{"value"=>"<p>The sub-series for the Tobias years, dating from the November 1946 board meeting to July 1953, also includes Executive Committee and trustees' minutes, general correspondence, and individual board members' correspondence. The minutes reflect the leadership vacuum felt by the board with the death of Jackson Davis in April 1947 and the absence in Washington D. C. and Paris of Isaac Newton Phelps Stokes II, which was not filled until the election of Emory Ross in 1949. They also reflect the continuing debates over the changing nature of the Fund's role in the postwar United States and Africa. In particular, the board voted in November 1947 to discontinue all but a few direct grants to institutions in favor of developing its own projects and seeking funding from government and other foundation sources.</p> <p>Individual trustees' correspondence includes that of such influential Board members as Ralph J. Bunche, Claude A. Barnett, Guy B. Johnson, Henry Townly Heald, Frederick D. Patterson, Liston Pope of Yale Divinity School, Emory Ross, and Isaac Newton Phelps Stokes II. The Barnett and Pope correspondence contains discussions of Liberia and of civil rights issues including Tobias's efforts in 1948 to persuade President Truman to desegregate the armed forces. (Additional Claude A. Barnett correspondence appears in the OFFICE FILES series files under Associated Negro Press.)</p>"}