MS01.01.03.B02.F23.098

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of the United Church of Christ in New York
City to be used in a College Museum
Collaborative Program for the six Black
College of the South under the jurisdiction of the
American Missionary Association.

The idea of the American Missionary
Association, the only continuing abolishionist
organization of its kind in the Nation,
administering a program for "students
of Negro origin" appealed to Brady. Her
own interest in the Native Americans of
Sitka, Alaska and the pioneering work that her
brother engaged in at the Sheldon Jackson Jr. College.
There provided the picture Brady needed
to ascertain the success of the museum
Collabrative Program at the American Missionary Assocation
Brady took this action after retiring from the Foundation
Back her contact with adminstration
of our programs at Fisk, Tailadega
and Howard remained active even after
her retirement.

Bradys interest in art of Willima H. Johnson
is an important story in the history of modern
American art.

41. The six predominantly Black Colleges of the American Missionary Association
are Dillard University in New Orleans; Fisk University in Nashville; Houston- Tillitson College in Austin; LeMoyne-Owens College, Memphis; Talladega College, Talladega, Alabama and Tougaloo College in
Tougaloo, Mississippi. The American Missionary Association assigned
"The Toussaint L'Ouverture Series" and the remaining 140 works
from the Harmon foundation to the Amistad Research Center,
now at Tulane University in New Orleans, to administer in 1979.

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