Index, Part I

Index, Parts II, III, IV

Index (microfilm copy)

1913-1919 (Raper's volume 1-A-1)

1920-1928 (Raper's volume 1-A-2 and 1-B-1)

1926-1930 (Raper's volume 1-B-2)

Reports with supporting notes and letters written by Raper for various sociology classes at the University of North Carolina. Reports concern race relations, segregation, sociology, and profiles of African Americans in Tampa, Fla., Atlanta, Ga., and other southern locales.

1924-1925 (Raper's volume 1-C)

Chiefly materials about Camp Sequoyah for boys in Asheville, N.C., including weekly newsletters and photographs. Clippings pertain to Tennessee's Butler Act, prohibiting instruction on evolution; The State of Tennessee v. John Thomas Scopes; and student protests against Fayette McKenzie the white president of Fisk University, a historically black school. Of note is Raper's master's thesis from Vanderbilt University titled Negro Dependency in the Southern Community.

1926-May 1928 (Raper's volume 2-A)

Materials concerning race relations in Tampa, Fla., Atlanta Ga., and other urban areas in the South. A report compiled by Raper titled "Study of Negro Life in Tampa" discusses demographics, housing, health, social and religious organizations, and employment. Materials related to the Georgia Commission on Interracial Cooperation include meeting minutes, a report on work completed, and excerpts from Raper's appointment calendar. Also included is a paper written by Raper for Camp Sequoyah and titled "Science of Hiking."

September 1928-1931 (Raper's volume 2-B)

Reports and statistical data sets on public welfare, education, race relations, and rural conditions in Georgia, Florida, and North Carolina. Contains reports on lynchings in Georgia and on land ownership, tradespeople, and community engagement in African American communities. Of interest are letters and forms used to gather statistics on Negro and white prisoners facing life sentences or executions for various crimes throughout the South. Other items are letters discussing Raper's dissertation defense at the University of North Carolina and personal materials including pictures from his wedding and letters concerning the birth of his first son.

1930-1931 (Raper's volume 2-C)

Letters, meeting minutes, case study outlines, and other materials relating to the Southern Commission on the Study of Lynching. Also contains letters from various journal editors, publishers, educational administrators, and churches regarding the publication of Raper’s book, The Tragedy of Lynching.

1932-1933 (Raper's volume 2-D)

Letters, reports, maps, and other materials chiefly concerning lynchings in Georgia and Alabama. Also contains reports, letters, and studies of the Great Depression's impact on African Americans, particularly the displacement of Negro workers by whites in urban settings and the impact of the National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA). One report titled "The Subnormal Negro and the Subnormal Code" by J.F. Ames addresses discriminatory employment practices. Of interest is an anonymous piece titled "Our Two Heritages," which posits that hostility toward immigrants and Negroes "violates our heritage of righteousness and mercy."

1933 (Raper's volume 2-E)

Chiefly reviews of Raper’s book The Tragedy of Lynching. Also contains the contract between Raper and the University of North Carolina Press for the book and letters to the Press's editor. Other materials include reviews and letters pertaining to a report by the Southern Commission on the Study of Lynching titled "Lynchings and What they Mean" .

1934-1935 (Raper's volume 3-A)

Reports, field notes, statistical data sets, short essays and addresses concerning socioeconomic conditions of rural African Americans, effects of the New Deal, lynch mobs, and crime rates in Georgia and the Black Belt. Of interest are reports by Raper and Taylor C. Miller describing a failed study in Putnam County, Ga. Community members balked at the use of Negro field workers and the equitable pay and treatment these workers received. Also included are data sets on loan company land holdings. In short essays and addresses, Raper reflects on among other subjects, the field of sociology, a white-supremacist group in Atlanta, Ga., called the Men of Justice, and the dangers of another world war.

1936-January 1937 (Raper's volume 3-B)

Reports, clippings, and field notes pertaining to the condition of tenant farmers, particularly the Southern Tenant Farmers' Union in Hillhouse, Miss., and eastern Arkansas. Also contains clippings and reviews of Raper's report, "The Mob Still Rides," and a letter to Raper from former Alabama governor Thomas E. Kilby concerning arrests and convictions of lynch mobs during his term in office. Other materials address the history of race relations, Negro education, the "Buy White," movement, and urban and rural economies.

1926-1937 (Raper's volume 3-C)

Clippings, programs, and handwritten notes from addresses and speeches given by Raper on race relations, tenant farmers, and the effects of soil erosion on social conditions. Raper’s membership card for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is included.

1936-1937 (Raper's volume 3-D and 3-E)

Chiefly materials concerning Raper’s book, Preface to Peasantry, including letters, reviews, and excerpts. Most letter writers praise the book; others request review copies. Raper’s responses are attached.

1937 (Raper's volume 3-F)

Clippings, notes, statistical data sets, and typescript draft reports on tenant farmers, soil erosion, race relations, African American education, and job displacement in Georgia and the South. Includes copies of "The South’s Landless Farmers" and "The South Strains Towards Decency." Also included are Raper's reviews of others' works and letters concerning his publications.

Folders not used

Photographs made by Raper in 1937 (corresponds to Raper's volume 3-G)

1938 (Raper's volume 4-A)

Reports, articles, and addresses by Raper on socioeconomic conditions and race relations in the South. Titles include "The South Today," "The City Pays for Rural Poverty," "The Negro and the South as Economic Problem No. One," "Overcoming Racial Cleavages," and " Reconciliation in the South," which he delivered to the Fellowship of Reconciliation at an October 1938 meeting. An untitled address was delivered to the Association of Southern Women for the Prevention of Lynching in November 1938. A letter to a journalist in Chattanooga, Tenn., outlines Raper's position on anti-lynching legislation. Also included are a memorandum about the Delta and Providence Cooperative Farms and correspondence between Raper and James Weldon Johnson concerning a speaking engagement at the YWCA at Agnes Scott College. Raper's brief, handwritten recollection of Johnson's visit and a memorial statement about Johnson a few months later follow. Of interest are reactions by Raper and others to Donald Davidson’s book The Attack on Leviathan: Regionalism and Nationalism in the United States.

1939 (Raper's volume 4-B)

Reports and addresses by Raper on "peasantry" in America, education in the South, democracy, social conditions, rural conditions, and farm tenancy. Of interest is a Carolina Magazine article by Howard W. Odum on Negro education and the University of North Carolina. Also includes field notes about Greene County, Ga., a Southern Tenant Farmers Union conference, peonage, and Will Percy's plantation. A study by Raper examines state reactions to the United States Supreme Court case Gaines v. University of Missouri. Correspondence is primarily with Lillian Smith and concerns publication of Raper’s book Sharecroppers All.

1938-1940 (Raper's volume 4-C)

Chiefly clippings, notes, and programs related to delivering various speeches. Topics of the speeches delivered include soil erosion, population growth, race relations, and democracy. At the Southern Students’ Christian Conference, Raper remarked that "American civilization is going to hell" as a result of soil erosion and the depletion of natural resources. Also included are Raper's biographical notes and correspondence he had with the Fellowship of Reconciliation about war.

1940 (Raper's volume 5-A)

Typescript draft of Raper’s Race and Class Pressures written for the Myrdal study titled The Negro in America, and correspondence with publishers dating from 1945 and 1970. Race and Class Pressures examines race in the context of policing, courts, crop liens, peonage, labor unions, lynching, the Ku Klux Klan, violent crime, and vice, particularly vice in New Orleans, La.

