominion Medical Society\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eNames of some of the members. (Box 48) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eO. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eThe Petersburg Interracial Committee,\n         1948\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eOne letter and a proposed constitution. (Box 48) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eSERIES V. MATERIAL RELATING TO THE DEATH OF LUTHER\n         JACKSON \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eLetters, telegrams and postcards, arranged\n         chronologically. One box of sympathy cards and one of floral\n         cards. (Boxes 49 \u0026amp; 50) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eSERIES VI. RESEARCH DATA: COLLECTED \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eA. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eBlacks voting in the South,\n         1947-1948\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eLetters arranged alphabetically by state and then\n         chronologically within the state. (Box 50) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eB. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eThe Butler Papers, 1813-1888\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eTax receipts, identification papers, general receipts\n         and a marriage license. Chronologically arranged. (Box 51) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eC. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eThe Dews Papers, 1802-1880\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eDeeds for properties, tax receipts and general receipts,\n         arranged chronologically. (Box 52) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eD. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eThe Layton Papers, 1861-1898\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eTax receipts, deeds for properties, teaching\n         certificates. Arranged chronologically. (Box 53) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eE. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eThe Woolridge Papers, 1883-1910\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eTax receipts and general receipts. Few items about the\n         \"Jordan Baptist Church.\" Chronologically arranged. (Box 54) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eF. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eBy County\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003ePapers concerning ante and postpellum blacks in some\n         Virginia Counties. Identification papers, receipts. Arranged\n         chronologically within each county and then arranged\n         alphabetically by county also. (Boxes 55-56) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eG. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eBy City\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eThe same as above. Arranged alphabetically by city and\n         then chronologically within each city. (Box 57) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eH. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eMiscellaneous\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003ePapers of antebellum free blacks and slaves. Receipts,\n         identification papers, arranged chronologically. (Box 58) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eI. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003ePrinted and Diary\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003ePrinted pamphlets; handwritten diary belonging to Samuel\n         T. Miller, a missionary in South Africa, 1881-1882. (Box 59) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eJ. \n         \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eResearch Notes\u003c/emph\u003e(Box 60) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eK. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eLedgers General\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eStockholders ledges, one ledger used as a news clipping\n         scrapbook. (Box 61) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eL. \n         \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eNotebooks\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eHandwritten and typed data, no arrangement, subject\n         varies. (Boxes 62- 63) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eSERIES VII. MATERIAL WRITTEN BY LUTHER P. JACKSON \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eA. \n         \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eNews articles\u003c/emph\u003e: \n         \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eThe Journal and\n         Guide\u003c/title\u003e(Norfolk,VA), 1942-1947 \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eTypewritten news column. Arranged chronologically. Box\n         list available. (Boxes 64- 66) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eB. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eNews Articles: Various Papers\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eHandwritten and typed sheets, chronological order, some\n         without titles. Box list available. (Box 66) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eC. \n         \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eArticles in Journal\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003ePublished items, handwritten and typed, copy of printed\n         articles. (Box 66) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eD. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eAddresses\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eTyped and handwritten speeches, arranged\n         chronologically. (Box 67) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eE. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003ePapers, Reports, and Lecture Notes\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eVarious papers and reports, few lecture notes, skits,\n         radio broadcast, handwritten and typed;separated by type, but\n         otherwise there is no arrangement. (Box 67) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eF. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eUnpublished\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003ePapers and term papers, essay, handwritten and typed; no\n         arrangement. (Box 68) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eG. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eBooks\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eTypewritten manuscripts. (Boxes 69- 70) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eSERIES VIII. MATERIAL WRITTEN BY OTHER MEMBERS OF THE\n         FAMILY \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eArticles written by Luther P. Jackson Jr. (Box 71) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eSERIES IX. AWARDS \u0026amp; GRADES \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eFamily awards and a few grades of some family members.\n         (Box 72) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eSERIES X. PRINTED \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eBroadsides, leaflets, programs relating to Jackson. (Box\n         73) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eSERIES XI. VISUAL \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eA. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003ePhotographs\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eFamily, friends and Va. World War II History Commision,\n         organizations; some unidentifiable. (Box 74-76) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eB. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003ePrinter's Blocks\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eWood cuts used for publication. (Boxes 77- 80) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eSERIES XII. ARTIFACTS \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eCufflinks, tie clamp, neck scarf, doctoral gown, hood\n         and mortarboard. (Box 81) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eSERIES XII. MEMORABILIA \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eBaby books, collected programs, Christmas, general\n         greeting and get-well cards, etc. Arranged by type. (Boxes\n         82-84) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eSERIES XIV. NEWSCLIPPINGS \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eLoose newsclippings from various newspapers on a variety\n         of subjects, no arrangement (Boxes 85) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eSERIES XV. 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BIOGRAPHICAL DATA \n         The first five folders contain writings about Jackson.\n         Some material is not a part of the original manuscript group.\n         (Box 1) \n         SERIES II. CORRESPONDENCE \n         A. \n         Family, 1920-1960The correspondence between Luther and Johnella Jackson\n         are arranged chronologically from 1920-1950. Additionally,\n         letters, postcards and telegrams are arranged alphabetically\n         by the other members of the family. (Boxes 1-5) \n         B. \n         Business, 1922-1950Office correspondence, extensive, arranged\n         chronologically. (Boxes 5-12) \n         C. \n         Personal, 1918- 1960Letters arranged alphabetically by writer. (Boxes 13-16)\n         SERIES III. FINANCIAL \u0026 LEGAL \n         Family bills, tax statements, school bills and stocks.\n         Arranged by type. Copyright for Jackson's \n         Negro Office Holders in Virginia,\n         1865-1895(Box 17) \n         SERIES IV. ORGANIZATIONAL AFFILIATIONS \n         A. \n         The Virginia Voters League,\n         1934-1950Letters, postcards, and telegrams arranged by county,\n         and city. Records include minutes and reports. (Boxes 18-27) \n         B. \n         The Virginia Teachers Association Office\n         of the \"Civic Education Secretaries Office,\" 1941- 1950The Association for the Study of Negro Life and History,\n         Inc., 1923-1950 (Boxes 28-34) \n         C. \n         Correspondence with Carter G.\n         WoodsonArranged chronologically. Other correspondence arranged\n         by county, City, and organization. (Boxes 35-41) \n         D. \n         The NAACP, 1937- 1950Correspondence with officials of the NAACP (state and\n         local), arranged chronologically. (Box 42) \n         E. \n         The I.B.P.O.E. of W.(the Elks),\n         1943-1950General correspondence arranged chronologically and the\n         Lodge's alphabetically by lodge. (Box 43) \n         F. \n         The Virginia World War II History\n         Commission, 1944-1948Correspondence, minutes and reports of the commission\n         arranged chronologically. Some personal war service records\n         arranged alphabetically. Photographs in container 109. Numbers\n         on folders correspond with folder numbers in the original\n         series. (Box 44) \n         G. \n         The Southern Regional Council, 1942-\n         1950Correspondence arranged chronologically; minutes for\n         some meetings. (Box 45) \n         H. \n         The Negro Organizational Society, 1941-\n         1950Correspondence with the president and field secretaries,\n         minutes (1944-1949) arranged chronologically. (Box 46) \n         I. \n         The Committee for Virginia,\n         1944-1950Letters arranged chronologically, a few minutes,\n         reports. (Box 47) \n         J. \n         The Petersburg Negro Business League,\n         1935-1946Correspondence between Jackson, national and local\n         leaders. Chronologically arranged; one article, one report and\n         one skit. (Box 48) \n         K. \n         The Virginia Society for Research,\n         1942-1950(Box 48) \n         L. \n         The Petersburg Community ChoirA history, a financial report and membership rosters.\n         Photographs in container 109. (Box 48) \n         M. \n         The Southern School for Workers,\n         1944-1949Correspondence arranged chronologically. (Box 48) \n         N. \n         The Old Dominion Medical SocietyNames of some of the members. (Box 48) \n         O. \n         The Petersburg Interracial Committee,\n         1948One letter and a proposed constitution. (Box 48) \n         SERIES V. MATERIAL RELATING TO THE DEATH OF LUTHER\n         JACKSON \n         Letters, telegrams and postcards, arranged\n         chronologically. One box of sympathy cards and one of floral\n         cards. (Boxes 49 \u0026 50) \n         SERIES VI. RESEARCH DATA: COLLECTED \n         A. \n         Blacks voting in the South,\n         1947-1948Letters arranged alphabetically by state and then\n         chronologically within the state. (Box 50) \n         B. \n         The Butler Papers, 1813-1888Tax receipts, identification papers, general receipts\n         and a marriage license. Chronologically arranged. (Box 51) \n         C. \n         The Dews Papers, 1802-1880Deeds for properties, tax receipts and general receipts,\n         arranged chronologically. (Box 52) \n         D. \n         The Layton Papers, 1861-1898Tax receipts, deeds for properties, teaching\n         certificates. Arranged chronologically. (Box 53) \n         E. \n         The Woolridge Papers, 1883-1910Tax receipts and general receipts. Few items about the\n         \"Jordan Baptist Church.\" Chronologically arranged. (Box 54) \n         F. \n         By CountyPapers concerning ante and postpellum blacks in some\n         Virginia Counties. Identification papers, receipts. Arranged\n         chronologically within each county and then arranged\n         alphabetically by county also. (Boxes 55-56) \n         G. \n         By CityThe same as above. Arranged alphabetically by city and\n         then chronologically within each city. (Box 57) \n         H. \n         MiscellaneousPapers of antebellum free blacks and slaves. Receipts,\n         identification papers, arranged chronologically. (Box 58) \n         I. \n         Printed and DiaryPrinted pamphlets; handwritten diary belonging to Samuel\n         T. Miller, a missionary in South Africa, 1881-1882. (Box 59) \n         J. \n         Research Notes(Box 60) \n         K. \n         Ledgers GeneralStockholders ledges, one ledger used as a news clipping\n         scrapbook. (Box 61) \n         L. \n         NotebooksHandwritten and typed data, no arrangement, subject\n         varies. (Boxes 62- 63) \n         SERIES VII. MATERIAL WRITTEN BY LUTHER P. JACKSON \n         A. \n         News articles: \n         The Journal and\n         Guide(Norfolk,VA), 1942-1947 \n         Typewritten news column. Arranged chronologically. Box\n         list available. (Boxes 64- 66) \n         B. \n         News Articles: Various PapersHandwritten and typed sheets, chronological order, some\n         without titles. Box list available. (Box 66) \n         C. \n         Articles in JournalPublished items, handwritten and typed, copy of printed\n         articles. (Box 66) \n         D. \n         AddressesTyped and handwritten speeches, arranged\n         chronologically. (Box 67) \n         E. \n         Papers, Reports, and Lecture NotesVarious papers and reports, few lecture notes, skits,\n         radio broadcast, handwritten and typed;separated by type, but\n         otherwise there is no arrangement. (Box 67) \n         F. \n         UnpublishedPapers and term papers, essay, handwritten and typed; no\n         arrangement. (Box 68) \n         G. \n         BooksTypewritten manuscripts. (Boxes 69- 70) \n         SERIES VIII. MATERIAL WRITTEN BY OTHER MEMBERS OF THE\n         FAMILY \n         Articles written by Luther P. Jackson Jr. (Box 71) \n         SERIES IX. AWARDS \u0026 GRADES \n         Family awards and a few grades of some family members.\n         (Box 72) \n         SERIES X. PRINTED \n         Broadsides, leaflets, programs relating to Jackson. (Box\n         73) \n         SERIES XI. VISUAL \n         A. \n         PhotographsFamily, friends and Va. World War II History Commision,\n         organizations; some unidentifiable. (Box 74-76) \n         B. \n         Printer's BlocksWood cuts used for publication. (Boxes 77- 80) \n         SERIES XII. ARTIFACTS \n         Cufflinks, tie clamp, neck scarf, doctoral gown, hood\n         and mortarboard. (Box 81) \n         SERIES XII. MEMORABILIA \n         Baby books, collected programs, Christmas, general\n         greeting and get-well cards, etc. Arranged by type. (Boxes\n         82-84) \n         SERIES XIV. NEWSCLIPPINGS \n         Loose newsclippings from various newspapers on a variety\n         of subjects, no arrangement (Boxes 85) \n         SERIES XV. OVERSIZED ITEMS \n         Newspaper, awards and research data.","Luther Porter Jackson Sr. was born July 11, 1892 in\n         Lexington, Kentucky. He was the ninth child of Delilah\n         (Culvrson) Jackson and Edward Jackson. He early schooling was\n         at Chandler Normal School in Lexington, where he completed his\n         studies in 1910. Upon completion of his secondary education he\n         entered Fisk University where he received the A.B. degree in\n         1914. He remained at Fisk for another semester and in 1916 was\n         awarded the A.M. degree.","In 1915, at the ripe old age of twenty-three, he began his\n         teaching career at Vorhees Industrial School, Denmark, South\n         Carolina, where he was also Director of the Academic\n         Department. Jackson left South Carolina in 1918 and joined the\n         staff of the Topeka Industrial Institute, Topeka, Kansas, as\n         Instructor of history and music.","Desiring more education, he returned to the east and sought\n         graduate training at Columbia University in 1920. Here he was\n         to receive one of his many setbacks, which took in stride and\n         proceeded to correct. Writing to a former instructor at Fisk,\n         Jackson stated that Columbia did not consider his A.B. and\n         A.M. from Fisk up to their standards. He, therefore, enrolled\n         for one year at New York City College. Finally, in 1921, he\n         began his studies at Columbia, where he was graduated from\n         their Teachers College in 1922.","After completing his second masters degree, Luther Jackson\n         joined the faculty of what was then the Virginia Normal and\n         Industrial Institute, now Virginia State University. While on\n         staff of the university, Luther Jackson continued his studies,\n         first at Columbia University and then at the University of\n         Chicago, where he received the Ph.D. in history in 1937. Soon\n         after arrival at V.N. \u0026 I.I., Jackson took over the\n         College High School and directed its activities from\n         1923-1928. He headed the history department from 1930-1950,\n         formed the \" League of Negro Voters\" in 1934, and in 1937\n         organized the \" Petersburg Business League\", which became the\n         Virginia Trade Association in 1941.","In 1935, Carter G. Woodson asked Luther Jackson to head all\n         fund-raising activities for the Association for the Study of\n         Negro Life and History. As chairman of the Virginia chapter,\n         Jackson went on to establish that chapter as one of the most\n         productive of all state chapters. Somehow he still found time\n         to conduct the Petersburg Community Choir of 100 voices, have\n         his doctoral dissertation, write a column for \n         The Journal and Guide(Norfolk,\n         Virginia) under the general heading of \"Rights and Duties in a\n         Democracy\" between 1942 until 1948. Although he was now\n         holding down enough work for two people, Jackson was appointed\n         to the Virginia World War II History Commission in 1944 and\n         worked with the N.A.A.C.P, which led to his receiving a plague\n         for service in 1948.","Jackson authored these books: \n         Free Negro Labor and Property Holding\n         in Virginia, 1830-1860(1942) \n         The History of the Virginia Stated\n         Teachers Association(1937) \n         Negro Office-Holders in Virginia,\n         1865-1895(1945) \n         A Short History of the Gillfield\n         Baptist Church of Petersburg, Virginia(1941) \n         Virginia Negro Soldiers and Seaman in\n         the Revolutionary War(1944)","In addition to joining the faculty, Luther Jackson married\n         a young lady whom he had met while they were both students at\n         Fisk University. The young lady was Johnella M. Frazer\n         (1897-), a native of Shelbyville, Kentucky, the daughter of\n         Laura and Patterson Tilford Frazer; her father was President\n         of Hopkinsville College in Kentucky. Mrs. Jackson completed\n         the conservatory course at Fisk at the age of seventeen(17)\n         and toured with the Fisk \"Jubilee Singers\" for two years under\n         John Work. She joined the staff of Virginia Normal and\n         Industrial Institute in 1916, a full nine years before there\n         was a music department, as the University's first full time\n         instructor of piano.","Mrs. Jackson, like Luther, also recognized the need for\n         additional training. During the summer vacation she studied at\n         Temple University at the Chicago Music College and at Columbia\n         University. She remained at Virginia State University for\n         forty-nine years, retiring in 1965.","Additional Biographical Data:1. Lucious Edwards, Jr.\" The Luther Porter Jackson,\n         Sr.(1892-1950) Papers\" (paper presented at the 63rd meeting of\n         the Association for the Study of Afro-American Life and\n         History, Los Angeles, CA, October 13, 1978) \n         2. Marva D. Curtis, \"The Virginia Voters League\"\n         (unpublished masters thesis, Virginia State University, 1979) \n         3. Lucious Edwards, Jr., \"Luther Jackson Leaves a Legacy\n         of History in Papers to Virginia State University,\" \n         Progress Index, February\n         26,1980, p.4.","The Luther Porter Jackson are one of the most valuable\n         manuscript groups from a historical point of view in the\n         nation, for this former professor of history at Virginia State\n         University lived and worked during an era when the concept of\n         black inferiority was the accepted rule. In addition, this was\n         the time of \"Jim Crowism.\" Segregation was not \"de facto,\" it\n         was legal and challenged by few people, black and white.","During the major time span of these papers, 1920-1950, a\n         number of political and civil rights organizations developed\n         into potent forces and others were born: the NAACP, the Negro\n         Organizational Society, the Southern Regional Council, and the\n         Southern School for Workers. This manuscript group is rich in\n         correspondence with most of the leaders of these movements.\n         Some of the correspondence includes Walter White, Lorenzo C.\n         White, P. Bernard Young, Gordon Hancock and others.","Correspondence with Virginia based political and civil\n         rights groups is strong and gives a good picture of the tempo\n         of the era in the State: the Virginia Voters League, the\n         Committee for Virginia, the Petersburg Negro Business\n         League.","In addition to correspondence with major political and\n         civil rights organizations, Jackson maintained as interesting\n         relationship with others across the U.S. The business or\n         office correspondence of Luther P. Jackson from 1920-1950\n         include correspondence with John Hope Franklin, W.E.B. DuBois,\n         Hugh Smythe, Helen Edmonds, P. Bernard Young, E. Franklin\n         Frazier, Charles S. Johnson, Rayford Logan, Alrutheus Ambush\n         Taylor, Lorenzo J. Green and others.","The collection also consists of ledgers, pamphlets,\n         financial and legal documents, photographs, speeches,\n         newspaper articles, cards, telegrams, notebooks, artifacts and\n         Jackson's research materials.","Jackson collected personal papers of ante-bellum and\n         post-bellum black families in Virginia: The Butler Papers, the\n         Layton Papers, and the Stephen Wooldrige Papers. In his\n         research of free black property owners in Virginia, he\n         acquired a substantial amount of materials from various\n         counties and cities of the Commonwealth of Virginia.","This box contains articles about Negroes in the\n                  United States, race vote in Tampa, colored men's\n                  progressive club, Negro principal to stay as school\n                  integrates, a sample form of application for\n                  registration to vote in the state of Louisiana. A \n                  Virginia Statesmanfor\n                  April 21, 1950, the \n                  Southern Patriot, New\n                  Orleans, Louisiana, December 1948. \"The Boswell\n                  Amendment: Reaction in Alabama,\" \n                  Virginias Journal and\n                  GuideApril 22, 1950, the Progress Index.","There are no restrictions.","The Luther Porter Jackson papers\n         include documents collected by Jackson to support his research\n         as well as the correspondence produced by Dr. and Mrs. Jackson\n         in connection with their work, interest, and friends. They\n         reflect Luther Jackson's life as a professor and researcher of\n         history and his connections with various political and\n         educational organizations; the official records of the\n         Virginia Voters League and the official records of all fund\n         raising for the Virginia Branch of the Association for the\n         Study of Negro Life and History Inc.","English"],"collection_title_tesim":["Luther Porter Jackson Papers, \n         \n         1772-1960"],"collection_ssim":["Luther Porter Jackson Papers, \n         \n         1772-1960"],"level_ssm":["collection"],"level_ssim":["Collection"],"unitid_ssm":["1952-l"],"unitid_tesim":["1952-l"],"repository_ssm":["Virginia State University"],"repository_ssim":["Virginia State University"],"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_heading_ssm":["Organization"],"arrangement_tesim":["SERIES I. BIOGRAPHICAL DATA \n         The first five folders contain writings about Jackson.\n         Some material is not a part of the original manuscript group.\n         (Box 1) \n         SERIES II. CORRESPONDENCE \n         A. \n         Family, 1920-1960The correspondence between Luther and Johnella Jackson\n         are arranged chronologically from 1920-1950. Additionally,\n         letters, postcards and telegrams are arranged alphabetically\n         by the other members of the family. (Boxes 1-5) \n         B. \n         Business, 1922-1950Office correspondence, extensive, arranged\n         chronologically. (Boxes 5-12) \n         C. \n         Personal, 1918- 1960Letters arranged alphabetically by writer. (Boxes 13-16)\n         SERIES III. FINANCIAL \u0026 LEGAL \n         Family bills, tax statements, school bills and stocks.\n         Arranged by type. Copyright for Jackson's \n         Negro Office Holders in Virginia,\n         1865-1895(Box 17) \n         SERIES IV. ORGANIZATIONAL AFFILIATIONS \n         A. \n         The Virginia Voters League,\n         1934-1950Letters, postcards, and telegrams arranged by county,\n         and city. Records include minutes and reports. (Boxes 18-27) \n         B. \n         The Virginia Teachers Association Office\n         of the \"Civic Education Secretaries Office,\" 1941- 1950The Association for the Study of Negro Life and History,\n         Inc., 1923-1950 (Boxes 28-34) \n         C. \n         Correspondence with Carter G.\n         WoodsonArranged chronologically. Other correspondence arranged\n         by county, City, and organization. (Boxes 35-41) \n         D. \n         The NAACP, 1937- 1950Correspondence with officials of the NAACP (state and\n         local), arranged chronologically. (Box 42) \n         E. \n         The I.B.P.O.E. of W.(the Elks),\n         1943-1950General correspondence arranged chronologically and the\n         Lodge's alphabetically by lodge. (Box 43) \n         F. \n         The Virginia World War II History\n         Commission, 1944-1948Correspondence, minutes and reports of the commission\n         arranged chronologically. Some personal war service records\n         arranged alphabetically. Photographs in container 109. Numbers\n         on folders correspond with folder numbers in the original\n         series. (Box 44) \n         G. \n         The Southern Regional Council, 1942-\n         1950Correspondence arranged chronologically; minutes for\n         some meetings. (Box 45) \n         H. \n         The Negro Organizational Society, 1941-\n         1950Correspondence with the president and field secretaries,\n         minutes (1944-1949) arranged chronologically. (Box 46) \n         I. \n         The Committee for Virginia,\n         1944-1950Letters arranged chronologically, a few minutes,\n         reports. (Box 47) \n         J. \n         The Petersburg Negro Business League,\n         1935-1946Correspondence between Jackson, national and local\n         leaders. Chronologically arranged; one article, one report and\n         one skit. (Box 48) \n         K. \n         The Virginia Society for Research,\n         1942-1950(Box 48) \n         L. \n         The Petersburg Community ChoirA history, a financial report and membership rosters.\n         Photographs in container 109. (Box 48) \n         M. \n         The Southern School for Workers,\n         1944-1949Correspondence arranged chronologically. (Box 48) \n         N. \n         The Old Dominion Medical SocietyNames of some of the members. (Box 48) \n         O. \n         The Petersburg Interracial Committee,\n         1948One letter and a proposed constitution. (Box 48) \n         SERIES V. MATERIAL RELATING TO THE DEATH OF LUTHER\n         JACKSON \n         Letters, telegrams and postcards, arranged\n         chronologically. One box of sympathy cards and one of floral\n         cards. (Boxes 49 \u0026 50) \n         SERIES VI. RESEARCH DATA: COLLECTED \n         A. \n         Blacks voting in the South,\n         1947-1948Letters arranged alphabetically by state and then\n         chronologically within the state. (Box 50) \n         B. \n         The Butler Papers, 1813-1888Tax receipts, identification papers, general receipts\n         and a marriage license. Chronologically arranged. (Box 51) \n         C. \n         The Dews Papers, 1802-1880Deeds for properties, tax receipts and general receipts,\n         arranged chronologically. (Box 52) \n         D. \n         The Layton Papers, 1861-1898Tax receipts, deeds for properties, teaching\n         certificates. Arranged chronologically. (Box 53) \n         E. \n         The Woolridge Papers, 1883-1910Tax receipts and general receipts. Few items about the\n         \"Jordan Baptist Church.\" Chronologically arranged. (Box 54) \n         F. \n         By CountyPapers concerning ante and postpellum blacks in some\n         Virginia Counties. Identification papers, receipts. Arranged\n         chronologically within each county and then arranged\n         alphabetically by county also. (Boxes 55-56) \n         G. \n         By CityThe same as above. Arranged alphabetically by city and\n         then chronologically within each city. (Box 57) \n         H. \n         MiscellaneousPapers of antebellum free blacks and slaves. Receipts,\n         identification papers, arranged chronologically. (Box 58) \n         I. \n         Printed and DiaryPrinted pamphlets; handwritten diary belonging to Samuel\n         T. Miller, a missionary in South Africa, 1881-1882. (Box 59) \n         J. \n         Research Notes(Box 60) \n         K. \n         Ledgers GeneralStockholders ledges, one ledger used as a news clipping\n         scrapbook. (Box 61) \n         L. \n         NotebooksHandwritten and typed data, no arrangement, subject\n         varies. (Boxes 62- 63) \n         SERIES VII. MATERIAL WRITTEN BY LUTHER P. JACKSON \n         A. \n         News articles: \n         The Journal and\n         Guide(Norfolk,VA), 1942-1947 \n         Typewritten news column. Arranged chronologically. Box\n         list available. (Boxes 64- 66) \n         B. \n         News Articles: Various PapersHandwritten and typed sheets, chronological order, some\n         without titles. Box list available. (Box 66) \n         C. \n         Articles in JournalPublished items, handwritten and typed, copy of printed\n         articles. (Box 66) \n         D. \n         AddressesTyped and handwritten speeches, arranged\n         chronologically. (Box 67) \n         E. \n         Papers, Reports, and Lecture NotesVarious papers and reports, few lecture notes, skits,\n         radio broadcast, handwritten and typed;separated by type, but\n         otherwise there is no arrangement. (Box 67) \n         F. \n         UnpublishedPapers and term papers, essay, handwritten and typed; no\n         arrangement. (Box 68) \n         G. \n         BooksTypewritten manuscripts. (Boxes 69- 70) \n         SERIES VIII. MATERIAL WRITTEN BY OTHER MEMBERS OF THE\n         FAMILY \n         Articles written by Luther P. Jackson Jr. (Box 71) \n         SERIES IX. AWARDS \u0026 GRADES \n         Family awards and a few grades of some family members.\n         (Box 72) \n         SERIES X. PRINTED \n         Broadsides, leaflets, programs relating to Jackson. (Box\n         73) \n         SERIES XI. VISUAL \n         A. \n         PhotographsFamily, friends and Va. World War II History Commision,\n         organizations; some unidentifiable. (Box 74-76) \n         B. \n         Printer's BlocksWood cuts used for publication. (Boxes 77- 80) \n         SERIES XII. ARTIFACTS \n         Cufflinks, tie clamp, neck scarf, doctoral gown, hood\n         and mortarboard. (Box 81) \n         SERIES XII. MEMORABILIA \n         Baby books, collected programs, Christmas, general\n         greeting and get-well cards, etc. Arranged by type. (Boxes\n         82-84) \n         SERIES XIV. NEWSCLIPPINGS \n         Loose newsclippings from various newspapers on a variety\n         of subjects, no arrangement (Boxes 85) \n         SERIES XV. OVERSIZED ITEMS \n         Newspaper, awards and research data."],"bioghist_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eLuther Porter Jackson Sr. was born July 11, 1892 in\n         Lexington, Kentucky. He was the ninth child of Delilah\n         (Culvrson) Jackson and Edward Jackson. He early schooling was\n         at Chandler Normal School in Lexington, where he completed his\n         studies in 1910. Upon completion of his secondary education he\n         entered Fisk University where he received the A.B. degree in\n         1914. He remained at Fisk for another semester and in 1916 was\n         awarded the A.M. degree.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eIn 1915, at the ripe old age of twenty-three, he began his\n         teaching career at Vorhees Industrial School, Denmark, South\n         Carolina, where he was also Director of the Academic\n         Department. Jackson left South Carolina in 1918 and joined the\n         staff of the Topeka Industrial Institute, Topeka, Kansas, as\n         Instructor of history and music.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eDesiring more education, he returned to the east and sought\n         graduate training at Columbia University in 1920. Here he was\n         to receive one of his many setbacks, which took in stride and\n         proceeded to correct. Writing to a former instructor at Fisk,\n         Jackson stated that Columbia did not consider his A.B. and\n         A.M. from Fisk up to their standards. He, therefore, enrolled\n         for one year at New York City College. Finally, in 1921, he\n         began his studies at Columbia, where he was graduated from\n         their Teachers College in 1922.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eAfter completing his second masters degree, Luther Jackson\n         joined the faculty of what was then the Virginia Normal and\n         Industrial Institute, now Virginia State University. While on\n         staff of the university, Luther Jackson continued his studies,\n         first at Columbia University and then at the University of\n         Chicago, where he received the Ph.D. in history in 1937. Soon\n         after arrival at V.N. \u0026amp; I.I., Jackson took over the\n         College High School and directed its activities from\n         1923-1928. He headed the history department from 1930-1950,\n         formed the \" League of Negro Voters\" in 1934, and in 1937\n         organized the \" Petersburg Business League\", which became the\n         Virginia Trade Association in 1941.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eIn 1935, Carter G. Woodson asked Luther Jackson to head all\n         fund-raising activities for the Association for the Study of\n         Negro Life and History. As chairman of the Virginia chapter,\n         Jackson went on to establish that chapter as one of the most\n         productive of all state chapters. Somehow he still found time\n         to conduct the Petersburg Community Choir of 100 voices, have\n         his doctoral dissertation, write a column for \n         \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eThe Journal and Guide\u003c/title\u003e(Norfolk,\n         Virginia) under the general heading of \"Rights and Duties in a\n         Democracy\" between 1942 until 1948. Although he was now\n         holding down enough work for two people, Jackson was appointed\n         to the Virginia World War II History Commission in 1944 and\n         worked with the N.A.A.C.P, which led to his receiving a plague\n         for service in 1948.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eJackson authored these books: \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eFree Negro Labor and Property Holding\n         in Virginia, 1830-1860\u003c/title\u003e(1942) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eThe History of the Virginia Stated\n         Teachers Association\u003c/title\u003e(1937) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eNegro Office-Holders in Virginia,\n         1865-1895\u003c/title\u003e(1945) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eA Short History of the Gillfield\n         Baptist Church of Petersburg, Virginia\u003c/title\u003e(1941) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eVirginia Negro Soldiers and Seaman in\n         the Revolutionary War\u003c/title\u003e(1944) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eIn addition to joining the faculty, Luther Jackson married\n         a young lady whom he had met while they were both students at\n         Fisk University. The young lady was Johnella M. Frazer\n         (1897-), a native of Shelbyville, Kentucky, the daughter of\n         Laura and Patterson Tilford Frazer; her father was President\n         of Hopkinsville College in Kentucky. Mrs. Jackson completed\n         the conservatory course at Fisk at the age of seventeen(17)\n         and toured with the Fisk \"Jubilee Singers\" for two years under\n         John Work. She joined the staff of Virginia Normal and\n         Industrial Institute in 1916, a full nine years before there\n         was a music department, as the University's first full time\n         instructor of piano.