Nannie Helen Burroughs papers
Language: eng
Number of pages: 342
Subjects: Correspondence; National Association of Wage Earners; Missions; National League of Republican Colored Women; Religion; National Training School for Women and Girls (Washington, D.C.); Frederick Douglass Memorial and Historical Association; National Baptist Convention of the United States of America. Women's Auxiliary; President's Conference on Home Building and Home Ownership (1931 : Washington, D.C.); Community development; Baptists; Schools; Cooperative Industries (Washington, D.C.); Education; African Americans; National Baptist Convention of the United States of America; National Trade and Professional School for Women and Girls (Washington, D.C.); Women
Description: Correspondence, financial records, memoranda, notebooks, speeches and writings, subscription and literature orders, student records, printed matter, and other papers relating primarily to Burroughs's founding (1909) and management of the National Training School for Women and Girls (later the National Trade and Professional School for Women and Girls) in Washington, D.C., a school for young African American women, and to her activities with the Woman's Auxiliary of the National Baptist Convention of the United States of America and its publication, The Worker.  Also includes material relating to the National League of Republican Colored Women, the National Association of Wage Earners, the 1931 President's Conference on Home Building and Home Ownership, missionary activities in Africa, Cooperative Industries, Washington, D.C. (a community self-help program), and the Frederick Douglass Memorial and Historical Association.

Correspondents include Charles C. Adams, Mary McLeod Bethune, Janie Bradford, Rebekah Calloway, Oscar De Priest, J.H. Dillard, Margery B. Gaillard, Henrietta M. Gibbs, Earl L. Harrison, Sallie Hert, J.H. Jackson, William Henry Jernagin, Lewis Garnett  Jordan, Daisy E. Lampkin, Una Roberts Lawrence, Shirley W. Layten, Kathleen Moore Mallory, Uvee R. Mdodana-Arbouin, Robert Russa Moton, William Pickens, A. Clayton Powell, Adam Clayton Powell, Emmett J. Scott, Sallie W. Stewart, Anson Phelps Stokes, Geneva Wallace, Lacey Kirkland Williams, Marguerite V. Wood, Mrs. Ellis A. Yost, and Geneva R. Young.
Notes: Open to research.

Microfilm edition of student records available, no. 17,202.

Microfilm edition of student records addition available, no. 18,087.

Microfilm edition of material concerning a women's convention available, no. 18,121 (18,228).

Microfilm produced from originals in the Manuscript Division. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress Photoduplication Service, 1978-1981.

Gift, Aurelia H. Downey and Nannie H. Burroughs School, 1976-1977.

Educator, religious leader, and advocate for African American rights.  Died 1961.

Collection material in English.

Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms003010