1940-1941 (Raper's volume 5-B)

Chiefly materials pertaining to Sharecroppers All, co-written by Raper and Ira De Augustine Reid. Materials include correspondence, reviews, articles, excerpts from the book, and Raper's written accounts of events. Of note is an account of the Southern Sociological Society's "embarrassing afternoon with W.E.B. DuBois." Also notable are Raper's observations on the treatment of white and African American defendants in a police court and his description of testimony he gave before the Greene County, Ga., grand jury. He had been summonsed because of his liberal social views, his treatment of Negroes, and his non-conformity to accepted racial norms. Other materials include notes on lynching; a summary of the Conference on Lynching in Alabama; a clipping advertising a Ku Klux Klan meeting and parade; one of Raper's addresses on sharecroppers; notes and transcriptions from a meeting about the nutrition of low-income families; and clippings concerning Raper’s involvement in the U.S. Wage Hour Division Textile Industry Committee. Of interest is a typescript document about the daily life and welfare of the Rapers's cook and other Negro community members. Written by by Martha J. Raper and titled "Living and Dying in Greene County, Georgia," the document includes discussion of health, birth control, and social conditions.

1940-1942 (Raper's volume 5-C)

Correspondence, reviews, and advertisements for Sharecroppers All, co-written by Raper and Ira De Augustine Reid. Correspondence is chiefly with Ira Reid, Howard Odum, Will W. Alexander, and William T. Couch and concerns preparation for publication, the book's reception, and royalties. Correspondence with others pertains to a possible Hollywood adaptation and the preparation and distribution of a circular leaflet to advertise the book.

Photographs: Farm Security Administration (corresponds to Raper's volume 5-C)

1941 (Raper's volume 5-D)

Reviews of Sharecroppers All.

1940-1941 (Raper's volume 5-E)

Field notes, chiefly typescript, on Greene County, Ga., by Raper and his assistant Carolyn Blue, a white woman. Raper’s notes concern relations between Black and white community members, African American schools, the Farm Security Administration (FSA), and healthcare and include profiles of individual white and African American community members. Of particular interest are Raper’s notes on FSA clients that describe conflicts over taxes and rent and include transcriptions of confidential conversations between Raper and various clients. Blue’s notes chiefly describe white women in the community, particularly their treatment of domestic servants they employed most of whom were Black. Other topics addressed in Blue’s field notes are white community members’ suspicions about Raper’s “subversive activities” as a white civil rights activist, etiquette between Black and white children, and educational and political inequalities for Black and white community members. The file does not contain any consent agreements from the community members represented in the field notes.

1942-March 1943 (Raper's volume 6)

January-October 1942 (Raper's volume 7)

October 1942-March 1943 (Raper's volume 8-A)

December 1942 (Raper's volume 8-B)

April-December 1943 (Raper's volume 9-A)

1943 (Raper's volume 9-B)

Late 1943-early 1944 (Raper's volume 10 and 11)

Photographs: Miscellaneous images from the early 1940s (corresponds to Raper's volume 10)

1944 (Raper's volume 12)

Reports, speeches, radio scripts, and field notes for the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Rural Life Trends in Wartime project. Field notes address labor shortages, wages, and rural attitudes to post war conditions with observations made in Ward County, N.D., Lowndes County, Ga., Polk County, Fla., Corcoran, Calif., Dallas County, Ala., Dent County, Mo., Belknap County, N.H., and Hampshire County, Mass. A report titled "Cultural Reconnaissance" of Greene County, Ga., describes the community's cultural origins, work patterns, class structure, race relations, family life, schools, churches, ideas, and values. One section, "Worth of Man," examines the valued qualities of men of different classes. Also included is a detailed guide for reconnaissance surveys. In "Regional Values are Important", Raper explores the "Attitudes toward Ethnic Differences in the Midwest and in the South." Articles and speeches address the role of private agencies in post war rehabilitation and the use of courthouse records, specifically observations made in a police court, for a social science study. In one letter Raper discusses his family’s activities, including their use of the "Pasteur treatment" for rabies.

1945 (Raper's volume 13)

Chiefly reports, outlines, memoranda, and other materials pertaining to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Rural Life Trends in Wartime project. Materials include descriptions of the purpose and context of the project, procedural guidelines for surveying and reporting on communities, and samples of county descriptions. Of interest is a report by Arthur Raper titled "Prohibition on Cultural Studies" in which he addresses condemnation of the cultural reconnaissance surveys by U.S. Representative, Jaime L. Whitten, of Mississippi. Whitten claimed that Frank D. Alexander’s survey of Coahoma County, Miss. had slandered his state. His complaints halted federal funding for the surveys. Other materials are reports, transcriptions of speeches and meetings, and articles on topics such as the effects of cotton mechanization on the South, the post war prospects for farming, "southern rural slums," the impact of education on race relations, and Camp Sequoyah, a youth summer retreat near Asheville, N.C. In a September 1945 letter, Raper's brother John R. Raper discusses the atomic bomb and the future of atomic energy for "constructive and destructive applications." John was a Harvard University biologist who had worked on the Manhattan Project.

1946 (Raper's volume 14)

Chiefly articles, reports, and speeches by Raper on rural topics including mechanization of cotton farming, rural employment, farm workers' wages, and the future of the family-sized farm. Many documents pertain to the social effects of agricultural technology on rural education, juvenile delinquency, and rural churches. One article describes the social and demographic characteristics of the "Deep South." Of interest are reports from sociological surveys of 13 selected counties in the "Cotton Belt" states, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, and Texas. Also of interest are Raper’s notes written after learning that his speeches and statements required clearance from the Economic Information office at the U.S. Department of Agriculture prior to the event or public release. Other materials include clippings about democracy in India, the death of Georgia's governor-elect Eugene Talmadge, and the ensuing "Three Governors Controversy."

1947 (Raper's volume 15)

Chiefly articles, speeches, statements, drafts, and reports concerning rural conditions and in particular the role of rural churches in land use and land policy in the South. Correspondence concerns the Rural Section of the Southern Catholic Committee. A conference publication "Land Policy and Church Stability" describes improving living conditions in the South and the effects of increased use of mechanized farming methods. Other materials include incomplete notes about Raper’s trip to Japan in 1947 and correspondence with John Rust of the Rust Cotton Picker Company about small equipment for family farms.

1948-1949 (Raper's volume 16)

Reports, drafts, notes, correspondence, project proposals, and outlines of speeches by Raper. Topics include the decline of family farms, the commercialization and mechanization of farming, and rural churches. Correspondence with Will W. Alexander of the Julian Rosenwald Fund concerns an enclosed proposal for a study of rural laborers titled "Nearly Quittin' Time." Of note is Raper's 1949 narrative account of a 1939 trip through Georgia and Alabama with Gunnar Myrdal and Myrdal's African American research associate Ralph Bunche. The three were gathering information for the Myrdal Study. During the trip, Myrdal had to duck a warrant sworn out on him for insulting a white woman in her Atlanta, Ga., home. He had asked her if she ever had "intercourse with a Negro man."

1947-1949 (Raper's volume 17)

Photographs of Japan (corresponds to Raper's volume 17)

1949 (Raper's volume 18)

1949 (Raper's volume 19)

Typescript drafts of Rural Life in the United States with handwritten emendations. Chapters six through nine focus on rural regions in the United States including wheat country, range livestock country, and western specialty crops country. The remaining chapter is a discussion of rural life and its differences with urban life. Also included are the citations, maps, and appendices for this publication and a report published by the Bureau of Agricultural Economics and titled "Generalized Types of Farming in the United States."

