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Lorenzo Dow Turner Papers, 1913-1973
Lorenzo Dow Turner served as Professor of English and lecturer in African Cultures at Roosevelt University in Chicago. The Papers document Turner's extensive educational training, his long teaching career first at Fisk University and then at Roosevelt University, his exhaustive linguistic research, and the revolutionary theories on Black speech development in America that he pioneered. Of special interest are cassette
Melville J. Herskovits (1895-1963) Papers, 1906-1963
Melville J. Herkovits was a pioneer anthropologist and Africanist. Although much of Herskovits’ early work with "New World" (the Americas) cultures focused on the survival of African culture traits, he first studied an African culture in 1931. The Herskovits’ expedition to West Africa was based in Dahomey, with additional work carried out in the Gold Coast and Nigeria. He presided
Vernon Anderson papers
Vernon Andy Anderson joined the American Presbyterian Congo Mission and assumed a post with that mission in the Kasai Province of the then Belgian Congo in 1921. Rev. Anderson was one of the first missionaries to work among the Baluba-lubilashi. From 1921 to 1946 Rev. Anderson lived and worked among this branch of the Baluba. In addition to his duties