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J. B. Matthews Papers, 1862-1986 and undated

Title: J. B. Matthews Papers, 1862-1986 and undated

J. B. Matthews (1894-1966) was a Methodist missionary, college professor, author, lecturer, and prominent conservative spokesman. Collection consists of correspondence, memoranda, statements, speeches, reprints, clippings, broadsides, newsletters, press releases, petitions, and other printed material, chiefly 1930-1969. The principal focus of the collection relates to the work and research of Matthews and his associates in the area of anti-communism, particularly in connection with Matthews' role as Director of Research for the Special Committee on Un-American Activities of the U.S. House of Representatives (1938-1945), Executive Director of the Permanent Subcommittee on Government Operations of the U.S. Senate (1953), and a consultant for John A. Clements Associates. Many of the organizations, newspapers, periodicals, and persons represented in the collection have various leftist, socialist, communist, radical, or pacifist (especially anti-Vietnam War) connections.Individuals represented in the files include Ralph Abernathy, Bella Abzug, Roy Cohn, John Foster Dulles, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Michael Harrington, Alger Hiss, J. Edgar Hoover, Jesse Jackson, John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Coretta Scott King, Joseph Lash, Joseph McCarthy, Carl McIntire, Benjamin Mandel, Richard Nixon, Aristotle Onassis, Lee Harvey Oswald, Linus Pauling, Drew Pearson, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Louis Untermeyer.

ArchivalResource: 479 Linear Feet; 307,000 Items

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Eugene Gordon papers, 1927-1972

Title: Eugene Gordon papers 1927-1972

The collection ranges from 1927 to 1972 and consists of correspondence, manuscripts and printed matter. Gordon's writings, the bulk of the collection, are organized into three categories: Autobiographical, Fiction and Nonfiction. The autobiographical narratives range from stories of growing up black in New Orleans and rural Georgia to an enemy encounter during World War I in France. There is also a detailed diary of a writing retreat in the New Hampshire White Mountains in 1933. His fiction work includes a compilation of short stories and a complete draft of his novel "Picnic in Court House Square." The nonfiction work ranges from his 1920s articles on the black press and a series of travel articles written in the Soviet Union in the 1930s, to later articles and essays on integration, the columnist George Schuyler and the civil rights movement. "Black Women's Long Tough Course: from 'dat gal' Carline to This Woman Angela," written in defense of Angela Davis in 1972 was his last major essay.

ArchivalResource: 4.2 lin. ft.

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William Stanley Braithwaite Papers, 1916-1962

Title: William Stanley Braithwaite Papers 1916-1962

Papers of the African-American poet, author, critic. Correspondence, and manuscripts by Braithwaite and others. Notable correspondents include Arna Bontemps, Louis Bromfield, Sterling Brown, Marie Bullock, Witter Bynner, Cass Canfield, Bliss Carman, Bennet Cerf, Katherine Chapin, James Cozzens, Countee Cullen, Gustav Davidson, W.E.B. DuBois, Kimball Flaccus, Robert Frost, Claire and Nina Gerbaulet, Louis Ginsberg, Hermann Hagedorn, Leigh Hanes, Robert Hillyer, John Holmes, Langston Hughes, Georgia Johnson, MacKinlay Kantor, Joseph Joel Keith, Florence Lennon, Benjamin Mays, David McCord, Marianne Moore, Maurice Peloubet, Bliss Perry, Minerva Perry, Helen Channing Pollock, Ruby Altizer Roberts, Paul Robeson, Angelo Schmuller, Lulu Schultz, George S. Schuyler, Delmore Schwartz, Eli Siegel, Jules Siegel, Noble Sissle, Chard Powers Smith, Vladimir Sokoloff, Arthur Spingarn, Jesse Stuart, A.M. Sullivan, May Swenson, Ridgely Torrence, Carl Van Vechten, George Sylvester Viereck, Harold Vinal, Booker T. Washington, Robert C. Weaver, John Hall Wheelock, Margaret Widdemer, William Carlos Williams, and Roscoe Wright.

