Inventory of the Guy Benton Johnson Papers, 1830-1882, 1901-1987

Collection Number 3826

Manuscripts Department, University Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Collection Information

Descriptive Summary

Administrative Information

Online Catalog Headings

Biographical Note

Collection Overview

Detailed Description of the Collection

1. General Correspondence, 1917-1989.

2. Alumni Office Files, 1924-1960s.

3. Institutional Affiliations and Activities, 1918-1987.

4. Professional Organizations and Activities, 1924-1986.

5. Reserach Projects, 1922-1977 and undated.

6. Subject Files, 1922-1981 and undated.

7. Writings, Addresses, and Personal Notes, 1917-1987 and undated.

8. Teaching Materials, 1930-1966.

9. Miscellaneous Pamphlets, Booklets, and Other Printed Materials, 1830-1973 and undated.

10. Calendars, 1945-1984 and undated.

11. Biographical Materials on Johnson, 1938-1987.

12. Audio and Visual Materials.

Related Collections

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Descriptive Summary

Repository: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.

Creator: Johnson, Guy Benton, 1901-

Title: Guy Benton Johnson papers, 1830-1882, 1901-1987.

Call Number: 3826

Language of Materials: Materials in English

Extent: Items: About 20400; Linear Feet: 61.0

Abstract

Guy Benton Johnson was one of the original research assistants at the Institute for Research in Social Science and joined the faculty of the University of North Carolina in 1927, retiring in 1969. In 1923, he married Guion Griffis, also a social science researcher. They had two sons: Guy Benton Jr. (Benny) (b. 1928) and Edward (b. 1933).

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. 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.

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Administrative Information

Restrictions to Access: Student materials in folders 561-569 CLOSED. Use of audio material may require production of listening copies.

Acquisitions Information: Received from Guy B. Johnson of Chapel Hill, N.C., in February 1990 (Acc. 90025).

Processing Information: Processed by: Jill Snider, July 1995; Encoded by: Joseph Nicholson, June 2006

Preferred Citation: [Identification of item], in the Guy Benton Johnson Papers #3826, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Copyright Notice: Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.

Online Catalog Headings

These and related materials may be found under the following headings in online catalogs.

Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963.

Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967.

Johnson, Charles Spurgeon, 1893-1956.

Johnson, Guion Griffis, 1900-

Johnson, Guy Benton, 1901-

Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956.

Myrdal, Gunnar, 1898-1987.

Odum, Howard Washington, 1884-1954.

Spaulding, C. C. (Charles Clinton), 1874-1952.

Van Vechten, Carl, 1880-1964.

Wright, Marion A. (Marion Allan), 1894-

Howard University.--Board of Trustees.

Ku Klux Klan (1915- )

North Carolina Council on Human Relations.

Phelps-Stokes Fund.

Southern Regional Council.

University of North Carolina (1793-1962).--Faculty--History--20th century.

University of North Carolina (1793-1962).--Institute for Research in Social Science.

Journal of social forces.

African Americans--Folklore.

African Americans--Languages.

African Americans--Songs and music.

African Americans--Southern States--Social life and customs.

Anthropologists--Southern States--History--20th century.

Family--North Carolina--Social life and customs.

Family--Texas--Social life and customs.

Folklore--United States.

John Henry (Legendary character)

Lumbee Indians.

Sea Islands Creole dialect.

Segregation in higher education--History--20th century.

Sociologists--Southern States--History--20th century.

Chapel Hill (N.C.)--Social life and customs.

North Carolina--Race relations.

Robeson County (N.C.)--Social life and customs.

Saint Helena Island (S.C.)--Social life and customs.

South Carolina--Race relations.

Related Collections

Guion Griffis Johnson Papers (#4546)
Howard Washington Odum Papers (#3167)
Commission on Interracial Cooperation (#3825)
Marion A. Wright Papers (#3830)
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Biographical Note

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.

