Box 4

Writings by John Foster Potts, Sr. relating to schools and educational issues.

Writings by John Foster Potts, Sr. relating to schools and educational issues.

Includes information for book; and a photograph of Potts holding the PEA book.

Includes letters and transcripts from Potts time as a graduate student; also includes letter from Harvard Graduate School.

Includes teacher's contract and salary schedule for Potts's position as a Social Science teacher; with other Gary, Indiana documents.

Includes Potts' contracts as principal; photograph, school paper The Magnet, and clippings regarding Potts' speeches to Columbia's African American community organizations, and essay published in The Nation's Schools.

Includes bulletin featuring Potts as Director of Training; speech by Reverend John Alvin Bacoats, President, Benedict College with references to Potts, an alumnus of Benedict.

Regarding Potts's certification as social studies teacher in Columbia, South Carolina and principal in Charleston County School District #20

From J. Strom Thurmond, Governor, regarding Charleston South Carolina House of Representative Lionel K. Legge's endorsement of Potts for the Presidency of the State Agricultural & Mechanical College, in Orangeburg; and Legge's letter to Potts; also includes letter to Potts requesting funding for Memphis Cotton Maker's parade.

Includes outline of Potts acceptance speech's for honorary doctorate, from Pedagogy, Morris College, Sumter, South Carolina; similar honorary degree from Benedict College; essay by the Benedict President; program and speech with photocopied clippings regarding Potts's Doctor of Humane Letters, honorary degree from Virginia Theological Seminary, Alexandria.