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Jackson, like Luther, also recognized the need for\n         additional training. During the summer vacation she studied at\n         Temple University at the Chicago Music College and at Columbia\n         University. She remained at Virginia State University for\n         forty-nine years, retiring in 1965.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eAdditional Biographical Data:\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e1. Lucious Edwards, Jr.\" The Luther Porter Jackson,\n         Sr.(1892-1950) Papers\" (paper presented at the 63rd meeting of\n         the Association for the Study of Afro-American Life and\n         History, Los Angeles, CA, October 13, 1978) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e2. Marva D. Curtis, \"The Virginia Voters League\"\n         (unpublished masters thesis, Virginia State University, 1979) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e3. Lucious Edwards, Jr., \"Luther Jackson Leaves a Legacy\n         of History in Papers to Virginia State University,\" \n         \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eProgress Index\u003c/title\u003e, February\n         26,1980, p.4.\u003c/p\u003e\n    "],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical/Historical Information"],"bioghist_tesim":["Luther Porter Jackson Sr. was born July 11, 1892 in\n         Lexington, Kentucky. He was the ninth child of Delilah\n         (Culvrson) Jackson and Edward Jackson. He early schooling was\n         at Chandler Normal School in Lexington, where he completed his\n         studies in 1910. Upon completion of his secondary education he\n         entered Fisk University where he received the A.B. degree in\n         1914. He remained at Fisk for another semester and in 1916 was\n         awarded the A.M. degree.","In 1915, at the ripe old age of twenty-three, he began his\n         teaching career at Vorhees Industrial School, Denmark, South\n         Carolina, where he was also Director of the Academic\n         Department. Jackson left South Carolina in 1918 and joined the\n         staff of the Topeka Industrial Institute, Topeka, Kansas, as\n         Instructor of history and music.","Desiring more education, he returned to the east and sought\n         graduate training at Columbia University in 1920. Here he was\n         to receive one of his many setbacks, which took in stride and\n         proceeded to correct. Writing to a former instructor at Fisk,\n         Jackson stated that Columbia did not consider his A.B. and\n         A.M. from Fisk up to their standards. He, therefore, enrolled\n         for one year at New York City College. Finally, in 1921, he\n         began his studies at Columbia, where he was graduated from\n         their Teachers College in 1922.","After completing his second masters degree, Luther Jackson\n         joined the faculty of what was then the Virginia Normal and\n         Industrial Institute, now Virginia State University. While on\n         staff of the university, Luther Jackson continued his studies,\n         first at Columbia University and then at the University of\n         Chicago, where he received the Ph.D. in history in 1937. Soon\n         after arrival at V.N. \u0026 I.I., Jackson took over the\n         College High School and directed its activities from\n         1923-1928. He headed the history department from 1930-1950,\n         formed the \" League of Negro Voters\" in 1934, and in 1937\n         organized the \" Petersburg Business League\", which became the\n         Virginia Trade Association in 1941.","In 1935, Carter G. Woodson asked Luther Jackson to head all\n         fund-raising activities for the Association for the Study of\n         Negro Life and History. As chairman of the Virginia chapter,\n         Jackson went on to establish that chapter as one of the most\n         productive of all state chapters. Somehow he still found time\n         to conduct the Petersburg Community Choir of 100 voices, have\n         his doctoral dissertation, write a column for \n         The Journal and Guide(Norfolk,\n         Virginia) under the general heading of \"Rights and Duties in a\n         Democracy\" between 1942 until 1948. Although he was now\n         holding down enough work for two people, Jackson was appointed\n         to the Virginia World War II History Commission in 1944 and\n         worked with the N.A.A.C.P, which led to his receiving a plague\n         for service in 1948.","Jackson authored these books: \n         Free Negro Labor and Property Holding\n         in Virginia, 1830-1860(1942) \n         The History of the Virginia Stated\n         Teachers Association(1937) \n         Negro Office-Holders in Virginia,\n         1865-1895(1945) \n         A Short History of the Gillfield\n         Baptist Church of Petersburg, Virginia(1941) \n         Virginia Negro Soldiers and Seaman in\n         the Revolutionary War(1944)","In addition to joining the faculty, Luther Jackson married\n         a young lady whom he had met while they were both students at\n         Fisk University. The young lady was Johnella M. Frazer\n         (1897-), a native of Shelbyville, Kentucky, the daughter of\n         Laura and Patterson Tilford Frazer; her father was President\n         of Hopkinsville College in Kentucky. Mrs. Jackson completed\n         the conservatory course at Fisk at the age of seventeen(17)\n         and toured with the Fisk \"Jubilee Singers\" for two years under\n         John Work. She joined the staff of Virginia Normal and\n         Industrial Institute in 1916, a full nine years before there\n         was a music department, as the University's first full time\n         instructor of piano.","Mrs. Jackson, like Luther, also recognized the need for\n         additional training. During the summer vacation she studied at\n         Temple University at the Chicago Music College and at Columbia\n         University. She remained at Virginia State University for\n         forty-nine years, retiring in 1965.","Additional Biographical Data:1. Lucious Edwards, Jr.\" The Luther Porter Jackson,\n         Sr.(1892-1950) Papers\" (paper presented at the 63rd meeting of\n         the Association for the Study of Afro-American Life and\n         History, Los Angeles, CA, October 13, 1978) \n         2. Marva D. Curtis, \"The Virginia Voters League\"\n         (unpublished masters thesis, Virginia State University, 1979) \n         3. Lucious Edwards, Jr., \"Luther Jackson Leaves a Legacy\n         of History in Papers to Virginia State University,\" \n         Progress Index, February\n         26,1980, p.4."],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eLuther Porter Jackson Papers, 1772-1960, Accession\n            #1952-l, Special Collections and Archives, Johnston\n            Memorial Library, Virginia State University, Petersburg,\n            VA.\u003c/p\u003e\n      "],"prefercite_tesim":["Luther Porter Jackson Papers, 1772-1960, Accession\n            #1952-l, Special Collections and Archives, Johnston\n            Memorial Library, Virginia State University, Petersburg,\n            VA."],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe Luther Porter Jackson are one of the most valuable\n         manuscript groups from a historical point of view in the\n         nation, for this former professor of history at Virginia State\n         University lived and worked during an era when the concept of\n         black inferiority was the accepted rule. In addition, this was\n         the time of \"Jim Crowism.\" Segregation was not \"de facto,\" it\n         was legal and challenged by few people, black and white.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eDuring the major time span of these papers, 1920-1950, a\n         number of political and civil rights organizations developed\n         into potent forces and others were born: the NAACP, the Negro\n         Organizational Society, the Southern Regional Council, and the\n         Southern School for Workers. This manuscript group is rich in\n         correspondence with most of the leaders of these movements.\n         Some of the correspondence includes Walter White, Lorenzo C.\n         White, P. Bernard Young, Gordon Hancock and others.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence with Virginia based political and civil\n         rights groups is strong and gives a good picture of the tempo\n         of the era in the State: the Virginia Voters League, the\n         Committee for Virginia, the Petersburg Negro Business\n         League.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eIn addition to correspondence with major political and\n         civil rights organizations, Jackson maintained as interesting\n         relationship with others across the U.S. The business or\n         office correspondence of Luther P. Jackson from 1920-1950\n         include correspondence with John Hope Franklin, W.E.B. DuBois,\n         Hugh Smythe, Helen Edmonds, P. Bernard Young, E. Franklin\n         Frazier, Charles S. Johnson, Rayford Logan, Alrutheus Ambush\n         Taylor, Lorenzo J. Green and others.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eThe collection also consists of ledgers, pamphlets,\n         financial and legal documents, photographs, speeches,\n         newspaper articles, cards, telegrams, notebooks, artifacts and\n         Jackson's research materials.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eJackson collected personal papers of ante-bellum and\n         post-bellum black families in Virginia: The Butler Papers, the\n         Layton Papers, and the Stephen Wooldrige Papers. In his\n         research of free black property owners in Virginia, he\n         acquired a substantial amount of materials from various\n         counties and cities of the Commonwealth of Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e\n    ","\u003cp\u003eThis box contains articles about Negroes in the\n                  United States, race vote in Tampa, colored men's\n                  progressive club, Negro principal to stay as school\n                  integrates, a sample form of application for\n                  registration to vote in the state of Louisiana. A \n                  \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eVirginia Statesman\u003c/title\u003efor\n                  April 21, 1950, the \n                  \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eSouthern Patriot\u003c/title\u003e, New\n                  Orleans, Louisiana, December 1948. \"The Boswell\n                  Amendment: Reaction in Alabama,\" \n                  \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eVirginias Journal and\n                  Guide\u003c/title\u003eApril 22, 1950, the Progress Index.\u003c/p\u003e\n          "],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Content Information"],"scopecontent_tesim":["The Luther Porter Jackson are one of the most valuable\n         manuscript groups from a historical point of view in the\n         nation, for this former professor of history at Virginia State\n         University lived and worked during an era when the concept of\n         black inferiority was the accepted rule. In addition, this was\n         the time of \"Jim Crowism.\" Segregation was not \"de facto,\" it\n         was legal and challenged by few people, black and white.","During the major time span of these papers, 1920-1950, a\n         number of political and civil rights organizations developed\n         into potent forces and others were born: the NAACP, the Negro\n         Organizational Society, the Southern Regional Council, and the\n         Southern School for Workers. This manuscript group is rich in\n         correspondence with most of the leaders of these movements.\n         Some of the correspondence includes Walter White, Lorenzo C.\n         White, P. Bernard Young, Gordon Hancock and others.","Correspondence with Virginia based political and civil\n         rights groups is strong and gives a good picture of the tempo\n         of the era in the State: the Virginia Voters League, the\n         Committee for Virginia, the Petersburg Negro Business\n         League.","In addition to correspondence with major political and\n         civil rights organizations, Jackson maintained as interesting\n         relationship with others across the U.S. The business or\n         office correspondence of Luther P. Jackson from 1920-1950\n         include correspondence with John Hope Franklin, W.E.B. DuBois,\n         Hugh Smythe, Helen Edmonds, P. Bernard Young, E. Franklin\n         Frazier, Charles S. Johnson, Rayford Logan, Alrutheus Ambush\n         Taylor, Lorenzo J. Green and others.","The collection also consists of ledgers, pamphlets,\n         financial and legal documents, photographs, speeches,\n         newspaper articles, cards, telegrams, notebooks, artifacts and\n         Jackson's research materials.","Jackson collected personal papers of ante-bellum and\n         post-bellum black families in Virginia: The Butler Papers, the\n         Layton Papers, and the Stephen Wooldrige Papers. In his\n         research of free black property owners in Virginia, he\n         acquired a substantial amount of materials from various\n         counties and cities of the Commonwealth of Virginia.","This box contains articles about Negroes in the\n                  United States, race vote in Tampa, colored men's\n                  progressive club, Negro principal to stay as school\n                  integrates, a sample form of application for\n                  registration to vote in the state of Louisiana. A \n                  Virginia Statesmanfor\n                  April 21, 1950, the \n                  Southern Patriot, New\n                  Orleans, Louisiana, December 1948. \"The Boswell\n                  Amendment: Reaction in Alabama,\" \n                  Virginias Journal and\n                  GuideApril 22, 1950, the Progress Index."],"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 Luther Porter Jackson papers\n         include documents collected by Jackson to support his research\n         as well as the correspondence produced by Dr. and Mrs. Jackson\n         in connection with their work, interest, and friends. They\n         reflect Luther Jackson's life as a professor and researcher of\n         history and his connections with various political and\n         educational organizations; the official records of the\n         Virginia Voters League and the official records of all fund\n         raising for the Virginia Branch of the Association for the\n         Study of Negro Life and History Inc.\u003c/abstract\u003e\n    "],"abstract_tesim":["The Luther Porter Jackson papers\n         include documents collected by Jackson to support his research\n         as well as the correspondence produced by Dr. and Mrs. Jackson\n         in connection with their work, interest, and friends. They\n         reflect Luther Jackson's life as a professor and researcher of\n         history and his connections with various political and\n         educational organizations; the official records of the\n         Virginia Voters League and the official records of all fund\n         raising for the Virginia Branch of the Association for the\n         Study of Negro Life and History Inc."],"language_ssim":["English"],"total_component_count_is":2288,"online_item_count_is":0,"component_level_isim":[0],"sort_isi":0,"timestamp":"2026-06-23T07:05:55.361Z","arrangement_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eSERIES I. BIOGRAPHICAL DATA \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eThe first five folders contain writings about Jackson.\n         Some material is not a part of the original manuscript group.\n         (Box 1) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eSERIES II. CORRESPONDENCE \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eA. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eFamily, 1920-1960\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eThe correspondence between Luther and Johnella Jackson\n         are arranged chronologically from 1920-1950. Additionally,\n         letters, postcards and telegrams are arranged alphabetically\n         by the other members of the family. (Boxes 1-5) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eB. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eBusiness, 1922-1950\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eOffice correspondence, extensive, arranged\n         chronologically. (Boxes 5-12) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eC. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003ePersonal, 1918- 1960\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eLetters arranged alphabetically by writer. (Boxes 13-16)\n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eSERIES III. FINANCIAL \u0026amp; LEGAL \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eFamily bills, tax statements, school bills and stocks.\n         Arranged by type. Copyright for Jackson's \n         \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eNegro Office Holders in Virginia,\n         1865-1895\u003c/title\u003e(Box 17) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eSERIES IV. ORGANIZATIONAL AFFILIATIONS \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eA. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eThe Virginia Voters League,\n         1934-1950\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eLetters, postcards, and telegrams arranged by county,\n         and city. Records include minutes and reports. (Boxes 18-27) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eB. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eThe Virginia Teachers Association Office\n         of the \"Civic Education Secretaries Office,\" 1941- 1950\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eThe Association for the Study of Negro Life and History,\n         Inc., 1923-1950 (Boxes 28-34) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eC. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eCorrespondence with Carter G.\n         Woodson\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eArranged chronologically. Other correspondence arranged\n         by county, City, and organization. (Boxes 35-41) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eD. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eThe NAACP, 1937- 1950\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eCorrespondence with officials of the NAACP (state and\n         local), arranged chronologically. (Box 42) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eE. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eThe I.B.P.O.E. of W.(the Elks),\n         1943-1950\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eGeneral correspondence arranged chronologically and the\n         Lodge's alphabetically by lodge. (Box 43) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eF. \n         \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eThe Virginia World War II History\n         Commission, 1944-1948\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eCorrespondence, minutes and reports of the commission\n         arranged chronologically. Some personal war service records\n         arranged alphabetically. Photographs in container 109. Numbers\n         on folders correspond with folder numbers in the original\n         series. (Box 44) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eG. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eThe Southern Regional Council, 1942-\n         1950\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eCorrespondence arranged chronologically; minutes for\n         some meetings. (Box 45) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eH. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eThe Negro Organizational Society, 1941-\n         1950\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eCorrespondence with the president and field secretaries,\n         minutes (1944-1949) arranged chronologically. (Box 46) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eI. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eThe Committee for Virginia,\n         1944-1950\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eLetters arranged chronologically, a few minutes,\n         reports. (Box 47) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eJ. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eThe Petersburg Negro Business League,\n         1935-1946\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eCorrespondence between Jackson, national and local\n         leaders. Chronologically arranged; one article, one report and\n         one skit. (Box 48) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eK. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eThe Virginia Society for Research,\n         1942-1950\u003c/emph\u003e(Box 48) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eL. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eThe Petersburg Community Choir\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eA history, a financial report and membership rosters.\n         Photographs in container 109. (Box 48) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eM. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eThe Southern School for Workers,\n         1944-1949\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eCorrespondence arranged chronologically. (Box 48) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eN. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eThe Old Dominion Medical Society\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eNames of some of the members. (Box 48) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eO. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eThe Petersburg Interracial Committee,\n         1948\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eOne letter and a proposed constitution. (Box 48) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eSERIES V. MATERIAL RELATING TO THE DEATH OF LUTHER\n         JACKSON \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eLetters, telegrams and postcards, arranged\n         chronologically. One box of sympathy cards and one of floral\n         cards. (Boxes 49 \u0026amp; 50) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eSERIES VI. RESEARCH DATA: COLLECTED \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eA. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eBlacks voting in the South,\n         1947-1948\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eLetters arranged alphabetically by state and then\n         chronologically within the state. (Box 50) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eB. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eThe Butler Papers, 1813-1888\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eTax receipts, identification papers, general receipts\n         and a marriage license. Chronologically arranged. (Box 51) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eC. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eThe Dews Papers, 1802-1880\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eDeeds for properties, tax receipts and general receipts,\n         arranged chronologically. (Box 52) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eD. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eThe Layton Papers, 1861-1898\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eTax receipts, deeds for properties, teaching\n         certificates. Arranged chronologically. (Box 53) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eE. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eThe Woolridge Papers, 1883-1910\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eTax receipts and general receipts. Few items about the\n         \"Jordan Baptist Church.\" Chronologically arranged. (Box 54) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eF. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eBy County\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003ePapers concerning ante and postpellum blacks in some\n         Virginia Counties. Identification papers, receipts. Arranged\n         chronologically within each county and then arranged\n         alphabetically by county also. (Boxes 55-56) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eG. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eBy City\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eThe same as above. Arranged alphabetically by city and\n         then chronologically within each city. (Box 57) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eH. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eMiscellaneous\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003ePapers of antebellum free blacks and slaves. Receipts,\n         identification papers, arranged chronologically. (Box 58) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eI. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003ePrinted and Diary\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003ePrinted pamphlets; handwritten diary belonging to Samuel\n         T. Miller, a missionary in South Africa, 1881-1882. (Box 59) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eJ. \n         \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eResearch Notes\u003c/emph\u003e(Box 60) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eK. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eLedgers General\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eStockholders ledges, one ledger used as a news clipping\n         scrapbook. (Box 61) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eL. \n         \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eNotebooks\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eHandwritten and typed data, no arrangement, subject\n         varies. (Boxes 62- 63) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eSERIES VII. MATERIAL WRITTEN BY LUTHER P. JACKSON \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eA. \n         \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eNews articles\u003c/emph\u003e: \n         \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eThe Journal and\n         Guide\u003c/title\u003e(Norfolk,VA), 1942-1947 \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eTypewritten news column. Arranged chronologically. Box\n         list available. (Boxes 64- 66) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eB. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eNews Articles: Various Papers\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eHandwritten and typed sheets, chronological order, some\n         without titles. Box list available. (Box 66) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eC. \n         \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eArticles in Journal\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003ePublished items, handwritten and typed, copy of printed\n         articles. (Box 66) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eD. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eAddresses\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eTyped and handwritten speeches, arranged\n         chronologically. (Box 67) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eE. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003ePapers, Reports, and Lecture Notes\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eVarious papers and reports, few lecture notes, skits,\n         radio broadcast, handwritten and typed;separated by type, but\n         otherwise there is no arrangement. (Box 67) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eF. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eUnpublished\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003ePapers and term papers, essay, handwritten and typed; no\n         arrangement. (Box 68) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eG. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eBooks\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eTypewritten manuscripts. (Boxes 69- 70) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eSERIES VIII. MATERIAL WRITTEN BY OTHER MEMBERS OF THE\n         FAMILY \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eArticles written by Luther P. Jackson Jr. (Box 71) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eSERIES IX. AWARDS \u0026amp; GRADES \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eFamily awards and a few grades of some family members.\n         (Box 72) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eSERIES X. PRINTED \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eBroadsides, leaflets, programs relating to Jackson. (Box\n         73) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eSERIES XI. VISUAL \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eA. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003ePhotographs\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eFamily, friends and Va. World War II History Commision,\n         organizations; some unidentifiable. (Box 74-76) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eB. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003ePrinter's Blocks\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eWood cuts used for publication. (Boxes 77- 80) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eSERIES XII. ARTIFACTS \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eCufflinks, tie clamp, neck scarf, doctoral gown, hood\n         and mortarboard. (Box 81) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eSERIES XII. MEMORABILIA \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eBaby books, collected programs, Christmas, general\n         greeting and get-well cards, etc. Arranged by type. (Boxes\n         82-84) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eSERIES XIV. NEWSCLIPPINGS \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eLoose newsclippings from various newspapers on a variety\n         of subjects, no arrangement (Boxes 85) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eSERIES XV. OVERSIZED ITEMS \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eNewspaper, awards and research data.\u003c/p\u003e\n    "]}]}},"label":"Breadcrumbs"}}},"links":{"self":"https://search.arvasarchive.org/catalog/vipets_vipets00009_c01_c08"}},{"id":"vipets_vipets00009_c01_c05","type":"Sub-Series","attributes":{"title":"Biographical Data--Program, The Luther P\n                  Jackson house at Ura \n                  1977","breadcrumbs":{"id":"https://search.arvasarchive.org/catalog/vipets_vipets00009_c01_c05#breadcrumbs","type":"document_value","attributes":{"value":{"ref_ssi":"vipets_vipets00009_c01_c05","ref_ssm":["vipets_vipets00009_c01_c05"],"id":"vipets_vipets00009_c01_c05","ead_ssi":"vipets_vipets00009","_root_":"vipets_vipets00009","_nest_parent_":"vipets_vipets00009_c01","parent_ssi":"vipets_vipets00009_c01","parent_ssim":["Luther Porter Jackson Papers, \n         \n         1772-1960","SERIES I. 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BIOGRAPHICAL DATA \n         The first five folders contain writings about Jackson.\n         Some material is not a part of the original manuscript group.\n         (Box 1) \n         SERIES II. CORRESPONDENCE \n         A. \n         Family, 1920-1960The correspondence between Luther and Johnella Jackson\n         are arranged chronologically from 1920-1950. Additionally,\n         letters, postcards and telegrams are arranged alphabetically\n         by the other members of the family. (Boxes 1-5) \n         B. \n         Business, 1922-1950Office correspondence, extensive, arranged\n         chronologically. (Boxes 5-12) \n         C. \n         Personal, 1918- 1960Letters arranged alphabetically by writer. (Boxes 13-16)\n         SERIES III. FINANCIAL \u0026 LEGAL \n         Family bills, tax statements, school bills and stocks.\n         Arranged by type. Copyright for Jackson's \n         Negro Office Holders in Virginia,\n         1865-1895(Box 17) \n         SERIES IV. ORGANIZATIONAL AFFILIATIONS \n         A. \n         The Virginia Voters League,\n         1934-1950Letters, postcards, and telegrams arranged by county,\n         and city. Records include minutes and reports. (Boxes 18-27) \n         B. \n         The Virginia Teachers Association Office\n         of the \"Civic Education Secretaries Office,\" 1941- 1950The Association for the Study of Negro Life and History,\n         Inc., 1923-1950 (Boxes 28-34) \n         C. \n         Correspondence with Carter G.\n         WoodsonArranged chronologically. Other correspondence arranged\n         by county, City, and organization. (Boxes 35-41) \n         D. \n         The NAACP, 1937- 1950Correspondence with officials of the NAACP (state and\n         local), arranged chronologically. (Box 42) \n         E. \n         The I.B.P.O.E. of W.(the Elks),\n         1943-1950General correspondence arranged chronologically and the\n         Lodge's alphabetically by lodge. (Box 43) \n         F. \n         The Virginia World War II History\n         Commission, 1944-1948Correspondence, minutes and reports of the commission\n         arranged chronologically. Some personal war service records\n         arranged alphabetically. Photographs in container 109. Numbers\n         on folders correspond with folder numbers in the original\n         series. (Box 44) \n         G. \n         The Southern Regional Council, 1942-\n         1950Correspondence arranged chronologically; minutes for\n         some meetings. (Box 45) \n         H. \n         The Negro Organizational Society, 1941-\n         1950Correspondence with the president and field secretaries,\n         minutes (1944-1949) arranged chronologically. (Box 46) \n         I. \n         The Committee for Virginia,\n         1944-1950Letters arranged chronologically, a few minutes,\n         reports. (Box 47) \n         J. \n         The Petersburg Negro Business League,\n         1935-1946Correspondence between Jackson, national and local\n         leaders. Chronologically arranged; one article, one report and\n         one skit. (Box 48) \n         K. \n         The Virginia Society for Research,\n         1942-1950(Box 48) \n         L. \n         The Petersburg Community ChoirA history, a financial report and membership rosters.\n         Photographs in container 109. (Box 48) \n         M. \n         The Southern School for Workers,\n         1944-1949Correspondence arranged chronologically. (Box 48) \n         N. \n         The Old Dominion Medical SocietyNames of some of the members. (Box 48) \n         O. \n         The Petersburg Interracial Committee,\n         1948One letter and a proposed constitution. (Box 48) \n         SERIES V. MATERIAL RELATING TO THE DEATH OF LUTHER\n         JACKSON \n         Letters, telegrams and postcards, arranged\n         chronologically. One box of sympathy cards and one of floral\n         cards. (Boxes 49 \u0026 50) \n         SERIES VI. RESEARCH DATA: COLLECTED \n         A. \n         Blacks voting in the South,\n         1947-1948Letters arranged alphabetically by state and then\n         chronologically within the state. (Box 50) \n         B. \n         The Butler Papers, 1813-1888Tax receipts, identification papers, general receipts\n         and a marriage license. Chronologically arranged. (Box 51) \n         C. \n         The Dews Papers, 1802-1880Deeds for properties, tax receipts and general receipts,\n         arranged chronologically. (Box 52) \n         D. \n         The Layton Papers, 1861-1898Tax receipts, deeds for properties, teaching\n         certificates. Arranged chronologically. (Box 53) \n         E. \n         The Woolridge Papers, 1883-1910Tax receipts and general receipts. Few items about the\n         \"Jordan Baptist Church.\" Chronologically arranged. (Box 54) \n         F. \n         By CountyPapers concerning ante and postpellum blacks in some\n         Virginia Counties. Identification papers, receipts. Arranged\n         chronologically within each county and then arranged\n         alphabetically by county also. (Boxes 55-56) \n         G. \n         By CityThe same as above. Arranged alphabetically by city and\n         then chronologically within each city. (Box 57) \n         H. \n         MiscellaneousPapers of antebellum free blacks and slaves. Receipts,\n         identification papers, arranged chronologically. (Box 58) \n         I. \n         Printed and DiaryPrinted pamphlets; handwritten diary belonging to Samuel\n         T. Miller, a missionary in South Africa, 1881-1882. (Box 59) \n         J. \n         Research Notes(Box 60) \n         K. \n         Ledgers GeneralStockholders ledges, one ledger used as a news clipping\n         scrapbook. (Box 61) \n         L. \n         NotebooksHandwritten and typed data, no arrangement, subject\n         varies. (Boxes 62- 63) \n         SERIES VII. MATERIAL WRITTEN BY LUTHER P. JACKSON \n         A. \n         News articles: \n         The Journal and\n         Guide(Norfolk,VA), 1942-1947 \n         Typewritten news column. Arranged chronologically. Box\n         list available. (Boxes 64- 66) \n         B. \n         News Articles: Various PapersHandwritten and typed sheets, chronological order, some\n         without titles. Box list available. (Box 66) \n         C. \n         Articles in JournalPublished items, handwritten and typed, copy of printed\n         articles. (Box 66) \n         D. \n         AddressesTyped and handwritten speeches, arranged\n         chronologically. (Box 67) \n         E. \n         Papers, Reports, and Lecture NotesVarious papers and reports, few lecture notes, skits,\n         radio broadcast, handwritten and typed;separated by type, but\n         otherwise there is no arrangement. (Box 67) \n         F. \n         UnpublishedPapers and term papers, essay, handwritten and typed; no\n         arrangement. (Box 68) \n         G. \n         BooksTypewritten manuscripts. (Boxes 69- 70) \n         SERIES VIII. MATERIAL WRITTEN BY OTHER MEMBERS OF THE\n         FAMILY \n         Articles written by Luther P. Jackson Jr. (Box 71) \n         SERIES IX. AWARDS \u0026 GRADES \n         Family awards and a few grades of some family members.