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• Application for Nelson Thomas Archer
  A 1940 application document for Nelson Thomas Archer, the Principal of the Training School and Director of Teacher Training at Prairie View State College. The candidate applied for a fellowship to study teacher training programs and methods, working toward a Ph.D. at Columbia University. The application details their personal history, education, professional experience, and includes a list of references.
• Application for Ralph Waldo Amerson
  A 1940 application document for Ralph Waldo Amerson, a graduate student at Brown University. The candidate proposed spending an academic year in the department of social sciences pursing advanced courses in sociology at Fisk University, followed by doctoral studies in economics at the University of Chicago. The document includes their personal data, educational background, and a list of references.
• Application for William Edward Alexander
  A 1940 application document for William Edward Alexander, an Instructor in Dairying at Alcorn College. The candidate applied for a fellowship to study dairy cattle management problems, specifically the productive efficiency of specialized dairy animals, at the University of Wisconsin. The file contains their personal history, educational summary, experience, and a list of references.
• Application for Frank B. Adair
  A 1940 application document for Frank B. Adair, an accountant at Arkansas State A. M. and N. College. The candidate requested a grant to pursue courses at the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration to improve proficiency in college accounting and business management. The application includes their personal data, educational background, work experience, and a list of references.
• Application for Thelma Davis Ackiss
  A 1940 application document for Thelma Davis Ackiss, the manager of a bathhouse in Oklahoma and a former lawyer. The candidate applied for a fellowship to make a socio historical study of the all Negro community of Boley, Oklahoma, working toward a Ph.D. at American University. The document details their personal history, legal education, professional experience, and includes a list of references.
• Fellowship application of John Alfred Turner
  An application from John Alfred Turner, requesting a 1 year grant towards improving in the teaching of Oral Surgery and Anesthesia, and towards studying at Columbia University Medical Center under the supervisions of Drs. Adolph Berger and H.A. Dunning. This application was submitted in 1939, and the chosen field is Anesthesia and Oral Surgery.
• Fellowship application of Reed Edwin Peggram
  An application from Reed Edwin Peggram, requesting a grant towards completing a dissertation The Notion of Decadence in 19th Century Literature to investigate in France the documents not available in the country at the time. This application was submitted in 1939, and the chosen field is Research in Comparative Literature.
• Fellowship application of James Lewis Page
  An application from James Lewis Page, requesting a 1 year grant towards preparing an elementary science program for the 1 teacher and 2 teacher schools of Louisiana, and towards obtaining a Ph.D. degree at Columbia University under the supervisions of Drs. Craig and Powers. This application was submitted in 1939, and the chosen field is Natural Sciences.
• Fellowship application of Herbert Roy Orr
  An application from Herbert Roy Orr, requesting a 1 year grant towards preparing a course of study in the field of Radio servicing and Commercial photography for the Southern Negro, especially in Florida, and towards studying at RCA Institute of New York City and the New York Institute of Photography. This application was submitted in 1939, and the chosen field is Radio Engineering and Photography.
• Fellowship application of Franklin Orrick Nichols
  An application from Franklin Orrick Nichols, requesting a 9 month grant towards a collation of existing data and a study of economic, social, and health factors bearing on the Negro in slum areas, extent of congestion, problems bearing on congestion, potential areas of population expansion and essential summaries, tabulation, interpretation and recommendations for meeting the housing problems stated. This application was submitted in 1939, and the chosen field is Housing.
• Fellowship application of Margaret Virginia Nelson
  An application from Margaret Virginia Nelson, requesting a 2 year grant towards a dissertation in the field of employment opportunities for Negroes in New York City, and towards obtaining a Master of Arts degree and a Ph.D. degree at Columbia University under the supervision of Dr. Carmen. This application was submitted in 1939, and the chosen field is History.
• Fellowship application of Earl Richard Moses
  An application from Earl Richard Moses, requesting a 2 year grant towards writing a thesis The Negro Delinquent in Baltimore to throw light on Negro youth in urban centers, and towards obtaining a Ph.D. degree at the University of Pennsylvania. This application was submitted in 1939, and the chosen field is Sociology.
• Fellowship application of James Henry Young
  An application from James Henry Young, requesting a 10 month grant towards investigating the Relation of Public Education to Race Adjustments in the Panama Canal Zone, and towards obtaining a Ph.D. degree at the University of Pennsylvania. This application was submitted in 1939, and the chosen field is Education.
