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PAPERS OF JOHN AND LUGENIA BURNS HOPE BLACK STUDIES RESEARCH SOURCES: Microfilms from Major Archivai and Manuscript Collections August Meier and Elliott Rudwick General Editors

PAPERS OF JOHN AND LUGENIA URNS HOPE PAPERS OF JOHN AND LUGENIA BURNS HOPE

Edited by Alton Hornsby, Jr.

This collection has been published from the holdings of the Atlanta University Center, Robert W. Woodruff Library, Archives Department.

A Microfilm Project of UNIVERSITY PUBLICATIONS OF AMERICA, INC. 44 North Market Street • Frederick, MD 21701

Acknowledgements...... vii Introduction ...... ix Biographical Sketch ...... xiii Series Notes...... xv Reel Index ...... 1 Reel 1 Official Correspondence, Jan. 1, 1898-Dec. 31, 1914 ...... 1 Reel 2 Official Correspondence, Jan. 1, 1915-Dec. 31, 1917 ...... 2 Reel 3 Official Correspondence, Jan. 1, 1918-July 31, 1918 ...... 2 Reel 4 Official Correspondence, Aug. 1, 1918-Dec. 31, 1919 ...... 3 Reel 5 Official Correspondence, Jan. 1, 1920-Dec. 31, 1921 ...... 3 Reel 6 Official Correspondence, Jan. 1, 1922-Jan. 30, 1923 ...... 4 Reel 7 Official Correspondence, Feb 1, 1923-Feb. 28, 1924 ...... 5 Reel 8 Official Correspondence, Mar. 1, 1924-Feb. 28, 1928 ...... 5 Reel 9 Official Correspondence, Mar. 1, 1928-Dec. 30, 1930 ...... 6

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Reel Reel Reel Reel Reel Reel Reel Reel Reel Reel Reel Reel B A Appendices Acknowledgements Numerous persons and organizations assisted in the preparation of this microfilm publication and the accompanying guide. Among these were: The Staff of the Hope Papers Project Mrs. Jessie Ebanks, Manuscript Preparator Ms Angela Culmer, Secretary Ms. Cleta Winslow, Secretary Betty Reedy, Student Assistant Raymond Gordon, Student Assistant Leslie Pickens, Student Assistant Charles Stodghill. Student Assistant Morehouse College Staff Dr. Hugh M. Gloster, President Mrs. Yvonne A. King, Executive Assistant Wiley A. Perdue, Vice President Alice Green, Development Chumiach Houston, Development Nat i on a I Historica I Publications a nd Records Commission Former Deputy Director Fred Sheliey Former Executive Director, E. Berkeley Thompkins Sara Dunlap Jackson Joellen Pryce Frank Burke; and Dr. Edward S. Hope, Dr John Hope II, and John Hope III; and Librarians at the Robert W. Woodruff Atlanta University Cen ter Library, the Georgia State Archives, Moorland-Spingarn Collection of Howard University (Michael Winston, Director), Brown University, and the University of Illinois at Chicago Circle;

vii and John Moscato at University Publications of America, Inc., and Elliott Rudwick and August Meier at Kent State University. To all the above, and many more who could not be listed here, our profound thanks and gratitude! Alton Hornsby, Jr., Editor Atlanta, Georgia December 15, 1984

This publication was partially assisted by grants from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission and by additional financial support from Morehouse College

viii Introduction The John Hope and Lugenia Burns Hope Papers microfilm publication contains the official and personal correspondence of the couple, their official, personal, and financial, records; their articles, essays, and speeches (manuscript and printed), and several categories of miscellaneous materials. The publication comprises about 20,000 documents on 21 rolls. The Hope Collection at Morehouse College had its origins in 1968 when the editor of this publication, Dr. Alton Hornsby, Jr, investigated rumors that some old papers were stored away in the basement of one of the campus's oldest buildings (a building, incidentally, which was built only after Morehouse President, John Hope, curried the favor of Booker T Washington in order to receive the necessary philanthropic assistance). The editor soon found two file cabinets in the basement of the deteriorating building. They contained about 10,000 items, a large segment of the official papers of John Hope while president of More house College and Atlanta University. The papers were immediately transferred to the security of the Morehouse College Library. As news of the discovery at Morehouse spread, information reached the editor that an equal number of items, official and personal papers of both John and Lugenia Hope, were being stored in the residence of one of Dr. Hope’s two surviving sons in Washington, D C. Many of these items had been secured by Mrs. Hope after John Hope’s death and then passed on to the sons upon the occasion of her own death. A personal inspection of these files by the editor revealed a rich body of correspondence between the Hopes and most of the leading per sonalities in the black and liberal white communities of America from the late 1890's to about 1940. Manuscripts and organizational records of various kinds further enriched this collection. There followed a series of sensitive negotiations with the Hope family which culminated in 1974 in the gift of the papers in private hands to Morehouse College. The organization and editing of the papers and this microfilm publication were all made possible by a grant from the National Historical Pub lications Commission. This work began on January 1, 1975.