\n         (Box 72) \n         SERIES X. PRINTED \n         Broadsides, leaflets, programs relating to Jackson. (Box\n         73) \n         SERIES XI. VISUAL \n         A. \n         PhotographsFamily, friends and Va. World War II History Commision,\n         organizations; some unidentifiable. (Box 74-76) \n         B. \n         Printer's BlocksWood cuts used for publication. (Boxes 77- 80) \n         SERIES XII. ARTIFACTS \n         Cufflinks, tie clamp, neck scarf, doctoral gown, hood\n         and mortarboard. (Box 81) \n         SERIES XII. MEMORABILIA \n         Baby books, collected programs, Christmas, general\n         greeting and get-well cards, etc. Arranged by type. (Boxes\n         82-84) \n         SERIES XIV. NEWSCLIPPINGS \n         Loose newsclippings from various newspapers on a variety\n         of subjects, no arrangement (Boxes 85) \n         SERIES XV. OVERSIZED ITEMS \n         Newspaper, awards and research data.","Luther Porter Jackson Sr. was born July 11, 1892 in\n         Lexington, Kentucky. He was the ninth child of Delilah\n         (Culvrson) Jackson and Edward Jackson. He early schooling was\n         at Chandler Normal School in Lexington, where he completed his\n         studies in 1910. Upon completion of his secondary education he\n         entered Fisk University where he received the A.B. degree in\n         1914. He remained at Fisk for another semester and in 1916 was\n         awarded the A.M. degree.","In 1915, at the ripe old age of twenty-three, he began his\n         teaching career at Vorhees Industrial School, Denmark, South\n         Carolina, where he was also Director of the Academic\n         Department. Jackson left South Carolina in 1918 and joined the\n         staff of the Topeka Industrial Institute, Topeka, Kansas, as\n         Instructor of history and music.","Desiring more education, he returned to the east and sought\n         graduate training at Columbia University in 1920. Here he was\n         to receive one of his many setbacks, which took in stride and\n         proceeded to correct. Writing to a former instructor at Fisk,\n         Jackson stated that Columbia did not consider his A.B. and\n         A.M. from Fisk up to their standards. He, therefore, enrolled\n         for one year at New York City College. Finally, in 1921, he\n         began his studies at Columbia, where he was graduated from\n         their Teachers College in 1922.","After completing his second masters degree, Luther Jackson\n         joined the faculty of what was then the Virginia Normal and\n         Industrial Institute, now Virginia State University. While on\n         staff of the university, Luther Jackson continued his studies,\n         first at Columbia University and then at the University of\n         Chicago, where he received the Ph.D. in history in 1937. Soon\n         after arrival at V.N. \u0026 I.I., Jackson took over the\n         College High School and directed its activities from\n         1923-1928. He headed the history department from 1930-1950,\n         formed the \" League of Negro Voters\" in 1934, and in 1937\n         organized the \" Petersburg Business League\", which became the\n         Virginia Trade Association in 1941.","In 1935, Carter G. Woodson asked Luther Jackson to head all\n         fund-raising activities for the Association for the Study of\n         Negro Life and History. As chairman of the Virginia chapter,\n         Jackson went on to establish that chapter as one of the most\n         productive of all state chapters. Somehow he still found time\n         to conduct the Petersburg Community Choir of 100 voices, have\n         his doctoral dissertation, write a column for \n         The Journal and Guide(Norfolk,\n         Virginia) under the general heading of \"Rights and Duties in a\n         Democracy\" between 1942 until 1948. Although he was now\n         holding down enough work for two people, Jackson was appointed\n         to the Virginia World War II History Commission in 1944 and\n         worked with the N.A.A.C.P, which led to his receiving a plague\n         for service in 1948.","Jackson authored these books: \n         Free Negro Labor and Property Holding\n         in Virginia, 1830-1860(1942) \n         The History of the Virginia Stated\n         Teachers Association(1937) \n         Negro Office-Holders in Virginia,\n         1865-1895(1945) \n         A Short History of the Gillfield\n         Baptist Church of Petersburg, Virginia(1941) \n         Virginia Negro Soldiers and Seaman in\n         the Revolutionary War(1944)","In addition to joining the faculty, Luther Jackson married\n         a young lady whom he had met while they were both students at\n         Fisk University. The young lady was Johnella M. Frazer\n         (1897-), a native of Shelbyville, Kentucky, the daughter of\n         Laura and Patterson Tilford Frazer; her father was President\n         of Hopkinsville College in Kentucky. Mrs. Jackson completed\n         the conservatory course at Fisk at the age of seventeen(17)\n         and toured with the Fisk \"Jubilee Singers\" for two years under\n         John Work. She joined the staff of Virginia Normal and\n         Industrial Institute in 1916, a full nine years before there\n         was a music department, as the University's first full time\n         instructor of piano.","Mrs. Jackson, like Luther, also recognized the need for\n         additional training. During the summer vacation she studied at\n         Temple University at the Chicago Music College and at Columbia\n         University. She remained at Virginia State University for\n         forty-nine years, retiring in 1965.","Additional Biographical Data:1. Lucious Edwards, Jr.\" The Luther Porter Jackson,\n         Sr.(1892-1950) Papers\" (paper presented at the 63rd meeting of\n         the Association for the Study of Afro-American Life and\n         History, Los Angeles, CA, October 13, 1978) \n         2. Marva D. Curtis, \"The Virginia Voters League\"\n         (unpublished masters thesis, Virginia State University, 1979) \n         3. Lucious Edwards, Jr., \"Luther Jackson Leaves a Legacy\n         of History in Papers to Virginia State University,\" \n         Progress Index, February\n         26,1980, p.4.","The Luther Porter Jackson are one of the most valuable\n         manuscript groups from a historical point of view in the\n         nation, for this former professor of history at Virginia State\n         University lived and worked during an era when the concept of\n         black inferiority was the accepted rule. In addition, this was\n         the time of \"Jim Crowism.\" Segregation was not \"de facto,\" it\n         was legal and challenged by few people, black and white.","During the major time span of these papers, 1920-1950, a\n         number of political and civil rights organizations developed\n         into potent forces and others were born: the NAACP, the Negro\n         Organizational Society, the Southern Regional Council, and the\n         Southern School for Workers. This manuscript group is rich in\n         correspondence with most of the leaders of these movements.\n         Some of the correspondence includes Walter White, Lorenzo C.\n         White, P. Bernard Young, Gordon Hancock and others.","Correspondence with Virginia based political and civil\n         rights groups is strong and gives a good picture of the tempo\n         of the era in the State: the Virginia Voters League, the\n         Committee for Virginia, the Petersburg Negro Business\n         League.","In addition to correspondence with major political and\n         civil rights organizations, Jackson maintained as interesting\n         relationship with others across the U.S. The business or\n         office correspondence of Luther P. Jackson from 1920-1950\n         include correspondence with John Hope Franklin, W.E.B. DuBois,\n         Hugh Smythe, Helen Edmonds, P. Bernard Young, E. Franklin\n         Frazier, Charles S. Johnson, Rayford Logan, Alrutheus Ambush\n         Taylor, Lorenzo J. Green and others.","The collection also consists of ledgers, pamphlets,\n         financial and legal documents, photographs, speeches,\n         newspaper articles, cards, telegrams, notebooks, artifacts and\n         Jackson's research materials.","Jackson collected personal papers of ante-bellum and\n         post-bellum black families in Virginia: The Butler Papers, the\n         Layton Papers, and the Stephen Wooldrige Papers. In his\n         research of free black property owners in Virginia, he\n         acquired a substantial amount of materials from various\n         counties and cities of the Commonwealth of Virginia.","This box contains articles about Negroes in the\n                  United States, race vote in Tampa, colored men's\n                  progressive club, Negro principal to stay as school\n                  integrates, a sample form of application for\n                  registration to vote in the state of Louisiana. A \n                  Virginia Statesmanfor\n                  April 21, 1950, the \n                  Southern Patriot, New\n                  Orleans, Louisiana, December 1948. \"The Boswell\n                  Amendment: Reaction in Alabama,\" \n                  Virginias Journal and\n                  GuideApril 22, 1950, the Progress Index.","There are no restrictions.","The Luther Porter Jackson papers\n         include documents collected by Jackson to support his research\n         as well as the correspondence produced by Dr. and Mrs. Jackson\n         in connection with their work, interest, and friends. They\n         reflect Luther Jackson's life as a professor and researcher of\n         history and his connections with various political and\n         educational organizations; the official records of the\n         Virginia Voters League and the official records of all fund\n         raising for the Virginia Branch of the Association for the\n         Study of Negro Life and History Inc.","English"],"collection_title_tesim":["Luther Porter Jackson Papers, \n         \n         1772-1960"],"collection_ssim":["Luther Porter Jackson Papers, \n         \n         1772-1960"],"level_ssm":["collection"],"level_ssim":["Collection"],"unitid_ssm":["1952-l"],"unitid_tesim":["1952-l"],"repository_ssm":["Virginia State University"],"repository_ssim":["Virginia State University"],"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_heading_ssm":["Organization"],"arrangement_tesim":["SERIES I. BIOGRAPHICAL DATA \n         The first five folders contain writings about Jackson.\n         Some material is not a part of the original manuscript group.\n         (Box 1) \n         SERIES II. CORRESPONDENCE \n         A. \n         Family, 1920-1960The correspondence between Luther and Johnella Jackson\n         are arranged chronologically from 1920-1950. Additionally,\n         letters, postcards and telegrams are arranged alphabetically\n         by the other members of the family. (Boxes 1-5) \n         B. \n         Business, 1922-1950Office correspondence, extensive, arranged\n         chronologically. (Boxes 5-12) \n         C. \n         Personal, 1918- 1960Letters arranged alphabetically by writer. (Boxes 13-16)\n         SERIES III. FINANCIAL \u0026 LEGAL \n         Family bills, tax statements, school bills and stocks.\n         Arranged by type. Copyright for Jackson's \n         Negro Office Holders in Virginia,\n         1865-1895(Box 17) \n         SERIES IV. ORGANIZATIONAL AFFILIATIONS \n         A. \n         The Virginia Voters League,\n         1934-1950Letters, postcards, and telegrams arranged by county,\n         and city. Records include minutes and reports. (Boxes 18-27) \n         B. \n         The Virginia Teachers Association Office\n         of the \"Civic Education Secretaries Office,\" 1941- 1950The Association for the Study of Negro Life and History,\n         Inc., 1923-1950 (Boxes 28-34) \n         C. \n         Correspondence with Carter G.\n         WoodsonArranged chronologically. Other correspondence arranged\n         by county, City, and organization. (Boxes 35-41) \n         D. \n         The NAACP, 1937- 1950Correspondence with officials of the NAACP (state and\n         local), arranged chronologically. (Box 42) \n         E. \n         The I.B.P.O.E. of W.(the Elks),\n         1943-1950General correspondence arranged chronologically and the\n         Lodge's alphabetically by lodge. (Box 43) \n         F. \n         The Virginia World War II History\n         Commission, 1944-1948Correspondence, minutes and reports of the commission\n         arranged chronologically. Some personal war service records\n         arranged alphabetically. Photographs in container 109. Numbers\n         on folders correspond with folder numbers in the original\n         series. (Box 44) \n         G. \n         The Southern Regional Council, 1942-\n         1950Correspondence arranged chronologically; minutes for\n         some meetings. (Box 45) \n         H. \n         The Negro Organizational Society, 1941-\n         1950Correspondence with the president and field secretaries,\n         minutes (1944-1949) arranged chronologically. (Box 46) \n         I. \n         The Committee for Virginia,\n         1944-1950Letters arranged chronologically, a few minutes,\n         reports. (Box 47) \n         J. \n         The Petersburg Negro Business League,\n         1935-1946Correspondence between Jackson, national and local\n         leaders. Chronologically arranged; one article, one report and\n         one skit. (Box 48) \n         K. \n         The Virginia Society for Research,\n         1942-1950(Box 48) \n         L. \n         The Petersburg Community ChoirA history, a financial report and membership rosters.\n         Photographs in container 109. (Box 48) \n         M. \n         The Southern School for Workers,\n         1944-1949Correspondence arranged chronologically. (Box 48) \n         N. \n         The Old Dominion Medical SocietyNames of some of the members. (Box 48) \n         O. \n         The Petersburg Interracial Committee,\n         1948One letter and a proposed constitution. (Box 48) \n         SERIES V. MATERIAL RELATING TO THE DEATH OF LUTHER\n         JACKSON \n         Letters, telegrams and postcards, arranged\n         chronologically. One box of sympathy cards and one of floral\n         cards. (Boxes 49 \u0026 50) \n         SERIES VI. RESEARCH DATA: COLLECTED \n         A. \n         Blacks voting in the South,\n         1947-1948Letters arranged alphabetically by state and then\n         chronologically within the state. (Box 50) \n         B. \n         The Butler Papers, 1813-1888Tax receipts, identification papers, general receipts\n         and a marriage license. Chronologically arranged. (Box 51) \n         C. \n         The Dews Papers, 1802-1880Deeds for properties, tax receipts and general receipts,\n         arranged chronologically. (Box 52) \n         D. \n         The Layton Papers, 1861-1898Tax receipts, deeds for properties, teaching\n         certificates. Arranged chronologically. (Box 53) \n         E. \n         The Woolridge Papers, 1883-1910Tax receipts and general receipts. Few items about the\n         \"Jordan Baptist Church.\" Chronologically arranged. (Box 54) \n         F. \n         By CountyPapers concerning ante and postpellum blacks in some\n         Virginia Counties. Identification papers, receipts. Arranged\n         chronologically within each county and then arranged\n         alphabetically by county also. (Boxes 55-56) \n         G. \n         By CityThe same as above. Arranged alphabetically by city and\n         then chronologically within each city. (Box 57) \n         H. \n         MiscellaneousPapers of antebellum free blacks and slaves. Receipts,\n         identification papers, arranged chronologically. (Box 58) \n         I. \n         Printed and DiaryPrinted pamphlets; handwritten diary belonging to Samuel\n         T. Miller, a missionary in South Africa, 1881-1882. (Box 59) \n         J. \n         Research Notes(Box 60) \n         K. \n         Ledgers GeneralStockholders ledges, one ledger used as a news clipping\n         scrapbook. (Box 61) \n         L. \n         NotebooksHandwritten and typed data, no arrangement, subject\n         varies. (Boxes 62- 63) \n         SERIES VII. MATERIAL WRITTEN BY LUTHER P. JACKSON \n         A. \n         News articles: \n         The Journal and\n         Guide(Norfolk,VA), 1942-1947 \n         Typewritten news column. Arranged chronologically. Box\n         list available. (Boxes 64- 66) \n         B. \n         News Articles: Various PapersHandwritten and typed sheets, chronological order, some\n         without titles. Box list available. (Box 66) \n         C. \n         Articles in JournalPublished items, handwritten and typed, copy of printed\n         articles. (Box 66) \n         D. \n         AddressesTyped and handwritten speeches, arranged\n         chronologically. (Box 67) \n         E. \n         Papers, Reports, and Lecture NotesVarious papers and reports, few lecture notes, skits,\n         radio broadcast, handwritten and typed;separated by type, but\n         otherwise there is no arrangement. (Box 67) \n         F. \n         UnpublishedPapers and term papers, essay, handwritten and typed; no\n         arrangement. (Box 68) \n         G. \n         BooksTypewritten manuscripts. (Boxes 69- 70) \n         SERIES VIII. MATERIAL WRITTEN BY OTHER MEMBERS OF THE\n         FAMILY \n         Articles written by Luther P. Jackson Jr. (Box 71) \n         SERIES IX. AWARDS \u0026 GRADES \n         Family awards and a few grades of some family members.\n         (Box 72) \n         SERIES X. PRINTED \n         Broadsides, leaflets, programs relating to Jackson. (Box\n         73) \n         SERIES XI. VISUAL \n         A. \n         PhotographsFamily, friends and Va. World War II History Commision,\n         organizations; some unidentifiable. (Box 74-76) \n         B. \n         Printer's BlocksWood cuts used for publication. (Boxes 77- 80) \n         SERIES XII. ARTIFACTS \n         Cufflinks, tie clamp, neck scarf, doctoral gown, hood\n         and mortarboard. (Box 81) \n         SERIES XII. MEMORABILIA \n         Baby books, collected programs, Christmas, general\n         greeting and get-well cards, etc. Arranged by type. (Boxes\n         82-84) \n         SERIES XIV. NEWSCLIPPINGS \n         Loose newsclippings from various newspapers on a variety\n         of subjects, no arrangement (Boxes 85) \n         SERIES XV. OVERSIZED ITEMS \n         Newspaper, awards and research data."],"bioghist_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eLuther Porter Jackson Sr. was born July 11, 1892 in\n         Lexington, Kentucky. He was the ninth child of Delilah\n         (Culvrson) Jackson and Edward Jackson. He early schooling was\n         at Chandler Normal School in Lexington, where he completed his\n         studies in 1910. Upon completion of his secondary education he\n         entered Fisk University where he received the A.B. degree in\n         1914. He remained at Fisk for another semester and in 1916 was\n         awarded the A.M. degree.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eIn 1915, at the ripe old age of twenty-three, he began his\n         teaching career at Vorhees Industrial School, Denmark, South\n         Carolina, where he was also Director of the Academic\n         Department. Jackson left South Carolina in 1918 and joined the\n         staff of the Topeka Industrial Institute, Topeka, Kansas, as\n         Instructor of history and music.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eDesiring more education, he returned to the east and sought\n         graduate training at Columbia University in 1920. Here he was\n         to receive one of his many setbacks, which took in stride and\n         proceeded to correct. Writing to a former instructor at Fisk,\n         Jackson stated that Columbia did not consider his A.B. and\n         A.M. from Fisk up to their standards. He, therefore, enrolled\n         for one year at New York City College. Finally, in 1921, he\n         began his studies at Columbia, where he was graduated from\n         their Teachers College in 1922.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eAfter completing his second masters degree, Luther Jackson\n         joined the faculty of what was then the Virginia Normal and\n         Industrial Institute, now Virginia State University. While on\n         staff of the university, Luther Jackson continued his studies,\n         first at Columbia University and then at the University of\n         Chicago, where he received the Ph.D. in history in 1937. Soon\n         after arrival at V.N. \u0026amp; I.I., Jackson took over the\n         College High School and directed its activities from\n         1923-1928. He headed the history department from 1930-1950,\n         formed the \" League of Negro Voters\" in 1934, and in 1937\n         organized the \" Petersburg Business League\", which became the\n         Virginia Trade Association in 1941.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eIn 1935, Carter G. Woodson asked Luther Jackson to head all\n         fund-raising activities for the Association for the Study of\n         Negro Life and History. As chairman of the Virginia chapter,\n         Jackson went on to establish that chapter as one of the most\n         productive of all state chapters. Somehow he still found time\n         to conduct the Petersburg Community Choir of 100 voices, have\n         his doctoral dissertation, write a column for \n         \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eThe Journal and Guide\u003c/title\u003e(Norfolk,\n         Virginia) under the general heading of \"Rights and Duties in a\n         Democracy\" between 1942 until 1948. Although he was now\n         holding down enough work for two people, Jackson was appointed\n         to the Virginia World War II History Commission in 1944 and\n         worked with the N.A.A.C.P, which led to his receiving a plague\n         for service in 1948.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eJackson authored these books: \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eFree Negro Labor and Property Holding\n         in Virginia, 1830-1860\u003c/title\u003e(1942) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eThe History of the Virginia Stated\n         Teachers Association\u003c/title\u003e(1937) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eNegro Office-Holders in Virginia,\n         1865-1895\u003c/title\u003e(1945) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eA Short History of the Gillfield\n         Baptist Church of Petersburg, Virginia\u003c/title\u003e(1941) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eVirginia Negro Soldiers and Seaman in\n         the Revolutionary War\u003c/title\u003e(1944) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eIn addition to joining the faculty, Luther Jackson married\n         a young lady whom he had met while they were both students at\n         Fisk University. The young lady was Johnella M. Frazer\n         (1897-), a native of Shelbyville, Kentucky, the daughter of\n         Laura and Patterson Tilford Frazer; her father was President\n         of Hopkinsville College in Kentucky. Mrs. Jackson completed\n         the conservatory course at Fisk at the age of seventeen(17)\n         and toured with the Fisk \"Jubilee Singers\" for two years under\n         John Work. She joined the staff of Virginia Normal and\n         Industrial Institute in 1916, a full nine years before there\n         was a music department, as the University's first full time\n         instructor of piano.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Jackson, like Luther, also recognized the need for\n         additional training. During the summer vacation she studied at\n         Temple University at the Chicago Music College and at Columbia\n         University. She remained at Virginia State University for\n         forty-nine years, retiring in 1965.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eAdditional Biographical Data:\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e1. Lucious Edwards, Jr.\" The Luther Porter Jackson,\n         Sr.(1892-1950) Papers\" (paper presented at the 63rd meeting of\n         the Association for the Study of Afro-American Life and\n         History, Los Angeles, CA, October 13, 1978) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e2. Marva D. Curtis, \"The Virginia Voters League\"\n         (unpublished masters thesis, Virginia State University, 1979) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e3. Lucious Edwards, Jr., \"Luther Jackson Leaves a Legacy\n         of History in Papers to Virginia State University,\" \n         \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eProgress Index\u003c/title\u003e, February\n         26,1980, p.4.\u003c/p\u003e\n    "],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical/Historical Information"],"bioghist_tesim":["Luther Porter Jackson Sr. was born July 11, 1892 in\n         Lexington, Kentucky. He was the ninth child of Delilah\n         (Culvrson) Jackson and Edward Jackson. He early schooling was\n         at Chandler Normal School in Lexington, where he completed his\n         studies in 1910. Upon completion of his secondary education he\n         entered Fisk University where he received the A.B. degree in\n         1914. He remained at Fisk for another semester and in 1916 was\n         awarded the A.M. degree.","In 1915, at the ripe old age of twenty-three, he began his\n         teaching career at Vorhees Industrial School, Denmark, South\n         Carolina, where he was also Director of the Academic\n         Department. Jackson left South Carolina in 1918 and joined the\n         staff of the Topeka Industrial Institute, Topeka, Kansas, as\n         Instructor of history and music.","Desiring more education, he returned to the east and sought\n         graduate training at Columbia University in 1920. Here he was\n         to receive one of his many setbacks, which took in stride and\n         proceeded to correct. Writing to a former instructor at Fisk,\n         Jackson stated that Columbia did not consider his A.B. and\n         A.M. from Fisk up to their standards. He, therefore, enrolled\n         for one year at New York City College. Finally, in 1921, he\n         began his studies at Columbia, where he was graduated from\n         their Teachers College in 1922.","After completing his second masters degree, Luther Jackson\n         joined the faculty of what was then the Virginia Normal and\n         Industrial Institute, now Virginia State University. While on\n         staff of the university, Luther Jackson continued his studies,\n         first at Columbia University and then at the University of\n         Chicago, where he received the Ph.D. in history in 1937. Soon\n         after arrival at V.N. \u0026 I.I., Jackson took over the\n         College High School and directed its activities from\n         1923-1928. He headed the history department from 1930-1950,\n         formed the \" League of Negro Voters\" in 1934, and in 1937\n         organized the \" Petersburg Business League\", which became the\n         Virginia Trade Association in 1941.","In 1935, Carter G. Woodson asked Luther Jackson to head all\n         fund-raising activities for the Association for the Study of\n         Negro Life and History. As chairman of the Virginia chapter,\n         Jackson went on to establish that chapter as one of the most\n         productive of all state chapters. Somehow he still found time\n         to conduct the Petersburg Community Choir of 100 voices, have\n         his doctoral dissertation, write a column for \n         The Journal and Guide(Norfolk,\n         Virginia) under the general heading of \"Rights and Duties in a\n         Democracy\" between 1942 until 1948. Although he was now\n         holding down enough work for two people, Jackson was appointed\n         to the Virginia World War II History Commission in 1944 and\n         worked with the N.A.A.C.P, which led to his receiving a plague\n         for service in 1948.","Jackson authored these books: \n         Free Negro Labor and Property Holding\n         in Virginia, 1830-1860(1942) \n         The History of the Virginia Stated\n         Teachers Association(1937) \n         Negro Office-Holders in Virginia,\n         1865-1895(1945) \n         A Short History of the Gillfield\n         Baptist Church of Petersburg, Virginia(1941) \n         Virginia Negro Soldiers and Seaman in\n         the Revolutionary War(1944)","In addition to joining the faculty, Luther Jackson married\n         a young lady whom he had met while they were both students at\n         Fisk University. The young lady was Johnella M. Frazer\n         (1897-), a native of Shelbyville, Kentucky, the daughter of\n         Laura and Patterson Tilford Frazer; her father was President\n         of Hopkinsville College in Kentucky. Mrs. Jackson completed\n         the conservatory course at Fisk at the age of seventeen(17)\n         and toured with the Fisk \"Jubilee Singers\" for two years under\n         John Work. She joined the staff of Virginia Normal and\n         Industrial Institute in 1916, a full nine years before there\n         was a music department, as the University's first full time\n         instructor of piano.","Mrs. Jackson, like Luther, also recognized the need for\n         additional training. During the summer vacation she studied at\n         Temple University at the Chicago Music College and at Columbia\n         University. She remained at Virginia State University for\n         forty-nine years, retiring in 1965.","Additional Biographical Data:1. Lucious Edwards, Jr.\" The Luther Porter Jackson,\n         Sr.(1892-1950) Papers\" (paper presented at the 63rd meeting of\n         the Association for the Study of Afro-American Life and\n         History, Los Angeles, CA, October 13, 1978) \n         2. Marva D. Curtis, \"The Virginia Voters League\"\n         (unpublished masters thesis, Virginia State University, 1979) \n         3. Lucious Edwards, Jr., \"Luther Jackson Leaves a Legacy\n         of History in Papers to Virginia State University,\" \n         Progress Index, February\n         26,1980, p.4."],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eLuther Porter Jackson Papers, 1772-1960, Accession\n            #1952-l, Special Collections and Archives, Johnston\n            Memorial Library, Virginia State University, Petersburg,\n            VA.\u003c/p\u003e\n      "],"prefercite_tesim":["Luther Porter Jackson Papers, 1772-1960, Accession\n            #1952-l, Special Collections and Archives, Johnston\n            Memorial Library, Virginia State University, Petersburg,\n            VA."],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe Luther Porter Jackson are one of the most valuable\n         manuscript groups from a historical point of view in the\n         nation, for this former professor of history at Virginia State\n         University lived and worked during an era when the concept of\n         black inferiority was the accepted rule. In addition, this was\n         the time of \"Jim Crowism.\" Segregation was not \"de facto,\" it\n         was legal and challenged by few people, black and white.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eDuring the major time span of these papers, 1920-1950, a\n         number of political and civil rights organizations developed\n         into potent forces and others were born: the NAACP, the Negro\n         Organizational Society, the Southern Regional Council, and the\n         Southern School for Workers. This manuscript group is rich in\n         correspondence with most of the leaders of these movements.\n         Some of the correspondence includes Walter White, Lorenzo C.\n         White, P. Bernard Young, Gordon Hancock and others.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence with Virginia based political and civil\n         rights groups is strong and gives a good picture of the tempo\n         of the era in the State: the Virginia Voters League, the\n         Committee for Virginia, the Petersburg Negro Business\n         League.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eIn addition to correspondence with major political and\n         civil rights organizations, Jackson maintained as interesting\n         relationship with others across the U.S. The business or\n         office correspondence of Luther P. Jackson from 1920-1950\n         include correspondence with John Hope Franklin, W.E.B. DuBois,\n         Hugh Smythe, Helen Edmonds, P. Bernard Young, E. Franklin\n         Frazier, Charles S. Johnson, Rayford Logan, Alrutheus Ambush\n         Taylor, Lorenzo J. Green and others.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eThe collection also consists of ledgers, pamphlets,\n         financial and legal documents, photographs, speeches,\n         newspaper articles, cards, telegrams, notebooks, artifacts and\n         Jackson's research materials.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eJackson collected personal papers of ante-bellum and\n         post-bellum black families in Virginia: The Butler Papers, the\n         Layton Papers, and the Stephen Wooldrige Papers. In his\n         research of free black property owners in Virginia, he\n         acquired a substantial amount of materials from various\n         counties and cities of the Commonwealth of Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e\n    ","\u003cp\u003eThis box contains articles about Negroes in the\n                  United States, race vote in Tampa, colored men's\n                  progressive club, Negro principal to stay as school\n                  integrates, a sample form of application for\n                  registration to vote in the state of Louisiana. A \n                  \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eVirginia Statesman\u003c/title\u003efor\n                  April 21, 1950, the \n                  \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eSouthern Patriot\u003c/title\u003e, New\n                  Orleans, Louisiana, December 1948. \"The Boswell\n                  Amendment: Reaction in Alabama,\" \n                  \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eVirginias Journal and\n                  Guide\u003c/title\u003eApril 22, 1950, the Progress Index.\u003c/p\u003e\n          "],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Content Information"],"scopecontent_tesim":["The Luther Porter Jackson are one of the most valuable\n         manuscript groups from a historical point of view in the\n         nation, for this former professor of history at Virginia State\n         University lived and worked during an era when the concept of\n         black inferiority was the accepted rule. In addition, this was\n         the time of \"Jim Crowism.\" Segregation was not \"de facto,\" it\n         was legal and challenged by few people, black and white.","During the major time span of these papers, 1920-1950, a\n         number of political and civil rights organizations developed\n         into potent forces and others were born: the NAACP, the Negro\n         Organizational Society, the Southern Regional Council, and the\n         Southern School for Workers. This manuscript group is rich in\n         correspondence with most of the leaders of these movements.\n         Some of the correspondence includes Walter White, Lorenzo C.\n         White, P. Bernard Young, Gordon Hancock and others.","Correspondence with Virginia based political and civil\n         rights groups is strong and gives a good picture of the tempo\n         of the era in the State: the Virginia Voters League, the\n         Committee for Virginia, the Petersburg Negro Business\n         League.","In addition to correspondence with major political and\n         civil rights organizations, Jackson maintained as interesting\n         relationship with others across the U.S. The business or\n         office correspondence of Luther P. Jackson from 1920-1950\n         include correspondence with John Hope Franklin, W.E.B. DuBois,\n         Hugh Smythe, Helen Edmonds, P. Bernard Young, E. Franklin\n         Frazier, Charles S. Johnson, Rayford Logan, Alrutheus Ambush\n         Taylor, Lorenzo J. Green and others.","The collection also consists of ledgers, pamphlets,\n         financial and legal documents, photographs, speeches,\n         newspaper articles, cards, telegrams, notebooks, artifacts and\n         Jackson's research materials.","Jackson collected personal papers of ante-bellum and\n         post-bellum black families in Virginia: The Butler Papers, the\n         Layton Papers, and the Stephen Wooldrige Papers. In his\n         research of free black property owners in Virginia, he\n         acquired a substantial amount of materials from various\n         counties and cities of the Commonwealth of Virginia.","This box contains articles about Negroes in the\n                  United States, race vote in Tampa, colored men's\n                  progressive club, Negro principal to stay as school\n                  integrates, a sample form of application for\n                  registration to vote in the state of Louisiana. A \n                  Virginia Statesmanfor\n                  April 21, 1950, the \n                  Southern Patriot, New\n                  Orleans, Louisiana, December 1948. \"The Boswell\n                  Amendment: Reaction in Alabama,\" \n                  Virginias Journal and\n                  GuideApril 22, 1950, the Progress Index."],"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 Luther Porter Jackson papers\n         include documents collected by Jackson to support his research\n         as well as the correspondence produced by Dr. and Mrs. Jackson\n         in connection with their work, interest, and friends. They\n         reflect Luther Jackson's life as a professor and researcher of\n         history and his connections with various political and\n         educational organizations; the official records of the\n         Virginia Voters League and the official records of all fund\n         raising for the Virginia Branch of the Association for the\n         Study of Negro Life and History Inc.\u003c/abstract\u003e\n    "],"abstract_tesim":["The Luther Porter Jackson papers\n         include documents collected by Jackson to support his research\n         as well as the correspondence produced by Dr. and Mrs. Jackson\n         in connection with their work, interest, and friends. They\n         reflect Luther Jackson's life as a professor and researcher of\n         history and his connections with various political and\n         educational organizations; the official records of the\n         Virginia Voters League and the official records of all fund\n         raising for the Virginia Branch of the Association for the\n         Study of Negro Life and History Inc."],"language_ssim":["English"],"total_component_count_is":2288,"online_item_count_is":0,"component_level_isim":[0],"sort_isi":0,"timestamp":"2026-06-23T07:05:55.361Z","arrangement_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eSERIES I. BIOGRAPHICAL DATA \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eThe first five folders contain writings about Jackson.\n         Some material is not a part of the original manuscript group.\n         (Box 1) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eSERIES II. CORRESPONDENCE \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eA. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eFamily, 1920-1960\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eThe correspondence between Luther and Johnella Jackson\n         are arranged chronologically from 1920-1950. Additionally,\n         letters, postcards and telegrams are arranged alphabetically\n         by the other members of the family. (Boxes 1-5) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eB. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eBusiness, 1922-1950\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eOffice correspondence, extensive, arranged\n         chronologically. (Boxes 5-12) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eC. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003ePersonal, 1918- 1960\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eLetters arranged alphabetically by writer. (Boxes 13-16)\n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eSERIES III. FINANCIAL \u0026amp; LEGAL \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eFamily bills, tax statements, school bills and stocks.