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• Fellowship application of Limas Dunlap Wall
  An application from Limas Dunlap Wall, requesting a 1 year grant towards a study Development and Life History of a Digenetic Trematode blood fluke of turtles , and towards obtaining a Ph.D. degree at the University of Michigan under the supervision of Dr. G.R. LaRue. This application was submitted in 1939, and the chosen field is Parasitology.
• Fellowship application of Saunders Earl Walker
  An application from Saunders Earl Walker, requesting a 2 year grant towards studying the techniques of playwriting and play producing for the purpose of improving ability to offer instruction to students who will teach in rural communities, and towards studying at Yale Universityand New York University under the supervisions of Ms Dorothy Mulgrave and Letitia Raubicheck. This application was submitted in 1939, and the chosen field is Drama for Rural People.
• Fellowship application of James Daniel Tyms
  An application from James Daniel Tyms, requesting a 10 month grant towards studying the 4 dominant cults that were operating among the Negroes emphasis on the sociological, philosophical, theological, and economic factors and towards obtaining a Ph.D. degree at Union Theological Seminary. This application was submitted in 1939, and the chosen field is Religion.
• Fellowship application of Bridges Alfred Turner
  An application from Bridges Alfred Turner, requesting a 1 year grant towards helping school officials of Arkansas make the general curriculum more meaningful by showing how it could be vitalized with Industrial Education, and towards obtaining an M.Ed. degree at Pennsylvania State University under the supervision of Dr. F. T. Struck, and then a Ph.D. degree. This application was submitted in 1939, and the chosen field is Industrial Education.
• Fellowship application of Edward Glass Trigg
  An application from Edward Glass Trigg, requesting a 1 year grant towards compiling materials essential to the teaching of fundamental health facts in the secondary schools of the South, and towards obtaining a DrPH degree at the University of Michigan under the supervision of Dr. J. Sundwall. This application was submitted in 1939, and the chosen field is Public Health.
• Fellowship application of Frances E. Thompson
  An application from Frances E. Thompson, requesting a 1 year grant beginning September 1939. The plan of work was to do research and work in crafts in and around Boston, and to obtain a Master of Arts degree at Harvard University. This application was submitted in 1939, and the chosen field is Education in Fine Arts.
• Fellowship application of Joseph Thomas Taylor, Jr.
  An application from Joseph Thomas Taylor, Jr., requesting a 10 month grant towards continuing study of tendencies toward anti social behavior in select cultural settings of Negroes, while working at the University of Indiana under the supervision of Dr. Edwin H. Sutherland. This application was submitted in 1939, and the chosen field is Criminology.
• Fellowship application of Kelley Dolphus Stroud
  An application from Kelley Dolphus Stroud, requesting a 1 year grant towards studying the history and daily life of Negroes throughout Mexico, Central, and South America, and towards obtaining a Master of Arts degree at the University of Mexico. This application was submitted in 1939, and the chosen field is Negro History and Life in Spanish America.
• Fellowship application of William Wallace Stewart
  An application from William Wallace Stewart, requesting a 2 year grant beginning June 1939. The plan of work was to analyze pertinent factors which affect the secondary education of Negroes in rural Louisiana, and to obtain a Ph.D. degree at the University of Michigan. This application was submitted in 1939, and the chosen field is Secondary Education.
• Fellowship application of Theodore H. Smith
  An application from Theodore H. Smith, requesting a one to two year grant towards obtaining a Master of Arts degree in Landscape Architecture at Harvard University. This application was submitted in 1939, and the chosen field is Landscape Architecture.
• Fellowship application of Robert Alston Smith
  An application from Robert Alston Smith, requesting a 1 year grant towards researching the life and work of James Weldon Johnson for publication, and towards obtaining a Ph.D. degree at New York University under the supervision of Dr. Oscar Cargill. This application was submitted in 1939, and the chosen field is Literature.
• Fellowship application of Osborn Tucker Smallwood
  An application from Osborn Tucker Smallwood, requesting a 1 and half year grant towards studying the attitude of 19th century prose writers toward the Negro, and towards obtaining a Ph.D. degree at New York University. This application was submitted in 1939, and the chosen field is English Literature.