ix The bulk of this collection consists of the official and personal cor respondence of Dr. and Mrs. John Hope. As president of Morehouse College for twenty-five years and as president of Atlanta University for five years, Dr. Hope conducted a great volume of correspondence with black leaders and with numerous white philanthropists and sup porters of Negro civil rights. As an officer and member of various lo cal, regional, and national church groups, fraternal organizations, civil rights groups, and professional associations, Dr. Hope also engaged in voluminous correspondence with blacks and whites of all walks of life. Mrs. Hope, although most closely associated with Atlanta’s Neigh borhood Union, was also an officer and member of several charitable, feminist, and civil rights organizations. The Hopes numbered among their personal correspondents almost all of the major black educational, political, and civil rights figures of the first half of this century as well as many prominent white persons. The following list illustrates the number of items relating to each of these important correspondents: Mary McLeod Bethune, 200 George Haynes, 200 J.E. Moorland, 200 Robert R. Moton, 200 Benjamin Brawley, 100 John W. Davis, 100 W.E.B. DuBois, 100 Mordecai Johnson, 100 Thomas Jesse Jones, 100 Channing Tobias, 100 W.T.B. Williams, 100 Will Alexander, 50 Samuel Howard Archer, 50 T. Edward Owens, 50 Dean Sage 50 N.B. Young,50 Nannie H. Burroughs, 25 Benjamin J. Davis, 25 Eugene Kinckle Jones, 25 James Weldon Johnson, 25 Emmett Scott, 25 Walter White, 25 Correspondents with approximately 20 items or less include: Robert S. Abbott Trevor Arnett Rossa Cooley Walter R. Chivers James H. Dillard E. Franklin Frazier Herbert Hoover Henry A. Hunt Charles S. Johnson Lucy C Laney John R. Lynch Benjamin E. Mays Kelly Miller Mary White Ovington A. Philip Randolph Arthur Raper John D. Rockefeller, Jr. James Ford Rhodes Franklin D. Roosevelt Eleanor Roosevelt C.C. Spaulding Anson Phelps-Stokes Howard Thurman Oswald Garrison Villard Booker T. Washington Carter G. Woodson The Hope correspondence, official and personal, and the records of the organizations with which the couple were affiliated relate directly to such topics as black education, civil rights and social service, politics, religion, the two world wars, social activities and attitudes, the black economic picture, and the black press. As far as practicable, this publication contains the entire Hope col lection, except for material of no significant research value—institutional requests for catalogs, check book covers, and readily available printed materials. In the latter case, however, some of the title or cover pages have been filmed in order to indicate the nature and range of the Hope holdings. Literary rights in this collection remain with the owner, Morehouse College. Biographical Sketch John and Lugenia Burns Hope rank among the great couples—the Adamses, the Roosevelts, et al.—who have made significant contribu tions to American society. John Hope was unquestionably one of the nation’s most outstanding black educators and a champion of civil rights from the turn of the century until his death in 1936. The son of a white father and black mother, Hope was born into relative affluence in Augusta, Georgia, in 1868. During his youth, however, his father died, and the family fortunes declined. Nevertheless, young Hope made it to Worcester Academy in Massachusetts and to Brown University for an education financed by scholarships and jobs. He began his teach ing career at Roger Williams University, a black school in Nashville, Tennessee, in 1894—a year before Booker T. Washington’s "Atlanta Com promise Address," in which the famed black educator outlined his pol icy of racial progress through accommodation with racial segregation. John Hope was to become one of the first black educators to take issue with Washington's philosophy of education and race relations. After four years at Roger Williams, Hope took a position at Atlanta Baptist College, an all-male black school which would later become the prestigious Morehouse College. In 1906, Hope assumed the pres idency of the institution, the first black person to do so. At Morehouse, he distinguished himself as one of the few Southern black college presidents to build a successful liberal arts school in the era when Washington's agricultural-industrial views dominated the black educa tional scene. By 1929, six separate black institutions of higher learning existed in the city of Atlanta. In order to achieve greater effectiveness and economy, Hope spearheaded the organization of three of these (At lanta University, Spelman College for women, and Morehouse College for men) into a consortium whereby there would be a co-educational graduate school (Atlanta University) and an undergraduate school for each sex. The three other black schools eventually entered the arrange- merit, which was called the Atlanta University Center, making it the second oldest such consortium in American higher education and the largest black complex of higher education in the world. Hope himself, after serving jointly as president of Morehouse and Atlanta University, became head of the graduate school in 1932. Like his younger contemporary, the NAACP’s Walter White, John Hope could have used his blond physical features to slip unnoticed into the more secure world of white America. Yet, also like White, he decided to cast his lot with the black race and, in fact, became a leader in the cause of civil rights. He attended the Niagara Conferences of 1905 and 1906, which W.E.B. DuBois and other "militant" blacks had called to protest segregation and discrimination and to offer an alter native to the racial leadership of Booker T. Washington. Hope was al so present at some of the earliest meetings of the NAACP. He was a close friend as well as an ally of DuBois, and by the standards of his day fell into the militant camp of racial leadership. Yet he maintained close interracial ties, serving as an agent for the YMCA in Europe during the First World War and was a founder and president of the Commission on Interracial Cooperation, the predecessor of the Southern Regional Council. While John Hope busied himself in educational and civil rights lead ership, his wife, Lugenia Burns Hope, played a leading role in the found ing and development of the Neighborhood Union, a rough mixture of Jane Addams' Hull House, Janie Hunter’s settlement house in Cleve land, Victoria Matthews’ White Rose Mission in New York, and Janie Barret’s home for delinquent girls in Virginia. Beginning in 1908, Lugenia Hope led a group of educated, middle class black women from the college community who joined representatives of the larger black com munity in a program to "service the poor.” Mrs. Hope was also a leading figure in local civic education programs. She continued a very active life of civic and social participation until her own death in 1947. Closely related material on the Hopes can be found in the Negro Collection of the Robert W. Woodruff AUC Library at Atlanta University, in the Moorland-Spingarn Collection at Howard University, and in the Lloyd O. Lewis Collection at the University of Illinois at Chicago Circle. Some of these materials, courtesy of Howard University and the Uni versity of Illinois at Chicago Circle, have been included in this pub lication. Users of this publication will also find helpful: (1) Alton Hornsby, Jr., “The Hope Papers Project: Problems and Prospects," The Maryland Historian, VI (Spring, 1975), 51-54; (2) A Guide to the Negro Collection of the Trevor Arnett Library at Atlanta University; (3) Ridgely Torrence, The Story of John Hope (New York, 1948); (4) Rayford W. Logan and Michael Winston, eds., The Dictionary of Negro Biography (New York, 1982); and (5) Jacqueline A. Rouse, "Lugenia Burns Hope," Ph D. dissertation, Emory University, 1983. Series Notes