1950-1951 (Raper's volume 20)

Chiefly materials about international agricultural programs run through the U.S. Department of State, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the Foreign Service of the United States, and the International Cooperation Administration. Most items pertain to rural life and agriculture in Japan, with some materials concerning the Philippines and nations in Southeast Asia, the Middle East, and Africa. Of interest are an outline of an international training program on tropical agriculture, an instructional document titled "Securing the Cooperation of the Villagers,"" and a memo "Comments by Agricultural Attache on NRS Publication Entitled 'The Japanese Village in Transition.'" Other materials include reports, speeches, conference proceedings, and notes on rural and social trends in the United States. Of interest is a bulletin with proceedings from the 1950 Tuskegee Rural Life Conference titled "The Changing Status of the Negro in Southern Culture." An isolated handwritten document addresses a question posed by a census taker working in Robeson Co., N.C. about the birth and death rates of Lumbee Indians and Black people living in Robeson County, N.C.

1951 (Raper's volume 21)

A study for the International Motion Pictures Division, Department of State titled "A Recommended Film Program on Agriculture and Rural Life for Eleven Countries in the Near East and South East Asia." The document contains plans, guides, recommendations, maps, and other details for a project to produce and distribute educational films and other visual materials for villages in Asian and Middle Eastern countries. Notes from a 1952 meeting offer Raper’s observations of rural villages in Indonesia, Philippines, Thailand, Burma, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, and Egypt during a 1951 trip for the film program. Raper was sent to observe rural conditions in relation to potential acceptance of "technical aid." He also recorded villagers' reactions to Americans and American aid.

1951 (Raper's volume 22-A)

Folder not used

Photographs of Jordan (corresponds to Raper's volume 22-A)

1941-1952 (Raper's volume 22-B)

December 1951-December 1952 (Raper's volume 22-C)

1953 (Raper's volume 23)

1954 (Raper's volume 24)

1955 (Raper's volume 25)

August 1955-October 1957 (Raper's volume 26 through 27-B)

1956-1958 (Raper's volume 28)

1959 (Raper's volume 29-A)

1960 (Raper's volume 29-B)

1961 (Raper's volume 30)

1958-1962 (Raper's volume 31-A and B)

Photographs: Arthur Raper's retirement from federal service (corresponds to Raper's volume 31-A)

August 1962-March 1963 (Raper's volume 32-A)

April 1963-September 1964 (Raper's volume 32-B)

January-June 1965 (Raper's volume 33)

August 1965 (Raper's volume 34-A and B)

June-December 1965 (Raper's volume 35)

January 1966-September 1967 (Raper's volume 36-A and B)

September 1967-July 1968 (Raper's volume 37)

July 1968-December 1969 (Raper's volume 38-A)

1961-1969 (Raper's volume 38-B and C)

1961-1969 (Raper's volume 38-D)

Magazine and newspaper clippings, chiefly concerned with black urban life and civil right struggles. Major topics include race riots in Detroit, Mich., Newark, N.J., Washington D.C., and other cities; the black power movement and the white backlash against it; civil rights legislation; the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), the Black Panther Party, and other civil rights organizations; media coverage of race relations; the death and funeral of Martin Luther King, Jr.; the Vietnam War; and South African apartheid. Of interest is a letter to Dr. Edward P. Morgan of Channel 26, WETA with comments on that station's recent television report on police and minority groups. Identifying the migration of rural farm families to crowded city centers as a forgotten factor in contemporary urban agitation, Raper notes, "Thus it is that the people least equipped to participate in a complex modern economy are accumulating in the heart of the big cities, within sight and sound of the most advanced economic and cultural segments of American life."

January-October 1970 (Raper's volume 38-E)

Chiefly correspondence, notes, and clippings related to Raper's 1970 tractor accident and planning materials related to the Raper Family reunion. Also included are correspondence with Akhter Hameed Khan, Director of the Pakistan Academy for Rural Development in Comilla, and manuscript materials related to a study of rural development projects in Comilla, East Pakistan; publications related to rural development; clippings pertaining to farm labor; correspondence with Mills B. Lane, IV., about Lane's preparation of an illustrated history of Georgia; acquisition inquiries from archivists; letters relating to Raper's inclusion in the anthology, Sociology of Underdevelopment, and his book, Rural Development in Action; and correspondence with family.

1970-1972 (Raper's volume 39-A)

Chiefly correspondence relating to the publication, receipt, promotion, and review of Raper's book, Rural Development in Action, which explores development efforts in the Comilla district of East Pakistan. Included are congratulatory letters from friends and associates; sample book jackets for Rural Development in Action; lists related to the distribution of complimentary copies of the book; clippings of the book's catalog and journal listings; notes about printing and citation errors; and clippings and draft versions of reviews. Some reviews mention bombings in the Comilla district as a result of the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971.

November 1970-August 1971 (Raper's volume 39-B)

Correspondence, clippings, notes, and manuscript materials, relating mainly to a paper and presentation, "The Crucial Role of the Villager in the Comprehensive Rural Development Experiment at Comilla, East Pakistan," delivered at the 1971 meeting of the Rural Sociological Society. Also included are correspondence and clippings about Akhter Hameed Khan; Martha and Arthur Raper's annual Christmas letter to friends; and correspondence, program, draft remarks, and travel documents related to a U.S. Agency of International Development conference on population, agriculture and rural development.

November 1970-1972 (Raper's volume 39-C)

Chiefly correspondence related to an oral history interview with Raper conducted by Daniel J. Singal, then a graduate student working on his dissertation on southern intellectual history in the 1920s and 1930s. The folders also include correspondence related to the interview's subsequent transcription and deposit in Columbia University's Oral History Research Office and promotional materials about Columbia's oral history collection. Of particular interest is the transcribed and indexed interview, which spans Raper's early life, upbringing, and education as well as the whole of his career. Other correspondence with Singal relates to his repeated visits to the Rapers' farm and his dissertation progress.

January-July 1971 (Raper's volume 39-D)

Mainly correspondence with Morton Sosna, graduate student at the University of Wisconsin, concerning an interview with Raper and the subsequent transcription and deposit of that interview in the manuscripts division of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin. Also included is the transcribed interview; a review of Cry from the Cotton: The Southern Tenant Farmers' Union and the New Deal, written for the Wisconsin Magazine of History; and tax documents. Other notable correspondence is related to Raper's receipt of the Stuart A. Rice Merit Award from the District of Columbia Sociological Society; A. Jarrell Raper's letter to Supreme Court Justice Warren E. Burger on school desegregation in Richmond, Va.; and the death of family member Ralph Raper.

September 1971-February 1972 (Raper's volume 39-E-1)

Chiefly correspondence, promotional materials, and clippings. Of interest is a letter from Raper to the National Coalition for Land Reform drawing a connection between the spread of agri-business and the plight of the inner city: "The problems of farm and city must be dealt with as a composite whole." Materials concerning the US/AID official Ernest Neal are heavily represented; Neal worked with Raper in the 1940s at the Tuskeegee Institute, and was an official at the U.S. Agency for International Development when he died at the age of 60. Documents include letters about Neal's festschrift, correspondence containing Raper's draft corrections of Neal's work-in-progress, and clippings and letters concerning Neal's death. Also included are correspondence, program materials, and remarks from Raper's participation in the Tuskeegee Institute's conference, "The Changing Status of Southern Agriculture: A Twenty Year Review", and published proceedings.

