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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