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• Fellowship application of Sarah Elizabeth Martin Eason
  An application from Sarah Elizabeth Martin Eason, requesting a 1 year grant towards analyzing 2 authors of the Literature of Protest in Mexico against their historical background then design courses in Mexican Literature for Spanish students at Shaw University that intend to major in the Romance Language division and towards obtaining a Ph.D. degree at Ohio State University. This application was submitted in 1939, and the chosen field is Romance Language.
• Fellowship application of Newell Dwight Eason
  An application from Newell Dwight Eason, requesting a 1 year grant towards a comprehensive and systematic study of the Negro rural family, and towards obtaining a Ph.D. degree at the University of Southern California under the supervision of Dr. E.S. Bogardus. This application was submitted in 1939, and the chosen field is Sociology.
• Fellowship application of Frankie Martina Dwiggins
  An application from Frankie Martina Dwiggins, requesting a 1 year grant towards inquiring into reasons for small percentage of Negro owned businesses in a Negro section of New York City, and towards obtaining a Master of Science degree at New York University. This application was submitted in 1939, and the chosen field is Retail Business.
• Fellowship application of Katherine Dunham
  An application from Katherine Dunham, requesting a 1 year grant towards a study of Brazil especially in regions such as Bahia which have relatively less European influence while under the supervision of Dr. Robert E. Park. This application was submitted in 1939, and the chosen field is Education.
• Fellowship application of Rudolph Dumbar
  An application from Rudolph Dumbar, requesting a 2 year grant towards preparing the work for 2 other volumes on clarinet playing, and towards raising the standard of clarinet playing in the South among the Negro group. This application was submitted in 1939, and the chosen field is Music.
• Fellowship application of Theodis Freneau Donald
  An application from Theodis Freneau Donald, requesting a 2 year grant towards doing special study in Rural Education to further prepare for an instructor role in Rural Education at Philander Smith College, Little Rock, Arkansas, and towards obtaining Ph.D. degree at Cornell University. This application was submitted in 1939, and the chosen field is Rural Education.
• Fellowship application of Maenelle Dixon
  An application from Maenelle Dixon, requesting a 1 year grant towards an interest in the field of rural Negro education in the Southern area, and towards obtaining a Master of Arts degree at Columbia University under the supervision of Ms. Mabel Carney. This application was submitted in 1939, and the chosen field is Rural Education.
• Fellowship application of Ellen Irene Diggs
  An application from Ellen Irene Diggs, requesting a 1 year grant towards studying a list of subjects an Encyclopedia of the Negro might treat together with the persons who are the best authorities on the subjects. This application was submitted in 1939, and the chosen field is History and Sociology of American Negro.
• Fellowship application of Joseph James Dennis
  An application from Joseph James Dennis, requesting a grant towards the development of a bsaic course in Mathematics adapted to the background, interest, and needed development of freshmen students in Negro colleges, and towards obtaining a Ph.D. degree at Northwestern University under the supervision of Professor Hubert S. Wall. This application was submitted in 1939, and the chosen field is Mathematics.
• Fellowship application of Frank Augustus DeCosta
  An application from Frank Augustus DeCosta, requesting a 1 year grant beginning June 1939. The plan of work was to make a study of the church secondary school in the education of Negroes of the Southern region, and to obtain a Ph.D. degree at Columbia University Teachers College. This application was submitted in 1939, and the chosen field is Education.
• Fellowship application of Toye George Davis
  An application from Toye George Davis, requesting a 1 and half year grant towards a cytological, morphological, and physiological study of certain unusually large ciliate protozoa parasitic in horses, and towards obtaining a Ph.D. degree in Biology at Harvard University under the supervision of Dr. L.R. Cleveland. This application was submitted in 1939, and the chosen field is Biology.
• Fellowship application of Lawrence Arnette Davis
  An application from Lawrence Arnette Davis, requesting a 1 year grant towards improving the English system taught in Arkansas State College for Negroes, and towards obtaining a Master of Arts degree at the University of Chicago. This application was submitted in 1939, and the chosen field is English Literature and Literature.
• Fellowship application of Frank Marshall Davis
  An application from Frank Marshall Davis, requesting a 1 year grant towards compiling data and writing of a history of the Negro since 1900 or the appearance of Booker T. Washington, and the data would be obtained from files of the Associated Negro Press and leading Negro newspapers. This application was submitted in 1939, and the chosen field is Writing and Research.