Series I: Correspondence This series consists of the official and personal correspondence of Dr. and Mrs. Hope between 1886 and 1945 Though most of the cor respondence concerns the Hopes’ lives in Atlanta, while Dr. Hope was president of Morehouse College and Atlanta University and Mrs. Hope was engaged in civic and social service, there is also a good deal of pre-Morehouse items. These include Dr. Hope's correspondence while a student at Brown University and a teacher at Roger Williams University. Notable among these latter documents are letters between John Hope and his mother and between John and the then Lugenia Burns. Large quantities of the Hopes’ correspondence based upon their affiliation with organizations other than Morehouse College and Atlanta University are also included in this series. John Hope held high offices in the Federal Council of Churches, the Commission on Interracial Cooperation, the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History, the NAACP, the National Urban League, and the YMCA. Mrs. Hope wasa founder of the Neighborhood Union and held office in the National Council of Negro Women and the Southern Women's Conference Against Lynching. She was also a member of several church groups and other civil rights and civic organizations. This correspondence reveals much of the external and internal work of these groups. In their personal correspondence, the Hopes had communications (as seen in the illustrative check list in Appendix A) with the most prominent names in black America for half a century. But this series also shows the large volume of correspondence with ordinary black Americans and with leading white philanthropists, humanitarians, and political leaders. It appears that Dr. and Mrs. Hope kept virtually all of their corre spondence, even that of the most private nature. There is a substan tial evenness in the correspondence over the years. The arrangement of the correspondence is chronological. Incoming and outgoing letters are interfiled. Postcards, telegrams, and other forms of correspondence are filed with letters. Enclosures, when found and identified, were, in most cases, filmed in the Records Series. The editorial staff was able, with great confidence, to supply dates to some undated items A few others, with less confidence, were supplied with dates and question marks. All dates added by the staff were enclosed in brackets. Undated items were relegated to the end of the series or sub-series and arranged in alphabetical order

Series II: Official Records This series contains official records of Morehouse College (ex cluding financial records), Atlanta University, and several of the many other organizations with which the Hopes were affiliated. These include: the Anti-Tuberculosis Association, the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History, the Atlanta Community Chest, the Atlanta School of Social Work, the Commission on Interracial Cooperation, the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America, the NAACP^ the National Association of Teachers in Colored Schools, the National Urban League, the Neighborhood Union, and the YMCA. The official records of Morehouse College and Atlanta University comprise only three folders in this series. Many of the Morehouse records apparently were maintained in offices other than that of Dr. Hope—academic dean, registrar, et al.—and have not been discovered or were not made available for this microfilm publication. The Atlanta University records included in the microfilm publication were those found at Morehouse College, those donated by the Hope family, and those provided through the courtesy of the Moorland-Spingarn Collection of Howard University. The larger number of Atlanta University records, including documents on the formation of the Atlanta University Center Consortium, were not made available for this publication The largest number of items in this series are official records of the organizations with which the Hopes were affiliated. These include minutes, financial appeals and statements, membership lists, news letters and other publicity items, and related publications. The entire series of official records, like the correspondence of the previous series, reveals much of the external and internal work of these organizations. The records are arranged in chronological order. Undated items are the last entires among a specific organization's documents and are arranged alphabetically. In some instances, only the title page of an organization s publication has been filmed. This plan has been followed mainly in the case of very lengthy and readily available items.

