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| Size | 61.0 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 20400 items) |
| Abstract | The papers of white social science researcher and member of the University of North Carolina faculty, Guy Benton Johnson (1901-1991), contains correspondence, research project files, subject files, writings, speeches, pedagogical materials, organizational files, printed items, photographs of family and colleagues, and images and sound recordings related to his field research. Johnson corresponded professionally with sociologists, historians, intellectuals, civil rights advocates, civic leaders, labor leaders, and writers, including W.E.B. Du Bois, Langston Hughes, Charles S. Johnson, H.L. Menken, H.L. Mitchell, Gunnar Myrdal, Howard Washington Odum, Arthur Franklin Raper, C.C. Spaulding, Carl Van Vechten, and Marion A. Wright. Project files document Johnson’s sociological research on the Ku Klux Klan, Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina, musical abilities of African Americans, African American folk songs and folklore, legend of John Henry, desegregation in higher education, and Gullah Geechee people, culture, and language on Saint Helena Island in South Carolina. Also included are research files related to Johnson’s work on Gunnar Myrdal’s 1944 study of race relations in the United States, An American Dilemma. Subject files cover various topics including West Africa, Chapel Hill (N.C.) Riot in 1937; racism (segregation, anti-integration, eugenics), and Black Power. Organizational files document Johnson’s affiliations with the Southern Regional Council, North Carolina Council on Human Relations, Phelps-Stokes Fund, Howard University Board of Trustees, Institute for Research in Social Sciences, Southern Sociological Society, and other professional associations. Sound recordings on disc, tape, wax cylinder, and wire are chiefly of music and folk tales related to field work he conducted on Saint Helena Island, S.C. |
| Creator | Johnson, Guy Benton, 1901- |
| Curatorial Unit | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection. |
| Language | English |
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Biographical Information
Guy Benton Johnson was one of the original research assistants at the University of North Carolina's Institute for Research in Social Science, and joined the University's faculty in 1927. He became Kenan professor of anthropology and sociology in 1963 and retired six years later.
A native of Caddo Mills, Tex., Johnson earned a bachelor's degree from Baylor University in 1921, a master's degree from the University of Chicago in 1922, and a doctoral degree from the University of North Carolina in 1927.
He began studying African American culture, including folk music and dialect, in the 1920s. During that decade, he focused on Saint Helena Island, S.C., near Beaufort, where he became familiar with the music, folklore, and Gullah language of the inhabitants. His publications included The Negro and His Songs (with Howard Odum, 1925); Negro Workaday Songs (with Odum, 1926), John Henry, A Negro Legend (1929); and The Folk Culture of Saint Helena Island (1930).
During the 1930s and early 1940s Johnson conducted more purely sociological studies of the effects of the Depression on African Americans and the social structure of the Lumbee Indians of Robeson County, N.C. In 1939-1940, he, along with his wife Guion, participated in the well known Myrdal study of African American life, administered by Gunnar Myrdal, a Swedish sociologist. Their work for this study included investigations of crime in African American communities, African American churches, and racial ideologies among whites.
From 1944 to 1947, Johnson was executive director of the Southern Regional Council. He later, in the 1950s, directed studies in African American education for the Fund for the Advancement of Education. He also travelled extensively in Africa in the 1960s and early 1970s and studied race relations on the continent. Johnson was a fellow of the Social Science Research Council, the American Anthropological Association, and the American Sociological Association.
For 37 years, Johnson served as a trustee of Howard University.
Johnson was married to Guion Griffis Johnson, who was also active in social science research. They had two sons: Guy Benton Johnson, Jr., and Edward J. Johnson, psychology professor at the University of North Carolina.
Selected Bibliography of Non-Fiction and Fiction Works by Johnson
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Scope and Content
The collection consists of papers, mostly correspondence and research project files, relating chiefly to Johnson's work at the University of Chicago and at UNC on the Ku Klux Klan; musical abilities of African Americans and white Americans; African American folksongs; the John Henry legend; the folklore and language (Gullah) of Saint Helena Island, S.C.; Lumbee Indians of Robeson County, N.C.; and the desegregation of higher education. Many items relate to his and Guion's participation in the Gunnar Myrdal Study of the American Negro, 1939-1940. Subject files cover various topics including West Africa, Chapel Hill (N.C.) Riot in 1937; racism (segregation, anti-integration, eugenics), and Black Power. There are also materials documenting Johnson's work with the Southern Regional Council, of which he was director in 1944-1947; the North Carolina Council on Human Relations; the Phelps-Stokes Fund; and the Howard University Board of Trustees; and his service to professional sociological organizations. Also included are writings by Johnson, pedagogical materials, photographs and other materials relating to his family in North Carolina and Texas and career. Johnson's correspondents included Langston Hughes, Charles S. Johnson, C.C. Spaulding, H.L. Mencken, Carl van Vechten, W.E.B. Du Bois, Marion Wright, and many other intellectuals, scholars, writers, and activists, both black and white. Audiovisual materials include recordings of speeches, music, and folk tales on audio tapes, audio discs, wax cylinders, and wire recordings, primarily from Johnson's field research on Saint Helena Island, S.C.
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Series 1. General Correspondence, 1917-1989.
Arrangement: chronological.
Primarily correspondence of Johnson after he retired from the University of North Carolina in 1969, with substantial correspondence while a professor, and scattered letters received as a graduate student. No letters appear for 1920-1921, 1926, 1935 1937, 1939, 1941, 1949, or 1951-1952. Includes mostly letters exchanged with colleagues, students, friends, and family members, discussing the Gullah dialect, race relations, Africa, desegregation in higher education, miscellaneous research projects, North Carolina and Texas politics, World War II soldiers' experiences, and family news. A number of letters provide recollections by Johnson and his colleagues of his career and Johnson's memories of others, including Howard Washington Odum, Gunnar Myrdal, and W. E. B. Du Bois.
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Subseries 1.1.1917-1919, 1922-1925, 1927-1929.
Arrangement: chronological.
Scattered correspondence with Howard Odum, Katharine Jocher, and other colleagues, friends, and publishers pertaining mostly to Johnson's attendance and research at UNC and publication of his master's thesis and a play he had written. Of note are a letter from a graduate student at the University of Kansas, describing his experiences there; two letters dated 1919 from a young French woman expressing gratitude toward American soldiers for their defense of France; and a letter, dated 22 October 1919, informing Johnson that he had been licensed to "preach the Gospel."
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1917-1919, 1922-1925, 1927-1929 |
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Subseries 1.2. 1930-August 1969.
Johnson's correspondence, mostly 1960s, while a professor at the University of North Carolina, including letters exchanged with family members, colleagues, students, and friends. Many of the early letters are from Johnson's father in Abilene and his brother VKC in Caddo Mills, Tex., and discuss Texas politics, the Ku Klux Klan, crops, and family news. Johnson also received a number of letters from his son Benny, a student at University of North Carolina in the late 1940s, discussing campus politics and his studies. Correspondents of note among Johnson's colleagues are Howard Odum, Jessie Daniel Ames, H. L. Mitchell, and Marion Wright, though only scattered letters appear for each. Frequent topics include Johnson's early research projects carried out for the IRSS; segregation and the education of African Americans; the Brown v. Board of Education decision in 1954; Johnson's trip to Africa in 1959-1960 and exchange programs for African students; and opposition to the death penalty in North Carolina. Several letters from friends and former students give details of their experiences in the United States Army and United States Army Air Corps during World War II.
Two letters of special interest are one from Mack McCormick, dated 14 June 1958, discussing Paul Robeson's performance in the stage role of John Henry, and one from Johnson's daughter-in-law Nancy, dated 1 July 1960, describing the bitterness of the Lake-Sanford political race in North Carolina. Letters illuminating Johnson's personal attitudes appear dated 13 February 1963, when Johnson wrote his high-school teacher explaining his decision to become a Methodist, and 20 March 1969, when he wrote a colleague describing the development of his interest in studying African Americans.
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1930-1934 |
| Folder 3 |
1936, 1938, 1940 |
| Folder 4 |
1942-1943 |
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1944-1949 |
| Folder 6 |
1950, 1953-1958 |
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1959 |
| Folder 8 |
1960 |
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1961 |
| Folder 10 |
1962 |
| Folder 11 |
1963 |
| Folder 12 |
1964-1965 |
| Folder 13 |
1966 |
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Folder 14Folder 15Folder 16Folder 17 |
1967 |
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Folder 18Folder 19Folder 20 |
1968 |
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January-August 1969 |
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Subseries 1.3. September 1969-1989.
Johnson's correspondence after his retirement from University of North Carolina in 1969, chiefly letters exchanged with colleagues, including Gordon Blackwell, H. L. Mitchell, John Beecher, Lee Coleman, Arthur Raper, Len Lanham, and others, and with students and family members. Many of the items are letters of congratulations, invitations to speak, requests for recommendations, and similar items. Others discuss politics, the debate over the origins of the Gullah language, tax reform, Johnson's trips to Africa and Methodist missionary work there, Baylor University, the Howard University Board of Trustees, and Johnson's career.
Noteworthy items are an anecdotal letter, 5 October 1978, from Nels Anderson to Johnson and a letter, 19 October 1983, from Anderson to Edgar Thompson giving reminiscences of Johnson at the University of Chicago in 1920-1921, and a 9-p. memoir titled, "Recalling Past Events with Guy B. Johnson," enclosed in a letter from Arthur Raper dated 10 November 1978. Several letters give Johnson's impressions of others. In 1982 and September 1984 Johnson wrote several letters to David Southern commenting on the relationship between Howard Odum and Gunnar Myrdal, and he enclosed in a letter, 8 December 1975, to William Toll a personal recollection of W. E. B. Du Bois.
Additional items of interest include a sermon by Pauli Murray, titled "Gifts of the Holy Spirit to Women I Have Known," enclosed in a letter to Johnson dated 18 May 1978, and a letter, dated 12 October 1983, to Johnson discussing the controversy over Langston Hughes' appearance at University of North Carolina in 1931.
Family letters are mostly with Johnson's brothers VKC and Barney in Caddo Mills and his son Edward in Portland, Ore., and discuss family finances and health.
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September-December 1969 |
Folder 24-26
Folder 24Folder 25Folder 26 |
December 1970 |
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Folder 27Folder 28 |
1971 |
Folder 29-30
Folder 29Folder 30 |
1972 |
Folder 31-33
Folder 31Folder 32Folder 33 |
1973 |
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1974 |
Folder 35-38
Folder 35Folder 36Folder 37Folder 38 |
1976 |
Folder 39-40
Folder 39Folder 40 |
1977 |
Folder 41-43
Folder 41Folder 42Folder 43 |
1978 |
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1979 |
Folder 45-46
Folder 45Folder 46 |
1980 |
Folder 47-48
Folder 47Folder 48 |
1981 |
| Folder 49 |
1982 |
Folder 50-51
Folder 50Folder 51 |
1983 |
Folder 52-53
Folder 52Folder 53 |
1984 |
Folder 54-55
Folder 54Folder 55 |
1985 |
| Folder 56 |
1986 |
| Folder 57 |
1987-1989 |
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Subseries 1.4. Undated.
Chiefly holiday cards with scattered letters to Johnson from family members and friends, students, and colleagues. A few letters appear from Johnson's father and his brother VKC and from his son Benny. Of note is a letter signed "Horace" that discusses black power.
Folder 58-62
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Undated |
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Series 2. Alumni Office Files, 1924-1960s.
Three sets of files (2 alphabetical and 1 chronological) taken from Johnson's office in Alumni Hall on the University of North Carolina campus in 1970 and 1971. The files pertain to students, colleagues, and others; Johnson's professional, academic, and political activities; and travel. Included is information on civil rights, the Lumbee and Cherokee Indians of North Carolina, African American freedom celebrations, race relations, the U.S.A.-Africa Leader Exchange Program, and fraternities in which Johnson was involved. A number of addresses he gave to academic audiences are enclosed with the correspondence. Correspondents include a large number of political leaders, journalists, and intellectuals, among them Will W. Alexander, Jessie Daniel Ames, Claude Barnett, Mary McLeod Bethune, Sterling Brown, Ralph Bunche, W. E. B. Du Bois, John P. Davis, E. Franklin Frazier, Melville J. Herskovits, Langston Hughes, Charles S. Johnson, Percy Julian, Alain Locke, John Lomax, H. L. Mencken, Howard Odum, Hortense Powdermaker, Arthur Raper, Ira Reid, C. C. Spaulding, and others.
Note that original file folder titles have, for the most part, been retained.
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Subseries 2.1. Small Alphabetical File, 1924-1952.
Alphabetical correspondence and subject file, mostly 1930s-1950s, maintained by Johnson while a graduate student and professor at University of North Carolina. A number of folders appear on the "Encyclopedia of the Negro" project and on Johnson's students. Correspondence of interest appears with Cleveland Allen, with whom Johnson exchanged frequent letters, 1928-1932, concerning Negro folk songs; Samuel Asbury, with whom he corresponded, 1931-1933, concerning the relationship between white and black spirituals; Langston Hughes, with whom he corresponded, 1931-1932, concerning Hughes' appearance on the University of North Carolina campus in 1931; W. E. B. Du Bois, with whom he wrote, 1936-1939, concerning the "Encyclopedia of the Negro" project, and Horace Cayton, with whom Johnson exchanged letters, June 1936, discussing Johnson's work on the stratification of African American communities and the death of the Garvey movement. Additional correspondents of note include R. B. Eleazer, Rossa Cooley, Edwin Embree, and Calvin Floyd. Their letters, and those with miscellaneous others, discuss archaeology at University of North Carolina, the Participation of Negroes in Southern Life study (see W. C. Jackson file), the Ku Klux Klan, the Commission on Interracial Cooperation (see L. R. Reynolds file), and work on the "Drums and Shadows" project (see Mary Granger file).
An item of special interest is a memorandum, titled "Memorandum on My Appearance Before the Trustee Visiting Committee, January 16, 1948," in which Johnson describes his interrogation by the University of North Carolina Board of Trustees in relation to his racial views (see Confidential Memorandum file).
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Subseries 2.2. Large Alphabetical File, 1950-1960s.
Use Restriction: Folders 561-569 CLOSED.
Alphabetical subject and correspondence file, 1950-1960s, containing chiefly correspondence with colleagues concerning research projects in which Johnson was engaged and his professional and organizational activities. Topics include school desegregation (see especially folders for the Ashmore Project); civil rights; the Cherokee and Lumbee Indians of North Carolina; the John Henry legend; African Americans in the Depression (see folder for Arthur Raper); and interracial cooperation efforts. The files also document Johnson's participation in the Southern Regional Council and the American Sociological Association. Miscellaneous folders also appear containing materials Johnson collected on subjects of interest to him, including anti-integrationist sentiment, birds, University of North Carolina campus events and concerns, Communism, McCarthyism, and the University Methodist Church.