ArchivalResource: 3.5 linear ft.

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M. Moran Weston Papers, 1824-1994

Title: M. Moran Weston Papers, 1824-1994

ArchivalResource: 75 linear ft. (ca. 89.000 items in 179 boxes.

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Weston, M. Moran, 1910-. Papers, 1824-1994.

Title: Papers, 1824-1994.

Correspondence, manuscripts, documents, oral histories, photographs, audio cassettes, and printed material. Family and personal correspondence; materials related to his secondary, college, and university education; materials related to his tenure at the National Council of the Protestant Church; business correspondence of St. Philip's Episcopal Church and the St. Philip's Community Service Council; bulletins of church services; drafts of sermons and speeches, as well as numerous audio-tapes; manuscripts and publications; correspondence related to the construction and on-going maintenance of several senior-citizen and other community housing; correspondence related to various community redevelopment initives and campaigns for affordable housing; materials related to college courses including oral histories for his Black Family Research project; photographs of St. Philip's Church and of activities of the St. Philip's Community Service Council.

ArchivalResource: 75 linear ft. (ca. 89.000 items in 179 boxes.

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Schuyler, George S. (George Samuel), 1895-1977. The reminiscences of George Samuel Schuyler, 1960 [microform].

Title: The reminiscences of George Samuel Schuyler, 1960 [microform].

A transcript of George Samuel Schuyler's oral history interviews with William T. Ingersoll. Schuyler discusses his childhood and education in Syracuse, New York, the National Negro Congress, the March on Washington, and his impressions of prominent political and social figures. Forms part of Columbia University Oral History Collection (Part One).

ArchivalResource: 8 microfiches.

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Arna Bontemps Papers, 1927-1968

Title: Arna Bontemps Papers 1927-1968

Correspondence, manuscript plays, stories, songs, speeches, and book manuscripts and galley proofs.

ArchivalResource: 42 linear ft.

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Eugene Gordon papers, 1927-1972.

Title: Eugene Gordon papers, 1927-1972.

The collection ranges from 1927 to 1972 and consists of correspondence, manuscripts and printed matter. Gordon's writings, the bulk of the collection, are organized into three categories: Autobiographical, Fiction and Nonfiction. The autobiographical narratives range from stories of growing up black in New Orleans and rural Georgia to an enemy encounter during World War I in France. There is also a detailed diary of a writing retreat in the New Hampshire White Mountains in 1933. His fiction work includes a compilation of short stories and a complete draft of his novel "Picnic in Court House Square." The nonfiction work ranges from his 1920s articles on the black press and a series of travel articles written in the Soviet Union in the 1930s, to later articles and essays on integration, the columnist George Schuyler and the civil rights movement. "Black Women's Long Tough Course: from 'dat gal' Carline to This Woman Angela," written in defense of Angela Davis in 1972 was his last major essay.

ArchivalResource: 4.2 lin. ft.

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Schuyler, George S. (George Samuel), 1895-1977. Reminiscences of George Samuel Schuyler : oral history, 1960.

Title: Reminiscences of George Samuel Schuyler : oral history, 1960.

Background, childhood, and education in Syracuse; job discrimination; enlistment United States Army, 1912; military transports, commission, segregation within armed forces; government civil service, 1919; Harlem; Marcus Garvey; THE MESSENGER; PITTSBURGH COURIER; magazine supplement, Chicago; differences among Negro leaders; southern travels; Socialist Party activities; National Association for the Advancement of Colored People; THE CRISIS; Negroes in politics; housing; interracial marriage; Liberia; consumer cooperatives; Ethiopia; American Negroes in World War II; race relations in Latin America; Negro journalism; Negroes and Jews; Negroes and Communist Party; National Negro Congress; March on Washington; impressions of Benjamin Davis, A. Philip Randolph, Chandler Owen, James W. Ivy, James Weldon Johnson, Roy Wilkins, H.L. Mencken, Walter White.