\n         Arranged by type. Copyright for Jackson's \n         \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eNegro Office Holders in Virginia,\n         1865-1895\u003c/title\u003e(Box 17) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eSERIES IV. ORGANIZATIONAL AFFILIATIONS \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eA. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eThe Virginia Voters League,\n         1934-1950\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eLetters, postcards, and telegrams arranged by county,\n         and city. Records include minutes and reports. (Boxes 18-27) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eB. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eThe Virginia Teachers Association Office\n         of the \"Civic Education Secretaries Office,\" 1941- 1950\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eThe Association for the Study of Negro Life and History,\n         Inc., 1923-1950 (Boxes 28-34) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eC. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eCorrespondence with Carter G.\n         Woodson\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eArranged chronologically. Other correspondence arranged\n         by county, City, and organization. (Boxes 35-41) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eD. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eThe NAACP, 1937- 1950\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eCorrespondence with officials of the NAACP (state and\n         local), arranged chronologically. (Box 42) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eE. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eThe I.B.P.O.E. of W.(the Elks),\n         1943-1950\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eGeneral correspondence arranged chronologically and the\n         Lodge's alphabetically by lodge. (Box 43) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eF. \n         \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eThe Virginia World War II History\n         Commission, 1944-1948\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eCorrespondence, minutes and reports of the commission\n         arranged chronologically. Some personal war service records\n         arranged alphabetically. Photographs in container 109. Numbers\n         on folders correspond with folder numbers in the original\n         series. (Box 44) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eG. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eThe Southern Regional Council, 1942-\n         1950\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eCorrespondence arranged chronologically; minutes for\n         some meetings. (Box 45) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eH. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eThe Negro Organizational Society, 1941-\n         1950\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eCorrespondence with the president and field secretaries,\n         minutes (1944-1949) arranged chronologically. (Box 46) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eI. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eThe Committee for Virginia,\n         1944-1950\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eLetters arranged chronologically, a few minutes,\n         reports. (Box 47) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eJ. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eThe Petersburg Negro Business League,\n         1935-1946\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eCorrespondence between Jackson, national and local\n         leaders. Chronologically arranged; one article, one report and\n         one skit. (Box 48) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eK. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eThe Virginia Society for Research,\n         1942-1950\u003c/emph\u003e(Box 48) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eL. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eThe Petersburg Community Choir\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eA history, a financial report and membership rosters.\n         Photographs in container 109. (Box 48) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eM. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eThe Southern School for Workers,\n         1944-1949\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eCorrespondence arranged chronologically. (Box 48) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eN. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eThe Old Dominion Medical Society\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eNames of some of the members. (Box 48) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eO. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eThe Petersburg Interracial Committee,\n         1948\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eOne letter and a proposed constitution. (Box 48) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eSERIES V. MATERIAL RELATING TO THE DEATH OF LUTHER\n         JACKSON \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eLetters, telegrams and postcards, arranged\n         chronologically. One box of sympathy cards and one of floral\n         cards. (Boxes 49 \u0026amp; 50) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eSERIES VI. RESEARCH DATA: COLLECTED \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eA. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eBlacks voting in the South,\n         1947-1948\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eLetters arranged alphabetically by state and then\n         chronologically within the state. (Box 50) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eB. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eThe Butler Papers, 1813-1888\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eTax receipts, identification papers, general receipts\n         and a marriage license. Chronologically arranged. (Box 51) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eC. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eThe Dews Papers, 1802-1880\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eDeeds for properties, tax receipts and general receipts,\n         arranged chronologically. (Box 52) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eD. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eThe Layton Papers, 1861-1898\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eTax receipts, deeds for properties, teaching\n         certificates. Arranged chronologically. (Box 53) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eE. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eThe Woolridge Papers, 1883-1910\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eTax receipts and general receipts. Few items about the\n         \"Jordan Baptist Church.\" Chronologically arranged. (Box 54) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eF. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eBy County\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003ePapers concerning ante and postpellum blacks in some\n         Virginia Counties. Identification papers, receipts. Arranged\n         chronologically within each county and then arranged\n         alphabetically by county also. (Boxes 55-56) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eG. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eBy City\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eThe same as above. Arranged alphabetically by city and\n         then chronologically within each city. (Box 57) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eH. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eMiscellaneous\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003ePapers of antebellum free blacks and slaves. Receipts,\n         identification papers, arranged chronologically. (Box 58) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eI. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003ePrinted and Diary\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003ePrinted pamphlets; handwritten diary belonging to Samuel\n         T. Miller, a missionary in South Africa, 1881-1882. (Box 59) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eJ. \n         \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eResearch Notes\u003c/emph\u003e(Box 60) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eK. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eLedgers General\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eStockholders ledges, one ledger used as a news clipping\n         scrapbook. (Box 61) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eL. \n         \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eNotebooks\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eHandwritten and typed data, no arrangement, subject\n         varies. (Boxes 62- 63) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eSERIES VII. MATERIAL WRITTEN BY LUTHER P. JACKSON \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eA. \n         \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eNews articles\u003c/emph\u003e: \n         \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eThe Journal and\n         Guide\u003c/title\u003e(Norfolk,VA), 1942-1947 \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eTypewritten news column. Arranged chronologically. Box\n         list available. (Boxes 64- 66) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eB. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eNews Articles: Various Papers\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eHandwritten and typed sheets, chronological order, some\n         without titles. Box list available. (Box 66) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eC. \n         \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eArticles in Journal\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003ePublished items, handwritten and typed, copy of printed\n         articles. (Box 66) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eD. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eAddresses\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eTyped and handwritten speeches, arranged\n         chronologically. (Box 67) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eE. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003ePapers, Reports, and Lecture Notes\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eVarious papers and reports, few lecture notes, skits,\n         radio broadcast, handwritten and typed;separated by type, but\n         otherwise there is no arrangement. (Box 67) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eF. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eUnpublished\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003ePapers and term papers, essay, handwritten and typed; no\n         arrangement. (Box 68) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eG. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eBooks\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eTypewritten manuscripts. (Boxes 69- 70) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eSERIES VIII. MATERIAL WRITTEN BY OTHER MEMBERS OF THE\n         FAMILY \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eArticles written by Luther P. Jackson Jr. (Box 71) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eSERIES IX. AWARDS \u0026amp; GRADES \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eFamily awards and a few grades of some family members.\n         (Box 72) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eSERIES X. PRINTED \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eBroadsides, leaflets, programs relating to Jackson. (Box\n         73) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eSERIES XI. VISUAL \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eA. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003ePhotographs\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eFamily, friends and Va. World War II History Commision,\n         organizations; some unidentifiable. (Box 74-76) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eB. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003ePrinter's Blocks\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eWood cuts used for publication. (Boxes 77- 80) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eSERIES XII. ARTIFACTS \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eCufflinks, tie clamp, neck scarf, doctoral gown, hood\n         and mortarboard. (Box 81) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eSERIES XII. MEMORABILIA \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eBaby books, collected programs, Christmas, general\n         greeting and get-well cards, etc. Arranged by type. (Boxes\n         82-84) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eSERIES XIV. 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BIOGRAPHICAL DATA \n         The first five folders contain writings about Jackson.\n         Some material is not a part of the original manuscript group.\n         (Box 1) \n         SERIES II. CORRESPONDENCE \n         A. \n         Family, 1920-1960The correspondence between Luther and Johnella Jackson\n         are arranged chronologically from 1920-1950. Additionally,\n         letters, postcards and telegrams are arranged alphabetically\n         by the other members of the family. (Boxes 1-5) \n         B. \n         Business, 1922-1950Office correspondence, extensive, arranged\n         chronologically. (Boxes 5-12) \n         C. \n         Personal, 1918- 1960Letters arranged alphabetically by writer. (Boxes 13-16)\n         SERIES III. FINANCIAL \u0026 LEGAL \n         Family bills, tax statements, school bills and stocks.\n         Arranged by type. Copyright for Jackson's \n         Negro Office Holders in Virginia,\n         1865-1895(Box 17) \n         SERIES IV. ORGANIZATIONAL AFFILIATIONS \n         A. \n         The Virginia Voters League,\n         1934-1950Letters, postcards, and telegrams arranged by county,\n         and city. Records include minutes and reports. (Boxes 18-27) \n         B. \n         The Virginia Teachers Association Office\n         of the \"Civic Education Secretaries Office,\" 1941- 1950The Association for the Study of Negro Life and History,\n         Inc., 1923-1950 (Boxes 28-34) \n         C. \n         Correspondence with Carter G.\n         WoodsonArranged chronologically. Other correspondence arranged\n         by county, City, and organization. (Boxes 35-41) \n         D. \n         The NAACP, 1937- 1950Correspondence with officials of the NAACP (state and\n         local), arranged chronologically. (Box 42) \n         E. \n         The I.B.P.O.E. of W.(the Elks),\n         1943-1950General correspondence arranged chronologically and the\n         Lodge's alphabetically by lodge. (Box 43) \n         F. \n         The Virginia World War II History\n         Commission, 1944-1948Correspondence, minutes and reports of the commission\n         arranged chronologically. Some personal war service records\n         arranged alphabetically. Photographs in container 109. Numbers\n         on folders correspond with folder numbers in the original\n         series. (Box 44) \n         G. \n         The Southern Regional Council, 1942-\n         1950Correspondence arranged chronologically; minutes for\n         some meetings. (Box 45) \n         H. \n         The Negro Organizational Society, 1941-\n         1950Correspondence with the president and field secretaries,\n         minutes (1944-1949) arranged chronologically. (Box 46) \n         I. \n         The Committee for Virginia,\n         1944-1950Letters arranged chronologically, a few minutes,\n         reports. (Box 47) \n         J. \n         The Petersburg Negro Business League,\n         1935-1946Correspondence between Jackson, national and local\n         leaders. Chronologically arranged; one article, one report and\n         one skit. (Box 48) \n         K. \n         The Virginia Society for Research,\n         1942-1950(Box 48) \n         L. \n         The Petersburg Community ChoirA history, a financial report and membership rosters.\n         Photographs in container 109. (Box 48) \n         M. \n         The Southern School for Workers,\n         1944-1949Correspondence arranged chronologically. (Box 48) \n         N. \n         The Old Dominion Medical SocietyNames of some of the members. (Box 48) \n         O. \n         The Petersburg Interracial Committee,\n         1948One letter and a proposed constitution. (Box 48) \n         SERIES V. MATERIAL RELATING TO THE DEATH OF LUTHER\n         JACKSON \n         Letters, telegrams and postcards, arranged\n         chronologically. One box of sympathy cards and one of floral\n         cards. (Boxes 49 \u0026 50) \n         SERIES VI. RESEARCH DATA: COLLECTED \n         A. \n         Blacks voting in the South,\n         1947-1948Letters arranged alphabetically by state and then\n         chronologically within the state. (Box 50) \n         B. \n         The Butler Papers, 1813-1888Tax receipts, identification papers, general receipts\n         and a marriage license. Chronologically arranged. (Box 51) \n         C. \n         The Dews Papers, 1802-1880Deeds for properties, tax receipts and general receipts,\n         arranged chronologically. (Box 52) \n         D. \n         The Layton Papers, 1861-1898Tax receipts, deeds for properties, teaching\n         certificates. Arranged chronologically. (Box 53) \n         E. \n         The Woolridge Papers, 1883-1910Tax receipts and general receipts. Few items about the\n         \"Jordan Baptist Church.\" Chronologically arranged. (Box 54) \n         F. \n         By CountyPapers concerning ante and postpellum blacks in some\n         Virginia Counties. Identification papers, receipts. Arranged\n         chronologically within each county and then arranged\n         alphabetically by county also. (Boxes 55-56) \n         G. \n         By CityThe same as above. Arranged alphabetically by city and\n         then chronologically within each city. (Box 57) \n         H. \n         MiscellaneousPapers of antebellum free blacks and slaves. Receipts,\n         identification papers, arranged chronologically. (Box 58) \n         I. \n         Printed and DiaryPrinted pamphlets; handwritten diary belonging to Samuel\n         T. Miller, a missionary in South Africa, 1881-1882. (Box 59) \n         J. \n         Research Notes(Box 60) \n         K. \n         Ledgers GeneralStockholders ledges, one ledger used as a news clipping\n         scrapbook. (Box 61) \n         L. \n         NotebooksHandwritten and typed data, no arrangement, subject\n         varies. (Boxes 62- 63) \n         SERIES VII. MATERIAL WRITTEN BY LUTHER P. JACKSON \n         A. \n         News articles: \n         The Journal and\n         Guide(Norfolk,VA), 1942-1947 \n         Typewritten news column. Arranged chronologically. Box\n         list available. (Boxes 64- 66) \n         B. \n         News Articles: Various PapersHandwritten and typed sheets, chronological order, some\n         without titles. Box list available. (Box 66) \n         C. \n         Articles in JournalPublished items, handwritten and typed, copy of printed\n         articles. (Box 66) \n         D. \n         AddressesTyped and handwritten speeches, arranged\n         chronologically. (Box 67) \n         E. \n         Papers, Reports, and Lecture NotesVarious papers and reports, few lecture notes, skits,\n         radio broadcast, handwritten and typed;separated by type, but\n         otherwise there is no arrangement. (Box 67) \n         F. \n         UnpublishedPapers and term papers, essay, handwritten and typed; no\n         arrangement. (Box 68) \n         G. \n         BooksTypewritten manuscripts. (Boxes 69- 70) \n         SERIES VIII. MATERIAL WRITTEN BY OTHER MEMBERS OF THE\n         FAMILY \n         Articles written by Luther P. Jackson Jr. (Box 71) \n         SERIES IX. AWARDS \u0026 GRADES \n         Family awards and a few grades of some family members.\n         (Box 72) \n         SERIES X. PRINTED \n         Broadsides, leaflets, programs relating to Jackson. (Box\n         73) \n         SERIES XI. VISUAL \n         A. \n         PhotographsFamily, friends and Va. World War II History Commision,\n         organizations; some unidentifiable. (Box 74-76) \n         B. \n         Printer's BlocksWood cuts used for publication. (Boxes 77- 80) \n         SERIES XII. ARTIFACTS \n         Cufflinks, tie clamp, neck scarf, doctoral gown, hood\n         and mortarboard. (Box 81) \n         SERIES XII. MEMORABILIA \n         Baby books, collected programs, Christmas, general\n         greeting and get-well cards, etc. Arranged by type. (Boxes\n         82-84) \n         SERIES XIV. NEWSCLIPPINGS \n         Loose newsclippings from various newspapers on a variety\n         of subjects, no arrangement (Boxes 85) \n         SERIES XV. OVERSIZED ITEMS \n         Newspaper, awards and research data.","Luther Porter Jackson Sr. was born July 11, 1892 in\n         Lexington, Kentucky. He was the ninth child of Delilah\n         (Culvrson) Jackson and Edward Jackson. He early schooling was\n         at Chandler Normal School in Lexington, where he completed his\n         studies in 1910. Upon completion of his secondary education he\n         entered Fisk University where he received the A.B. degree in\n         1914. He remained at Fisk for another semester and in 1916 was\n         awarded the A.M. degree.","In 1915, at the ripe old age of twenty-three, he began his\n         teaching career at Vorhees Industrial School, Denmark, South\n         Carolina, where he was also Director of the Academic\n         Department. Jackson left South Carolina in 1918 and joined the\n         staff of the Topeka Industrial Institute, Topeka, Kansas, as\n         Instructor of history and music.","Desiring more education, he returned to the east and sought\n         graduate training at Columbia University in 1920. Here he was\n         to receive one of his many setbacks, which took in stride and\n         proceeded to correct. Writing to a former instructor at Fisk,\n         Jackson stated that Columbia did not consider his A.B. and\n         A.M. from Fisk up to their standards. He, therefore, enrolled\n         for one year at New York City College. Finally, in 1921, he\n         began his studies at Columbia, where he was graduated from\n         their Teachers College in 1922.","After completing his second masters degree, Luther Jackson\n         joined the faculty of what was then the Virginia Normal and\n         Industrial Institute, now Virginia State University. While on\n         staff of the university, Luther Jackson continued his studies,\n         first at Columbia University and then at the University of\n         Chicago, where he received the Ph.D. in history in 1937. Soon\n         after arrival at V.N. \u0026 I.I., Jackson took over the\n         College High School and directed its activities from\n         1923-1928. He headed the history department from 1930-1950,\n         formed the \" League of Negro Voters\" in 1934, and in 1937\n         organized the \" Petersburg Business League\", which became the\n         Virginia Trade Association in 1941.","In 1935, Carter G. Woodson asked Luther Jackson to head all\n         fund-raising activities for the Association for the Study of\n         Negro Life and History. As chairman of the Virginia chapter,\n         Jackson went on to establish that chapter as one of the most\n         productive of all state chapters. Somehow he still found time\n         to conduct the Petersburg Community Choir of 100 voices, have\n         his doctoral dissertation, write a column for \n         The Journal and Guide(Norfolk,\n         Virginia) under the general heading of \"Rights and Duties in a\n         Democracy\" between 1942 until 1948. Although he was now\n         holding down enough work for two people, Jackson was appointed\n         to the Virginia World War II History Commission in 1944 and\n         worked with the N.A.A.C.P, which led to his receiving a plague\n         for service in 1948.","Jackson authored these books: \n         Free Negro Labor and Property Holding\n         in Virginia, 1830-1860(1942) \n         The History of the Virginia Stated\n         Teachers Association(1937) \n         Negro Office-Holders in Virginia,\n         1865-1895(1945) \n         A Short History of the Gillfield\n         Baptist Church of Petersburg, Virginia(1941) \n         Virginia Negro Soldiers and Seaman in\n         the Revolutionary War(1944)","In addition to joining the faculty, Luther Jackson married\n         a young lady whom he had met while they were both students at\n         Fisk University. The young lady was Johnella M. Frazer\n         (1897-), a native of Shelbyville, Kentucky, the daughter of\n         Laura and Patterson Tilford Frazer; her father was President\n         of Hopkinsville College in Kentucky. Mrs. Jackson completed\n         the conservatory course at Fisk at the age of seventeen(17)\n         and toured with the Fisk \"Jubilee Singers\" for two years under\n         John Work. She joined the staff of Virginia Normal and\n         Industrial Institute in 1916, a full nine years before there\n         was a music department, as the University's first full time\n         instructor of piano.","Mrs. Jackson, like Luther, also recognized the need for\n         additional training. During the summer vacation she studied at\n         Temple University at the Chicago Music College and at Columbia\n         University. She remained at Virginia State University for\n         forty-nine years, retiring in 1965.","Additional Biographical Data:1. Lucious Edwards, Jr.\" The Luther Porter Jackson,\n         Sr.(1892-1950) Papers\" (paper presented at the 63rd meeting of\n         the Association for the Study of Afro-American Life and\n         History, Los Angeles, CA, October 13, 1978) \n         2. Marva D. Curtis, \"The Virginia Voters League\"\n         (unpublished masters thesis, Virginia State University, 1979) \n         3. Lucious Edwards, Jr., \"Luther Jackson Leaves a Legacy\n         of History in Papers to Virginia State University,\" \n         Progress Index, February\n         26,1980, p.4.","The Luther Porter Jackson are one of the most valuable\n         manuscript groups from a historical point of view in the\n         nation, for this former professor of history at Virginia State\n         University lived and worked during an era when the concept of\n         black inferiority was the accepted rule. In addition, this was\n         the time of \"Jim Crowism.\" Segregation was not \"de facto,\" it\n         was legal and challenged by few people, black and white.","During the major time span of these papers, 1920-1950, a\n         number of political and civil rights organizations developed\n         into potent forces and others were born: the NAACP, the Negro\n         Organizational Society, the Southern Regional Council, and the\n         Southern School for Workers. This manuscript group is rich in\n         correspondence with most of the leaders of these movements.\n         Some of the correspondence includes Walter White, Lorenzo C.\n         White, P. Bernard Young, Gordon Hancock and others.","Correspondence with Virginia based political and civil\n         rights groups is strong and gives a good picture of the tempo\n         of the era in the State: the Virginia Voters League, the\n         Committee for Virginia, the Petersburg Negro Business\n         League.","In addition to correspondence with major political and\n         civil rights organizations, Jackson maintained as interesting\n         relationship with others across the U.S. The business or\n         office correspondence of Luther P. Jackson from 1920-1950\n         include correspondence with John Hope Franklin, W.E.B. DuBois,\n         Hugh Smythe, Helen Edmonds, P. Bernard Young, E. Franklin\n         Frazier, Charles S. Johnson, Rayford Logan, Alrutheus Ambush\n         Taylor, Lorenzo J. Green and others.","The collection also consists of ledgers, pamphlets,\n         financial and legal documents, photographs, speeches,\n         newspaper articles, cards, telegrams, notebooks, artifacts and\n         Jackson's research materials.","Jackson collected personal papers of ante-bellum and\n         post-bellum black families in Virginia: The Butler Papers, the\n         Layton Papers, and the Stephen Wooldrige Papers. In his\n         research of free black property owners in Virginia, he\n         acquired a substantial amount of materials from various\n         counties and cities of the Commonwealth of Virginia.","This box contains articles about Negroes in the\n                  United States, race vote in Tampa, colored men's\n                  progressive club, Negro principal to stay as school\n                  integrates, a sample form of application for\n                  registration to vote in the state of Louisiana. A \n                  Virginia Statesmanfor\n                  April 21, 1950, the \n                  Southern Patriot, New\n                  Orleans, Louisiana, December 1948. \"The Boswell\n                  Amendment: Reaction in Alabama,\" \n                  Virginias Journal and\n                  GuideApril 22, 1950, the Progress Index.","There are no restrictions.","The Luther Porter Jackson papers\n         include documents collected by Jackson to support his research\n         as well as the correspondence produced by Dr. and Mrs. Jackson\n         in connection with their work, interest, and friends. They\n         reflect Luther Jackson's life as a professor and researcher of\n         history and his connections with various political and\n         educational organizations; the official records of the\n         Virginia Voters League and the official records of all fund\n         raising for the Virginia Branch of the Association for the\n         Study of Negro Life and History Inc.","English"],"collection_title_tesim":["Luther Porter Jackson Papers, \n         \n         1772-1960"],"collection_ssim":["Luther Porter Jackson Papers, \n         \n         1772-1960"],"level_ssm":["collection"],"level_ssim":["Collection"],"unitid_ssm":["1952-l"],"unitid_tesim":["1952-l"],"repository_ssm":["Virginia State University"],"repository_ssim":["Virginia State University"],"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_heading_ssm":["Organization"],"arrangement_tesim":["SERIES I. BIOGRAPHICAL DATA \n         The first five folders contain writings about Jackson.\n         Some material is not a part of the original manuscript group.\n         (Box 1) \n         SERIES II. CORRESPONDENCE \n         A. \n         Family, 1920-1960The correspondence between Luther and Johnella Jackson\n         are arranged chronologically from 1920-1950. Additionally,\n         letters, postcards and telegrams are arranged alphabetically\n         by the other members of the family. (Boxes 1-5) \n         B. \n         Business, 1922-1950Office correspondence, extensive, arranged\n         chronologically. (Boxes 5-12) \n         C. \n         Personal, 1918- 1960Letters arranged alphabetically by writer. (Boxes 13-16)\n         SERIES III. FINANCIAL \u0026 LEGAL \n         Family bills, tax statements, school bills and stocks.\n         Arranged by type. Copyright for Jackson's \n         Negro Office Holders in Virginia,\n         1865-1895(Box 17) \n         SERIES IV. ORGANIZATIONAL AFFILIATIONS \n         A. \n         The Virginia Voters League,\n         1934-1950Letters, postcards, and telegrams arranged by county,\n         and city. Records include minutes and reports. (Boxes 18-27) \n         B. \n         The Virginia Teachers Association Office\n         of the \"Civic Education Secretaries Office,\" 1941- 1950The Association for the Study of Negro Life and History,\n         Inc., 1923-1950 (Boxes 28-34) \n         C. \n         Correspondence with Carter G.\n         WoodsonArranged chronologically. Other correspondence arranged\n         by county, City, and organization. (Boxes 35-41) \n         D. \n         The NAACP, 1937- 1950Correspondence with officials of the NAACP (state and\n         local), arranged chronologically. (Box 42) \n         E. \n         The I.B.P.O.E. of W.(the Elks),\n         1943-1950General correspondence arranged chronologically and the\n         Lodge's alphabetically by lodge. (Box 43) \n         F. \n         The Virginia World War II History\n         Commission, 1944-1948Correspondence, minutes and reports of the commission\n         arranged chronologically. Some personal war service records\n         arranged alphabetically. Photographs in container 109. Numbers\n         on folders correspond with folder numbers in the original\n         series. (Box 44) \n         G. \n         The Southern Regional Council, 1942-\n         1950Correspondence arranged chronologically; minutes for\n         some meetings. (Box 45) \n         H. \n         The Negro Organizational Society, 1941-\n         1950Correspondence with the president and field secretaries,\n         minutes (1944-1949) arranged chronologically. (Box 46) \n         I. \n         The Committee for Virginia,\n         1944-1950Letters arranged chronologically, a few minutes,\n         reports. (Box 47) \n         J. \n         The Petersburg Negro Business League,\n         1935-1946Correspondence between Jackson, national and local\n         leaders. Chronologically arranged; one article, one report and\n         one skit. (Box 48) \n         K. \n         The Virginia Society for Research,\n         1942-1950(Box 48) \n         L. \n         The Petersburg Community ChoirA history, a financial report and membership rosters.\n         Photographs in container 109. (Box 48) \n         M. \n         The Southern School for Workers,\n         1944-1949Correspondence arranged chronologically. (Box 48) \n         N. \n         The Old Dominion Medical SocietyNames of some of the members. (Box 48) \n         O. \n         The Petersburg Interracial Committee,\n         1948One letter and a proposed constitution. (Box 48) \n         SERIES V. MATERIAL RELATING TO THE DEATH OF LUTHER\n         JACKSON \n         Letters, telegrams and postcards, arranged\n         chronologically. One box of sympathy cards and one of floral\n         cards. (Boxes 49 \u0026 50) \n         SERIES VI. RESEARCH DATA: COLLECTED \n         A. \n         Blacks voting in the South,\n         1947-1948Letters arranged alphabetically by state and then\n         chronologically within the state. (Box 50) \n         B. \n         The Butler Papers, 1813-1888Tax receipts, identification papers, general receipts\n         and a marriage license. Chronologically arranged. (Box 51) \n         C. \n         The Dews Papers, 1802-1880Deeds for properties, tax receipts and general receipts,\n         arranged chronologically. (Box 52) \n         D. \n         The Layton Papers, 1861-1898Tax receipts, deeds for properties, teaching\n         certificates. Arranged chronologically. (Box 53) \n         E. \n         The Woolridge Papers, 1883-1910Tax receipts and general receipts. Few items about the\n         \"Jordan Baptist Church.\" Chronologically arranged. (Box 54) \n         F. \n         By CountyPapers concerning ante and postpellum blacks in some\n         Virginia Counties. Identification papers, receipts. Arranged\n         chronologically within each county and then arranged\n         alphabetically by county also. (Boxes 55-56) \n         G. \n         By CityThe same as above. Arranged alphabetically by city and\n         then chronologically within each city. (Box 57) \n         H. \n         MiscellaneousPapers of antebellum free blacks and slaves. Receipts,\n         identification papers, arranged chronologically. (Box 58) \n         I. \n         Printed and DiaryPrinted pamphlets; handwritten diary belonging to Samuel\n         T. Miller, a missionary in South Africa, 1881-1882. (Box 59) \n         J. \n         Research Notes(Box 60) \n         K. \n         Ledgers GeneralStockholders ledges, one ledger used as a news clipping\n         scrapbook. (Box 61) \n         L. \n         NotebooksHandwritten and typed data, no arrangement, subject\n         varies. (Boxes 62- 63) \n         SERIES VII. MATERIAL WRITTEN BY LUTHER P. JACKSON \n         A. \n         News articles: \n         The Journal and\n         Guide(Norfolk,VA), 1942-1947 \n         Typewritten news column. Arranged chronologically. Box\n         list available. (Boxes 64- 66) \n         B. \n         News Articles: Various PapersHandwritten and typed sheets, chronological order, some\n         without titles. Box list available. (Box 66) \n         C. \n         Articles in JournalPublished items, handwritten and typed, copy of printed\n         articles. (Box 66) \n         D. \n         AddressesTyped and handwritten speeches, arranged\n         chronologically. (Box 67) \n         E. \n         Papers, Reports, and Lecture NotesVarious papers and reports, few lecture notes, skits,\n         radio broadcast, handwritten and typed;separated by type, but\n         otherwise there is no arrangement. (Box 67) \n         F. \n         UnpublishedPapers and term papers, essay, handwritten and typed; no\n         arrangement. (Box 68) \n         G. \n         BooksTypewritten manuscripts. (Boxes 69- 70) \n         SERIES VIII. MATERIAL WRITTEN BY OTHER MEMBERS OF THE\n         FAMILY \n         Articles written by Luther P. Jackson Jr. (Box 71) \n         SERIES IX. AWARDS \u0026 GRADES \n         Family awards and a few grades of some family members.\n         (Box 72) \n         SERIES X. PRINTED \n         Broadsides, leaflets, programs relating to Jackson. (Box\n         73) \n         SERIES XI. VISUAL \n         A. \n         PhotographsFamily, friends and Va. World War II History Commision,\n         organizations; some unidentifiable. (Box 74-76) \n         B. \n         Printer's BlocksWood cuts used for publication. (Boxes 77- 80) \n         SERIES XII. ARTIFACTS \n         Cufflinks, tie clamp, neck scarf, doctoral gown, hood\n         and mortarboard. (Box 81) \n         SERIES XII. MEMORABILIA \n         Baby books, collected programs, Christmas, general\n         greeting and get-well cards, etc. Arranged by type. (Boxes\n         82-84) \n         SERIES XIV. NEWSCLIPPINGS \n         Loose newsclippings from various newspapers on a variety\n         of subjects, no arrangement (Boxes 85) \n         SERIES XV. OVERSIZED ITEMS \n         Newspaper, awards and research data."],"bioghist_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eLuther Porter Jackson Sr. was born July 11, 1892 in\n         Lexington, Kentucky. He was the ninth child of Delilah\n         (Culvrson) Jackson and Edward Jackson. He early schooling was\n         at Chandler Normal School in Lexington, where he completed his\n         studies in 1910. Upon completion of his secondary education he\n         entered Fisk University where he received the A.B. degree in\n         1914. He remained at Fisk for another semester and in 1916 was\n         awarded the A.M. degree.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eIn 1915, at the ripe old age of twenty-three, he began his\n         teaching career at Vorhees Industrial School, Denmark, South\n         Carolina, where he was also Director of the Academic\n         Department. Jackson left South Carolina in 1918 and joined the\n         staff of the Topeka Industrial Institute, Topeka, Kansas, as\n         Instructor of history and music.