Besides correspondence, miscellaneous materials such as clippings, political flyers, pamphlets, speeches, and other items appear as enclosures to letters and in various subject folders. Correspondents of note are Jessie Daniel Ames, Carl Van Vechten, H. L. Mencken, Will W. Alexander, Claude Barnett, Mary McLeod Bethune, Ralph Bunche, W. E. B. Du Bois, Charles S. Johnson, Arthur Raper, Hortense Powdermaker, and Carter G. Woodson.
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Subseries 2.3. Correspondence Files, 1931-1969.
Miscellaneous correspondence, mostly with colleagues, concerning teaching, the formation of an archaeological society in North Carolina, Robeson County, N.C., the effects of the Depression on African Americans, activities of the North Carolina Division of the Southern Regional Council, desegregation of higher education, and Southern Sociological Society committee business. A few letters also appear from Johnson's family, mostly his son Benny in the 1960's. Correspondence also appears from a number of African students wishing to study in the United States. Correspondents include George Mitchell, C. C. Spaulding, J. Graham Cruikshank, Frederick Patterson, and Edgar Thompson.
Items of note include a letter, dated 7 June 1953, from Leone Matthews, denouncing a speech Johnson had given at Howard University and warning against the dangers he perceived in miscegenation, and a 1967 "Report by the Editors of Social Forces" to the Members of the Southern Sociological Society (folder 670).
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1931-1932 |
| Folder 648 |
1933 |
| Folder 649 |
1939-1940 |
| Folder 650 |
1947-1948 |
| Folder 651 |
1949 |
| Folder 652 |
1950 |
| Folder 653 |
1951 |
| Folder 654 |
1952 |
| Folder 655 |
1953 |
| Folder 656 |
1954 |
| Folder 657 |
1955 |
| Folder 658 |
1956 |
| Folder 659 |
1957-1960 |
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1961 |
| Folder 665 |
1962 |
| Folder 666 |
1963 |
| Folder 667 |
1964 |
| Folder 668 |
1965 |
| Folder 669 |
1966 |
| Folder 670 |
1967 |
| Folder 671 |
1968 |
| Folder 672 |
1969 |
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Series 3. Institutional Affiliations and Activities, 1918-1987.
Arrangement: by institution/activity.
Files concerning Johnson's affiliation with and activities on behalf of the Southern Regional Council, the Institute for Research in Social Sciences (IRSS), the North Carolina Council on Human Relations, the Phelps-Stokes Fund, and Howard University. The bulk of the materials pertain to the Southern Regional Council, including the period of Johnson's directorship, 1944-1947. Some materials relate to the North Carolina division of the Southern Regional Council. The remaining files pertain mostly to the IRSS, and include records kept by Katharine Jocher, 1929-1960, on the production and circulation of the IRSS's Journal of Social Forces. Only limited items appear on the IRSS's early history.
Materials include correspondence and memoranda, financial records, clippings, meeting minutes and agendas, work reports, publications, and other administrative files, and drafts of Guy and Guion Griffis Johnson's history of the IRSS. Other files document the history and activities of the NCCHR, and limited materials, mostly reports, meeting materials, and correspondence, give information on Johnson's role as a Trustee of the Phelps-Stokes Fund and Howard University.
Note that original file folder titles have, for the most part, been retained.
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Subseries 3.1. Institute for Research in Social Sciences, 1922-1982 and undated.
Primarily drafts of the history Guy and Guion Griffis Johnson prepared of the IRSS, and administrative files, correspondence, and financial records pertaining to IRSS research and publishing efforts and to the editing and printing of the Institute's official organ, the Journal of Social Forces. Most items fall within the 1930s-1950s period. Individuals best represented include Howard Odum and Gordon Blackwell.
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Subseries 3.1.1. Miscellaneous IRSS Files, 1922-1957.
Scattered administrative files (mostly 1940s-1950s) kept by Johnson, including correspondence and internal memoranda, reports of work done, research proposals, minutes of staff meetings (incomplete, 1947-1957), lists of IRSS publications and research projects, and a few manuscripts published under the auspices of the IRSS. Correspondence and memoranda, dated 1928-1930 and 1948-1957, is mostly with Gordon Blackwell, director of the IRSS, during the later years. A few items appear for Howard Odum.
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Subseries 3.1.2. Journal of Social Forces, 1929-1977 and undated.
Primarily financial correspondence and records with Baltimore printers Williams & Wilkins Company, 1929 1943, 1949-1950, 1952-1960, maintained by Katharine Jocher, and limited administrative and correspondence files kept by Johnson during his tenure as editor. Johnson's correspondence (mostly 1969) is with authors and peer reviewers about submissions. Miscellaneous items include draft manuscripts submitted and newspaper clippings. Information on circulation statistics can be found in folders labeled "Financial Notes" and "Early History." For additional files on Social Forces, see Subseries 4.1.
| Folder 697 |
An Analysis of the First Thirteen Volumes of Social Forces |
| Folder 698 |
Annual Report, 1970 |
| Folder 699 |
Clippings |
| Folder 700 |
Commentary and Articles |
| Folder 701 |
Correspondence, 1961-1964, 1966-1967 |
| Folder 702 |
Correspondence, 1968 |
| Folder 703 |
Correspondence, 1969 |
| Folder 704 |
Correspondence, 1970, 1972-1974, 1976-1977, and undated |
| Folder 705 |
Early History |
| Folder 706 |
Financial Notes |
| Folder 707 |
Matejko Articles |
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Williams & Wilkins Company, 1929-1960 |
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Subseries 3.1.3. IRSS History Manuscript, 1924-1982 and undated.
Mostly bound and loose drafts of the Johnsons' official history of the IRSS, Research in Service to Society, with scattered correspondence, 1976-1980; a typed transcript of an interview with Gordon Blackwell; and miscellaneous research materials pertaining to the book's writing. Correspondence is that of the Johnsons with publishers and reviewers, including Gordon Blackwell and Eugene Odum.
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Subseries 3.2. Southern Regional Council, 1941-1977 and undated.
Mostly administrative files, 1944-1977, of the Southern Regional Council (SRC), with additional scattered publications, a small number of confidential files maintained by Johnson, and files concerning the North Carolina Division of the Southern Regional Council.
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Subseries 3.2.1. Administrative Files, 1944-1977 and undated.
Mostly Johnson's correspondence, internal Southern Regional Council memoranda, and meeting minutes, agendas, and materials prepared for Executive Committee and Board meetings, with a few items discussing the origins of the SRC. Only limited correspondence appears for the period Johnson headed the organization.
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Subseries 3.2.2. Publications, 1941-1975 and undated.
Primarily scattered copies of Southern Regional Council serials and newsletters, with miscellaneous reports and booklets the SRC published, and background research materials for these publications.
Folder 792-793
Folder 792Folder 793 |
Miscellaneous Publications |
| Folder 794 |
New South |
| Folder 795 |
"The Police and the Negro" (Draft) |
Folder 796-797
Folder 796Folder 797 |
"The Police and the Negro" (Research Material) |
| Folder 798 |
South Today |
| Folder 799 |
The Southern Frontier |
| Folder 800 |
SRC Newsletter |
Folder 801-802
Folder 801Folder 802 |
Special Reports |
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Subseries 3.2.3. Personal Files of Guy Johnson, 1942-1961 and undated.
Confidential correspondence and financial records Johnson maintained separately from the Southern Regional Council's central files. Correspondence, 1944-1947, is primarily with colleagues and other Council officials concerning personnel matters. Letters Johnson exchanged with his children and other family members appear interspersed with this correspondence. Financial records include expense accounts, budgets, salary lists, and financial status reports.
| Folder 803 |
Confidential |
| Folder 804 |
Financial |
Folder 805-807
Folder 805Folder 806Folder 807 |
Miscellaneous SRC Materials |
Folder 808-810
Folder 808Folder 809Folder 810 |
Personal Correspondence, 1944-1947 |
| Folder 811 |
Staff Memoranda, Mrs. Tillison |
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Subseries 3.2.4. North Carolina Division of SRC, 1950-1957, 1965.
Correspondence, executive committee meeting materials and minutes, and miscellaneous items, including by laws, a list of officers, clippings, and notes on meetings, pertaining to the North Carolina Division of the Southern Regional Council.
Folder 812-816
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Correspondence, 1950-1955 |
| Folder 817 |
Executive Committee, 1951, 1954-1957 |
| Folder 818 |
Miscellaneous |
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Subseries 3.3. North Carolina Council on Human Relations, 1918-1965.
Files of the NCCHR and its precursor organization, the North Carolina Commission on Interracial Cooperation (which is probably related to the North Carolina Division of the Southern Regional Council), containing mostly correspondence and Executive Committee materials, with scattered booklets on race relations and conference materials.
Early correspondents are L. R. Reynolds, N. C. Newbold, C. C. Spaulding, Gurney Hood, Howard Odum, Emily Clay, and Edgar Thompson. Letters discuss committee business, finances, and the study on Negro Participation in Southern Life. Later correspondence is mostly with Cyrus Johnson, director of the NCHRR, and Harry S. Jones, its secretary.
Files contain memoranda, meeting minutes and agendas, press releases, reports of committee work, newspaper clippings, and membership lists. Of interest are reports by L. R. Reynolds on his investigation of a lynching in Pender County, N.C., in 1933.
Among the miscellaneous items is an undated petition on education titled, "A Report to the North Carolina Legislature by a Group of Representative Negro Citizens Drawn from Various Parts of North Carolina."
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Subseries 3.4. Phelps-Stokes Fund Board of Trustees, 1947-1987 and undated.
Principally Board meeting materials, including minutes and agendas, and correspondence (mostly 1950s-1970s), with miscellaneous items pertaining to Board projects, and scattered minutes of Executive Committee meetings. Frequent correspondents are Directors Channing Tobias and Frederick Patterson, Secretary Frederick Rowe, and President Emory Ross. Letters discuss the study of African cultures, Christian missions in Africa, aid to Liberia, and projects on race relations in the United States. Of interest in the files is a plea for funds from a juvenile correctional institute for girls in Kinston, N.C., which includes information on the institute.
| Folder 853 |
African Mission Study (Wittenberg Consultation, 1952) |
Folder 854-864
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Board of Trustees Meetings (Minutes, Agendas, etc.), 1947, 1949-1952, 1956, 1972, 1977, 1984-1987 |
| Folder 865 |
Capahosic Conference (on American Unity) |
| Folder 866 |
Capahosic Conference (on Need for Negro Handbook) |
Folder 867-878
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Correspondence, 1947-1974, 1977, 1985, 1987 and undated |
| Folder 879 |
Dobbs School for Girls (Kinston, N.C.) |
| Folder 880 |
Miscellaneous Items |
| Folder 881 |
Trustee Committee Meetings, Minutes, 1951, 1956, 1960, 1963-1964, 1973 |
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Subseries 3.5. Howard University Board of Trustees, 1937-1975 and undated.
Primarily annual reports and binders prepared for Board meetings and for meetings of its Committee on Instruction and Research, which contain meeting minutes and information on financial and administrative matters transacted during the year. Other items are clippings, correspondence (mostly concerning meeting times and topics), miscellaneous programs for university functions, scattered copies of university publications, and personal notes made by Johnson on Board business. A few letters in 1968-1969, a few items in the miscellaneous materials, and most of the clippings discuss student unrest at Howard. Correspondents include James Cheeck, president, and G. Frederick Stanton, secretary, of Howard.
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Series 4. Professional Organizations and Activities, 1924-1986.
Arrangement: by type.
Files maintained by Johnson (and some by Katharine Jocher) pertaining to Johnson's professional activities. Includes extensive documentation of his participation in the Southern Sociological Society, of which he served as president in 1953-1954, and sketchy documentation of his work in the American Sociological Society, the Southern Anthropological Society, and the North Carolina Sociological Society. Items include chiefly correspondence, meeting and conference materials, and financial records.
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Subseries 4.1. Southern Sociological Society, 1936-1973, 1985-1986.
Files of Johnson and Katharine Jocher concerning the publication of the Journal of Social Forces, the official publication of the Society, and Society meetings and activities.
Note that original file folder titles have, for the most part, been retained.
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Subseries 4.1.1. Files of Katharine Jocher, 1936-1971.
Files maintained by Jocher, including correspondence concerning subscriptions to and articles published in Social Forces (which became the official organ of the Society in 1936), and membership lists. Much of the correspondence is with The Williams & Wilkins Company, publishers of Social Forces, and with potential and actual authors. Scattered letters also appear pertaining to Society business.
| Folder 913 |
Correspondence, 1936 |
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Correspondence, 1937 |
Folder 917-919
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Correspondence, 1938 |
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Correspondence, 1939 |
Folder 924-928
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Correspondence, 1940 |
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Correspondence, 1941 |
| Folder 933 |
Correspondence, 1942 |
| Folder 934 |
Correspondence, 1944-1945, 1947 |
| Folder 935 |
Correspondence, 1949 |
| Folder 936 |
Correspondence, 1950 |
Folder 937-938
Folder 937Folder 938 |
Correspondence, 1951 |
| Folder 939 |
Correspondence, 1952 |
| Folder 940 |
Correspondence, 1953 |
Folder 941-942
Folder 941Folder 942 |
Correspondence, 1954 |
| Folder 943 |
Correspondence, 1955 |
| Folder 944 |
Correspondence, 1956 |
| Folder 945 |
Correspondence, 1957 |
| Folder 946 |
Correspondence, 1958-1959 |
Folder 947-950
Folder 947Folder 948Folder 949Folder 950 |
Membership Lists, 1937-1940, 1943, 1945-1968, 1970-1971 |
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Subseries 4.1.2. Files of Guy Johnson, 1935-1986.
Files, including mostly correspondence, 1935-1973, and annual meeting materials, of Guy Johnson related to his participation in the Southern Sociological Society. The correspondence discusses meetings and committee business. Meeting materials include agendas, programs, clippings, reports, correspondence, and budgets, and document both the Committee on Research and Nominating Committee. An item of interest is a copy of Johnson's presidential address given at the Society's convention in 1954.
