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• Summary of Scholarship Aid Application from Louie Reid Davis
  A 1942 application from Louie Reid Davis, whose field is History and Political Science, requesting scholarship aid to study history and political science. Seeks an M.A. degree at the University of Southern California.
• Summary of Scholarship Aid Application from Cornella Josey Clark
  A 1942 application from Cornella Josey Clark, whose field is sociology, requesting scholarship aid for a study of the school in relation to the community and its occupational opportunities in selected rural areas of the North Carolina subregional laboratory. Wishes to attend the University of North Carolina, working for an M.A. degree.
• Summary of Scholarship Aid Application from Jesse Carl Clamp
  A 1942 application from Jesse Carl Clamp, whose field is Economics, requesting scholarship aid to enter the graduate school of Duke University for advanced work, entailing an economics major and an anthropology minor. Seeks an M.A. degree.
• Summary of Scholarship Aid Application from John Newell Burrus
  A 1942 application from John Newell Burrus, whose field is Sociology, requesting scholarship aid to work towards a masters degree majoring in rural sociology at Louisiana State University or the University of Minnesota, and if possible, to develop for thesis purposes a study using Mississippi Delta data.
• Summary of Scholarship Aid Application from Marvin Raphael Bubis
  A 1942 application from Marvin Raphael Bubis, whose field is Political Science, requesting scholarship aid to provide part of living expenses while serving an internship in the National Institute of Public Affairs.
• Summary of Scholarship Aid Application from Julian Gary Bishop
  A 1942 application from Julian Gary Bishop, whose field is Personnel Administration, requesting scholarship aid to attend either Columbia or Northwestern and to study Psychology and Business Administration. Wishes to enter the industry upon completing studies.
• Summary of Scholarship Aid Application from Vera Frances Babin
  A 1942 application from Vera Frances Babin, whose field is public health and Education, requesting scholarship aid to prepare herself for public health educational work by obtaining a Master of Public Health Degree from Johns Hopkins University, with major work taken in protozoology and medical entomology.
• Summary of Scholarship-Aid Application from Zach McLendon Arnold
  A 1942 application from Zach Mclendon Arnold, whose field includes Biology, Geology, and Agriculture, requesting scholarship aid to start graduate research in the fields of biology and geology. Wishes to work for M.S. at Emory University.
• Fellowship application from Dale Z. Young
  A 1941 application from Dale Z. Young, a superintendent of schools at Seminary, Mississippi, requesting a grant for a survey and evaluation of recreational facilities for Negroes in Mississippi. Wishes to attend Teachers College, Columbia University, working for an M.A. in Rural Education under Dr. Mabel Carney.
• Fellowship Application from Mrs. Nannie Mae Morris Williams
  A 1941 application from Mrs. Nannie Mae Morris Williams, a registrar at Mary Washington College, to secure additional training in guidance and personnel, in order to be better qualified to make the educational process serve the needs of the individual boy and girl. Wishes to attend Teachers College, Columbia University, working for a Ph.D. under Dr. Harry Kitson.
• Fellowship Application from Richard Malcolm Weaver
  A 1941 application from Richard Malcolm Weaver, an assistant professor of English on leave, requesting a grant beginning in June, to present the persistence of a cultural pattern. This study will trace southern rational consciousness and sense of cultural autonomy from 1865 to 1910 as it appeared in political literature, memoirs, and fiction. Wishes to secure a Ph. D. from Louisiana State University, working under Dr. H. Arlin Turner.
• Fellowship Application from John Sharpe Warren
  A 1941 application from John Sharpe Warren, requesting a grant to finish all points work for the Doctor of Education degree by June, and spend an extra year of study on a project concerned with real estate management in public school systems that can be a real contribution to education. His director, Dr. N. L. Engelhardt, thinks it's most timely.
• Fellowship Application from Olaf Wakefield
  A 1941 application from Olaf Wakefield, graduate student at the University of Minnesota, requesting a grant for a socio economic comparison of plantation with non plantation tenant families in North Carolina. Wishes to secure a Ph.D. at the University of Minnesota.
• Fellowship Application from John Francis Timmons
  A 1941 application from John Francis Timmons, an associate agricultural economist, Division of Land Economics, U.S. Department of Land Economics, requesting a grant to point out possible adjustments in the kinds and divisions of landlord tenant contributions and receipts under southern types of tenancy through an analysis of them in terms of rent theory and their effects upon security of tenure and economic stability of tenants. Wishes to secure a Ph.D. from Harvard University, working under Dr. John D. Black.
