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Civil rights activist, publisher, author, editor, and printer, of Washington, D.C. Contains correspondence, diaries (13 v.), mss. of writings, newspaper columns by Murray, financial papers, clippings, and other papers. Contains letters from William Monroe Trotter, John Hope, Horace Bumstead, John Waldron, and Oswald Garrison Villard. Also includes correspondence related to Murray's affiliation with The Horizon and his research for his books. Much of the collection relates to Murray's book, Emancipation and the Freed in American Sculpture (1916) and to The Horizon: A Journal of the Color Line, which he edited. Includes material relating to the Niagara Movement, and diary (1 v.) of Murray's wife, Laura Hamilton Murray. |