• Fellowship application of Daniel Thomas Skinner
  An application from Daniel Thomas Skinner, requesting a grant for one to two years towards research at the University of Paris on topic, The Position of the Negro in French Literature and Society. This application was submitted in 1939, and the chosen field is French Romance Languages.
• Fellowship application of Hannibal Paule Saundle
  An application from Hannibal Paule Saundle, requesting a grant towards completing a Doctorate thesis and towards obtaining a Ph.D. degree at the University of Southern California. This application was submitted in 1939, and the chosen field is European History.
• Fellowship application of Ernest Saunders
  An application from Ernest Saunders, requesting a 1 year grant towards studying Agricultural and Civil Engineering at Iowa State College emphasis on erosion control, land reclamation, and design of structures. This application was submitted in 1939, and the chosen field is Rural Civil Engineering.
• Fellowship application of John McLinn Ross
  An application from John McLinn Ross, requesting a 2 year grant beginning September 1939. The plan of work was to complete research on The Negro in the American Drama His Development as a Character, an Actor, and a Playwright, to study Playwrighting in writing plays of Negro life more efficiently, and to obtain a Ph.D. degree at Yale University. This application was submitted in 1939, and the chosen field is Drama.
• Fellowship application of Harry Josef Romm
  An application from Harry Josef Romm, requesting a 1 year grant beginning Fall 1939. The plan of work was to investigate nitrogen fixation in the soil by certain bacteria on the roots of plants which were classed as seeds, and to obtain a Ph.D. degree at Rutgers University under the supervision of Dr. S.A. Waksman. This application was submitted in 1939, and the chosen field is Soil Microbiology.
• Fellowship application of George F. Robinson, Jr.
  An application from George F. Robinson, Jr., requesting a 2 year grant towards formulating and proposing solutions for some of the political problems of the Negro minority in the American society, and towards obtaining a Ph.D. degree at Harvard University under the supervisions of Drs. A. N. Holcombe and W. Y. Elliott. This application was submitted in 1939, and the chosen field is Political Science.
• Fellowship application of Harry Walter Roberts
  An application from Harry Walter Roberts, requesting a 1 year grant towards completing research work, and towards writing a Doctors thesis in Yale University Department of Race Relations. This application was submitted in 1939, and the chosen field is Race Relations.
• Fellowship application of Eric Burwell Roberts
  An application from Eric Burwell Roberts, requesting a grant towards studying wash drawing, tone, and color techniques at the Art Institute of Chicago, and towards taking a special course in advertising copy creation at either Northwestern University or Chicago University. This application was submitted in 1939, and the chosen field is Commercial Art Journalism.
• Fellowship application of William Napoleon Rivers
  An application from William Napoleon Rivers, requesting a four to six month grant towards completing the compilation of a Lexical Concordance to the complete poetical works of Theophile Gautier and Charles Baudelaire Chief Representatives of the Parnassian and Symbolist Schools in France , while researching at the Library of Congress and libraries of Cornell University and the University of Chicago. This application was submitted in 1939, and the chosen field is French Literature.
• Fellowship application of Walter Nathaniel Ridley
  An application from Walter Nathaniel Ridley, requesting a 1 and quarter year grant towards a study of extension activities of Negro colleges as they have evolved, and towards obtaining a Ph.D. degree at the University of Minnesota under the supervision of Dr. M. G. Neale. This application was submitted in 1939, and the chosen field is Educational Administration.
• Fellowship application of Richard Henry Richardson
  An application from Richard Henry Richardson, requesting a 1 year grant towards continuing studies in Soil Conservation, and towards obtaining a Master of Science degree at Iowa State College. This application was submitted in 1939, and the chosen field is Soil Conservation.
• Fellowship application of La Julia Rhea
  An application from La Julia Rhea, requesting a 1 year grant towards taking part in student operas and gaining practical experience . This application was submitted in 1939, and the chosen field is Opera and Concert Singer.
• Fellowship application of William Thomas Reed
  An application from William Thomas Reed, requesting an 11 month grant towards collecting and developing specific materials pertinent to effective work in guidance of colored youth in Florida, and towards obtaining a Ph.D. degree at the University of Pittsburgh under the supervision of Dr. A. M. Goldberger. This application was submitted in 1939, and the chosen field is Education Vocational and Guidance.