Reaping a Greater Harvest: African Americans, the Extension Service, and Rural Reform in Jim Crow Texas

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195 NOTES ABBREVIATIONS A&M President’s Records Texas A&M University President’s Office Records, Cushing Memorial Library and Archives, Texas A&M University, College Station. AHC Austin History Center, Austin, Tex. Annual Reports Annual Narrative and Statistical Reports of the Cooperative Extension Work Demonstration Program, Federal Extension Service, Record Group 33, National Archives and Records Administration, Microfilm Series (T-845-T-895), Texas (1909– 45), T-890. Abbreviated in text as Annual Reports, state, year, reel number, T number. Agents completed these reports to document activities in their county and submitted them to the Negro state leader, who submitted them to TAEX headquarters. TAEX administrators submitted them to FES officials. The reports for all states were microfilmed in 1951 and destroyed. All 182 Texas reels are housed at Texas Agricultural Extension Service headquarters, Texas A&M University, College Station. Brown Papers Marshall Vernon Brown, Correspondence, 1941–61, Prairie View A&M University Archives, Prairie View, Tex. BTW Papers Louis R. Harlan and Raymond W. Smock, eds. The Booker T. Washington Papers, 14 vols. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1972–89. BU The Texas Collection, Baylor University, Waco, Tex. CAH Center for American History, University of Texas, Austin. CC Commissioners’ Court Minutes. Abbreviated in text as county, date, book, page. Conner Papers George S. and Jeffie O. A. Conner Papers, The Texas Collection , Baylor University, Waco, Tex. David Papers William Cullen David Papers, 1937–47, 1951–59. Prairie View A&M University Archives, Prairie View, Tex. ES, RG 33, NA Records of the Federal Extension Service, Record Group 33, National Archives and Records Administration II, College Park, Md. FES Photos NA Photographs, Federal Extension Service, S-series (1920–54) and SC-series (1920–45). National Archives and Records Administration II, College Park, Md. FHA, RG 96, Farmers’ Home Administration, Record Group 96, National NA-FW Archives and Records Administration, Southwest Region, Fort Worth, Tex. FSA, RG 96, NA Farmers’ Home Administration and Predecessor Agencies [Farm Security Administration], National Archives and Records Administration II, College Park, Md. NA-FW National Archives and Records Administration, Southwest Region, Fort Worth, Tex. NARA II National Archives and Records Administration II, College Park, Md. Negro Division Negro Division of the Texas Agricultural Extension Service. OSA, RG 16, NA Records of the Office of the Secretary of Agriculture, Record Group 16, National Archives and Records Administration II, College Park, Md. PV University Archives, John C. Coleman Library, Prairie View A&M University, Prairie View, Tex. SCFP Smith-Cobb Family Papers, The Texas Collection, Baylor University, Waco, Tex. SHRLRC Sam Houston Regional Library and Research Center of the Texas State Library and Archives Commission, Liberty. Seastrunk A&M Dempsey H. Seastrunk file, Cushing Memorial Library and Archives, Texas A&M University, College Station. Seastrunk’s Negro Extension History, comp. D. H. Seastrunk, May History PV 1986, Prairie View A&M University Archives, Prairie View, Tex. 196 notes Staff Minutes Staff Conference Minutes, 1925–40, in Calvin H. Waller Papers, Prairie View A&M University Archives, Prairie View, Tex. TAEX Annual Serial publication, Annual Report of the Extension Service of Report the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas; also titled Texas Extension Work [year], Extension Work in Texas [year], published by Extension Service, A. and M. College of Texas, and U.S. Department of Agriculture, Cooperating. The 1933 and 1934 reports appeared in Extension Service Farm News. TAEX Historical Texas Agricultural Extension Service Historical Files, Files 1914–70, including Farmers’ Cooperative Demonstration Work, Historical Notes and Staff Lists, Personnel Records, and County Files. Some items predate 1914. Cushing Memorial Library and Archives, Texas A&M University, College Station. TAEX-PS Salary Register, Payroll Services, Texas Agricultural Extension Service, College Station. Abbreviated in text as, e.g., SR [Salary Register], county (year), reel, TAEX-PS. TAEX Riverside Texas Agricultural Extension Service Archives, Texas A&M University, Riverside Campus, Bryan. TDA Permanent Records, Texas Department of Agriculture, Austin. TSA Texas State Library and Archives Center, Austin. Waller Calvin Hoffman Waller Correspondence, 1922–42. Prairie Correspondence View A&M University Archives, Prairie View, Tex. Waller Papers Calvin Hoffman Waller Papers, 1880–35. Prairie View A&M University Archives, Prairie View, Tex. INTRODUCTION 1. Elizabeth Sanders, Roots of Rural Reform: Farmers, Workers, and the American State, 1877–1917 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999), 1–4. 2. I use the term Negro when it reflects contemporary use by the U.S. or state governments. For example, Texans segregated African American professionals in the Negro Division of the Texas Agricultural Extension Service. The employees in that division were officially identi...