Collection Overview

Arrangement of Collection

1. General Correspondence
1.1. 1917-1919, 1922-1924
1.2. 1930-August 1969
1.3 September 1969-1989
1.4 Undated
2. Alumni Office Files
2.1 Small Alphabetical File
2.2 Large Alphabetical File
2.3 Correspondence File
3. Institutional Affiliations and Activities
3.1 Institute for Research in Social Sciences
3.2 Southern Regional Council
3.3 North Carolina Council on Human Relations
3.4 Phelps-Stokes Fund Board of Trustees
3.5 Howard University Board of Trustees
4. Professional Organizations and Activities
4.1 Southern Sociological Society
4.2 American Sociological Society
4.3 American Anthropological Association
4.4 Southern Anthropological Association
4.5 North Carolina Sociological Association
5. Research Projects
5.1 Ku Klux Klan Study
5.2 Negro Folksongs and Folklore
5.3 Negro Musical Talent Study
5.4 John Henry Study
5.5 Saint Helena Island Study
5.6 The Negro and Economic Reconstruction Study
5.7 Lumbee Indians (Robeson Co.) Study
5.8 Participation of Negroes in Southern Life Study
5.9 Myrdal Study
5.10 Ashmore Project (Desegregation of Colleges Study)
6. Miscellaneous Subject Files
6.1 Africa
6.2 Miscellaneous Subjects
7. Writings, Addresses, and Personal Notes
7.1 Fiction and Personal Writings
7.2 Articles and Book Reviews
7.3 Addresses and Interviews
7.4 College Class Notes and Materials
8. Teaching Materials
9. Miscellaneous Pamphlets, Booklets, and Other Printed Matter
9.1 Antebellum
9.2 Post Civil War and Reconstruction
9.3 Twentieth Century
10. Calendars
11. Biographical Materials on Johnson
12. Audio and Visual Materials
12.1 Photographs
12.2 Audio Tapes
12.3 Audio Discs
12.4 Wax Cylinders (unavailable for research pending processing)

Detailed Description of the Collection

1. General Correspondence, 1917-1989.

About 1280 items.

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 Odum, Gunnar Myrdal, and W. E. B. Du Bois.

1.1.1917-1919, 1922-1925, 1927-1929.

24 items.

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."

Folder 1

1917-1919, 1922-1925, 1927-1929

1.2. 1930-August 1969.

About 530 items.

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.

Folder 2

1930-1934

Folder 3

1936, 1938, 1940

Folder 4

1942-1943

Folder 5

1944-1949

Folder 6

1950, 1953-1958

Folder 7

1959

Folder 8

1960

Folder 9

1961

Folder 10

1962

Folder 11

1963

Folder 12

1964-1965

Folder 13

1966

Folder 14-17

1967

Folder 18-20

1968

Folder 21-22

January-August 1969

1.3. September 1969-1989.

About 745 items.

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 entitled, "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, entitled "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.

Folder 23

September-December 1969

Folder 24-26

December 1970

Folder 27-28

1971

Folder 29-30

1972

Folder 31-33

1973

Folder 34

1974

Folder 35-38

1976

Folder 39-40

1977

Folder 41-43

1978

Folder 44

1979

Folder 45-46

1980

Folder 47-48

1981

Folder 49

1982

Folder 50-51

1983

Folder 52-53

1984

Folder 54-55

1985

Folder 56

1986

Folder 57

1987-1989

1.4. Undated.

About 115 items.

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

Undated

2. Alumni Office Files, 1924-1960s.

About 7070 items.

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.

2.1. Small Alphabetical File, 1924-1952.

About 1500 items.

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, entitled "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).

Folder 63

A Miscellaneous

Folder 64

Allen, Cleveland

Folder 65

American Folksong Society (Jean Thomas)

Folder 66

American Youth Society

Folder 67

Archaeology, Laboratory of, Works Progress Administration, etc.

Folder 68-69

Asbury, Samuel E.

Folder 70

Bousfield, M.O.

Folder 71

Broughton, J.M. (Governor)

Folder 72

B Miscellaneous

Folder 73-74

C Miscellaneous

Folder 75

Calvin, Floyd J.

Folder 76

Canady, Herman G.

Folder 77

Carter, William

Folder 78

Cayton, Horace

Folder 79

Columbia Phonograph Co., Inc.

Folder 80

Confidential Memo, 19 January 1948

Folder 81

Cooper, Anna

Folder 82

Cox, Frances (News Service)

Folder 83

D Miscellaneous

Folder 84

Davidson, A. Wolfe

Folder 85

Dictionary of American Biography

Folder 86

Dictionary of American History

Folder 87-89

Division of Cooperation in Education and Race Relations

Folder 90

Drake, Joe T.: Studies on Negroes

Folder 91

E Miscellaneous

Folder 92

Eleazer, R.B. (Director, North Carolina Commission on Interracial Cooperation

Folder 93

Embree, Edwin R.