• Fellowship application of Roy Kirklin Davenport
  An application from Roy Kirklin Davenport, requesting a 1 and half year grant towards studying backgrounds of selected groups of students whose academic records were known, and towards obtaining a Ph.D. degree at Columbia University under the supervision of Dr. Robert E. Chaddock. This application was submitted in 1939, and the chosen field is Education and Sociology.
• Fellowship application of William Waring Cuney
  An application from William Waring Cuney, requesting a 1 year grant towards making a comprehensive collection of Negro Folk Music in the South, which would include little known spirituals, blues, and work songs. This application was submitted in 1939, and the chosen field is Negro Folk Music.
• Fellowship application of Samuel Albert Countee
  An application from Samuel Albert Countee, requesting a 2 year grant towards studying Drawing and Painting at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts under the supervisions of Mr. Ture Bengtz and Mr. Karl Zerbe, to do comprehensive research in the Fine Arts. This application was submitted in 1939, and the chosen field is Fine Art Painting and Drawing.
• Fellowship application of Will Mercer Cook
  An application from Will Mercer Cook, requesting a grant towards writing a book in French on the American Negro would be an anthology and a sociological study while under the supervision of a Frenchman. This application was submitted in 1939, and the chosen field is The Negro in French Literature.
• Fellowship application of Louis Phillip Clark
  An application from Louis Phillip Clark, requesting a 1 year grant towards studying the structure of the L3 absorption limit of gold and the relative displacement of this limit in compounds containing gold, and towards obtaining a Ph.D. degree at the University of Michigan under the supervision of Professor G.A. Lindsey. This application was submitted in 1939, and the chosen field is Physics Xray Spectroscopy.
• Fellowship application of Marcus Bruce Christian
  An application from Marcus Bruce Christian, requesting a 9 month grant towards writing a story of pressing shop life in New Orleans. This application was submitted in 1939, and the chosen field is Creative Writing.
• Fellowship application of Alice Elizabeth Catlett
  An application from Alice Elizabeth Catlett, requesting a 9 month grant towards creating 2 mural panels which would be set in the library entrance hall of at North Carolina College for Negroes, and the subject matter would include the history and achievements of Negroes in Durham. This application was submitted in 1939, and the chosen field is Graphic and Plastic Arts.
• Fellowship application of John Quincy Caruthers
  An application from John Quincy Caruthers, requesting a 2 year grant towards determining the growth requirements for Steptococcus paracitrovous, Lactobacillus delbruckli, and Loctobacillus helviticus, and towards obtaining a Master of Science degree and a Ph.D. degree at Iowa State University under the supervision of Dr. C.H. Werkman. This application was submitted in 1939, and the chosen field is Physiological Bacteriology.
• Fellowship application of William Thomas Carter
  An application from William Thomas Carter, requesting a 10 month grant towards investigating the life and writings of Granier de Cassagnae 1806? 1880? French writer , journalist, and publicist whose influence in the Abolitionist Movement in France prior to 1848 and to obtain a Ph.D. degree at the University of Michigan under the supervision of Dr. Marc Denkinger. This application was submitted in 1939, and the chosen field is Romance Languages.
• Fellowship application of Margaret Isabelle Carter
  An application from Margaret Isabelle Carter, requesting a 1 year grant beginning either July 1939 or July 1940. The plan of work was to investigate the prevalence and incidence of hospitalized mental disease and mental handicap among Negroes, and to obtain a Ph.D. degree at Columbia University. This application was submitted in 1939, and the chosen field is Psychology.
• Fellowship application of Grace Worth Carry
  An application from Grace Worth Carry, requesting a 1 year grant towards obtaining a Ph.D. degree at the University of Pennsylvania under the supervision of Dr. Edward H. Heffner. This application was submitted in 1939, and the chosen field is Latin.
• Fellowship application of Ben Frederic Carruthers
  An application from Ben Frederic Carruthers, requesting a 1 year grant towards studying the contributions of Negroes to the literature of contemporary Cuba to be translated to the American public in the form of an anthology and towards obtaining a Ph.D. degree at Universities of Havana and Mexico under the supervision of Professor Jose A. Balseiro. This application was submitted in 1939, and the chosen field is Latin American Literature.