Maryland State Archives

Box 1: msa_sc_5774_1 (scanning work order MSA_SC5458_51_3072)

1942: W.A.C. Hughes, A. B. Koger, and Linwood Koger, detail from NAACP photograph

Collection Dates: 1900's-1970's
Collection Description: Various materials compiled by A. Briscoe Koger:

Pamphlets on religious history in Maryland (especially Baptist church history), church programs, Koger family history including manuscripts, race relations in Maryland, history of lynching in Maryland, drafts of novels, poetry, treatises correspondence (H. Frisby) and some photographs.

Images scanned in box order as received from the Banneker Douglass Museum.
Medium: Electronic

Box Inventories are as scanned by the Maryland State Archives and are linked to searchable pdfs. Citations to these pds are the url of the pdf followed by the pdf page referenced. For example: http://msa.maryland.gov/megafile/msa/speccol/sc5300/sc5339/000219/000000/000001/restricted/msa_sc5774_1_1.pdf#page=10 is the citation to be used in referencing page 10 of the first item in box 1 of the Koger Collection.

34 Items

1. Who's Who Among Negro Lawyers, American Bar Association, 1945

2. Constitution, General Laws and By-Laws of the Supreme Grand Tabernacle of the Order of the Galilean Fishermen of Baltimore City, 1911

3. Constitution and By-Laws of Ruth Lodge No. 7, G.U.O.B. and S. of Good Hope of America, 1919

4. General Laws and By-Laws of the Grand Lodge of the Grand United Order of Brothers and Sisters of Good Hope of America for Government of Subordinate Lodges, 1929

5. Religious Education is the Evolution of these (10) Powers Into a Godly Self-Expression In Service to Humanity, c. 1927

6. Where are the Blind?, date unknown

7. God Alone is Great, 1940

8. The Negro in America, by Maxwell Stewart, c. 1940

9. Four Lincoln University Poets, 1930

10. Archibald H. Grimke, c. 1930

11. Education, And the Influence of Religions in Africa: Past, Present and Future, c. 1945, 2 copies

12. Subordinate Ritual First of White Degree of the Grand United Order of Fishermen of Galilee of Eastern and Western Hemispheres, 1904

13. The Founding of South Carolina's State College for Negroes, c. 1952, 2 copies

14. A Decade of Advancement 1921-1931: Supreme Liberty Life Insurance Company, c. 1931

15. A Gateway to Opportunity and Service: Lincoln University, c.1931

16. Lynching: America's National Disgrace, by James Weldon Johnson, 1924

17. What the African Orthodox Church Stands For : "12 Reasons Why You Should Join," date unknown

18. The Negro Challenges Christianity, date unknown

19. The Negro Church in Rural Virginia, 1930

20. Racial Intermarriage in the United States, by George S. Shuyler, 1929

21. The Negro Factor in the History of the World: Remarks of Hon. Arthur W. Mitchell of Illinois in the House of Representatives, 1940

22. An Appeal to the Nation for the Rights of the Negro: Speach of Hon. Arthur W. Mitchell of Illinois in the House of Representatives, 1940, 2 copies

