Granted Application for Lawson Hilda

Title: Granted Application for Lawson Hilda
Description: A 1937 application file for Lawson Hilda, a graduate student at the University of Illinois. She was granted $1,100 to complete her Ph.D. in English with a dissertation on [The Negro in American Drama.] The file notes she became the first Negro woman to receive a doctorate at Illinois.
Identifier: fisk_rf_ff_fge_378_2_00089
Historical Demographic Term: Negro
Subject: Julius Rosenwald Fund, 20th Century—History, African American history, Lawson, Hilda Josephine, 1914-,
Extent: 6 pages
Language: eng
Date: 1937
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