Folder 94-99

"Encyclopedia of the Negro"

Folder 100

Expense Sheets

Folder 101

G Miscellaneous

Folder 102

Garwick, Walter C.

Folder 103-108

Granger, Mary (Georgia Federal Writers Project)

Folder 109

H Miscellaneous

Folder 110

Harmon Foundation (Re: Negro Art)

Folder 111

Henry, Mellinger E.

Folder 112

Hertzler, J.O. (University of Nebraska)

Folder 113

Herzog, George

Folder 114

Hughes, Langston

Folder 115

I Miscellaneous

Folder 116

J Miscellaneous

Folder 117

Jackson, George P.

Folder 118

Jackson, W.C.

Folder 119

Johnson, James Weldon

Folder 120

Jones, Thomas Jesse

Folder 121

K Miscellaneous

Folder 122

Kalibaba, Ernst

Folder 123

Kobbe, Herman (Director, Hollypoint Project)

Folder 124

Krueger, E.T.

Folder 125

Ku Klux Klan

Folder 126

L Miscellaneous

Folder 127

Letters (Form Letters, 1924, Asking for Materials, Reports, Advice, etc.)

Folder 128

Loram, Charles T.

Folder 129

Love, Cornelia

Folder 130

M Miscellaneous

Folder 131

Mackaye, William V.

Folder 132

Mowry, Mrs. A.S.

Folder 133

N Miscellaneous

Folder 134

O Miscellaneous

Folder 135

P Miscellaneous

Folder 136

Parents' Magazine: Questionnaire

Folder 137-140

Peabody Conference on Dual Education

Folder 141

Peabody, George Foster

Folder 142

R Miscellaneous

Folder 143

Reports of Research (Early Days of Institute)

Folder 144-155

Requests for Information and Assistance

Folder 156-158

Reynolds, W.R. (North Carolina Commission on Interracial Cooperation

Folder 159

S Miscellaneous

Folder 160

Shepard, James E. (North Carolina College for Negroes)

Folder 161

Simpson, George

Folder 162

Society of Friends Institute of Race Relations

Folder 163

Southern Workman

Folder 164

States, Correspondence with

Folder 165

Stock-Taking Conference on Negro, Durham, 1927

Folder 166-167

Students: Correspondence with Present and Former Students

Folder 168

T Miscellaneous

Folder 169

Trent, William J., Jr.

Folder 170-171

Tuttle, Charles E., Rutland, Ver.

Folder 172

Unemployment and Negroes Conference, Raleigh 6 May 1939

Folder 173

V Miscellaneous

Folder 174

W Miscellaneous

Folder 175

Washington, E. Davidson

Folder 176

Wells, Frank B.

Folder 177

White, Carl M. (Fisk University Library)

Folder 178

Williams, T. Mayo (Chicago Music Publishing Company, 1925-1926)

Folder 179

Work, Monroe

Folder 180

Wright, R.R., Jr.

Folder 181

YMCA and Y.W.C.A.

2.2. Large Alphabetical File, 1950-1960s.

About 5570 items.

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.

Folder 182-183

A: Miscellaneous

Folder 184

Aaronsburg Assembly (Pennsylvania)

Folder 185

Africa Freedom Day Celebration, New York, 1959

Folder 186

African Studies Association

Folder 187-188

Africa Trip, 1959-1960

Folder 189

Alexander, W.P. (Negro farmer, author)

Folder 190

Alexander, Will W.

