Research Catalog

Title

New York State Colonization Society Records 1849-1968.

Author

New-York State Colonization Society.

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Details

Description

12 lin. ft.

Summary

The records of the New-York Colonization Society reflect the goals and projects funded by the society as well as its daily operations. The records have been divided into six series: Board of Directors, General Administration, Organizations and Scholarships, Financial Records, Printed Matter and Artifact.

Subject

• Tubman, William V. S., 1895-1971
• New-York State Colonization Society
• Liberia College
• Booker Washington Institute of Liberia
• Cuttington University College
• Samuel Grimes Maternity and Child Welfare Center
• Mount Coffee Experimental Farm
• Education > Liberia
• Education > Societies, etc
• Educational reports > Liberia
• Scholarships > Liberia
• Philanthropists > United States
• Philanthropists > Liberia
• Liberia > Civilization > American influences
• Liberia > Social conditions
• Liberia > History > 1847-1944
• Liberia > History > 1944-1971
• Liberia > Politics and government

Note

• Photographs transferred to Photographs and Prints Division.

Source (note)

• Phelps-Stokes Fund

Biography (note)

• The New-York State Colonization Society was organized in 1829 to aid the American Colonization Society to colonize free blacks in Africa; subsequently the New-York State Colonization Society was reorganized and assisted those who offered to emigrate to Liberia. Beginning in the late nineteenth century the society supported educational and health related institutions in Liberia and funded scholarships.

Processing Action (note)

• Accessioned
• Cataloged

Call Number

Sc MG 347

OCLC

NYPW95-A179

Author

New-York State Colonization Society.

Title

New York State Colonization Society Records 1849-1968.

Biography

The New-York State Colonization Society was organized in 1829 to aid the American Colonization Society to colonize free blacks in Africa; subsequently the New-York State Colonization Society was reorganized and assisted those who offered to emigrate to Liberia. Beginning in the late nineteenth century the society supported educational and health related institutions in Liberia and funded scholarships.

Some of the organizations and institutions funded are: Liberia College, Booker Washington Agricultural and Industrial Institute (modelled after Tuskegee Institute), Cuttington College and Divinity School, Samuel Grimes Maternity and Child Welfare Center and Mount Coffee Experimental Farm. The Colonization Society also granted scholarships to Liberian men seeking advanced training in skills useful to Liberia.

The New-York State Colonization Society was dissolved in 1968 and its assets transferred to the Phelps-Stokes Fund, a foundation sharing similar purposes.

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Research Call Number

Sc MG 347