Folder 951-955
Folder 951Folder 952Folder 953Folder 954Folder 955 |
Annual Meeting Materials, 1939-1940, 1946-1947, 1954-1970, 1973, 1985-1986 |
Folder 956-960
Folder 956Folder 957Folder 958Folder 959Folder 960 |
Annual Meeting, Programs, 1936-1938, 1940-1941, 1944, 1947-1970, 1973 |
| Folder 961 |
Annual Report, Committee on Research, 1936, 1938-1939 |
Folder 962-964
Folder 962Folder 963Folder 964 |
Annual Report, Committee on Research, 1940-1941, 1943, 1945-1949, 1955-1956 |
| Folder 965 |
Clippings, Miscellaneous |
| Folder 966 |
Constitution and By-Laws |
Folder 967-971
Folder 967Folder 968Folder 969Folder 970Folder 971 |
Correspondence, 1935-1939, 1941, 1943, 1949-1958, 1960, 1962-1964, 1966-1967, 1973 |
| Folder 972 |
Miscellaneous Items |
Folder 973-975
Folder 973Folder 974Folder 975 |
Nominating Committee, 1954-1957 |
| Folder 976 |
Presidential Address, Convention, 1954 |
| Folder 977 |
The Southern Sociologist |
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Subseries 4.2. American Sociological Society, 1924-1980.
Primarily correspondence, 1924-1980, related to annual meetings and special committees, along with annual meeting programs, and administrative and financial files pertaining to the ASA's Council, on which Johnson served between 1952 and 1954. Files contain scattered minutes and financial and work progress reports. Also appearing are vote tally sheets for candidates nominated to serve as officers.
Folder 978-979
Folder 978Folder 979 |
Annual Meeting, Programs |
| Folder 980 |
Committee on Nominations, 1952-1954 |
| Folder 981 |
Constitution, Membership, etc. |
Folder 982-983
Folder 982Folder 983 |
Correspondence, 1924-1925, 1927-1929, 1931, 1933-1936, 1938, 1941, 1943, 1948, 1952-1955, 1958, 1963 |
| Folder 984 |
Correspondence, 1972, 1980 |
Folder 985-986
Folder 985Folder 986 |
Council, 1952-1955 |
| Folder 987 |
Paper, Washington Meeting, 1955 |
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Subseries 4.3. American Anthropological Association, 1969-1970, 1972.
Scattered copies, 1969-1970, of the Association's newsletter and a notation of Johnson's voting on Resolutions by the Association in 1972.
| Folder 988 |
American Anthropological Association |
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Subseries 4.4. Southern Anthropological Association, 1967, 1970, 1986.
Drafts of papers and presentations by Johnson before the Southern Anthropological Association, including notes for a 1986 talk in which he reminisced on his early Saint Helena Island research, and papers given by others at Southern Anthropological Association meetings.
| Folder 989 |
Southern Anthropological Association |
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Subseries 4.5. North Carolina Sociological Association, 1971-1973.
Correspondence concerning meetings and special events sponsored by the Association, a membership list, 1971-1972, and a program for the 1973 annual meeting.
| Folder 990 |
North Carolina Sociological Association |
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Series 5. Research Projects, 1922-1977 and undated.
Files maintained by Johnson on projects he carried out during his years as a graduate student at the University of Chicago and University of North Carolina in the 1920s, and while a professor at University of North Carolina between 1927 and 1969. To the extent possible, Johnson's original folder headings have been retained. A few folders, including those with incorrect or illegible titles, have been assigned titles by the processor. In addition, some folders have been created by the processor from loose materials found in boxes. Research projects covered are Johnson's thesis work on the Ku Klux Klan; his dissertation research on the comparative musical ability of whites and blacks; his early work on African American folk music, the John Henry legend, and the folklore, music, and language of Saint Helena Island, S.C.; his later sociological work on the effects of the Depression on African Americans and the social structure of the Indians of Robeson County, N.C.; and his work on the Myrdal Study of the American Negro, the Ashmore Project concerning the desegregation of higher education, and the Participation of Negroes in Southern Life Study. Items include correspondence, research and field notes, clippings, research materials such as interviews and surveys, autobiographical materials from study subjects, reports, financial records, draft manuscripts, and miscellaneous items.
Note that original file folder titles have, for the most part, been retained.
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Subseries 5.1. Ku Klux Klan Study, 1922-1933 and undated.
Primarily clippings, with scattered correspondence and miscellaneous Ku Klux Klan propaganda gathered by Johnson for his master's thesis. A few anti Klan items also appear. The bulk of the clippings appear between 1922 and 1925 and concern Klan activities in Connecticut, Washington, D.C., Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Texas, Virginia, West Virginia, and Wisconsin. (For additional clippings on the Klan in North Carolina, see Subseries 5.6.)
Correspondence consists of an invitation, dated 6 August 1923, to join the Texas Klan; a letter, dated 27 February 1924, from F. S. Roundtree of Corpus Christi, Texas, to Johnson, and Johnson's reply; and an undated note to Johnson from an anonymous writer typed on a Texas Klan memorandum. Attached to Roundtree's letter is an article he authored, titled "Ku Klux Klan." Johnson's reply to Roundtree, dated 8 March 1924, but never mailed, responds to the article and provides an informative summary of his views on the Klan.
Other items include isolationist circulars dated 1923; a 1933 "Negroes Beware, Do Not Attend Communist Meetings" poster from Birmingham, Alabama; an undated pamphlet by William J. Simmons titled, "Ku Klux Klan, Yesterday, Today, and Forever"; and an undated invitation to join the North Carolina Klan.
Included in the anti Klan materials are an undated anti lynching brochure published by the New York Commission on Race Relations and an undated report (4 p.) on the North Carolina Klan Revival prepared by the Anti Defamation League of B'nai B'rith.
Miscellaneous items include a set of undated, typed notes labelled "On the Address by Doctor Hawkins on the Ku Klux Klan," probably written by Johnson, and an undated notice of the public sale of Klan paraphernalia.
Folder 991-1000
Folder 991Folder 992Folder 993Folder 994Folder 995Folder 996Folder 997Folder 998Folder 999Folder 1000 |
Clippings, 1922-1925 and undated |
| Folder 1001 |
Correspondence |
Folder 1002-1004
Folder 1002Folder 1003Folder 1004 |
Draft of Master's Thesis |
| Folder 1005 |
Ku Klux Klan poster, Birmingham, Ala., 1933 |
| Folder 1006 |
Opposition to the Klan |
| Folder 1007 |
Propaganda Materials |
| Folder 1008 |
"A Sociological Interpretation of the New Ku Klux Klan Movement" |
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Subseries 5.2. Negro Folksongs and Folklore, 1922-1928.
Primarily songs, with scattered stories and riddles, collected by Johnson as background for his works coauthored with Howard Odum, including The Negro and His Folk Songs (1924). Also includes clippings, 1925-1926; hymn books, 1922 and undated; and an index card file of songs maintained by Johnson beginning in the early 1920s and later added to in the late 1920s on his visit to Saint Helena's Island.
Folder 1009-1013
Folder 1009Folder 1010Folder 1011Folder 1012Folder 1013 |
Card File of Songs |
| Folder 1014 |
Correspondence |
| Folder 1015 |
Draft Writings |
| Folder 1016 |
Miscellaneous Items |
| Folder 1017 |
Negro Songs |
| Folder 1018 |
Negro Songs as a Field of Research |
| Folder 1019 |
Negro Songs, Historical Data |
| Folder 1020 |
Negro Songs (from Odell Walker, Chapel Hill, and Others) |
| Folder 1021 |
Records Ordered |
Folder 1022-1023
Folder 1022Folder 1023 |
Religious Songs (Originals) |
| Folder 1024 |
Religious Songs (Typed Transcriptions) |
| Folder 1025 |
Religious Songs (Unpublished) |
| Folder 1026 |
Riddles |
| Folder 1027 |
Secular Songs (Originals) |
| Folder 1028 |
Secular Songs (Typed Transcriptions) |
| Folder 1029 |
Secular Songs (Unpublished) |
| Folder 1030 |
Song Books |
| Folder 1031 |
Songs and References to Songs in Other Collections |
| Folder 1032 |
Stories (Originals) |
| Folder 1033 |
Stories (Typed Transcriptions) |
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Subseries 5.3. Negro Musical Talent Study, 1926-1931.
Drafts and a bound version of Johnson's doctoral dissertation, "A Study of the Musical Talent of the American Negro," submitted to the University of North Carolina Department of Sociology in 1926; drafts of articles by Johnson based on his dissertation research; correspondence, 1926-1930; background information on the Seashore Musical Test, which was developed by Carl Emil Seashore, a psychology professor at the State University of Iowa; and completed tests, statistical analyses of results, and a test score card. Correspondents of note are Wesley Peacock, President of Peacock Military Academy in San Antonio, Texas; Robert Seashore of Stanford University; Professor Joseph Peterson of George Peabody College for Teachers; and Charles B. Davenport, a eugenicist who founded the Eugenics Record Office, which collected family histories to study and promote eugenics. Main topics in the correspondence are the results obtained using the Seashore Test and publication of Johnson's results.
| Folder 1034 |
Articles by Johnson |
| Folder 1035 |
Correspondence, 1926-1930Correspondents of note are Wesley Peacock, President of Peacock Military Academy in San Antonio, Texas; Robert Seashore of Stanford University; Professor Joseph Peterson of George Peabody College for Teachers; and Charles B. Davenport, a eugenicist who founded the Eugenics Record Office, which collected family histories to study and promote eugenics. Main topics in the correspondence are the results obtained using the Seashore Test and publication of Johnson's results. |
| Folder 1036 |
Seashore Musical Test Data |
| Folder 1037 |
Seashore Musical Test Methodology |
| Folder 1038 |
Seashore Musical Tests |
| Folder 1039 |
Seashore Musical Test Results |
| Folder 1040 |
Seashore Musical Test Scoring System |
| Folder 1041 |
"A Study of the Musical Talent of the American Negro" (Bound Copy) |
Folder 1042-1044
Folder 1042Folder 1043Folder 1044 |
"A Study of the Musical Talent of the American Negro" (Draft) |
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Subseries 5.4. John Henry Study, 1926-1976.
Mostly correspondence and chapter drafts, with additional clippings, research materials, and versions of the John Henry legend. Correspondence, covering 1926-1930, 1933-1935, 1938, and 1947-1948, is mostly with newspaper editors, professional colleagues, railroad officials, and individuals concerning various forms of the legend, contests Johnson sponsored, the construction of the Big Bend Tunnel, publication of his results, and responses to his book. Many handwritten and typed versions of the legend, both published and unpublished, submitted to Johnson by contestants and others, appear. Of note in the correspondence is a letter to Johnson from W. C. Handy, dated 29 July 1927, with an attached frontispiece for Handy's "The John Henry Blues."
Other items of interest include an undated broadside titled "John Henry, The Steel Driving Man," by W. T. Blankenship, claimed to be the "oldest known printed form of the ballad of John Henry"; a draft of a play by Johnson titled "John Henry, A [Musical] Play in Three Scenes"; musical notation for one version of the ballad; and field notes on the Big Bend Tunnel. Additional items are articles by Johnson and others about the John Henry legend, and materials, 1974-1976, on the John Henry Memorial Foundation. Photographs related to the legend appear in Series 12.
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Subseries 5.5. Saint Helena Island Study, 1928-1939 and undated.
Mostly field notes and research materials amassed by Johnson during a stay on Saint Helena Island in 1928, including versions of folk tales, songs, riddles, superstitions, and spirituals written down for Johnson by students at the Rosenwald, Penn, and Mulberry Hill Schools. Also appearing are limited correspondence, 1928-1936, 1939; clippings; draft chapters of Folk Culture on Saint Helena Island; reports and memoranda; and expense accounts, 1928.
The bulk of Johnson's notes are assigned to folders labeled "Field Notes." Others can be found in separate subject files. In his notes, Johnson made observations on the Gullah dialect, school buildings, local folklore, church services, the Woman's Labor Union, and living conditions. His correspondence is mostly with colleagues, record companies, and school and other officials on the Island, and discusses, among other things, the Gullah dialect, the origin of the spirituals (see especially 1930-1931), securing recording devices for field use, and access by other researchers to the Island. Correspondents of note are Rossa B. Cooley, principal of Penn School, George Foster Peabody, and J. Graham Cruikshank. Of interest are letters, 1928, from two women who did domestic work for the Johnsons during their stay on Saint Helena, two letters from Frankie Flood, possibly a student at Penn School, in 1932, and a brochure, attached to a letter dated 10 May 1928, on Sea Grass Co. baskets.
For information on school personnel at Port Royal, S.C., see folder labeled, "Superintendents and Teachers." Photographs of individuals and scenes on Saint Helena Island, 1928, appear in Series 12.
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Subseries 5.6. The Negro and Economic Reconstruction Study, 1932-1936, 1942.
Mostly research and administrative materials, including correspondence, research notes, reports, memoranda, surveys, pamphlets, expense sheets, interviews, and clippings, stemming from Johnson's participation in the Negro and Economic Reconstruction Study, funded in part by the Commission on Interracial Cooperation in the early 1930s. Almost all items pertain to the effect of the Depression on African Americans in North Carolina, especially Greensboro, High Point, and Winston Salem, but a few items discuss conditions outside the state.
Correspondence, most of it filed by subject, is with local, state, and Federal officials, business people, and educators, and concerns relief efforts and economic and social conditions for African Americans in various North Carolina localities and nationally. Of particular note is a series of letters received from the heads of African American colleges and schools discussing local race relations (see "Race Relations" file). Related to these letters is a list of excerpts on student accounts of race relations at Saint Augustine's College in Raleigh (see folder labeled "College Student Opinions [Saint Augustine's]"). Others of note in the correspondence are John Beecher of the Federal Emergency Relief Administration and R. B. Eleazer of the Commission on Interracial Cooperation. A particularly interesting letter, dated 15 November 1932, from Carolina Times editor L. E. Austin to Johnson, discusses organizational efforts among African Americans in Durham and elsewhere to protest job discrimination (see "Letters [Miscellaneous]").
Interviews include one with F. D. Bluford, president of North Carolina A&T College in Greensboro (see folder labeled "Greensboro"), which discusses the treatment of African Americans by relief agencies in that city. Notes Johnson made on interviews with Lawrence Oxley, Director of Negro Welfare Work in Raleigh, and Durham businessman C. C. Spaulding, also appear.