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eDesiring more education, he returned to the east and sought\n         graduate training at Columbia University in 1920. Here he was\n         to receive one of his many setbacks, which took in stride and\n         proceeded to correct. Writing to a former instructor at Fisk,\n         Jackson stated that Columbia did not consider his A.B. and\n         A.M. from Fisk up to their standards. He, therefore, enrolled\n         for one year at New York City College. Finally, in 1921, he\n         began his studies at Columbia, where he was graduated from\n         their Teachers College in 1922.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eAfter completing his second masters degree, Luther Jackson\n         joined the faculty of what was then the Virginia Normal and\n         Industrial Institute, now Virginia State University. While on\n         staff of the university, Luther Jackson continued his studies,\n         first at Columbia University and then at the University of\n         Chicago, where he received the Ph.D. in history in 1937. Soon\n         after arrival at V.N. \u0026amp; I.I., Jackson took over the\n         College High School and directed its activities from\n         1923-1928. He headed the history department from 1930-1950,\n         formed the \" League of Negro Voters\" in 1934, and in 1937\n         organized the \" Petersburg Business League\", which became the\n         Virginia Trade Association in 1941.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eIn 1935, Carter G. Woodson asked Luther Jackson to head all\n         fund-raising activities for the Association for the Study of\n         Negro Life and History. As chairman of the Virginia chapter,\n         Jackson went on to establish that chapter as one of the most\n         productive of all state chapters. Somehow he still found time\n         to conduct the Petersburg Community Choir of 100 voices, have\n         his doctoral dissertation, write a column for \n         \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eThe Journal and Guide\u003c/title\u003e(Norfolk,\n         Virginia) under the general heading of \"Rights and Duties in a\n         Democracy\" between 1942 until 1948. Although he was now\n         holding down enough work for two people, Jackson was appointed\n         to the Virginia World War II History Commission in 1944 and\n         worked with the N.A.A.C.P, which led to his receiving a plague\n         for service in 1948.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eJackson authored these books: \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eFree Negro Labor and Property Holding\n         in Virginia, 1830-1860\u003c/title\u003e(1942) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eThe History of the Virginia Stated\n         Teachers Association\u003c/title\u003e(1937) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eNegro Office-Holders in Virginia,\n         1865-1895\u003c/title\u003e(1945) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eA Short History of the Gillfield\n         Baptist Church of Petersburg, Virginia\u003c/title\u003e(1941) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eVirginia Negro Soldiers and Seaman in\n         the Revolutionary War\u003c/title\u003e(1944) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eIn addition to joining the faculty, Luther Jackson married\n         a young lady whom he had met while they were both students at\n         Fisk University. The young lady was Johnella M. Frazer\n         (1897-), a native of Shelbyville, Kentucky, the daughter of\n         Laura and Patterson Tilford Frazer; her father was President\n         of Hopkinsville College in Kentucky. Mrs. Jackson completed\n         the conservatory course at Fisk at the age of seventeen(17)\n         and toured with the Fisk \"Jubilee Singers\" for two years under\n         John Work. She joined the staff of Virginia Normal and\n         Industrial Institute in 1916, a full nine years before there\n         was a music department, as the University's first full time\n         instructor of piano.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Jackson, like Luther, also recognized the need for\n         additional training. During the summer vacation she studied at\n         Temple University at the Chicago Music College and at Columbia\n         University. She remained at Virginia State University for\n         forty-nine years, retiring in 1965.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eAdditional Biographical Data:\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e1. Lucious Edwards, Jr.\" The Luther Porter Jackson,\n         Sr.(1892-1950) Papers\" (paper presented at the 63rd meeting of\n         the Association for the Study of Afro-American Life and\n         History, Los Angeles, CA, October 13, 1978) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e2. Marva D. Curtis, \"The Virginia Voters League\"\n         (unpublished masters thesis, Virginia State University, 1979) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e3. Lucious Edwards, Jr., \"Luther Jackson Leaves a Legacy\n         of History in Papers to Virginia State University,\" \n         \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eProgress Index\u003c/title\u003e, February\n         26,1980, p.4.\u003c/p\u003e\n    "],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical/Historical Information"],"bioghist_tesim":["Luther Porter Jackson Sr. was born July 11, 1892 in\n         Lexington, Kentucky. He was the ninth child of Delilah\n         (Culvrson) Jackson and Edward Jackson. He early schooling was\n         at Chandler Normal School in Lexington, where he completed his\n         studies in 1910. Upon completion of his secondary education he\n         entered Fisk University where he received the A.B. degree in\n         1914. He remained at Fisk for another semester and in 1916 was\n         awarded the A.M. degree.","In 1915, at the ripe old age of twenty-three, he began his\n         teaching career at Vorhees Industrial School, Denmark, South\n         Carolina, where he was also Director of the Academic\n         Department. Jackson left South Carolina in 1918 and joined the\n         staff of the Topeka Industrial Institute, Topeka, Kansas, as\n         Instructor of history and music.","Desiring more education, he returned to the east and sought\n         graduate training at Columbia University in 1920. Here he was\n         to receive one of his many setbacks, which took in stride and\n         proceeded to correct. Writing to a former instructor at Fisk,\n         Jackson stated that Columbia did not consider his A.B. and\n         A.M. from Fisk up to their standards. He, therefore, enrolled\n         for one year at New York City College. Finally, in 1921, he\n         began his studies at Columbia, where he was graduated from\n         their Teachers College in 1922.","After completing his second masters degree, Luther Jackson\n         joined the faculty of what was then the Virginia Normal and\n         Industrial Institute, now Virginia State University. While on\n         staff of the university, Luther Jackson continued his studies,\n         first at Columbia University and then at the University of\n         Chicago, where he received the Ph.D. in history in 1937. Soon\n         after arrival at V.N. \u0026 I.I., Jackson took over the\n         College High School and directed its activities from\n         1923-1928. He headed the history department from 1930-1950,\n         formed the \" League of Negro Voters\" in 1934, and in 1937\n         organized the \" Petersburg Business League\", which became the\n         Virginia Trade Association in 1941.","In 1935, Carter G. Woodson asked Luther Jackson to head all\n         fund-raising activities for the Association for the Study of\n         Negro Life and History. As chairman of the Virginia chapter,\n         Jackson went on to establish that chapter as one of the most\n         productive of all state chapters. Somehow he still found time\n         to conduct the Petersburg Community Choir of 100 voices, have\n         his doctoral dissertation, write a column for \n         The Journal and Guide(Norfolk,\n         Virginia) under the general heading of \"Rights and Duties in a\n         Democracy\" between 1942 until 1948. Although he was now\n         holding down enough work for two people, Jackson was appointed\n         to the Virginia World War II History Commission in 1944 and\n         worked with the N.A.A.C.P, which led to his receiving a plague\n         for service in 1948.","Jackson authored these books: \n         Free Negro Labor and Property Holding\n         in Virginia, 1830-1860(1942) \n         The History of the Virginia Stated\n         Teachers Association(1937) \n         Negro Office-Holders in Virginia,\n         1865-1895(1945) \n         A Short History of the Gillfield\n         Baptist Church of Petersburg, Virginia(1941) \n         Virginia Negro Soldiers and Seaman in\n         the Revolutionary War(1944)","In addition to joining the faculty, Luther Jackson married\n         a young lady whom he had met while they were both students at\n         Fisk University. The young lady was Johnella M. Frazer\n         (1897-), a native of Shelbyville, Kentucky, the daughter of\n         Laura and Patterson Tilford Frazer; her father was President\n         of Hopkinsville College in Kentucky. Mrs. Jackson completed\n         the conservatory course at Fisk at the age of seventeen(17)\n         and toured with the Fisk \"Jubilee Singers\" for two years under\n         John Work. She joined the staff of Virginia Normal and\n         Industrial Institute in 1916, a full nine years before there\n         was a music department, as the University's first full time\n         instructor of piano.","Mrs. Jackson, like Luther, also recognized the need for\n         additional training. During the summer vacation she studied at\n         Temple University at the Chicago Music College and at Columbia\n         University. She remained at Virginia State University for\n         forty-nine years, retiring in 1965.","Additional Biographical Data:1. Lucious Edwards, Jr.\" The Luther Porter Jackson,\n         Sr.(1892-1950) Papers\" (paper presented at the 63rd meeting of\n         the Association for the Study of Afro-American Life and\n         History, Los Angeles, CA, October 13, 1978) \n         2. Marva D. Curtis, \"The Virginia Voters League\"\n         (unpublished masters thesis, Virginia State University, 1979) \n         3. Lucious Edwards, Jr., \"Luther Jackson Leaves a Legacy\n         of History in Papers to Virginia State University,\" \n         Progress Index, February\n         26,1980, p.4."],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eLuther Porter Jackson Papers, 1772-1960, Accession\n            #1952-l, Special Collections and Archives, Johnston\n            Memorial Library, Virginia State University, Petersburg,\n            VA.\u003c/p\u003e\n      "],"prefercite_tesim":["Luther Porter Jackson Papers, 1772-1960, Accession\n            #1952-l, Special Collections and Archives, Johnston\n            Memorial Library, Virginia State University, Petersburg,\n            VA."],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe Luther Porter Jackson are one of the most valuable\n         manuscript groups from a historical point of view in the\n         nation, for this former professor of history at Virginia State\n         University lived and worked during an era when the concept of\n         black inferiority was the accepted rule. In addition, this was\n         the time of \"Jim Crowism.\" Segregation was not \"de facto,\" it\n         was legal and challenged by few people, black and white.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eDuring the major time span of these papers, 1920-1950, a\n         number of political and civil rights organizations developed\n         into potent forces and others were born: the NAACP, the Negro\n         Organizational Society, the Southern Regional Council, and the\n         Southern School for Workers. This manuscript group is rich in\n         correspondence with most of the leaders of these movements.\n         Some of the correspondence includes Walter White, Lorenzo C.\n         White, P. Bernard Young, Gordon Hancock and others.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence with Virginia based political and civil\n         rights groups is strong and gives a good picture of the tempo\n         of the era in the State: the Virginia Voters League, the\n         Committee for Virginia, the Petersburg Negro Business\n         League.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eIn addition to correspondence with major political and\n         civil rights organizations, Jackson maintained as interesting\n         relationship with others across the U.S. The business or\n         office correspondence of Luther P. Jackson from 1920-1950\n         include correspondence with John Hope Franklin, W.E.B. DuBois,\n         Hugh Smythe, Helen Edmonds, P. Bernard Young, E. Franklin\n         Frazier, Charles S. Johnson, Rayford Logan, Alrutheus Ambush\n         Taylor, Lorenzo J. Green and others.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eThe collection also consists of ledgers, pamphlets,\n         financial and legal documents, photographs, speeches,\n         newspaper articles, cards, telegrams, notebooks, artifacts and\n         Jackson's research materials.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eJackson collected personal papers of ante-bellum and\n         post-bellum black families in Virginia: The Butler Papers, the\n         Layton Papers, and the Stephen Wooldrige Papers. In his\n         research of free black property owners in Virginia, he\n         acquired a substantial amount of materials from various\n         counties and cities of the Commonwealth of Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e\n    ","\u003cp\u003eThis box contains articles about Negroes in the\n                  United States, race vote in Tampa, colored men's\n                  progressive club, Negro principal to stay as school\n                  integrates, a sample form of application for\n                  registration to vote in the state of Louisiana. A \n                  \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eVirginia Statesman\u003c/title\u003efor\n                  April 21, 1950, the \n                  \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eSouthern Patriot\u003c/title\u003e, New\n                  Orleans, Louisiana, December 1948. \"The Boswell\n                  Amendment: Reaction in Alabama,\" \n                  \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eVirginias Journal and\n                  Guide\u003c/title\u003eApril 22, 1950, the Progress Index.\u003c/p\u003e\n          "],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Content Information"],"scopecontent_tesim":["The Luther Porter Jackson are one of the most valuable\n         manuscript groups from a historical point of view in the\n         nation, for this former professor of history at Virginia State\n         University lived and worked during an era when the concept of\n         black inferiority was the accepted rule. In addition, this was\n         the time of \"Jim Crowism.\" Segregation was not \"de facto,\" it\n         was legal and challenged by few people, black and white.","During the major time span of these papers, 1920-1950, a\n         number of political and civil rights organizations developed\n         into potent forces and others were born: the NAACP, the Negro\n         Organizational Society, the Southern Regional Council, and the\n         Southern School for Workers. This manuscript group is rich in\n         correspondence with most of the leaders of these movements.\n         Some of the correspondence includes Walter White, Lorenzo C.\n         White, P. Bernard Young, Gordon Hancock and others.","Correspondence with Virginia based political and civil\n         rights groups is strong and gives a good picture of the tempo\n         of the era in the State: the Virginia Voters League, the\n         Committee for Virginia, the Petersburg Negro Business\n         League.","In addition to correspondence with major political and\n         civil rights organizations, Jackson maintained as interesting\n         relationship with others across the U.S. The business or\n         office correspondence of Luther P. Jackson from 1920-1950\n         include correspondence with John Hope Franklin, W.E.B. DuBois,\n         Hugh Smythe, Helen Edmonds, P. Bernard Young, E. Franklin\n         Frazier, Charles S. Johnson, Rayford Logan, Alrutheus Ambush\n         Taylor, Lorenzo J. Green and others.","The collection also consists of ledgers, pamphlets,\n         financial and legal documents, photographs, speeches,\n         newspaper articles, cards, telegrams, notebooks, artifacts and\n         Jackson's research materials.","Jackson collected personal papers of ante-bellum and\n         post-bellum black families in Virginia: The Butler Papers, the\n         Layton Papers, and the Stephen Wooldrige Papers. In his\n         research of free black property owners in Virginia, he\n         acquired a substantial amount of materials from various\n         counties and cities of the Commonwealth of Virginia.","This box contains articles about Negroes in the\n                  United States, race vote in Tampa, colored men's\n                  progressive club, Negro principal to stay as school\n                  integrates, a sample form of application for\n                  registration to vote in the state of Louisiana. A \n                  Virginia Statesmanfor\n                  April 21, 1950, the \n                  Southern Patriot, New\n                  Orleans, Louisiana, December 1948. \"The Boswell\n                  Amendment: Reaction in Alabama,\" \n                  Virginias Journal and\n                  GuideApril 22, 1950, the Progress Index."],"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 Luther Porter Jackson papers\n         include documents collected by Jackson to support his research\n         as well as the correspondence produced by Dr. and Mrs. Jackson\n         in connection with their work, interest, and friends. They\n         reflect Luther Jackson's life as a professor and researcher of\n         history and his connections with various political and\n         educational organizations; the official records of the\n         Virginia Voters League and the official records of all fund\n         raising for the Virginia Branch of the Association for the\n         Study of Negro Life and History Inc.\u003c/abstract\u003e\n    "],"abstract_tesim":["The Luther Porter Jackson papers\n         include documents collected by Jackson to support his research\n         as well as the correspondence produced by Dr. and Mrs. Jackson\n         in connection with their work, interest, and friends. They\n         reflect Luther Jackson's life as a professor and researcher of\n         history and his connections with various political and\n         educational organizations; the official records of the\n         Virginia Voters League and the official records of all fund\n         raising for the Virginia Branch of the Association for the\n         Study of Negro Life and History Inc."],"language_ssim":["English"],"total_component_count_is":2288,"online_item_count_is":0,"component_level_isim":[0],"sort_isi":0,"timestamp":"2026-06-23T07:05:55.361Z","arrangement_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eSERIES I. BIOGRAPHICAL DATA \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eThe first five folders contain writings about Jackson.\n         Some material is not a part of the original manuscript group.\n         (Box 1) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eSERIES II. CORRESPONDENCE \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eA. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eFamily, 1920-1960\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eThe correspondence between Luther and Johnella Jackson\n         are arranged chronologically from 1920-1950. Additionally,\n         letters, postcards and telegrams are arranged alphabetically\n         by the other members of the family. (Boxes 1-5) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eB. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eBusiness, 1922-1950\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eOffice correspondence, extensive, arranged\n         chronologically. (Boxes 5-12) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eC. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003ePersonal, 1918- 1960\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eLetters arranged alphabetically by writer. (Boxes 13-16)\n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eSERIES III. FINANCIAL \u0026amp; LEGAL \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eFamily bills, tax statements, school bills and stocks.\n         Arranged by type. Copyright for Jackson's \n         \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eNegro Office Holders in Virginia,\n         1865-1895\u003c/title\u003e(Box 17) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eSERIES IV. ORGANIZATIONAL AFFILIATIONS \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eA. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eThe Virginia Voters League,\n         1934-1950\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eLetters, postcards, and telegrams arranged by county,\n         and city. Records include minutes and reports. (Boxes 18-27) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eB. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eThe Virginia Teachers Association Office\n         of the \"Civic Education Secretaries Office,\" 1941- 1950\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eThe Association for the Study of Negro Life and History,\n         Inc., 1923-1950 (Boxes 28-34) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eC. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eCorrespondence with Carter G.\n         Woodson\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eArranged chronologically. Other correspondence arranged\n         by county, City, and organization. (Boxes 35-41) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eD. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eThe NAACP, 1937- 1950\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eCorrespondence with officials of the NAACP (state and\n         local), arranged chronologically. (Box 42) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eE. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eThe I.B.P.O.E. of W.(the Elks),\n         1943-1950\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eGeneral correspondence arranged chronologically and the\n         Lodge's alphabetically by lodge. (Box 43) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eF. \n         \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eThe Virginia World War II History\n         Commission, 1944-1948\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eCorrespondence, minutes and reports of the commission\n         arranged chronologically. Some personal war service records\n         arranged alphabetically. Photographs in container 109. Numbers\n         on folders correspond with folder numbers in the original\n         series. (Box 44) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eG. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eThe Southern Regional Council, 1942-\n         1950\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eCorrespondence arranged chronologically; minutes for\n         some meetings. (Box 45) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eH. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eThe Negro Organizational Society, 1941-\n         1950\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eCorrespondence with the president and field secretaries,\n         minutes (1944-1949) arranged chronologically. (Box 46) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eI. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eThe Committee for Virginia,\n         1944-1950\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eLetters arranged chronologically, a few minutes,\n         reports. (Box 47) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eJ. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eThe Petersburg Negro Business League,\n         1935-1946\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eCorrespondence between Jackson, national and local\n         leaders. Chronologically arranged; one article, one report and\n         one skit. (Box 48) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eK. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eThe Virginia Society for Research,\n         1942-1950\u003c/emph\u003e(Box 48) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eL. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eThe Petersburg Community Choir\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eA history, a financial report and membership rosters.\n         Photographs in container 109. (Box 48) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eM. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eThe Southern School for Workers,\n         1944-1949\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eCorrespondence arranged chronologically. (Box 48) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eN. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eThe Old Dominion Medical Society\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eNames of some of the members. (Box 48) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eO. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eThe Petersburg Interracial Committee,\n         1948\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eOne letter and a proposed constitution. (Box 48) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eSERIES V. MATERIAL RELATING TO THE DEATH OF LUTHER\n         JACKSON \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eLetters, telegrams and postcards, arranged\n         chronologically. One box of sympathy cards and one of floral\n         cards. (Boxes 49 \u0026amp; 50) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eSERIES VI. RESEARCH DATA: COLLECTED \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eA. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eBlacks voting in the South,\n         1947-1948\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eLetters arranged alphabetically by state and then\n         chronologically within the state. (Box 50) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eB. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eThe Butler Papers, 1813-1888\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eTax receipts, identification papers, general receipts\n         and a marriage license. Chronologically arranged. (Box 51) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eC. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eThe Dews Papers, 1802-1880\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eDeeds for properties, tax receipts and general receipts,\n         arranged chronologically. (Box 52) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eD. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eThe Layton Papers, 1861-1898\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eTax receipts, deeds for properties, teaching\n         certificates. Arranged chronologically. (Box 53) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eE. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eThe Woolridge Papers, 1883-1910\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eTax receipts and general receipts. Few items about the\n         \"Jordan Baptist Church.\" Chronologically arranged. (Box 54) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eF. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eBy County\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003ePapers concerning ante and postpellum blacks in some\n         Virginia Counties. Identification papers, receipts. Arranged\n         chronologically within each county and then arranged\n         alphabetically by county also. (Boxes 55-56) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eG. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eBy City\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eThe same as above. Arranged alphabetically by city and\n         then chronologically within each city. (Box 57) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eH. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eMiscellaneous\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003ePapers of antebellum free blacks and slaves. Receipts,\n         identification papers, arranged chronologically. (Box 58) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eI. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003ePrinted and Diary\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003ePrinted pamphlets; handwritten diary belonging to Samuel\n         T. Miller, a missionary in South Africa, 1881-1882. (Box 59) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eJ. \n         \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eResearch Notes\u003c/emph\u003e(Box 60) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eK. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eLedgers General\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eStockholders ledges, one ledger used as a news clipping\n         scrapbook. (Box 61) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eL. \n         \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eNotebooks\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eHandwritten and typed data, no arrangement, subject\n         varies. (Boxes 62- 63) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eSERIES VII. MATERIAL WRITTEN BY LUTHER P. JACKSON \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eA. \n         \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eNews articles\u003c/emph\u003e: \n         \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eThe Journal and\n         Guide\u003c/title\u003e(Norfolk,VA), 1942-1947 \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eTypewritten news column. Arranged chronologically. Box\n         list available. (Boxes 64- 66) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eB. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eNews Articles: Various Papers\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eHandwritten and typed sheets, chronological order, some\n         without titles. Box list available. (Box 66) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eC. \n         \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eArticles in Journal\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003ePublished items, handwritten and typed, copy of printed\n         articles. (Box 66) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eD. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eAddresses\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eTyped and handwritten speeches, arranged\n         chronologically. (Box 67) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eE. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003ePapers, Reports, and Lecture Notes\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eVarious papers and reports, few lecture notes, skits,\n         radio broadcast, handwritten and typed;separated by type, but\n         otherwise there is no arrangement. (Box 67) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eF. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eUnpublished\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003ePapers and term papers, essay, handwritten and typed; no\n         arrangement. (Box 68) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eG. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eBooks\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eTypewritten manuscripts. (Boxes 69- 70) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eSERIES VIII. MATERIAL WRITTEN BY OTHER MEMBERS OF THE\n         FAMILY \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eArticles written by Luther P. Jackson Jr. (Box 71) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eSERIES IX. AWARDS \u0026amp; GRADES \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eFamily awards and a few grades of some family members.\n         (Box 72) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eSERIES X. PRINTED \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eBroadsides, leaflets, programs relating to Jackson. (Box\n         73) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eSERIES XI. VISUAL \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eA. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003ePhotographs\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eFamily, friends and Va. World War II History Commision,\n         organizations; some unidentifiable. (Box 74-76) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eB. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003ePrinter's Blocks\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eWood cuts used for publication. (Boxes 77- 80) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eSERIES XII. ARTIFACTS \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eCufflinks, tie clamp, neck scarf, doctoral gown, hood\n         and mortarboard. (Box 81) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eSERIES XII. MEMORABILIA \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eBaby books, collected programs, Christmas, general\n         greeting and get-well cards, etc. Arranged by type. (Boxes\n         82-84) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eSERIES XIV. NEWSCLIPPINGS \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eLoose newsclippings from various newspapers on a variety\n         of subjects, no arrangement (Boxes 85) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eSERIES XV. OVERSIZED ITEMS \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eNewspaper, awards and research data.\u003c/p\u003e\n    "]}]}},"label":"Breadcrumbs"}}},"links":{"self":"https://search.arvasarchive.org/catalog/vipets_vipets00009_c01_c06"}},{"id":"vipets_vipets00009_c01_c04","type":"Sub-Series","attributes":{"title":"Biographical Data--The Jackson Tattler,\n                  Startlert Newspaper \n                  1955","breadcrumbs":{"id":"https://search.arvasarchive.org/catalog/vipets_vipets00009_c01_c04#breadcrumbs","type":"document_value","attributes":{"value":{"ref_ssi":"vipets_vipets00009_c01_c04","ref_ssm":["vipets_vipets00009_c01_c04"],"id":"vipets_vipets00009_c01_c04","ead_ssi":"vipets_vipets00009","_root_":"vipets_vipets00009","_nest_parent_":"vipets_vipets00009_c01","parent_ssi":"vipets_vipets00009_c01","parent_ssim":["Luther Porter Jackson Papers, \n         \n         1772-1960","SERIES I. 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BIOGRAPHICAL DATA \n         The first five folders contain writings about Jackson.\n         Some material is not a part of the original manuscript group.\n         (Box 1) \n         SERIES II. CORRESPONDENCE \n         A. \n         Family, 1920-1960The correspondence between Luther and Johnella Jackson\n         are arranged chronologically from 1920-1950. Additionally,\n         letters, postcards and telegrams are arranged alphabetically\n         by the other members of the family. (Boxes 1-5) \n         B. \n         Business, 1922-1950Office correspondence, extensive, arranged\n         chronologically. (Boxes 5-12) \n         C. \n         Personal, 1918- 1960Letters arranged alphabetically by writer. (Boxes 13-16)\n         SERIES III. FINANCIAL \u0026 LEGAL \n         Family bills, tax statements, school bills and stocks.\n         Arranged by type. Copyright for Jackson's \n         Negro Office Holders in Virginia,\n         1865-1895(Box 17) \n         SERIES IV. ORGANIZATIONAL AFFILIATIONS \n         A. \n         The Virginia Voters League,\n         1934-1950Letters, postcards, and telegrams arranged by county,\n         and city. Records include minutes and reports. (Boxes 18-27) \n         B. \n         The Virginia Teachers Association Office\n         of the \"Civic Education Secretaries Office,\" 1941- 1950The Association for the Study of Negro Life and History,\n         Inc., 1923-1950 (Boxes 28-34) \n         C. \n         Correspondence with Carter G.\n         WoodsonArranged chronologically. Other correspondence arranged\n         by county, City, and organization. (Boxes 35-41) \n         D. \n         The NAACP, 1937- 1950Correspondence with officials of the NAACP (state and\n         local), arranged chronologically. (Box 42) \n         E. \n         The I.B.P.O.E. of W.(the Elks),\n         1943-1950General correspondence arranged chronologically and the\n         Lodge's alphabetically by lodge. (Box 43) \n         F. \n         The Virginia World War II History\n         Commission, 1944-1948Correspondence, minutes and reports of the commission\n         arranged chronologically. Some personal war service records\n         arranged alphabetically. Photographs in container 109. Numbers\n         on folders correspond with folder numbers in the original\n         series. (Box 44) \n         G. \n         The Southern Regional Council, 1942-\n         1950Correspondence arranged chronologically; minutes for\n         some meetings. (Box 45) \n         H. \n         The Negro Organizational Society, 1941-\n         1950Correspondence with the president and field secretaries,\n         minutes (1944-1949) arranged chronologically. (Box 46) \n         I. \n         The Committee for Virginia,\n         1944-1950Letters arranged chronologically, a few minutes,\n         reports. (Box 47) \n         J. \n         The Petersburg Negro Business League,\n         1935-1946Correspondence between Jackson, national and local\n         leaders. Chronologically arranged; one article, one report and\n         one skit. (Box 48) \n         K. \n         The Virginia Society for Research,\n         1942-1950(Box 48) \n         L. \n         The Petersburg Community ChoirA history, a financial report and membership rosters.\n         Photographs in container 109. (Box 48) \n         M. \n         The Southern School for Workers,\n         1944-1949Correspondence arranged chronologically. (Box 48) \n         N. \n         The Old Dominion Medical SocietyNames of some of the members. (Box 48) \n         O. \n         The Petersburg Interracial Committee,\n         1948One letter and a proposed constitution. (Box 48) \n         SERIES V. MATERIAL RELATING TO THE DEATH OF LUTHER\n         JACKSON \n         Letters, telegrams and postcards, arranged\n         chronologically. One box of sympathy cards and one of floral\n         cards. (Boxes 49 \u0026 50) \n         SERIES VI. RESEARCH DATA: COLLECTED \n         A. \n         Blacks voting in the South,\n         1947-1948Letters arranged alphabetically by state and then\n         chronologically within the state. (Box 50) \n         B. \n         The Butler Papers, 1813-1888Tax receipts, identification papers, general receipts\n         and a marriage license. Chronologically arranged. (Box 51) \n         C. \n         The Dews Papers, 1802-1880Deeds for properties, tax receipts and general receipts,\n         arranged chronologically. (Box 52) \n         D. \n         The Layton Papers, 1861-1898Tax receipts, deeds for properties, teaching\n         certificates. Arranged chronologically. (Box 53) \n         E. \n         The Woolridge Papers, 1883-1910Tax receipts and general receipts. Few items about the\n         \"Jordan Baptist Church.