Folder 191

Alpha Kappa Delta

Folder 192

Alpha Psi Delta

Folder 193

Alumni Building, Floor Plans

Folder 194

American Anthropological Association

Folder 195

American Anthropological Association: Paper on "Gullah", 1967

Folder 196

American Anthropologist

Folder 197

American Association of School Administrators (Saint Louis Meeting, 1955)

Folder 198

American Association of University Professors

Folder 199

American Jewish Congress

Folder 200

American Missionary Association: Race Relations Department

Folder 201-202

American Sociological Association

Folder 203

American Sociological Association: Visiting Lecturers Program

Folder 204

Americans for Democratic Action

Folder 205

Ames, Jesse Daniel

Folder 206

Anderson, Nels

Folder 207

Anisfield Grant-in-Aid (Mrs. Edith Wolf)

Folder 208

Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science

Folder 209

Anthropology (Annual Reports, Conference Materials)

Folder 210

Anthropology Cartoon Collection

Folder 211

Anti-Defamation League

Folder 212-213

Anti-Integration: Organizations, Literature

Folder 214-215

Archaeological Society of North Carolina

Folder 216

Ashmore Project, Letters, etc., 1953

Folder 217

Ashmore Project, Letters, etc., 1954-1956

Folder 218

A.P. Interview Story by Wood, February 1967

Folder 219

Association for Study of Negro Life and History, 52nd Annual Meeting, Greensboro, N.C. (13 October 1967)

Folder 220

Atlanta University

Folder 221

Attorney General, State of North Carolina

Folder 222

Austin, Louis F. (Carolina Times, Editor)

Folder 223-226

B: Miscellaneous

Folder 227

Baity, Elizabeth Chesley

Folder 228

Baker, George W. (United States Air Force)

Folder 229

Barnett, Claude

Folder 230

Barth, Ernest A. Tom

Folder 231

Baylor University

Folder 232

Beaty, R.C.

Folder 233

Beecher, John N.

Folder 234

Bell County Building and Loan Association

Folder 235

Bellamy, Raymond

Folder 236

Bennett, Whitman and Isadora

Folder 237

Bernard, L.L.

Folder 238

Beta Sigma Tau

Folder 239

Bethune, Mary McLeod

Folder 240

Biesheuvel Researches on African Ability, Personality, etc.

Folder 241

Birds

Folder 242

Blackwell, Gordon

Folder 243

Bluford, F.D. and A&T College

Folder 244

Boston University

Folder 245

Botkin, B.A.

Folder 246

Boy Scouts of America

Folder 247

Boyd, P.P. (University of Kentucky)

Folder 248

Brooks, Lee M.

Folder 249

Brown, VKC M.

Folder 250

Brown, Sterling

Folder 251

Bunche, Ralph

Folder 252

Burgess, Elaine (Research Assistant, 1958-1959)

Folder 253

Burgess, Ernest W.

Folder 254-256

C: Miscellaneous

Folder 257

Campus Concerns

Folder 258

Carlton, Harvey B.

Folder 259

Carnegie Corporation of New York

Folder 260

Carolina Symposium

Folder 261

Cashmore, Thomas Richard (Rotary Fellow, 1951-1952)

Folder 262-263

Catholic Committee of the South

Folder 264

Catton, William R., Jr.

Folder 265

Cherokee Indians of North Carolina

Folder 266

Chief State School Officers' Conference, Atlanta, 1954

Folder 267

Chivers, Walter R.

Folder 268

Christian Science Monitor

Folder 269-270

Civil Rights Commission, 1957-1959

Folder 271

National Civil Liberties Clearing House Conference, March 1958 (Correspondence)

Folder 272

National Civil Liberties Clearing House Conference, March 1958 (Speech, Miscellaneous)

Folder 273

Civil Rights Bills, 84th Congress

Folder 274

Cobb, Mary--University of North Carolina Correspondence Bureau

Folder 275

Coe, Joffre

Folder 276

Coleman, Lee (University of Kentucky)

Folder 277

Columbia, S.C.: State and Record

Folder 278

Committee on Education, Training, and Research in Race Relations (University of Chicago)

Folder 279

Communism: Miscellaneous Material

Folder 280

Communist (and Other S.O.B.) Propaganda

Folder 281

Conference on Education of American Negroes and African Natives, 1937 (Letters from Participants)

Folder 282

Conference on Education of American Negroes and African Natives, Chapel Hill, 1937 (Miscelleaneous Material)

Folder 283

Congress, Members of

Folder 284

Copeland, Lewis

Folder 285-286

Couch, William T.

Folder 287

Crackpots, etc.

Folder 288

Crittenden, C.C.

Folder 289-290

D: Miscellaneous

Folder 291

Dabney, Virginius

Folder 292

Daniels, Jonathan

Folder 293

Davie, Maurice R.

Folder 294

Davis, Jackson (See also General Education Board)

Folder 295

Davis, John P.

