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KENDRICK-BROOKS FAMILY
A REGISTER OF ITS PAPERS
IN THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS
Prepared by
Joseph Kendrick Brooks
Manuscript Division
Library of Congress
Washington, D.C.
2001
Collection Summary
Title: Papers of the Kendrick-Brooks Family
Span Dates: 1831-2000 (bulk 1912-1989)
Creators: Kendrick-Brooks Family
Size: 11,500 items; 33 containers plus 1 oversize; 13.2 linear feet
Repository: Manuscript Division, Library of Congress
Abstract: Club women, civil rights activists, educators, entertainers, and family members. Correspondence, social club records, writings, scrapbooks, and miscellaneous papers relating primarily to Ruby Moyse Kendrick’s activities with the National Association of Colored Women’s Clubs; Hattie Kendrick’s civil right’s activism in Cairo, Illinois; Antoinette Brooks Mitchell’s expatriate life in England and France with her husband, jazz musician and restauranteur Louis A. Mitchell; and Charlotte Kendrick Brooks’s histories of the Kendrick and Brooks families.
Administrative Information
Provenance: The papers of the Kendrick-Brooks Family were given to the Library of Congress by Walter H. Brooks in 1999.
Transfers: Sound recordings of narratives have been transferred to the Library’s Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound Division where they are identified as part of these papers.
Copyright Status: Copyright in the unpublished writings of the Kendrick-Brooks family in these papers and in other collections in the custody of the Library of Congress has been dedicated to the public, except that copyright in the the correspondence between Ruby Moyse Kendrick and Swan M. Kendrick is reserved. Consult a reference librarian in the Manuscript Division for further information.
Restrictions: Restriction apply governing the use, photoduplication, or publication of items in this collection. Consult a reference librarian in the Manuscript Division for information concerning these restrictions.
Preferred Citation: Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: container number, Kendrick-Brooks Family Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Biographical Note
Ruby Moyse Kendrick
1886, July 7 Born, Greenville, Miss.
1905 Normal school degree, Knoxville College, Knoxville, Tenn.
1906-ca. 1914 Public school teacher, Greenville, Miss.
1916 Married Swan M. Kendrick (died 1923)
ca. 1927-ca.1974 Active with National Association of Colored Women’s Clubs as executive
secretary, director of public relations, and historian
1942 B.A., Howard University, Washington, D.C.
1986, Oct. 30 Died, Washington, D.C.
Hattie Kendrick
1894, Nov. 28 Born, Duncan, Miss.
ca. 1914 Normal school degree, Knoxville College, Knoxville, Tenn.
ca.1915-ca.1920 Public school teacher, Clarksdale, Miss.
ca.1920-1953 Teacher, Cairo, Ill.
1943 Filed suit against Cairo, Ill. board of education seeking pay equity; suit won by Thurgood Marshall of the NAACP in 1946.
1967-ca.1969 Teacher, Illinois Migrant School Eight, Cairo, Ill.
1973 Filed class action suit against city of Cairo, Ill., challenging electoral
system; consent degree granted 1980.
Hattie Kendrick (cont.)
1989, June 11 Died, Carbondale, Ill.
Antoinette Brooks Mitchell
1892, Aug. 12 Born, Washington, D.C.
1910 Graduated, M Street High School, Washington, D.C.
ca. 1910-ca.1912 Attended Howard University, Washington, D.C.
1912 Married Louis A. Mitchell
1915-1916 Lived with husband in London, England
1916-1930 Lived with husband in Paris, France
1972, May 31 Died, Washington, D.C.
Louis A. Mitchell
1885, Dec. 17 Born, Asbury Park, N.J.
1907 Joined Cole & Johnson vaudeville troupe as a singer and actor
1912 Married Antoinette Brooks
1913-1914 Managed Southern Symphony Quintette and played bandoline and drums,
Beaux Arts Café, New York, N.Y.
1914 Played Piccadilly Restaurant, London, England
1914-1915 Toured United States with Clef Club orchestra, directed by James Reese
Europe
1915 Toured England as part of the Jordan and Mitchell duo
Drummer, London Hippodrome, London, England
Louis A. Mitchell (cont.)