\" Chronologically arranged. (Box 54) \n         F. \n         By CountyPapers concerning ante and postpellum blacks in some\n         Virginia Counties. Identification papers, receipts. Arranged\n         chronologically within each county and then arranged\n         alphabetically by county also. (Boxes 55-56) \n         G. \n         By CityThe same as above. Arranged alphabetically by city and\n         then chronologically within each city. (Box 57) \n         H. \n         MiscellaneousPapers of antebellum free blacks and slaves. Receipts,\n         identification papers, arranged chronologically. (Box 58) \n         I. \n         Printed and DiaryPrinted pamphlets; handwritten diary belonging to Samuel\n         T. Miller, a missionary in South Africa, 1881-1882. (Box 59) \n         J. \n         Research Notes(Box 60) \n         K. \n         Ledgers GeneralStockholders ledges, one ledger used as a news clipping\n         scrapbook. (Box 61) \n         L. \n         NotebooksHandwritten and typed data, no arrangement, subject\n         varies. (Boxes 62- 63) \n         SERIES VII. MATERIAL WRITTEN BY LUTHER P. JACKSON \n         A. \n         News articles: \n         The Journal and\n         Guide(Norfolk,VA), 1942-1947 \n         Typewritten news column. Arranged chronologically. Box\n         list available. (Boxes 64- 66) \n         B. \n         News Articles: Various PapersHandwritten and typed sheets, chronological order, some\n         without titles. Box list available. (Box 66) \n         C. \n         Articles in JournalPublished items, handwritten and typed, copy of printed\n         articles. (Box 66) \n         D. \n         AddressesTyped and handwritten speeches, arranged\n         chronologically. (Box 67) \n         E. \n         Papers, Reports, and Lecture NotesVarious papers and reports, few lecture notes, skits,\n         radio broadcast, handwritten and typed;separated by type, but\n         otherwise there is no arrangement. (Box 67) \n         F. \n         UnpublishedPapers and term papers, essay, handwritten and typed; no\n         arrangement. (Box 68) \n         G. \n         BooksTypewritten manuscripts. (Boxes 69- 70) \n         SERIES VIII. MATERIAL WRITTEN BY OTHER MEMBERS OF THE\n         FAMILY \n         Articles written by Luther P. Jackson Jr. (Box 71) \n         SERIES IX. AWARDS \u0026 GRADES \n         Family awards and a few grades of some family members.\n         (Box 72) \n         SERIES X. PRINTED \n         Broadsides, leaflets, programs relating to Jackson. (Box\n         73) \n         SERIES XI. VISUAL \n         A. \n         PhotographsFamily, friends and Va. World War II History Commision,\n         organizations; some unidentifiable. (Box 74-76) \n         B. \n         Printer's BlocksWood cuts used for publication. (Boxes 77- 80) \n         SERIES XII. ARTIFACTS \n         Cufflinks, tie clamp, neck scarf, doctoral gown, hood\n         and mortarboard. (Box 81) \n         SERIES XII. MEMORABILIA \n         Baby books, collected programs, Christmas, general\n         greeting and get-well cards, etc. Arranged by type. (Boxes\n         82-84) \n         SERIES XIV. NEWSCLIPPINGS \n         Loose newsclippings from various newspapers on a variety\n         of subjects, no arrangement (Boxes 85) \n         SERIES XV. OVERSIZED ITEMS \n         Newspaper, awards and research data.","Luther Porter Jackson Sr. was born July 11, 1892 in\n         Lexington, Kentucky. He was the ninth child of Delilah\n         (Culvrson) Jackson and Edward Jackson. He early schooling was\n         at Chandler Normal School in Lexington, where he completed his\n         studies in 1910. Upon completion of his secondary education he\n         entered Fisk University where he received the A.B. degree in\n         1914. He remained at Fisk for another semester and in 1916 was\n         awarded the A.M. degree.","In 1915, at the ripe old age of twenty-three, he began his\n         teaching career at Vorhees Industrial School, Denmark, South\n         Carolina, where he was also Director of the Academic\n         Department. Jackson left South Carolina in 1918 and joined the\n         staff of the Topeka Industrial Institute, Topeka, Kansas, as\n         Instructor of history and music.","Desiring more education, he returned to the east and sought\n         graduate training at Columbia University in 1920. Here he was\n         to receive one of his many setbacks, which took in stride and\n         proceeded to correct. Writing to a former instructor at Fisk,\n         Jackson stated that Columbia did not consider his A.B. and\n         A.M. from Fisk up to their standards. He, therefore, enrolled\n         for one year at New York City College. Finally, in 1921, he\n         began his studies at Columbia, where he was graduated from\n         their Teachers College in 1922.","After completing his second masters degree, Luther Jackson\n         joined the faculty of what was then the Virginia Normal and\n         Industrial Institute, now Virginia State University. While on\n         staff of the university, Luther Jackson continued his studies,\n         first at Columbia University and then at the University of\n         Chicago, where he received the Ph.D. in history in 1937. Soon\n         after arrival at V.N. \u0026 I.I., Jackson took over the\n         College High School and directed its activities from\n         1923-1928. He headed the history department from 1930-1950,\n         formed the \" League of Negro Voters\" in 1934, and in 1937\n         organized the \" Petersburg Business League\", which became the\n         Virginia Trade Association in 1941.","In 1935, Carter G. Woodson asked Luther Jackson to head all\n         fund-raising activities for the Association for the Study of\n         Negro Life and History. As chairman of the Virginia chapter,\n         Jackson went on to establish that chapter as one of the most\n         productive of all state chapters. Somehow he still found time\n         to conduct the Petersburg Community Choir of 100 voices, have\n         his doctoral dissertation, write a column for \n         The Journal and Guide(Norfolk,\n         Virginia) under the general heading of \"Rights and Duties in a\n         Democracy\" between 1942 until 1948. Although he was now\n         holding down enough work for two people, Jackson was appointed\n         to the Virginia World War II History Commission in 1944 and\n         worked with the N.A.A.C.P, which led to his receiving a plague\n         for service in 1948.","Jackson authored these books: \n         Free Negro Labor and Property Holding\n         in Virginia, 1830-1860(1942) \n         The History of the Virginia Stated\n         Teachers Association(1937) \n         Negro Office-Holders in Virginia,\n         1865-1895(1945) \n         A Short History of the Gillfield\n         Baptist Church of Petersburg, Virginia(1941) \n         Virginia Negro Soldiers and Seaman in\n         the Revolutionary War(1944)","In addition to joining the faculty, Luther Jackson married\n         a young lady whom he had met while they were both students at\n         Fisk University. The young lady was Johnella M. Frazer\n         (1897-), a native of Shelbyville, Kentucky, the daughter of\n         Laura and Patterson Tilford Frazer; her father was President\n         of Hopkinsville College in Kentucky. Mrs. Jackson completed\n         the conservatory course at Fisk at the age of seventeen(17)\n         and toured with the Fisk \"Jubilee Singers\" for two years under\n         John Work. She joined the staff of Virginia Normal and\n         Industrial Institute in 1916, a full nine years before there\n         was a music department, as the University's first full time\n         instructor of piano.","Mrs. Jackson, like Luther, also recognized the need for\n         additional training. During the summer vacation she studied at\n         Temple University at the Chicago Music College and at Columbia\n         University. She remained at Virginia State University for\n         forty-nine years, retiring in 1965.","Additional Biographical Data:1. Lucious Edwards, Jr.\" The Luther Porter Jackson,\n         Sr.(1892-1950) Papers\" (paper presented at the 63rd meeting of\n         the Association for the Study of Afro-American Life and\n         History, Los Angeles, CA, October 13, 1978) \n         2. Marva D. Curtis, \"The Virginia Voters League\"\n         (unpublished masters thesis, Virginia State University, 1979) \n         3. Lucious Edwards, Jr., \"Luther Jackson Leaves a Legacy\n         of History in Papers to Virginia State University,\" \n         Progress Index, February\n         26,1980, p.4.","The Luther Porter Jackson are one of the most valuable\n         manuscript groups from a historical point of view in the\n         nation, for this former professor of history at Virginia State\n         University lived and worked during an era when the concept of\n         black inferiority was the accepted rule. In addition, this was\n         the time of \"Jim Crowism.\" Segregation was not \"de facto,\" it\n         was legal and challenged by few people, black and white.","During the major time span of these papers, 1920-1950, a\n         number of political and civil rights organizations developed\n         into potent forces and others were born: the NAACP, the Negro\n         Organizational Society, the Southern Regional Council, and the\n         Southern School for Workers. This manuscript group is rich in\n         correspondence with most of the leaders of these movements.\n         Some of the correspondence includes Walter White, Lorenzo C.\n         White, P. Bernard Young, Gordon Hancock and others.","Correspondence with Virginia based political and civil\n         rights groups is strong and gives a good picture of the tempo\n         of the era in the State: the Virginia Voters League, the\n         Committee for Virginia, the Petersburg Negro Business\n         League.","In addition to correspondence with major political and\n         civil rights organizations, Jackson maintained as interesting\n         relationship with others across the U.S. The business or\n         office correspondence of Luther P. Jackson from 1920-1950\n         include correspondence with John Hope Franklin, W.E.B. DuBois,\n         Hugh Smythe, Helen Edmonds, P. Bernard Young, E. Franklin\n         Frazier, Charles S. Johnson, Rayford Logan, Alrutheus Ambush\n         Taylor, Lorenzo J. Green and others.","The collection also consists of ledgers, pamphlets,\n         financial and legal documents, photographs, speeches,\n         newspaper articles, cards, telegrams, notebooks, artifacts and\n         Jackson's research materials.","Jackson collected personal papers of ante-bellum and\n         post-bellum black families in Virginia: The Butler Papers, the\n         Layton Papers, and the Stephen Wooldrige Papers. In his\n         research of free black property owners in Virginia, he\n         acquired a substantial amount of materials from various\n         counties and cities of the Commonwealth of Virginia.","This box contains articles about Negroes in the\n                  United States, race vote in Tampa, colored men's\n                  progressive club, Negro principal to stay as school\n                  integrates, a sample form of application for\n                  registration to vote in the state of Louisiana. A \n                  Virginia Statesmanfor\n                  April 21, 1950, the \n                  Southern Patriot, New\n                  Orleans, Louisiana, December 1948. \"The Boswell\n                  Amendment: Reaction in Alabama,\" \n                  Virginias Journal and\n                  GuideApril 22, 1950, the Progress Index.","There are no restrictions.","The Luther Porter Jackson papers\n         include documents collected by Jackson to support his research\n         as well as the correspondence produced by Dr. and Mrs. Jackson\n         in connection with their work, interest, and friends. They\n         reflect Luther Jackson's life as a professor and researcher of\n         history and his connections with various political and\n         educational organizations; the official records of the\n         Virginia Voters League and the official records of all fund\n         raising for the Virginia Branch of the Association for the\n         Study of Negro Life and History Inc.","English"],"collection_title_tesim":["Luther Porter Jackson Papers, \n         \n         1772-1960"],"collection_ssim":["Luther Porter Jackson Papers, \n         \n         1772-1960"],"level_ssm":["collection"],"level_ssim":["Collection"],"unitid_ssm":["1952-l"],"unitid_tesim":["1952-l"],"repository_ssm":["Virginia State University"],"repository_ssim":["Virginia State University"],"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_heading_ssm":["Organization"],"arrangement_tesim":["SERIES I. BIOGRAPHICAL DATA \n         The first five folders contain writings about Jackson.\n         Some material is not a part of the original manuscript group.\n         (Box 1) \n         SERIES II. CORRESPONDENCE \n         A. \n         Family, 1920-1960The correspondence between Luther and Johnella Jackson\n         are arranged chronologically from 1920-1950. Additionally,\n         letters, postcards and telegrams are arranged alphabetically\n         by the other members of the family. (Boxes 1-5) \n         B. \n         Business, 1922-1950Office correspondence, extensive, arranged\n         chronologically. (Boxes 5-12) \n         C. \n         Personal, 1918- 1960Letters arranged alphabetically by writer. (Boxes 13-16)\n         SERIES III. FINANCIAL \u0026 LEGAL \n         Family bills, tax statements, school bills and stocks.\n         Arranged by type. Copyright for Jackson's \n         Negro Office Holders in Virginia,\n         1865-1895(Box 17) \n         SERIES IV. ORGANIZATIONAL AFFILIATIONS \n         A. \n         The Virginia Voters League,\n         1934-1950Letters, postcards, and telegrams arranged by county,\n         and city. Records include minutes and reports. (Boxes 18-27) \n         B. \n         The Virginia Teachers Association Office\n         of the \"Civic Education Secretaries Office,\" 1941- 1950The Association for the Study of Negro Life and History,\n         Inc., 1923-1950 (Boxes 28-34) \n         C. \n         Correspondence with Carter G.\n         WoodsonArranged chronologically. Other correspondence arranged\n         by county, City, and organization. (Boxes 35-41) \n         D. \n         The NAACP, 1937- 1950Correspondence with officials of the NAACP (state and\n         local), arranged chronologically. (Box 42) \n         E. \n         The I.B.P.O.E. of W.(the Elks),\n         1943-1950General correspondence arranged chronologically and the\n         Lodge's alphabetically by lodge. (Box 43) \n         F. \n         The Virginia World War II History\n         Commission, 1944-1948Correspondence, minutes and reports of the commission\n         arranged chronologically. Some personal war service records\n         arranged alphabetically. Photographs in container 109. Numbers\n         on folders correspond with folder numbers in the original\n         series. (Box 44) \n         G. \n         The Southern Regional Council, 1942-\n         1950Correspondence arranged chronologically; minutes for\n         some meetings. (Box 45) \n         H. \n         The Negro Organizational Society, 1941-\n         1950Correspondence with the president and field secretaries,\n         minutes (1944-1949) arranged chronologically. (Box 46) \n         I. \n         The Committee for Virginia,\n         1944-1950Letters arranged chronologically, a few minutes,\n         reports. (Box 47) \n         J. \n         The Petersburg Negro Business League,\n         1935-1946Correspondence between Jackson, national and local\n         leaders. Chronologically arranged; one article, one report and\n         one skit. (Box 48) \n         K. \n         The Virginia Society for Research,\n         1942-1950(Box 48) \n         L. \n         The Petersburg Community ChoirA history, a financial report and membership rosters.\n         Photographs in container 109. (Box 48) \n         M. \n         The Southern School for Workers,\n         1944-1949Correspondence arranged chronologically. (Box 48) \n         N. \n         The Old Dominion Medical SocietyNames of some of the members. (Box 48) \n         O. \n         The Petersburg Interracial Committee,\n         1948One letter and a proposed constitution. (Box 48) \n         SERIES V. MATERIAL RELATING TO THE DEATH OF LUTHER\n         JACKSON \n         Letters, telegrams and postcards, arranged\n         chronologically. One box of sympathy cards and one of floral\n         cards. (Boxes 49 \u0026 50) \n         SERIES VI. RESEARCH DATA: COLLECTED \n         A. \n         Blacks voting in the South,\n         1947-1948Letters arranged alphabetically by state and then\n         chronologically within the state. (Box 50) \n         B. \n         The Butler Papers, 1813-1888Tax receipts, identification papers, general receipts\n         and a marriage license. Chronologically arranged. (Box 51) \n         C. \n         The Dews Papers, 1802-1880Deeds for properties, tax receipts and general receipts,\n         arranged chronologically. (Box 52) \n         D. \n         The Layton Papers, 1861-1898Tax receipts, deeds for properties, teaching\n         certificates. Arranged chronologically. (Box 53) \n         E. \n         The Woolridge Papers, 1883-1910Tax receipts and general receipts. Few items about the\n         \"Jordan Baptist Church.\" Chronologically arranged. (Box 54) \n         F. \n         By CountyPapers concerning ante and postpellum blacks in some\n         Virginia Counties. Identification papers, receipts. Arranged\n         chronologically within each county and then arranged\n         alphabetically by county also. (Boxes 55-56) \n         G. \n         By CityThe same as above. Arranged alphabetically by city and\n         then chronologically within each city. (Box 57) \n         H. \n         MiscellaneousPapers of antebellum free blacks and slaves. Receipts,\n         identification papers, arranged chronologically. (Box 58) \n         I. \n         Printed and DiaryPrinted pamphlets; handwritten diary belonging to Samuel\n         T. Miller, a missionary in South Africa, 1881-1882. (Box 59) \n         J. \n         Research Notes(Box 60) \n         K. \n         Ledgers GeneralStockholders ledges, one ledger used as a news clipping\n         scrapbook. (Box 61) \n         L. \n         NotebooksHandwritten and typed data, no arrangement, subject\n         varies. (Boxes 62- 63) \n         SERIES VII. MATERIAL WRITTEN BY LUTHER P. JACKSON \n         A. \n         News articles: \n         The Journal and\n         Guide(Norfolk,VA), 1942-1947 \n         Typewritten news column. Arranged chronologically. Box\n         list available. (Boxes 64- 66) \n         B. \n         News Articles: Various PapersHandwritten and typed sheets, chronological order, some\n         without titles. Box list available. (Box 66) \n         C. \n         Articles in JournalPublished items, handwritten and typed, copy of printed\n         articles. (Box 66) \n         D. \n         AddressesTyped and handwritten speeches, arranged\n         chronologically. (Box 67) \n         E. \n         Papers, Reports, and Lecture NotesVarious papers and reports, few lecture notes, skits,\n         radio broadcast, handwritten and typed;separated by type, but\n         otherwise there is no arrangement. (Box 67) \n         F. \n         UnpublishedPapers and term papers, essay, handwritten and typed; no\n         arrangement. (Box 68) \n         G. \n         BooksTypewritten manuscripts. (Boxes 69- 70) \n         SERIES VIII. MATERIAL WRITTEN BY OTHER MEMBERS OF THE\n         FAMILY \n         Articles written by Luther P. Jackson Jr. (Box 71) \n         SERIES IX. AWARDS \u0026 GRADES \n         Family awards and a few grades of some family members.\n         (Box 72) \n         SERIES X. PRINTED \n         Broadsides, leaflets, programs relating to Jackson. (Box\n         73) \n         SERIES XI. VISUAL \n         A. \n         PhotographsFamily, friends and Va. World War II History Commision,\n         organizations; some unidentifiable. (Box 74-76) \n         B. \n         Printer's BlocksWood cuts used for publication. (Boxes 77- 80) \n         SERIES XII. ARTIFACTS \n         Cufflinks, tie clamp, neck scarf, doctoral gown, hood\n         and mortarboard. (Box 81) \n         SERIES XII. MEMORABILIA \n         Baby books, collected programs, Christmas, general\n         greeting and get-well cards, etc. Arranged by type. (Boxes\n         82-84) \n         SERIES XIV. NEWSCLIPPINGS \n         Loose newsclippings from various newspapers on a variety\n         of subjects, no arrangement (Boxes 85) \n         SERIES XV. OVERSIZED ITEMS \n         Newspaper, awards and research data."],"bioghist_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eLuther Porter Jackson Sr. was born July 11, 1892 in\n         Lexington, Kentucky. He was the ninth child of Delilah\n         (Culvrson) Jackson and Edward Jackson. He early schooling was\n         at Chandler Normal School in Lexington, where he completed his\n         studies in 1910. Upon completion of his secondary education he\n         entered Fisk University where he received the A.B. degree in\n         1914. He remained at Fisk for another semester and in 1916 was\n         awarded the A.M. degree.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eIn 1915, at the ripe old age of twenty-three, he began his\n         teaching career at Vorhees Industrial School, Denmark, South\n         Carolina, where he was also Director of the Academic\n         Department. Jackson left South Carolina in 1918 and joined the\n         staff of the Topeka Industrial Institute, Topeka, Kansas, as\n         Instructor of history and music.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eDesiring more education, he returned to the east and sought\n         graduate training at Columbia University in 1920. Here he was\n         to receive one of his many setbacks, which took in stride and\n         proceeded to correct. Writing to a former instructor at Fisk,\n         Jackson stated that Columbia did not consider his A.B. and\n         A.M. from Fisk up to their standards. He, therefore, enrolled\n         for one year at New York City College. Finally, in 1921, he\n         began his studies at Columbia, where he was graduated from\n         their Teachers College in 1922.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eAfter completing his second masters degree, Luther Jackson\n         joined the faculty of what was then the Virginia Normal and\n         Industrial Institute, now Virginia State University. While on\n         staff of the university, Luther Jackson continued his studies,\n         first at Columbia University and then at the University of\n         Chicago, where he received the Ph.D. in history in 1937. Soon\n         after arrival at V.N. \u0026amp; I.I., Jackson took over the\n         College High School and directed its activities from\n         1923-1928. He headed the history department from 1930-1950,\n         formed the \" League of Negro Voters\" in 1934, and in 1937\n         organized the \" Petersburg Business League\", which became the\n         Virginia Trade Association in 1941.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eIn 1935, Carter G. Woodson asked Luther Jackson to head all\n         fund-raising activities for the Association for the Study of\n         Negro Life and History. As chairman of the Virginia chapter,\n         Jackson went on to establish that chapter as one of the most\n         productive of all state chapters. Somehow he still found time\n         to conduct the Petersburg Community Choir of 100 voices, have\n         his doctoral dissertation, write a column for \n         \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eThe Journal and Guide\u003c/title\u003e(Norfolk,\n         Virginia) under the general heading of \"Rights and Duties in a\n         Democracy\" between 1942 until 1948. Although he was now\n         holding down enough work for two people, Jackson was appointed\n         to the Virginia World War II History Commission in 1944 and\n         worked with the N.A.A.C.P, which led to his receiving a plague\n         for service in 1948.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eJackson authored these books: \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eFree Negro Labor and Property Holding\n         in Virginia, 1830-1860\u003c/title\u003e(1942) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eThe History of the Virginia Stated\n         Teachers Association\u003c/title\u003e(1937) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eNegro Office-Holders in Virginia,\n         1865-1895\u003c/title\u003e(1945) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eA Short History of the Gillfield\n         Baptist Church of Petersburg, Virginia\u003c/title\u003e(1941) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eVirginia Negro Soldiers and Seaman in\n         the Revolutionary War\u003c/title\u003e(1944) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eIn addition to joining the faculty, Luther Jackson married\n         a young lady whom he had met while they were both students at\n         Fisk University. The young lady was Johnella M. Frazer\n         (1897-), a native of Shelbyville, Kentucky, the daughter of\n         Laura and Patterson Tilford Frazer; her father was President\n         of Hopkinsville College in Kentucky. Mrs. Jackson completed\n         the conservatory course at Fisk at the age of seventeen(17)\n         and toured with the Fisk \"Jubilee Singers\" for two years under\n         John Work. She joined the staff of Virginia Normal and\n         Industrial Institute in 1916, a full nine years before there\n         was a music department, as the University's first full time\n         instructor of piano.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Jackson, like Luther, also recognized the need for\n         additional training. During the summer vacation she studied at\n         Temple University at the Chicago Music College and at Columbia\n         University. She remained at Virginia State University for\n         forty-nine years, retiring in 1965.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eAdditional Biographical Data:\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e1. Lucious Edwards, Jr.\" The Luther Porter Jackson,\n         Sr.(1892-1950) Papers\" (paper presented at the 63rd meeting of\n         the Association for the Study of Afro-American Life and\n         History, Los Angeles, CA, October 13, 1978) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e2. Marva D. Curtis, \"The Virginia Voters League\"\n         (unpublished masters thesis, Virginia State University, 1979) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e3. Lucious Edwards, Jr., \"Luther Jackson Leaves a Legacy\n         of History in Papers to Virginia State University,\" \n         \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eProgress Index\u003c/title\u003e, February\n         26,1980, p.4.\u003c/p\u003e\n    "],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical/Historical Information"],"bioghist_tesim":["Luther Porter Jackson Sr. was born July 11, 1892 in\n         Lexington, Kentucky. He was the ninth child of Delilah\n         (Culvrson) Jackson and Edward Jackson. He early schooling was\n         at Chandler Normal School in Lexington, where he completed his\n         studies in 1910. Upon completion of his secondary education he\n         entered Fisk University where he received the A.B. degree in\n         1914. He remained at Fisk for another semester and in 1916 was\n         awarded the A.M. degree.","In 1915, at the ripe old age of twenty-three, he began his\n         teaching career at Vorhees Industrial School, Denmark, South\n         Carolina, where he was also Director of the Academic\n         Department. Jackson left South Carolina in 1918 and joined the\n         staff of the Topeka Industrial Institute, Topeka, Kansas, as\n         Instructor of history and music.","Desiring more education, he returned to the east and sought\n         graduate training at Columbia University in 1920. Here he was\n         to receive one of his many setbacks, which took in stride and\n         proceeded to correct. Writing to a former instructor at Fisk,\n         Jackson stated that Columbia did not consider his A.B. and\n         A.M. from Fisk up to their standards. He, therefore, enrolled\n         for one year at New York City College. Finally, in 1921, he\n         began his studies at Columbia, where he was graduated from\n         their Teachers College in 1922.","After completing his second masters degree, Luther Jackson\n         joined the faculty of what was then the Virginia Normal and\n         Industrial Institute, now Virginia State University. While on\n         staff of the university, Luther Jackson continued his studies,\n         first at Columbia University and then at the University of\n         Chicago, where he received the Ph.D. in history in 1937. Soon\n         after arrival at V.N. \u0026 I.I., Jackson took over the\n         College High School and directed its activities from\n         1923-1928. He headed the history department from 1930-1950,\n         formed the \" League of Negro Voters\" in 1934, and in 1937\n         organized the \" Petersburg Business League\", which became the\n         Virginia Trade Association in 1941.","In 1935, Carter G. Woodson asked Luther Jackson to head all\n         fund-raising activities for the Association for the Study of\n         Negro Life and History. As chairman of the Virginia chapter,\n         Jackson went on to establish that chapter as one of the most\n         productive of all state chapters. Somehow he still found time\n         to conduct the Petersburg Community Choir of 100 voices, have\n         his doctoral dissertation, write a column for \n         The Journal and Guide(Norfolk,\n         Virginia) under the general heading of \"Rights and Duties in a\n         Democracy\" between 1942 until 1948. Although he was now\n         holding down enough work for two people, Jackson was appointed\n         to the Virginia World War II History Commission in 1944 and\n         worked with the N.A.A.C.P, which led to his receiving a plague\n         for service in 1948.","Jackson authored these books: \n         Free Negro Labor and Property Holding\n         in Virginia, 1830-1860(1942) \n         The History of the Virginia Stated\n         Teachers Association(1937) \n         Negro Office-Holders in Virginia,\n         1865-1895(1945) \n         A Short History of the Gillfield\n         Baptist Church of Petersburg, Virginia(1941) \n         Virginia Negro Soldiers and Seaman in\n         the Revolutionary War(1944)","In addition to joining the faculty, Luther Jackson married\n         a young lady whom he had met while they were both students at\n         Fisk University. The young lady was Johnella M. Frazer\n         (1897-), a native of Shelbyville, Kentucky, the daughter of\n         Laura and Patterson Tilford Frazer; her father was President\n         of Hopkinsville College in Kentucky. Mrs. Jackson completed\n         the conservatory course at Fisk at the age of seventeen(17)\n         and toured with the Fisk \"Jubilee Singers\" for two years under\n         John Work. She joined the staff of Virginia Normal and\n         Industrial Institute in 1916, a full nine years before there\n         was a music department, as the University's first full time\n         instructor of piano.","Mrs. Jackson, like Luther, also recognized the need for\n         additional training. During the summer vacation she studied at\n         Temple University at the Chicago Music College and at Columbia\n         University. She remained at Virginia State University for\n         forty-nine years, retiring in 1965.","Additional Biographical Data:1. Lucious Edwards, Jr.\" The Luther Porter Jackson,\n         Sr.(1892-1950) Papers\" (paper presented at the 63rd meeting of\n         the Association for the Study of Afro-American Life and\n         History, Los Angeles, CA, October 13, 1978) \n         2. Marva D. Curtis, \"The Virginia Voters League\"\n         (unpublished masters thesis, Virginia State University, 1979) \n         3. Lucious Edwards, Jr., \"Luther Jackson Leaves a Legacy\n         of History in Papers to Virginia State University,\" \n         Progress Index, February\n         26,1980, p.4."],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eLuther Porter Jackson Papers, 1772-1960, Accession\n            #1952-l, Special Collections and Archives, Johnston\n            Memorial Library, Virginia State University, Petersburg,\n            VA.\u003c/p\u003e\n      "],"prefercite_tesim":["Luther Porter Jackson Papers, 1772-1960, Accession\n            #1952-l, Special Collections and Archives, Johnston\n            Memorial Library, Virginia State University, Petersburg,\n            VA."],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe Luther Porter Jackson are one of the most valuable\n         manuscript groups from a historical point of view in the\n         nation, for this former professor of history at Virginia State\n         University lived and worked during an era when the concept of\n         black inferiority was the accepted rule. In addition, this was\n         the time of \"Jim Crowism.\" Segregation was not \"de facto,\" it\n         was legal and challenged by few people, black and white.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eDuring the major time span of these papers, 1920-1950, a\n         number of political and civil rights organizations developed\n         into potent forces and others were born: the NAACP, the Negro\n         Organizational Society, the Southern Regional Council, and the\n         Southern School for Workers. This manuscript group is rich in\n         correspondence with most of the leaders of these movements.\n         Some of the correspondence includes Walter White, Lorenzo C.\n         White, P. Bernard Young, Gordon Hancock and others.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence with Virginia based political and civil\n         rights groups is strong and gives a good picture of the tempo\n         of the era in the State: the Virginia Voters League, the\n         Committee for Virginia, the Petersburg Negro Business\n         League.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eIn addition to correspondence with major political and\n         civil rights organizations, Jackson maintained as interesting\n         relationship with others across the U.S. The business or\n         office correspondence of Luther P. Jackson from 1920-1950\n         include correspondence with John Hope Franklin, W.E.B. DuBois,\n         Hugh Smythe, Helen Edmonds, P. Bernard Young, E. Franklin\n         Frazier, Charles S. Johnson, Rayford Logan, Alrutheus Ambush\n         Taylor, Lorenzo J. Green and others.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eThe collection also consists of ledgers, pamphlets,\n         financial and legal documents, photographs, speeches,\n         newspaper articles, cards, telegrams, notebooks, artifacts and\n         Jackson's research materials.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eJackson collected personal papers of ante-bellum and\n         post-bellum black families in Virginia: The Butler Papers, the\n         Layton Papers, and the Stephen Wooldrige Papers. In his\n         research of free black property owners in Virginia, he\n         acquired a substantial amount of materials from various\n         counties and cities of the Commonwealth of Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e\n    ","\u003cp\u003eThis box contains articles about Negroes in the\n                  United States, race vote in Tampa, colored men's\n                  progressive club, Negro principal to stay as school\n                  integrates, a sample form of application for\n                  registration to vote in the state of Louisiana. A \n                  \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eVirginia Statesman\u003c/title\u003efor\n                  April 21, 1950, the \n                  \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eSouthern Patriot\u003c/title\u003e, New\n                  Orleans, Louisiana, December 1948. \"The Boswell\n                  Amendment: Reaction in Alabama,\" \n                  \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eVirginias Journal and\n                  Guide\u003c/title\u003eApril 22, 1950, the Progress Index.\u003c/p\u003e\n          "],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Content Information"],"scopecontent_tesim":["The Luther Porter Jackson are one of the most valuable\n         manuscript groups from a historical point of view in the\n         nation, for this former professor of history at Virginia State\n         University lived and worked during an era when the concept of\n         black inferiority was the accepted rule. In addition, this was\n         the time of \"Jim Crowism.\" Segregation was not \"de facto,\" it\n         was legal and challenged by few people, black and white.","During the major time span of these papers, 1920-1950, a\n         number of political and civil rights organizations developed\n         into potent forces and others were born: the NAACP, the Negro\n         Organizational Society, the Southern Regional Council, and the\n         Southern School for Workers. This manuscript group is rich in\n         correspondence with most of the leaders of these movements.\n         Some of the correspondence includes Walter White, Lorenzo C.