• Fellowship Application from Paul Dekker Stewart
  A 1941 application from Paul Dekker Stewart, a graduate student at Duke University, requesting a grant for a study of the office of the solicitor in North Carolina from the viewpoint of law enforcement and politics through the investigation of original records and personal contact. Wishes to secure a Ph.D. from Duke University, working under Dr. Robert S. Rankin.
• Fellowship Application from Helen Knott Staley (Mrs.)
  A 1941 application from Helen Knott Staley Mrs., District supervisor of Home Management Plans, Farm Security Administration, requesting a grant for professional training in advanced Home Economics with special emphasis on dietetics and the family, and the study of the migratory farm family. Wishes to attend the University of Chicago to pursue an M.S.
• Fellowship Application from Thomas Colyer Shields
  A 1941 application from Thomas Colyer Shields, an Instructor at Louisiana State University, requesting a grant for the analysis of propaganda and pressure forces affecting anti lynching legislation and of the causes and development of existing attitudes on the subject. Wishes to attend the University of Minnesota, working for an M.A. in Journalism, beginning in September.
• Fellowship Application from Samuel Schiller
  A 1941 application from Samuel Schiller, an instructor in Social Studies at the University Demonstration School at the University of Georgia, requesting a grant to make an analysis of vital contemporary problems in Georgia from available research material and visitations into specified areas of the State, and other works. Wishes to attend the University of Georgia, working for a Ph.D. under Dr. Paul Morrow.
• Fellowship Application from Richard Marion Robb
  A 1941 application from Richard Marion Robb, a research worker and supervisor of the Analytical Chemistry Laboratory at the Tennessee Valley Authority, requesting a grant to develop a method of producing from cottonseed oil a drying oil that can replace tung oil in paints and varnishes. Wishes to secure a Ph.D., beginning September 1941.
• Fellowship Application from George Arkell Riggan
  A 1941 application from George Arkell Riggan, a minister at Essex Congregational Church, requesting a grant for one full year of advanced study in my chosen and related fields, followed by another year of detailed research and the writing of a dissertation advancing or modifying knowledge of some particular subject in theology. Wishes to work for a Ph.D. at Yale University under Drs. H. Richard Niebuhr and Douglas C. Macintosh, beginning September 1941.
• Fellowship Application from Ellene Ransom
  A 1941 application from Ellene Ransom, a teacher of College English On Leave at Ward Belmont Junior College, requesting a one year grant to complete a study of American Utopian fiction before 1900, and to base upon that examination an analysis of Southern Utopian Literature. The applicant is completing the last residence work at Vanderbilt, and has the described project as an accepted dissertation problem.
• Fellowship Application from Willard E. A. Range
  A 1941 application from Willard E. A. Range, an instructor in Social Science, requesting a grant for a dissertation on The Development of Agriculture in Georgia Since 1860 , emphasising economic and social factors. Wishes to attend the University of North Carolina, working for Ph. D.
• Fellowship Application from Woodrow Wilson Pate
  A 1941 application from Woodrow Wilson Pate, Head of the Social Science department at A and M College, requesting a grant for a study of the coverage of southern labor under Social Security legislation. Wishes to attend the University of North Carolina, working for Ph. D. under Dr. Harry D. Wolf.
• Fellowship Application from Herbert Roof Northrup
  A 1941 application from Herbert Roof Northrup, a graduate student and assistant, department of Economics at Harvard Univerisity, requesting a grant for a field investigation by interviewing and collecting unpublished data of the policies of Labor unions in the South in regard to the treatment of Negro workers and the economic consequences thereof with special reference to unions in the building trades, longshore, iron and steel, coal mining, and tobacco industries. Wishes to secure a Ph.D. at Harvard, working under Sumner H. Slichter.
• Fellowship Application from Otto Richard Nielsen
  A 1941 application from Otto Richard Nielsen, an instructor at Texas Christian University, Forth Worth on leave, requesting a grant for a year of graduate study and research at the University of Texas continuing study of present year in the field of personnel administration, in further presentation for service as a personnel director in a southern college. Seeks Ph.D. degree, working under Dr. H. T. Manuel, beginning June or September.