Among study reports are those submitted to Johnson by Arthur Raper on conditions for African Americans in Georgia (see folder labeled "Federal Emergency Relief Administration") and on the effects of the National Recovery Act on Southern blacks (see folder labeled "National Recovery Act."); those submitted by James T. Taylor on conditions in Greensboro, High Point, and Winston Salem; and Johnson's own "Preliminary Report on the Depression and the Negro in North Carolina."
| Folder 1128 |
Clippings |
| Folder 1129 |
College Students' Opinions (Saint Augustine's) |
| Folder 1130 |
Correspondence (Miscellaneous) |
| Folder 1131 |
Crime |
| Folder 1132 |
"The Depression and the Negro in North Carolina" |
Folder 1133-1134
Folder 1133Folder 1134 |
Emergency Relief in North Carolina |
| Folder 1135 |
Expenses |
| Folder 1136 |
Federal Emergency Relief Administration |
| Folder 1137 |
Greensboro, N.C. |
| Folder 1138 |
Health |
Folder 1139-1140
Folder 1139Folder 1140 |
High Point, N.C. |
| Folder 1141 |
Hotel Work |
| Folder 1142 |
National Negro Congress |
| Folder 1143 |
National Recovery Administration |
| Folder 1144 |
Race Relations and the Depression |
| Folder 1145 |
Reports |
| Folder 1146 |
Study Outline |
| Folder 1147 |
Taylor's Reports |
| Folder 1148 |
Winston-Salem, N.C. |
Folder 1149-1198
Folder 1149Folder 1150Folder 1151Folder 1152Folder 1153Folder 1154Folder 1155Folder 1156Folder 1157Folder 1158Folder 1159Folder 1160Folder 1161Folder 1162Folder 1163Folder 1164Folder 1165Folder 1166Folder 1167Folder 1168Folder 1169Folder 1170Folder 1171Folder 1172Folder 1173Folder 1174Folder 1175Folder 1176Folder 1177Folder 1178Folder 1179Folder 1180Folder 1181Folder 1182Folder 1183Folder 1184Folder 1185Folder 1186Folder 1187Folder 1188Folder 1189Folder 1190Folder 1191Folder 1192Folder 1193Folder 1194Folder 1195Folder 1196Folder 1197Folder 1198 |
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Subseries 5.7. Lumbee Indians (Robeson County, N.C.) Study, 1882; 1913-1977.
Principally correspondence, clippings, farm and migration schedules, field and research notes, and census data collected by Johnson, his wife Guion Griffis Johnson, and son Benton on the Lumbee Indians of Robeson County, N.C. Also included are notes on interviews with county residents; reports, articles, and public addresses Guy and Benton Johnson prepared on the Lumbee; and miscellaneous items related to other North Carolina and Southeastern Indians.
Correspondence, 1935-1971 (bulk dates 1943-1971), is primarily with academic colleagues, research assistants, government officials, and Robeson County community and religious leaders and concerns the history and genealogy of the Lumbee, Johnson's plans to live in Pembroke in 1948, the finances of Johnson's 1948-1949 study (funded by the Carnegie Foundation), the struggle of various Indians to gain Federal recognition, and the activities of research assistants. No letters appear for 1944, 1946, 1952-1953, 1955, 1960-1961, 1963-1967. Several letters discuss the Houma Indians of Louisiana. One item of particular interest is a review Johnson wrote for a National Science Foundation research proposal in 1968 (see attachment, letter 2 February 1968), in which he discusses why he chose to stop doing research on the Lumbee people.
Early items are a 3 March 1882 issue of the Cherokee Advocate; a 1913 printed copy of an address delivered before the New York Society of the Order of the Founders and Patriots of America concerning the Lost Colony; and a 1916 reprint of an article by Frank G. Speck, titled "Remnants of the Machapunga Indians of North Carolina."
Clippings, 1937-1972, cover the Lumbee and other North Carolina Indians, including the Cherokee, Waccamaw, and Haliwa, as well as Indians elsewhere, including the Navajo. A few complete issues of the Pembroke Progress (1948), Red Springs Citizen (1937), and Robesonian (Lumberton, N.C., 1938-1939) appear. Several clippings pertain to Ku Klux Klan activity in Robeson County (see folder 1209).
Detailed census type data can be found in farm family and migration schedules for Robeson County residents. Though not dated, these schedules were probably completed by research assistant Adloph Dial in 1948 or 1949. Farm schedules appear for approximately 340 families, and migration schedules appear for over 100.
Notes on interviews conducted with over 20 Robeson County residents in 1948 1949 give a partial picture of the social customs and political and religious life of the Lumbee. Copious field notes made by Guy and Guion Griffis Johnson on visits to Robeson County in 1938-1939 and 1948-1949 also shed light on the history, church services, language patterns, social behavior, folk medicine, and political status of the Lumbee. They also document race relations.
Miscellaneous items of interest are catalogues for the Cherokee Indian Normal School in Pembroke, N.C., 1935-1936, and the Pembroke State College for Indians, 1941, 1947; an undated, 4 p., mimeographed publication of the Indian Child Welfare Association of Pembroke, titled "Helping Our Children"; and a playbill for "The Life Story of a People," presented in 1940 at Pembroke State College for Indians.
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Subseries 5.8. Participation of Negroes in Southern Life Study, 1924-1941 and undated.
Administrative, correspondence, and subject files related to Johnson's work on the Participation of Negroes in Southern Life Study.
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Subseries 5.8.1. Administrative Files, 1931-1937.
Files related to the design and administration of the study, including materials on study expenses (e.g., budgets, expense accounts), methods and procedures, and outlines of study plans. Additional materials include mailing lists, bibliographies, and miscellaneous pamphlets, including several on wage agreements for coal miners in Alabama and Tennessee.
| Folder 1246 |
Bibliography |
| Folder 1247 |
Budget |
| Folder 1248 |
Expenses |
| Folder 1249 |
Mailing Lists (Public Welfare, FERA, etc.) |
| Folder 1250 |
Methods and Procedures, Notes on |
| Folder 1251 |
Miscellaneous |
| Folder 1252 |
Study Outline |
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Subseries 5.8.2. Correspondence Files, 1934-1936.
Limited correspondence with fellow researchers, professional colleagues, and study participants concerning the design, administration, funding, and conduct of the study, as well as civil rights, lynching, and employment.
| Folder 1253 |
Cooper, C.L. |
| Folder 1254 |
Daniel, V.E. |
| Folder 1255 |
Eleazer, R.B. |
| Folder 1256 |
Fisher, Galen M. |
| Folder 1257 |
Hope, John |
| Folder 1258 |
Houston, Charles H. |
| Folder 1259 |
Jackson, W.C. |
| Folder 1260 |
Johnson, Charles S. |
| Folder 1261 |
Meacham, William S. |
| Folder 1262 |
McCuistion, Fred |
| Folder 1263 |
Miscellaneous |
| Folder 1264 |
Mitchell, John W. |
| Folder 1265 |
Newbold, N.C. |
| Folder 1266 |
Raper, Arthur |
| Folder 1267 |
Reid, Ira De A. |
| Folder 1268 |
Spaulding, C.C. |
| Folder 1269 |
Taylor, J.T. |
| Folder 1270 |
Walker, Harvey J. |
| Folder 1271 |
Work, Monroe N. |
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Subseries 5.8.3. Subject Files, 1924-1941 and undated.
Clippings, correspondence, surveys, research notes, pamphlets and brochures, press releases, articles, and miscellaneous items pertaining to research areas covered in the Study, including primarily agriculture, education, politics, and race relations.
Limited correspondence, filed by subject, is that of District Farm Agent John W. Mitchell with farm demonstration agents in North Carolina and Johnson's correspondence with physicians, school administrators, political activists, and others. Topics of interest include tenant farming in North Carolina and black education in the South, especially West Virginia.
Surveys address discrimination experiences and school bussing. Information appears in the surveys on the educational levels, economic status, and newspaper reading habits of their completers.
Items of special interest include a few brochures and miscellaneous items on the Durham and Detroit Housewives' Leagues, flyers and other materials concerning textile and mining strikes in North Carolina and Kentucky (circa 1929), a 6 page sketch titled "Life and Personality of an Old Colored Lady, Myma Tuck," by E. D. Hancock, which records an interview with a Chapel Hill woman on her life (see folder "Mental Hygiene"); an account by a white woman, Mattie Moore Melvin, of "A Dinner Taken by a White Family in a Negro Home" (1935, 4 pages) in Eastern, North Carolina; an address, 29 April 1936, by James E. Shepard at the North Carolina Conference on Social Science, titled "Racial Discriminations" (see "Miscellaneous Correspondence"); and several issues of the Durham, N.C., Carolina Times dated 1936, 1938, 1940, and undated (see Clippings, Miscellaneous).
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Subseries 5.9. Myrdal Study, 1856; 1925-1942 and undated.
Arrangement: by type.
Files related to the administration and planning of Gunnar Myrdal's Study of the American Negro, in which Guy and Guion Griffis Johnson participated between 1938 and 1942, and to the Johnsons' research efforts for the Study. Materials include correspondence, staff memoranda, field reports, manuscripts and drafts, clippings, research notes, interviews, personal narratives, questionnaires and surveys, and miscellaneous research items. Most of the materials pertaining to Guy Johnson's work appear in the Project Files for Personality and Cultural Traits of the Negro, The Negro and Crime, "The Negro Problem," and The Legal Status of the Negro. Most of those related to Guion Griffis Johnson's work appear in the Project Files for "The Negro Problem" and The Church and the Race Problem.
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Subseries 5.9.1. Administrative and Corporate Files, 1938-1943 and undated.
Arrangement: alphabetical by subject.
Primarily correspondence and staff memoranda, with scattered study outlines, methodological notes, time schedules, and study reports. Correspondence, 1938-1943, is mostly that of Guy Johnson with Gunnar Myrdal and various researchers working on the study, including Arthur Raper, Ruth Landes, and Samuel Stouffer. A few letters of Guion Griffis Johnson also appear. Topics include early study plans and personnel, data gathering, and the production of manuscripts. Staff memoranda give a good overview of the Johnsons' role in developing ideas for the study, and discuss progress in various research areas, including crime, racial ideologies, religion, education, and the black press.
| Folder 1325 |
Asbury Park Conference, Memorandum |
| Folder 1326 |
Brief Outline of The Negro in America |
Folder 1327-1333
Folder 1327Folder 1328Folder 1329Folder 1330Folder 1331Folder 1332Folder 1333 |
Correspondence, 1938-1943 |
| Folder 1334 |
"Memorandum on the Disposition of the Study on the American Negro" |
| Folder 1335 |
Methodology |
| Folder 1336 |
Review-- An American Dilemma |
Folder 1337-1338
Folder 1337Folder 1338 |
Staff Memoranda, 1939-1941 |
| Folder 1339 |
Status Report, 28 January 1939 |
| Folder 1340 |
Time Schedules |
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Subseries 5.9.2. Project Files, 1856; 1925-1942 and undated.
Arrangement: by project.
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Subseries 5.9.2.1. Personality and Cultural Traits of the Negro, 1938-1940 and undated.
Arrangement: alphabetical by subject.
Mostly manuscripts prepared and research materials gathered for the section of the study related to African American cultural and physical traits. Items include memoranda, limited correspondence of Guy Johnson, scholarly papers on related topics, clippings, research notes, and bibliographies. Among the manuscripts are Johnson's "Memorandum on Personality and Cultural Traits of the Negro" and Ruth Landes' "The Ethos of the Negro in the New World."
| Folder 1341 |
"Drums and Shadows" |
Folder 1342-1344
Folder 1342Folder 1343Folder 1344 |
"The Ethos of the Negro in the New World" |
Folder 1345-1346
Folder 1345Folder 1346 |
"Memorandum on Personality and Cultural Traits of the Negro" (Drafts of Main Texts) |
| Folder 1347 |
"Memorandum on Personality and Cultural Traits of the Negro" (Appendices A and B) |
| Folder 1348 |
"Memorandum on Personality and Cultural Traits of the Negro" (Background for Appendix A) |
| Folder 1349 |
"Memorandum on Personality and Cultural Traits of the Negro" (Background for Appendix B) |
Folder 1350-1351
Folder 1350Folder 1351 |
Miscellaneous Research Material |
| Folder 1352 |
"Origin, Composition, and Physical Characteristics of the American Negro Population" |
| Folder 1353 |
"Racial Traits of the Negro as Negroes Assign Them to Themselves" (Doyle) |
| Folder 1354 |
Research Notes |
| Folder 1355 |
"Scientific Efforts to Measure Social Differences in Personality" |
| Folder 1356 |
Stereotypes |
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Subseries 5.9.2.2. The Negro and Crime, 1925; 1936-1942 and undated.
Arrangement: alphabetical by subject.
Draft manuscript and critics' responses, limited correspondence of Guy Johnson, autobiographies of criminals, clippings, background research notes, bibliographies, and miscellaneous research items.
| Folder 1357 |
Autobiography (Philip Baker) |
| Folder 1358 |
Autobiography (Marshall Berry) |
| Folder 1359 |
Autobiography (Nicken) |
| Folder 1360 |
Autobiography (Isaiah Smith) |
| Folder 1361 |
Autobiography (J.D. Williams) |
Folder 1362-1363
Folder 1362Folder 1363 |
Background Research Notes |
| Folder 1364 |
Bibliography |
| Folder 1365 |
Clippings |
| Folder 1366 |
Homicide (General Statistics) |
| Folder 1367 |
Homicide (Interracial and Intraracial) |
| Folder 1368 |
Homicide (Miscellaneous Research) |
| Folder 1369 |
Homicide (North Carolina) |
| Folder 1370 |
Homicide (Virginia) |
Folder 1371-1372
Folder 1371Folder 1372 |
Miscellaneous Research Material |
| Folder 1373 |
The Negro and Crime, Book I (Bound Draft) |
| Folder 1374 |
The Negro and Crime, Book II (Bound Draft) |
| Folder 1375 |
The Negro and Crime (Appendices A-G) |
| Folder 1376 |
The Negro and Crime (Critics' Responses) |
| Folder 1377 |
"The Negro and Crime, Note on Causation" |
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Subseries 5.9.2.3. The Negro Problem, 1856; 1925-1940 and undated.
Arrangement: alphabetical by subject.
Files on studies of racial attitudes (Guy) and racial ideologies (Guion) in the United States, including manuscripts and drafts; critics' comments; memoranda; correspondence; questionnaires and surveys; clippings, 1925, 1927-1928, and undated; research notes; and scholarly papers. Correspondence concerning racial attitudes is mostly with Charles S. Johnson. One 1856 item is a 48 p. pamphlet titled "A Plan of Brotherly Copartnership of the North and South for the Peaceful Extinction of Slavery" by Elihu Burritt (see folder labeled "Racial Ideologies--Miscellaneous Research Materials.")
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Subseries 5.9.2.4. The Church and the Race Problem, 1934-1940 and undated.
Arrangement: alphabetical by subject.
Manuscript and drafts; critics' responses; clippings; pamphlets on religious denominations; research notes; limited correspondence, 1940, of Guion Griffis Johnson; background papers; and field reports. Of interest is a report describing a service held by the followers of George Hill (Father Divine) in Harlem (see "Churches").