Series III: Financial Records Since John Hope was, for most of his presidential career, also treas urer of Morehouse College, most of the college's financial records were kept by him. However, only a few have been discovered and made available for the microfilm publication. The personal financial records of the Hopes, particularly those maintained by Mrs. Hope after her husband's death, comprise most of the items in this series. These reveal very clearly the very modest nature of the Hopes' wealth and the many demands which were made upon it. Series IV: Articles, Essays, Speeches The first part of this series contains a number of manuscript articles, essays, and speeches. Some of the articles and essays are incomplete, and apparently several were never published. Some of the speeches are also incomplete, and it is probable that a number of these were never delivered. The second part of the series includes many of the published articles, essays, and speeches of Dr. and Mrs. Hope, with the great majority belonging to Dr. Hope himself. Originally a fifth series, consisting of numerous loose notes, note books, brochures, broadnotes, pamphlets, invitations, newspaper clip pings, and other miscellaneous items, was planned for this publication. Since, however, few of these items were of historical significance and since many of the printed items were available elsewhere, this category was eliminated.

xvii REEL INDEX Reel 1 Official Correspondence, January 1,1898-December 31,1914 Included in this correspondence are letters to and from Dr. Hope while he was a teach er at Roger Williams University. Once the Hopes came to Atlanta Baptist College (More house) in 1906, the correspondence tends to be mostly between Dr. John Hope and his students, faculty, and administrators, black preachers, educators, and political lead ers; and white philanthropists. The more noted correspondents on this reel are the Rev erend CT Walker, the black Southern Baptist leader; former Mississippi Congressman, John R Lynch; Howard University President, Mordecai Johnson; the Atlanta newspa perman and communist. Benjamin J. Davis; Morehouse Dean and author, Benjamin Braw ley; the white educator, Thomas Jesse Jones; the minister and author, Mark Miles Fisher; the black feminist leader, Nannie H. Burroughs; the Tuskegee bibliographer. Monroe N. Work; and the black intellectual. Ira D A Reid. There is also a letter from Morde cai Johnson to the West Virginia educator, John W Davis Box 1 0001 1898 0015 1899 0024 1900 0042 1901 0051 1902 0054 1903-1904 0062 1905 0065 1906 0169 January-August 1907. 0312 August December 1907. 0437 1908 0567 1909 0653 1910 0671 1911

1 0712 1912 0760 1913. 0770 February-May 1914. 0926 June-August 1914. Box 2 1036 September-December 1914. Reel 2 Official Correspondence, January 1,1915-December 31,1917 The correspondence on Reel 2 is much like that on Reel 1 and the other eight reels in this series, except that much of it centers on the war then raging in Europe. Dr. Hope, of course, was in Europe during 1917 and 1918 and freely exchanged views on the war and its national and international effects. The more noted correspondents on this reel are the Tuskegee educator, Robert Russa Moton; the black philanthropist and YMCA leader, J E Moorland; Thomas Jesse Jones; Atlanta ministers Peter James Bryant, E.R Carter, and A.D. Williams (grandfather of Martin Luther King, Jr.): Mordncai Johnson; WE B. DuBois; Baptist leader, Henry L. Morehouse; historian, James Ford Rhodes; and Spelman College President. Lucy Hale Tapley. Box 2 conf. 0001 1915. 0216 January-April 1916. 0365 May-July 1916. 0504 August-September 1916. 0552 October-December 1916. 0610 January 1917. 0769 February 1917. Box 3 0991 March-April 1917. 1120 May-November 1917. 1308 December 1917. Reel 3 Official Correspondence, January 1,1918-July 31,1918 During this period. Dr. Hope is in Europe for several months working with the YMCA. Relating his experiences to colleagues, commenting on the war, and trying to attend to some of Morehouse affairs account for the large volume of correspondence during this period. Among the more noted correspondents on this reel are Booker T. Washington's former secretary, Emmett J. Scott; Georgia black Republican leader, Henry A. Rucker; Thomas Jesse Jones: Mordecai Johnson; and Robert Russa Moton Box 3 conf. 0001 January-April 1918. 0154 May-July 1918

