Box 1
Container
Contains 6 Results:
“The Desegregation of Southwestern Louisiana Institute,” by Joel L. Fletcher III, 2024.
File — Box: 1, Folder: 6
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
This addition to the collection includes handwritten letters from Joel Fletcher, Jr. to his wife, Frances Allen McLees Fletcher during the 1940s and a thank-you note from Dr. Michael Wade to Joel Fletcher III for using the letters for research on his forthcoming book about desegregation in higher education in Louisiana. Also included is correspondence from Joel Fletcher III to UL Lafayette faculty, a student who wrote a thesis about his father, and President Savoie; articles and...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1943 - 2024
Correspondence, 1943-1947
File — Box: 1, Folder: 1
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
This addition to the collection includes handwritten letters from Joel Fletcher, Jr. to his wife, Frances Allen McLees Fletcher during the 1940s and a thank-you note from Dr. Michael Wade to Joel Fletcher III for using the letters for research on his forthcoming book about desegregation in higher education in Louisiana. Also included is correspondence from Joel Fletcher III to UL Lafayette faculty, a student who wrote a thesis about his father, and President Savoie; articles and...
Dates:
Other: 1943-1947
Correspondence, 1948
File — Box: 1, Folder: 2
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
This addition to the collection includes handwritten letters from Joel Fletcher, Jr. to his wife, Frances Allen McLees Fletcher during the 1940s and a thank-you note from Dr. Michael Wade to Joel Fletcher III for using the letters for research on his forthcoming book about desegregation in higher education in Louisiana. Also included is correspondence from Joel Fletcher III to UL Lafayette faculty, a student who wrote a thesis about his father, and President Savoie; articles and...
Dates:
Other: 1948
Correspondence, undated (ca. 1940s)
File — Box: 1, Folder: 3
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
This addition to the collection includes handwritten letters from Joel Fletcher, Jr. to his wife, Frances Allen McLees Fletcher during the 1940s and a thank-you note from Dr. Michael Wade to Joel Fletcher III for using the letters for research on his forthcoming book about desegregation in higher education in Louisiana. Also included is correspondence from Joel Fletcher III to UL Lafayette faculty, a student who wrote a thesis about his father, and President Savoie; articles and...
Dates:
Other: undated (ca. 1940s)
Correspondence, 2015
File — Box: 1, Folder: 4
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
This addition to the collection includes handwritten letters from Joel Fletcher, Jr. to his wife, Frances Allen McLees Fletcher during the 1940s and a thank-you note from Dr. Michael Wade to Joel Fletcher III for using the letters for research on his forthcoming book about desegregation in higher education in Louisiana. Also included is correspondence from Joel Fletcher III to UL Lafayette faculty, a student who wrote a thesis about his father, and President Savoie; articles and...
Dates:
Other: 2015
Miscellaneous documents
File — Box: 1, Folder: 5
Scope and Contents
Includes letters from Joel Fletcher III to UL Lafayette faculty and administrators, to Ruth Anita Foote (graduate student who wrote a thesis about Joel Fletcher, Jr.,) and to Joseph Savoie, President of UL Lafayette; Extension of Remarks by Patrick T. Caffery in the House of Representatives; information on the graduate scholarship endowment agreement between Fletcher and Grambling President Ralph W.E. Jones; and clippings and letter regarding Grambling.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1943 - 2024