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• Fellowship Application from Bernard C. Murdock
  A 1941 application from Bernard C. Murdock, a graduate student at Duke University, requesting a grant for a study to reveal the future paths over which progress in education in the South can and should be made. Wishes to secure Ph.D, working under Dr. Douglas E. Scates of the Department of Education at Duke University.
• Fellowship Application from Jessie J. Mise
  A 1941 application from Jessie J. Mise, District Home Management Supervisor, requesting a grant to study the dietary habits of low income rural families to discover deficiencies, and to make practical suggestions for improvement, also to do advanced study in the field of nutrition at Columbia University. Wishes to secure M.S.
• Fellowship Application from William Alexander Mitchell
  A 1941 application from William Alexander Mitchell, graduate student, assistantship in Political Science at Duke University, requesting a grant beginning in July, for the history of administration developments in the conservation of natural resources in the South. Seeks Ph. D. from Duke University. Also, there is a prospect of a professorship in political science at a southern state University.
• Fellowship Application from Joyce Michell
  A 1941 application from Joyce Michell, assistant professor of musicology, head of department at Louisiana State University, requesting a grant to finish my work at the University of Pennsylvania under the direction of Dr. Morrison C. Boyd. Seeks Ph.D.
• Fellowship Application from James O'Donald Mays
  A 1941 application from James O'Donald Mays, a graduate student at the University of Georgia, requesting a grant for two months' study of the cooperative movement in Nova Scotia and in Aroostock County, Maine, largely through the guidance of officials of the extension department in St. Francis Xavier University, Antigonish, Nova Scotia. Wishes to become a better journalist.
• Fellowship Application from Marcia Mayfield Mathews (Mrs.)
  A 1941 application from Marcia Mayfield Mathews Mrs., requesting a grant from June 1, 1941, to December 1, 1942, for a study of the types of antebellum architecture in Mississippi, the influences which helped to produce them, and the civilization which they reflect. Illustrated fully with photographs and drawings.
• Fellowship Application from Walter Scott Mason, Jr.
  A 1941 application from Walter Scott Mason, Jr., an assistant professor of English and Director, Winter Institute of Literature at the University of Miami, requesting a grant to historically develop a dissertation, Florida in American Fiction, from the beginnings to the present day, that is, to the end of 1940. The applicant is currently enrolled at George Peabody College, pursuing a Ph.D. under Dr. C. S. Fendleton.
• Fellowship Application from Carson Smith McCullers (Mrs.)
  A 1941 application from Carson Smith McCullers Mrs., an author, requesting a grant to write three works of fiction, The Bride of my Brother, The Aliens, and Night Journey.
• Fellowship Application from Alice Alison Lide (Mrs.), and Joint application with Margaret Alison Johansen
  A 1941 application from Alice Alison Lide Mrs., a housewife and free lance writer, requesting a grant for the same plan of work as Margaret Alison Johnson.
• Fellowship Application from Lillian Adele Kibler
  A 1941 application from Lillian Adele Kibler, a graduate student at Columbia University, requesting a grant for maintenance and expenses while completing my dissertation on Benjamin Franklin Perry, South Carolina Unionist. Seeks a position as a teacher of American history in a southern college.
• Fellowship Application from Jack Earl Kendrick
  A 1941 application from Jack Earl Kendrick, an instructor of History at Alabama Polytechnic Institute, requesting a grant for a study of the history of the daily newspaper, the Atlanta Constitution, from its establishment to the present time. Wishes to attend Harvard University or the University of North Carolina, working for a Ph.D. in History.
• Fellowship Application from Thomas Alexander Kelly
  A 1941 application from Thomas Alexander Kelly, fellow in Economics at Vanderbilt University, requesting a grant to use data from the U. S. Census, the U. S. Employment Service, and other sources, to determine the long time and current trends in three hundred odd specific occupations in Tennessee as a basis for a critical analysis of the training programs now going forward in the state. Seeks Ph. D. at Vanderbilt University.
• Fellowship Application from Mary Hooper Donelson Jones
  A 1941 application from Mary Hooper Donelson Jones, a sculptor, requesting a grant beginning in May, to spend three months in study in New York City and to spend the rest of the stipend in creative sculpture and teaching in the south. Wishes to attend the Art Student League of New York.
