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• Fellowship application of Clarence Oliver LaGrone
  An application from Clarence Oliver LaGrone, requesting a 1 year grant towards studying under William Zorach, Art Students League, New York with emphasis on Stone Cutting, towards drawing with emphais on Design, and towards work in symbolism with emphasis on Rhythms in Work and Negro theme. This application was submitted in 1939, and the chosen field is Sculpture.
• Fellowship application of Garland Dean Kyle
  An application from Garland Dean Kyle, requesting a 1 year grant towards advanced study in Mathematical Statistics for the betterment of agriculture, social relations, business, etc., and towards obtaining a Ph.D. degree at the University of Chicago under the supervisions of Professors Bartsky, Schuls, Logsdon, and others. This application was submitted in 1939, and the chosen field is Applied Mathematics.
• Fellowship application of Richard Demosthenes Kidd
  An application from Richard Demosthenes Kidd, requesting a 1 year grant towards studying curriculum making and teaching procedures and community activities in carrying on Business training for small rural and urban Negro schools in Georgia, and towards obtaining a Master of Commercial Science degree at either Boston University or the University of Pittsburgh. This application was submitted in 1939, and the chosen field is Commercial Education.
• Fellowship application of Lawaune Elizabeth Kennard
  An application from Lawaune Elizabeth Kennard, requesting a 2 year grant towards forming an authorized school of Dance and Fine Arts for Negroes, and towards studying at Bennington School of the Dance under the supervision of Mr. Fransiska Boas. This application was submitted in 1939, and the chosen field is Modern Dance, Percussion, and Choreography.
• Fellowship application of Robert Earle Jones
  An application from Robert Earle Jones, requesting a 1 year grant towards evaluating the agricultural project and organizatioon activities among rural farm boys and girls in North Carolina between the ages 10 20 years from an economic and social point of view, and towards obtaining a Master of Science degree at Cornell University under the supervision of Dr. W.A. Anderson. This application was submitted in 1939, and the chosen field is Rural Social Organization.
• Fellowship application of Lois Mailou Jones
  An application from Lois Mailou Jones, requesting a 1 year grant towards continuing work in Creative Painting emphasis on Negro life, and towards obtaining a B.S. degree in Art at Columbia University Teachers College. This application was submitted in 1939, and the chosen field is Fine Arts Painting.
• Fellowship application of Lewis Wade Jones
  An application from Lewis Wade Jones, requesting a 1 year grant towards investigating the class stratification of urban Negroes in New York attention to their on the job and off the job status and towards obtaining a Doctorate degree. This application was submitted in 1939, and the chosen field is Rural Sociology.
• Fellowship application of Lawrence Arthur Jones
  An application from Lawrence Arthur Jones, requesting a 1 year grant towards studying at the University of Guadalajara, Mexico under the supervisions of Mr. Jose Clemente Orozco and Ms. Amila Amero, and towards informal study of the Open Air School of Painting. This application was submitted in 1939, and the chosen field is Painting and Etching.
• Fellowship application of Joseph Timothy Johnson
  An application from Joseph Timothy Johnson, requesting a 1 year grant towards additional work in Finance and Labor, towards bringing the study of Personal Finance in Washington up to date, and towards obtaining a Ph.D. degree at the University of Washington under the supervision of Dr. Howard H. Preston. This application was submitted in 1939, and the chosen field is Economics.
• Fellowship application of James Price Johnson
  An application from James Price Johnson, requesting a 1 year grant towards completing African Symphony Evolution Di Negro while under the supervision of Edouard Mignan a historical poem in four movements designed to paint a picture of the Negro from his beginning in Africa. This application was submitted in 1939, and the chosen field is Musical Composition.
• Fellowship application of Jones Everette Jeffries
  An application from Jones Everette Jeffries, requesting a 1 year grant towards research work in Cooperative Marketing Organization and promotion of such a type of marketing among farm people, and towards obtaining a Master of Science degree at the University of Wisconsin. This application was submitted in 1939, and the chosen field is Agricultural Economics.
• Fellowship application of Wallace Van Jackson
  An application from Wallace Van Jackson, requesting a 2 year grant towards compiling a Buying List of Books on and by the Negro which would be used as the basis of a continuous list of books written by Negroes and others that dealt with all phases of Negro life, and towards obtaining a Ph.D. degree at the University of Chicago under the supervision of Dr. Louis R. Wilson. This application was submitted in 1939, and the chosen field is Library Science.
