Historic Archives of Monroe N. Work, Harriet Peeler Stone, Percy Stone and Family

The Stone Family maintains generational documents and academic research and literature from the personal libraries of their family’s collections of resources that helped facilitate the cultural preservation, promotion, education, and advancement of African Americans.

Many of the records in the Stone Archives are personal gifts to the Peeler, Work, and Stone family. M.N. Work and Florence Work worked closely with Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Dubois to provide true and reliable data for their Civil Rights and Educational movements across the country.

There are many shared roots in the establishment of Historic Black Colleges and Universities, black churches, and organizations built for the advancement of colored people. The archive depicts and threads many historically significant moments for African Americans during the era of the Reconstruction and the Great Migration. The Stone Family Archive was carefully preserved by archivist Harriet P. Stone in keeping with her training from her Uncle Monroe Nathan Work.

  • Percy Stone’s records and books featuring the detailed expansion of Agriculture under his leadership for the State of Georgia.

  • Monroe and Florence Work were powerful forces in the campaign to eradicate lynching, and a number of other organizations sought his advice and support. Behind the scenes, he supplied the data that others like W.E.B. Dubois used to demonstrate the destructive and repressive power of lynching

  • Personal archives of Monroe Nathan Work’s resources and literature.

  • Detailed records, resources, and documents deriving from primary resources gifted to the family by former Savannah State Presidents and Faculty.

  • Silas Peeler married Constance Hendrickson and served as president of Bennett College. Silas helped expand programs for hire education and served on the Board for University. While President, he worked closely with Booker T. Washington and started an agricultural program on the campus.

  • Booker T. Washington called for M.N. Work to establish the Department of Records and Research while they were working in Savannah. The archives reflect the personal journey and connections of the Work and Stone family to support the mission to advance research and resources for Black People.

  • Records from H.P. Stone’s graduate research that helped develop the federal Headstart program. H.P. Stone become the first Headstart Director in Savannah to expand the footprint into several schools.

  • Percy Stone and Harriet Stone were graduates of Hampton University. They carried and supported the Hampton Legacy at every institution they served. The archives detail personal accounts of their journeys in higher education.

  • Personal records from Alma Stone Williams as she was selected to become the first African American to attend a Southern White College after completing her degree at Spelman University

  • Personal gifts, records,and memoirs from working with Booker T. Washington from Savannah to Tuskegee to North Carolina

  • Personal records and gifts from working with W.E.B. Dubois to establish the reliable data of the progress and plight of Black People.

  • Harriet Peeler Stone is one of the Charter Members of Savannah’s Chapter of Jack and Jill of America. There are several records and photographs taken at the Historic Stone Home of activities that took place on the Stone Property

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