[This draft of the finding aid is dated February 21, 2025. It is not yet complete.]

Gift of Juanita Stroud Martin, 2023-2025
Finding aid by Jessy Randall, 2025

The Stroud Family of this collection are:

Kimball Dolphus Stroud, Lulu Magee Stroud

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

Folder 1 Kelly Dolphus Stroud’s manuscripts for a planned memoir, written in third person. Transcribed.

Folder 2 KDS correspondence (photocopies)
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.

Folder 3 Stroud Family reference file, compiled from materials at CC, including, but not limited to:
family tree
CC transcripts
Dorothy Rehm, “The Negro in Colorado Springs,” 1929
Lulu Stroud, “The Strouds Celebrate Their Silver Wedding,” The Crisis, July 1929.
copy of KDS’s thesis, in Spanish: “Origen de la Raza Negra in America.”
Juanita Stroud Martin’s book A Taste of Life: Prisms – Through a Glass Darkly: The K.D. and Lulu Magee Stroud Family Story, 2022.

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 (transcribed); newsletters 1958-1966 (partially transcribed)
Box 3: newsletters 1966-1977

Box 4: 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. List of titles available upon request.