1917-1918 Organized and directed ragtime and jazz band Seven Spades on tour in
England and France
ca.1919-ca.1924 Organized and directed Mitchell’s Jazz Kings, Casino de Paris, Paris,
France
1924-1930 Owned and managed several nightclubs and restaurants in Paris, France
1930-1957 Worked in advertising, public relations, newspaper circulation, beer
distribution, and nightclubs, New York, N.Y., Newark, N.J., Pittsburgh, Pa., and Washington, D.C.
1957, Sept. 12 Died, Washington, D.C.
Charlotte Kendrick Brooks
5 June 1918 Born, Washington, D.C.
1939 B.A., Howard University, Washington, D.C.
1941-1961 Teacher, Washington D.C., public schools
1961-1973 Assistant director and director, English department, Washington, D.C.,
public schools
1975-1976 President, National Council of Teachers of English
7 Dec. 1998 Died, Washington D.C.
Scope and Content Note
The papers of the Kendrick-Brooks family span 1831-2000, with the bulk of the collection concentrated in the period 1912-1989. The papers include correspondence, files related to the National Association of Colored Women’s Clubs (NACWC), transcripts of audiotapes, business records, photographs, scrapbooks, family papers, book drafts, genealogical charts and research, and printed matter. The collection is arranged into series named for four members of the two African-American families: Ruby Moyse Kendrick, Hattie Kendrick, Antoinette Brooks Mitchell, and Charlotte Kendrick Brooks. A final series consists of oversize photographs and posters.
Ruby Moyse Kendrick (1886-1986) taught in the public schools of Greenville, Mississippi, before World War I, and was an activist in the black women’s social club movement for more than fifty years after migrating to Washington, D.C., with her husband and fellow Mississippian Swan M. Kendrick (1885-1923). Hattie Kendrick (1894-1989), Swan M. Kendrick’s sister, moved from Mississippi to Cairo, Illinois, where she had a long career as a teacher and as a civil rights and social activist. Antoinette Brooks Mitchell (1892-1974) appalled her father, Walter H. Brooks (1851-1945), pastor of the Nineteenth Street Baptist Church in Washington, D.C., by dropping out of college and eloping with actor and musician Louis A. Mitchell (1885-1957), eventually moving with her husband to England and France, where he pioneered jazz music during the World War I era and the 1920s. Some correspondence, contracts, and publicity material documenting Louis and Antoinette Mitchell’s life in Europe is in French. Charlotte Kendrick Brooks, educator, writer, and daughter of Ruby Moyse Kendrick, married Walter H. Brooks (1916- ), nephew of Antoinette Brooks Mitchell and grandson of Walter H. Brooks (1851- 1945).
The file relating to the National Association of Colored Women’s Clubs, the largest in the Ruby Moyse Kendrick series, documents her activism with the organization from the 1920s through the 1970s. Over those years Ruby Moyse Kendrick was executive secretary, director of public relations, historian, and managing editor of the NACWC’s official organ, National Notes. The bulk of the NACWC correspondence is concentrated in the 1950s, and correspondents include Irene McCoy Gaines, Rosa Gragg, Ruby Stutts Lyells, Mabel Neely, and Mamie B. Reese. The Manuscript Division of the Library of Congress also holds a microfilm edition of the records of the National Association of Colored Women’s Clubs.
Two other large files in the Ruby Moyse Kendrick series are correspondence and family papers. Much of the correspondence is letters between Ruby Moyse Kendrick and her husband, Swan M. Kendrick. The correspondence was at its most voluminous during the couple’s long distance courtship and engagement, between 1911 and their wedding in 1916, when Swan was working as a typist-stenographer and supervisor for the War Department in Washington, D.C., and Ruby was teaching elementary school in Greenville, Mississippi. In his letters to Ruby, Swan shared his hopes, dreams, financial situation, and activities in Washington. He wrote of his government livelihood and his fervent desire to be his own man by farming; of his search for a house for them and farmland in Washington, D.C., Maryland, and Virginia; and about his work as secretary of the nascent Washington, D.C., branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), with the alumni association of his university, Fisk in Nashville, Tennessee, and as a church choir director. She wrote from Greenville about teaching school, church and civic activities, the doings of the black business and professional community, and what she sardonically termed “high colored society.” There is a file on the correspondence between Ruby and Swan Kendrick in the books file of the Charlotte Kendrick Brooks series, which includes a subject and date index of the letters. Some of Ruby Moyse Kendrick’s other family correspondents include her daughters Charlotte Kendrick Brooks and Martha Kendrick Cobb, and her son, Webster M. Kendrick. Some of Ruby Moyse Kendrick’s general correspondents included her childhood friend and teaching colleague Addie Pickle, and businessmen she termed her “beaus,” Edward W. Brydie, Hervey A. Clemons, Charles A. Howard, F. D. Johnson, and T .S. Littlejohn
General correspondence and material documenting Swan M. Kendrick’s career as a clerk and supervisor with the War Department’s office of the chief of ordnance and as an NAACP official, can be found in the family papers file of the Ruby Moyse Kendrick series. The NAACP file includes correspondence and other material related to the East St. Louis, Illinois, race riot in 1917.
