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This is a "Confidential Report on Candidate for Fellowship" form that includes a typed letter from Alain Locke in support of Margaret Walker's fellowship application. Locke's signature appears at the bottom of the page in black ink.

In this Western Union telegram, Margaret Walker informs the Rosenwald Fund that she "will accept $1800 for creative writing."

This plan of work was included in Margaret Walker's 1944 Rosenwald fellowship application. It states her intent to complete revisions on a manuscript of poetry, spend tie doing research to write a historical novel based on the lives of African…

A carbon copy of Walker's typed application for a Rosenwald fellowship to revise a book of poetry and start work on a historical novel. The form includes personal data, undergraduate and graduate work, work experience, accomplishments, publications,…

This is the application photo included in Margaret Walker's dossier for the Rosenwald fellowship in 1944.

A black and white photo of Burke posing with her plaque of Franklin D. Roosevelt that she was commissioned to complete. The caption below the image states that the plaque was unveiled in Washington D.C. and was to be housed in the lobby of the…

A carbon copy of Burke's typed application for a Rosenwald fellowship to "make an intensive study of North American Forest Woods, particularly adaptable to sculpture; to photograph and compile in bound form results of research in wood and stone." The…

This is a "Confidential Report on Candidate for Fellowship" form that includes a typed letter from Albert Einstein in support of Selma Burke's fellowship application. Einstein's signature appears at the bottom of the page in green ink.

Typed letters of reference in support of Selma Burke's 1940 Rosenwald fellowship application