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[Identification of item], in the American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, and Recreation Records, #4095, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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Deposit 1976-

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• American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, and Recreation. Southern District
• Dodson, Nathan Taylor, 1922-1969.
• Hitchcock, Edward, 1828-1911.
• Mehling, Jessie Reid Garrison.
• Physical education and training--Southern States.
• Plunkett, Emma W.
• Sharman, Jackson Roger, 1895-1957.
• Soule, Mary Ella.
• Suddruth, Solon B.

The American Association (later Alliance) for Health, Physical Education and Recreation, a division of the National Education Association, was formed in 1927 "to awaken a wide and intelligent interest in physical and health education; to acquire and disseminate knowledge concerning it; and to promote such universal physical and health education as will provide well-trained teachers and secure adequate programs throughout the South." The Southern District includes Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia.

The records, which are arranged by year, include lists of members, officers, and convention delegates; convention programs; minutes and reports, including financial reports, of the Southern Division organization, its officers, conventions, and constituent boards and committees; correspondence; publications; clippings; and constitutions. Volumes include biographies of Nathan Taylor Dodson, Edward Hitchcock, Jessie Reid Garrison Mehling, Emma W. Plunkett, Jackson Roger Sharman, Mary Ella Soule, and Solon B. Sudduth, and histories of the individual state associations and of the development of physical education in the South.