Swan Kendrick belonged to a correspondents’ club aimed at combating aspersions against African-Americans in public forums, and this mail accounts for the bulk of the letters in his general correspondence. Probably because he worked for the War Department, some of the correspondence focused on race and manpower issues in the army during the World War I era. Other correspondence, in letters to R. P. Andrews, Ray Stannard Baker, Samuel G. Blythe, Octavus Roy Cohen, Harrison Rhodes, and A. M. Trawick, dealt with the representation, good and bad, of African-Americans in newspapers and other popular press.
In 1919, as his daughters were becoming toddlers, Swan Kendrick exchanged letters with the M. A. Donohue publishing company of Chicago objecting to the inclusion of the “Ten Little Niggers” rhyme in one of their Mother Goose books. He wrote the governor of Kentucky, Edwin P. Morrow, praising him for preventing a lynching. He excoriated J. M. Cox, president of Philander Smith College in Little Rock, Arkansas, and Joseph A. Booker, president of Arkansas Baptist College in Little Rock, in correspondence with these local black leaders for not protecting the interests of Robert L. Jackson, an African-American witness and defendant in a case growing out of the Elaine, Arkansas, riots.
Starting in 1973, Hattie Kendrick (1884-1989) used an audiotape recorder, given to her by her niece Charlotte Kendrick Brooks, to render permanent her reflections on topics related to the early history of the Kendrick family, growing up in a cotton farming family on Howden Lake in Bolivar County, Mississippi, at the turn of the century, and her life and work in Cairo, Illinois. On the tapes, Hattie Kendrick told of racial violence against her father, Samuel R. Kendrick, and others in Bolivar County, and of her role as a plaintiff in many lawsuits in Cairo over such issues as pay equalization for African-American teachers in the 1940s, and “at large” versus “ward” systems in municipal elections during the 1970s. Transcripts of these recordings are available in the collection, while the original audiotapes are in the custody of the Library’s Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound Division. Notes on the Hattie Kendrick audiotapes and transcripts are available in the book file of the Charlotte Kendrick Brooks series. Most of the correspondence in the Hattie Kendrick series is with her nieces Charlotte Kendrick Brooks and Martha Kendrick Cobb, and is concentrated in the 1970s, a time of racial and civic discord in Cairo.
Most material in the Antoinette Brooks Mitchell series relates to her husband, musician, entertainer, and restauranteur Louis A. Mitchell (1885-1957). The bulk of the Louis A. Mitchell material consists of two scrapbooks spanning 1908-1911 and 1910-1939. The1908-1911 scrapbook documents the earlier part of Mitchell’s show business career, when he was touring the United States with Bob Cole (1868-1911) and J. Rosamond Johnson’s ( 1873-1954) black vaudeville troupe as an actor and singer and managing his own acts and theaters in Washington, D.C., and other cities. The scrapbook, spanning 1910-1939, covers Mitchell’s career as musician and band leader in New York, and as a musician, band leader, restauranteur, and nightclub owner in England and France during World War I and the 1920s. In New York, before the war, Mitchell managed and played bandoline and drums for the Southern Symphony Quintette, mainly at Louis Bustanby’s Beaux Arts Café. Groups led by Mitchell in Europe during the World War I ere and the 1920s included the Seven Spades and the Jazz Kings. During this period, Louis Mitchell was billed as “the world’s greatest trap drummer.”
