Press Release Announcing Fellowship Awards, 1942

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A press release from Julius Rosenwald Fund on May 4, 1942 announcing 56 fellwoships awarded and 16 scholarships totaling 90,000 dollars and 10, 000 dollars respectively. Mr. Edwin R. Embree mentioned that 35 Negroes and 21 White Southerners were chosen, and regarded a few fellowship holders, Ms. Marian Anderson, Mr. William Grant Still, Mr. E.E. Just, Ms. Katherine Dunham, Mr. Jacob Lawrence, Mr. Allison Davis, Mr. Langston Hughes, Mr. W.E.B. DuBois, Mr. James Weldon Johnson, Mr. Harmon Caldwell, Mr. Rufus Harris, Mr. Ralph McGill, Mr. James Pope, Mr. C. Vann Woodward, Ms. Wirt Cate, Mr. Tarleton Collier, Ms. Tom Lea, and Mr. H.C. Nixon. The fellows listed include, Mr. Thomas Bembry, Mr. Arna Wendell Bontemps, Mr. Sterling Allen Brown, Mr. Emmett Edward Dorsey, Mr. Jacob Lawrence, Ms. Margaret Morgan Lawrence, Mr. Ulysses Grant Lee, Jr., Mr. Harry Joseph Walker, Mr. Leon Edward Wright, Mr. Lamar Baker, Mr. Thomas Edward Bell, Mr. William Oscar Brown, Mr. Lewis Campbell Copeland, Ms. Esther Worden Day, Ms. Katherine Edwards, Mr. John Henry Faulk, Ms. Ellen Hull Neff, Mr. Robert Ramsey, Mr. Leon Sensabaugh, Mr. Herman Everette Spivey, Mr. William Daniel Varnell, and so on. Scholarships granted include, Mr. Andrew Norwood Aheart, Ms. Dorothy Comita Ateca, Ms. Ada Elizabeth Bough, Ms. Laura Elizabeth Chase, Ms. Olivia Betty Curry, Ms. Catherine Louise Swanson, Ms. Cole Mae Wakefield, and so on.

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fisk_rf_ff_fge_386_5_00005

Subject

Julius Rosenwald Fund, 20th Century—History, African American history, Johnson, Charles Spurgeon, 1893-1956, Embree, Edwin R. (Edwin Rogers), 1883-1950, Haygood, William Converse, 1910-1985, Paty, Raymond R., 1896-1957, Alexander, Will Winton, 1884-1956, Weaver, Robert C. (Robert Clifton), 1907-1997, Still, William Grant, 1895-1978, Anderson, Marian, 1897-1993, Dunham, Katherine, 1909-2006, Lawrence, Jacob, 1917-2000, Just, Ernest Everett, 1883-1941, Davis, Allison, 1902-1983, Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967, Du Bois, W.E.B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963, Johnson, James Weldon, 1871-1938, Caldwell, Harmon White, 1899-1977, Harris, Rufus C. (Rufus Carrollton), 1897-1988, McGill, Ralph, 1898-1969, Woodward, C. Vann‏ ‎ (Comer Vann), 1908-1999, Cate, Wirt Armistead, 1900-1991, Lea, Tom, 1907-2001, Nixon, H. C. (Herman Clarence), 1886-1967, Bontemps, Arna, 1902-1973, Boyd, William M. (William Madison), 1916-1956, Brown, Sterling A., 1901-1989, Buggs, Charles W., 1906-1991, Carter, John Hannibal, 1909-, Dodson, Owen, 1914-1983, Ellis, Wade H. (Wade Hampton), 1864-1948, Fontaine, William, 1909-1968, Kerr, Thomas H., Jr., 1915-1988, Lawrence, Margaret Morgan, 1914-, Lee, Ulysses G., 1913-1969, Long, Herman H. (Herman Hodge), 1912-1976, Martin, Robert E. (Robert Earl), 1914-, Parks, Gordon, 1912-2006, Stephens, Clarence Francis, 1917-2018, White, Charles, 1918-1979, Wilkins, J. Ernest, Jr., 1923-2011, Williams, Eric Eustace, 1911-1981, Butcher, Margaret Just, 1913-2000, Wright, Leon E. (Leon Edward), 1912-, Baker, Lamar, 1908-1994, Bell, Ed (Edward Thomas), 1943-, Brown, William O., 1899-1969, Day, Worden, 1916-1986, Edwards, Katherine Flournoy, 1877-1980, Faulk, John Henry, 1913–1990, Goodwyn, Frank, 1911-2001, Hollaway, Otto, 1903-, Kane, Harnett T. (Harnett Thomas), 1910-1984, Roeder, Marcelotte Leake, 1920-2008, Link, Arthur S. (Arthur Stanley), 1920-1998, Markham, Jesse W. (Jesse William), 1916-2009, Ramsey, Paul (Robert Paul), 1913-1988, Sensabaugh, Leon F. (Leon Franklin), 1903-, Spivey, Herman E. (Herman Everette), 1907-1981, Jones, Lawrence N. (Lawrence Neale), 1921-2009, Lee, Ernest George, 1896-, Nelson, Bardin H. (Bardin Hubert), 1921-,

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10 pages

Language

eng

Date

1942

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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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Fellowship General

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