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Chiefly personal and professional correspondence, speeches, journal articles, reminiscences and news clippings of noted educator Chester Coleman Travelstead. Of particular interest are the materials related to his 1955 dismissal from the University of South Carolina owing to his stance on racial integration. Also includes correspondence and diaries of his mother Nelle (Gooch) Travelstead, long-time Western Kentucky University faculty member.
Collection
Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Object Name
Correspondence
Date
1911
Year Range From
1911
Year Range To
2006
Other Number
MSS 281
Subjects
Actors African Americans Art Art education Autographs Certificates Christmas Christmas cards Clubs Clubs --Kentucky --Bowling Green. Depression (Mental state) Depressions Diaries Diplomas Education Elections Erotica Fathers & children Floods Genealogy Integration Leadership Letterheads Liberty Marriage Military life Moon Music Physical education Poetry Race discrimination Race relations Religion Reminiscing Reunions Sailors Schools Science Segregation Segregation Snakes Social life Speeches, address, etc. Steamboats Teachers Teaching World War II, 1939-1945