2 Reel 4 Official Correspondence, August 1,1918-December 31,1919 This reel is a continuation of Dr. Hope's wartime correspondence as well as materials related to his return to duties at Morehouse. Several of the items involving his YMCA work in Europe are from the Moorland-Spingarn Collection at Howard University, Washington. D C. Robert Russa Moton, Thomas Jesse Jones, the Georgia educator, Benjamin F. Hubert, Emmett Scott and Eugene Kinckle Jones are some of the better known correspondents on this reel Box 3 cont. 0001 August-September 1918. 0125 October-November 1918 0190 December 1918 Box 4 0235 January-May 1919. 0340 June-July 1919 0412 August-September 1919. 0483 October-November 1919 0616 December 1919 Reel 5 Official Correspondence, January 1, 1920-December 31,1921 The correspondence on this reel continues to reflect Dr Hope's contacts with his principal constituencies, educators, ministers, black civic and political leaders, and white philanthropists. Among the new notables appearing here are the Florida educator, N.B. Young; the attorney, educator, and writer, James Weldon Johnson; the Georgia Republican and Masonic leader, John Wesley Dobbs (grandfather of Atlanta Mayor Maynard H. Jackson), the conductor, Kemper Harreld; the NAACP's Channing Tobias; the educator and philanthropist. James H Dillard; Georgia educators Lucy Laney and Henry Hunt; and the historian, Carter G. Woodson. There is also an exchange of letters between Hope and the staff of the black newspaper. Vox Populi, and a letter from Marcus Garvey's UNIA to Morehouse College. Box 4 cont. 0001 January 1920 0080 February 1920. 0163 March-April 1920 0266 May-June 1920. 0362 July-August 1920 Box S 0478 [Folder 1] September 1920. 0558 October 1920 0659 November 1920 0763 December 1920

3 0861 January 1921. 0983 February 1921. 1108 March 1921. Box 6 1215 April 1921. 1310 May 1921. 1407 June 1921 1482 July 1921. 1545 August 1921. 1614 September 1921 1723 October 1921. 1816 November 1921. 1909 December 1921 Reel 6 Official Correspondence, January 1,1922-January 30, 1923 This reel's major subjects continue to be religion, education, race relations, and civil rights. The correspondents include James Weldon Johnson; the Baptist leader, AM Townsend; Mrs. Booker T. Washington; the philosopher, Howard Thurman; J E. Moorland; John D. Rockefeller, Jr.; Georgia educator, Willis Sutton: the Georgia minister and educator, Charles D. Hubert; Morehouse Dean, Samuel Howard Archer; Maryland newspaperman Carl Murphy; and Benjamin J. Davis. Box 7 0001 January 1922. 0123 February 1922 0243 March 1922. 0392 April 1922 0470 May 1922. 0562 June 1922 0658 July 1-16, 1922 0745 July 17-August 10, 1922. 0841 August 11-31, 1922. Box 8 0933 September 1-19, 1922. 1042 September 20-30, 1922. 1116 October 1-19, 1922. 1184 October 20-November 14, 1922 1247 November 14-30. 1922 1281 December 1-18, 1922. 1334 December 18-31, 1922 1361 January 1923.

4 Reel 7 Official Correspondence, February 1,1923-February 28,1924 On this reel, the correspondents include Channing Tobias; the historian, W.A. Rogers; Mary McCleod Bethune, the sociologist; Abram Harris; Nannie Burroughs; the Penn School’s Rossa Cooley; F.L. Cardozo; the NAACP's Walter White; E. Franklin Frazier; Georgia civil rights leader. A T. Walden; and educator, Benjamin E. Mays. Box 8 cont. 0001 February 1923 0073 March 1923 0158 April 1923 0269 May 1-15, 1923. 0329 May 16-31, 1923. Box 9 0381 June 1923 0475 July 1-14. 1923 0543 July 15-31, 1923. 0599 August 1-18, 1923. 0667 August 19-30, 1923 0708 September 1923 0801 October 1923. 0903 November 1923 0980 December 1923. 1068 January 1924. 1156 February 1924. Reel 8 Official Correspondence, March 1,1924-February 28, 1928 Carter G. Woodson becomes a frequent correspondent of Dr. Hope during these years, prior to Hope s tenure as president of the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History Other well-known persons appearing on this reel are the Georgia minister James N Nabrit; Ira De. A. Reid; Benjamin E. Mays; E. Franklin Frazier; James Weldon Johnson; the sociologist. Charles S. Johnson; the philanthropist. Anson Phelps-Stokes; journalist. Claude Barnett, and the historian, Lorenzo J. Greene. Box 10 0001 March-April 1924 0096 May 1924. 0154 June 1-September 19, 1924. 0206 September 20-December 29. 1924 0246 January-April 1925 0322 May-August 1925