• Fellowship application of Walter Clarence Wyan
  An application from Walter Clarence Wyan, requesting a 1 year grant towards obtaining a Ph.D. degree at Boston University Department of Social Ethics under the supervision of Dr. David Vaughan. This application was submitted in 1939, and the chosen field is Social Ethics.
• Fellowship application of Donald Wheeler Wyatt
  An application from Donald Wheeler Wyatt, requesting a 1 year grant towards researching the problems affecting the Negro and relating to the matter of Race Relations in the country, and towards obtaining a Ph.D. degree in Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania under the supervisions of Drs. Carl Kelsey and Donald R. Young. This application was submitted in 1939, and the chosen field is Social Research and Race Relations.
• Fellowship application of Nancy Bullock Woolridge
  An application from Nancy Bullock Woolridge, requesting a 1 year grant towards investigating the sources of imainative and factual literature in America since 1800 and ascertain the extent and significance of Negro religion as seen through the figure of the Negro preacher, and towards obtaining a Ph.D. degree at the University of Chicago under the supervisions of Professors Napier Wilt and G.H. Faust. This application was submitted in 1939, and the chosen field is American Literature.
• Fellowship application of Hollis A. Woods
  An application from Hollis A. Woods, requesting a 2 year grant towards studying German to teach the language in an American college, and towards obtaining a Ph.D. degree at the University of Zurich, Switzerland. This application was submitted in 1939, and the chosen field is German Literature.
• Fellowship application of Mortelia Lucille Womack
  An application from Mortelia Lucille Womack, requesting a 9 month grant towards a case study of environmental and family conditions of 51 Negro patients admitted to the Austria State Hospital from July 1, 1938 through December 31, 1938 6 months , and towards obtaining a Master of Arts degree at the University of Chicago under the supervisions of Ms. Edith Abbott and Dr. C.H. Standifer. This application was submitted in 1939, and the chosen field is Psychiatric Social Work.
• Fellowship application of Lawrence Bertell Wilson
  An application from Lawrence Bertell Wilson, requesting a 1 and quarter year grant towards a dissertation The Movement for Anti Lynching Legislation in the United States, and towards obtaining a Doctorate degree at the University of Illinois under the supervision of Professor Clarence A. Berdahl. This application was submitted in 1939, and the chosen field is Political Science.
• Fellowship application of Clarence Leon Wilson
  An application from Clarence Leon Wilson Dr. , requesting a 1 year grant towards a comprehensive study of maternal mortality especially among Negroes, towards a research problem on toxemias on pregnancy, towards completing data collection and writing monograph on Syphilis and Pregnancy, and towards studying at Provident Hospital. This application was submitted in 1939, and the chosen field is Medicine and Obstetrics.
• Fellowship application of Wilson Elbe Williams
  An application from Wilson Elbe Williams, requesting a 1 and half year grant towards studying the economic effect of Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 on Southern Negro labor, and towards obtaining a Ph.D. degree at New York University. This application was submitted in 1939, and the chosen field is Economics Negro Labor.
• Fellowship application of Margarette G. White
  An application from Margarette G. White, requesting a 1 year grant beginning September 1939. The plan of work was to make a study of conditions among Negro children of Louisville, Kentucky, particularly girls, caused by a lack of proper health and sex education, and to obtain a Master of Arts degree at Columbia University. This application was submitted in 1939, and the chosen field is Health and Sex Education.
• Fellowship application of Charles S. Walton West
  An application from Charles S. Walton West, requesting a 1 and quarter year grant towards a study of the Histozoic protozoa of fish, especially Myxosporidia, associated with fish found in th Arkansas River, and towards obtaining a Ph.D. degree at the University of Pennsylvania under the supervision of Dr. D.H. Wenrich. This application was submitted in 1939, and the chosen field is Protozoology.
• Fellowship application of Emma Wells
  An application from Emma Wells, requesting a 2 year grant towards a study of the living conditions of Negroes in North carolina and on the modern trends in Home Economics to organize a college program that would function effectively in family life of a society, and towards obtaining a Ph.D. degree at Columbia University. This application was submitted in 1939, and the chosen field is Home Economics Education.
• Fellowship application of Creed Francis Ward
  An application from Creed Francis Ward, requesting a 2 year grant towards investigating the social pathology in family life and the influence of cultural media, and towards obtaining a Ph.D. degree at the University of Chicago under the supervision of Dr. Edith Abbott. This application was submitted in 1939, and the chosen field is Social Service Administration.