ATLANTA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF SOCIAL WORK
ATLANTA, GEORGIA

July 7, 1947

FORRESTER B. WASHINGTON
DIRECTOR

DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL RESEARCH
JOHN C. ALSTON, CHAIRMAN

Dear Langston:

Attached is the article completed. I finished it right after you left but just now got it typed up.

Griff just returned from Chicago last Monday. He seemed very much interested in our collaboration project. He said he talked with the "Ebony" people while in Chicago and they want everything they can get on the South so they should be interested in our article.

Griff is busy making the pictures now. He has planned a picture illustrating each section in the article. He says Ebony will pay him for all the pictures they use so you and I can split whatever they pay for the article if they buy it. It ought to bring enough for a couple of packs of cigarettes.

As I told you before, I'm not so much interested in the money. My object now is to get as much in print as I can because in my field the more you have written (and it doesn't matter so much about what you write) the better job you can get.

Shall I have Griff send the pictures to you and you send in the pictures and article or should Griff send them in to Ebony? Which of you has the most pull with the Ebony people? Or have you decided to try another magazine that might pay more money? You decide on that because you know your way around in the publishing circles. Personally I think the layout rates Life Magazine but I guess Life doesn't think so.

About a dozen people have picked up the article and read it and it was interesting to note that all of them read it all the way through instead of putting it down after reading only a few lines as people usually do. Griff will probably be finished with the pictures by the time you get this letter so let me hear from you.

Clement had a picnic for the teachers on the Fourth. Mozelle, Tillman, Bacote etc. had a softball game, then we had a race half way around the track back of the dormitory. Rev. Williams and a couple of others fell out. The women had a sack race etc. Later we had a big feed at Clement's house.

Summersette is in California, heading for Mexico then to Canada, Chicago and around. Wynona Moore was in an auto accident. She didn't get hurt but her little brother did. Miss Blackwell got Married to Bill Gordon.

Tillman's son was runner-up in the tennis tournament. There are several people from New York teaching in summer school. Mrs. Murphy and Mrs. Edwards and all are doing O. K. Your secretary is busy working on her thesis. They have all women on this side of the dorm. this summer.

Gladys says hello. She has typed about $300. worth of these
since school started. She is going to drive to Columbus by herself
next week, so I'll be up here alone with all of these women for the

MEMBER ATLANTA COMMUNITY FUND

247 HENRY STREET, S.W.

ATLANTA, GEORGIA

Sept. 8, 1947

Hello Langston:

Just returned to Atlanta this p m, and found my desk piled high with letters to be answered. Yours is the first one I am answering. It is the most interesting one. The others require work; Students wanting to know something about theses.

I also have a letter here from Griff asking about the article. I guess you folks have gotten together and each knows what the status of things is now. You will have to let me know about it because I don't know a thing.

My address will be as follows:

Dr. John C. Alston, Head
Dept. of Sociology, Anthropology & Social Administration
College of Education and Industrial Arts
Wilberforce, Ohio

That answers a lot of questions such as the thesis was ok and I graduated Aug. 29th. It also lets you in on a top priority secret known only by Dr. Wesley, Ray Hughes, and me. Forrester B. doesn't even know it yet. I have resigned here but he refuses to accept my resignation. I guess he won't be convinced that I am leaving until I head for Ohio. The job pays $500 more for nine months than I get here for 12 months. Also I get an apartment free. Do you blame me for taking it? At Wilberforce I will have more academic freedom. Also, I was born there.

I plan to be back at Wilberforce by the 22nd of this month, probably by the 28th, if I can get a smooth thesis program worked out for Washington. When the article comes out I want to order some reprints.

You sure have been writing a lot. I will get a copy of every one of your articles coming out this month. Someone called me at Ray Hughes house in Columbus from New York. Was it you? If it wasn't you it must have been Summersette since you day he was in New York.

The story about nobody home happens to be the maids and Mrs Murphy's attempt to make a whole lot of gossip out of my giving assistance to a friend I have known since 1939. The story, or rather the several different stories they put out were all absolutely untrue. Tell you all about it when we meet.

I would have written you a note during their summer, but I lost your address. Gladys didn't come down to Atlanta with me because she was afraid I might let F.B.W. talk me into staying.

ATLANTA, GEORGIA

11 September 1947

Dear Langston:

Summersette said what did you tell them people you were in Mexico for when you know you ain't in Mexico.

The point of this letter is to tell you that I will be here until
October 1st. After that time write me at the Wilberforce address I gave
you.

Had a conference with Forrester B yesterday and he won't let me go before
then.

Gladys is fine and she says tell you "hello." She is all enthused and
happy about our going to Wilberforce.

MEMBER ATLANTA COMMUNITY FUND

COLLEGE OF EDUCATION AND INDUSTRIAL ARTS

MAINTAINED BY THE STATE OF OHIO

CHARLES H. WESLEY, PRESIDENT

WILBERFORCE, OHIO

DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY
AND SOCIAL ADMINISTRATION

JOHN C. ALSTON, PH.D.,
Chairman and Professor of
Social Administration

G. F. DAVIS, M.A.,
Professor of Sociology

E. M. ANDERSON, M.A.,
Assistant Professor of Sociology

A. D. GAITHER, M.A.,
Assistant Professor of Sociology

AMES CHAPMAN, M.A.,
Instructor in Sociology

November 1, 1947

Hello Langston:

Intended to write you sooner to let you know that I received your check for the article but have been up to my neck in work here: Then too I knew you were in Mexico.

I really didn't expect that much for the article. As a matter of fact, as I think I told you, I wasn't particularly interested in the money from the article, rather was I more interested in the publicity involved, that is, in getting my name well known so that some day I can sell almost anything I write. In my field one needs a supplementary income. Teachers almost starve you know.

Saw Stetson Kenedy at a lecture over in Yellow Springs, Ohio (Antioch College) the other night. He was telling me when he saw you last. I gave a lecture at Oberlin College yesterday. They are planning to add Negro Professors to their faculty. Would you be interested?

I really like the work here at Wilberforce. It amounts to about $1500. more per year than the Atlanta job and opportunities for advancement are much better. Will probably miss that nice Atlanta weather in a month or two though.

Griff sent me the proof of the article to read over for corrections last week. With the pictures it really looked good. I have planned to do a similar article on Wilberforce since this place is so much in the news right now but just can't find the time.

I have all of your recent publications. They are really great. Even Gladys reads Freedom Train over & over. And she seldom reads anything but the funnypaper. We are gradually getting the house straightened out so you can come on by and stay anytime you are in this neck of the woods.

Glady's says hello & she will be looking for you.