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Robert Burns Eleazer Papers:
Box 1

Adams, Sherman (The White House) – 2 (1953)
Alexander, Will Winton (Commission on Interracial Cooperation, Office of Production Management War Manpower Commission) – 8 (1922, 1941-43, 1950)
Armstrong, O. K. – 1 (1941)
Ashley, Albert (Henry Street Settlement) – 1 (1933)
Atkins, F. L. (The Winston-Salem Teacher’s College) – 1 (1940)
Atkinson, Henry A. (World Alliance for International Friendship through the Churches) – 1 (1921)

Barnett, R. Ira – 1 (1940) (carbon; original to Ludd M. Spivey)
Bass, Ross (United States Senate) – 1 (1966)
Bayless, W. P. (Pittsburgh Courier) – 1 (1944)
Beaird, Pat (Abingdon-Cokesbury Press) – 1 (1949)
Beauchamp, Luke G. (General Board of Education of the Methodist Church) – 1 (1950)
Bell. W. A. (Miles College) -1 (1942)
Bell, William H. (Alcorn A & M College) – 1 (1942)
Bethune, Mary McLeod (National Youth Administration) – 2 (1942-43)
Bludworth, G.T. (Texas State Department of Education) – 1 (1928)
Bond, H. M. (The Fort Valley State College) – 1 (1942)
Boss, Charles F., Jr. (Commission on World Peace) – 1 (1946)
Braddy, Haldeen (Texas Christian University) – 1 (1940)
Brasfield, T. W. (Harrison-Stone-Jackson Agricultural High School and Junior College) – 1 (1939)
Brearley, H. C. (Clemson Agricultural College, George Peabody College for Teachers) – 6 (1938-39, 1942-43, 1947)
Brigham, G. R. (Brenau College) – 1 (1942)
Brockman, Fletcher S. – 1 (1942)
Brown, Ernest E. (State of Oklahoma Department of Public Instruction) – 1 (1940)
Brown, Walter M. – 1 (1941)
Browning, Gordon (Tennessee Executive Chamber) – 2 (1950-51)
Brownlee, Fred L. (The Board of Home Missions of the Congregational and Christian Churches) – 1 (1942)
Bryan, William Jennings – 1 (1916) (with 3-page signed manuscript ,“Christian Preparedness,” with holograph revisions)
Buffington, Willie L. (Faith Cabin Library) – 4 (1933) (to Will W. Alexander; with one clipping, 6 photographs, and 2 typed manuscripts, “The Story of My Life” and “How Faith Cabin Came into Existence”)
Bullock, R. W. (YMCA) – 1 (1929)
Burroughs, Nannie H. (National Trade and Professional School for Women and Girls) – 1 (1943)
Byrns, Joseph W. (House of Representatives) – 4 (1919-22)

Caldwell, Millard F. (State of Florida Executive Department) – 1 (1946)
Caliver, Ambrose (Federal Security Agency) – 2 (1943, 1953)
Camp, Cordelia (Western Carolina Teachers College) – 1 (1941)
Cannon, T. Carlisle (Methodist Episcopal Church, South) – 1 (1932)
Capper, Arthur (United States Senate) – 1 (1941)
Carney, Mabel (Rural Education) – 1 (1929) (to W.W. Alexander)
Carney, Mabel (Columbia University) – 2 (1931-35)
Carr, I. N. (Mars Hill College) – 1 (1941)
Carruth, J. E. (South Georgia Teachers College) – 1 (1939)
Carver, George Washington (Tuskeegee Normal and Industrial Institute) – 1 (1931)
Chappell, Joe (United States Senate) – 1 (1939)
Choate, Cautious A. (The Central Kansas Conference Board of Education) – 1 (1948)
Clark, Elmer T. (Board of Education, M E. Church, South) – 1 (1922)
Clark, J. L. (Sam Houston State Teachers College) – 1 (1943)
Clark, J. S. (Southern University) – 1 (1943)
Clarke, Edwin L. (Rollins College) – 1 (1943)
Clement, Rufus E. – 1 (1943)
Cole, William E. (The University of Tennessee) – 1 (1942)
Comer, Harry F. (University of North Carolina) – 1 (1925)
Cook, Howard (Department of State) – 2 (1953-54)
Coxe, John E. (State of Louisiana Department of Education) - 1 (1938)
Crippen, Lee F. (Berea College) – 2 (1939)
Cromley, B. F. (Saluda County Supt. of Education) – 1 (1933) (to Will Alexander)
Cummings, Thomas L., Jr. – 1 (1966)
Cuninggim, J. L. (Scarritt College for Christian Workers) – 1 (1942)
Currie, Thomas W. (The Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary) – 1 (1942)