5 0362 September-October 1925. 0419 November-December 1925. 0455 January-February 1926 0494 March-May 1926. 0549 June-September 1926. 0589 October-December 1926. Box 11 0628 January-February 1927. 0769 March-April 1927. 0821 May 1927. 0856 June 1927. 0898 July-August 1927 0938 September 1927. 1007 October 1927. 1081 November 1927 1145 December 1927 1224 January 1928. 1291 February 1928. Reel 9 Official Correspondence, March 1, 1928-December 31,1930 The Depression and Depression-era politics join with educational, religious, and race issues as subjects of Dr. Hope's correspondence during these years Correspondents include the scholar, J. Saunders Redding; the Georgia composer. Willis Laurence James; Spelman College President, Florence M. Read; A. Philip Randolph; W.E.B DuBois; Carter G. Woodson; Mary McLeod Bethune; North Carolina insurance executive, C.C. Spaulding; and Franklin D. Roosevelt. There is also an item from the William Monroe Trotter Birthday Committee to Hope. Box 12 0001 March-April 1928 0141 May 1928. 0279 June 1928. 0402 July-December 1928. Box 13 0661 January-July 1929 0904 August-December 1929 1073 January-April 1930. 1343 May-December 1930

6 Reel 10 Official Correspondence, January 1,1931-December 31,1936 This reel includes materials relating to the implementation of the affiliation of Atlanta University, Morehouse College, and Spelman College in the Atlanta University System and the construction of public housing for blacks in Atlanta. It extends through the death of Dr. John Hope in February 1936. Correspondents include sociologist Arthur Raper, William Monroe Trotter, philanthropist Dean Sage, educator Samuel M. Nabrit, black Congressman Oscar DePriest, journalist P.B. Young, and the Urban League s George E. Haynes. After Dr Hope s death. Mrs. Hope s official correspondents included Interior Secretary Harold L. Ickes. Mary McLeod Bethune, and Mrs Eleanor Roosevelt. Box 14 0001 1931. 0191 March-May 1932. 0198 April-October 1933 0217 1929 0222 1930 0340 1931 0491 January-March 1932 0577 April-June 1932 0640 July-December 1932. 0706 1933 0873 January March 1934

Box 15 0963 April-August 1934. 1044 September-December 1934 1158 January-February 1935. 1228 March-April 1935 1296 May-June 1935. 1373 July-September 1935. 1453 October December 1935 1533 1936

7 Reel 11 Official Correspondence, January 1,1937-June 1,1945 After Dr. Hope's death, Mrs. Hope continued her active civic work in Atlanta and then returned to Chicago and finally Nashville just before her death in 1947. Much of this reel contains her official correspondence. The remainder of the reel includes records and reports of the many organizations with which the Hopes were affiliated, including the Anti-Tuberculosis Association, the Association for the Study of Afro-American Life and History, the Commission on Interracial Cooperation, the Federal Council of Churches, the NAACP, and the Neighborhood Union. Box 15 0001 1937. 0002 1938. 0006 January 1912 December 1933 (Mrs. Hope) 0084 January 1934-December 1935 (Mrs. Hope) 0098 1936 (Mrs. Hope). 0123 January-June 1937 (Mrs. Hope). 0154 July-December 1937 (Mrs. Hope). 0174 1938 (Mrs. Hope). 0250 1939 (Mrs. Hope) 0305 1940 (Mrs. Hope) 0314 1941 (Mrs. Hope). 0315 1942 (Mrs Hope) 0347 1943 (Mrs Hope). 0371 1945 (Mrs. Hope) Box 16 0375 Anti-Tuberculosis Association, 1915-1933 0477 Association for the Study of Negro Life and History. 1920-1935 0695 Atlanta Community Chest. 0784 Atlanta School of Social Work. 1926-1938 0915 Commission on Interracial Cooperation. 1927-1929 0959 Commission on Interracial Cooperation, 1930-1939 1207 Commission on Interracial Cooperation, 1942-1943 1213 Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America. 1916-1942 Box 17 1411 NAACP, 1911-1918 1524 NAACP. 1919-1923 1542 NAACP. 1924 1544 NAACP. 1929-1935 1668 NAACP. 1936-1938

8 Reel 12 Official Organization Correspondence, and Personal Correspondence, January 1-July 31,1896 Organizational correspondence including that of the National Urban League and the National Association of Teachers in Colored Schools are among the items on this reel. There is also the beginning of several reels of personal correspondence. Of especial interest here are the warm letters between Dr. Hope and his mother as well as early correspondence between John Hope and Lugenia (Burns) Hope Box 17 0001 The National Association of Teachers in Colored Schools, 1922-1935. 0045 National Urban League. 1911-1928 0079 National Urban League. 1929-1930 0148 National Urban League. 1931 0195 National Urban League, 1932-1933. 0256 National Urban League, 1934-1936. 0313 Neighborhood Union, 1919-1939 Box 18 0357 YMCA, 1908-1926. 0590 YMCA. 1927-1928 0838 YMCA. 1929-1939. 0987 Official Undated Letters. A-G 1015 Official Undated Letters. H-K 1161 Official Undated Leters, L-Z. Box 19 1203 Personal Correspondence, 1887 1209 Personal Correspondence. 1892 1232 Personal Correspondence, 1893 1245 Personal Correspondence. 1894 1319 Personal Correspondence, 1895 1479 Personal Correspondence, January-July 1896 Reel 13 Personal Correspondence, August 1, 1896-December 31, 1915 Letters between the Hopes and many of their relatives constitute a large part of the reel. There are also items with their close friends, the Robert Russa Motons of Tuskegee. Morehouse Dean Benjamin Brawley. Mrs. Booker T Washington, and WE B DuBois. Box 19 cont. 0001 1896 0258 January-August 1897. 0472 September December 1897.

