Gift of Juanita Stroud Martin, 2023-2026
Finding aid by Jessy Randall, 2023, updated 2026.

The Stroud Family of this collection are:
Kimball Dolphus Stroud, Lulu Magee Stroud
and their eleven children:
Kimbal (1904-1947)
Albert Ben (1906-1977)
Kelly/Kelley Dolphus (1907-1975), CC class of 1931, Phi Beta Kappa
Effie (1909-1994), CC class of 1931, Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa (inducted 2024)
Tandy (1911-1993), attended CC 1928-1930
Jack (1913-1984), attended CC?
James (1915-1966)
Lu Lu (1917-2006)
Nina (1919-1994), CC master’s degree?
Rosa (1921-2005), CC class of 1943
Bobby (1924-1972), attended CC 1942-1944
(see Juanita Stroud Martin’s book A Taste of Life for more family information)

Box 1

Fd 1 Kelly Dolphus Stroud’s manuscripts for a planned memoir, most written in third person. Some handwritten, some typed, some photocopies, 1-7 pages per chapter. Undated, probably written in the early 1970s. With a letter from “Marilyn/Henry,” August 9, 1974, saying “These are vignettes Daddy has been writing,” and a letter from donor Juanita Stroud, 2023.

Fd 2 Kelly Dolphus Stroud reference file, mostly photocopies. Includes CC transcript; clippings; 1992 letter from the Colorado Springs Pioneers Museum acknowledging gift of Stroud photographs, scrapbooks; 7 handwritten letters and cards from KDS to his daughter Juanita, 1953-1957 and undated; handwritten letter from KDS to Inez Hunt, July 10, 1971; “Plans for Use of Julius Rosenwald Fellowship”; thesis, in Spanish: “Origen de la Raza Negra in America”; two letters from KDS to Inez Hunt, June 28 and July 10, 1971; Harvard University certificate of admission 1925; program, 2006 CC Athletic Hall of Fame induction of KDS; “Kelly Dolphus Stroud Legend Magnolia” information;

Fd 3 Effie Evelyn Stroud Frazier reference file, mostly photocopies. Includes CC transcript; clippings; Phi Beta Kappa posthumous induction; transcription of CC Oral History Interview.

Fd 4 Stroud Family reference file, mostly photocopies. Includes family trees; CC transcripts; clippings;  Lulu Stroud, “The Strouds Celebrate Their Silver Wedding,” The Crisis, July 1929; four DVDs: Interview of Nina Stroud (first Black school teacher in Colorado Springs) by Welvin Stroud (son of Tandy Stroud).

Published materials, reports, etc.:

J. H. Magee, The Night of Affliction and Morning of Recovery: An Autobiography. Cincinnati: the author, 1873. 173 pages. Photocopy.

Dorothy Rehm, “The Negro in Colorado Springs,” 1929. 11 pages. Photocopy.

Albert Ben Stroud, “Resurrection Dawn: An Easter Service,” 1948. 14 pages.

Tandy L. Stroud, “Daddy’s Thoughts and Writings,” [1993?]. Collected by Welvin Stroud, son of Tandy L. Stroud. Approx. 30 pages.
 
Jack C. Stroud, From Love and Victory to Defeat and Sorrow, Poetry Verse Story and Song, Like It Is and Like It Was. Colorado Springs: Pollard Retirement Counseling Service, 1981. 156 pages.

Purchase (not part of gift): Juanita Stroud Martin’s self-published book A Taste of Life: Prisms – Through a Glass Darkly: The K.D. and Lulu Magee Stroud Family Story, 2022. 269 pages.

Box 2-3 STROUD FAMILY NEWSLETTERS 1958-1977
These newsletters were compiled and sent by Albert Ben Stroud of California to:
Nina Pellerin, Berkeley, California
K. Dolphus Stroud, Portland, Oregon
Constance Lowry, Chicago, Illinois
Lu Lu Pollard, Richmond, California
Mrs. Effie Frazier, Riverdale, New York
Marilyn Turner, Hayward, California
Maude and Billy Goffman, Denver, Colorado
Mrs. Louise Brooks, Milpitas, California
Mable Fields, St. Louis, Missouri
Welvin Stroud, Menlo Park, California
Mrs. Bobby Nelson, Colorado Springs, Colorado
A.C. Gillespie, Sacramento, California
James Hagerman Stroud, San Diego, California
Jack C. Stroud, Los Angeles, California
Tandy Stroud, Hayward, California
Alfred Stroud, Detroit, Michigan
(this list is from the January 20, 1966 newsletter; other newsletters have shorter lists)

Box 2: notes on the newsletters by Juanita Martin; newsletters 1958-1966
Box 3: newsletters 1966-1977

Boxes 4-7: DVD recordings of weekly television programs by Juanita and Greg Martin for Channel 4 and Comcast Channel 17 (the library channel) for about 25 years (1992-2003?). These were "community edifying" programs, including some about the Strouds. Also included, DVD recordings of the annual African American Youth Leadership Program, which took place on the Colorado College campus each March. Contact tuttspec@coloradocollege.edu for the complete list.

Box 8: Stroud Family Calendars, 1985-1995 and 2021, with birthday information, photos, and brief biographies of family members.