Folder 296

Daytona Beach (Consultations, Methodist W.S.C.S., 28-29 March 1958)

Folder 297

Department of Sociology and Anthropology (Acting Chair, Summer 1956)

Folder 298

Department of Sociology and Anthropology (Annual Reports)

Folder 299

Department of Sociology and Anthropology (Correspondence with Colleagues)

Folder 300-301

Department of Sociology and Anthropology (Official Matters and Miscellaneous)

Folder 302

Department of Sociology and Anthropology (List of Students and Advisors)

Folder 303

Department of Sociology and Anthropology (Memoranda, Handbooks)

Folder 304

Department of Sociology and Anthropology (Miscellaneous)

Folder 305

Department of Sociology and Anthropology (Steering Committee)

Folder 306

Department of Sociology and Anthropology (Syllabus, Anthropology 41 by Murphy)

Folder 307-309

Desegregation (Resistance, Opinion Polls)

Folder 310

Detweiler, F.G.

Folder 311

Dollard, John

Folder 312

Dow, G.S.

Folder 313

DuBois, W.E.B.

Folder 314

Duke University, Center for Southern Studies

Folder 315

Dunlap, M.D.

Folder 316

E: Miscellaneous

Folder 317

Earlham College Africa Institute, 1965

Folder 318

East Carolina College

Folder 319

East-West Center, Honolulu

Folder 320

"Encyclopedia of the Negro"

Folder 321

F: Miscellaneous

Folder 322

Faris, Ellsworth B.

Folder 323-325

Films (Lists, Information, etc.)

Folder 326

Fisk University (Park Hall Dedication, 1955)

Folder 327

Fisk University (Race Relations Department)

Folder 328

Florida Speeches (Miami, Miami Beach, 1956)

Folder 329

Foley, Father A.S., S.J.

Folder 330

Folklore Curriculum, University of North Carolina

Folder 331-332

Ford Foundation

Folder 333

Foreign Correspondence, Other than Africa

Folder 334

Foreign Students

Folder 335

Frazier, E. Franklin

Folder 336

Frauds ("Spanish Swindle," etc.)

Folder 337-344

Fulbright Awards and Fellowships, 1950s

Folder 345

Fund for the Advancement of Education (Ashmore Project)

Folder 346

Fund for the Republic

Folder 347

Furnas, J.C.

Folder 348

G: Miscellaneous

Folder 349

Ganderson, Harry (Interracial Marriage Case)

Folder 350

Gardner, O. Max, Jr. (Gardner Foundation)

Folder 351

Garfinkel, Harold

Folder 352

Garfinkel, Harold (Crime Project)

Folder 353

General Education Board

Folder 354

George, W.C. ("Authority" on Race and Genetics)

Folder 355

Gobbledy-Gook (Examples)

Folder 356

Godfrey, Dean J.L.

Folder 357

Governor of North Carolina

Folder 358

Graduate Study for Southern Negro Students

Folder 359

Graduate Study for Southern Negro Students (Paper, 1937, New Orleans)

Folder 360-361

Graham, Frank P.

Folder 362

Griffin, John A.

Folder 363

Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship Announcements

Folder 364

Gulley, William H.

Folder 365-366

H: Miscellaneous

Folder 367

Hagood, Major Lee

Folder 368

Hampton Institute

Folder 369

Hancock, W.K. (Institute of Commonwealth Studies, Univ. of London)

Folder 370

Harlow, S. Ralph

Folder 371

Harper, Ida

Folder 372

Hazen Foundation (Conference at Swannanoa, 1943)

Folder 373

Health, Education, and Welfare, Department of

Folder 374

Hedrick, James A.

Folder 375

Hernandez, Juano (Juan Henry)

Folder 376

Herskovits, Melville J.

Folder 377

Himes, J.S., Jr.

Folder 378

Hobbs Memorial

Folder 379

Hudson, A.P.

Folder 380

Human Betterment League of North Carolina

Folder 381

I: Miscellaneous

Folder 382

Institute on Regional Development, June 1936 (Agenda and Background Material)

Folder 383-386

Institute on Regional Development, June 1936

Folder 387

International Affairs Seminars of Washington

Folder 388

International Society for Scientific Study of Race Problems

Folder 389

Interracialist, Institute of Social Order, Saint Louis International Affairs Seminars of Washington (Harold Snyder)

Folder 390

Invitations to Speak, etc.

