Letter from Anson Phelps Stokes to Jackson Davis

Item Information

Title:
Letter from Anson Phelps Stokes to Jackson Davis
Description:
Stokes has met with Dean Mays of Howard about founding a School of Religion: "I can think of few greater opportunities in America to serve the higher interests of the Colored people than through developing the School of Religion..." Suggests that the Encyclopedia of the Negro is appropriate for the General Education Board to support.
Creator:
Stokes, Anson Phelps, 1874-1958
Addressee:
Davis, Jackson, 1882-1947
Date:
January 25, 1938
Format:
Letters/Correspondence
Manuscripts
Location:
Special Collections and University Archives, University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries
Box 086 (shelf locator)
Collection (local):
W. E. B. Du Bois Papers
Series:
Series 1A. General Correspondence
Subjects:
Mays, Benjamin E. (Benjamin Elijah), 1894-1984
General Education Board (New York, N.Y.)
Howard University
Encyclopedia of the Negro
Extent:
2 p.
Link to Item:
http://credo.library.umass.edu/view/full/mums312-b086-i300
Terms of Use:
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Place of origin:
New York (N.Y.)
Language:
English
Identifier:
mums312-b086-i300