Folder 1403-1404
Folder 1403Folder 1404 |
Census of Religious Bodies, 1936 |
| Folder 1405 |
Churches (Edward Nelson Palmer) |
| Folder 1406 |
Clippings (Father Divine) |
| Folder 1407 |
Clippings (Miscellaneous) |
Folder 1408-1409
Folder 1408Folder 1409 |
The Church and the Race Problem in the United States (Bound Draft) |
Folder 1410-1417
Folder 1410Folder 1411Folder 1412Folder 1413Folder 1414Folder 1415Folder 1416Folder 1417 |
The Church and the Race Problem in the United States (Chapter Drafts) |
| Folder 1418 |
The Church and the Race Problem in the United States (Critics' Responses) |
| Folder 1419 |
Correspondence |
| Folder 1420 |
"Memorandum on Questions to Be Covered by Allison Davis" |
| Folder 1421 |
Miscellaneous Research Materials |
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Subseries 5.9.2.5. Legal Status of the Negro, 1938-1939 and undated.
Draft of Legal Status of the Negro, an outline for the manuscript, and two folders of correspondence with directors of charitable and penal institutions in North and South Carolina, Oklahoma, Missouri, West Virginia, Maryland, Kentucky, Tennessee, Georgia, Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, Texas, and Arkansas.
| Folder 1422 |
Outline, etc. |
Folder 1423-1427
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Legal Status of the Negro (Draft) |
Folder 1428-1429
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Segregation in Charitable and Penal Institutions |
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Subseries 5.9.2.6. Miscellaneous Projects, 1931-1942 and undated.
Arrangement: alphabetical by subject.
Mostly research outlines and notes, with scattered correspondence, clippings, questionnaires, and miscellaneous items kept by the Johnsons on Study areas with which they were peripherally involved. Topics best covered are African American artists, the race's legal status, and fraternal lodges. Items of note include biographical sketches of and clippings on the work of William Arthur Cooper, a Charlotte, North Carolina painter, and a 1931 address by Alain Locke on "The Negro in Art." Guy Johnson's correspondence (interfiled by subject), consists of a few letters, dated early 1930s, concerning artists, and copies of memoranda by Gunnar Myrdal.
| Folder 1430 |
Artists and Art |
| Folder 1431 |
Education |
| Folder 1432 |
Lawyers |
| Folder 1433 |
Migration |
Folder 1434-1435
Folder 1434Folder 1435 |
Organizations: Fraternal Lodges |
| Folder 1436 |
Organizations: Urban League (Arnold Hill) |
| Folder 1437 |
Population Characteristics |
| Folder 1438 |
Race Segregation and Discrimination |
| Folder 1439 |
Racial Tension |
| Folder 1440 |
Social Stratification |
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Subseries 5.9.3. Miscellaneous Materials, 1939-1940 and undated.
Mostly background research notes compiled by Guion Griffis Johnson, summaries of interviews with black and white community leaders conducted by Guy Johnson and Gunnar Myrdal in several midwestern and northeastern cities in 1939-1940, and personal accounts contributed by research subjects. The latter consist of an autobiographical sketch of a man concerning his experiences passing for white, a West African visitor's observations on African Americans, and comments on the race problem by a Jewish judge in Savannah, Georgia. Several union newsletters from Dayton, Ohio, appear in folder 1 of 2 of the Cleveland and Dayton Interviews. Of interest in the interviews is one with Dr. Lionel A. Francis, President General of the Parent Body of the Universal Negro Improvement Association in New York.
| Folder 1441 |
Autobiographical Sketch (Lloyd Harding Bailer) |
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Background Research Notes |
| Folder 1452 |
Interviews, Chicago |
Folder 1453-1454
Folder 1453Folder 1454 |
Interviews, Cleveland and Dayton |
| Folder 1455 |
Interviews, Minneapolis |
| Folder 1456 |
Interviews, New York (Garvey Report) |
| Folder 1457 |
Interview, Rutland, Ver. |
| Folder 1458 |
Miscellaneous Items |
| Folder 1459 |
"Statement of the Negro Problem," Emanuel Lewis |
| Folder 1460 |
"A West African's Impressions of the Negro in the United States," S.U. Etuk |
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Subseries 5.10. Ashmore Project (Desegregation of Colleges Study), 1951-1966 and undated.
Correspondence, field notes, interviews, articles, and reports related to Johnson's participation in the 1953 Ashmore Study of the Fund for the Advancement of Education, and surveys, correspondence, clippings, draft chapters, and miscellaneous items pertaining to Johnson's later 1956 study of desegregation, which grew out of his earlier Ashmore research.
Of note in the early materials is a project report for the Ashmore study, several detailed reports on desegregation at individual Southern public and religious schools, and the correspondence of Malcolm Calhoun with Protestant school officials. Of particular interest is a 13 p., undated first hand account, written by Jerome H. Long, of a black student's experiences at Knox College in Galesburg, Illinois.
Surveys and correspondence in 1956 cover the desegregation status of both black and white Southern schools.
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Series 6. Subject Files, 1922-1981 and undated.
Arrangement: by subject.
Mostly miscellaneous files on various subjects of interest to Johnson, with a significant number of files he maintained on trips he took to Africa between 1959 and 1972. Materials include correspondence, pamphlets and booklets, conference materials, reports, clippings, obituaries and biographical sketches, financial records, and miscellaneous other items. Topics covered include civil rights and desegregation, music, direct-mail advertising, African American political power, and the careers of Johnson's academic colleagues.
Note that original file folder titles have, for the most part, been retained.
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Subseries 6.1. Africa, 1949-1972 and undated.
Files Johnson maintained on African visitors to the United States and on trips he took to Rhodesia and several West African nations between 1959 and 1972 and while teaching at Rhodes University in Grahamstown, South Africa. His trips were financed by the Ford Foundation and the Phelps-Stokes Fund. Materials include correspondence, notes on and reports of his observations, financial records, newsletters from Rhodes University, articles by others on African topics, maps, and miscellaneous other items.
Folder 1505-1506
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Africa, General |
| Folder 1507 |
African Music |
| Folder 1508 |
African Women |
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Correspondence, Africa and Visitors, 1949-1951, 1953-1961, 1963-1964, 1973 |
| Folder 1512 |
Examinations and Maps |
| Folder 1513 |
Rhodes University, South Africa |
Folder 1514-1517
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South Africa Year, 1959-1960 |
| Folder 1518 |
West Africa Trip, November-December 1961 |
Folder 1519-1520
Folder 1519Folder 1520 |
South Africa Trip, 1970-1971 |
| Folder 1521 |
West Africa Trip, January-February 1972 |
| Folder 1522 |
Africa Trips, undated |
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South Africa, General, 1962-1968 and undated |
| Folder 1525 |
United States-South Africa Leader Exchange Program |
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Subseries 6.2. Miscellaneous Subjects, 1922-1982 and undated.
Miscellaneous materials Johnson collected on various subjects of interest to him, including civil rights, desegregation, education, music, and direct-mail advertising, and numerous obituaries and biographical sketches (some of which he prepared) for his colleagues. Many of the files bear Johnson's original titles. Others were created from loose materials and titled by the processor. A number of files appear on the Delta Upsilon Foundation. Materials include clippings, correspondence, pamphlets and booklets, conference materials, sociological reports, addresses (one by Adlai Stephenson), and other items. Of note are letters to the editor of the Montgomery Advertiser (1942) objecting to the use of racist language in a news story; a folder titled "Letters, Notes, Showing Negro Attitudes" (Johnson's title), which contains communications from several maids Johnson employed; and several copies of the Daily Huntsville (Ala.) Confederate (July-October 1863) and a copy of the 22 September 1909 Huntsville Weekly Democrat (see folder 1538).
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Series 7. Writings, Addresses, and Personal Notes, 1917-1987 and undated.
Scholarly and personal writings, public addresses, and college class notes of Johnson. The bulk of the material consists of texts and notes Johnson prepared for speeches before scholarly, fraternal, and public audiences and notes Johnson took on courses as a graduate student at the University of Chicago and University of North Carolina Also included are journal articles, book reviews, short stories, and a play. Includes his 1917 valedictory speech and his autobiographical "My Love Affair With Music and Other Personal Recollections."
Note that original file folder titles have, for the most part, been retained.
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Subseries 7.1. Fiction and Personal Writings, 1925-1926, 1986 and undated.
A play, 1925; two short stories, including drafts, 1925-1926; and an autobiographical memoir, 1986, prepared by Johnson.
| Folder 1617 |
"Give Every Man Thine Ear" (Play) |
| Folder 1618 |
"My Love Affair With Music and Other Personal Recollections" |
| Folder 1619 |
Short Stories |
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Subseries 7.2. Articles and Book Reviews, 1928-1958 and undated.
Originals and reprints of newspaper and scholarly journal articles and book reviews written by Johnson.
| Folder 1620 |
Articles, Newspapers |
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Articles, Originals, 1930-1933, 1941, 1944-1945, 1954, 1964 and undated |
| Folder 1623 |
Articles, Reprints, 1927-1928, 1930-1931, 1942, 1958, 1980 |
| Folder 1624 |
Book Reviews |
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Subseries 7.3. Addresses and Interviews, 1917-1987 and undated.
Public and academic addresses made by Johnson, primarily between 1930 and 1987, mostly on desegregation and African American education. Other topics are the Gullah dialect and African American political participation. Of note are Johnson's 1917 high school valedictory address and a 1968 interview with him heard on "The Voice of America" radio show.
| Folder 1625 |
Addresses, Lists of |
| Folder 1626 |
Addresses, 1917, 1930-1931 |
| Folder 1627 |
Addresses, 1935-1939 |
| Folder 1628 |
Addresses, 1940-1943 |
| Folder 1629 |
Addresses, 1944-1945 |
| Folder 1630 |
Addresses, 1946-1949 |
| Folder 1631 |
Addresses, 1950, 1952-1953 |
| Folder 1632 |
Addresses, 1954-1955 |
| Folder 1633 |
Addresses, 1956-1958 |
| Folder 1634 |
Addresses, 1961, 1963, 1966-1967 |
| Folder 1635 |
Addresses, 1968-1969, 1971 |
| Folder 1636 |
Addresses, 1974-1976, 1979 |
| Folder 1637 |
Addresses, 1980-1981, 1985 |
| Folder 1638 |
Addresses, 1986-1987 |
| Folder 1639 |
Addresses, undated |
| Folder 1640 |
Interview, "Voice of America," 26 August 1968 |
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Subseries 7.4. College Class Notes and Materials, 1921-1926, 1936-1937.
Class notes and other materials Johnson kept from courses he took as a Master's student at the University of Chicago during 1921-1922 and as a Ph.D. student at University of North Carolina during 1924-1926, as well as scattered notes on seminars he attended at the University of Chicago in 1936-1937 while a research fellow of the Social Sciences Research Institute. Items include grade reports, exam papers, and course readings.
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Series 8. Teaching Materials, 1930-1966.
Arrangement: by course number and name.
Lectures and notes, background materials, examinations and quizzes, student papers, syllabi, bibliographies, class handouts, and clippings related to graduate and undergraduate level sociology and anthropology courses Johnson taught at University of North Carolina from the 1930s through the 1960s. Files also appear on courses Johnson taught as a visiting professor at Louisiana State University, Emory University, the University of Hawaii, and Rhodes University in Grahamstown, South Africa. Course topics include United States race relations; the economic, social, and religious life of African Americans; the peoples of the African continent; invention and discovery; magic, witchcraft, and superstition; social change; social stratification; and cultural diffusion.
Of particular interest are writings by students on superstitions heard in their childhoods (see Sociology 151--Social Anthropology [Superstitions of Students]); a report by a student who attended an African American church service in Southern Pines, N.C., in 1932; and an account by a student of a female African American house servant's views of African American preachers (see Sociology 125--The Negro [Religion]).
Note that original file folder titles have, for the most part, been retained.
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Series 9. Miscellaneous Pamphlets, Booklets, and Other Printed Materials, 1830-1973 and undated.
Arrangement: alphabetical by title.
Principally 20th-century pamphlets, booklets, newsletters, and other printed publications, with scattered pamphlets from the antebellum and Reconstruction periods, discussing politics, slavery, religion, and labor. Includes several volumes of poetry.
Note that original file folder titles have, for the most part, been retained.
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Subseries 9.1. Antebellum, 1830-1860.
Two antislavery tracts, 1854, 1860; an 1850 pamphlet on crime and the London "ragged schools"; and an 1830 treatise on Primitive Methodism.
| Folder 1758 |
"The Bake Pan, Try It," Leonard Marsh, 1854 |
| Folder 1759 |
"Crime and Its Causes," 1850 |
| Folder 1760 |
"The Patriarchal Institution," L. Maria Child, 1860 |
| Folder 1761 |
"A Short Treatise Upon Wesley or Primitive Methodism," 1830 |
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Subseries 9.2. Reconstruction, 1868-1869 and undated.
An 1867 report of the American Missionary Association, an 1868 appeal to the Senate for Southern self-government, an 1869 speech on the need for a new monetary system, and an undated pamphlet on the history of slavery in the Methodist church.
| Folder 1762 |
"An Appeal to the Senate to Modify Its Policy," 1868 |
| Folder 1763 |
"Piety and the Slave Trade," John Remsbrug, undated |
| Folder 1764 |
"The Rights of Labor," 1869 |
| Folder 1765 |
Twenty-First Annual Report of the American Missionary Association, 1867 |
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Subseries 9.3. Twentieth Century, 1917-1973.
Political pamphlets, including several of the Communist Party; books of poems; university and employee publications; reports of sociological studies; and other publications, mostly pertaining to race relations and civil rights, labor, and sharecropping. Most of the Communist Party pamphlets are addressed to African Americans.
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Series 10. Calendars, 1945-1984 and undated.
Daily desk calendars kept by Johnson of his academic and personal activities.
| Folder 1805 |
Calendar, 1945 |
| Folder 1806 |
Calendar, 1946 |
| Folder 1807 |
Calendar, 1947 |
| Folder 1808 |
Calendar, 1948 |
| Folder 1809 |
Calendar, 1949 |
| Folder 1810 |
Calendar, 1950 |
| Folder 1811 |
Calendar, 1951 |
| Folder 1812 |
Calendar, 1952 |
| Folder 1813 |
Calendar, 1953 |
| Folder 1814 |
Calendar, 1954 |
| Folder 1815 |
Calendar, 1955 |
| Folder 1816 |
Calendar, 1956 |
| Folder 1817 |
Calendar, 1957 |
| Folder 1818 |
Calendar, 1958 |
| Folder 1819 |
Calendar, 1962 |
| Folder 1820 |
Calendar, 1967-1969 |
| Folder 1821 |
Calendar, 1970-1971, 1975, 1978, 1979, 1982, 1984 and undated |
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Series 11. Biographical Materials on Johnson, 1938-1987.
