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Howard Kester "The Lynching of Claude Neal" Report

 Collection
Identifier: 5294m

Scope and Contents

Reprint of Howard Kester's report "The Lynching of Claude Neal," published by the Southern Rural Welfare Association. The report was originally published by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) on November 30, 1934.

Dates

  • 1934

Creator

Language of Materials

Collection material in English

Conditions Governing Access

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Conditions Governing Use

This collection must be used in keeping with the Kheel Center Information Sheet and Procedures for Document Use.

Biographical / Historical

An excerpt from the report: "Kester was active in the formation of an inter-racial student movement in the south in the late '20s and early '30s. He was an active organizer of the Southern Tenant Farmers Union 1935- 1940. In 1936, he wrote "Revolt Among the Sharecroppers,' now available as a reprint. He founded the Committee of Southern Churchmen and spent most of his active years as an educator. He retired in 1971, while Dean of Students at Montreat-Anderson College in North Carolina."

Extent

1 folders

Abstract

Reprint of Howard Kester's report "The Lynching of Claude Neal."

Quantity:

1 file folder

Forms of Material:

Pamphlet.

General

Contact Information:
Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives 227 Ives Hall Tower Road Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 (607) 255-3183 kheelref@cornell.edu https://catherwood.library.cornell.edu/kheel/
Compiled by:
Kheel Staff, October 18, 2013
EAD encoding:
Randall Miles, January 20, 2016
Title
Kester, Howard "The Lynching of Claude Neal" Report
Status
Completed
Author
Compiled by Kheel Staff
Date
January 20, 2016
Language of description
Undetermined
Script of description
Code for undetermined script

Revision Statements

  • 02/23/2024: This resource was modified by the ArchivesSpace Preprocessor developed by the Harvard Library (https://github.com/harvard-library/archivesspace-preprocessor)

Repository Details

Part of the Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives Repository

Contact:
227 Ives Hall Tower Road
Ithaca NY 14853
607-255-3183