Folder 391

Jay, Rosa Lee and Clayton

Folder 392

Jocher, Katharine

Folder 393-394

Johnson, Charles S.

Folder 395

Johnson, Cyrus M.

Folder 396

Johnson, James P.

Folder 397

Jones, Mrs. R.C. (Guy Benton Johnson's High School Teacher, Lucy Dodd)

Folder 398

Journal of Abnormal Psychology

Folder 399

Journal of Experimental Psychology

Folder 400

Journal of Negro Education

Folder 401

Julian, Percy

Folder 402

K: Miscellaneous

Folder 403

Kenan Professorship (Letters of Congratulation, etc.)

Folder 404

Kentucky (Guy Benton Johnson's Public Addresses in Kentucky, 1954)

Folder 405

King, Morton B.

Folder 406

King, Robert M. (Student 1955-1956)

Folder 407

Kirkwood, Kenneth (University of Natal)

Folder 408

Kiser, Clyde V.

Folder 409

Kiser, Mary

Folder 410

Kluckhohn, Florence and Clyde

Folder 411

L: Miscellaneous

Folder 412

LaBarre, Weston A., Jr., and Maurine

Folder 413

Larkins, John R.

Folder 414

Laursen, Johannes and Faith (Danish Information Service)

Folder 415

Lazarus, A.D. (Durban, South Africa)

Folder 416

Lenoir-Rhyne College Address, 1941 (Which Had Some Repercussions)

Folder 417

Lenski, Gerhard

Folder 418

Lewis, Alba Meyers

Folder 419

Linton, Ralph

Folder 420

Locke, Alaine

Folder 421

Loescher, Frank S. (United States-South African Exchange Program)

Folder 422

Lomax, John A. and Allan

Folder 423

Lorimer, Frank

Folder 424

Louisiana State University Press

Folder 425

Louisburg College Talk on Africa, 8 February 1961

Folder 426

M: Miscellaneous

Folder 427

Maclachlan, John

Folder 428

McCarthyism

Folder 429

McClain, Howard

Folder 430

McClinton, Raymond

Folder 431

McCuiston, Fred

Folder 432

McGraw-Hill Book Company

Folder 433

McKinney, T.E. (Johnson C. Smith University)

Folder 434

Mangum, C.S. (The Negro and the Law: 1940-1954, 1955)

Folder 435

Mangum, Charles S., Jr.

Folder 436

Marimon, Bob and Florence

Folder 437

Martin, Murdock and Etta P.

Folder 438

Massey, H.N.

Folder 439

Matthews, Harold

Folder 440

Melvin, Bruce L.

Folder 441

Mencken, H.L.

Folder 442

(University) Methodist Church Board Meetings (Stewards, etc.)

Folder 443

(University) Methodist Church (Wesley Foundation, University of North Carolina)

Folder 444

Methodist Church Committee on Christian Social Concerns

Folder 445

Methodist Church, North Carolina Conference of

Folder 446

Methodist Church, College Campaign, 1962

Folder 447

Metfessel, Milton (University of Iowa, Re: Singing Ability of Negro Children)

Folder 448

Moore, Harry E.

Folder 449

Morgan, S.L., Sr. (Waker Forest, N.C.)

Folder 450

Moss, Carlton

Folder 451

Morehead Foundation Scholarships

Folder 452

Motor License, Title, etc.

Folder 453

Muldawney, James F.

Folder 454

Murphy, Emmett J. (Pat)

Folder 455

N: Miscellaneous

Folder 456

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

Folder 457

National Conference of Social Work

Folder 458

National Student Association

Folder 459

National Urban League

Folder 460

Nelme, Bennett D. (Cherry Grove Beach, S.C., Wadesboro, N.C.)

Folder 461

Nelson, William Stuart

Folder 462-463

Newbold, N.C.

Folder 464

New York Times

Folder 465

Noland, E. William

Folder 466

North, Walter

Folder 467

North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company (Dedication of New Building)

Folder 468

North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company, Durham, N.C.