Biographical sketches, lists of publications, clippings, curricula vitae, and genealogical materials pertaining primarily to Guy Johnson, with scattered items also referring to other family members. Of note is a copy of "History, First Baptist Church, Caddo Mills, Texas, 1885-1985."
| Folder 1822 |
Awards (University of North Carolina) |
| Folder 1823 |
Baylor University, Phi Beta Kappa |
| Folder 1824 |
Biographical Sketches |
| Folder 1825 |
Clippings: Guy Benton Johnson |
| Folder 1826 |
Clippings: Johnson Family |
| Folder 1827 |
College Transcripts (Baylor University) |
| Folder 1828 |
Curricula Vitae |
| Folder 1829 |
Genealogy and Family History |
| Folder 1830 |
Last Will and Testament |
| Folder 1831 |
Miscellaneous Biographical Materials |
| Folder 1832 |
Passports |
| Folder 1833 |
Publications |
| Folder 1834 |
Retirement (News Stories) |
| Folder 1835 |
"A Salute to Guy Benton Johnson" |
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Series 12. Audio and Visual Materials.
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Subseries 12.1. Photographs.
Family and other portraits and photographs of Guy and Guion Griffis Johnson. Family photos include individual portraits and snapshots of Guy and Guion, portraits and photographs of them together, photographs and snapshots of their relatives, their children, their friends, and their Westwood Drive home in Chapel Hill, N.C. Also included are photographs and snapshots of Guy Johnson's colleagues, photographs of groups to which he belonged, and photographs related to his research, including several from his John Henry, Saint Helena Island, and Robeson County, N.C., Indian studies. Also included are photographs of scenes from New York City in 1939-1940 and miscellaneous snapshots from unidentified mountains.
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Guy Johnson, 1901-circa 1980s27 images. Black-and-white prints. Color prints. |
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Guion Griffis Johnson, 1900-circa 1980s18 images. Black-and-white prints. |
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Guy and Guion Griffis Johnson together, circa 1920s-1980s16 images. Black-and-white prints. Color prints. |
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Guy Johnson's Texas relatives, late 19th century15 images. Black-and-white prints. One item, circa 1885, is a photograph of a painting of Guy Johnson's father with his parents. Individual portraits appear for A.A. Stephens, Barney Columbus Stokes, and Ora Clark Johnson. Others appearing in the family portraits include Johnson's brothers VKC, Rex, and J.E. Johnson, his Grandmother Bass, J.E. Stokes, Walter Drake, and miscellaneous unidentified individuals. |
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Guy Johnson's Texas relatives, 1935-1957 and undated22 images. Includes photos of Johnson's father, his brothers VKC, Rex, Barney, and J.E. Johnson, Mrs. Jim Clark and her daughter Nancy, Ray Nunn, Jr., and Ruby Bass. |
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Guion Griffis Johnson's Texas relatives, late 19th century9 images. Black-and-white prints. Individual portraits appear for J.W. Griffis and for Guion's mother. Others appearing in the portraits are the "Pemberton girls," Marietta Stephens, and "Maurine." One 1952 photo is of J.W. and T.A. Griffis in Greenville, Tex. |
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Guy and Guion Griffis Johnson with their friends and son Benny, circa 1920s16 images. Black-and-white prints. Includes one portrait of Benny. |
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Guy and Guion's children, Benny and Edward, circa 1930sApproximately 100 images. A few of the photos include Guy or Guion. |
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Guy and Guion's children, Benny and Edward, circa 1940s26 images. Black-and-white prints. |
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13 black-and-white color snapshots of Benny and Edward, the Johnsons' daughters-in-law and grandchildren, and other relatives, circa 1950s13 images. Black-and-white prints. Color prints. |
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Johnson family, Easter 19631 image. Black-and-white print. Johnsons with one of their sons and grandchild. |
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Johnsons with their children and grandchildren, 1973-197417 images. Color prints. |
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Johnsons with their children and grandchildren, 197529 images. Color prints. |
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Family, 197511 images. Color prints. Six snapshots labelled "Birthday Party for Guy and Edward, March 1, 1975" and "Mother's Day 1975"; Three snapshots labelled "Ted's Birthday Party, '75"; and two snapshots labelled "Guion, Frank and Marguerite, Rebekah at Frank's, Washington, 6/7/75" |
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Johnsons with their children and grandchildren and with other relatives, 197623 images. Color prints. |
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Benny and Edward Johnson, circa 1930s-1950s25 images. Black-and-white prints. Color print. Includes portraits and snapshots. A few of the photographs include Guy and Guion Griffis Johnson. |
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Christmas card photographs of Benny's and Edward's families, 1950s-1970s27 images. |
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Johnsons' 50th Wedding Anniversary party12 images. Color prints. |
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Unidentified friends and relatives of the Johnsons25 images. Color prints. |
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Guy Johnson with colleagues9 images. Black-and-white prints. Howard Odum, Guy Bluford, and Fred Patterson |
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Katharine Jocher, 197710 images. Color prints. Black-and-white prints. |
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"At [Rupert] Vance's Party after his Honorary Degree, 1975"16 images. Color prints. |
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Guy Johnson's colleagues and their families, circa 1930s-1980s10 images. Black-and-white prints. Color prints. H.L. Trigg, Ralph Linton, Kenneth and Mamie Clark, and Dr. and Mrs. Joseph S. Himes. |
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Group portraits, 1940s-1980s,13 images. Black-and-white prints. Related to the Institute for Research in Social Science, Southern Regional Council, Howard Board of Trustees, Phelps-Stokes Fund Board of Trustees, Southern Sociological Society, and the Kenan Professorship at University of North Carolina |
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Luncheon of the Howard University Board of Trustees upon Johnson's retirement from the Board, 197518 images. Color prints. |
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Institute for Research in Social Science dinner, 19817 images. Black-and-white prints. |
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Johnsons' visit with John and Caroline Trask on Saint Helena Island, S.C., in 19758 images. Color prints. Houses on the island. |
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Johnsons' home on Westwood Drive in Chapel Hill, N.C., 1974-197613 images. Color prints. Includes views of the house and yard. |
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Interior of the Johnsons' home on Westwood Drive in Chapel Hill, N.C.11 images. Color prints. |
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Interior and exterior of the Johnsons' home on Westwood Drive in Chapel Hill, N.C., circa 1930s-1980s23 images. Black-and-white prints. Color prints. |
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Yard and woods around the Johnsons' home on Westwood Drive in Chapel Hill, N.C., 198111 images. Color prints. |
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Photographs of paintings hanging in the Johnsons' home on Westwood Drive in Chapel Hill, N.C.5 images. Color prints. |
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Big Bend Tunnel of the John Henry Legend and Odell Wilson, circa late 1920s or early 1930s.58 images. Black-and-white prints. "This Pick-and-Shovel Man of North Carolina Sings About John Henry as He Swings His Pick." |
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Individuals, houses, and scenes made at Saint Helena Island, 192869 images. Black-and-white prints. |
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Oxendine, Blue, Arvazial, Ranson, and Lowry families and Indian State Normal College40 images. Black-and-white prints. |
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"Redbone and Choctaw Indians, Louisiana, 1938," and "Margaret Brown, Choctaw informant" 190616 images. Black-and-white prints. "Margaret Brown, Choctaw informant and mother of two last speakers of Catoula Language." |
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Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples of Australia, circa 194210 images. Black-and-white prints. |
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African American men, circa 1930s-1940sApproximately 30 images. Black-and-white contact sheets. Also one image of "a Corn Husking Bee, ? Orange or Chatham County [N.C.]" |
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African American churches in Chapel Hill, N.C.19 images. Black-and-white prints. |
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Archaeological excavation in Macon, Ga.18 images. Black-and-white prints. Includes a pamphlet about the site, undated. |
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Old Main Building at Burleson College, circa 1910s-1920s1 image. Black-and-white print. |
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New York City, 1930-1940Approximately 60 images. Black-and-white prints. |
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Mountain trip, fall of 197412 images. |
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St. Helena Island [?]Approximately 40 images. Black-and-white prints. |
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Photographs of paintings by Ekow Bentil, 1972 [?]8 images. Black-and-white prints. |
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African village, undated17 images. Glass Plate Negatives. |
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Guy and Guion Griffis Johnson on miscellaneous trips20 images. Slides. |
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AlbumMiscellaneous photographs and other materials, most relating to Johnson's time at Baylor University. |
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Subseries 12.2. Audio Tapes, undated.
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Guy B. Johnson: Sea Island Concerto and 7 Other Pieces; 17 Piano CompositionsAudiocassette |
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Subseries 12.3. Audio Discs, 1946-1947 and undated.
| Audiodisc D-3826/1 |
"Soundscriber Record": Political Speech, Georgia, 1946 |
| Audiodisc D-3826/2 |
"Soundscriber Record": Spiritualist Seance, 1947 |
| Audiodisc D-3826/3 |
"Soundscriber Record": Guy Benton Johnson Music, undated |
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Subseries 12.4. Wax Cylinders, circa 1920-1930.
Except where noted, CD listening copies are available.
Field notes and audio recordings of religious music, secular music, and folk tales made by Guy Benton Johnson on the Sea Islands of South Carolina. Recordings originate chiefly from Saint Helena Island, S.C., but also from Port Royal Island, S.C., and Lady's Island, S.C. (written as "Ladies Island" in field notes). Guy Benton Johnson's field notes include note cards identifying the song title, location, and performer of each recording, as well as loose pages of notes that provide additional information about the songs, performers, song lyrics, and other contextual information. Johnson numbered each cylinder, and often recorded multiple songs on a cylinder. Johnson catalogued individual songs by the cylinder number and a letter corresponding to the order of the songs on a cylinder. Included in Johnson's field notes (folder 1841) is his explanation that "a-b-c-etc. refer to the different [songs] on the same cylinder, reading from left to right." Some recordings that are described in Johnson's field notes are not included in the list of cylinders transferred to tape and listening copies. Included in these are recordings of secular songs, identified by Johnson in his field notes as cylinders 11, 12, 19, 21, 37, 49, 50, and 52.
Also included are papers relating to the transfer of the recordings from wax cylinder to reel to reel tape at the Library of Congress American Folklife Center. Due to deterioration of the original cylinders, the sound quality is poor and many of the recordings are inaudible. During transfer from wax cylinder to reel to reel tape, some songs were played several times in reverse and at different speeds. Audio preservationists announce the cylinder number and treatment of the recordings on listening copies.
Field notes written by Guy Benton Johnson. Contains original handwritten and typed notes, as well as photocopied reproductions. Note cards include Johnson's original description identifying title, location, and performer for each song and story recorded, and notes relating to song lyrics and other contextual information about recordings. Johnson's titles have been applied in describing wax cylinders CY-100 through CY-145.
Folder 1836-1841
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Field notes |
Correspondence and notes relating to the transfer of the recordings from wax cylinder to reel to reel tape at the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress and at the Southern Folklife Collection at UNC-Chapel Hill, circa 1990-1999. Provides additional description of the sound quality and preservation treatment of the cylinders.
