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• Fellowship application of Beatrice Dorothy Reed
  An application from Beatrice Dorothy Reed, requesting a 1 year grant towards concentration in the field of Literature and Fine Arts in the graduate school, and towards obtaining a Master of Arts degree at Columbia University. This application was submitted in 1939, and the chosen field is Literature and Fine Arts.
• Fellowship application of Benjamin Arthur Quarles
  An application from Benjamin Arthur Quarles, requesting a grant towards a full length study of the public life of Frederick Douglass, and towards obtaining a Ph.D. degree at the University of Wisconsin. This application was submitted in 1939, and the chosen field is United States History.
• Fellowship application of William Bradford Pratt
  An application from William Bradford Pratt, requesting a 1 year grant beginning Fall 1939. The plan of work was towards working out a set of logical courses and examinations suitable for the 30 Negro junior and senior high schools of West Virginia through close observation of the theory and practice of modern language teaching in France obtaining a Docteur ès Lettres degree at Université de Dijon, France. This application was submitted in 1939, and the chosen field is Romance Languages.
• Fellowship application of Thomas Edward Posey
  An application from Thomas Edward Posey, requesting a 2 year grant towards a study to trace the development of the labor movement in West Virginia and to record the efforts employed in the movement to effect improvement among the people, and towards obtaining a Ph.D. degree at Ohio State University under the supervisions of Drs. A. B. Wolfe and Alma Herbst. This application was submitted in 1939, and the chosen field is Labor Economics.
• Fellowship application of Thomas Edward Poag
  An application from Thomas Edward Poag, requesting a 2 year grant towards taking special courses and experimental work in Dramatic Art and Speech, towards research The Contribution of the American Negro to the Non Commercial and Legitimate Theatre, and towards obtaining a Ph.D. degree at Ohio State University under the supervisions of Mr. Herman Miller and Dr. G.O. Russell. This application was submitted in 1939, and the chosen field is Dramatic Art and Speech.
• Fellowship application of Sidney James Phillips
  An application from Sidney James Phillips, requesting a 1 year or fifteen month grant towards a study of soil conservation and the fundamental changes caused by erosion on virgin soil types in 5 principal soil conservation regions, and towards obtaining a Ph.D. degree at the University of Wisconsin under the supervision of Mr. E. Truog. This application was submitted in 1939, and the chosen field is Soils Soil Conservation.
• Fellowship application of Harry Lee Pettrie
  An application from Harry Lee Pettrie, requesting a 2 year grant towards developing a practical method for the reduction and adequate control of Loading in extent Negro Life Insurance companies, and towards obtaining a Ph.D. degree at the University of Pennsylvania under the supervision of Mr. A.H. Williams. This application was submitted in 1939, and the chosen field is Industry.
• Fellowship application of Rauol M. Perez
  An application from Rauol M. Perez, requesting a 9 month grant towards research in French and Spanish literature emphasis on relation to Louisiana and towards obtaining a Ph.D. degree at the University of Chicago under the supervision of Dr. Edwin P. Dargan. This application was submitted in 1939, and the chosen field is Romance Languages.
• Fellowship application of Robert Andrew Moody
  An application from Robert Andrew Moody, requesting a 1 year grant towards discovering the basic needs for the social adjustment of the Negro in the United States, and towards developing an adequate social program through which the Church could serve, while studying at Columbia University. This application was submitted in 1939, and the chosen field is Sociology.
• Fellowship application of Eldra Laura Monsanto
  An application from Eldra Laura Monsanto, requesting a 1 year grant towards studying Dramatics and the community aspects preparatory to returning to the Virginia Islands, and towards obtaining a Master of Arts degree at Yale University. This application was submitted in 1939, and the chosen field is Dramatics and Speech.
• Fellowship application of James Erroll Miller
  An application from James Erroll Miller, requesting a 1 year grant towards making a study of grabage collection and disposal costs in 50 American cities, and towards obtaining a Ph.D. degree at the University of Pennsylvania under the supervision of Dr. Charles Rohlfing. This application was submitted in 1939, and the chosen field is Political Science.
• Fellowship application of Charles Wendell Maxwell
  An application from Charles Wendell Maxwell, requesting a 2 year grant towards a survey of peculiar technical and porofessional jobs that Negroes held at the time focus on men in business who made job opportunities for themselves and others and towards obtaining a Master of Arts degree at Atlanta University. This application was submitted in 1939, and the chosen field is Business Administration.