Folder 469

North Carolina Archive of Folklore and Music

Folder 470

North Carolina Council on Human Relations

Folder 471

North Carolina College at Durham

Folder 472

Notre Dame University Symposium, November 1957

Folder 473

Nyabongo, Prince Akiki

Folder 474

O: Miscellaneous

Folder 475

O'Brian, Jane and Lynn

Folder 476

Oderigo, Nestor R. Ortiz (Buenos Aires, Argentina)

Folder 477

Odum Book Project

Folder 478

Odum Obituaries and Appreciations

Folder 479

Odum, Howard W., 1924-1936

Folder 480

Odum, Howard W., 1936-1954

Folder 481

Open Door Book Club

Folder 482

Operations Research, Department of Army

Folder 483

Opportunity

Folder 484

Otudeko, Adebisi

Folder 485

P: Miscellaneous

Folder 486

Pacific Affairs

Folder 487

Parker, Baryl (Southern Pines, N.C.)

Folder 488

Parsons, Talcott

Folder 489

Parsons Work (Reviewed by Sprott, British Journal of Sociology)

Folder 490

Peacock, Wesley (Wit Appreciation Testing)

Folder 491-492

Penn Community Services (Saint Helena Island, 1962-1964)

Folder 493

Penn Community Services (Saint Helena Island, 1965)

Folder 494

Petal Paper (Miss.), P.D. East

Folder 495

Phi Delta Kappan: Journal of Phi Delta Kappan

Folder 496

Pitman, Dorothy

Folder 497

Phylon and Mozell C. Hill, Editor

Folder 498

Positions (Inquiries Concerning People, Vacancies, etc.)

Folder 499

Pound, Louise

Folder 500

Powdermaker, Hortense

Folder 501

Powell, John

Folder 502

Prentice-Hall Publishing Company

Folder 503

President's Committee on Contact Compliance

Folder 504

Price, Dan O.

Folder 505

Puckett, N.N.

Folder 506

Q: Miscellaneous

Folder 507

R: Miscellaneous

Folder 508

Race Problems Course Given by Edwin L. Clarke

Folder 509

Racism (Examples of in Letters, etc.)

Folder 510

Radcliffe-Brown Lectures on a Natural Science of Society

Folder 511

Radio Talk on Race Relations (Tar Heel Network, 23 April 1941, and Letters About)

Folder 512

Raper, Arthur (See also Negro and Economic Reconstruction Study)

Folder 513

Reckless, W.C.

Folder 514-515

Record, Cy Wilson

Folder 516

Red Banks Mutual Association (Cooperative Farm, Robeson County, N.C.)

Folder 517

Redding, J. Saunders

Folder 518

Reid, Ira De A.

Folder 519

Rennick, Robert

Folder 520-523

Requests for Information, etc., 1947-1956

Folder 524-525

Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa

Folder 526

Ronald Press Company (Criticism of a Book)

Folder 527

Rosenwald Fund

Folder 528

Ross, Frank

Folder 529

Rotary Club

Folder 530

S: Miscellaneous

Folder 531

Saint Paul's Polytechnic Institute (Address, 8 March 1956)

Folder 532

Sapir, Edward

Folder 533

Sarratt, Reed

Folder 534

Seashore, C.E. and Robert H.

Folder 535

Seeman, Ernest

Folder 536

Sellin, Thorsten

Folder 537

Simpson, Richard L. and Ida H.

Folder 538

Johnson C. Smith University

Folder 539

Smith, Marion B. (Louisiana State University)

Folder 540

Smith, T. Lynn (Louisiana State University)

Folder 541-542

Social Science Research Council

Folder 543

Society for the Study of Social Problems

Folder 544

Southern Assembly on Africa

Folder 545

Southern Conference for Human Welfare

Folder 546

Southern Education Foundation, Curtis Dixon

Folder 547

South School News

Folder 548

Southern Regional Committee of Social Science Research Conference

Folder 549-550

Southern Regional Council

Folder 551

Southern Regional Council: "Subversion" Charges

Folder 552

Southern Regional Education Program (Board of Control, John Ivey, etc.)

Folder 553

Southern Workman, October 1925

Folder 554

Space Committee

Folder 555

Spaulding, C.C.

Folder 556

Speck, Frank

Folder 557

Speeches (Thanks, Comments, etc., on Speeches not Otherwise Filed

Folder 558

Spring Hill college (Mobile, Ala., Institute of Human Relations, November 1956)

Folder 559

Steiner, J.F.