Both scrapbooks are rich in newspaper clippings, photographs, programs, contracts, playbills, advertisements, and correspondence. Much of the material relating to Louis A. Mitchell in business papers, correspondence, newspaper and newspaper clippings, photographs, and programs files was once part of the scrapbooks, but became detached over the years. The scrapbooks in the collection remain much as Louis or Antoinette Brooks Mitchell compiled them, if the detachments are taken into consideration. Louis Mitchell compiled the 1910-1939 scrapbook in part to establish his claim to be the first to introduce jazz music to Europe, and to document his participation in the Military Hospital Baseball League in Great Britain as an ace pitcher in 1917, and his managing and play with the Clef Club team of the Paris-American Baseball League in France in 1918. The Clef Club was an organization of African-American musicians.
Most correspondence related to Louis A. Mitchell’s show business and nightclub career is in the scrapbooks or in business records. The correspondence file in the Antoinette Brooks Mitchell series contains the correspondence of the entire Mitchell family, including Antoinette Brooks Mitchell, Louis A. Mitchell (1885-1957), and their son, “Jack,” another Louis A. Mitchell (1912-1972).
“Jack” Mitchell compiled a scrapbook and a file of photographs that, besides including unique material on his parents, documents his childhood in France, family and community activities in France and the United States, and the nightclub and celebrity scene in Washington, D.C., and other cities.
Correspondents in various parts of the Antoinette Brooks Mitchell series include Walter H. Brooks (1851-1945), Louis Bustanoby, Vernon Castle, Victor Emmanuel, Leonard F. Guttridge, Bernie Harrison, Julian Jones, and Daniel Kildare.
Charlotte Kendrick Brooks published A Brooks Chronicle: The Lives and Times of an African-American Family in 1989, and The Kendrick Kin: An African-American Family Saga in 1993. The bulk of the Charlotte Kendrick Brooks series contains the research files she used in writing the two family histories. A Brooks Chronicle follows the Brooks family from the antebellum period in Richmond, Virginia, through the 1940s in Washington, D.C. Prominent in the research files supporting the book are Albert R. Brooks, slave and entrepreneur, his wife Lucy Goode Brooks, and their son, Walter H. Brooks, the father of Antoinette Brooks Mitchell. The Kendrick Kin follows the Kendrick and related families from their emergence in slavery times in Alabama and Mississippi through the migration to Washington, D.C., Cairo, Illinois, and other northern cities. With material from the Antoinette Brooks Mitchell series figuring prominently in A Brooks Chronicle, and material from the Hattie Kendrick and Ruby Moyse Kendrick comprising major bases for The Kendrick Kin, the Charlotte Kendrick Brooks series is the bridge between and the family and historical context for the previous series.
Description of Series
Container Nos. Series
1-18 Ruby Moyse Kendrick, 1892-1995, n.d.
Correspondence, women’s club records, family files, subject files, photographs, printed matter, and miscellaneous material. Arranged alphabetically by type of material, name of person or subject, and thereunder chronologically.
19-22 Hattie Kendrick, 1942-2000, n.d.
Correspondence, holographic writings, transcripts of audiotape recordings, subject files, photographs, printed matter, and miscellaneous material. Arranged alphabetically by type of material or subject and thereunder chronologically.
22-26 Antoinette Brooks Mitchell, 1894-1974, n.d.
Scrapbooks, correspondence, business papers, photographs, holographic
writings, newspaper clippings, posters, printed matter, and miscellaneous material. Arranged alphabetically by name of person or type of material and thereunder chronologically.
26-33 Charlotte Kendrick Brooks, 1831-1999, n.d.
Writings, research files, genealogical material, notes, photographs, printed matter, and miscellaneous material. Arranged alphabetically by book project or subject and thereunder chronologically.
OV 1 Oversize, 1909, 1915-1917, 1924, n.d.
Photographs and posters. Arranged and described according to the
series and folders from which the items were removed.
Container List
Container Nos. Contents
RUBY MOYSE KENDRICK, 1892-1995, n.d.
1 Association for the Study of Negro Life and History, 1942, 1967, n.d.
Civic and community associations
Pleasant Plains Citizens’ Association and other Washington, D.C., organizations, 1935-1938, 1960, 1967, 1986, n.d.
Progressive Art and Civic Club, Greenville, Miss., 1969-1970
Springvale Terrace, Silver Spring, Md., 1971-1974, n.d.
