111. Smythe, Mabel M.
ca. 1976
1.2 ft.

Typescript of The Black American Reference Book.

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112. Spotts, Marian Hamilton
ca. 1939-1962
4 oversized boxes

Mostly consists of correspondence, writings, photographs, and printed items about black women's clubs in Cincinnati, Ohio.

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113. Stanley, J. Taylor and Kathryn Turrentine
ca. 1925-1984
13 ft., 1 package, and 3 oversized items

Rev J. Taylor Stanley and his wife, Kathryn, devoted over sixty years to the black congregational churches in the South. J. Taylor Stanley's career drew on his abilities as a religious leader, administrator, author and lecturer. He served as an Associate Superintendent of black churches in the Southern Region of the Congregational Christian Church and later the United Church of Christ. During his career he served on several United Church boards, councils and commissions. Kathryn Stanley was the first black woman to serve in 1924 as Summer Service Worker for the American Missionary Society and was the first black extension worker commissioned by the Congregational Church. Her career included teaching, religious education, administration of the Church's women's Fellowship, and pastoral and regional duties. The papers include correspondence, administrative records and printed material relating to the development of the Southern Black Congregational and Christian churches in the twentieth century.

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114. Staupers, Mabel Keaton
1930-1977 and n.d.
0.4 ft.

Staupers was a founder of Booker T. Washington Sanitarium in Harlem, organizer of Harlem Tuberculosis and Health Association, first executive secretary of National Association of Colored Graduate Nurses (1934-1946), leader in racial integration of American Nurses Association (1951), and winner of Springarn Medal. Collection includes correspondence, speeches, photographs, and press clippings.

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115. Sterling, Dorothy
ca. 1795-1968
7.4 ft. and 4 oversized boxes

Sterling was the author of books on black American history, including The Trouble They Seen. Materials, including photographs, were collected in the course of her research.

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116. Summers, Lucy Cooper
1976-1986
16 items

Mostly items about Amistad House in Hartford, Connecticut. Includes press clippings, press releases, and photographs.

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117. Terrio, Shirley C.
1913, 1923, 1981
5 items

Contains information about black Americans on the German Coast of the Mississippi River in Louisiana.

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118. Tureaud, Alexander P.
1799-1974
ca. 31 ft.

Contains correspondence, reports, financial records, biographical sketches, news releases, photographs, clippings, and other papers of Tureaud, a New Orleans civil rights lawyer. The range and extent of his papers reflect his active and varied life and include material on the Knights of Peter Claver, the National Association for Colored People and the Louisiana Educational Association. Correspondents include Constance Baker Motley, a U.S. district judge in New York state; and letters that span the years 1948 to 1966 and pertain primarily to civil rights cases on which Motley and Tureaud collaborated.

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119. Valien, Preston and Bonita
ca. 1947-1958
34.8 ft.

Adjunct members of Race Relations Department within the American Missionary Association. Bonita Valien also worked with the Race Relations Information Center. Includes correspondence, writings, and articles by other people in Fisk University Social Science Department. Also includes notes on the Montgomery Bus Boycott.

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120. Voorhees, Lillian Welch
1892-73
20 ft., 1 oversized box, and 1 package

Includes the papers of Lilian Welch Voorhees, educator, author and champion of human and civil rights for African-Americans. She was Professor of Speech and Drama at Fisk University. Contains correspondence, an autobiography, poems, plays, and press clippings.