ArchivalResource: Transcript: 723 leaves.Tape: 1 reel.

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Oswald Garrison Villard papers

Title: Oswald Garrison Villard papers

Papers of American author, journalist, editor, and social reformer Oswald Garrison Villard. Includes materials that are unsorted and uncataloged.

ArchivalResource: 37 linear feet (169 boxes and 9 volumes)

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Columbia University Oral History Collection. Collection. 1952-1960.

Title: Collection. 1952-1960.

36 microcards of interviews with men prominent in race relations and civil rights work, taped under the auspices of the Oral History Research Office of Columbia University. Persons interviewed were Will W. Alexander (Dean Albertson, interviewer), 1952, 8 cards; Roger Nash Baldwin (Dr. Harlan B. Phillips, interviewer), 1953-54, 11 cards; William Edward Burghardt Du Bois (William Ingersoll, interviewer), 1960, 2 cards; George Schuyler (William Ingersoll, interviewer), 1960, 8 cards; J. Waties Waring (Dr. Harlan Phillips, interviewer -- 1955 and Louis M. Starr, 1956-57), 5 cards; and Roy Wilkins (William Ingersoll, interviewer), 1960, 2 cards. Included among the numerous subjects of the set were American Civil Liberties Union, American Communist Party, Commission on Interracial Cooperation, Harlem Renaissance, National Urban League, Rosenwald Fund, NAACP, Ku Klux Klan, Rockefeller Foundation, and Universal Negro Improvement Association. Publications represented, among others, were the Crisis, Call, Messenger, and Pittsburgh Courier. Personal names are numerous and among them are the following: Jessie Daniel Ames, Mary McLeod Bethune, Charlotte Hawkins Brown, Mrs. George Haynes, Marcus Garvey, and A. Philip Randolph.

ArchivalResource: 36 Microcards.

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Kornweibel, Theodore. "No crystal stair: Black life and the Messenger, 1917-1928" interviews, 1970-1972.

Title: "No crystal stair: Black life and the Messenger, 1917-1928" interviews, 1970-1972.

The Theodore Kornweibel "No Crystal Stair: Black Life and the Messenger, 1917-1928" Interviews consist of six oral history interviews Kornweibel conducted in 1970-1972 to provide firsthand accounts for his book "No Crystal Stair: Black Life and the "Messenger," 1917-1928," published in 1975. The book examines the political, economic and social alternatives available to black people in the 1920's, including Garveyism, socialism and trade union movements. Interviewees are: Arna Bontemps, James Ivy, Theophilus Lewis, Ernest Rice McKinney, A. Philip Randolph and George S. Schuyler, all of whom either contributed articles to the "Messenger" or were on its board. "The Messenger" was a monthly political magazine published by and for African Americans between 1917 and 1928. It was co-founded in New York City by economist Chandler Owen and labor activist A. Philip Randolph to promote socialist ideology and New Negro strategies for racial progress. The magazine included articles on many of the issues important to African Americans during World War I and the postwar period, and thus helped to strengthen African-American intellectual and political identity in the age of Jim Crow. It also played a critical role in the development of the Harlem Renaissance; after 1920, "The Messenger" featured a greater number of articles about black culture and began to publish rising black writers, featuring poetry, fiction, and literary criticism. The interviewees discuss their role in the "The Messenger" among other related topics. Randolph's extensive interview focuses on his reasons for founding the magazine, its stance against World War I and his personal opposition to the Russian Communist Party because it was "anti-labor in action." Schuyler discusses other staff members as well as the shift, beginning in 1923, in the content of the articles from a radical to a middle class focus.

