Research Files

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Research files contain articles, notes, and illustrations on subjects collected by Dorothy Porter Wesley and Constance Porter Uzelac during their research. Dorothy Porter Wesley conducted research on African, African American, Caribbean and Afro-Latin cultures to build the Moorland-Spingarn Research Center at Howard University. Her research was also used for her writings, such as Afro-Braziliana: A Working Bibliography, Early Negro Writing, 1760-1837, and William Cooper Nell, Nineteenth-Century African American Abolitionist, Historian, Integrationist: Selected Writings 1832-1874 (co-written by her daughter Constance Porter Uzelac). Constance Porter Uzelac's research files cover persons and topics such as Bessie Coleman, Harriet Tubman, African American physicians, Robert Roberts, and William Cooper Nell.

Research files is organized into two sub-series: Dorothy Porter Wesley and Constance Porter Uzelac. Dorothy Porter Wesley sub-series is arranged into three groups and alphabetically within: General Research Files, Brazil Research Files, and Illustrations. Constance Porter Uzelac sub-series is arranged alphabetically within.

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