List of Negro and White Rosenwald Fellowship Awards, 1939

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A list of awards given to Negroes and White fellows, including names, field, state and amount of award. Negro fellows awarded include, Mr. L. Howard Bennett, Mr. Alfred R. Brooks, Mr. Allison Davis, Mr. Alonso J. Davis, Mr. Theodis F. Donald, Ms. Katherine Dunham, Mr. Frankie M. Dwiggins, Mr. Abram L. Harris, Mr. Edwin B. Jourdain, Jr., Mr. Hylan Lewis, Mr. Robert E. Martin, Mr. Edward Nelson Palmer, Ms. Youra T. Qualls, Mr. Lawrence D. Reddick, Mr. Jacob L. Reddix, Mr. William Grant Still, Ms. Merze Tate, Mr. Lorenzo D. Turner, Ms. Bonita H. Valien, and Mr. Preston Valien. White Southerner fellows awarded include, Mrs. Chess Abernathy, Jr., Mr. Marcus Bartlett, Mr. William T. Bennett, Mr. Henry Herschel Brickell, Mr. Robert T. Cole, Mr. Robert C. Cotner, Mr. Leon Crutcher, Ms. Margaret L. Cuninggim, Mr. Donald Day, Mr. Edward P. Dreyer, Mr. James E. Fleming, Mr. Augustus Byron Hill, Mr. Robert M. Hodges, Mr. Jeter Allen Isely, Ms. May Justus, Mr. John W. Kendrick, Mr. John N. Lyle, Mr. W.C. Newman, Mr. Thomas R. Reid, Mr. Walter E. Sewell, Ms. Lillian E. Smith, Mr. T. Lynn Smith, Ms. Paula Snelling, Ms. Shelby E. Southard, Mr. Melvin E. Thompson, Mr. Dan R. Vining, and Mr. Richard E. Yates. Extensions were made for the following, Mr. John Hope Franklin, Mr. Clinton E. Knox, and Mr. Melvin Kennedy. Renewals were made for the following, Mr. Fred W. Alsup, Mr. Fannin S. Belcher, Ms. Anna M. Cooke, Mr. John A. Davis, Mr. William Henry Dean, Jr., Ms. Shirley Graham, Ms. Leila S. Green, Mr. Birtill A. Lloyd, Mr. James E. LuValle, Ms. Ruth M. Smith, Mr. Dewey Jones, Mr. Myron B. Towns, and Mr. John D. Black. Deferred were made for the following, Ms. Grace W. Carry, Ms. Margaret Carter, Mr. Mack M. Goss, Mr. Rector R. Hardin, Mr. Dewey Jones, Mr. Melvin Kennedy, Mr. Charles R. Lawrence, Mr. Clarence P. Lee, Mr. George F. McGray, Mr. Richeburg McWilliams, Mr. James E. Miller, Dr. Helen L. Rhetta, Mr. Harry Walker Roberts, Mr. Hugh H. Smythe, Ms. Dorothy Hope Tisdale, Mr. Myron B. Towns, and Mr. Richard B. Whitten.

Identifier

fisk_rf_ff_fge_386_2_00032

Subject

Julius Rosenwald Fund, 20th Century—History, African American history, Alsup, Fred W., 1914-, Belcher Fannin Saffore, 1908-1967, Bennett, Lowell Howard, 1913-1993, Cooke, Reid, Anne Margaret, 1907-1997, Davis, W. Allison (William Allison), 1902-1983, Davis, John Aubrey, Sr., 1912-2002, Dean, William H., 1919-, Franklin, John Hope, 1915-2009, Graham, Shirley, 1904-1977, Harris, Abram Lincoln, 1899-1963, Jourdain, Edwin Bush, Jr., 1900-1986, Kennedy, Melvin Dow, 1905-1989, Knox, Clinton E. (Clinton Everett), 1908-1980, Lawrence, Charles Radford, 1915-1986, Lewis Hylan G., 1911-2000, LuValle, James Ellis, 1912-1993, Reddick, Lawrence Dunbar, 1910-1995, Reddix, Jacob L., 1897-1973, Smith, Ruth M., 1917-, Smyth, Hugh Heyne, 1913-1977, Still, William Grant, 1895-1978, Tate, Merze, 1905-1996, Towns, Myron Bumstead, 1910-, Turner, Albert Louis, 1900-1973, Turner, Lorenzo Dow, 1890-1972, Valien, Bonita Harris, 1912-2011, Brickell, Herschel, 1889-1952, Black, John Donald, 1883-1960, Carter, Albert Edward, 1881-1964, Cotner, Robert Crawford, 1906-1980, Day, Donald, 1899-1991, Isely, Jeter Allen, 1913-1954, Justus, May, 1898-1989, Kendrick, John Whitefield, 1917-2009, Mims, Thomas Puryear, 1906-1975, Smith, Lillian Eugenia, 1897-1966, Smith, T. Lynn (Thomas Lynn), 1903-1976, Snelling, Paula, 1899-1985, Tisdale, Eldridge, Dorothy Hope, 1904-1991, Thompson, Melvin Ernest, 1903-1980, Vining, Daniel Rutledge, 1908-, Yates, Richard E. (Richard Edwin), 1910-1986, Clark, Harold Brown, 1915-2010, Cuninggim, Margaret, 1914-1986, Hunt, Douglas L., 1901-1952, Richebourg, Gaillard McWilliams, 1901-1986, Miner, Horace Mitchell, 1912-1993, Sitterson, Joseph Carlyle, 1911-, Strode, Hudson, 1892-1976, Thompson, Melvin Ernest, 1903-1980,

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5 pages

Language

eng

Date

1939

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pdf

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Lists, Box 386, Julius Rosenwald Fund Archives, 1917-1948, John Hope and Aurelia E. Franklin Library.

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John Hope and Aurelia E. Franklin Library.

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