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Dr. Carl Russell Gross papers (MSS-0002)

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Rhode Island College
600 Mount Pleasant Ave
Providence, RI, 02908
Tel: 401-456-8380
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Inventory

Series 1. Manuscripts, undated
0.20 cubic feet

This series contains six manuscript versions of an unpublished book Dr. Gross worked on relating to Black history in Rhode Island between 1696 and 1971. Each version of the manuscript has its own pagination although their contents are similar. The series also includes newspaper clippings, cartoons, pamphlets, and additional research among the manuscript pages. Note: While the manuscript pages have been digitized, as well as some supplemental documents related to the manuscripts, other materials in the folders with the manuscripts have not been digitized and are not available online.

Container Description Date
Box 1, Folder 1 Manuscript A
undated
Box 1, Folder 2 Manuscript B [Note: “History of Free and Accepted Masons, (Prince Hall) in Rhode Island 'From Whence We Came'” is also included in this manuscript and was digitized separately]
1936-1971
Box 1, Folder 3 Manuscript C
undated, 1971
Box 1, Folders 4-6 Manuscript D
circa 1897-1971
Box 1, Folder 7 Manuscript E
undated, 1950-1971
Box 1, Folder 8 Manuscript F
circa 1969-1971

Series 2. Subject files, 1878-1971
0.70 cubic feet

The subject files contain research materials used in Dr. Gross’s draft manuscripts. Many of the files contain newspaper clippings, as well as historical narratives regarding the main subjects of the folders and biographical information of select individuals written by Dr. Gross. Note: Folder titles in quotes were original descriptions of materials described by Dr. Gross.

Container Description Date
Box 1, Folder 9 Address by William H. Freeman, "The Negro in Rhode Island”
1937 January
Box 1, Folder 10 Bibliographies
undated, 1970
Box 1, Folder 11 Black History Course Curriculum Outlines: Includes two syllabi of Wilson J. Moses
circa 1963-1970
Box 1, Folder 12 Black Graduates of Brown University and Pembroke College: Includes list of graduates with Dr. Gross’s annotations
undated
Box 1, Folder 13 Black doctors and nurses in Medicine and Allied Sciences: Includes lists of names of doctors and nurses of medicine in Rhode Island, two photographs (one of Ruth Occomy and the other of the 1963 staff of Memorial Hospital in Pawtucket, RI which includes Dr. Jewell D. Anderson), and newspaper clippings
circa 1921-1970
Box 1, Folder 14 Black Lawyers and Assemblymen in Rhode Island: Includes lists of names, newspaper clippings, and campaign materials
circa 1935-1969
Box 1, Folder 15 Black Teachers in Rhode Island: Includes lists of names and newspaper clippings
undated, 1955-1970
Box 1, Folder 16 "Blacks in Rhode Island Military"
circa 1919-1970
Box 1, Folder 17 Bland, George Francis: Correspondence with biographical information
undated, 1960
Box 1, Folder 18 Churches: Includes clippings and Dr. Gross’s notes regarding the history of various churches in Rhode Island. Also includes church materials from: Second Free Will Baptist Church 100 Anniversary Program; Olney Street Baptist Church; The Church of the Saviour; St. James Baptist Church
circa 1931-1969
Box 1, Folder 19 Newspaper clippings
undated, 1957-1971
Box 1, Folder 20 Copies of newspaper clippings from folder 19
undated, 1957-1971
Box 1, Folder 21 Clubs and Organizations: Newspaper clippings, stationary, pamphlets
circa 1896-1955
Box 1, Folder 22 Correspondence: Most relates to Dr. Gross’s research, his career, and donations to various archives in the United States, and his attempt to write and publish a monograph with Roy Hudson on the history of Black men in Rhode Island. The folder also includes letters from the Otey family, relatives of Dr. Gross.
undated, 1878-1891, 1935-1971
Box 1, Folder 23 Dunbar, Roberta J.: Newspaper clippings
1915-1957
Box 1, Folder 24 Gross Family History: Family trees, vital documents, correspondence
1909-1971
Box 1, Folder 25 Event flyers: 108th Emancipation Celebration of the Afro-Americans of New England; Fifty-First Annual John Brown Memorial Meeting; Annual John Brown Memorial Meeting; “To the Front! Afro-Americans and at the Ballot-Box resent the affront put upon us by our presenter Governor, Elisha Dyer”; Grand Opening of New Post Home of Lts. Armstrong-Gladding Post 69-American Legion
circa 1900-1910; 1971
Box 1, Folder 26 Housing Discrimination
1938, 1950-1959
Box 1, Folder 27 Irreproachable Beneficial Association
1954-1969
Box 1, Folder 28 LeCount, Joseph G.: Newspaper clippings
1959
Box 1, Folder 29 Notes
circa 1960-1970
Box 1, Folder 30 Copies of title pages of Adolph Sutro: A Biography and first four pages The Religion of Nature Delineated; Old Stone Bank 1819/1969 cover and marked page; Newspaper article “That Negro Democrat--” with Dr. Gross’s notes
undated
Box 1, Folder 31 Moore, Cora Soraya: Includes newspaper clippings
1969
Box 1, Folder 32 Black musicians: Includes newspaper clippings, event announcements, programs
circa 1950-1970
Box 1, Folder 33 “The Negro in Rhode Island Arts”: Short biographies on various Black artists
1968
Box 1, Folder 34 “Negro Press in Rhode Island”: Newspaper clippings, short history on Black press in RI and short biographies on Black men in press
circa 1948-1966
Box 1, Folder 35 "Negroes in the Island of Rhode Island" by Charles A. Battle
1932
Box 1, Folder 36 Notes on George Henry by William Heathman
undated
Box 1, Folder 37 Phillips, Elizabeth J.: Newspaper clippings and resume/professional profile
circa 1963-1970
Box 1, Folder 38 "Re-enfranchisement of Rhode Island Negroes" by J. Stanley Lemons and Michael A. McKenna [Xerox copy]
undated
Box 1, Folder 39 Taylor, Stuart: Newspaper clippings
1963-1970
Box 1, Folder 40 “Black History: Did You Know…?” Television Script by Roy Hudson
undated
Box 1, Folder 41 Rhode Island Tercentenary Committee: Meeting minutes
1935-1936
Oversize Folder 1 Portrait of Dr. Gross
undated