1937-1971 (Raper's volume 39-E-2)

Correspondence relating to and mimeographed copies of Ernest Neal's "Reflections on My Life up through 1947" and "Hope for the Wretched: A Narrative Report of Technical Assistance Experiences, 1939-1971".

June 1969-1972 (Raper's volume 39-F-1)

Chiefly correspondence, clippings, reports, publications, and notes concerning the 1971 civil war in East Pakistan, the liberation of Bangladesh and subsequent refugee crisis; and relief efforts in East Pakistan in the wake of cyclone and flood devastation in 1970. Also included are letters relating to the Pakistan Academy for Rural Development at Comilla, both before and after the formation of Bangladesh; correspondence and donation receipts concerning humanitarian aid in East Pakistan,including a telegram sent by Raper to President Nixon; and correspondence and program materials related to Raper's participation in conferences and meetings concerning relief efforts for Bangladesh. Of particular interest is a letter noting that Akhter Hameed Khan, long-time Director of the Academy, left East Pakistan after the conflict because he was not Bengali.

1971-1972 (Raper's volume 39-F-2)

Primarily letters from associates inside Pakistan describing firsthand experience of the civil war in East Pakistan,including one from Akhter Hameed Khan after his resettlement in Lyallpur, Pakistan; copies of scholarly reports on Bangladesh and Comilla after the war ended; and clippings about Pakistan's diplomatic recognition of Bangladesh. Also included are a fundraising solicitation from the Emergency Relief Fund and a final report released after that organization's resolution to dissolve.

September 1971-1972 (Raper's volume 39-G)

Primarily personal correspondence, clippings, programs, and pamphlets related to Raper's deposit of his papers in the Southern Historical Collection at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; events at the Oakton United Methodist Church, the Organic Living Society of Northern Virginia; and the death of Frank P. Graham, who was one of Raper's professors at UNC. Other materials include correspondence with H. L. Mitchell of the Southern Tenant Farmers Union, a request for comments on a research proposal concerning white sociologists and black studies, clippings about ventriloquist Arty Freda, personal letters from Raper's grandsons, and various notes.

March-September 1972 (Raper's volume 39-H)

Chiefly correspondence, clippings, pamphlets, notes, draft proposals and writings sent to Raper for his advice and comments. Personal and business letters include several exchanges with Ed Kemp, librarian at the University of Oregon, on the proposed disposition of Raper's files; a copy of Jarrell Raper's letter to the United States Supreme Court justices on integration in Richmond, Va.; and family letters, one of which includes Raper's reflections on the 1972 presidential election. Proposals sent to Raper include a plan for an experimental farm and training center from the National Sharecroppers Fund, a draft synopsis of a meeting at the International Center for Dynamics of Development, and a pilot program for a human resource center in downtown Toronto, Canada inspired by the Comilla, Pakistan development program. Other materials include clippings about segregation and bussing, oil rights in Saigon, economist Gunnar Myrdal, and the death of sociologist Thomas Jackson Woofter, Jr.; notes related to events at the Oakton United Methodist Church; and informational materials on the Southern Tenant Farmers Union Records.

October-December 1972 (Raper's volume 39-I)

Chiefly correponspondence and program materials concerning recent sales information on Rural Development in Action and Raper's participation in meetings for the American Friends Service Committee, Inc., and the Southern Regional Council. Also contains Ernest Neal's publications "Hope for the Wretched," "Men, Ideas, and Institutions: The Keys to Development," and "The Alternative to Black Power." Other notable clippings and personal letters include a discussion between Raper and George H. Esser of the Southern Regional Council about Jarrell Raper's collected materials on the integration of Richmond, Va., city schools.

December 1972-January 1973 (Raper's volume 39-J)

Contains correspondence with civil rights activist Eliza Paschall Morrison; Morrison's draft texts on the women's movement and civil rights in Atlanta, Ga.; documents related to planning, travel arrangements, and summary reports for a National Sharecroppers Federation meeting concerning rural movements in North America and China; and correspondence with Edward Hake Phillips on a discrepancy Phillips found in Raper's book, The Tragedy of Lynching. Of particular interest is detailed correspondence with A. E. Cox on the early history of the Mississippi-based Delta Cooperative Farms, Inc., a project of the Southern Tenant Farmers Union, on whose Board of Trustees both Cox and Raper served. Cox provides copies of letters from William Amberson alleging financial malfeasance on the part of another Trustee, Sherwood Eddy. Also included are other personal notes, letters, and clippings, some pertaining to Oakton United Methodist Church activities, Howard Raper's retirement, and a manuscript about the Raper family written by Carlene (Cardy) Raper.

February-June 1973 (Raper's volume 39-K)

Varied correspondence, clippings, draft remarks, and manuscripts, including correspondence with Bill Finger, the son of a former student. Also included is the text of Finger's summary of his visit with the Rapers, "Recollection of a Visit", which provides context for Raper's 1932 work with Mississippi's Delta Cooperative, an initiative of the Southern Tenant Farmers Union. Of particular interest in this work is Raper's mention of his decision over whether to accept a teaching post at Black Mountain College, in Asheville, NC. Also contains correspondence and draft text related to Raper's unpublished article, "Needed: A Third House of Congress." Other notable materials include clippings on executive seizure of legislative power, President Nixon, and Watergate; correspondence with University of Virginia graduate student Nevin C. Brown on landlord-tenant relationships in tobacco agriculture; and requests for Raper's remarks and comments on scholarly manuscripts in the areas of land reform, the economy in Bangladesh, and rural development. Family correspondence includes some discussion of Watergate amd a detailed letter from Martha Raper discussing the context behind and reasons why Raper wrote his book, The Tragedy of Lynching.

July-October 1973 (Raper's volume 39-L)

Chiefly correspondence and clippings, with some of Raper's notes and writings. In an unpublished piece "Out of Watergate Comes...?" Raper meditates on ways the country might improve after the Watergate scandal. Of interest is a letter from Marilyn Keyes Raper with an account of her arrest during an anti-Nixon demonstration. Includes a large number of newspaper clippings on race relations from the Herald-Journal of Greene County, Georgia. Correspondence topics include urban community improvement projects; plans for the National Sharecroppers Foundation's Graham Center, a training cooperative for low-income farmers; and political scientist Ralph Bunche. Other materials include publications by Akhter Hameed Khan, program and draft remarks for the Annual Meeting of the Rural Sociological Society, clippings on the growing income gap and proposed public financing of elections, and an itinery of the Rapers' 1973 trip through the southeastern states.

October-November 1973 (Raper's volume 39-M)

Detailed manuscript account of the Rapers' roadtrip through Virginia, North Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, and Florida to visit relatives, friends, and past sites of Arthur's professional activity, including the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Agnes Scott College in Atlanta, Ga., and the Tuskeegee Institute in Alabama. Of the trip, Raper wrote, "Was it an attempt to recapture something from the traditional 'good old days'? Hardly, for those days...were not better days than these now, even if sometimes less confused and hectic." Also included are copies of some of Martha Raper's letters written during and about the trip, along with a photograph of the Rapers in Florida.