| Folder 1842 |
Wax cylinder transfer notes |
| Track TR-3826/01 |
01-a: "You Publican, You Pharisee (Oh, What a Mighty Day)"High distortion at beginning of track. Audio becomes clearer at 1:08. CD listening copy: CY-3826/100-106 track 1. |
| Track TR-3826/02 |
01-a: "You Publican, You Pharisee (Oh, What a Mighty Day)"Played in reverse. CD listening copy: CY-3826/100-106 track 2. |
| Track TR-3826/03 |
01-b: "Lead Me to the Rock (Jesus Is the Rock - Higher and Higher)"CD listening copy: CY-3826/100-106 track 3. |
| Track TR-3826/04 |
02-a: "Right Down Here (If You Treat Your Neighbor Right)"Begins with announcement from audio preservationist, "Continuing now with cylinder CY-101." Clearer sound and more audible lyrics. CD listening copy: CY-3826/100-106 track 4. |
| Track TR-3826/05 |
02-a: "Right Down Here (If You Treat Your Neighbor Right)"Played in reverse. CD listening copy: CY-3826/100-106 track 5. |
| Track TR-3826/06 |
03-a: "Don't Forget the House of Prayer"; 03-b: "I Put on my Shoes and I Started"; 03-c: "No Harm"Recording catches and restarts around the 0:57 mark; can hear male voice leading "Don't Forget the House of Prayer." "I Put on My Shoes and I Started" begins playing at 2:40, led by female voice. "No Harm" begins playing at 5:10. Ends with announcement from audio preservationist, "Next is CY-102 played backwards." CD listening copy: CY-3826/100-106 track 6. |
| Track TR-3826/07 |
03-c: "No Harm"Played in reverse. CD listening copy: CY-3826/100-106 track 7. |
| Track TR-3826/08 |
03-b: "I Put on my Shoes and I Started"Played in reverse. CD listening copy: CY-3826/100-106 track 8. |
| Track TR-3826/09 |
03-a: "Don't Forget the House of Prayer"Played in reverse. Ends with announcement from audio preservationist, "Next is CY-103." CD listening copy: CY-3826/100-106 track 9. |
| Track TR-3826/10 |
04-a: "Walk and Talk with Jesus (Hope I'll Join the Band)"Poor sound quality. CD listening copy: CY-3826/100-106 track 10. |
| Track TR-3826/11 |
04-b: "O, Lordy, When You Come (Bring Your Hymn Book, etc., With You)"; 04-c: "I'm Gonna Build Right on Dat Shore"; 04-d: "I Will Not Be Removed"04-c: "I'm Gonna Build Right on Dat Shore" begins playing at 2:40. 04-d: "I Will Not be Removed" can be heard toward the end of the track, though the sound quality is very poor. Ends with announcement from audio preservationist, "Next is CY-103 played backwards." CD listening copy: CY-3826/100-106 track 11. |
| Track TR-3826/12 |
04-d: "I Will Not Be Removed"Played in reverse. CD listening copy: CY-3826/100-106 track 12. |
| Track TR-3826/13 |
04-c: "I'm Gonna Build Right on Dat Shore"Played in reverse. CD listening copy: CY-3826/100-106 track 13. |
| Track TR-3826/14 |
04-b: "O, Lordy, When You Come (Bring Your Hymn Book, etc., With You)"Played in reverse. CD listening copy: CY-3826/100-106 track 14. |
| Track TR-3826/15 |
04-a: "Walk and Talk with Jesus (Hope I'll Join the Band)"Played in reverse. Ends with announcement from audio preservationist, "Next is CY-104." CD listening copy: CY-3826/100-106 track 15. |
| Track TR-3826/16 |
05-a: "Jerusalem In the Morning"Very poor sound quality. CD listening copy: CY-3826/100-106 track 16. |
| Track TR-3826/17 |
05-b: "Who's Gonna Lay This Body Down?"Poor sound quality. Ends with announcement from audio preservationist, "Continuing now with CY-105." CD listening copy: CY-3826/100-106 track 17. |
| Track TR-3826/18 |
06-a: "Do, Don't Touch-a My Garment"CD listening copy: CY-3826/100-106 track 18. |
| Track TR-3826/19 |
06-b: "Whosoever Will, Let Him Come"CD listening copy: CY-3826/100-106 track 19. |
| Track TR-3826/20 |
07-a: "I Got a Mother Over There (In That Resurrection Morning You Gonna Shine)"Begins with announcement from audio preservationist, ""Continuing now with CY-106." CD listening copy: CY-3826/100-106 track 20. |
| Track TR-3826/21 |
07-a: "I Got a Mother Over There (In That Resurrection Morning You Gonna Shine)"Appears to be played in reverse or at a slower speed. CD listening copy: CY-3826/100-106 track 21. |
| Track TR-3826/22 |
07-b: "I Wish I Had an Eagle's Wing"CD listening copy: CY-3826/100-106 track 22. |
| Track TR-3826/23 |
07-a: "I Got a Mother Over There (In That Resurrection Morning You Gonna Shine)"Begins with announcement from audio preservationist, "Next is CY-106 played at a different speed." CD listening copy: CY-3826/100-106 track 23. |
| Track TR-3826/24 |
07-a: "I Got a Mother Over There (In That Resurrection Morning You Gonna Shine)"CD listening copy: CY-3826/100-106 track 24. |
| Track TR-3826/25 |
07-b: "I Wish I Had an Eagle's Wing"CD listening copy: CY-3826/100-106 track 25. |
| Track TR-3826/26 |
Announcement only:Track only includes announcement from audio preservationist, "Manuscripts Department, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, this is preservation master #PM2782, source recording from the Southern Historical Collection #3826. This is CY-107." CD listening copy: CY-3826/107-111 track 1. |
| Track TR-3826/27 |
08-a: "Ain't Nothing But Joy (Walk and Talk with Jesus Ain't Nothing)"; 08-b: "Maria Wrote a Letter"; 08-c: "Jesus Is My Only Friend (When My Room Becomes a Public Hall)"Slightly clearer audio quality, more audible lyrics. Recording appears to speed up and slow down at different points throughout. 08-b: "Maria Wrote a Letter" begins playing at 2:17. 08-c: "Jesus Is My Only Friend (When My Room Becomes a Public Hall)" begins playing at 5:00. CD listening copy: CY-3826/107-111 track 2. |
| Track TR-3826/28 |
08-c: "Jesus Is My Only Friend (When My Room Becomes a Public Hall)"; 08-b: "Maria Wrote a Letter"; 08-a: "Ain't Nothing But Joy (Walk and Talk with Jesus Ain't Nothing)"Begins with announcement from audio preservationist, "Next is CY-107 played backwards." Recordings played in reverse. CD listening copy: CY-3826/107-111 track 3. |
| Track TR-3826/29 |
09-a: "If You Don't Go Don't Hinder Me (I'm on My Way, Praise the Lord, I'm on My Way)"Begins with announcement from audio preservationist, "Continuing now with CY-108." CD listening copy: CY-3826/107-111 track 4. |
| Track TR-3826/30 |
09-b: "All My Sins Done Taken Away"; 09-c: "Green Grass Growing All Around"; 09-d: "Cry Holy unto the Lord"09-c: "Green Grass Growing All Around" begins at 1:47. 09-d: "Cry Holy unto the Lord" begins at 3:00. CD listening copy: CY-3826/107-111 track 5. |
| Track TR-3826/31 |
09-d: "Cry Holy unto the Lord"; 09-c: "Green Grass Growing All Around"Begins with announcement from audio preservationist, "Next is CY-108 played backwards." CD listening copy: CY-3826/107-111 track 6. |
| Track TR-3826/32 |
09-b: "All My Sins Done Taken Away"Played in reverse. CD listening copy: CY-3826/107-111 track 7. |
| Track TR-3826/33 |
09-a: "If You Don't Go Don't Hinder Me (I'm on My Way, Praise the Lord, I'm on My Way)"Played in reverse. CD listening copy: CY-3826/107-111 track 8. |
| Track TR-3826/34 |
10-a: "Soon We Shall Walk the Golden Streets"Begins with announcement from audio preservationist, "Next is CY-109." Relatively clear audio with more audible lyrics. CD listening copy: CY-3826/107-111 track 9. |
| Track TR-3826/35 |
10-b: "They Crucified My Lord and He Never Said a Murmuring Word"Relatively clear audio and lyrics. Audio begins to skip at 2:47. CD listening copy: CY-3826/107-111 track 10. |
| Track TR-3826/36 |
10-b: "They Crucified My Lord and He Never Said a Murmuring Word"Continues playing from point where audio skips in TR-3826/35. CD listening copy: CY-3826/107-111 track 11. |
| Track TR-3826/37 |
10-b: "They Crucified My Lord and He Never Said a Murmuring Word"; 10-a: "Soon We Shall Walk the Golden Streets"Begins with announcement from audio preservationist, "Next is CY-109 played backwards." Recordings played in reverse. CD listening copy: CY-3826/107-111 track 12. |
| Track TR-3826/38 |
13-a: "You Publican, You Pharisee"; 13-b: "Lead Me to the Rock"; 13-c: "Where Shall I Be When the Last Trumpet Sounds"; 13-d: "Watch Dat Star See How He Run"; 13-e: "Roll Jordan Roll"Begins with announcement from audio preservationist, "Next is CY-110." Poor audio quality, difficult to hear any melody or lyrics. Recording skips repeatedly in the first two minutes of playing. CD listening copy: CY-3826/107-111 track 13. |
| Track TR-3826/39 |
14-b: "Where Shall I Be When the Last Trumpet Sounds"Begins with announcement from audio preservationist, "Next is CY-111." Poor audio quality. More songs featured in recording than noted in Johnson's field notes. First song heard on the recording appears to be "Roll Jordan Roll." 14-b: "Where Shall I Be When the Last Trumpet Sounds" begins at 1:40. Third song appears to be "I Will Not Be Removed," beginning at 3:40. CD listening copy: CY-3826/107-111 track 14. |
| Track TR-3826/40 |
15-a: "Tell My Jesus Morning"; 15-b: "Joshua Was the Son of Nun (Redeemed, Redeemed Wash in the Bloody Lamb)"; 15-c: "Johnny Was a Writer (There's a Meeting Here Tonight)"Begins with announcement from audio preservationist, "Manuscripts Department at the University of Chapel Hill, this is Preservation Master #PM2783, source recording from the Southern Historican Collection #3826. This is CY-112." Very poor audio quality. Recording skips throughout. Ends with announcement from audio preservationist, "Next is CY-113." CD listening copy: CY-3826/112-116 track 1. |
| Track TR-3826/41 |
16-a: "Satan's Camp on Fire (Just Want to Tell You about Chapter I)"; 16-b: "Run to the City of Refuge Before I Be a Liar (When the Christian Time to Die)"First song is faint, but melody and lyrics for "Satan's Camp on Fire" are somewhat audible. 16-b: "Run to the City of Refuge Before I Be a Liar (When the Christian Time to Die)" begins at 3:30, voices and lyrics are more audible. Ends with announcement from audio preservationist, "Next is CY-113 played backwards." CD listening copy: CY-3826/112-116 track 2. |
| Track TR-3826/42 |
16-b: "Run to the City of Refuge Before I Be a Liar (When the Christian Time to Die)"; 16-a: "Satan's Camp on Fire (Just Want to Tell You about Chapter I)"Played in reverse. Ends with announcement from audio preservationist, "Next is CY-114." CD listening copy: CY-3826/112-116 track 3. |
| Track TR-3826/43 |
17-a: "Prayer Is the Key for the Kingdom (The World Can't Do Me No Harm)"; 17-b: "Sweet Water Rolling, Oh Yes"; 17-c: "I'm Going to Build Right on That Shore"; 17-d: "Everybody Wants to Know How I Die"Better sound quality, lyrics and melody relatively audible. 17-b: "Sweet Water Rolling, Oh Yes" begins playing from 2:15. 17-c: "I'm Going to Build Right on That Shore" begins playing from 4:52. 17-d: "Everybody Wants to Know How I Die" plays from 5:53. Ends with announcement from audio preservationist, "Next is CY-114 played backwards." CD listening copy: CY-3826/112-116 track 4. |
| Track TR-3826/44 |
17-d: "Everybody Wants to Know How I Die"; 17-c: "I'm Going to Build Right on That Shore"; 17-b: "Sweet Water Rolling, Oh Yes"; 17-a: "Prayer Is the Key for the Kingdom (The World Can't Do Me No Harm)"Played in reverse. CD listening copy: CY-3826/112-116 track 5. |
| Track TR-3826/45 |
18-a: "I Want to Die Easy When I Die (Shout Salvation as I Fly)"; 18-b: "When Jesus Calls Me I Will Answer (I'll Be Somewhere Sleeping in My Grave)"Begins with announcement from audio preservationist, "Continuing now with CY-115." 18-b: "When Jesus Calls Me I Will Answer (I'll Be Somewhere Sleeping in My Grave)" begins playing at 3:20. Ends with announcement from audio preservationist, "Next is CY-115 played backwards." CD listening copy: CY-3826/112-116 track 6. |
| Track TR-3826/46 |
18-b: "When Jesus Calls Me I Will Answer (I'll Be Somewhere Sleeping in My Grave)"; 18-a: "I Want to Die Easy When I Die (Shout Salvation as I Fly)"Played in reverse. Ends with announcement from audio preservationist, "Next is CY-116." CD listening copy: CY-3826/112-116 track 7. |
| Track TR-3826/47 |
20-a: "Yonder Ship Maria, Don't"; 20-b: "I'm Not Uneasy My Lord (I Got My Ticket Ready for Zion)"; 20-c: "I Got Me a Mother Over Yonder (Way on the Other Side)"; 20-d: "Ain't Dat a Pity, Ain't Dat a Shame? (Sinner Man so Hard to Believe)"Relatively clear audio. 20-b: "I'm Not Uneasy My Lord (I Got My Ticket Ready for Zion)" begins playing at 2:00. 20-c: "I Got Me a Mother Over Yonder (Way on the Other Side)" begins playing at 3:35. 20-d: "Ain't Dat a Pity, Ain't Dat a Shame? (Sinner Man so Hard to Believe)" begins playing at 5:15. Ends with announcement from audio preservationist, "Next is CY-116 played backwards." CD listening copy: CY-3826/112-116 track 8. |
| Track TR-3826/48 |
20-d: "Ain't Dat a Pity, Ain't Dat a Shame? (Sinner Man so Hard to Believe); 20-c: "I Got Me a Mother Over Yonder (Way on the Other Side)"; 20-b: "I'm Not Uneasy My Lord (I Got My Ticket Ready for Zion)"; "20-a: "Yonder Ship Maria, Don't"Played in reverse. CD listening copy: CY-3826/112-116 track 9. |
| Track TR-3826/49 |
22-a: "See, See, Mourners"; 22-b: "I Love Jesus, Yes, I Do"Begins with announcement from audio preservationist, "Manuscripts Department, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. This is Preservation Master #PM2784. Source recording from the Southern Historical Collection #3826, the Guy B. Johnson Papers. This is cylinder number CY-117." 22-a: "See, See, Mourners" begins at 0:47. 22-b: "I Love Jesus, Yes, I Do" begins at 1:52. Ends with announcement from audio preservationist, "Next is CY-117 played backwards." CD listening copy: CY-3826/117-123 track 1. |
| Track TR-3826/50 |
22-b: "I Love Jesus, Yes, I Do"; 22-a: "See, See, Mourners"Played in reverse. Ends with announcement from audio preservationist, "Next is CY-118." CD listening copy: CY-3826/117-123 track 2. |
| Track TR-3826/51 |
23-a: "Story: But Rabbit and the Turnip Patch," Julius Eddings; 23-b: "Story: Man and His Three Sons," George RiversCan hear a voice speaking, but the words are inaudible. Second story, 23-b: "Story: Man and His Three Sons," by George Rivers, begins at 3:48. Can hear the words "Once upon a time, a man had three sons," as story begins, but the rest of the story is largely inaudible. Ends with announcement from audio preservationist, "Next is CY-118 played backwards." CD listening copy: CY-3826/117-123 track 3. |
| Track TR-3826/52 |
23-b: "Story: Man and His Three Sons," George Rivers; 23-a: "Story: But Rabbit and the Turnip Patch," Julius EddingsPlayed in reverse. Ends with announcement from audio preservationist, "Next is CY-119." CD listening copy: CY-3826/117-123 track 4. |
| Track TR-3826/53 |
24-a: "Story: The Parson' Sheep," Lucy Middleton; 24-b: "Story: The Three Gunjuh," Joseph WilsonCan hear a voice speaking, with some singing interspersed throughout, but the words are largely inaudible. 24-b: "Story: The Three Gunjuh," by Joseph Wilson begins playing at 2:45. CD listening copy: CY-3826/117-123 track 5. |
| Track TR-3826/54 |