Dabney, Virginius (Richmond-Times Dispatch) – 1 (1944)
Daniel, J. McT. (University of South Carolina) – 1 (1941)
Dannelly, C. M. (Montgomery Public Schools) – 1 (1943)
Davage, M. S. – 1 (1942)
Davidson, Alan (British Embassy) – 1 (n.d.)
Davis, Jackson (Central Education Board) – 3 (1942-43)
Derbigny, I. A. (Tuskeegee Institute) – 1 (1950)
Dixon, J. C. (Mercer University) – 1 (1942)
Dorsey, Hugh M. (State of Georgia Executive Chambers) – 1 (1921)
Dowell, Spright (Mercer University) – 2 (1939, 1941)
Downs, Mrs. J. W. (Board of Missions and Church Extension of the Methodist Church) – 1 (1943)
Dunkle, John L. (State Teachers College, Frostburg, Md.) – 1 (1939)

Edmonds, Henry M. (Rollins College) – 1 (1943)
Edwards, Helen (Biloxi Public Schools) – 1 (1937)
Edwards, W. T. (State of Florida, Department of Education) – 1 (1940)
Eisenberg, Larry (The General Board of Education of the Methodist Church) – 1 (1945)
Eisenhower, Dwight D. – 1 (1952)
Ellison, Virginia F. (Missionary Education Movement of the United States and Canada) – 1 (1944)
Embree, Edwin R. (Julius Rosenwald Fund) – 1 (1943)
Eppse, Merl R. (Tennessee Agricultural and Industrial State College) – 1 (1933)
Ethridge, Mark (The Courier-Journal & The Louisville Times) - 1 (1942)

Franstead, N. (American Relief Administration Children’s Fund) - 1 (1919)
Frost, Norman (George Peabody College for Teachers) – 1 (1941)
Fugate, Mary C. (Averett College) – 1 (1940)
Fulbright, J. W. (United States Senate) – 1 (1966)
Fulton, Richard (House of Representatives) – 1 (1966)

Garrison, S. C. (George Peabody College for Teachers) – 1 (1943)
George, Walter F. (United States Senate) – 3 (1940-41)
Gerber, Joe N. (Northwestern State College) – 1 (1948)
Gilliard, Edward Madison – 1 (1920)
Gilrow, William E. – 1 (1940)
Glenn, C. B. (Board of Education, Birmingham, Ala.) – 1 (1942)
Gore, Albert (United States Senate) – 3 (1953, 1966)
Granberry, John C. (The Emancipator) – 2 (1939)
Gratz, W. E. J. (The Epworth Herald) – 1 (1939)
Greeley, George – 1 (1939)
Groves, Charles P. – 1 (1931)
Gunn, W. Fred (West Georgia College) – (1943)