\n         White, P. Bernard Young, Gordon Hancock and others.","Correspondence with Virginia based political and civil\n         rights groups is strong and gives a good picture of the tempo\n         of the era in the State: the Virginia Voters League, the\n         Committee for Virginia, the Petersburg Negro Business\n         League.","In addition to correspondence with major political and\n         civil rights organizations, Jackson maintained as interesting\n         relationship with others across the U.S. The business or\n         office correspondence of Luther P. Jackson from 1920-1950\n         include correspondence with John Hope Franklin, W.E.B. DuBois,\n         Hugh Smythe, Helen Edmonds, P. Bernard Young, E. Franklin\n         Frazier, Charles S. Johnson, Rayford Logan, Alrutheus Ambush\n         Taylor, Lorenzo J. Green and others.","The collection also consists of ledgers, pamphlets,\n         financial and legal documents, photographs, speeches,\n         newspaper articles, cards, telegrams, notebooks, artifacts and\n         Jackson's research materials.","Jackson collected personal papers of ante-bellum and\n         post-bellum black families in Virginia: The Butler Papers, the\n         Layton Papers, and the Stephen Wooldrige Papers. In his\n         research of free black property owners in Virginia, he\n         acquired a substantial amount of materials from various\n         counties and cities of the Commonwealth of Virginia.","This box contains articles about Negroes in the\n                  United States, race vote in Tampa, colored men's\n                  progressive club, Negro principal to stay as school\n                  integrates, a sample form of application for\n                  registration to vote in the state of Louisiana. A \n                  Virginia Statesmanfor\n                  April 21, 1950, the \n                  Southern Patriot, New\n                  Orleans, Louisiana, December 1948. \"The Boswell\n                  Amendment: Reaction in Alabama,\" \n                  Virginias Journal and\n                  GuideApril 22, 1950, the Progress Index."],"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 Luther Porter Jackson papers\n         include documents collected by Jackson to support his research\n         as well as the correspondence produced by Dr. and Mrs. Jackson\n         in connection with their work, interest, and friends. They\n         reflect Luther Jackson's life as a professor and researcher of\n         history and his connections with various political and\n         educational organizations; the official records of the\n         Virginia Voters League and the official records of all fund\n         raising for the Virginia Branch of the Association for the\n         Study of Negro Life and History Inc.\u003c/abstract\u003e\n    "],"abstract_tesim":["The Luther Porter Jackson papers\n         include documents collected by Jackson to support his research\n         as well as the correspondence produced by Dr. and Mrs. Jackson\n         in connection with their work, interest, and friends. They\n         reflect Luther Jackson's life as a professor and researcher of\n         history and his connections with various political and\n         educational organizations; the official records of the\n         Virginia Voters League and the official records of all fund\n         raising for the Virginia Branch of the Association for the\n         Study of Negro Life and History Inc."],"language_ssim":["English"],"total_component_count_is":2288,"online_item_count_is":0,"component_level_isim":[0],"sort_isi":0,"timestamp":"2026-06-23T07:05:55.361Z","arrangement_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eSERIES I. BIOGRAPHICAL DATA \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eThe first five folders contain writings about Jackson.\n         Some material is not a part of the original manuscript group.\n         (Box 1) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eSERIES II. CORRESPONDENCE \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eA. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eFamily, 1920-1960\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eThe correspondence between Luther and Johnella Jackson\n         are arranged chronologically from 1920-1950. Additionally,\n         letters, postcards and telegrams are arranged alphabetically\n         by the other members of the family. (Boxes 1-5) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eB. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eBusiness, 1922-1950\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eOffice correspondence, extensive, arranged\n         chronologically. (Boxes 5-12) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eC. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003ePersonal, 1918- 1960\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eLetters arranged alphabetically by writer. (Boxes 13-16)\n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eSERIES III. FINANCIAL \u0026amp; LEGAL \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eFamily bills, tax statements, school bills and stocks.\n         Arranged by type. Copyright for Jackson's \n         \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eNegro Office Holders in Virginia,\n         1865-1895\u003c/title\u003e(Box 17) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eSERIES IV. ORGANIZATIONAL AFFILIATIONS \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eA. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eThe Virginia Voters League,\n         1934-1950\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eLetters, postcards, and telegrams arranged by county,\n         and city. Records include minutes and reports. (Boxes 18-27) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eB. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eThe Virginia Teachers Association Office\n         of the \"Civic Education Secretaries Office,\" 1941- 1950\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eThe Association for the Study of Negro Life and History,\n         Inc., 1923-1950 (Boxes 28-34) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eC. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eCorrespondence with Carter G.\n         Woodson\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eArranged chronologically. Other correspondence arranged\n         by county, City, and organization. (Boxes 35-41) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eD. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eThe NAACP, 1937- 1950\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eCorrespondence with officials of the NAACP (state and\n         local), arranged chronologically. (Box 42) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eE. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eThe I.B.P.O.E. of W.(the Elks),\n         1943-1950\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eGeneral correspondence arranged chronologically and the\n         Lodge's alphabetically by lodge. (Box 43) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eF. \n         \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eThe Virginia World War II History\n         Commission, 1944-1948\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eCorrespondence, minutes and reports of the commission\n         arranged chronologically. Some personal war service records\n         arranged alphabetically. Photographs in container 109. Numbers\n         on folders correspond with folder numbers in the original\n         series. (Box 44) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eG. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eThe Southern Regional Council, 1942-\n         1950\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eCorrespondence arranged chronologically; minutes for\n         some meetings. (Box 45) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eH. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eThe Negro Organizational Society, 1941-\n         1950\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eCorrespondence with the president and field secretaries,\n         minutes (1944-1949) arranged chronologically. (Box 46) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eI. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eThe Committee for Virginia,\n         1944-1950\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eLetters arranged chronologically, a few minutes,\n         reports. (Box 47) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eJ. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eThe Petersburg Negro Business League,\n         1935-1946\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eCorrespondence between Jackson, national and local\n         leaders. Chronologically arranged; one article, one report and\n         one skit. (Box 48) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eK. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eThe Virginia Society for Research,\n         1942-1950\u003c/emph\u003e(Box 48) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eL. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eThe Petersburg Community Choir\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eA history, a financial report and membership rosters.\n         Photographs in container 109. (Box 48) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eM. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eThe Southern School for Workers,\n         1944-1949\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eCorrespondence arranged chronologically. (Box 48) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eN. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eThe Old Dominion Medical Society\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eNames of some of the members. (Box 48) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eO. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eThe Petersburg Interracial Committee,\n         1948\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eOne letter and a proposed constitution. (Box 48) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eSERIES V. MATERIAL RELATING TO THE DEATH OF LUTHER\n         JACKSON \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eLetters, telegrams and postcards, arranged\n         chronologically. One box of sympathy cards and one of floral\n         cards. (Boxes 49 \u0026amp; 50) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eSERIES VI. RESEARCH DATA: COLLECTED \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eA. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eBlacks voting in the South,\n         1947-1948\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eLetters arranged alphabetically by state and then\n         chronologically within the state. (Box 50) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eB. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eThe Butler Papers, 1813-1888\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eTax receipts, identification papers, general receipts\n         and a marriage license. Chronologically arranged. (Box 51) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eC. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eThe Dews Papers, 1802-1880\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eDeeds for properties, tax receipts and general receipts,\n         arranged chronologically. (Box 52) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eD. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eThe Layton Papers, 1861-1898\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eTax receipts, deeds for properties, teaching\n         certificates. Arranged chronologically. (Box 53) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eE. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eThe Woolridge Papers, 1883-1910\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eTax receipts and general receipts. Few items about the\n         \"Jordan Baptist Church.\" Chronologically arranged. (Box 54) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eF. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eBy County\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003ePapers concerning ante and postpellum blacks in some\n         Virginia Counties. Identification papers, receipts. Arranged\n         chronologically within each county and then arranged\n         alphabetically by county also. (Boxes 55-56) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eG. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eBy City\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eThe same as above. Arranged alphabetically by city and\n         then chronologically within each city. (Box 57) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eH. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eMiscellaneous\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003ePapers of antebellum free blacks and slaves. Receipts,\n         identification papers, arranged chronologically. (Box 58) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eI. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003ePrinted and Diary\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003ePrinted pamphlets; handwritten diary belonging to Samuel\n         T. Miller, a missionary in South Africa, 1881-1882. (Box 59) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eJ. \n         \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eResearch Notes\u003c/emph\u003e(Box 60) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eK. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eLedgers General\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eStockholders ledges, one ledger used as a news clipping\n         scrapbook. (Box 61) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eL. \n         \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eNotebooks\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eHandwritten and typed data, no arrangement, subject\n         varies. (Boxes 62- 63) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eSERIES VII. MATERIAL WRITTEN BY LUTHER P. JACKSON \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eA. \n         \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eNews articles\u003c/emph\u003e: \n         \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eThe Journal and\n         Guide\u003c/title\u003e(Norfolk,VA), 1942-1947 \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eTypewritten news column. Arranged chronologically. Box\n         list available. (Boxes 64- 66) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eB. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eNews Articles: Various Papers\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eHandwritten and typed sheets, chronological order, some\n         without titles. Box list available. (Box 66) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eC. \n         \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eArticles in Journal\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003ePublished items, handwritten and typed, copy of printed\n         articles. (Box 66) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eD. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eAddresses\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eTyped and handwritten speeches, arranged\n         chronologically. (Box 67) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eE. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003ePapers, Reports, and Lecture Notes\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eVarious papers and reports, few lecture notes, skits,\n         radio broadcast, handwritten and typed;separated by type, but\n         otherwise there is no arrangement. (Box 67) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eF. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eUnpublished\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003ePapers and term papers, essay, handwritten and typed; no\n         arrangement. (Box 68) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eG. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eBooks\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eTypewritten manuscripts. (Boxes 69- 70) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eSERIES VIII. MATERIAL WRITTEN BY OTHER MEMBERS OF THE\n         FAMILY \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eArticles written by Luther P. Jackson Jr. (Box 71) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eSERIES IX. AWARDS \u0026amp; GRADES \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eFamily awards and a few grades of some family members.\n         (Box 72) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eSERIES X. PRINTED \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eBroadsides, leaflets, programs relating to Jackson. (Box\n         73) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eSERIES XI. VISUAL \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eA. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003ePhotographs\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eFamily, friends and Va. World War II History Commision,\n         organizations; some unidentifiable. (Box 74-76) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eB. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003ePrinter's Blocks\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eWood cuts used for publication. (Boxes 77- 80) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eSERIES XII. ARTIFACTS \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eCufflinks, tie clamp, neck scarf, doctoral gown, hood\n         and mortarboard. (Box 81) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eSERIES XII. MEMORABILIA \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eBaby books, collected programs, Christmas, general\n         greeting and get-well cards, etc. Arranged by type. (Boxes\n         82-84) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eSERIES XIV. 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BIOGRAPHICAL DATA \n         The first five folders contain writings about Jackson.\n         Some material is not a part of the original manuscript group.\n         (Box 1) \n         SERIES II. CORRESPONDENCE \n         A. \n         Family, 1920-1960The correspondence between Luther and Johnella Jackson\n         are arranged chronologically from 1920-1950. Additionally,\n         letters, postcards and telegrams are arranged alphabetically\n         by the other members of the family. (Boxes 1-5) \n         B. \n         Business, 1922-1950Office correspondence, extensive, arranged\n         chronologically. (Boxes 5-12) \n         C. \n         Personal, 1918- 1960Letters arranged alphabetically by writer. (Boxes 13-16)\n         SERIES III. FINANCIAL \u0026 LEGAL \n         Family bills, tax statements, school bills and stocks.\n         Arranged by type. Copyright for Jackson's \n         Negro Office Holders in Virginia,\n         1865-1895(Box 17) \n         SERIES IV. ORGANIZATIONAL AFFILIATIONS \n         A. \n         The Virginia Voters League,\n         1934-1950Letters, postcards, and telegrams arranged by county,\n         and city. Records include minutes and reports. (Boxes 18-27) \n         B. \n         The Virginia Teachers Association Office\n         of the \"Civic Education Secretaries Office,\" 1941- 1950The Association for the Study of Negro Life and History,\n         Inc., 1923-1950 (Boxes 28-34) \n         C. \n         Correspondence with Carter G.\n         WoodsonArranged chronologically. Other correspondence arranged\n         by county, City, and organization. (Boxes 35-41) \n         D. \n         The NAACP, 1937- 1950Correspondence with officials of the NAACP (state and\n         local), arranged chronologically. (Box 42) \n         E. \n         The I.B.P.O.E. of W.(the Elks),\n         1943-1950General correspondence arranged chronologically and the\n         Lodge's alphabetically by lodge. (Box 43) \n         F. \n         The Virginia World War II History\n         Commission, 1944-1948Correspondence, minutes and reports of the commission\n         arranged chronologically. Some personal war service records\n         arranged alphabetically. Photographs in container 109. Numbers\n         on folders correspond with folder numbers in the original\n         series. (Box 44) \n         G. \n         The Southern Regional Council, 1942-\n         1950Correspondence arranged chronologically; minutes for\n         some meetings. (Box 45) \n         H. \n         The Negro Organizational Society, 1941-\n         1950Correspondence with the president and field secretaries,\n         minutes (1944-1949) arranged chronologically. (Box 46) \n         I. \n         The Committee for Virginia,\n         1944-1950Letters arranged chronologically, a few minutes,\n         reports. (Box 47) \n         J. \n         The Petersburg Negro Business League,\n         1935-1946Correspondence between Jackson, national and local\n         leaders. Chronologically arranged; one article, one report and\n         one skit. (Box 48) \n         K. \n         The Virginia Society for Research,\n         1942-1950(Box 48) \n         L. \n         The Petersburg Community ChoirA history, a financial report and membership rosters.\n         Photographs in container 109. (Box 48) \n         M. \n         The Southern School for Workers,\n         1944-1949Correspondence arranged chronologically. (Box 48) \n         N. \n         The Old Dominion Medical SocietyNames of some of the members. (Box 48) \n         O. \n         The Petersburg Interracial Committee,\n         1948One letter and a proposed constitution. (Box 48) \n         SERIES V. MATERIAL RELATING TO THE DEATH OF LUTHER\n         JACKSON \n         Letters, telegrams and postcards, arranged\n         chronologically. One box of sympathy cards and one of floral\n         cards. (Boxes 49 \u0026 50) \n         SERIES VI. RESEARCH DATA: COLLECTED \n         A. \n         Blacks voting in the South,\n         1947-1948Letters arranged alphabetically by state and then\n         chronologically within the state. (Box 50) \n         B. \n         The Butler Papers, 1813-1888Tax receipts, identification papers, general receipts\n         and a marriage license. Chronologically arranged. (Box 51) \n         C. \n         The Dews Papers, 1802-1880Deeds for properties, tax receipts and general receipts,\n         arranged chronologically. (Box 52) \n         D. \n         The Layton Papers, 1861-1898Tax receipts, deeds for properties, teaching\n         certificates. Arranged chronologically. (Box 53) \n         E. \n         The Woolridge Papers, 1883-1910Tax receipts and general receipts. Few items about the\n         \"Jordan Baptist Church.\" Chronologically arranged. (Box 54) \n         F. \n         By CountyPapers concerning ante and postpellum blacks in some\n         Virginia Counties. Identification papers, receipts. Arranged\n         chronologically within each county and then arranged\n         alphabetically by county also. (Boxes 55-56) \n         G. \n         By CityThe same as above. Arranged alphabetically by city and\n         then chronologically within each city. (Box 57) \n         H. \n         MiscellaneousPapers of antebellum free blacks and slaves. Receipts,\n         identification papers, arranged chronologically. (Box 58) \n         I. \n         Printed and DiaryPrinted pamphlets; handwritten diary belonging to Samuel\n         T. Miller, a missionary in South Africa, 1881-1882. (Box 59) \n         J. \n         Research Notes(Box 60) \n         K. \n         Ledgers GeneralStockholders ledges, one ledger used as a news clipping\n         scrapbook. (Box 61) \n         L. \n         NotebooksHandwritten and typed data, no arrangement, subject\n         varies. (Boxes 62- 63) \n         SERIES VII. MATERIAL WRITTEN BY LUTHER P. JACKSON \n         A. \n         News articles: \n         The Journal and\n         Guide(Norfolk,VA), 1942-1947 \n         Typewritten news column. Arranged chronologically. Box\n         list available. (Boxes 64- 66) \n         B. \n         News Articles: Various PapersHandwritten and typed sheets, chronological order, some\n         without titles. Box list available. (Box 66) \n         C. \n         Articles in JournalPublished items, handwritten and typed, copy of printed\n         articles. (Box 66) \n         D. \n         AddressesTyped and handwritten speeches, arranged\n         chronologically. (Box 67) \n         E. \n         Papers, Reports, and Lecture NotesVarious papers and reports, few lecture notes, skits,\n         radio broadcast, handwritten and typed;separated by type, but\n         otherwise there is no arrangement. (Box 67) \n         F. \n         UnpublishedPapers and term papers, essay, handwritten and typed; no\n         arrangement. (Box 68) \n         G. \n         BooksTypewritten manuscripts. (Boxes 69- 70) \n         SERIES VIII. MATERIAL WRITTEN BY OTHER MEMBERS OF THE\n         FAMILY \n         Articles written by Luther P. Jackson Jr. (Box 71) \n         SERIES IX. AWARDS \u0026 GRADES \n         Family awards and a few grades of some family members.\n         (Box 72) \n         SERIES X. PRINTED \n         Broadsides, leaflets, programs relating to Jackson. (Box\n         73) \n         SERIES XI. VISUAL \n         A. \n         PhotographsFamily, friends and Va. World War II History Commision,\n         organizations; some unidentifiable. (Box 74-76) \n         B. \n         Printer's BlocksWood cuts used for publication. (Boxes 77- 80) \n         SERIES XII. ARTIFACTS \n         Cufflinks, tie clamp, neck scarf, doctoral gown, hood\n         and mortarboard. (Box 81) \n         SERIES XII. MEMORABILIA \n         Baby books, collected programs, Christmas, general\n         greeting and get-well cards, etc. Arranged by type. (Boxes\n         82-84) \n         SERIES XIV. NEWSCLIPPINGS \n         Loose newsclippings from various newspapers on a variety\n         of subjects, no arrangement (Boxes 85) \n         SERIES XV. OVERSIZED ITEMS \n         Newspaper, awards and research data.","Luther Porter Jackson Sr. was born July 11, 1892 in\n         Lexington, Kentucky. He was the ninth child of Delilah\n         (Culvrson) Jackson and Edward Jackson. He early schooling was\n         at Chandler Normal School in Lexington, where he completed his\n         studies in 1910. Upon completion of his secondary education he\n         entered Fisk University where he received the A.B. degree in\n         1914. He remained at Fisk for another semester and in 1916 was\n         awarded the A.M. degree.","In 1915, at the ripe old age of twenty-three, he began his\n         teaching career at Vorhees Industrial School, Denmark, South\n         Carolina, where he was also Director of the Academic\n         Department. Jackson left South Carolina in 1918 and joined the\n         staff of the Topeka Industrial Institute, Topeka, Kansas, as\n         Instructor of history and music.","Desiring more education, he returned to the east and sought\n         graduate training at Columbia University in 1920. Here he was\n         to receive one of his many setbacks, which took in stride and\n         proceeded to correct. Writing to a former instructor at Fisk,\n         Jackson stated that Columbia did not consider his A.B. and\n         A.M. from Fisk up to their standards. He, therefore, enrolled\n         for one year at New York City College. Finally, in 1921, he\n         began his studies at Columbia, where he was graduated from\n         their Teachers College in 1922.","After completing his second masters degree, Luther Jackson\n         joined the faculty of what was then the Virginia Normal and\n         Industrial Institute, now Virginia State University. While on\n         staff of the university, Luther Jackson continued his studies,\n         first at Columbia University and then at the University of\n         Chicago, where he received the Ph.D. in history in 1937. Soon\n         after arrival at V.N. \u0026 I.I., Jackson took over the\n         College High School and directed its activities from\n         1923-1928. He headed the history department from 1930-1950,\n         formed the \" League of Negro Voters\" in 1934, and in 1937\n         organized the \" Petersburg Business League\", which became the\n         Virginia Trade Association in 1941.","In 1935, Carter G. Woodson asked Luther Jackson to head all\n         fund-raising activities for the Association for the Study of\n         Negro Life and History. As chairman of the Virginia chapter,\n         Jackson went on to establish that chapter as one of the most\n         productive of all state chapters. Somehow he still found time\n         to conduct the Petersburg Community Choir of 100 voices, have\n         his doctoral dissertation, write a column for \n         The Journal and Guide(Norfolk,\n         Virginia) under the general heading of \"Rights and Duties in a\n         Democracy\" between 1942 until 1948. Although he was now\n         holding down enough work for two people, Jackson was appointed\n         to the Virginia World War II History Commission in 1944 and\n         worked with the N.A.A.C.P, which led to his receiving a plague\n         for service in 1948.","Jackson authored these books: \n         Free Negro Labor and Property Holding\n         in Virginia, 1830-1860(1942) \n         The History of the Virginia Stated\n         Teachers Association(1937) \n         Negro Office-Holders in Virginia,\n         1865-1895(1945) \n         A Short History of the Gillfield\n         Baptist Church of Petersburg, Virginia(1941) \n         Virginia Negro Soldiers and Seaman in\n         the Revolutionary War(1944)","In addition to joining the faculty, Luther Jackson married\n         a young lady whom he had met while they were both students at\n         Fisk University. The young lady was Johnella M. Frazer\n         (1897-), a native of Shelbyville, Kentucky, the daughter of\n         Laura and Patterson Tilford Frazer; her father was President\n         of Hopkinsville College in Kentucky. Mrs. Jackson completed\n         the conservatory course at Fisk at the age of seventeen(17)\n         and toured with the Fisk \"Jubilee Singers\" for two years under\n         John Work. She joined the staff of Virginia Normal and\n         Industrial Institute in 1916, a full nine years before there\n         was a music department, as the University's first full time\n         instructor of piano.","Mrs. Jackson, like Luther, also recognized the need for\n         additional training. During the summer vacation she studied at\n         Temple University at the Chicago Music College and at Columbia\n         University. She remained at Virginia State University for\n         forty-nine years, retiring in 1965.","Additional Biographical Data:1. Lucious Edwards, Jr.\" The Luther Porter Jackson,\n         Sr.(1892-1950) Papers\" (paper presented at the 63rd meeting of\n         the Association for the Study of Afro-American Life and\n         History, Los Angeles, CA, October 13, 1978) \n         2. Marva D. Curtis, \"The Virginia Voters League\"\n         (unpublished masters thesis, Virginia State University, 1979) \n         3. Lucious Edwards, Jr., \"Luther Jackson Leaves a Legacy\n         of History in Papers to Virginia State University,\" \n         Progress Index, February\n         26,1980, p.4.","The Luther Porter Jackson are one of the most valuable\n         manuscript groups from a historical point of view in the\n         nation, for this former professor of history at Virginia State\n         University lived and worked during an era when the concept of\n         black inferiority was the accepted rule. In addition, this was\n         the time of \"Jim Crowism.\" Segregation was not \"de facto,\" it\n         was legal and challenged by few people, black and white.","During the major time span of these papers, 1920-1950, a\n         number of political and civil rights organizations developed\n         into potent forces and others were born: the NAACP, the Negro\n         Organizational Society, the Southern Regional Council, and the\n         Southern School for Workers. This manuscript group is rich in\n         correspondence with most of the leaders of these movements.\n         Some of the correspondence includes Walter White, Lorenzo C.\n         White, P. Bernard Young, Gordon Hancock and others.","Correspondence with Virginia based political and civil\n         rights groups is strong and gives a good picture of the tempo\n         of the era in the State: the Virginia Voters League, the\n         Committee for Virginia, the Petersburg Negro Business\n         League.","In addition to correspondence with major political and\n         civil rights organizations, Jackson maintained as interesting\n         relationship with others across the U.S. The business or\n         office correspondence of Luther P. Jackson from 1920-1950\n         include correspondence with John Hope Franklin, W.E.B. DuBois,\n         Hugh Smythe, Helen Edmonds, P. Bernard Young, E. Franklin\n         Frazier, Charles S. Johnson, Rayford Logan, Alrutheus Ambush\n         Taylor, Lorenzo J. Green and others.","The collection also consists of ledgers, pamphlets,\n         financial and legal documents, photographs, speeches,\n         newspaper articles, cards, telegrams, notebooks, artifacts and\n         Jackson's research materials.","Jackson collected personal papers of ante-bellum and\n         post-bellum black families in Virginia: The Butler Papers, the\n         Layton Papers, and the Stephen Wooldrige Papers. In his\n         research of free black property owners in Virginia, he\n         acquired a substantial amount of materials from various\n         counties and cities of the Commonwealth of Virginia.","This box contains articles about Negroes in the\n                  United States, race vote in Tampa, colored men's\n                  progressive club, Negro principal to stay as school\n                  integrates, a sample form of application for\n                  registration to vote in the state of Louisiana. A \n                  Virginia Statesmanfor\n                  April 21, 1950, the \n                  Southern Patriot, New\n                  Orleans, Louisiana, December 1948. \"The Boswell\n                  Amendment: Reaction in Alabama,\" \n                  Virginias Journal and\n                  GuideApril 22, 1950, the Progress Index.","There are no restrictions.","The Luther Porter Jackson papers\n         include documents collected by Jackson to support his research\n         as well as the correspondence produced by Dr. and Mrs. Jackson\n         in connection with their work, interest, and friends. They\n         reflect Luther Jackson's life as a professor and researcher of\n         history and his connections with various political and\n         educational organizations; the official records of the\n         Virginia Voters League and the official records of all fund\n         raising for the Virginia Branch of the Association for the\n         Study of Negro Life and History Inc.","English"],"collection_title_tesim":["Luther Porter Jackson Papers, \n         \n         1772-1960"],"collection_ssim":["Luther Porter Jackson Papers, \n         \n         1772-1960"],"level_ssm":["collection"],"level_ssim":["Collection"],"unitid_ssm":["1952-l"],"unitid_tesim":["1952-l"],"repository_ssm":["Virginia State University"],"repository_ssim":["Virginia State University"],"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_heading_ssm":["Organization"],"arrangement_tesim":["SERIES I. BIOGRAPHICAL DATA \n         The first five folders contain writings about Jackson.\n         Some material is not a part of the original manuscript group.\n         (Box 1) \n         SERIES II. CORRESPONDENCE \n         A. \n         Family, 1920-1960The correspondence between Luther and Johnella Jackson\n         are arranged chronologically from 1920-1950. Additionally,\n         letters, postcards and telegrams are arranged alphabetically\n         by the other members of the family. (Boxes 1-5) \n         B. \n         Business, 1922-1950Office correspondence, extensive, arranged\n         chronologically. (Boxes 5-12) \n         C. \n         Personal, 1918- 1960Letters arranged alphabetically by writer. (Boxes 13-16)\n         SERIES III. FINANCIAL \u0026 LEGAL \n         Family bills, tax statements, school bills and stocks.\n         Arranged by type. Copyright for Jackson's \n         Negro Office Holders in Virginia,\n         1865-1895(Box 17) \n         SERIES IV. ORGANIZATIONAL AFFILIATIONS \n         A. \n         The Virginia Voters League,\n         1934-1950Letters, postcards, and telegrams arranged by county,\n         and city. Records include minutes and reports. (Boxes 18-27) \n         B. \n         The Virginia Teachers Association Office\n         of the \"Civic Education Secretaries Office,\" 1941- 1950The Association for the Study of Negro Life and History,\n         Inc., 1923-1950 (Boxes 28-34) \n         C. \n         Correspondence with Carter G.\n         WoodsonArranged chronologically. Other correspondence arranged\n         by county, City, and organization. (Boxes 35-41) \n         D. \n         The NAACP, 1937- 1950Correspondence with officials of the NAACP (state and\n         local), arranged chronologically. (Box 42) \n         E. \n         The I.B.P.O.E. of W.(the Elks),\n         1943-1950General correspondence arranged chronologically and the\n         Lodge's alphabetically by lodge. (Box 43) \n         F. \n         The Virginia World War II History\n         Commission, 1944-1948Correspondence, minutes and reports of the commission\n         arranged chronologically. Some personal war service records\n         arranged alphabetically. Photographs in container 109. Numbers\n         on folders correspond with folder numbers in the original\n         series. (Box 44) \n         G. \n         The Southern Regional Council, 1942-\n         1950Correspondence arranged chronologically; minutes for\n         some meetings. (Box 45) \n         H. \n         The Negro Organizational Society, 1941-\n         1950Correspondence with the president and field secretaries,\n         minutes (1944-1949) arranged chronologically. (Box 46) \n         I. \n         The Committee for Virginia,\n         1944-1950Letters arranged chronologically, a few minutes,\n         reports. (Box 47) \n         J. \n         The Petersburg Negro Business League,\n         1935-1946Correspondence between Jackson, national and local\n         leaders. Chronologically arranged; one article, one report and\n         one skit. (Box 48) \n         K. \n         The Virginia Society for Research,\n         1942-1950(Box 48) \n         L. \n         The Petersburg Community ChoirA history, a financial report and membership rosters.\n         Photographs in container 109. (Box 48) \n         M. \n         The Southern School for Workers,\n         1944-1949Correspondence arranged chronologically. (Box 48) \n         N. \n         The Old Dominion Medical SocietyNames of some of the members. (Box 48) \n         O. \n         The Petersburg Interracial Committee,\n         1948One letter and a proposed constitution. (Box 48) \n         SERIES V. MATERIAL RELATING TO THE DEATH OF LUTHER\n         JACKSON \n         Letters, telegrams and postcards, arranged\n         chronologically. One box of sympathy cards and one of floral\n         cards. (Boxes 49 \u0026 50) \n         SERIES VI. RESEARCH DATA: COLLECTED \n         A. \n         Blacks voting in the South,\n         1947-1948Letters arranged alphabetically by state and then\n         chronologically within the state. (Box 50) \n         B. \n         The Butler Papers, 1813-1888Tax receipts, identification papers, general receipts\n         and a marriage license. Chronologically arranged. (Box 51) \n         C. \n         The Dews Papers, 1802-1880Deeds for properties, tax receipts and general receipts,\n         arranged chronologically. (Box 52) \n         D. \n         The Layton Papers, 1861-1898Tax receipts, deeds for properties, teaching\n         certificates. Arranged chronologically. (Box 53) \n         E. \n         The Woolridge Papers, 1883-1910Tax receipts and general receipts. Few items about the\n         \"Jordan Baptist Church.