| Scope and content |
Correspondence, periodicals, newspaper clippings, and photographs concern Brooks' activities as a missionary to Nigeria. Correspondence topics include the Idi Aba Girls' School, nursing duties, a local leper colony, diseases that plagued Nigerians, and material needs of the infirmary. She also describes her teaching duties, schedules, exams, inspections by British educational authorities, the introduction of television into Nigeria, the local Nigerian children she supported, and various Nigerian customs. Travel accounts describe transatlantic travel aboard the S. S. TEMERAIRE, Casablanca and Accra, vacations in British rest-houses, and a motor trip through Nigeria. Political commentary includes discussions of Abeokutans' dissension over the taxation policies of their mayor, the devaluation of the British pound, friction among missionaries as a result of government assistance to schools, the presidential election of 1952, and the Nigerian election for independence. Also includes issues of the Nigerian Baptist, the Little Commission, and the World Digest; church bulletins, which report on Brooks' speaking engagements in the United States; newspaper clippings; photographs; and a pictorial calendar of Nigeria. |
| Access restriction | No access restrictions. |
| Cite as |
Ernelle Brooks Papers (#341), Special Collections Department, J. Y. Joyner Library, East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina, USA. |
| Terms of use | Literary rights to specific documents are retained by the authors or their descendants in accordance with U.S. copyright law. |
| Acquisitions source |
Joyner- Gift of Dr. Nathan C. Brooks. |
| Biographical note | Lacy Ernelle Brooks (1916-1976), native of Greenville, N.C., attended Mars Hill College and East Carolina Teachers College. She studied nursing at Johns Hopkins, Baltimore, and subsequently became a supervisor of public health nursing in Alexandria, Va. The Baptist Foreign Mission Board appointed Brooks as a nursing missionary in the Idi Aba Baptist Girls' School in Abeokuta, Nigeria, in 1947. Brooks taught and practiced nursing at Idi Aba until 1960. |
