Henry A. Callis papers, 1888-1974 (bulk 1905-1974)
Personal and family papers of Henry Arthur Callis. Includes awards, certificates, clippings, correspondence, a diary, notebooks, photographs, programs, and scrapbooks relating to Callis and his father Henry J. Callis. Also contains material concerning Callis's medical career at the Veterans Administration Hospital in Tuskegee, Ala., and the Howard University School of Medicine, and information relating to his activities as a founding member of the national African American fraternity Alpha Phi Alpha, including its history, constitution, by-laws, chapter manuals, memos, convention material, newsletters, and speeches by Callis. Correpondents include Numa P.G. Adams, Ralph J. Bunche, W. Montague Cobb, Eugene Dibble, W.E.B. Du Bois, Alice Dunbar-Nelson, Raymond Gregory, William L. Houston, John A. Kenney, Alain Locke, Rayford Logan, Paul Robeson, Mary Church Terrell, Charles H. Wesley, and Doxey Wilkerson. There is no material dated between 1889 and 1904
Archival Material, English, 1888
Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.)
13 linear ft.
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