Box F.21

Scope and Contents

Note on original folder reads "Sales Associate Mal Sherman, Realtor"

Scope and Contents Coverage includes writing and photography by Herbert M. Frisby while writing for the AFRO during World War II, covering the arctic front. Additional photographs, clippings, correspondence, and printed material document his own career as an arctic explorer and a teacher as well as his decades-long efforts to have Matthew Henson recognized for his achievement as the first African American man to reach the North Pole with Admiral Peary in 1909. Photographs of family include his wife and child,...