ArchivalResource: 2 folders

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Small Collections in the James Weldon Johnson collection, 1850-1976

Title: SmallCollections in the James Weldon Johnson collection 1850-1976

Correspondence, writings, memorabilia by andrelating to Romare Bearden; Augusta Bird Courtney; Frederick Douglass;Alexandre Dumas, père and fils; Paul Laurence Dunbar; Rudolph Dunbar; ElsieTaylor DuTrieuille; Jack Flodin; Mifflin Wistar Gibbs; Angelina W. Grimké;Georgia Douglas Johnson; Le Roi Jones; Alain LeRoy Locke; Edgar Mittelholzer;Arthur Alfonso Schomburg; George Samuel Schuyler; Harriet Beecher Stowe; BookerT. Washington; and Frank Yerby.

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George S. Schuyler Papers, 1912-1976.

Title: George S. Schuyler Papers 1912-1976.

Papers of the conservative African-American journalist, author; died 1977. Collection includes correspondence (1916-1968); scrapbooks (1912-1961) which contain Schuyler's newspaper columns, photographs of Schuyler, his wife Josephine, and their daughter Philippa, and articles which he collected on civil rights, race relations and interracial marriage; and published material, including periodical issues which contain articles by Schuyler. Correspondents include Erskine Caldwell, Malcolm Cowley, Nancy Cunard, W.E.B. Du Bois, Amelia Earhart, Ralph Ellison, James Farmer, Eric Hoffer, H.L. Mencken, Alice Dunbar Nelson, Jackie Robinson, Philippa Schuyler, Josephine Schuyler, Phyllis Schafly, Lillian Smith, Carl Van Vechten, Robert Welch, Nathaniel Weyl, Roy Wilkins, and Whitney M. Young.

ArchivalResource: 15.0 linear ft.

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Garvey, Amy Jacques. Amy Garvey memorial collection on Marcus Garvey, 1776-1971.

Title: Amy Garvey memorial collection on Marcus Garvey, 1776-1971.

Collection consists of the papers of Amy Jacques Garvey, the second wife of Marcus Garvey.

ArchivalResource: 9 linear ft.

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William Stanley Braithwaite papers, 1898-1979

Title: William Stanley Braithwaite papers 1898-1979

ArchivalResource: 2 lin. ft. (5 archival boxes)

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Ella Baker papers, 1926-1986

Title: Ella Baker papers 1926-1986

The Ella Baker papers provide a snapshot of Baker's life as an activist and visionary for a variety of progressive organizations in the United States, from the 1930s through the 1980s. Documented here are the organizations and individuals that were central to Baker's network such as George Schulyer, The Young Women's Christian Association, In Friendship, A. Phillip Randolph, and Bayard Rustin. The collection, however, does not document her personal life nor does it fully capture her philosophy or political ideas.

ArchivalResource: 5.5 linear ft. (1 box)

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Braithwaite, William Stanley, 1878-1962. William Stanley Braithwaite papers, 1898-1979.

Title: William Stanley Braithwaite papers, 1898-1979.

The William Stanley Braithwaite Papers consist of family and literary correspondence, writings and printed matter documenting his career as a writer, anthologist and educator. The Personal Papers comprise individual files on Braithwaite and his family, and include biographical and autobiographical sketches, school records, memorial tributes and obituaries, religious notations copied from the Bible and other scholarly texts, and memorabilia of his wife, children and relatives. The Correspondence series is divided into Family and General subseries and is arranged chronologically into incomimg and outgoing files. Correspondents include Arna Bontemps, W.E.B. DuBois, Rufus Clement, Carl Murphy, William Rose Benet, Burton Kline, Joseph Auslander, George Schuyler, Arthur Spingarn, Carl Van Vechten and several publishing concerns. The Alain Locke Memorial file consists of printed matter, eulogies and letters, and includes a March 28, 1912 letter from Booker T. Washington. The Writings series comprises holograph and typescript drafts of Braithwaite's works, both published and unpublished, and selected poems from his anthologies, and an extensive autobiographical essay in which he discusses his relationship with poets he championed: Robert Frost, Amy Lowell and Edwin Arlington Robinson (1956).