• Fellowship application of Pierre Denson Jackson
  An application from Pierre Denson Jackson, requesting a 1 year grant towards a programs Supervision and Administration Practice Problems in the Training of Teachers with major emphasis on the training of secondary teachers and a minor interest in the training of elementary teachers, and towards obtaining a Ed.D. degree at Columbia University Teachers College under the supervision of Dr. T.H. Briggs. This application was submitted in 1939, and the chosen field is Education.
• Fellowship application of Margaret Wilhelmina Jackson
  An application from Margaret Wilhelmina Jackson, requesting a 1 year grant towards writing a thesis The Effect of Minimum Wage Hour Legislation Upon the Status of Negro Women in the District, and towards obtaining a Ph.D. degree in Political Economy at the American University under the supervision of Dr. Leon Marshall. This application was submitted in 1939, and the chosen field is Political Economy.
• Fellowship application of George William Jackson
  An application from George William Jackson, requesting a 2 year grant towards a critical study of the contributions of Negro men of letters to contemporary French literature, and towards obtaining a Ph.D. degree at Harvard University under the supervision of Professor J.D.M. Ford. This application was submitted in 1939, and the chosen field is Romance Languages.
• Fellowship application of Dorothy Ella Inghram
  An application from Dorothy Ella Inghram, requesting a 1 year grant towards preparing a piano repertoire sufficient for a recital, towards writing an overture to an opera, towards taking a comprehensive course in Musicology, towards studying French and German for a reading knowledge of both, and towards obtaining a Masters degree at the University of Redlands. This application was submitted in 1939, and the chosen field is Music Piano Composition.
• Fellowship application of Charles Hatch Hunter
  An application from Charles Hatch Hunter, requesting a 2 year grant towards making a study on the Natural Width of Energy Levels and Spectrum Lines of Various Elements, and towards obtaining a Ph.D. degree at Cornell University under the supervision of either Dr. Rictmyer or Dr. Parratt. This application was submitted in 1939, and the chosen field is Physics.
• Fellowship application of Wayne Cox Howard
  An application from Wayne Cox Howard M.D. , requesting a 1 and half year grant towards obtaining a Masters degree in Public Health at the University of Michigan, to enter the U.S. Public Health Service. This application was submitted in 1939, and the chosen field is Public Health.
• Fellowship application of Joseph Sandy Himes, Jr.
  An application from Joseph Sandy Himes, Jr., requesting a 2 year grant towards study of the Negro and the role of race and race attitudes in urban France, through review of available literature in American and French sources, through residence in Paris and other cities, through analysis of reports and records, through direct study, inquiry, and observation, and through summary and analysis of data and preparation of report. This application was submitted in 1939, and the chosen field is Sociology.
• Fellowship application of Helene Eleanor Hilyer
  An application from Helene Eleanor Hilyer, requesting a 1 year grant towards studying the role of the theatre in breaking down racial prejudice, towards studying for the profession of a play director, and towards obtaining a Master of Arts degree at Yale University. This application was submitted in 1939, and the chosen field is Dramatics.
• Fellowship application of Joseph Newton Hill
  An application from Joseph Newton Hill, requesting a 2 year grant towards studying Drama and Allied Arts efforts to establish a higher standard of activity in these fields in the Negro college and towards obtaining a Ph.D. degree at Yale University. This application was submitted in 1939, and the chosen field is English and Drama.
• Fellowship application of Carl McClellan Hill
  An application from Carl McClellan Hill, requesting a 9 month grant towards completing research activities and publishing the work on a problem started in 1934 35, and towards obtaining a Ph.D. degree at Cornell University under the supervision of Dr. John R. Johnson. This application was submitted in 1939, and the chosen field is Chemistry.
• Fellowship application of Rodney Gonzales Higgins
  An application from Rodney Gonzales Higgins, requesting a 2 and half year grant towards making an analytical study of the all Negro mucipalities of Mt. Bayou, Mississippi, and Bowling, Oklahoma, and towards obtaining a Ph.D. degree at the State University of Iowa under the supervision of Professor E.P. Allen. This application was submitted in 1939, and the chosen field is Political Science Economics.
• Fellowship application of Angelo Herndon
  An application from Angelo Herndon, requesting a 6 month grant towards analyzing and making critical estimate of economic crisis in the sharecropping system and the effect it was having upon the lives of the Southern people through a survey of Negro croppers. This application was submitted in 1939, and the chosen field is Sharecropping Tenant Farming in the South.
• Fellowship application of Jacob Robert Henderson
  An application from Jacob Robert Henderson, requesting a 1 year grant towards an intensive study of low rent and slum clearance Housing Management in certain American cities and in England and Holland, while working at the University of London and College of Estate Management under the supervision of Dr. Edith Elmer Wood. This application was submitted in 1939, and the chosen field is Low Rent Housing Management.