Colleges and universities
Drury College, Springfield, Mo., 1928
Fisk University, Nashville, Tenn., 1911, 1936-1938, 1970, 1982, n.d.
See also Container 7, same heading See also Oversize
Howard University, Washington, D.C., 1902, 1910, 1935-1937,
1943-1946, 1962-1968, 1973, n.d. (3 folders)
Knoxville College, Knoxville, Tenn., 1903-1905, ca.1905
See also Container 16, same heading
2 Talladega College, Talladega, Ala., 1973
Tougaloo College, Jackson, Miss., 1968-69
Correspondence
Family
Brooks, Charlotte Kendrick (daughter), 1930-1932, 1950-1953, 1960-1974, n.d.
Cobb, Martha Kendrick (daughter), 1930-1932, 1939, 1945-1954, 1965-1974, n.d. (2 folders)
Kendrick, Swan M. (husband) See also Container 31, Kendrick,
Ruby Moyse and Swan M.., notes on correspondence
Originals
11 June1911-14 June 1913 (4 folders)
3 3 July 1913-22 Dec. 1914 (10 folders)
4 17 Jan. 1915-20 July 1923 (11 folders)
5 Correspondence
Family
Kendrick, Swan M. (husband) See also Container 31, Kendrick,
Ruby Moyse and Swan M.., notes on correspondence
Originals
Undated
Transcriptions and copies
11 June 1911-8 Sept. 1916 (6 folders)
6 13 Mar. 1917-4 Mar. 1922
Kendrick, Webster M. (son) and Alimay Kendrick
(daughter-in-law), 1943, 1971
Miscellany, 1915, 1970, n.d.
General
Originals, 1909-1970, n.d. (7 folders)
Transcriptions with attached notes by Charlotte Kendrick Brooks (daughter) 1909-1915, n.d.
7 Postcards and greeting cards
Copies, 1902, 1909-1922, n.d.
Originals, 1909-1922, 1965, n.d. (3 folders)
Death and funeral, 1986
Family papers
Cobb, Martha Kendrick (daughter), 1939-1942, 1962, 1971-1975, n.d.
Kendrick, Swan M. (husband)
Death and funeral, 1923 (2 folders)
Fisk University, Nashville, Tenn., 1905-1920 See also Container 1,
same heading See also Oversize
8 General correspondence, 1908-1909, 1915-1923, n.d. (2 folders)
Hampton, N.J., farm operations, 1921-1922, n.d.
Lincoln, Md., and other real estate, 1915-1918, 1924, n.d.
Marriage to Ruby Moyse, 1916
Miscellany, 1914-1920, n.d.
NAACP, 1913-1919
War Department, Office of the Chief of Ordnance, 1911-1921, n.d.
See also Oversize
Kendrick, Webster M. (son), 1919, 1923, 1943-1945, 1971-1972, 1983
Moyse family, 1879, 1900, 1910, 1940, 1954-1955, 1962-1990, n.d.
8 (cont.) Lane, Katherine, 1955
Miscellany, 1914-1919 1942, 1968, 1986, n.d.
National Business League and National Bankers Association., 1961-1963
9 National Association of Colored Women’s Clubs (NACWC)
American Negro Emancipation Centennial Authority, 1963
Board of directors meeting, 1962
Certificates and awards, 1954, 1962-1973
Constitution and bylaws, 1939, 1958, 1961-1966, n.d.
Conventions
Minutes 1937-1948, 1956, 1962, 1966 (6 folders)
10 Miscellany, 1948, 1954-1974, n.d.
Programs, 1916, 1926-1928, 1948-1954, 1960-1974 (5 folders)
11 Reports, 1958-1970
Correspondence, 1938, 1948, 1953-1971, 1986, n.d. (6 folders)
Directories and mailing lists, 1926,1959-1964, n.d.
Financial papers, 1935, 1954-1958, 1966, n.d.
Frederick Douglas Memorial Home, Washington, D.C., 1900, 1935,
1942-1952, 1961-1973, n.d.
12 Handbooks, 1952, 1964
Health and education programs, 1955, n.d.
Miscellany, 1887, 1904, 1920-1924, 1935, 1957, 1962-1972, n.d.
