11. Bethune, Mary McLeod
1923-1945 and n.d.
1.2 ft.

Mary McLeod Bethune was the founder of Bethune-Cookman College, a member of President F.D. Roosevelt's "Negro Cabinet," and the president of the National Association of Colored Women. The collection primarily consists of correspondence, diaries, writings, speeches, lists of contributions, articles, clippings, biographical news stories, and other materials. Of particular interest is a speech she wrote for her acceptance of the NAACP's Spingarn Medal in 1935.

---

12. Bishop, Edward S. and Eva Louise Hunter
ca. 1968-1982
ca. 45 items

Edward Bishop was executive director of the T.V.A. Planning Commission and an alderman of the city of Corinth, Mississippi. Eva Bishop was a Corinth elementary school principal and president of the Mississippi Federation of Colored Women's Clubs. This collection includes correspondence, minutes, press clippings, and other printed items.

---

13. Brice, Carol Lovette
1905-1986 and n.d.
5.6 ft.

Carol Brice Lovette was an opera singer and contralto recitalist, and the first American to win the Walter H. Naumberg Award. This collection includes correspondence, programs, reviews, publicity materials, photographs, and phonograph records.

---

14. Bush, Ethel Boyd
1957-1959
0.2 ft.

Yearbooks of Bush Elementary School, a private school in New Orleans.

---

15. Cann, Reber Simpkins
ca. 923-1985
2.4 ft.

Cann was a Cincinnati social worker and civic leader, and the national secretary and vice-president of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority. The collection includes correspondence, notes, minutes, reports, and collected printed items.

---

16. Cartwright, Marguerite
ca. 1905-1984 and n.d.
107.8 ft.

Marguerite Cartwright was an actress, teacher, correspondent in the United Nations Press Corps, and a member of board of University of Nigeria at Nsukka. This voluminous collection consists principally of photographs, pamphlets, press clippings, and other collected items. A significant part of the collection is records of the University of Nigeria, which document the founding of the school and its early history.

---

17. Catlett, Elizabeth
1902-1984 and n.d.
1.6 ft., and 1 box and 0.2 ft.

Papers of Elizabeth Catlett (b. 1919) sculptor and graphic artist. She was one of the first African-American artists to gain recognition in the 1930s and 1940s. Includes correspondence and enclosures, collected printed items, motion picture films, and oral history recordings. Some unprocessed material. This is a rich resource for the study of twentieth century women artists.

---

18. Chamberlain, Mary E.
1848-1906
0.4 ft.

Mary E. Chamberlin was the daughter of a Congregational minister and music teacher at Oberlin Conservatory and Chicago Theological Seminary. She became a music teacher at Fisk University. Includes correspondence, pamphlets, photographs, and scrapbooks.

---

19. Collins Family
1889-1970 and n.d.
3 ft. and 2 boxes

Items are mostly about the Reverend Malachi C. Collins, a Mississippi Methodist cleric, teacher, and mortician; his wife, Mary Augusta Rayford Collins, the first black American librarian in the state; and his sister, Sophronia Ann Collins Easly, a lay church leader. This collection is about one-third correspondence.

---

20. Committee on Civil Rights in Metropolitan New York
1949-1966
ca. 50,000 items

Archives of this interracial, independent organization, which from 1949 until 1966, worked for the elimination of racial discrimination in Manhattan. Led by Edna Mercer and supported entirely by volunteers, many of them women, the Committee first worked to end racial discrimination in East Manhattan restaurants. Later, the group expanded to include all of metropolitan New York and concentrated its efforts on housing desegregation.