ArchivalResource: 2 lin. ft. (5 archival boxes).

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George S. Schuyler Typescript, 1964

Title: George S. Schuyler Typescript 1964

Typescript of "A Fond Farewell to Carlo," about Carl Van Vechten

ArchivalResource: 1 folder (SC)

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Guide to the American Committee for Cultural Freedom Records, 1939-1957

Title: Guide to the American Committee for Cultural Freedom Records, 1939-1957

the American Committee for Cultural Freedom was formed in the 1950s as an affiliate of the International Congress for Cultural Freedom and membership included prominent liberal and leftist artists and intellectuals across a broad political spectrum. The group's activity involved the organization and execution of numerous anti-communist campaigns and programs. As Cold War tensions diffused, the group disolved. This collection includes the Committee's minutes, publications, proceedings of conferences, financial records, and files dealing with its relationship with Arthur Miller, Jean Paul Sartre, and Bertrand Russell.

ArchivalResource: 7 Linear Feet in 15 boxes

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Baker, Ella, 1903-1986. Ella Baker papers, 1926-1986.

Title: Ella Baker papers, 1926-1986.

The Ella Baker papers provide a snapshot of Baker's life as an activist and visionary for a variety of progressive organizations in the United States, from the 1930s through the 1980s. Documented here are the organizations and individuals that were central to Baker's network such as George Schulyer, The Young Women's Christian Association, In Friendship, A. Phillip Randolph, and Bayard Rustin. The collection, however, does not document her personal life nor does it fully capture her philosophy or political ideas. The Cooperatives and Consumer Education, 1930-1975, series contains correspondence, writings, flyers, memoranda, announcements for a variety of programs, forums and fund-raising events promoting co-operatives and consumer education, and printed material of the Cooperative League of the U.S.A, (1931-1940), the Young Negroes' Co-operative League, Harlem's Own Cooperative, where Ella Baker worked as the education and publicity officer, the National Association of Consumers, and the Works Progress Administration. National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, 1936-1961, series is divided into two sub-series, National Office and Branches. Included in the National Office sub-series are scattered annual reports, conference programs, resolutions, minutes for board of directors' meetings, and reports from some of the departments to the board, primarily the Department of Branches, 1940s. The Branches sub-series contains scattered files for a small group of branch offices. Included are memoranda of the NAACP New York Branch education committee (1954-1957), of which Baker was chair. The bulk of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, 1956-1968, series consists of correspondence (1956-1963) and memoranda (1958-1960). Included are a two page letter to New York City Mayor Robert F. Wagner from Nathan H. Schwerner, the father of slain civil rights worker Michael Schwerner, after his son was murdered, and letters exchanged between Baker and Stanley D. Levison. The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, 1960-1976, series contains the field reports (1960-1963) that document the daily routine and the challenges faced by the SNCC field workers as they attempted to do community organizing voter registration. throughout the South. There is also a copy of a speech by Carmichael in 1967 on the issue of the Vietnam War. There are memos and fund-raising appeal letters 1963-1967 from Friends of SNCC, a group of New York City based supporters. A folder on Hubert "Rap" Brown, Carmichael's successor as chairman of SNCC, contains some information about his tenure as chairman and his multi-state arrest and eventual convictions during this time. The Other Organizations, 1930's-1980's, series is arranged in four sub-series: Civil Rights, 1950's-1970 n.d., Student Movement, 1959-1973, Politics, 1964-1977, and General, 1935-1967. This series most effectively demonstrates the expanse of Baker's activism, organizing skills and political savvy in that it contains folders for thirty plus organizations in which her involvement extended beyond membership. The Printed Material, 1930s-1980s, series contains published and unpublished articles, monographs and manuals about various movements, causes and grassroots organizing. Organizational newspapers and newspaper clippings related to some of the many areas of Baker's work are housed here.

ArchivalResource: 5.5 linear ft. (1 box)

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Gannett, Lewis, 1891-1966. Papers, 1681-1966 (bulk 1900-1960)

Title: Lewis Gannett papers, 1681-1966 (inclusive) 1900-1960 (bulk).