NACWC Bulletin, 1949-1954
National Notes
1927-31, 1947-1959 (6 folders)
13 1960-1974 (3 folders)
Newspaper clippings, 1946, 1957, 1964-1967, 1995, n.d.
Notes, n.d.
Officers and luminaries
Directories and lists, 1933, 1956-1968
Kendrick, Ruby Moyse, n.d.
Hunt, Ida Gibbs, 1914, 1921, n.d.
Miscellany, 1949, 1955, 1964-1974, n.d.
Terrell, Mary Church, 1900-1904, 1926-1954, 1964-1968, n.d.
Organizational histories and organization charts, 1946, 1952, 1984, n.d.
14 National Association of Colored Women’s Clubs (NACWC)
Other women’s organizations
Miscellany, 1892, 1944-1948, 1955-1957, 1963-1971, n.d.
National Housewives League of America, 1958, 1964, 1965, n.d.
National Woman’s Party, 1943, 1957, 1959, 1966-1973, n.d.
Phyllis Wheatley Young Women’s Christian Association,
1934-1937, 1971
Women’s Service Club, Boston, Mass., 1939, 1945, n.d.
Photographs, 1947, 1954-1969, n.d. (2 folders)
Public relations, 1947-1962, n.d.
Regional affiliates
Miscellany, 1957, 1965-1967, n.d.
North Carolina Federation of Negro Women’s Clubs, 1966
Northeastern Federation of Women’s Clubs, 1957-1972
South Carolina Federation of Colored Women’s Clubs, 1959-1962
Southwest Regional District of the National Association of Colored
Women’s clubs, n.d.
Virginia State Federation of Colored Women’s Clubs,
1953-1959, n.d.
15 Washington and Vicinity Federation of Women’s Clubs, 1948,
1957-1974
Reports, 1945, 1952-1962
Songs, poems, and prayers, 1953, n.d.
Speeches and statements, 1945, 1956, 1970, n.d.
Todd, Tomlison D., interview with Ruby Moyse Kendrick and other
material, 1947-1949 See also Container 33, Brooks, Charlotte
Kendrick, and family
Tuesday Evening Club of Social Workers, 1957-1960, 1968
Young Adult Department, manual, 1963
National Negro Opera Foundation, 1959, n.d.
Nickerson, Camille L., 1953, n.d.
Photographs
Kendrick, Ruby Moyse, ca.1902-ca.1923, n.d. (3 folders)
16 Kendrick, Swan M. (husband), 1906-1909, n.d. (2 folders)
See also Oversize
Kendrick, Webster M.(son) and family, 1964-1966, n.d.
16 (cont.) Photographs
Knoxville College, Knoxville, Tenn. (2 folders) See also Container 1,
same heading
Miscellany, 1915, 1955, n.d.
Moyse family
Miscellany, n.d.
Moyse, Lester, n.d.
Unidentified studio portraits
Boston, Mass., n.d.
Cairo, Il., n.d.
Dermott, Ark., n.d.
17 Detroit, Mich., n.d.
Miscellany, n.d. (2 folders)
Mississippi, n.d.
Nashville, Tenn., n.d.
New Orleans, La., n.d.
Washington, D.C., 1904, n.d. (3 folders)
18 Premier News Service
Handy, W. C., 1947, n.d.
Miscellany, 1952-1965, n.d.
Photographs, n.d.
President’s Committee on Government Contracts, Minority Community Resources Conference, 1958
Price, Cyril, “On Drugs and the Doctor Habit,” n.d.
Printed matter
Miscellany, 1912, 1946, 1952-1971, n.d. (2 folders)
Popular periodicals
Flash, 1937
Negro Woman’s World, 1934
Public schools, Greenville, Miss., 1901-1914, 1924, 1969, n.d.
Tibbs, Roy W., 1919, 1927-1930, n.d.
Writings, n.d.
19 Address books and name lists, 1983-1985, n.d.
Audiotape recordings, transcripts, nos.1-26, ca. 1974 (5 folders)
See also Container 31, Kendrick, Hattie, notes on audiotapes
20 Awards and certificates, 1965, 1974-1981, n.d.
Civil rights and social activism, 1955, 1966-1973, 1980-1984
Correspondence
Family, 1963, 1969-1989, n.d. (9 folders)
General, 1950, 1965-1991, n.d.
