Charlene Hodges Byrd
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Byrd, Charlene Hodges, 1929-2009
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content: Charlene Hodges Byrd collection
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content: Charlene Hodges Byrd collection / Series 2: Correspondence
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1944-2008
container: label: Container
content: Box 3-4a
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Museum of African American History and Culture
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAAHC.A2010.26, Subseries 2.1
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
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content: Chiefly letters from Byrd's husband, Charles R. Byrd, written while they were apart because of school. The letters discuss his school, work, and social life. Other correspondence includes letters from friends and relatives; Byrd's father, Charles E. Hodges, written to her while she was traveling in Europe, 1950; a letter from Marian Anderson's secretary thanking Byrd for her letter and poem, 1940; scattered letters regarding Northfield School for Girls, Connecticut College, and other schools; Kanawha County Schools; a letter from Romare Bearden regarding Byrd's mother's death, 1971; and numerous greeting cards.