Folder 560

Stokes, Anson Phelps

Folder 561-569

Student Correspondence, etc. (CLOSED)

Folder 570

Survey Magazine

Folder 571

T: Miscellaneous

Folder 572

Tar Heel

Folder 573

Taylor, James T. (North Carolina College for Negroes)

Folder 574

Thomas, W.I. and Dorothy S.

Folder 575

Thompson, Charles H. (Howard University)

Folder 576

Thompson, Edgar T.

Folder 577

Time and Life

Folder 578

Travel, Reimbursed

Folder 579

Trigg, H.L.

Folder 580

Tulane University (Dean ten Hoor)

Folder 581

Tumin, Mel

Folder 582

Tuskegee Institute

Folder 583

Tuskegee Institute (Address at Vespers, 16 October 1955)

Folder 584

Tuskegee Institute (Address, Founder's Day, 12 April 1953)

Folder 585

U: Miscellaneous

Folder 586

UNESCO

Folder 587

United States Government (Not Otherwise Classified)

Folder 588

United States Navy

Folder 589

U.S. News and World Report (Interview on Integration, Letters, etc.)

Folder 590

United States Office of Education

Folder 591-596

United States-Africa Faculty Exchange Program and Africa Leader Exchange Program, 1961-1966 and undated

Folder 597

United States Census, 1960 (Committee on Race and Ethnic Groups)

Folder 598

United States Information Agency (Voice of America, Scripts)

Folder 599

United States Information Agency (Articles, 1958, 1961, 1962)

Folder 600

United States Government, Department of Health, Education, and Welfare

Folder 601

Union of South Africa (Booklets, Maps, etc.)

Folder 602

University of Hawaii (Invitation to Teach, 1949)

Folder 603

University of Hawaii (Re: Summer)

Folder 604

University of Maryland (Summer Lecture, 1957)

Folder 605

University of North Carolina: Chancellor's Office

Folder 606

University of North Carolina: Commencement, 1967

Folder 607

University of North Carolina: Committees

Folder 608

University of North Carolina: Faculty

Folder 609

University of North Carolina: Faculty Council

Folder 610

University of North Carolina: Graduate School (Admin. Board, Special Committee to Hear Appeal of Rose Koenig)

Folder 611

University of North Carolina: Library

Folder 612

University of North Carolina: President Friday

Folder 613

University of North Carolina: President Gray

Folder 614

University of North Carolina Press

Folder 615

University of North Carolina: Report on Undergraduate Requirements

Folder 616

University of North Carolina: Speaker Ban Law of 1963

Folder 617

University of North Carolina: Trustees (Admission of Negroes)

Folder 618

University of North Carolina: Trustees (Appearance Before and Difficulties with John Clark)

Folder 619

University of North Carolina: Trustees (John Clark)

Folder 620

University of North Carolina (University College of Fort Hare)

Folder 621

V: Miscellaneous

Folder 622

Van der Zanden (Ph.D. Project)

Folder 623

Van Vechten, Carl

Folder 624

Vance, Rupert B.

Folder 625

Varley, Donald

Folder 626

W: Miscellaneous

Folder 627

Watson, John E. (Rotary Fellow, New Zealand, 1950-1951

Folder 628

Wauchope, Robert (Committee on His Relation to Sociology Department)

Folder 629

Weil, Gertrude

Folder 630

White, Walter (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People)

Folder 631

Who's Who, etc.

Folder 632

Wiggins, Sam P. (Peabody College)

Folder 633

Williams, Robin

Folder 634

Wirth, Louis

Folder 635

Woodson, Carter G.

Folder 636

Woofter, T.J., Jr.

Folder 637

Wright, Marion A.

Folder 638

Y: Miscellaneous

Folder 639

Yale University

Folder 640

Young, Donald

Folder 641

Young, Kimball

Folder 642

Young, Louise (Scarritt College)

Folder 643

Young, P.B. (Norfolk Journal and Guide

Folder 644

YMCA (Consultation, 21-22 September 1956)

Folder 645

YMCA (Southern Area Council, Atlanta)

Folder 646

Z: Miscellaneous

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).

Folder 647

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

Folder 660-664

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

3. Institutional Affiliations and Activities, 1918-1987.

About 2850 items.

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