Correspondence, manuscripts, diaries, journals, notebooks, legal and business papers, memorabilia, photos, and other papers, together with Gannett family papers. Includes correspondence of Gannett's grandfather and father, Unitarian clergymen Ezra Stiles Gannett of Boston and William Channing Gannett; 91 letters, 1796-1817, from Gannett's great-grandfather Caleb Gannett to John Mico Gannett, and journals of his grandmother Anna Tilden Gannett.

ArchivalResource: 51 boxes (25.5 linear ft.)

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Lalley, J. M. (Joseph Michael), 1896-1980. J.M. Lalley papers 1895-1981.

Title: J.M. Lalley papers 1895-1981.

Correspondence and writings (1916-80) of newspaperman, literary critic and author Joseph Michael Lalley.

ArchivalResource: 14.7 linear ft. (28 document boxes, 6 flat boxes)

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Bearden, Romare, 1911-1988. Small collections in the James Weldon Johnson collection, 1850-1976.

Title: Small collections in the James Weldon Johnson collection, 1850-1976.

Correspondence, writings, memorabilia by and relating to Romare Bearden; William Stanley Braithwaite; Augusta Bird Courtney; Frederick Douglass; Alexandre Dumas, père and fils; Paul Laurence Dunbar; Rudolph Dunbar; Elsie Taylor DuTrieuille; Jack Flodin; Angelina W. Grimké; Georgia Douglas Johnson; Le Roi Jones; Alain LeRoy Locke; Edgar Mittelholzer; Arthur Alfonso Schomburg; George Samuel Schuyler; Harriet Beecher Stowe; Booker T. Washington; and Frank Yerby.

ArchivalResource: ms.

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Earl Browder Papers, 1879-1990

Title: Earl Browder Papers 1879-1990

Papers of the General secretary of the Communist Party of the United States from 1930 through its dissolution in 1944. When the Party was reconstituted as the Communist Political Association later that year, Browder was chosen as its President, however he was expelled in 1946 following a debate over Party leadership. Following his expulsion, Browder lectured and wrote about Marxism and represented Soviet writers and publishers for publication in the United States. Collection incluces correspondence/subject files (1879-1970) relating to Marxist philosophy, the workings of the C.P.U.S.A., Browder's role within the Party and to Browder's business ventures as well as legal files (1938-1958); manuscripts (1924-1967) of Browder and others, including Browder's manuscripts for articles, books, memoranda, news releases, pamphlets, reports, and speeches; and memorabilia including personal files and photographs of Browder and his family, and some colleagues. Notable correspondents include Roger Baldwin, Daniel Bell, Bruce Bliven, Rudy Blum, Louis B. Boudin, Juan Antonio Corretjer, Theodore Draper, Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, William Z. Foster, Joseph Freeman, A.A. Heller, Lotte Jacobi, Alfred Kohlberg, Robert S. Minor, Tom Mooney, Paul and Eslanda Goode Robeson, Anna Rochester, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jack Selford, Joseph R. Starobin, I.F. Stone, John Strachey, Anna Louise Strong, Dirk Jan Struik, Norman Thomas, Harry Frederick Ward, Sumner Welles, and others. Also included is a holograph letter of greeting from Mao Zedong. The collection also includes Browder's personal library and other published materials.

ArchivalResource: 48.0 linear ft.

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Schuyler, George S. (George Samuel), 1895-1977. Papers of George Samuel Schuyler [manuscript], 1932-1966.

Title: Papers of George Samuel Schuyler [manuscript], 1932-1966.

The collection contains Schuyler's research notes on Dr. Robert C. Weaver and the creation of the Department of Housing and Urban Development. With these are a memorandum book, 1932, on cannibalism and werewolves, and a blank memorandum book, 1934, with a few crossed out annotations.

ArchivalResource: 3 items.

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