9 0579 1898. 0682 1899 Box 20 0805 1900 0845 1901 0873 1902. 0886 1903. 0905 1906. 0914 1907. 0923 1908 0929 1909. 0935 1910 0941 1911. 1035 January-June 1912. 1090 July-December 1912. 1211 1913. 1239 1914 1360 1915. Reel 14 Personal Correspondence, January 1, 1916-December 31, 1920 Since the Motons of Tuskegee and DuBois were, perhaps, the Hopes' most intimate acquaintances, their correspondence understandably occupies much of the reel But there are also several items with Mrs. Booker T. Washington and John W. Davis. Family, holidays, and vacations are typical subjects discussed among the correspondents. Box 20 cont. 0001 January-July 1916 Box 21 0107 August-December 1916 0234 January-April 1917 0347 May-December 1917 0456 January-March 1918. 0542 April-September 1918. 0735 October-December 1918 0945 1919 1151 1920

10 Reel 15 Personal Correspondence, January 1,1921-January 31, 1929 The Motons. DuBois, Mrs Booker T. Washington, and John W. Davis continue to be frequent correspondents on this reel, but there are also items with educator Charlotte Hawkins Brown. Mrs Charles Young, the Emmett Scotts, James Weldon Johnson, and Mordecai Johnson In addition to the usual matters of family and friends, the correspondents discussed travel, health, and deaths and funerals of colleagues Box 22 0001 1921 0252 1922 0419 January-July 1923 0552 August-December 1923 0620 1924 0675 1925 0727 1926 0824 1927. 0905 January-April 1928 1066 May-August 1928 1161 September-October 1928 1277 November-December 1928 1395 January 1929 Reel 16 Personal Correspondence, February 1,1929-June 30,1929 The Hopes' family and friends, of course, discussed the personal effects of the Depression and the Atlanta University affiliation Items on this reel include letters from John W. Davis and Mary McLeod Bethune Box 23 cont. 0001 February-March 1929 0115 April May 1929 0213 June 1929

11 Reel 17 Personal Correspondence, July 1,1929-December 31,1934 Although no one, including the Hopes themselves, dwelled on Dr. Hope s declining health during these years, the matter does arise periodically. In some instances, Dr. Hope's secretary or Mrs. Hope advises a friend concerning the status of his health or mentions a hospital stay Well-known correspondence on this reel includes Howard Thurman and Dean Sage. Box 23 cont. 0001 July-August 1929 Box 24 0049 September-October 1929 0075 November-December 1929. 0159 January-February 15, 1930 0291 February 16-March 1930 0368 April-June 1930 0467 July-September 1930. 0547 October-December 1930 0649 January-February 1931 Box 25 0705 March-May 1931 0793 June-August 1931. 0852 September-December 1931. 0887 January-March 1932 0954 April-August 1932. 1021 September-December 1932. 1050 January-June 1933 1107 July 1933. 1179 August-December 1933. 1276 January-April 1934 1335 May-August 1934. 1388 September-December 1934.

12 Reel 18 Personal Correspondence, January 1,1935-September 1, 1947; Undated in Alphabetical Order Among Dr Hope's last personal correspondents were Mary McLeod Bethune and Carter G. Woodson. There was. of course, a great outpouring of letters of condolence to Mrs. Hope for almost a year after his death. She continued an active correspondence with family and friends until her own death in 1947. including Mary McLeod Bethune. T. Edward Owens. Dean Sage. Benjamin E. Mays, the Motons, and Walter White One of her last letters was from Hope's biographer, Ridgely Torrence. The reel ends with a folder of undated letters, arranged alphabetically Box 25 0001 January-March 1935 0039 April-June 1935 0107 July-December 1935 0173 January-February 1936 0437 March-May 1936 0565 June-December 1936 0635 1937 0699 1938 0738 1939 0770 1940 0772 1942 0779 1943 0791 1945 0822 1946 0836 1947. 0838 Personal Undated Letters. A-H 0936 Personal Undated Letters. H-K 0987 Personal Undated Letters. L-W Reel 19 Official Records, 1915-1939 and Financial Records, 1928-1930 Several of the official records and financial records of Morehouse College and Atlanta University are included on this reel, but the principal items are the minutes, financial statements, and publications of such organizations as the Commission on Interracial Cooperation and the National Urban League