• Fellowship application of John Benson Manly
  An application from John Benson Manly, requesting a 1 year grant beginning either July 1939 or October 1939. the plan of work was to study the Fundamentals of Orthopedic Surgery at the University of Iowa, then study Management of Fracture at the University of Chicago, with the aim of returning to Howard University and Freedmens Hospital for teaching and clinical work and qualifying for the American Board of Orthopedics. This application was submitted in 1939, and the chosen field is Orthopedic Surgery and Fracture.
• Fellowship application of Richard Ishmael McKinney
  An application from Richard Ishmael McKinney, requesting a 1 and half year grant towards making a study of the contemporary religious trends in the higher education of American Negroes, and towards obtaining a Ph.D. degree at Yale University under the supervision of Dr. Clarence P. Shedd. This application was submitted in 1939, and the chosen field is Religion in Higher Education.
• Fellowship application of Booker Tanner McGraw
  An application from Booker Tanner McGraw, requesting a grant towards devoting considerable time to complete and careful condensation of Doctoral thesis to final form for publication. This application was submitted in 1939, and the chosen field is Economics.
• Fellowship application of Withro McEnge
  An application from Withro McEnge, requesting a 1 year grant towards developing practical, useful, and modern General Shop with a program to train prospective rural and public school teachers on the elementary and secondary level, and towards obtaining a Master of Arts degree at New York University under the supervision of Dr. Ralph E. Pickett. This application was submitted in 1939, and the chosen field is Industrial Arts.
• Fellowship application of Winston Kermit McAllister
  An application from Winston Kermit McAllister, requesting a 2 year grant towards analyzing the problem of Epistemology from the viewpoint of the British Emperical Movement of the 18th century, and towards obtaining a Master of Arts degree at the University of Michigan under the supervision of Professor C.H. Langford. This application was submitted in 1939, and the chosen field is Philosophy.
• Fellowship application of Joan Louise McAllister-Gordon
  An application from Joan Louise McAllister Gordon, requesting a 1 year grant towards a study of Negro sex and family life in selected counties in the state of Georgia, and towards obtaining a Ph.D. degree in Sociology at Columbia University under the supervision of Dr. Robert M. MacIver. This application was submitted in 1939, and the chosen field is Sociology.
• Fellowship application of William Alexander Lynk, Jr.
  An application from William Alexander Lynk, Jr., requesting a 2 year grant towards a project The Mechanism of Electrode Reactions and Overvoltage Phenomena, while studying at the University of Michigan under the supervision of Dr. A.L. Ferguson. This application was submitted in 1939, and the chosen field is Electro Chemistry.
• Fellowship application of Buckner Synthias Luter
  An application from Buckner Synthias Luter, requesting a 1 year grant towards developing a coordinated and cooperative improvement program for rural Negroes in Texas and the contributing influences of philanthropic and subsidizing agencies, and towards obtaining a Master of Science degree at Cornell University under the supervisions of Drs. R.M. Stewart and J.E. Butterworth. This application was submitted in 1939, and the chosen field is Agricultural Education.
• Fellowship application of Rupert Alstyne Lloyd, Jr.
  An application from Rupert Alstyne Lloyd, Jr., requesting a 1 year grant towards completing a thesis LAntiquité dans lOeuvre dAnatole France to draw definite conclusions regarding the influence of the lkiteratures of Greece and Rome on Anatole France as a writer, and towards obtaining a Docteur ès Lettres degree at the University of Paris under the supervision of Professor G. Michaut. This application was submitted in 1939, and the chosen field is French Literature.
• Fellowship application of Daniel Poindexter Lincoln
  An application from Daniel Poindexter Lincoln, requesting a grant towards studying the relationship which exists between West Virginia State College and the Negro of West Virginia from 1891, and towards obtaining a Ph.D. degree at Ohio State University. This application was submitted in 1939, and the chosen field is History.
• Fellowship application of James Oscar Lee
  An application from James Oscar Lee, requesting a 2 year grant towards a study of curriculum courses, voluntary, and official programs of Religion in Negro colleges, and towards obtaining a Ed.D. degree at Columbia University Teachers College under the supervisions of Drs. Harrison Elliott and Adelaide Case. This application was submitted in 1939, and the chosen field is Religion.
• Fellowship application of James Raymond Lawson
  An application from James Raymond Lawson, requesting a grant towards continuing research in Infra red Spectroscopy with emphasis on Rotational Spectra of heavy tetrahedral molecules in the far infra red. This application was submitted in 1939, and the chosen field is Physics.
• Fellowship application of Emilio Aguinaldo Lanier
  An application from Emilio Aguinaldo Lanier, requesting a grant towards completing dissertation on The Idea of the Gentleman in American Fiction Prior to 1885 biographical research of Lyle H. Wright would needed for findings and conclusions. This application was submitted in 1939, and the chosen field is American Literature and Language.