Administrative Information
Acquisition Information
The papers of the Moton family include papers of Robert Russa Moton and his wife, Jennie Dee Booth Moton, African-American educators and community leaders, and their daughter, Charlotte Moton Hubbard. The papers were donated to the Library of Congress by the Motons' grandson Frederick Douglass Patterson II in 1988, with additional material presented by Charlotte Moton Hubbard in 1991 and 1993. Robert Russa Moton's speech at the dedication of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., was transferred from the Miscellaneous Manuscripts Collection.
Processing History
The papers of the Moton family were arranged and described in 1991 by Michael Spangler. Additional material was incorporated into the collection in 1996. The finding aid was updated in 2024 by Maria Farmer as part of a division-wide remediation project by the Inclusive Description Working Group.
Transfers
Items have been transferred from the Manuscript Division to other custodial divisions of the Library. Photographs have been transferred to the Prints and Photographs Division. A map has been transferred to the Geography and Map Division. All transfers are identified in these divisions as part of the Moton Family Papers.
Related Material
Together with the Manuscript Division's Booker T. Washington Papers and Frederick D. Patterson Papers, the Moton Family Papers form a significant body of research material relating to the first three leaders of Tuskegee Institute from its establishment in 1881 until Patterson's retirement in 1953. Other collections that contain Moton family papers include the Nannie Helen Burroughs Papers, the Records of the National Urban League (Southern Regional Office), the George Foster Peabody Papers, and the Booker T. Washington Papers. Papers related to Robert Russa Moton's service at Hampton Institute are in the Hampton Archives at the Collis P. Huntington Memorial Library, Hampton University, Hampton, Virginia. Records concerning his presidency at Tuskegee are in the Robert Russa Moton Papers, Hollis Burke Frissell Library, Tuskegee Institute, Tuskegee, Alabama.
Online Content
Selected documents from the Robert Russa Moton Papers in the Moton Family Papers are available on the Library of Congress website at https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms998025.001.
Preferred Citation
Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: Container number, Moton family papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.