STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF MISSOURI RESEARCH CENTER-ST. LOUIS
UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI-ST. LOUIS
Julia Davis gave the Julia Davis Research papers to the Black History Research Project from October 1980 to April 1981for permanent preservation at the Western Historical Manuscript Collection-St. Louis at the University of Missouri- St. Louis. Julia Davis continued to donate material through October 1988.
Julia Davis was born in 1891, attended Sumner High School, Normal School, and Stowe Teachers' College and became an educator and historian of black history in St. Louis. Since 1941, she organized the annual Negro history exhibit at the St. Louis Public Library. She served on the National Education Association Committee on Teacher Education and Professional Standards, as secretary for the St. Louis branch of the Association For Childhood Education, and was active in other educational organizations. A Branch of the St. Louis Public Library was named in honor of Julia Davis and dedicated on April 24, 1974. She retired as a public school teacher on November 20, 1961. Ms. davis died on April 26, 1993.
The Julia Davis Research Papers document educational and cultural activities of the black community. They include reports, lesson plans, programs, and literature from black educational institutions and biographies and tributes on black educators. Arranged alphabetically.
FOLDER LISTING
BOX 1
1. Central Baptist Church, 1961-1962
2. History of Harris-Stowe State College, 1979
3. Lesson Plans, 1943-1971
4. Missouri State Association of Negro Teachers, 1939-1945
5. Paper on Nellie Salmon by Jay Woodruff, 1977
6. St. Louis Public Library, Julia Davis Fund, 1961
7. St. Louis Public Schools Named for Blacks, 1967
8. Simmons School Graduation Exercises, 1933-1956
9. Sumner High School, 1887-1969
10. Tandy Park Community Center, 1961
11. James Milton Turner, Tribute and Biography, nd.
12. Wheatley School, 1917
13. Dedication of the Julia Davis Branch of the St. Louis Public Library, 1974
BOX 2
14. The St. Louis School Survey Complete Report, Administration, Operation and
Maintenance of School Plant, 1939
15. Julia Davis' Remarks to the Board of Education on the 150th Anniversary of St. Louis
Public Schools, March 27, 1988; Remarks to the Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority at the
42nd International Boule in St. Louis, August 2-7, 1988
Biographical Sketch of Isaac Scott Hathaway by Julia Davis, 1988
Afro-American History Month Calendar with a profile on John Berry Meachum, February 1988
INDEX
Central Baptist Church, f. 1
Davis, Julia, f. 1-18
Desegregation, School, f. 14
Douglass Elementary School, f. 5
Education, f. 1-18
Hathaway, Isaac Scott, f. 18
Harris Teachers College, f. 2
Harris-Stowe State College, f. 2
Missouri State Asscociation of Negro Teachers, f. 4
Peck, John Mason, f. 1
Salmon, Nellie G. f. 5
Simmons School, f. 8
Sumner High School, f. 9
St. Louis Public Schools, f. 14
Turner, James Milton, f. 11
Webster Groves, MO, f. 5
Wheatly School, f. 12
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