Moton family papers
Contributors: Moton, Jennie Dee Booth, 1880-1942; Moton, Robert Russa, 1867-1940
Language: eng
Number of pages: 8700
Subjects: National Council of the Young Men's Christian Associations of the United States of America; Phelps-Stokes Fund; Economic conditions; Correspondence; Race relations; Veterans Administration Hospital (Tuskegee, Ala.); Civil rights; Commission on Interracial Cooperation; Inc Negro Rural School Fund; African American business enterprises; Colored Merchants Association; African Americans; Tuskegee Institute; Societies; Boston. Committee of Vigilance; National Council of the Young Men's Christian Associations of the United States of America. Colored Work Dept.; United States; National Urban League; Hampton Institute; United States. Agricultural Adjustment Administration; Boston; National Association of Colored Women (U.S.); Education; Agriculture; National Negro Business League (U.S.); United States. Dept. of State. Office of the Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs
Description: Correspondence, memoranda, minutes, reports, printed materials, and other papers relating primarily to efforts in the 1930s by the Motons to promote educational and economic opportunities for African Americans and to improve race relations.  Documents Robert Russa Moton's work with African American businesses and institutions and civil rights organizations including the Colored Merchants Association, Commission on Interracial Cooperation, Hampton Institute, National Negro Business League, National Urban League, Negro Rural School Fund, Phelps-Stokes Fund, Tuskegee Institute, Veterans Administration Hospital (Tuskegee, Ala.), and Colored Work Dept. of the National Council of the Young Men's Christian Associations of the United States of America; Jennie Moton's activities as field agent for the U. S. Agricultural Adjustment Administration's southern division, as president of the National Association of Colored Women, and as director of Women's Industries at Tuskegee Institute; and Charlotte Moton Hubbard's service as U.S. deputy assistant secretary of state for public affairs.  Also includes a facsimile reproduction of an account book of the Committee of Vigilance, Boston, Mass. (1850-1861).

Correspondents include Will Winton Alexander, Jessie Daniel Ames, Tom M. Blanton, Susie Vera Bouldin, Thomas M. Campbell, George Washington Carver, Jackson Davis, Ada B. DeMent, Helen M. Hewlett, Albon L. Holsey, Bertha LaBranche Johnson, Eugene Kinckle Jones, Thomas Jesse Jones, R. Hayne King, Frederick D. Patterson, C.C. Spaulding, Ella P. Stewart, Sallie W. Stewart, Anson Phelps Stokes, Lyman Beecher Stowe, Robert R. Taylor, Jesse O. Thomas, Channing H. Tobias, Mary F. Waring, Walter Francis White, L. Hollingsworth Wood, and Arthur D. Wright.
Notes: Restrictions apply.

Classified, in part.

Gift, Frederick Douglass Patterson II, 1988-1990.

Gift, Charlotte Moton Hubbard, 1991-1993.

transferred to Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.

transferred to Library of Congress Geography and Map Division.

transferred to Library of Congress Rare Book and Special Collections Division.

Family members represented include Robert Russa Moton and his wife, Jennie Dee Booth Moton, African American educators and community leaders; and their daughter, Charlotte Moton Hubbard, government official.

Collection material in English.

Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms998025