November 1973-January 1974 (Raper's volume 39-N)

Chiefly materials related to Raper and H. L. Mitchell's visit to Chapel Hill for a panel session on "The New Deal at the Grassroots" at the University of North Carolina History Honor Society in January 1974. Contains indexed transcripts of that session, along with interviews of Raper by Jacquelyn Dowd Hall for her dissertation, for an oral history class at UNC, and for the Southern Oral History Program. The interviews largely center on Raper's research on lynching and sharecroppers in the 1930s. Also included are letters from Gunnar Myrdal requesting Raper's assistance in updating arguments from his 1944 book, An American Dilemma: The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy; memos about the Graham Center; clippings on Egil Krogh's defense in his Watergate testimony; fundraising materials for the Oakton United Methodist Church; and family letters.

February-April 1974 (Raper's volume 39-O)

Varied correspondence, clippings, and notes, chiefly concerning real estate in the Rapers' neighborhood, attempts by scholar Winifred K. Vass to publish her master's thesis, updated sales figures for Rural Development in Action, a report on the Graham Center, and materials pertaining to the 40th anniversary reunion of the Southern Tenant Farmers Union. Of particular interest are letters exchanged with Father Dan Kennerk, a missionary stationed in Comilla, concerning the aftermath of severe flooding in Bangladesh; and with United States Senator Sam Ervin, to whom Raper sent his unpublished work, "A Third House of Congress."

May 1974 (Raper's volume 39-P)

Chiefly correspondence, clippings, condolence notes, and copies of eulogies for Raper's brother, John Robert Raper, a noted biologist at Harvard University. Also included are letters, clippings, programs, and planning materials related to Raper's 50th class reunion at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a detailed account of Raper's unpleasant experiences during the weekend.

June-July 1974 (Raper's volume 39-Q)

Mainly correspondence, memos, minutes, clippings, and and board member lists pertaining to the Rural Advancement Fund, part of the National Sharecroppers Foundation; materials related to John Wilson's campaign for Washington D.C., City Council; and an exchange of letters with Robert Lindley concerning the post-1971 War status of the Academy for Rural Development in Comilla, Bangladesh (formerly East Pakistan).

Photographs: Ladies Night Out at the Oakton United Methodist Church (corresponds to Raper's volume 39-Q)

July-September 1974 (Raper's volume 39-R)

Clippings, primarily from the Washington Post, on the congressional vote to impeach President Nixon, his subsequent resignation, Gerald Ford's ascension to the presidency and pardoning of Nixon, and the removal of many of Nixon's tapes and papers from the White House after the pardon.

August-September 1974 (Raper's volume 39-S)

Varied correspondence, clippings, and notes, chiefly pertaining to the Graham Center, rising oil prices, the congressional campaign of Joseph L. Fisher, the recently opened Mormon Temple in Washington D.C., Henry Kissinger, and white collar crime. Also included are transcripts of life and family histories, one of which details Orrin Sage Loomis's 1850s journeys on the Oregon Trail. This history is accompanied by maps and excerpts from a publication on the Oregon Trail.

October-November 1974 (Raper's volume 39-T)

Includes correspondence with Raper's sister Blanche on her writings on religion, with Cornell University Press and Richard Niehoff on Rural Development in Action, and with George Esser and Raymond Wheeler of the Southern Regional Council concerning Raper's participation at the annual meeting. Contains guest list, cards, and correspondence pertaining to Raper's 75th birthday party. Also included are clippings and associated notes relating to Muslim rebels in the southern Phillippine islands of Mindanao and Sulu; famine in Dacca, Bangladesh; the U.S. response to world hunger; Gerald Ford's economic plan; Ford's testimony to the House Judiciary committee on pardoning Nixon; the bankruptcy of John H. Candler, a Coca-cola scion; the discovery of early human fossils in Ethiopia; oil discovery in South Vietnam; OPEC and oil prices; the journal Social Forces, founded at the Universiry of North Carolina at Chapel Hill by Howard Odum; the publication of a book on Nate Shaw, a member of the Alabama Sharecroppers Union; Gunnar Myrdal's receipt of the Nobel Prize; and the poet John Beecher.

November-December 1974 (Raper's volume 39-U)

Varied clippings and correspondence related to the Graham Center, the National Sharecroppers Fund, and the Bangladesh famine of 1974. Of interest is correspondence from Father Dan Kennerk and clippings pertaining to the famine in Bangladesh and an International Development Review article by Akhter Hameed Kahn, "The Comilla Projects--A Personal Account." Other clippings pertain to the famine and to world hunger more broadly. Also includes agenda, correspondence, board member list, and other planning documents associated with the board meeting of the National Sharecroppers Fund; and notes prepared for meetings of the Men's Club at Oakton United Methodist Church; and an exchange of letters with a graduate student who interviewed Raper on his experience with the Commission on Interracial Cooperation, and with Nevin C. Brown, who sent Raper his paper, "A Sociologist for the South: Arthur Raper and the Discovery of the 'Problem South.'"

December 1974-January 1975 (Raper's volume 39-V)

Chiefly correspondence, notes, publications, and reports related to Raper's service on a committee to evaluate the Tuskeegee Institute in the area of international affairs and correspondence, notes, index, and transcription related to Raper's interview with a graduate student focusing on the Henry Wallace campaign for president. Also contains clippings on various subjects including the verdict in the Watergate coverup trial, Iran and OPEC, and the Graham Center. Other Graham Center-related documents include minutes from a Rural Advancement Fund meeting and correspondence on committee reports and grant funding. Also included are some drafts of Raper's writings, including remarks given near Christmas at Oakton United Methodist Church and reflections on the book Children of Pride, which contains correspondence of southern plantation owners before and after the Civil War.

February-March 1975 (Raper's volume 39-W)

Primarily clippings from the Greene Country, Ga., newspaper, the Herald-Journal, including an article proposing a new economic system for the United States, to which Raper responded to the editor with his article, "A Third House of Congress." Other clippings and Raper's corresponding notes and writings pertain to Bangladeshi refugees, famine and food research, oil prices, the nationalization of rural lands in Ethiopia, Kurdish refugees from the 1975 Iraqi-Kurdish conflict, and the death of southern sociologist Carl Taylor. Other writings include a review of All God's Dangers: The Life of Nate Shaw, remarks on hunger for the Oakton United Methodist Church, and a reflection "Some Thoughts on Many Things" about farming, industrial production, and the economy.

April 1975 (Raper's volume 39-X)

Primarily excerpts from Raper's writings, interviews, and conference talks compiled into "Some Paragraphs written by AFR since mid-1962." The excerpts cover a range of topics, including the Comilla development project, segregation, lynching, reflections on the Rapers' time in Taiwan in the early 1950s, and Bangladesh. Also includes an exchange with economist Laurence Hewes, in which Raper provided comments for Hewes' draft text of "A Study on Integrated Rural Development in Developing Countries. Also included are clippings on the CIA, the death of Chiang Kai-shek, industrial farms, the evacuation of Vietnam and oil firms' subsequent abandonment of investment in Vietnam, the death penalty, white collar crime, and the John B. Connally acquittal on allegations of taking a bribe to influence a milk price decision.

May-June 1975 (Raper's volume 39-Y)

Primarily clippings concerning the end of the Vietnam War and U.S. foreign policy in southeast Asia and Raper's handwritten notes on these topics. Other materials include a letter from Father Dan Kennerk on conditions in Bangladesh, Raper's handwritten writings on current events and farm activities, minutes and notes from the annual meeting of the National Sharecropper's Fund, and family correspondence. Of interest are clippings, notes, and correspondence pertaining to the death of Federal Communications Commissioner Clifford Durr, who defended Rosa Parks during the Montgomery bus boycott.

