Claude A. Barnett papers, 1918-1967, bulk 1928-1963
Claude Barnett, Etta Moten Barnett, Frances Payne Bingham Bolton, Horace Mann Bond, Sherman Briscoe, George Washington Carver, J. V. Clinton, Henry B. Cole, Frank Marshall Davis, Rudolph Dunbar, Alice Allison Dunnigan, E. M. Glucksman, Albon L. Holsey, Charles Spurgeon Johnson, Mordecai W. Johnson, Frederick D. Jordan, Harry Levette, Robert Russa Moton, Clarence Muse, Frederick D. Patterson, Williams Pickens, Frank E. Pinder, Percival Leroy Prattis, Emmanuel Racine, John Charles Robinson, James E. Shepard, Jesse O. Thomas, Channing H. Tobias, William V. S. Tubman, Annie T. Malone, Alvin E. White, William L. Dawson, American National Red Cross Chicago Chapter, Associated Negro Press, Booker T. Washington Institute (Kakata, Liberia), Liberia Company, Phelps-Stokes Fund, Provident Hospital (Chicago, Ill), Supreme Liberty Life Insurance Company (Chicago, Ill), Tuskegee Institute, United States Department of Agriculture, World News Service (Chicago, Ill), Conference of Presidents of Negro Land Grant Colleges, American Negro Exposition
Correspondence, clippings, reports, minutes, speeches, and financial records of Claude Albert Barnett, the director of the Associated Negro Press (ANP); news releases of the ANP (1928-1964) and of the World News Service (1961-1963). Topics include African American newspapers and journalists; colleges, especially Tuskegee Institute and the Conference of Presidents of Negro Land Grant Colleges; businesses, especially advertising, beauty products, and insurance; churches; hospitals; fraternal societies; entertainment; agricultural extension services; racial segregation and integration of the United States armed forces; the home front during World War II; and African travel and culture, especially in Liberia, Ghana, and Nigeria. Also includes materials on Barnett's family and the singing and acting career of Etta Moten (Mrs. Barnett), including correspondence and advertising
Archival Material, English, 1918