25-a: "Folk Tale: Rabbit and Partridge," Julius Eddings; 25-b: "Folk Tale: Rabbit, Wolf, and Crane," George Rivers; 25-c: "Folk Tale": Untitled; continued on 26-a, Leroy MiddletonBegins with announcement from audio preservationist, "Next is CY-120." Can hear a voice speaking, but the words are largely inaudible. Unclear where three different stories begin and end. One story appears to begin at 4:16. Ends with announcement from audio preservationist, "Next is CY-120 played backwards." CD listening copy: CY-3826/117-123 track 6. |
| Track TR-3826/55 |
25-c: "Folk Tale": Untitled; continued on 26-a, Leroy Middleton; 25-b: "Folk Tale: Rabbit, Wolf, and Crane," George Rivers; 25-a: "Folk Tale: Rabbit and Partridge," Julius EddingsPlayed in reverse. Ends with announcement from audio preservationist, "Next is CY-121." CD listening copy: CY-3826/117-123 track 7. |
| Track TR-3826/56 |
26-a: "Folk Tale": Untitled; continued from 25-cContinuation of story from TR-3826/54-55, according to Guy B. Johnson's field notes. Can hear a voice speaking, but the words are largely inaudible. Ends with announcement from audio preservationist, "Next is CY-122." CD listening copy: CY-3826/117-123 track 8. |
| Track TR-3826/57 |
27-a: "May Be the Last Time, I Don't Know"; 27-b: "Young People, What You Been-A-Do?"Voice and lyrics are relatively clear in 27-a: "May Be the Last Time, I Don't Know." 27-b: "Young People, What You Been-A-Do?" begins at 1:48. Other unidentified songs begin at 3:00 and at 4:15. Ends with announcement from audio preservationist, "Next is CY-123." CD listening copy: CY-3826/117-123 track 9. |
| Track TR-3826/58 |
28-a: "When Your Lamp Burn Out"Relatively clear audio quality. CD listening copy: CY-3826/117-123 track 10. |
| Track TR-3826/59 |
28-b: "I'm a Soldier - In the Army of the Lord"Relatively clear audio quality. CD listening copy: CY-3826/117-123 track 11. |
| Track TR-3826/60 |
28-c: "Were You There When They Crucified My Lord? (Sometimes My Trouble Makes Me Tremble, Tremble, Tremble)"Relatively clear audio quality. Recording catches and skips at 1:40. Ends with announcement from audio preservationist, "Next is CY-123 played backwards." CD listening copy: CY-3826/117-123 track 12. |
| Track TR-3826/61 |
28-c: "Were You There When They Crucified My Lord? (Sometimes My Trouble Makes Me Tremble, Tremble, Tremble)"; 28-b: "I'm a Soldier - In the Army of the Lord"Played in reverse. CD listening copy: CY-3826/117-123 track 13. |
| Track TR-3826/62 |
28-a: "When Your Lamp Burn Out"Played in reverse. CD listening copy: CY-3826/117-123 track 14. |
| Track TR-3826/63 |
28-a: "When Your Lamp Burn Out"; 28-b: "I'm a Soldier - In the Army of the Lord"; 28-c: "Were You There When They Crucified My Lord? (Sometimes My Trouble Makes Me Tremble, Tremble, Tremble)"Played in reverse. Recording catches and skips in beginning. Audio preservationist makes inaudible announcement at end of the track, at an increased audio speed. CD listening copy: CY-3826/123-127 track 1. |
| Track TR-3826/64 |
UnidentifiedIncreased audio speed. Uncertain which recording is played. Ends with announcement from audio preservationist, "Next is CY-124." CD listening copy: CY-3826/123-127 track 2. |
| Track TR-3826/65 |
29-a: "Don't Let the Wind Blow Here No Mo"; 29-b: "O, the Joy Bell Ringing Down in My Heart"; 29-c: "Let's Go Down to Jordan and Be Saved"Poor audio quality. 29-b: "O, the Joy Bell Ringing Down in My Heart" begins at 2:35. 29-c: "Let's Go Down to Jordan and Be Saved" begins at 4:50. Ends with announcement from audio preservationist, "Next is CY-124 played backwards." CD listening copy: CY-3826/123-127 track 3. |
| Track TR-3826/66 |
29-c: "Let's Go Down to Jordan and Be Saved"; 29-b: "O, the Joy Bell Ringing Down in My Heart"; 29-a: "Don't Let the Wind Blow Here No Mo"Played in reverse. Ends with announcement from audio preservationist, "Next is CY-125." CD listening copy: CY-3826/123-127 track 4. |
| Track TR-3826/67 |
30-a: "Satan, Your Kingdom Must Come Down"; 30-b: "I Will Not be Removed"; 30-c: "Rise up, Shepherd, and Follow"Medium audio quality. Voices and lyrics are generally audible. 30-b: "I Will Not be Removed" begins at 2:19. 30-c: "Rise up, Shepherd, and Follow" begins at 4:14. Ends with announcement from audio preservationist, "Next is CY-125 played backwards." CD listening copy: CY-3826/123-127 track 5. |
| Track TR-3826/68 |
30-c: "Rise Up, Shepherd, and Follow"; 30-b: "I Will Not be Removed"; 30-a: "Satan, Your Kingdom Must Come Down"Played in reverse. Ends with announcement from audio preservationist, "Next is CY-126." CD listening copy: CY-3826/123-127 track 6. |
| Track TR-3826/69 |
31-a: "King Jesus Been a-Listening All Night Long (For to Hear Some Sinner Pray)"; 31-b: "My Lord's Gonna Move This Wicked Race"Relatively good audio quality. 31-b: "My Lord's Gonna Move This Wicked Race" begins playing at 3:19. Ends with announcement from audio preservationist, "Next is CY-126 played backwards." CD listening copy: CY-3826/123-127 track 7. |
| Track TR-3826/70 |
31-b: "My Lord's Gonna Move This Wicked Race"; 31-a: "King Jesus Been a-Listening All Night Long (For to Hear Some Sinner Pray)"Played in reverse. Ends with announcement from audio preservationist, "Next is CY-127." CD listening copy: CY-3826/123-127 track 8. |
| Track TR-3826/71 |
32-a: Untitled; 32-b: "Who'll Join Dat Union"; 32-c: "Death's So Hard on Me"Relatively clear audio quality. Title of 32-a not identified by Guy Benton Johnson, but lyrics audible in the chorus, "I Love the Lord Down in My Heart." 32-b: "Who'll Join Dat Union" begins at 2:13. 32-c: "Death's So Hard on Me" begins at 4:39. CD listening copy: CY-3826/123-127 track 9. |
| Track TR-3826/72 |
32-c: "Death's So Hard on Me"; 32-b: "Who'll Join Dat Union"; 32-a: UntitledBegins with announcement from audio preservationist, ""Manuscripts Department, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, this is preservation master #PM2786, source recording from the Southern Historical Collection #3826. These are cylinders from the Guy B. Johnson Papers. We're going to start with CY-127 played backwards." Recordings played in reverse. Ends with announcement from audio preservationist, "Next is CY-128." CD listening copy: CY-3826/127-133 track 1. |
| Track TR-3826/73 |
33-a: "Lead Me to the Rock"; 33-b: "I Love the Lord (Down in My Heart)"Audio is very faint and seems to skip frequently in beginning. 33-b: "I Love the Lord (Down in My Heart)" begins at 3:09. Ends with announcement from audio preservationist, "Next is CY-129." CD listening copy: CY-3826/127-133 track 2. |
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34-a: "Lord, the Road's So Lonesome, Ah Lord, Ah Lord"; 34-b: "Reborn Again, Aye Lord, Reborn Again"34-b: "Reborn Again, Aye Lord, Reborn Again" begins at 3:34. Ends with announcement from audio preservationist, "Next is CY-130." CD listening copy: CY-3826/127-133 track 3. |
| Track TR-3826/75 |
35-a: Mrs. Gadsen, "Shine, Let Me Shine"; 35-b: Franklin Flood, Jeff Ancrum, and others, "I'm a Rollin' Thru This Unfriendly World"; 35-c: Frank Flood, Leroy F., Jeff Ancrum, "Heaven is a Beautiful Place, I Know"Poor audio quality, especially in beginning. 35-b: "I'm a Rollin' Thru This Unfriendly World" begins at 3:18. 35-c: "Heaven is a Beautiful Place, I Know" begins at 4:48. Ends with announcement from audio preservationist, "Next is CY-130 played backwards." CD listening copy: CY-3826/127-133 track 4. |
| Track TR-3826/76 |
35-c: Frank Flood, Leroy F., Jeff Ancrum, "Heaven is a Beautiful Place, I Know"; 35-b: Franklin Flood, Jeff Ancrum, and others, "I'm a Rollin' Thru This Unfriendly World"; 35-a: Mrs. Gadsen, "Shine, Let Me Shine"Played in reverse. CD listening copy: CY-3826/127-133 track 5. |
| Track TR-3826/77 |
36-a: UntitledA voice can be heard speaking, possibly telling a story, but the words are unintelligible. CD listening copy: CY-3826/127-133 track 6. |
| Track TR-3826/78 |
36-a: UntitledBegins with announcement from audio preservationist, "Next is a second attempt at CY-131." Again, a voice can be heard speaking, but the words are unintelligible. Recording catches and skips throughout. CD listening copy: CY-3826/127-133 track 7. |
| Track TR-3826/79 |
36-a: UntitledBegins with announcement from audio preservationist, "Next is CY-131 played backwards," followed by recording played in reverse. CD listening copy: CY-3826/127-133 track 8. |
| Track TR-3826/80 |
38-a: Paris Capers, "All Man Lookin' for A Dollar in This World"; 38-b: Paris Capers and Jesse Holmes, "When Jesus Calls You, You Must Answer"; 38-c: Paris Capers, daughter Rosalie, and Jessie Holmes, "No Harm, No Harm"Begins with announcement from audio preservationist, "Next is CY-132." 38-b: "When Jesus Calls You, You Must Answer" begins at 1:44. 38-c: "No Harm, No Harm" begins at 3:45. CD listening copy: CY-3826/127-133 track 9. |
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38-c: Paris Capers, daughter Rosalie, and Jessie Holmes "No Harm, No Harm"Begins with announcement from audio preservationist, "Next is CY-132 played backwards. The last track, track 3 only," followed by recording played in reverse. CD listening copy: CY-3826/127-133 track 10. |
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39-a: "Since Jesus Came into My Heart"; 39-b: "I Want to Climb up Jacob's Ladder"; 39-c: "Wheresoever I Go, Wheresoever I Be"Begins with announcement from audio preservationist, "Next is CY-133." Audio is faint, but lyrics are slightly audible. 39-b: "I Want to Climb up Jacob's Ladder" begins at 2:02. 39-c: "Wheresoever I Go, Wheresoever I Be" begins at 4:43. CD listening copy: CY-3826/127-133 track 11. |
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39-c: "Wheresoever I Go, Wheresoever I Be"; 39-b: "I Want to Climb up Jacob's Ladder"; 39-a: "Since Jesus Came into My Heart"Begins with announcement from audio preservationist, "Next is CY-133 played backwards," followed by recording played in reverse. CD listening copy: CY-3826/127-133 track 12. |
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40-a: "When I Was on My Sickbed, Nobody Visit Me (Oh, My Dying-Pillow)"; 40-b: "See What a Wonder Jesus Done (Jesus Make the Cripple Walk) (Sinner Believe) (King Jesus Is Riding On)"; 40-c: "My God Delivered Daniel, Why Can't He Deliver Me?"Begins with announcement from audio preservationist, "Manuscripts Department, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, this is preservation master #PM2787, source recording from the Southern Historical Collection #3826. The Guy B. Johnson Papers. This is cylinder number CY-134." Very poor quality, voices barely audible. Begins to play recordings on Johnson Cylinder 40, but cuts out after less than thirty seconds. Ends with announcement from audio preservationist, "Next is CY-135." CD listening copy: CY-3826/134-141 track 1. |
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41-a: "Spiritual or Psalm"Voices audible but lyrics are unintelligible. Ends with announcement from audio preservationist, "Next is CY-136." CD listening copy: CY-3826/134-141 track 2. |
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42-a: "You Got to Ride"; 42-b: "If You Don't Wanta Get in Trouble"Male voices and lyrics in chorus generally audible. Recording skips frequently through 42-a: "You Got to Ride." 42-b: "If You Don't Wanta Get in Trouble" begins at 6:39. Ends with announcement from audio preservationist, "Next is CY-137." CD listening copy: CY-3826/134-141 track 3. |
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43-a: "You Will Need Somebody on Your Bond"; 43-b: "Old Time Religion"; 43-c: "In My Father's House (There is Joy, Joy)"Skips frequently in beginning of track. Very poor audio quality. 43-b: "Old Time Religion" begins at 2:50. 43-c: "In My Father's House (There is Joy, Joy)" begins at 3:35. CD listening copy: CY-3826/134-141 track 4. |
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44-a: Untitled; 44-b: "Music - Accordian"Skips frequently. Can hear male voices singing but lyrics are unintelligible in 44-a: Untitled; 44-b: "Music - Accordian" begins at 2:41. CD listening copy: CY-3826/134-141 track 5. |
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44-a: Untitled; 44-b: "Music - Accordian"Begins with announcement from audio preservationist, "This is CY-138 with the speed increased from 120 rpm to 130 rpm." Songs play at a faster speed. Recording continues to catch and skip throughout playing. CD listening copy: CY-3826/134-141 track 6. |
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44-b: "Music - Accordian"; 44-a: UntitledBegins with announcement from audio preservationist, "Next is CY-138 backwards, at 130 rpm." Songs played in reverse and at a faster speed. CD listening copy: CY-3826/134-141 track 7. |
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44-b: "Music - Accordian"; 44-a: UntitledBegins with announcement from audio preservationist, "Next is CY-138 backwards, at 120 rpm." Songs played in reverse and at the slower, original speed. Ends with announcement from audio preservationist, "Next is CY-139." CD listening copy: CY-3826/134-141 track 8. |
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45-a: "I Never Knew I Comin' Here Tonight"Poor audio quality. Ends with announcement from audio preservationist, "Next is CY-140." CD listening copy: CY-3826/134-141 track 9. |
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46-a: "I Believe I'll Go Back Home"; 46-b: "You Must Have That Pure Religion (You Can't Cross Here)"Voices and lyrics in chorus are generally audible in both songs. 46-b: "You Must Have That Pure Religion (You Can't Cross Here)" begins at 3:50. CD listening copy: CY-3826/134-141 track 10. |
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47-a: "Boat Song - De Bell Done Ring"; 47-b: "Roll, Jordan, Roll"; 47-c: "I Want to Know if You Do Love Jesus"Begins with announcement from audio preservationist, "This is CY-141." 47-b: "Roll, Jordan, Roll" begins at 2:14. 47-c: "I Want to Know if You Do Love Jesus" begins at 5:15. CD listening copy: CY-3826/134-141 track 11. |
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47-c: "I Want to Know If You Do Love Jesus"; 47-b: "Roll, Jordan, Roll"; 47-a: "Boat Song - De Bell Done Ring"Begins with announcement from audio preservationist, "This is CY-141 played backwards," followed by songs played in reverse. CD listening copy: CY-3826/134-141 track 12. |
48-a: "Go Down, Moses," Aunt Rose AncrumListening copy available only on audiocassette. |
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48-b: "Please Don't Drive Me Away," Paris CapersListening copy available only on audiocassette. |
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48-c: "Conscience Done Tell Me So," Paris CapersListening copy available only on audiocassette. |
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Series 13. Oversize Papers
| Extra Oversize Paper Folder XOPF-3826/1 |
Oversize Papers |
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