21 Death and funeral
Cairo Citizen, obituary, 1989
Correspondence, 1989-1990
Miscellany, 1989
Photographs, 1989
Ford Foundation grant application, ca.1972
Illinois Migrant Council, Illinois Migrant School Eight, Cairo, Ill.,
ca.1969, n.d.
Illinois Women: Seventy-Five Years of the Right to Vote, biographical sketch, 1995
Land of Lincoln Legal Assistance Foundation, Cairo, Ill., ca.1977, 1984
Miscellany, 1946, 1963, n.d.
Newspapers and newspaper clippings, 1976-1987, n.d.
Photographs, ca.1945, 1980, n.d.
Public schools, Cairo, Ill., 1942, 1947-1955
Real estate, 1984-1990
Speeches and statements, ca. 1978, n.d.
Ward Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church, Cairo, Ill., 1950, 1965, 1976-1977, n.d.
22 Ward, Kathryn, Ann Herda, and Noralee Frankel, social movement leader
studies, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, Ill.1990-1995, 2000
(2 folders)
Writings
Holographic
Civil rights and social activism in Cairo, Ill., n.d. (2 folders)
Family histories, n.d. (2 folders)
Typescripts, fragmentary, n.d.
22 (cont.) Correspondence, 1919, 1929, 1938-1960, 1970-1973, n.d.
Death and funeral, 1974
23 Family and personal papers, 1910, 1926-1930, 1942, 1948-1952,
1962-1967, n.d.
Mitchell, Louis A. (husband) (1885-1957)
Business records, 1911, 1917-1929, 1954-1955
“The Darktown Corporation,” n.d.
Newspapers and newspaper clippings, 1930, 1939-1940, 1947-1960, 1970-1974, n.d.
Passport and order of restoration of legal status, 1920-1921, 1953
Photographs, 1894-1912, 1949, 1957, n.d.
Programs, 1914-1919, 1928, 1957, n.d.
Scrapbooks
Copies
1913-1970 (3 folders)
24 Undated
Originals
1908-1911, n.d. (7 folders)
1910-1939
pp. 1-75 (5 folders) See also Oversize
25 pp. 77-112 (3 folders) See also Oversize
Mitchell, Louis A. “Jack” (son) (1912-1972)
Death and funeral, 1972
Miscellany, 1912, 1926, 1937-1947, 1962, 1972, n.d.
Photographs, 1915, 1946, 1971, n.d.
Scrapbooks, 1919-ca.1950 (2 folders)
Tattler, “Down Memory Lane in D.C.,” magazine column, n.d.
Photographs
1917-1930, 1971
26 Photographs, n.d.
“Reflections,” holographic account of living in London, England, during
World War I, n.d.
26 (cont.) Books
A Brooks Chronicle: The Lives and Times of an African-American
Family
Brooks, Albert N. D., 1964, 1999
Brooks, Albert R., 1865, 1890, n.d.
Brooks, Joseph Kendrick (son), notes and research material,
1989-1991 (4 folders)
Brooks, Lucy Goode, 1862, 1900, 1993, n.d.
Brooks, Margaret Ann, n.d,
Brooks, Robert Peel, 1882, 1987, n.d.
Brooks, Walter H. (1851-1945)
Biographical material, 1925, 1938-1941, n.d.
Carolina, R .I., 1976, 1989, n.d.
Clippings, 1935, 1939, n.d.
Death and funeral, 1945
Family histories, ca.1930
27 Lincoln University, Chester County, Pa.
Correspondence, 1929-1945
Miscellany, 1922, 1934-1935, n.d.
Miscellany, 1865, 1876, 1903-1905, 1926, 1932-1939, 1945,
1987, n.d.
Nineteenth Street Baptist Church, Washington, D.C.,
1939, 1975, 1989, n.d.
Census sheets, 1850-1920
Correspondence, 1989-1993, n.d.
Drafts, notes, and research material
Chapters 1-8, 1860, 1974, n.d. (8 folders)
28 Miscellany, 1986-1987, n.d.
Family histories and charts, ca.1930, n.d.
Frazier, Lucille, and Leah V. Lewis, 1982-1984, n.d. (2 folders)
Henderson, Peggy, 1831-1839
28 (cont.) Books
A Brooks Chronicle: The Lives and Times of an African-American
Family
Holmes, James H., 1868, 1888-1892, 1901, 1921, n.d.