July-August 1975 (Raper's volume 39-Z-1)

Chiefly correspondence, photographs, and planning documents relating to the 1975 Raper family reunion; various clippings and reflections on current events, including the deaths of agricultural economist Wolf Ladejinsky and deposed Ethiopian emperor Haile Selassie, the August 1975 coup in Bangladesh, and world hunger; and correspondence pertaining to the Graham Center. Of interest is a letter from Father Dan Kennerk, describing reactions to the Bangladesh coup. Also included are clippings and correspondence pertaining to the fraud trials of members of the Pomponio real estate family, former neighbors of the Rapers.

September-October 1975 (Raper's volume 39-Z-2)

Varied professional correspondence and material, including Raper's review of "An Analysis of the Emergence of a Rural Development Innovation in Comilla, Bangladesh" for The Journal of Developing Areas; a letter from Richard Niehoff informing Raper that Ahkter Hameed Khan had been forced to resign from the Rural Development Academy because of the political situation in Bangladesh; and letters and reports pertaining to the Graham Center, citing complaints from the Center's volunteers on the quality of the initiative's trainees. Other National Sharecroppers Fund material includes executive committee meeting minutes and organizational bylaws. Also included are clippings on earthquake preparedness, the death penalty in Alabama, atomic war, and inflation, as well as detailed remarks delivered at Oakton United Methodist Church center on the upcoming American Bicentennial.

October-November 1975 (Raper's volume 39-Z-3)

Chiefly correspondence with Bob Worrell of the East-West Center on his use of Raper's Comilla development project slides in a training program; clippings and notes on the death of Francisco Franco and on Eldridge Cleaver and Kathleen Cleaver; reports on training and the farm at the Graham Center; and executive committee meeting minutes from the Rural Advancement Fund. Also includes other clippings on Leon Jaworski's decision to block the Nixon indictment, the firing of Defense Secretary James Schlesinger, and the death of sociologist Rupert Bayless Vance and communications from the Sponsors of Open Housing Investment on the resignation of Executive Director Stanly Bigman.

December 1975-February 1976 (Raper's volume 39-Z-4)

Primarily clippings with accompanying handwritten and typewritten notes concerning nuclear energy, the death of Paul Robeson, the civil war in Lebanon, farming, and the backlash against Nixon's 1976 trip to China. Also includes correspondence and notes related to Raper's acquaintanceship with Chuck Winslow, a frequent attendee of countercultural "Gathering of Tribes" events, including the "Rainbow Family Health Gathering". Professional correspondence includes a memo written by Raper after his 1976 visit to the Graham Center, discussing the problems of the Rural Advancement Fund in recent years; documents indicating that Raper planned to retire from the board of the National Sharecroppers Fund at the expiration of his term in 1976; and other NSF reports and meeting documents.

February-April 1976 (Raper's volume 39-Z-5)

Mainly correspondence with former associates and graduate students containing comments on their manuscript materials, including a chapter from Dan Singal's dissertation chapter on Howard Odum. Also included is board correspondence from the Southern States Cooperative, Inc. and the National Sharecroppers Fund. Of note is Raper's detailed reply to local PBS station WPBT's inquiry about developing a program on the history of the rural poor in the South and a letter to the editor from Martha Raper on food coloring and artificial food additives. Some clippings from the Greensboro Herald-Journal, and from other periodicals relating to family planning progams, voter turnout, farming in Bangladesh, and apartheid.

May 1976 (Raper's volume 39-Z-6)

Index and manuscript of "On the Crests of Forming Waves: Some Autobiographical Notes," Raper's account of his life from growing up on his family farm to settling down at his Oakton, Va., farm in the late 1960s. In providing a framework for his life, Raper writes,"How I was able (I should say we, for Martha and I have always been there together) to maneuver through, I'm not sure except that we tried to tell the truth, and we tried to tell it in an acceptable manner...If I know myself, I've never wanted to be a martyr, or a status-quo-er. I've often been asked if I consider myself a true southerner: no, and yes."

May-July 1976 (Raper's volume 39-Z-7)

Chiefly minutes from executive committee meetings of the Rural Advancement Fund discussing the Graham Center's troubled financial situation, publications, correspondence, and Raper's informal writings. Topics include the opening of the Lyndon B. Johnson Memorial Park and the American Bicentennial celebration at Oakton United Methodist Church. Correspondence contains exchanges with graduate students on southern agrarianism in the 1930s; with members of the Mt. Olivet Methodist Church regarding Raper's family history with the church; with Father Dan Kennerk on improvements in the political situation in Bangladesh; with Father Regis Rodda on Rodda's Toronto community development project; and with Winifred K. Vass on the status of her manuscript, "The Bantu-Speaking Heritage of the U.S." Also included are clippings on Jimmy Carter's presidential campaign, Representative Barbara Jordan's keynote address to the 1976 Democratic Convention, the environment, and the death penalty.

August-September 1976 (Raper's volume 39-Z-8)

Mainly Raper's informal writings with correspondence and clippings. Raper comments on news articles with topics including the death of Howard University president Dr. Mordecai Wyatt Johnson, who Raper knew through the Commission on Interracial Cooperation; the company R.J. Reynolds' questionable payments to the Securities and Exchange Commission; Jimmy Carter's presidential campaign; race relations in England, South Africa, and Argentina; and the death of Mao Tse-tung. Other writings include an extended meditation on the physical attributes, plants, and other living things at Slope Oaks, Raper's farm. Detailed letters from Bill Bridges, describing his year-long missionary trip in South Korea, are heavily represented in the correspondence materials. Also included are letters, clippings, and a photograph pertaining to Raper's donation of a collection of books to George Mason University's sociology department.

October-November 1976 (Raper's volume 39-Z-9)

Primarily clippings on social, economic, political, and environmental topics, including the controversy surrounding Ford Cabinet Member Earl L. Butz's use of a racial slur; the death penalty, Pakistan leader Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, the shrinking of the corporate tax burden, the campaign of Georgia Congressman Andrew Young, and issues surrounding Jimmy Carter's election to the presidency, including the controversy over Carter's interview with Playboy magazine, in which he said, "I've committed adultery in my heart many times;" criticism of political cartoonist Pat Oliphant's caricature of Carter's southern and rural background; and protests against the segregationist policy of Carter's church. Other materials include Raper's notes on remarks given by AID Assistant Administrator for Program and Policy Phillip Birnbaum at a meeting of the Society for International Development; on a program honoring poet Sterling A. Brown; and on a request for information about Raper's involvement in 1930 meetings concerning a report on African Americans in agriculture and rural life, "A Study of the Economic Status of the Negro."

December 1976-January 1977 (Raper's volume 39-Z-10)

Chiefly cards, letters, handwritten notes, and typewritten reflections related to Raper's 24-day hospitalization for a heart condition. In his writing, "Heart Ailment Masked by Indigestion," Raper describes in detail the history and manifestation of his condition and his hospital stay. Martha Raper, in a letter to Bob Hall of Southern Exposure magazine, describes her son Jarrell taking the bedridden Raper's whispered dictation of a book review Hall requested prior to the hospitalization. Other notable materials include the texts of remarks delivered at church; lectures given to a sociology class at George Mason University; Martha Raper's correpondence with a commissioner at the Federal Trade Commission on her appearance as a witness before a public hearing on truth in food advertising; and many clippings on the societal impact of the TV series Roots.

