Granted Application for Raphael O'Hara Lanier

Title: Granted Application for Raphael O'Hara Lanier
Description: A 1931 and 1940 application file for Raphael O'Hara Lanier. In 1931, as Dean at Florida A. & M. College, he was granted $1,000 to study at Harvard. The 1940 document identifies him as Assistant Director of the National Youth Administration, including handwritten notes dismissing his application with not a chance stating that he was [too old and too dumb].
Identifier: fisk_rf_ff_fge_378_2_00024
Historical Demographic Term: Negro
Subject: Julius Rosenwald Fund, 20th Century—History, African American history, Lanier, Raphael O'Hara, 1900–1962,
Extent: 3 pages
Language: eng
Date: 1940
Format: pdf
Type: Text
Source: Box 378, Julius Rosenwald Fund Archives, 1917-1948, John Hope and Aurelia E. Franklin Library.
Publisher: John Hope and Aurelia E. Franklin Library.
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Fellowship Fund Section: Fellowship General