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Size | About 25 items |
Abstract | Before her marriage to Dub White, Grace McSpadden Overholser was married to James Overholser and, at some point, worked as a reporter. Later in life, she taught English and African American studies and served as dean at Saint Andrew's Presbyterian College in Laurinburg, N.C. The collection contains memoranda, letters, notes, writings, course syllabi, and other items chiefly relating to Grace McSpadden Overholser's tenure at Saint Andrew's Presbyterian College. Materials include an article that Overholser wrote regarding Richard Wright; letters to the editor of New Letters, a journal at the University of Missouri in which Overholser's Richard Wright article was published; a schedule and participant list of the 1971 Afro-American Institute at the University of Iowa; letters to the director of the Afro-American Institute; an essay regarding the Amistad Research Center at Tulane University; several pages of Overholser's notes and course syllabi; and other materials. |
Creator | Overholser, Grace McSpadden, d. 1971. |
Curatorial Unit | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection. |
Language | English |
Processed by: Matt Dailey and Rachel Shope, February 2011
Encoded by: Matt Dailey, February 2011
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Before her marriage to Dub White, Grace McSpadden Overholser was married to James Overholser and, at some point, worked as a reporter. Later in life, she taught English and African American studies and served as dean at Saint Andrew's Presbyterian College in Laurinburg, N.C.
She was the mother of Nannerl O. Keohane, a political theorist and former president of both Duke University and Wellesley College. Keohane funded the establishment of the Grace McSpadden Overholser Archival Fellowship for African American Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where Overholser had taken courses. The fellowship focuses on strengthening the documentation of African American experiences throughout North Carolina.
Back to TopThe collection contains memoranda, letters, notes, writings, course syllabi, and other items chiefly relating to Grace McSpadden Overholser's tenure at Saint Andrew's Presbyterian College. Materials include an article that Overholser wrote regarding Richard Wright; letters to the editor of New Letters, a journal at the University of Missouri in which Overholser's Richard Wright article was published; a schedule and participant list of the 1971 Afro-American Institute at the University of Iowa; letters to the director of the Afro-American Institute; an essay regarding the Amistad Research Center at Tulane University; several pages of Overholser's notes and course syllabi; and other materials.
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Papers |