Hammaker, W. E. (The Methodist Church, Denver Area) – 1 (1948)
Harap, Henry (George Peabody College for Teachers) – 1 (1940)
Hargraves, Corliss P. (The Joint Department of Missionary Education, The Methodist Church) – 1 (1948)
Harlow, Ralph (Smith College) – 1 (1941)
Harris, Edward D., Jr. (Arkansas Senate) – 1 (n.d.)
Haygood, W. C. (South Georgia Teachers College) – 1 (1939)
Haynes, George E. (The Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America) – 2 (1943)
Hays, Brooks (House of Representatives) – 1 (1942)
Hearon, Murvise (Jena High School, La.) – 1 (1940)
Helms, F. Clyde (Shandon Baptist Church) – 1 (1943)
Hill, Lister (United States Senate) – 1 (1945)
Hill, Sylvia (Tennessee Women’s Christian Temperance Union, Work among Negroes) – 1 (1931)
Holden, Queen (United States Senate, Office of Senator George) -2 (1938-39)
Holley, J. W. (Georgia Normal and Agricultural College) – 1 (1939)
Horst, Edna C. – 1 (1932)
Hubert, Benjamin F. (Georgia State College) – 1 (1942)
Humphrey, Hubert H. (The Vice President) – 1 (1966)
Hunt, R. L. (Magnolia Public Schools) – 1 (1942)

Jackson, W. C. (University of North Carolina, Greensboro) – 2 (1942-43)
James, Mrs. W. C. (Women’s Missionary Union) – 1 (1929)
Jeter, Olyve L. – 1 (1943)
Jett, L. B. – 1 (1940)
Johnson, Charles S. (Fisk University) – 2 (1942-43)
Johnson, F. Earnest (Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America) – 1 (1922)
Johnson, Glenn R. – 1 (1937)
Johnson, Mordecai W. (Howard University) – 1 (1942)
Jonas, Richard O. (Hardin Junior College) – 1 (1940)
Jones, Laurence C. (Piney Woods School) – 1 (1933)
Jones, M. Ashby – 1 (1943)
Jones, Robert E. (The Methodist Church, New Orleans) – 1 (1942)
Jones, Thomas E. (Fisk University) – 5 (1942-43)
Jones, Thomas Jesse (Phelps-Stokes Fund) – 5 (1942-43) (one each to Jackson Davis and S.C. Mitchell)

Kahn, Julius M. (Anti-Defamation league of B’Nai B’Rith) - 1 (1948)
Keech, Vera M. (Supervisor of Schools, Colbert County, Ala.) - 1 (1940)
Keel, Martha Kathryn – 1 (1938)
Kefauver, Estes (United States Senate) – 6 (1950, 1952-53, 1957-58)
Keith, Roger (Life Magazine) – 1 (1965)
Kern, Paul B. (The Methodist Church, Nashville Area) – 2 (1948, 1951)
King, William Peter (Christian Advocate) – 1 (1940)
King, Willis J. (Gammon Theological Seminary) – 3 (1942-44)
Knobbs, Pauline D. (Northeast Missouri State Teachers College) - 2 (1940)

Lambert, J. S. (State of Alabama, Department of Education) – 1 (1941) (with 1 clipping)
Lane, J. F. (Lane College) – 2 (1921, 1933)
Latture, R. N. (Washington and Lee University) – 1 (1940)
Libby, Frederick J. – 1 (1941)
Loescher, Frank S. (Randolph-Macon Women’s College) – 1 (1940)
Lowrey, Lawrence T. (Blue Mountain College) – 1 (1942)
Lynch, Frederick (The Christian Work, Save the Children Fund) -1 (1920)
Lyon, Ralph M. (The Citadel) – 1 (1928)

Mangun, Vernon L. (Mary Hardin-Baylor College) – 1 (1941)
Marshall, Peter (British Embassy) – 1 (1953)
Martin, Mrs. Attwood (Association of Southern Women for the Prevention of Lynching) – 1 (1942)
Martin, Paul E. (The Methodist Church, Ark. La Area) – 1 (1948)
Mason, Lucy R. (Congress of Industrial Organizations) – 1 (1942)
Maston, T. B. (Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary) – 1 (1943)
Mays, Benjamin E. (Morehouse College) – 2 (1942, 1948)
McDowell, Edward A. (Southern Baptist Theological Seminary) - 1 (1943)
McGeacy, D. P. (Decatur Presbyterian Church) – 1 (1938)
McKellar, Kenneth (United States Senate) – 6 (1919-20, 1922, 1946-48)
McPherson, N. C., Jr. (Wesleyan College) – 2 (1943)
Meyer, Harold D. (University of North Carolina) – 2 (1939)
Mitchell, George S. (Southern Regional Council) – 2 (1955)
Mitchell, S. C. (University of Richmond) – 2 (1942)
Moffat, Pierrepont (Department of State) – 1 (1938)
Moore, Fred Atkins (Emergency Peace Campaign) – 4 (1936)
Moreland, J. Earl (Randolph-Macon College) – 1 (1943)
Morgan, Laura (Time Incorporated) – 1 (1965)
Morton, Nelle (Executive Committee of Religious Education and Publication) – 2 (1944)
Mullin, James P. (Emergency Peace Campaign) – 1 (n.d.) (to Carl Atkins)
Myers, James (The Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America) – 3 (1943-1952)
Myers, Joseph (Emergency Peace Campaign) – 1 (1936)

