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

The Stone Work Archives maintains generational documents, academic research, and literature from the personal libraries of our family’s collections of records that helped facilitate the cultural preservation, education, and advancement of African Americans.

Many of the records in the Stone Work Archives are personal gifts to the Peeler, Work, and Stone families. Monroe Work and Florence Work collaborated closely with Booker T. Washington and W. E. B. Du Bois to provide true and reliable facts for their Social and Educational movements across the country.

The branches of historic Black colleges, universities, churches, and organizations share collective roots in the shared experiences of many early black leaders. The Stone Work Archives unifies this shared experience and threads together many of these historically significant moments for African Americans across the Black experience. The Stone Work Archives were carefully preserved by our Grandmother Harriet P. Stone in keeping with her Uncle Monroe Nathan Work’s lessons.

  • 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. Du Bois 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

  • Documents of the Peeler family as part of the First Troop established in the state