February-April 1977 (Raper's volume 39-Z-11)

Varied clippings, correspondence, publications, and handwritten notes. Raper provides comments on daughter-in-law Gwynn B. Raper's essay, "Religious Ferment in the 18th Century: Prelude to Revolution," and recommends the essay to The Bulletin of King and Queen County, Historical Society of Virginia. Other notable correspondence includes family letters, a letter from Father Dan Kennerk, providing an update of his mission in Bangladesh, detailed letters from former Comilla development project associates Richard Niehoff and Ed Schuyler, and letters from graduate student Walter Jackson, requesting an interview on the topic of blacks in American social science, focusing on Raper's work with Gunnar Myrdal. The indexed transcript of the resulting interview is included. Clippings include articles on unauthorized immigration, Jimmy Carter's church in Plains, Ga., the Peace Corps, energy policy, and nuclear weapons.

May-June 1977 (Raper's volume 39-Z-12)

Clippings and correspondence, some related to the deaths of three of the Rapers' neighbors and associates. Other collected documents include family letters; a published essay, "An Analysis of the Emergence of a Rural Development Innovation in Comilla, Bangladesh;"a memo to the board of directors of the Rural Advancement Fund about the Graham Center's new staff; and clippings on world hunger, the TV miniseries Roots., and the loss of optimism in the United States about what technology can accomplish. Of note is a 1963 report on the Comilla project that includes a detailed description of working with Akhter Hameed Khan.

July-August 1977 (Raper's volume 39-Z-13)

September-October 1977 (Raper's volume 39-Z-14)

Late 1977 (Raper's volume 39-Z-15A)

Late 1977 (Raper's volume 39-Z-15B)

Late 1977 (Raper's volume 39-Z-15C)

November-December 1977 (Raper's volume 39-Z-16)

January-February 1978 (Raper's volume 39-Z-17)

March 1978 (Raper's volume 39-Z-18)

April 1978 (Raper's volume 39-Z-19)

May 1978 (Raper's volume 39-Z-20)

June-July 1978 (Raper's volume 39-Z-21)

August-September 1978 (Raper's volume 39-Z-22)

September-October 1978 (Raper's volume 39-Z-23)

October 1978 (Raper's volume 39-Z-24)

November 1978 (Raper's volume 39-Z-25)

November-December 1978 (Raper's volume 39-Z-26)

"I Think Mankind Will Do It: A Conversation with Arthur Raper", 1978: tape 1

Acquisitions information: Received as Addition of May 1990

One of three videotapes titled "I Think Mankind Will Do It: A Conversation with Arthur Raper," apparently taped for the National Sharecroppers Fund by North State Public Video in 1978. The tape shows Raper and unidentified interviewers at a rural location where Raper discusses his career and thoughts.

"I Think Mankind Will Do It: A Conversation with Arthur Raper", 1978: tape 2

Acquisitions information: Received as Addition of May 1990

Two of three videotapes titled "I Think Mankind Will Do It: A Conversation with Arthur Raper," apparently taped for the National Sharecroppers Fund by North State Public Video in 1978. The tape shows Raper and unidentified interviewers at a rural location where Raper discusses his career and thoughts.

"I Think Mankind Will Do It: A Conversation with Arthur Raper", 1978: tape 3

Acquisitions information: Received as Addition of May 1990

Three of three videotapes titled "I Think Mankind Will Do It: A Conversation with Arthur Raper," apparently taped for the National Sharecroppers Fund by North State Public Video in 1978. The tape shows Raper and unidentified interviewers at a rural location where Raper discusses his career and thoughts.

January-February 1979 (Raper's volume 39-Z-27)

March 1979 (Raper's volume 39-Z-28)

April 1979 (Raper's volume 39-Z-29)

May 1979 (Raper's volume 39-Z-30)

June 1979 (Raper's volume 39-Z-31)

July 1979 (Raper's volume 39-Z-32)

August 1979 (Raper's volume 39-Z-33)

Photographs of Arthur Raper and Martha Raper and their home in Oakton (corresponds to Raper's volume 39-Z-33)

Correspondence about reprints of books, 1967-1969 (Raper's volume 40)

Jobs offered or considered, but not taken (except 18 July 1940), 1930-1966 (Raper's volume 41)

Sociological dreams and some thoughts, late 1920s-1979 (Raper's volume 42-A)

Prose poems, 1940-1976 (Raper's volume 42-B)

Rough notes and "think pieces," 1956-1962 (Raper's volume 43)

Raper family and personal papers, 1899-1979 (Raper's volume 44)

Other family letters, 1957-1975 (addition of August 1992)

Two volumes of family letters. The letters, written by various family members, are chiefly about individual and family group activities.

Detailed list of slide sets, 1941-1975 (Raper's volume 45)

List of tapes and slide sets, 1941-1975 (corresponds to Raper's volume 45)

"Sterling Brown's Cotton,"&"Slim Jim," and others, 1941-1942

Sterling Brown; Margaret Mead's Genesis; Gunnar Myrdal, Jack Delano, Irene Delano, and others, 1941-1942

A review of Arthur Raper's "Americana: Basic American Democracy," for outgoing overseas personnel, 1961

Snake music at Comilla, East Pakistan, 1963

Music festival at Comilla, East Pakistan, 1963

Recollections of early years at Raper reunion at Booth Bay Harbor, Maine, 1965

In conversation with Joan Titus, 1967: tape 1

In conversation with Joan Titus, 1967: tape 2

In conversation with Joan Titus, 1967: tape 3

Christmas Songs by grandchildren, 1968

Instruments played by family and friends, 1969

Family conversation and Akhter Hameed Khan, Conrad Teauber, Irene Taeuber, and others, 1969

Family conversation, 1973

Raper discusses problems facing Bangladesh, on American University Radio, 1972

Memorial service for John R. Raper, 1974

Family conversation, 1975

Overseas orientation for Afghanistan (provides narration to slides in image folder PF-3966/1)

Overseas orientation for Iran (provides narration to slides in image folder PF-3966/2)

Overseas orientation for Jordan (provides narration to slides in image folder PF-3966/3)

Overseas orientation for Pakistan (provides narration to slides in image folder PF-3966/4)

Americana: Music

Dr. Arthur Raper, 'The Overseas American'

Americana taped by Arthur Raper

The Best of Dr. Arthur F. Raper

Arthur Raper's AID Farewell Party, 28 June 1962

Raper Reunion, August 1965: copy

Harrison Family, March 1965; Margaret Family, June 1965; Gary [Soliner] Family, December 1965

Raper Reunion, 1970

Harrison Beethoven Sonata 17 with Shirley Munger, 10 May 1971; Brass Trio by Flotius; Piano Numbers , Robert Pennington

Walter Jackson, W. E. B. Dubois Institute, Harvard University

Jarrell R. Piano

Harrison, 1979

Lower School Music Department

Preacher Sermon: Dry Bones; Margaret Mead: Genesis

[unidentified sound recording]

Slides (PF-3966/1): Overseas orientation for Afghanistan (corresponds to audiotape T-3966/17)

Slides (PF-3966/2): Overseas orientation for Iran (corresponds to audiotape T-3966/18)

Slides (PF-3966/3): Overseas orientation for Jordan (corresponds to audiotape T-3966/19)

Slides (PF-3966/4): Overseas orientation for Pakistan (corresponds to audiotape T-3966/20)