Nelson, Mrs. Claud (Emergency Peace Campaign) – 1 (1937)
Newbold. N. C. (State of North Carolina, Superintendent of Public Instruction) – 2 (1942-43)
Nutter, H. E. (University of Florida) – 1 (1939)
Odum, Howard W. (University of North Carolina, Commission on Interracial Cooperation) – 5 (1942-44)
O’Neill, Patrick (St. Bernard College) – 1 (1940)

Page, Stephen (House of Representatives) – 1 (1941)
Page, Kirby (Emergency Peace Campaign) – 3 (1936)
Patten, Arthur B. – 1 (1933)
Patterson, F. D. (Tuskeegee Institute) – 1 (1942)
Patton, Leslie K. (Tusculum College) – 1 (1940)
Paty, Raymond R. (University of Alabama) – 1 (1942)
Payne, Bruce R. (George Peabody College for Teachers) – 1 (1933)
Phipps, W. E. (State of Arkansas, Department of Education) – 1 (1933)
Pierce, Lucile (Wesleyan Foundation) – 1 (1948)
Piney Woods Country Life School – 1 (1939)
Pinson, W. W. (Board of Missions, Methodist Episcopal Church, South) – 4 (1922)
Poole, Frederick G. (Board of Christian Education) – 1 (1943)
Potts, J. Manning (Greene Memorial Methodist Church) – 1 (1940)
Priest, J. Percy (House of Representatives) – 8 (1944, 1946-48, 1952)

Ramspeck, Robert (House of Representatives) – 7 (1938-41)
Raper, Arthur (U.S. Department of Agriculture) – 1 (1943)
Read, Florence M. (Spelman College) – 3 (1933, 1943-44)
Reid, Rebecca (South Carolina Committee on Interracial Cooperation) -1 (1943)
Reynolds, J. H. (Hendrix College) – 1 (1942)
Reynolds, Julia R. – 1 (1938)
Rhodes, E. Washington (The Philadelphia Tribune) – 1 (1928)
Rice, John A. (First M.E. Church, South) – 1 (n.d.)
Richardson, Harry V. (Tuskeegee Institute) – 1 (1939)
Richardson, M. L. (The Macon Daily Telegraph) – 1 (1924)
Rittenhouse (Southern Junior College) – 1 (1939)
Roberts, A. H. (Governor of Tennessee) – 1 (1919)
Robertson, Frank L. (Glenn Memorial Methodist Church) – 1 (1940)
Russell, Daniel (Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas) -2 (1940)
Russell, Richard B., Jr. (United States Senate) – 8 (1939-41)

