Application for Leighla Whipper Lewis

Title: Application for Leighla Whipper Lewis
Description: A 1942 application document for Mrs. Leighla Whipper Lewis, a writer from Talladega, Alabama. She requested funding to study in dramatic schools in New York and assemble a book concerning the Negro on the American stage. Handwritten notes describe the project as interesting.
Identifier: fisk_rf_ff_fge_378_3_00079
Subject: Julius Rosenwald Fund, 20th Century—History, African American history, Whipper, Lelia Frances, 1913 - 2008,
Extent: 2 pages
Language: eng
Date: 1942
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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