Slides (PF-3966/5): Comilla, East Pakistan

Slides (PF-3966/6): Sierra Leone

Slides (PF-3966/7): Ethiopia (a list identifying these is in Folder 730-b)

Slides (PF-3966/8): Iraq (a list identifying these is in Folder 730-b)

Slides (PF-3966/9): Lebanon (a list identifying these is in Folder 730-b)

Slides (PF-3966/10): Libya (a list identifying these is in Folder 730-b)

Slides (PF-3966/11): Taiwan (a list identifying these is in Folder 730-b)

Photographs of Arthur Raper, circa 1920-1977

Dorothea Lange, Greene County, Ga., circa 1940, and cabins and living conditions in Gee's Bend, Ala., during the Depression, circa 1935

Arkansas: Chiefly conditions at Dyess Farm Security Administration Colony and at a shanty town near Wynn, circa 1936

California: Weather-worn buildings in Wrightsville, circa 1938

Georgia: Conditions in the Fourth Ward, Atlanta, circa 1936

Georgia: Buildings and farms in Greensboro, circa 1936

Georgia: Farms, buildings and people in Greene County (including "rehab families") showing decay during the Depression, circa 1936

Georgia: Chiefly weather-worn farm buildings

Kentucky: Jefferson Davis Monument and other buildings in Hopkinsville and Burdstown, 1938

Mississippi: Chiefly scenes at the Delta Cooperative Farm, Hillhouse, 1936

Digitized nitrate negatives

205 images

Black-and-white film

Rural scenes, most of which are from the Delta Cooperative Farm, Hillhouse, Miss., 1936 (See image folder PF-3966/90). Images depict houses, automobiles, barns, windmills, farm equipment, cotton fields, privies, roads, soil erosion, windmills, water tanks, power lines, cattle, mules, wagons, and African American and white adults and children.

Processing Information: The original nitrate negatives were digitized by the Northeast Document Conservation Center in 2009 and then destroyed as a precaution.

Missouri: Buildings at the La Forge Cooperative Farm, 1938

North Carolina: Farm near Mebane and a cabin at Camp Sequoia, 1938 and undated

Tennessee: Courthouse at Shelbyville and plantation house near Nashville, 1936

Japan: Chiefly images of Arthur Raper, 1944-1978

Middle East: Iran, Pakistan, Lebanon, Afghanistan, and other Middle Eastern locations visited by Raper. Chiefly images of Raper, 1956-1962

Taiwan: Chiefly images of Raper during his stay in Taiwan, 1952-1953

Florida Missionary Claim: Photo of Raper and others, 1937

Other Depression-era photos

Southeast during the Depression, with no exact location given.

These are of the same nature as the Farm Security Administration photos elsewhere in this collection, and are probably Farm Security Administration photos as well, circa 1930-1945.

People: Individuals and groups, chiefly southern farmers

Buildings: Chiefly southern farm houses, barns, and other rural buildings

Farms and woods: Chiefly southern farms, showing effects of erosion and over-production. Other farm and wood scenes

People: Individuals and groups, chiefly southern farmers

Southern Commission on the Study of Lynching: "Lynchings and What They Mean" (1932)

Formerly Volume 1

Arthur F. Raper, The Tragedy of Lynching (1933: reprint, 1969)

Formerly Volume 2

Arthur F. Raper, Preface to Peasantry (1936: reprint, 1968)

Formerly Volume 3

Frank Shay, Judge Lynch: His First Hundred Years, with an introduction essay, "Lynching and Racial Exploitation," by Arthur F. Raper (1938: reprint, 1969)

Formerly Volume 4

Arthur F. Raper and Ira DeA. Reid, Sharecroppers All (1941; reprint, 1971)

Formerly Volume 5

Arthur F. Raper, Tenants of the Almighty (1943; reprint, 1971)

Formerly Volume 6

Carl C. Taylor, Arthur F. Raper, et al., Rural Life in the United States (1949)

Formerly Volume 7

Arthur F. Raper, et al., The Japanese Village in Transition (1950)

Formerly Volume 8

The Japanese Village in Transition, Tokyo, 1950

20240103.2

An autographed copy of the report, "The Japanese Village in Transition", Tokyo 1950 signed with notes by contributors.

Arthur F. and Martha J. Raper, Guide to Agriculture, U.S.A. (1955)

Formerly Volume 9

Arthur F. Raper, et al., Urban and Industrial Taiwan: Crowded and Resourceful (1954)

Formerly Volume 10

E. Stuart Kirby, Rural Progress in Taiwan (1960)

Formerly Volume 11

Arthur F. and Martha J. Raper, Two Years to Remember and Other Writings (1977)

Formerly Volume 12

A pamphlet, probably by Raper, in Chinese or Japanese

Raper's Volume 13

Other pamphlets

1910-1939

1939-1952

1952-1953

1953-1955

1955-1956

1956-1962

1962-1964

1964-1967

1967

1967-1968

1968

1969

1969-1970

1970-1971

1971

1971-1972

1972-1973

1973-1974

1974-1975

1975-1976

1976-1977

1977-1978

1978-1979

1979

1980-1981

Outgoing correspondence, 1937-1979

Martha Raper compiled copies of her outgoing correspondence in a set of binders. The original order of her correspondence files was retained, but the binders were replaced with archival folders.

Psychoanalysis and dream narratives, 1940-1976

Chiefly narrative accounts of Martha Raper's dreams. Also includes scattered correspondence with her psychotherapist in the 1950s.

Writings and Subject files, 1930-1976

Essays written by Martha Raper from Taipei and elsewhere and scathing commentary she offered on the report Sexual Behavior in the Human Female by Alfred C. Kinsey. Also contains poems and songs, including "Generally Recognized As Safe" by Martha Raper. Subject files pertain to food science, use of preservatives, and nutrition.

Biographical and genealogical information, 1910s-1970s

Information is chiefly about Martha Raper, Arthur Raper, and the Jarrell family (Martha's surname at birth was Jarrell).

Notebooks, "Mementos," and Other materials, 1950s-1970s

Includes material related to Arthur and Martha Raper's work in Taipei, Taiwan, Tehran, Iran, and Comilla Pakistan; their son Arthur Harrell Raper; and Arthur Franklin Raper's memorial service in 1979.

Address books, Date books, and Calendars, 1940s-1970s

Also includes visiting cards and Christmas lists.

Printed items and Newspaper clippings, 1920s-1970s

Newspaper clippings, 1970s

Photographs and Photograph albums, 1926-1974 and undated

Images chiefly depict Arthur Franklin Raper, Martha Raper, and their four children. Of note is a 1942 photograph album compiled by photographer Jack Delano. The stylized images and layout of the album show the Raper family in Greene County, Ga., where Raper conducted rural sociological research at the tail end of the Depression. Delano worked for the Farm Security Administration. In addition to creating the album, Delano made an ink drawing of himself and his wife [?] leaving Georgia and saying goodbye to the Raper family.

Also included are images of the Kerman Province, Iran in 1957 and a photograph album with images of Taiwan in the early 1950s.

Slides, 1951-1979

35mm color transparencies

Images depict the Raper family, particularly Arthur Franklin Raper.

Digital photograph of oil painting

"Original painting of Slope Oaks, Oakton, Virginia, home of Arthur F. and Martha J. Raper, 1947-1979." Painting was made by a neighbor, Helen Small Bowers, in 1973.