Professional Papers

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{"value"=>"<p>The <span class=\"emph\">PROFESSIONAL</span>series encompasses his teaching career at Howard University and at the Lycée Classique de Donka in Guinea, and the administrative files from the Secretariat of the Encyclopedia Africana Project. The files on Howard University include his letters of appointment and resignation, lecture notes, bibliographies and class syllabi, and letters and articles he wrote as Secretary of the Howard University Teachers Union which he helped found in 1938.</p> <p>The Guinea file contains correspondence related to his appointment and his trip there, miscellaneous printed matter, and the text of a lecture on Richard Wright given by Hunton in Conakry. Hunton's correspondence with Kwame Nkrumah (1962-1970) and a substantial clipping file on the latter can be found in the Ghana subseries. Administrative files of the Encyclopedia Africana Project which constitute the bulk of this subseries contain Hunton's personnel records, correspondence with Dr. J. Yanney-Wilson, Secretary of the Ghana Academy of Sciences, with area editors and Africanist scholars, as well as minutes, administrative reports and memoranda.</p>"}
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  1. Howard University [3/1]
  2. Guinea
  3. Ghana - Encyclopedia Africana Secretariat [5/1]