Lonesome, William L., 1983
Miscellany, 1989, 1993, n.d.
Mitchell, John R., n.d.
29 Paul, Robert A., 1885
Photographs, n.d.
Printed matter, 1910, 1940, 1989, n.d.
Richmond, Va.
Cemeteries, 1988-1989, n.d.
First African Baptist Church and First Baptist Church, 1855,
1880, 1991, n.d.
Graduates, Colored High and Normal School, 1872-1873,
n.d.
Miscellany, 1865, 1987-1989, n.d.
Virginia Union University, 1874-1876, 1883-1887, 1895, 1910, 1965, 1981, n.d.
Slave-owning families
Batte family, 1955, 1986, 1992, n.d.
Cox family, 1833, 1989, n.d.
30 Duval family, 1850, n.d.
Sublett family, 1993, n.d.
Winfree family, 1937, 1982, n.d.
Smyth, John Henry, 1838, 1887, n.d.
The Kendrick Kin: An African-American Family Saga, 1993
Alabama, ca.1991
Bible records, ca. 1884
“Brief Summary,” n.d.
Brooks, Joseph Kendrick (son), research reports, 1989-1992
Brown, Holden, Shelby, and Vaughn families, 1970, 1984-1993, n.d.
Census sheets, 1850-1910
30 (cont.) Books
The Kendrick Kin: An African-American Family Saga, 1993
Charts and maps, n.d.
Distribution of the finished book , 1993
Funeral service programs, 1946-1986
31 Kendrick, Charlotte Swan (grandmother), 1881-1885, 1910, 1963,
n.d.
Kendrick, Samuel R. (grandfather), 1884, 1900, n.d.
Miscellany, 1987, 1990, n.d.
Moyse, Percy, 1918, 1986, 1994, n.d.
Notes and drafts
Chapter 1, n.d.
Kendrick, Hattie, notes on audiotapes, 1986, 1993, n.d.
See also Container 19, Audiotape recordings, transcripts
Kendrick, Ruby Moyse and Swan M. Kendrick,
notes on correspondence, notes n.d.
See also Containers 2-6, Kendrick, Swan M..
Miscellany, 1987-1993, n.d.
Photographs, n.d.
Remembering: Stories and Poems About the Brooks and Kendrick Families, 1994
Brooks family reunions
Los Angeles, Calif.., 1996
32 Washington, D.C., and Richmond, Va.
Correspondence, 1989
Friends Association for Children, Lucy Brooks Foundation of
Friends, Richmond, Va., 1985-1994, n.d.
Miscellany, 1989
Brooks, Joseph Kendrick (son), family history book project
Brooks, Evelyn Holmes, 1912, ca. 1991
Chapter outline and overview, ca. 1991
Chronologies, ca. 1991
Drafts
Holographs, ca. 1991 (2 folders)
Typescripts, ca. 1991
33 Brooks, Joseph Kendrick (son), family history book project,
Research progress reports, 1989-1992
Washington, D.C., 1919 race riot, 1989
Brooks, Walter H. (1916- ) (husband), 1916, ca.1943, n.d.
Correspondence, 1961, 1980, 1992-1993, n.d.
Miscellany, 1918, 1991-1995, n.d.
Photographs
Brooks, Charlotte, and her family, 1925, 1938, 1949-1952, 1963, n.d.
Cobb, Martha Kendrick (sister), and her family, n.d.
Remembering “U” Street: There Was a Time, exhibit, Washington, D.C., 1994
OVERSIZE, 1909, 1915-1917, 1924, n.d.
Container Nos. Contents
OV 1 Ruby Moyse Kendrick
Colleges and universities
Fisk University, Nashville, Tenn., n.d. (Container 1)
Family papers
Kendrick, Swan M.
Fisk University, Nashville, Tenn., 1909 (Container 7)
War Department, Office of the Chief of Ordnance, 1921
(Container 8)
Photographs
Kendrick, Swan M., n.d. (Container 16)
Antoinette Brooks Mitchell
Mitchell, Louis A. (husband) (1885-1957)
Scrapbooks
Originals, 1915-1917, 1924 (Containers 24-25)
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