Box 27 0001 Morehouse College Financial Records. 1904-1930 0082 Morehouse College Official Records, 1915-1939 0148 Atlanta University Official Records. 1930-1935

13 0157 Records of the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History, 1920-1936 0229 Records of the Commission on Interracial Cooperation, 1919-1925 0265 Records of the Commission on Interracial Cooperation. 1927 1930 0321 Records of the Commission on Interracial Cooperation. 1931 1932 0384 Records of the Commission on Interracial Cooperation, 1932-1936 0433 Records of the Commission on Interracial Cooperation, Undated 0540 Records of the Federal Council of Churches, 1916-1937. 0746 Records of the NAACP, 1916-1941 Box 28 0823 Records of the National Association of Teachers in Colored Schools, 1931-1932 0839 Records of the National Urban League. 1919-1930 0896 Records of the National Urban League. 1931-1933 0959 Records of the National Urban League. 1934-1935 1013 Records of the Neighborhood Union, 1925-1936 1076 Records of the Neighborhood Union. Undated. 1201 Records of the YMCA, 1918-1927. 1450 Records of the YMCA. 1928-1937. 1642 Records of the YMCA, Undated Reel 20 Personal Financial Records, 1931-1940; Undated Invoices, tax statements, property records, some savings and checking statements, and contributions are among the usual family items included here. Those without dates are at the end of the reel. Box 29 0001 Personal Financial Records, 1888-1927. 0148 Personal Financial Records, 1928-1930. 0259 Personal Financial Records, 1931-1934 0440 Personal Financial Records, 1934-1940 0684 Personal Financial Records, Undated Reel 21 Articles, Essays, Manuscripts, 1888-1938 These items go back to Dr. Hope's student days at Worcester Academy He and Mrs. Hope were very much in demand as speakers for churches, schools, and civic organizations. Hope also spoke frequently to the students and faculty at Morehouse His published works are limited to articles and essays, several of them in newspapers, college publications, and magazines. Box 29 cont. 0001 Articles and Essays. 1888-1938.

14 0078 Articles and Essays, Undated—Manuscript 0154 Articles and Essays, 1894 1928—Printed 0205 Speeches and Addresses. 1892-1937 0213 Speeches and Addresses. Undated.

15 Appendices A Check List of Hope Correspondents Appearing in the Dictionary ol Negro Biography New York: W.W Norton. 1982 Abbott, Robert S , p. 1 Barber, J. Max, p. 27 Bethune, Mary McLeod, p. 40 Brawley, Benjamin G., p 60 Brown, Charlotte Hawkins, p. 65 Burroughs, Nannie, p. 81 Clement, Rufus E.. p. 117 Crogman, William H„ p 140 Davis, Benjamin J., Sr., p 159 Davis, Benjamin J., Jr., p. 160 DePriest, Oscar S.. p. 173 DuBois, W.E.B.. p. 193 Frazier, E. Franklin, p. 241 Garvey. Marcus M„ p. 254 Greener, Richard T„ p. 267 Haynes, George E„ p. 297 Hill, Mozell C„ p. 309 Hunt, Henry A., p. 334 Johnson, Charles S., p. 347 Johnson, James Weldon, p. 353 Jones, Eugene Kinckle, p 364 Laney, Lucy C„ p 380 Long, Jefferson F._ p. 405 Lynch, John R , p. 407 Miller, Kelly, p. 435 Moorland, Jesse E., p. 448 Moton, Robert Russa, p 459 Murphy, Carl. p. 461 Pickens, William, p. 491 Proctor, Henry Hugh, p 505 Reid, Ira De A., p. 519 Rogers, Joel A., p 531 Scarborough, William S . p 545 Scott, Emmett, p 549 Spaulding, Charles C., p 567

16 Tobias. Channing H.. p 593 Trent. William J , p. 601 Trotter, William Monroe, p 603 Walden, Austin T.. p. 621 Walters, Alexander, p. 630 Washington, Booker T.. p 633 White, Walter F„ p 646 Wiliams. William T.B , p. 661 Woodson. Carter G., p. 665 Work, Monroe N.. p 667 Wright. Richard R . Sr., p 674 Young, Charles, p. 677 Young, P B . p. 679 B Check List of Articles and Essays by John Hope "Missionary Work is Needed Among Negroes." The Baptist Home Mission Monthly, XXIII. April. 1901, pp. 110-111. "Our Atlanta Schools." The Voice of the Negro. January. 1904. p. 11. "The Negro in the United States." in John Hope and T.J. Woofter, Relations Between the Black and White Races in America New York: International Missionary Council. 1928. pp. 7-18. "The Negro and Business." Atlanta University Papers. 1931, pp 1-10