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• 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 Dowling Burruss Leatherwood
  A 1941 application from Dowling Burruss Leatherwood, an assistant professor of Journalism and Director of the radio workshop at Emory University, requesting a grant to spend one semester in the University of Wisconsin, one semester in Columbia University, and the following summer in New York City, continuing work toward the Ph.D. degree and other works.
• 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 foward 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 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 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 Ph. D. from Duke University, working under Dr. Paul N. Garber.
• 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. Widhes 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 John Ansley Griffin
  A 1941 application from John Anasley Griffin, assistant in Journalism, requesting a grant for a third year of graduate work at the University of Wisconsin and a quarter at the University of North Carolina on a diversified program aimed directly at preparation for work with the social problems of the South through teaching, institutional work, or journalism.
• 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 Univerisity 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 to gather materials in Mobile, Albama, 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 year.
• Fellowship Application from Rose Maureen Faulkner
  A 1941 application from Rose Maureen Faulkner, a teacher of English at Lanier High School, requesting a grant to make a study of the rural high schools of the state for the purpose of observing and recording their efforts other than scholastic to influence the cultural level of the communities which they serve.
• 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.
• Fellowship Application from William Nile Elam
  A 1941 application from William Nile Elam, a Federal Agent, requesting a grant improving farmer training for young Negro men and adult farmers, among other related initiatives. Wishes to attend Cornell University, working for a Ph.D. under Dr. B. M. Stewart.
• Fellowship Application from Dallas C. Dickey
  A 1941 application from Dallas C. Dickey, an instructor of Speech at State University, requesting a grant to complete and extend research on the career of S.S. Prentiss, preparatory to publication of his biography. Will work under the supervision of Dr. W. H. Stephenson of Louisiana State University.