====== Resources for Du Bois Metadata ======

This page is for a list of key resources that will help the description process.

Essential controlled vocabularies

  * **Encoded authorities**: R:\dubois_projects\dubois_digitization\metadata\authorities\ | Open up these three files in oXygen and copy and paste into your records as needed.

Research Tools
  * {{:mums312_full.pdf|Full Du Bois Finding Aid with Microfilm Reel and Frame Numbers}}
  * [[MODS Search]] | Search in-process and old MODS records
  * [[http://credo.library.umass.edu | Credo]]
  * [[http://www.ancestrylibrary.com/default.aspx | Ancestry.com: for names and family histories]]
  * [[http://www.library.umass.edu/spcoll/collections/dubois/chronology.htm | Du Bois: A Chronology]]
  * [[http://www.library.umass.edu/spcoll/duboistimeline/ | Du Bois: A Timeline]]
  * [[http://books.google.com/books?id=NFoEAAAAMBAJ&source=gbs_navlinks_s| Digitized copies of The Crisis on Google Books]]
  * [[http://fax.libs.uga.edu/E185x5xA881p/aupmenu.html | Digitized copies of The Atlanta University Publications]]
  * [[http://search.proquest.com/advanced?username=IPAUTO&password=IPAUTO&selectids=hnpnewyorktimes | The New York Times]]
  * [[http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/ | Chronicling America: Historical Newspapers at the LOC]]
  * [[http://www.lexisnexis.com/documents/academic/upa_cis/1448_PapersNAACPPart16SerA.pdf | Guide to the papers of the NAACP]]

===== Du Bois quick facts===== 

Regarding the N.A.A.C.P.:

  * [[http://www.library.umass.edu/wikis/freewilly/lib/exe/fetch.php?cache=&media=naacp_administrative_plan.jpg|{{N.A.A.C.P. Administrative Plan, 1919}}]]

  * [[http://www.library.umass.edu/wikis/freewilly/lib/exe/fetch.php?cache=&media=whoswho_naacp.jpg|{{Who's Who among the Officers of the N.A.A.C.P., 1918}}]]

Du Bois Secretaries/Crisis Business Managers:

  *  Inez V. Cantey - secretary at Atlanta University circa 1902

  *  Madeline G. Allison (MGA) - circa early 1920s

  *  Lulu Burton (LFB or lb)

  *  John Preston Davis (JPD)- 1926

  *  Irene Diggs (ID)

  *  Kathleen Foss (KF) - circa mid 1920s

  *  Pocahontas Foster (PF) - circa mid 1920s

  *  Marvel K. Jackson (MKJ) - circa mid 1920s.  authority record is Marvel Cooke.

  *  Hugh Smythe (HS) 

  *  George Streator (GS) Business Manager of The Crisis

  *  Pierce McNeil Thompson (PMT) - business manager of The Crisis circa late 20s

  *  Daisy Wilson (DW) -circa mid 1920s

  *  Thomas J. Calloway (TJC) -Crisis business manager circa late 20s