\" Chronologically arranged. (Box 54) \n         F. \n         By CountyPapers concerning ante and postpellum blacks in some\n         Virginia Counties. Identification papers, receipts. Arranged\n         chronologically within each county and then arranged\n         alphabetically by county also. (Boxes 55-56) \n         G. \n         By CityThe same as above. Arranged alphabetically by city and\n         then chronologically within each city. (Box 57) \n         H. \n         MiscellaneousPapers of antebellum free blacks and slaves. Receipts,\n         identification papers, arranged chronologically. (Box 58) \n         I. \n         Printed and DiaryPrinted pamphlets; handwritten diary belonging to Samuel\n         T. Miller, a missionary in South Africa, 1881-1882. (Box 59) \n         J. \n         Research Notes(Box 60) \n         K. \n         Ledgers GeneralStockholders ledges, one ledger used as a news clipping\n         scrapbook. (Box 61) \n         L. \n         NotebooksHandwritten and typed data, no arrangement, subject\n         varies. (Boxes 62- 63) \n         SERIES VII. MATERIAL WRITTEN BY LUTHER P. JACKSON \n         A. \n         News articles: \n         The Journal and\n         Guide(Norfolk,VA), 1942-1947 \n         Typewritten news column. Arranged chronologically. Box\n         list available. (Boxes 64- 66) \n         B. \n         News Articles: Various PapersHandwritten and typed sheets, chronological order, some\n         without titles. Box list available. (Box 66) \n         C. \n         Articles in JournalPublished items, handwritten and typed, copy of printed\n         articles. (Box 66) \n         D. \n         AddressesTyped and handwritten speeches, arranged\n         chronologically. (Box 67) \n         E. \n         Papers, Reports, and Lecture NotesVarious papers and reports, few lecture notes, skits,\n         radio broadcast, handwritten and typed;separated by type, but\n         otherwise there is no arrangement. (Box 67) \n         F. \n         UnpublishedPapers and term papers, essay, handwritten and typed; no\n         arrangement. (Box 68) \n         G. \n         BooksTypewritten manuscripts. (Boxes 69- 70) \n         SERIES VIII. MATERIAL WRITTEN BY OTHER MEMBERS OF THE\n         FAMILY \n         Articles written by Luther P. Jackson Jr. (Box 71) \n         SERIES IX. AWARDS \u0026 GRADES \n         Family awards and a few grades of some family members.\n         (Box 72) \n         SERIES X. PRINTED \n         Broadsides, leaflets, programs relating to Jackson. (Box\n         73) \n         SERIES XI. VISUAL \n         A. \n         PhotographsFamily, friends and Va. World War II History Commision,\n         organizations; some unidentifiable. (Box 74-76) \n         B. \n         Printer's BlocksWood cuts used for publication. (Boxes 77- 80) \n         SERIES XII. ARTIFACTS \n         Cufflinks, tie clamp, neck scarf, doctoral gown, hood\n         and mortarboard. (Box 81) \n         SERIES XII. MEMORABILIA \n         Baby books, collected programs, Christmas, general\n         greeting and get-well cards, etc. Arranged by type. (Boxes\n         82-84) \n         SERIES XIV. NEWSCLIPPINGS \n         Loose newsclippings from various newspapers on a variety\n         of subjects, no arrangement (Boxes 85) \n         SERIES XV. OVERSIZED ITEMS \n         Newspaper, awards and research data."],"bioghist_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eLuther Porter Jackson Sr. was born July 11, 1892 in\n         Lexington, Kentucky. He was the ninth child of Delilah\n         (Culvrson) Jackson and Edward Jackson. He early schooling was\n         at Chandler Normal School in Lexington, where he completed his\n         studies in 1910. Upon completion of his secondary education he\n         entered Fisk University where he received the A.B. degree in\n         1914. He remained at Fisk for another semester and in 1916 was\n         awarded the A.M. degree.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eIn 1915, at the ripe old age of twenty-three, he began his\n         teaching career at Vorhees Industrial School, Denmark, South\n         Carolina, where he was also Director of the Academic\n         Department. Jackson left South Carolina in 1918 and joined the\n         staff of the Topeka Industrial Institute, Topeka, Kansas, as\n         Instructor of history and music.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eDesiring more education, he returned to the east and sought\n         graduate training at Columbia University in 1920. Here he was\n         to receive one of his many setbacks, which took in stride and\n         proceeded to correct. Writing to a former instructor at Fisk,\n         Jackson stated that Columbia did not consider his A.B. and\n         A.M. from Fisk up to their standards. He, therefore, enrolled\n         for one year at New York City College. Finally, in 1921, he\n         began his studies at Columbia, where he was graduated from\n         their Teachers College in 1922.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eAfter completing his second masters degree, Luther Jackson\n         joined the faculty of what was then the Virginia Normal and\n         Industrial Institute, now Virginia State University. While on\n         staff of the university, Luther Jackson continued his studies,\n         first at Columbia University and then at the University of\n         Chicago, where he received the Ph.D. in history in 1937. Soon\n         after arrival at V.N. \u0026amp; I.I., Jackson took over the\n         College High School and directed its activities from\n         1923-1928. He headed the history department from 1930-1950,\n         formed the \" League of Negro Voters\" in 1934, and in 1937\n         organized the \" Petersburg Business League\", which became the\n         Virginia Trade Association in 1941.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eIn 1935, Carter G. Woodson asked Luther Jackson to head all\n         fund-raising activities for the Association for the Study of\n         Negro Life and History. As chairman of the Virginia chapter,\n         Jackson went on to establish that chapter as one of the most\n         productive of all state chapters. Somehow he still found time\n         to conduct the Petersburg Community Choir of 100 voices, have\n         his doctoral dissertation, write a column for \n         \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eThe Journal and Guide\u003c/title\u003e(Norfolk,\n         Virginia) under the general heading of \"Rights and Duties in a\n         Democracy\" between 1942 until 1948. Although he was now\n         holding down enough work for two people, Jackson was appointed\n         to the Virginia World War II History Commission in 1944 and\n         worked with the N.A.A.C.P, which led to his receiving a plague\n         for service in 1948.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eJackson authored these books: \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eFree Negro Labor and Property Holding\n         in Virginia, 1830-1860\u003c/title\u003e(1942) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eThe History of the Virginia Stated\n         Teachers Association\u003c/title\u003e(1937) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eNegro Office-Holders in Virginia,\n         1865-1895\u003c/title\u003e(1945) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eA Short History of the Gillfield\n         Baptist Church of Petersburg, Virginia\u003c/title\u003e(1941) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eVirginia Negro Soldiers and Seaman in\n         the Revolutionary War\u003c/title\u003e(1944) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eIn addition to joining the faculty, Luther Jackson married\n         a young lady whom he had met while they were both students at\n         Fisk University. The young lady was Johnella M. Frazer\n         (1897-), a native of Shelbyville, Kentucky, the daughter of\n         Laura and Patterson Tilford Frazer; her father was President\n         of Hopkinsville College in Kentucky. Mrs. Jackson completed\n         the conservatory course at Fisk at the age of seventeen(17)\n         and toured with the Fisk \"Jubilee Singers\" for two years under\n         John Work. She joined the staff of Virginia Normal and\n         Industrial Institute in 1916, a full nine years before there\n         was a music department, as the University's first full time\n         instructor of piano.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Jackson, like Luther, also recognized the need for\n         additional training. During the summer vacation she studied at\n         Temple University at the Chicago Music College and at Columbia\n         University. She remained at Virginia State University for\n         forty-nine years, retiring in 1965.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eAdditional Biographical Data:\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e1. Lucious Edwards, Jr.\" The Luther Porter Jackson,\n         Sr.(1892-1950) Papers\" (paper presented at the 63rd meeting of\n         the Association for the Study of Afro-American Life and\n         History, Los Angeles, CA, October 13, 1978) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e2. Marva D. Curtis, \"The Virginia Voters League\"\n         (unpublished masters thesis, Virginia State University, 1979) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e3. Lucious Edwards, Jr., \"Luther Jackson Leaves a Legacy\n         of History in Papers to Virginia State University,\" \n         \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eProgress Index\u003c/title\u003e, February\n         26,1980, p.4.\u003c/p\u003e\n    "],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical/Historical Information"],"bioghist_tesim":["Luther Porter Jackson Sr. was born July 11, 1892 in\n         Lexington, Kentucky. He was the ninth child of Delilah\n         (Culvrson) Jackson and Edward Jackson. He early schooling was\n         at Chandler Normal School in Lexington, where he completed his\n         studies in 1910. Upon completion of his secondary education he\n         entered Fisk University where he received the A.B. degree in\n         1914. He remained at Fisk for another semester and in 1916 was\n         awarded the A.M. degree.","In 1915, at the ripe old age of twenty-three, he began his\n         teaching career at Vorhees Industrial School, Denmark, South\n         Carolina, where he was also Director of the Academic\n         Department. Jackson left South Carolina in 1918 and joined the\n         staff of the Topeka Industrial Institute, Topeka, Kansas, as\n         Instructor of history and music.","Desiring more education, he returned to the east and sought\n         graduate training at Columbia University in 1920. Here he was\n         to receive one of his many setbacks, which took in stride and\n         proceeded to correct. Writing to a former instructor at Fisk,\n         Jackson stated that Columbia did not consider his A.B. and\n         A.M. from Fisk up to their standards. He, therefore, enrolled\n         for one year at New York City College. Finally, in 1921, he\n         began his studies at Columbia, where he was graduated from\n         their Teachers College in 1922.","After completing his second masters degree, Luther Jackson\n         joined the faculty of what was then the Virginia Normal and\n         Industrial Institute, now Virginia State University. While on\n         staff of the university, Luther Jackson continued his studies,\n         first at Columbia University and then at the University of\n         Chicago, where he received the Ph.D. in history in 1937. Soon\n         after arrival at V.N. \u0026 I.I., Jackson took over the\n         College High School and directed its activities from\n         1923-1928. He headed the history department from 1930-1950,\n         formed the \" League of Negro Voters\" in 1934, and in 1937\n         organized the \" Petersburg Business League\", which became the\n         Virginia Trade Association in 1941.","In 1935, Carter G. Woodson asked Luther Jackson to head all\n         fund-raising activities for the Association for the Study of\n         Negro Life and History. As chairman of the Virginia chapter,\n         Jackson went on to establish that chapter as one of the most\n         productive of all state chapters. Somehow he still found time\n         to conduct the Petersburg Community Choir of 100 voices, have\n         his doctoral dissertation, write a column for \n         The Journal and Guide(Norfolk,\n         Virginia) under the general heading of \"Rights and Duties in a\n         Democracy\" between 1942 until 1948. Although he was now\n         holding down enough work for two people, Jackson was appointed\n         to the Virginia World War II History Commission in 1944 and\n         worked with the N.A.A.C.P, which led to his receiving a plague\n         for service in 1948.","Jackson authored these books: \n         Free Negro Labor and Property Holding\n         in Virginia, 1830-1860(1942) \n         The History of the Virginia Stated\n         Teachers Association(1937) \n         Negro Office-Holders in Virginia,\n         1865-1895(1945) \n         A Short History of the Gillfield\n         Baptist Church of Petersburg, Virginia(1941) \n         Virginia Negro Soldiers and Seaman in\n         the Revolutionary War(1944)","In addition to joining the faculty, Luther Jackson married\n         a young lady whom he had met while they were both students at\n         Fisk University. The young lady was Johnella M. Frazer\n         (1897-), a native of Shelbyville, Kentucky, the daughter of\n         Laura and Patterson Tilford Frazer; her father was President\n         of Hopkinsville College in Kentucky. Mrs. Jackson completed\n         the conservatory course at Fisk at the age of seventeen(17)\n         and toured with the Fisk \"Jubilee Singers\" for two years under\n         John Work. She joined the staff of Virginia Normal and\n         Industrial Institute in 1916, a full nine years before there\n         was a music department, as the University's first full time\n         instructor of piano.","Mrs. Jackson, like Luther, also recognized the need for\n         additional training. During the summer vacation she studied at\n         Temple University at the Chicago Music College and at Columbia\n         University. She remained at Virginia State University for\n         forty-nine years, retiring in 1965.","Additional Biographical Data:1. Lucious Edwards, Jr.\" The Luther Porter Jackson,\n         Sr.(1892-1950) Papers\" (paper presented at the 63rd meeting of\n         the Association for the Study of Afro-American Life and\n         History, Los Angeles, CA, October 13, 1978) \n         2. Marva D. Curtis, \"The Virginia Voters League\"\n         (unpublished masters thesis, Virginia State University, 1979) \n         3. Lucious Edwards, Jr., \"Luther Jackson Leaves a Legacy\n         of History in Papers to Virginia State University,\" \n         Progress Index, February\n         26,1980, p.4."],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eLuther Porter Jackson Papers, 1772-1960, Accession\n            #1952-l, Special Collections and Archives, Johnston\n            Memorial Library, Virginia State University, Petersburg,\n            VA.\u003c/p\u003e\n      "],"prefercite_tesim":["Luther Porter Jackson Papers, 1772-1960, Accession\n            #1952-l, Special Collections and Archives, Johnston\n            Memorial Library, Virginia State University, Petersburg,\n            VA."],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe Luther Porter Jackson are one of the most valuable\n         manuscript groups from a historical point of view in the\n         nation, for this former professor of history at Virginia State\n         University lived and worked during an era when the concept of\n         black inferiority was the accepted rule. In addition, this was\n         the time of \"Jim Crowism.\" Segregation was not \"de facto,\" it\n         was legal and challenged by few people, black and white.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eDuring the major time span of these papers, 1920-1950, a\n         number of political and civil rights organizations developed\n         into potent forces and others were born: the NAACP, the Negro\n         Organizational Society, the Southern Regional Council, and the\n         Southern School for Workers. This manuscript group is rich in\n         correspondence with most of the leaders of these movements.\n         Some of the correspondence includes Walter White, Lorenzo C.\n         White, P. Bernard Young, Gordon Hancock and others.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence with Virginia based political and civil\n         rights groups is strong and gives a good picture of the tempo\n         of the era in the State: the Virginia Voters League, the\n         Committee for Virginia, the Petersburg Negro Business\n         League.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eIn addition to correspondence with major political and\n         civil rights organizations, Jackson maintained as interesting\n         relationship with others across the U.S. The business or\n         office correspondence of Luther P. Jackson from 1920-1950\n         include correspondence with John Hope Franklin, W.E.B. DuBois,\n         Hugh Smythe, Helen Edmonds, P. Bernard Young, E. Franklin\n         Frazier, Charles S. Johnson, Rayford Logan, Alrutheus Ambush\n         Taylor, Lorenzo J. Green and others.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eThe collection also consists of ledgers, pamphlets,\n         financial and legal documents, photographs, speeches,\n         newspaper articles, cards, telegrams, notebooks, artifacts and\n         Jackson's research materials.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eJackson collected personal papers of ante-bellum and\n         post-bellum black families in Virginia: The Butler Papers, the\n         Layton Papers, and the Stephen Wooldrige Papers. In his\n         research of free black property owners in Virginia, he\n         acquired a substantial amount of materials from various\n         counties and cities of the Commonwealth of Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e\n    ","\u003cp\u003eThis box contains articles about Negroes in the\n                  United States, race vote in Tampa, colored men's\n                  progressive club, Negro principal to stay as school\n                  integrates, a sample form of application for\n                  registration to vote in the state of Louisiana. A \n                  \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eVirginia Statesman\u003c/title\u003efor\n                  April 21, 1950, the \n                  \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eSouthern Patriot\u003c/title\u003e, New\n                  Orleans, Louisiana, December 1948. \"The Boswell\n                  Amendment: Reaction in Alabama,\" \n                  \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eVirginias Journal and\n                  Guide\u003c/title\u003eApril 22, 1950, the Progress Index.\u003c/p\u003e\n          "],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Content Information"],"scopecontent_tesim":["The Luther Porter Jackson are one of the most valuable\n         manuscript groups from a historical point of view in the\n         nation, for this former professor of history at Virginia State\n         University lived and worked during an era when the concept of\n         black inferiority was the accepted rule. In addition, this was\n         the time of \"Jim Crowism.\" Segregation was not \"de facto,\" it\n         was legal and challenged by few people, black and white.","During the major time span of these papers, 1920-1950, a\n         number of political and civil rights organizations developed\n         into potent forces and others were born: the NAACP, the Negro\n         Organizational Society, the Southern Regional Council, and the\n         Southern School for Workers. This manuscript group is rich in\n         correspondence with most of the leaders of these movements.\n         Some of the correspondence includes Walter White, Lorenzo C.\n         White, P. Bernard Young, Gordon Hancock and others.","Correspondence with Virginia based political and civil\n         rights groups is strong and gives a good picture of the tempo\n         of the era in the State: the Virginia Voters League, the\n         Committee for Virginia, the Petersburg Negro Business\n         League.","In addition to correspondence with major political and\n         civil rights organizations, Jackson maintained as interesting\n         relationship with others across the U.S. The business or\n         office correspondence of Luther P. Jackson from 1920-1950\n         include correspondence with John Hope Franklin, W.E.B. DuBois,\n         Hugh Smythe, Helen Edmonds, P. Bernard Young, E. Franklin\n         Frazier, Charles S. Johnson, Rayford Logan, Alrutheus Ambush\n         Taylor, Lorenzo J. Green and others.","The collection also consists of ledgers, pamphlets,\n         financial and legal documents, photographs, speeches,\n         newspaper articles, cards, telegrams, notebooks, artifacts and\n         Jackson's research materials.","Jackson collected personal papers of ante-bellum and\n         post-bellum black families in Virginia: The Butler Papers, the\n         Layton Papers, and the Stephen Wooldrige Papers. In his\n         research of free black property owners in Virginia, he\n         acquired a substantial amount of materials from various\n         counties and cities of the Commonwealth of Virginia.","This box contains articles about Negroes in the\n                  United States, race vote in Tampa, colored men's\n                  progressive club, Negro principal to stay as school\n                  integrates, a sample form of application for\n                  registration to vote in the state of Louisiana. A \n                  Virginia Statesmanfor\n                  April 21, 1950, the \n                  Southern Patriot, New\n                  Orleans, Louisiana, December 1948. \"The Boswell\n                  Amendment: Reaction in Alabama,\" \n                  Virginias Journal and\n                  GuideApril 22, 1950, the Progress Index."],"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 Luther Porter Jackson papers\n         include documents collected by Jackson to support his research\n         as well as the correspondence produced by Dr. and Mrs. Jackson\n         in connection with their work, interest, and friends. They\n         reflect Luther Jackson's life as a professor and researcher of\n         history and his connections with various political and\n         educational organizations; the official records of the\n         Virginia Voters League and the official records of all fund\n         raising for the Virginia Branch of the Association for the\n         Study of Negro Life and History Inc.\u003c/abstract\u003e\n    "],"abstract_tesim":["The Luther Porter Jackson papers\n         include documents collected by Jackson to support his research\n         as well as the correspondence produced by Dr. and Mrs. Jackson\n         in connection with their work, interest, and friends. They\n         reflect Luther Jackson's life as a professor and researcher of\n         history and his connections with various political and\n         educational organizations; the official records of the\n         Virginia Voters League and the official records of all fund\n         raising for the Virginia Branch of the Association for the\n         Study of Negro Life and History Inc."],"language_ssim":["English"],"total_component_count_is":2288,"online_item_count_is":0,"component_level_isim":[0],"sort_isi":0,"timestamp":"2026-06-23T07:05:55.361Z","arrangement_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eSERIES I. BIOGRAPHICAL DATA \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eThe first five folders contain writings about Jackson.\n         Some material is not a part of the original manuscript group.\n         (Box 1) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eSERIES II. CORRESPONDENCE \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eA. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eFamily, 1920-1960\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eThe correspondence between Luther and Johnella Jackson\n         are arranged chronologically from 1920-1950. Additionally,\n         letters, postcards and telegrams are arranged alphabetically\n         by the other members of the family. (Boxes 1-5) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eB. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eBusiness, 1922-1950\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eOffice correspondence, extensive, arranged\n         chronologically. (Boxes 5-12) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eC. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003ePersonal, 1918- 1960\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eLetters arranged alphabetically by writer. (Boxes 13-16)\n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eSERIES III. FINANCIAL \u0026amp; LEGAL \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eFamily bills, tax statements, school bills and stocks.\n         Arranged by type. Copyright for Jackson's \n         \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eNegro Office Holders in Virginia,\n         1865-1895\u003c/title\u003e(Box 17) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eSERIES IV. ORGANIZATIONAL AFFILIATIONS \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eA. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eThe Virginia Voters League,\n         1934-1950\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eLetters, postcards, and telegrams arranged by county,\n         and city. Records include minutes and reports. (Boxes 18-27) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eB. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eThe Virginia Teachers Association Office\n         of the \"Civic Education Secretaries Office,\" 1941- 1950\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eThe Association for the Study of Negro Life and History,\n         Inc., 1923-1950 (Boxes 28-34) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eC. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eCorrespondence with Carter G.\n         Woodson\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eArranged chronologically. Other correspondence arranged\n         by county, City, and organization. (Boxes 35-41) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eD. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eThe NAACP, 1937- 1950\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eCorrespondence with officials of the NAACP (state and\n         local), arranged chronologically. (Box 42) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eE. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eThe I.B.P.O.E. of W.(the Elks),\n         1943-1950\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eGeneral correspondence arranged chronologically and the\n         Lodge's alphabetically by lodge. (Box 43) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eF. \n         \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eThe Virginia World War II History\n         Commission, 1944-1948\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eCorrespondence, minutes and reports of the commission\n         arranged chronologically. Some personal war service records\n         arranged alphabetically. Photographs in container 109. Numbers\n         on folders correspond with folder numbers in the original\n         series. (Box 44) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eG. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eThe Southern Regional Council, 1942-\n         1950\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eCorrespondence arranged chronologically; minutes for\n         some meetings. (Box 45) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eH. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eThe Negro Organizational Society, 1941-\n         1950\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eCorrespondence with the president and field secretaries,\n         minutes (1944-1949) arranged chronologically. (Box 46) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eI. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eThe Committee for Virginia,\n         1944-1950\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eLetters arranged chronologically, a few minutes,\n         reports. (Box 47) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eJ. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eThe Petersburg Negro Business League,\n         1935-1946\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eCorrespondence between Jackson, national and local\n         leaders. Chronologically arranged; one article, one report and\n         one skit. (Box 48) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eK. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eThe Virginia Society for Research,\n         1942-1950\u003c/emph\u003e(Box 48) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eL. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eThe Petersburg Community Choir\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eA history, a financial report and membership rosters.\n         Photographs in container 109. (Box 48) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eM. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eThe Southern School for Workers,\n         1944-1949\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eCorrespondence arranged chronologically. (Box 48) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eN. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eThe Old Dominion Medical Society\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eNames of some of the members. (Box 48) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eO. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eThe Petersburg Interracial Committee,\n         1948\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eOne letter and a proposed constitution. (Box 48) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eSERIES V. MATERIAL RELATING TO THE DEATH OF LUTHER\n         JACKSON \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eLetters, telegrams and postcards, arranged\n         chronologically. One box of sympathy cards and one of floral\n         cards. (Boxes 49 \u0026amp; 50) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eSERIES VI. RESEARCH DATA: COLLECTED \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eA. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eBlacks voting in the South,\n         1947-1948\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eLetters arranged alphabetically by state and then\n         chronologically within the state. (Box 50) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eB. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eThe Butler Papers, 1813-1888\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eTax receipts, identification papers, general receipts\n         and a marriage license. Chronologically arranged. (Box 51) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eC. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eThe Dews Papers, 1802-1880\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eDeeds for properties, tax receipts and general receipts,\n         arranged chronologically. (Box 52) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eD. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eThe Layton Papers, 1861-1898\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eTax receipts, deeds for properties, teaching\n         certificates. Arranged chronologically. (Box 53) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eE. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eThe Woolridge Papers, 1883-1910\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eTax receipts and general receipts. Few items about the\n         \"Jordan Baptist Church.\" Chronologically arranged. (Box 54) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eF. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eBy County\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003ePapers concerning ante and postpellum blacks in some\n         Virginia Counties. Identification papers, receipts. Arranged\n         chronologically within each county and then arranged\n         alphabetically by county also. (Boxes 55-56) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eG. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eBy City\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eThe same as above. Arranged alphabetically by city and\n         then chronologically within each city. (Box 57) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eH. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eMiscellaneous\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003ePapers of antebellum free blacks and slaves. Receipts,\n         identification papers, arranged chronologically. (Box 58) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eI. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003ePrinted and Diary\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003ePrinted pamphlets; handwritten diary belonging to Samuel\n         T. Miller, a missionary in South Africa, 1881-1882. (Box 59) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eJ. \n         \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eResearch Notes\u003c/emph\u003e(Box 60) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eK. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eLedgers General\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eStockholders ledges, one ledger used as a news clipping\n         scrapbook. (Box 61) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eL. \n         \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eNotebooks\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eHandwritten and typed data, no arrangement, subject\n         varies. (Boxes 62- 63) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eSERIES VII. MATERIAL WRITTEN BY LUTHER P. JACKSON \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eA. \n         \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eNews articles\u003c/emph\u003e: \n         \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eThe Journal and\n         Guide\u003c/title\u003e(Norfolk,VA), 1942-1947 \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eTypewritten news column. Arranged chronologically. Box\n         list available. (Boxes 64- 66) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eB. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eNews Articles: Various Papers\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eHandwritten and typed sheets, chronological order, some\n         without titles. Box list available. (Box 66) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eC. \n         \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eArticles in Journal\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003ePublished items, handwritten and typed, copy of printed\n         articles. (Box 66) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eD. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eAddresses\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eTyped and handwritten speeches, arranged\n         chronologically. (Box 67) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eE. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003ePapers, Reports, and Lecture Notes\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eVarious papers and reports, few lecture notes, skits,\n         radio broadcast, handwritten and typed;separated by type, but\n         otherwise there is no arrangement. (Box 67) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eF. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eUnpublished\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003ePapers and term papers, essay, handwritten and typed; no\n         arrangement. (Box 68) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eG. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eBooks\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eTypewritten manuscripts. (Boxes 69- 70) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eSERIES VIII. MATERIAL WRITTEN BY OTHER MEMBERS OF THE\n         FAMILY \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eArticles written by Luther P. Jackson Jr. (Box 71) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eSERIES IX. AWARDS \u0026amp; GRADES \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eFamily awards and a few grades of some family members.\n         (Box 72) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eSERIES X. PRINTED \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eBroadsides, leaflets, programs relating to Jackson. (Box\n         73) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eSERIES XI. VISUAL \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eA. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003ePhotographs\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eFamily, friends and Va. World War II History Commision,\n         organizations; some unidentifiable. (Box 74-76) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eB. \n         \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003ePrinter's Blocks\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eWood cuts used for publication. (Boxes 77- 80) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eSERIES XII. ARTIFACTS \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eCufflinks, tie clamp, neck scarf, doctoral gown, hood\n         and mortarboard. (Box 81) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eSERIES XII. MEMORABILIA \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eBaby books, collected programs, Christmas, general\n         greeting and get-well cards, etc. Arranged by type. (Boxes\n         82-84) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eSERIES XIV. NEWSCLIPPINGS \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eLoose newsclippings from various newspapers on a variety\n         of subjects, no arrangement (Boxes 85) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eSERIES XV. OVERSIZED ITEMS \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eNewspaper, awards and research data.\u003c/p\u003e\n    "]}]}},"label":"Breadcrumbs"}}},"links":{"self":"https://search.arvasarchive.org/catalog/vipets_vipets00009_c08_c01_c08"}}],"included":[{"type":"facet","id":"repository_ssim","attributes":{"label":"Repository","items":[{"attributes":{"label":"Virginia State University","value":"Virginia State University","hits":3039},"links":{"remove":"https://search.arvasarchive.org/catalog.json?f%5Blevel%5D%5B%5D=Sub-series\u0026f%5Brepository%5D%5B%5D=Virginia+State+University"}}]},"links":{"self":"https://search.arvasarchive.org/catalog/facet/repository_ssim.json?f%5Blevel%5D%5B%5D=Sub-series\u0026f%5Brepository%5D%5B%5D=Virginia+State+University"}},{"type":"facet","id":"collection_ssim","attributes":{"label":"Collection","items":[{"attributes":{"label":"A Guide To the Papers of Harry Walter Roberts","value":"A Guide To the Papers of Harry Walter 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