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Roosevelt, Franklin D. (FranklinDelano), 1882-1945

 Person

Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:

Lloyd K. (Lloyd Kirkham) Garrison papers

Collection Identifier: HOLLIS 3093953
Overview: Contains a variety of materials relating chiefly to his personal, political, and civil rights activities. The collection contains family papers pre-dating Garrison's birth and other personal correspondence with his friends and colleagues. Much of this correspondence provides a unique look into the social and political milieu of New York City in the mid-Twentieth Century. A subseries titled, Major Correspondence, consists of correspondence with noted legal figures. The papers also include...

Papers of Pauli Murray, 1827-1985

Collection Identifier: MC 412: T-194: T-245
Overview:

Correspondence, writings, photographs, etc., of Pauli Murray, lawyer, activist, and first African-American woman ordained as an Episcopal priest.

Papers of Charlotte Hawkins Brown, 1900-1961

Collection Identifier: A-146: M-92
Overview:

Correspondence, speeches, etc., of Charlotte Hawkins Brown, educator and founder of the Palmer Memorial Institute in Sedalia, North Carolina.

Papers of Esther Peterson, 1884-1998 (inclusive), 1929-1988 (bulk)

Collection Identifier: MC 450
Overview:

Papers of Esther Peterson, labor, education, women's rights, and consumer affairs advocate.

Roscoe Pound papers

Collection Identifier: HOLLIS 601599
Overview:

Includes material pertaining to Pound's participation in the Boston and Cleveland crime surveys (1920's), as a member of the National Commission on Law Observance and Enforcement or Wickersham Commission (1929-1931), as a member of the American Bar Association and with various Masonic chapters, and as advisor to the Ministry of Justice in Nanking, China (1940's). Also two typed, bound journals recounting camping trips in West Virginia and to Civil War battlefields (1898, 1912-1917).

William Hastie papers

Collection Identifier: HOLLIS 601657
Overview:

The papers of William Henry Hastie relate to his professional career, mainly starting with 1937, until his death in 1976; to his interest in and championship of civic causes; and to his efforts in behalf of anti-discrimination. There are small groups of drafts of speeches and of biographical material, the latter relating to his various appointments, and to academic and civic honors.