Electronic texts from the Jackson Davis Collection

 

The Jackson Davis Collection includes letters, speeches and articles written by Davis along with correspondence written to him.


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Items by Jackson Davis

Prologue to: Population--A Problem for Democracy

Schools And Community Needs

Practical Training in Negro Rural Schools

Sesquicentennial Celebration - AME Zion Church

 




   
The Report of the Committee on Administration

Travels and Impressions of Africa

Time JD spent outside New York State in 1941.

Editorial by Jackson Davis about county training schools

Proposed survery of higher education in Virginia from Jackson Davis

Booker T. Washington Ceremony

Discussion of Graduate and Professional Education for Negroes

The Negro In Country Life

Morehouse College Address

Prologue to: Population--A Problem for Democracy

Penn School Address

September 2-3, 1943

Livingstone College Commencement Address

Letter to the General Education Board

Building a Rural Civilization; Some Educational Results Among Southern Negroes in County Training Schools.

Tuskegee Institute Founder`s Day Address

Building a Rural Civilization, Supervising Industrial Teachers

Building a Rural Civilization, Supervising Industrial

County Training Schools

Spelman College Founders' Day Address

Newspaper Articles

Richmond News Leader
Jackson Davis Dies Suddenly
The Industrial Advocat
Great Exposition and Celebration

National Government appropriates $55,000
Richmond Times Dispatch
July 14, 1915 : Board Holds Up Money For Negro Exposition

July 15, 1915 : New Jersey Visitors View Negro Exposition

July 16, 1915 : Virginia Day at Negro Historical Exposition

July 18,1915 : Increased Attendance at Negro Exposition

July 20, 1915 : Increasing Attendance at Negro Exposition

July 21, 1915 : Wilson Still Hopes to Attend Exposition

July 23, 1915 : Charge Mismanagement of Negro Exposition

July 25, 1915 : Committee is Named to Examine Vouchers

July 25, 1915 : Impressed by Exhibits of Colored Schools

July 25, 1915 : Wilson Regrets His Inability to Attend

July 5, 1915 : Negro Race Opens Great Exposition

July 6,1915 : Mayor Opens Big Negro Exposition

July 7, 1915 : Negroes Have Right to be Proud of Their Showing

July 8, 1915 : Invites White People to Attend Exposition

July 9, 1915 : Virginia Day is Gala Event at Exposition

July 9, 1915 : Extend to Negro Race Hand of Fellowship

July 10, 1915 Gates of Big Expostion Open Without a Charge

July 11, 1915 Gates to Big Negro Fair Wide Open To-Day

July 12, 1915 Colored Evangelist Praises Exposition

Miscellaneous Correspondence
Letter to Jackson Davis from The Carnegie Corperation of New York.

Report of the Director, the Rev. Robert W. Patton, D.D. to the board of Trustees of the American Church Institue for Negroes.

Recommendations submitted to the Virginia Education Commission

Robert W. Patton : Chapter in the History of the American Church Institute for Negroes and its Relation to the Board of Missions. Written by Request.

Dean, Jennie: "A Battleground School."
Letter to Jackson Davis from Anna Thornblum regarding Davis` retirement.

Report of the budget of the Virginia Commission on Interracial Cooperation

Virginia School Study Commission Created By Joint Resolution

Frederick Douglas : Address on industrial schools

County School Fairs Book, 1913 : What is "A Virginia County School Fair?"

Letter from Wm. Anthony Aery to Director Reynolds of the Virginia Commission on Interracial Co-operation about

Letter from J.W. Barco to Jackson Davis, 1937


Letter from William Barnes to Jackson Davis, 1937

Letter from Janie Porter Barrett to Jackson Davis commending his work, 1937

Letters from Walter A. Brown to Jackson Davis regarding his move to New York

Letter from William John Clark to Jackson Davis regarding

Virginius Dabney : Book of Friendship

Letter to C. Francis Cocke from Harris Hart regarding the Literary Fund

Raymond B. Fosdick : The Future Of The General Education Board

Hampton Institute Summer School Address

The Negro in America, An Inquiry Under the Auspices of the Carnegie Corporation of New York

Virginia Journal of Education, Dedication, Jeanes Memorial Dormitory, Virginia Randolph Training School

Speech About Liberia

Memoranda From The Old Man Buttrick

The Negro in America; An Inquiry Under the Auspicies of Carnegie Corporation of New York

Conference in New York

Letter to Doctor Porter from Robert W. Patton

The Julius Rosenwald Fund

Arthur D. Wright, Southern Education Foundation

Statement of General Education Board regarding Jackson Davis` automobile use.

Personal and confidential letter from F.D. Patterson to Jackson Davis about the Tuskegee Institute

May O. Hankins, Department Of Public Welfare

Letter from George B. Zehmer to Jackson Davis