Melvin B. Tolson and Liberia - From the Archives

From the

Melvin B. Tolson Archives

at the Library of Congress

Washington D.C.

Melvin
B. Tolson

and
Liberia

Liberia today

________

February,
1954

Vol. 3, No. 3.

The
cover pictures Tolson

presenting a copy of “Libretto

for the Republic of Liberia”

to Ambassador Simpson for

transmittal to President William

V. S. Tubman in the presence of

Dr. Mordecai Johnson, President

of Howard University, Dr. L. L.

Harrison, President of Langston

University, Oklahoma, and Dr.

Jacob L. Reddix, President of

Jackson College, Mississippi,

during a tea that was held at the Liberian Embassy,
Jan. 11, 1954.

Mimeograph copy of the Ambassador of Liberia’s address

admitting Tolson to the Knighthood of the Order of the
Star of Africa

The
Liberian Centennial

from The Black Dispatch December 28, 1946

Liberia Decorates Three Americans

by Judith Martin

November 20, 1965 (handwritten in margin)

The Washington Post

Dust
Bowl Theater premiere of NO EXIT

dedicated to Liberian Ambassador Clarence L.
Simpson

click here for the performance program of NO
EXIT

Invitation to a Garden Party

from the President and Mrs. Tubman

January 6, 1956

Ambassador of Liberia’s invitation to cocktails

in Mamba Point, Monrovia January 8, 1956

and

an invitation to Liberia’s 113th Anniversary
Celebration

in D.C. (1960 according to a hand notation)

Invitation to witness the Inaugural Ceremonies

of President-Elect William V. S. Tubman

and Vice President-Elect William R. Tolbert, Jr.

of the Republic of Liberia

January 2, 1956