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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 Copyright © 1984 by Morehouse College. All rights reserved. ISBN 0-89093-696-X. TABLE OF CONTENTS 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 v Reel 10 Official Correspondence, Jan. 1, 1931-Dec. 31, 1936 ................ 7 Reel 11 Official Correspondence, Jan. 1, 1937-June 1, 1943 .................. 8 Reel 12 O) Official Organizations Correspondence, 1911-1928 .. Personal Correspondence, Jan. 1-July 31, 1896 ....... <T> Reel 13 Personal Correspondence, Aug. 1, 1896-Dec. 31. 1915 ............. 9 Reel 14 Personal Correspondence, Jan. 1, 1916-Dec. 31, 1920 ............. 10 Reel 15 Personal Correspondence, Jan. 1, 1921-Jan. 31, 1929 .............. 11 Reel 16 Personal Correspondence, Feb. 1-June30, 1929 ...................... 11 Reel 17 Personal Correspondence, July 1, 1929-Dec. 31, 1934 ............. 12 Reel 18 Personal Correspondence, Jan. 1, 1935-Sept. 1, 1947 ............... 13 Personal Correspondence, Undated .............................................. 13 Reel 19 Official Records, 1915-1939 .......................................................... 13 Financial Records, 1928-1930 ....................................................... 13 Reel 20 Personal Financial Records, 1931-1934 ...................................... 14 Personal Financial Records, Undated .......................................... 14 Reel 21 Articles; Essays; Manuscripts, 1888-1938 ................................... 14 Appendices A Check List of Hope Correspondents Appearing in the Dictionary of Negro Biography............................................... 16 B Check List of Published Articles and Essays by John Hope....................................................................................... 17 vi 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