23. Excerpt from "Is the Fifteenth Amendment Void?," pgs. 171-193, Harvard Law Review, date unknown

24. Seventh Annual Adress to the Mount bethel Baptist, c. 1940

25. Fiscal Digest of the State of Maryland For the Fiscal Year, 1974

26. Letters/Correspondence, c. 1930s-1960s (est. 100 pieces)

27. Miscellaneous papers, c. 1960s-1980s (est. 40 pieces)

28. A.B. Koger's Protest Letters and Papers, speeches, c. 1954?

29. Ignatius Juvenile #11, treasury logs, 1920s

30. Good Hope Hall Queen of Sheba No. 28, letters and minutes, 1910s

31. Good Hope Naomi Lodge #19, treasury ledger(loose)

32. Good Hope Hall Receipts

33. Newspaper Clippings (est. 10 pieces)

34. State Roads Commission "Things That Have Never Before Happened in Maryland"

Box 2: msaref 5458-51-3113
Box 3: msaref 5458-51-3135
Box 4: msaref 5458-51-3170
Box 5: msaref 5458-51-3078
Box 6: msaref 5458-51-3171
Box 7: msaref 5458-51-3201
Box 8: msaref 5458-51-3225
Box 9: msaref 5458-51-3226
Box 10: msaref 5458-51-3274
Box 11a: msaref 5458-51-3395
Box 11b: msaref 5458-51-3468
Box 1a: msaref 5458-51-3594
Box 2a: msaref 5458-51-3593
Box 3a: msaref 5458-51-3616
Box 4a: msaref 5458-51-3628
Box 5a: msaref 5458-51-3632
Box 6a: msaref 5458-51-3635
Box 7a: msaref 5458-51-3637
Box 8a: msaref 5458-51-3638

BOARD OF STATE CANVASSERS (Election Returns) Results for the House of Delegates race for the 5th legislative district, 11/06/1934, MdHR 12552-229 [MSA S63-81, 2/50/1/71]

"Citizens Battle Speedway Plan." Baltimore Afro American 21 February 1948. (Source: Scrapbook page from the private collection of Michael Mitchell.)

Trial court records:

BALTIMORE CITY CIRCUIT COURT NO. 2 (Equity Docket A) Chissell, et al. v. Mayor and City Council, 1948, Liber 57A, p. 297, case no. 29495A [MSA T996-58, 1/40/10/51]

BALTIMORE CITY CIRCUIT COURT NO. 2 (Equity Papers A) Chissell, et al. v. Mayor and City Council, 1948, box no. 26, case no. 29495A [MSA T56-2392, 3/25/1/46]
Part 1 Part 2

Appellate court records:

COURT OF APPEALS (Opinions) Chissell, et al. v. Mayor and City Council, 1949, October Term, no. 9, MdHR 11,518-1 [MSA S393-267, 01/66/06/017]

COURT OF APPEALS (Records and Briefs) Chissell, et al. v. Mayor and City Council, 1949, October Term, no. 9 [MSA S1799-1267, 01/27/03/064]

COURT OF APPEALS (Miscellaneous Papers) Chissell, et al. v. Mayor and City Council, 1949, October Term, no. 9, MdHR 11,484-1 [MSA S397-123, 01/65/08/017]

Baltimore City Archives records:

Baltimore City Law Department, case files, R. Garland Chissell et al. vs. Mayor and City Council, Bill to restrain enforcement of ordinance 169, 1948- Druid Hill Ave. & McCulloh Street- one way streets, box no. 809, file no. 82736A [MSA BRG13-2-49-1, BC/30/15/043].

Baltimore City Law Department, case files, R. Garland Chissell et al. vs. Mayor and City Council, Bill to restrain enforcement of ordinance 169, 1948- Druid Hill Ave. & McCulloh Street- one way streets, box no. 809, file no. 82736B [MSA BRG13-2-49-1, BC/30/15/043].

Baltimore City Law Department, case files, R. Garland Chissell et al. vs. Mayor and City Council, Bill to restrain enforcement of ordinance 169, 1948- Druid Hill Ave. & McCulloh Street- one way streets, box no. 810, file no. 82736C [MSA BRG13-2-49-2, BC/30/15/044].

See also R. Garland Chissell, et al v. Mayor and City Council of Baltimore Papers Collection, MSA SC 5905.

Scanned as msaref 5458-51-3808

This research edition of  The Crisis is taken from the circulating microfilm of the Enoch Pratt Free Library and is provided in ebook format for  personal research and educational purposes only.  It is not to be reproduced or distributed for commercial  use without  the permission of the copyright holder.   The Enoch Pratt Free Library catalog entry for the microfilm:

The Crisis
    Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963

searchable PDF of the 1930-1939 Annual Reports, Enoch Pratt Free Library copies [large file: 166MB]

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