St. Patrick, Sister Mary (Our Lady of Victory College) – 1 (1940)
Sanders, Irwin T. (Alabama College) – 1 (1940)
Sanford, Gilbert A. (University of Mississippi) – 1 (1942)
Scarborough, J. R. (Dept. of Public Schools, City of Jefferson) - 1 (1933)
Schisler, john Q. (Methodist Board of Education, Nashville) – 3 (1943-48, 1952)
Seigenthaler, John (The Nashville Tennessean) – 1 (1967)
Shelby, T. H. (University of Texas) – 2 (1939-40)
Showalter, B. R. (Alabama Polytechnic Institute) – 1 (1941)
Smith, Lyn (Keep America Out of War Congress) – 1 (1939)
Spaulding. C. C. (North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company) - 1 (1943)
Spivey, Ludd M. (Florida Southern College) – 1 (1942)
Starks, J. J. (Benedict College) – 1 (1943)
Stern, Edgar B. – 1 (1942)
Stevens, Thelma (Women’s Missionary Council of the M.E. Church, South) – 2 (1940, 1943)
Stevenson, John R. (Personal Assistant to John Foster Dulles) – 1 (1952)
Stewart, Tom (United States Senate) – 6 (1943-45, 1947)
Stigler, W. A. (Texas State Department of Education) – 1 (1939)
Sutton, Pat (House of Representatives) – 1 (1952)
Sutton, Willis (Atlanta Board of Education) – 2 (1938) (1 to Mike Benton)
Sweets, Henry H. (Christian Education and Ministerial Relief of the Presbyterian Church) -1 (1942)

Talmadge, Eugene (State of Georgia Executive Department) – 1 (1935)
Tanner, Dudley (State of Tennessee Dept. of Education) – 1 (1933)
Teilmann, Mrs. Gunnar J., Jr. – 1 (1950)
Tenerowicz, Rudolph G. (House of Representatives) – 1 (1941)
Thirkield, Wilbur P. (Methodist Episcopal Church) – 1 (1928)
Thomas, Wilbur K. (American Friends Service Committee) – 2 (1920)
Thompson, W. Taliaferro (Union Theological Seminary) – 2 (1940)
Tobias, Channing H. (The National Council of the Young Men’s Christian Association) – 1 (1942)
Towner, Walter (General Board of Education of the Methodist Church) – 1 (1946) (to H.H. Newsom)
Trabert, Charles L. (Newberry College) – 1 (1942)
Treanor, Paul W. (City of Nashville Commission Government) - 1 (1919)

Upshaw, William D. (House of Representatives) – 1 (1927)
Van Der Veer, McClellan (The Birmingham News) – 1 (1939)

Walker, A. B. – 1 (1940)
Washington, Forrester. B. (Atlanta University School of Social Work) – 1 (1942)
Waterfield, - 1 (1922)
Watkins, Grace L. (University of Richmond) – 1 (1940)
Weatherford, W. D. (Blue Ridge) – 1 (1942)
Weeks, Roger – 1 (1940)
Weems, Camilla (Georgia State College) – 1 (1940)
White, Walter (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) – 2 (1932, 1943) (1 to W. W. Alexander)
Whitaker, M. F. (State Agricultural and Mechanical College) – 1 (1942)
Wilbourn, Margaret E. (Judson College) – 1 (1939)
Wiley, Samuel S. (First Presbyterian Church, Anderson, S.C.) - 1 (1950)
Winton, G. B. (Committee on Cooperation in Latin America) – 2 (1917, 1921)
Woods, L. A. (Texas State Dept. of Education) – 1 (1933)
Worden, Helen D. (Randolph-Macon College) – 1 (1941)

Yeuell, Gladstone H. (University of Alabama) – 1 (1941)
Young, P. B. (Journal and Globe, Norfolk, VA.) – 2 (1940, 1942)

CORRESPONDENCE – OUTGOING

Correspondence (Outgoing, 1906 – 1929)
Correspondence (Outgoing, 1930 – 1939)
Correspondence (Outgoing, 1940 – 1942)
Correspondence (Outgoing, 1943 – 1948)
Correspondence (Outgoing, 1950 – 1959)
Correspondence (Outgoing, 1965 – 1971 and undated)

BIOGRAPHICAL MATERIALS

Typescript of My First Eighty Years (pages 1 – 39)
Typescript of My First Eighty Years (pages 40 – 80)
Typescript of My First Eighty Years (pages 81 – 106)
“My First Ninety Years,” printed in The Park Manor Reporter, (October 1967, vol. 1, no. 6)
½” reel-to-reel tape of interview by John Egerton, April 8, 1973
Transcription of interview done by John Egerton, April 8, 1973

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