• Fellowship Application from Henry Morrison Johnson
  A 1941 application from Henry Morrison Johnson, an assistant professor of religious education at Emory University, requesting a grant to complete an investigation of the efforts of Methodists in the work of educating the Negro in America, beginning with the period prior to the American Revolution and continuing to the present time, then return to present position.
• Fellowship Application from Margaret Alison Johansen (Mrs. ), Joint Application with Alice Alison Lide
  A 1941 application from Margaret Alison JohansenMrs. a Housewife and Free lance Writer with a joint application with Alice Alison Lide, requesting a grant for an informal history of family life in the American South in the four decades prior to the Civil War. Plans to do research in libraries and museums beginning May, 1941.
• Fellowship Application from Ray Holder
  A 1941 application from Ray Holder, a graduate student at Duke University, requesting a grant to make a historical and critical study of the theological education of southern Negro Methodist ministers from 1865 to 1940. Wishes to secure a Ph. D. from Duke University, working under Dr. Paul N. Garber.
• Fellowship Application from Melvin Clyde Hughes
  A 1941 application from Melvin Clyde Hughes, an Instructor in History and Political Science at the University of Georgia, requesting a grant for a study of County Government in Georgia. Wishes to attend the University of North Carolina, working for a Ph.D. under Dr. Paul W. Wager.
• Fellowship Application from Kathryn LaVerne Huggins
  A 1941 application from Kathryn LaVerne Huggins, requesting a grant to add to research on Negro fiction, already near completion, the other phases of literature. Wishes to attend the University of North Carolina, working for Ph. D.
• Fellowship Application from Ernest James Holcomb
  A 1941 application from Ernest James Holcomb, associate agricultural economist, requesting a grant to take courses under Dr. John D. Black at Harvard University and to attend his seminars, also courses in statistics under Dr. Odum. Seeks Ph. D. in Economics with particular reference to farm Labor.
• Fellowship Application from Oscar Roy Hendrix
  A 1941 application from Oscar Roy Hendrix, a general Secretary, YMCA, requesting a grant for a research project, An Appraisal of the Work of Character Developing Agencies in the Southeast . Wishes to attend the University of North Carolina to pursue an M.S. under Dr. Howard Odum.
• Fellowship Application from Isaac Newton Hayes
  A 1941 application from Isaac Newton Hayes, Woodruff Malarial Research Worker at Emory University, requesting a grant to work toward a D. Sc. degree in Hygiene and Public Health. Wishes to attend Johns Hopkins University and work under Dr. Robert Hegner.
• Fellowship Application from Paul Peirce Hart
  A 1941 application from Paul Peirce Hart, an Architectural Designer for the School of Architecture at the University of Florida, requesting a twelve month grant to investigate and develop a method whereby low income families in rural communities in Central Florida and the Southeast can afford to build better homes by doing their own construction work, using inexpensive local building materials. Wishes to attend Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan.
• Fellowship Application from Charles W. Gilmore
  A 1941 application from Charles W. Gilmore, a reporter at the Atlanta Constitution, requesting a grant for a survey and study, by travel, of Negro newspapers in the South, with particular attention to editorial and financial problems, and possible solutions, to be published for the benefit of journalists and sociologists. Wishes to work under the supervision of Dr. Howard Odum of the University of North Carolina.
• Fellowship Application from William Perry Fidler
  A 1941 application from William Perry Fidler, an assistant Professor of English at the University of Alabama, requesting a grant to gather materials in Mobile, Alabama, Columbus, Georgia, and Washington, D. C. Library of Congress and write a critical study of the life and writings of Augusta Evans Wilson, a native of Georgia and resident of Alabama for sixty years.
• Fellowship Application from Creekmore West Fath (Joint Application with Clay Lee Cochran)
  A 1941 application from Creekmore West Fath, a counsel to the select committee of the House of Representative Investigating Interstate Migration, requesting grant to project the economic and social life of one state on a canvas so that it can be understood by average citizens, and to simplify economic and social facts so they can be used for constructive legislation by city, county, and state government in Texas.