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Hatch-Billops Collection of oral histories, [ca. 1965-1980].

Title: Hatch-Billops Collection of oral histories, [ca. 1965-1980].

Audio tapes and transcripts of oral history interviews with black artists, educators, writers, and politicians. Interviewees include Imamu Amiri Baraka, Alvin Batista, Camille Billops, Charles Blackwell, Vivian Brown, Dick Campbell, Steve Carter, Miriam Colon, Ivan Dixon, Mary Bohanan, Owen Dodson, David DuBois, Lonne Elder III, Alice Childress, Robert Earl Jones, Elma Lewis, Butterfly McQueen, Loften Mitchell, Karl Hampton Porter, Noble Sissle, Benny Andrews, Miller Lyles, and Sissle Blake. Among the topics discussed are the American Educational Theatre Association, Black Drama Pioneers, National Association of Media Women, NYCC Black Artists in America, Public Theater, the Black Arts Movement, American Negro Theatre, Cotton Club, Lafayette Theater, and such individuals as Eubie Blake, James Baldwin (1924-1987), W.E.B. Du Bois, Roland Hayes, and Paul Robeson. Transcripts are available for most of the more than one hundred interviews.

ArchivalResource: ca. 15 cubic ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155502872 View

Williams, Camilla (Mrs. Charles Beaver). Papers. 1944-1979.

Title: Camilla Williams papers, 1944-1975

The papers document the career of Camilla Williams, acclaimed operatic singer and concert artist, in the United States and abroad. The papers encompass 1.2 linear feet, which includes 0.2 linear feet of correspondence (letter, post cards, greeting cards, telegrams) and 1.0 linear foot of non-correspondence, including press releases, publicity notices, notes, foreign itineraries, invitations and collected materials about Williams' travels and about other people. The bulk of the papers date primarily between 1944 and 1975. Correspondence is primarily between Williams and her husband, Attorney Charles T. Beavers, and her mother, Fannie Cary Williams, and other friends and relatives. However, there are also letters of interest from Eleanor Roosevelt and a letter from Father Divine (Reverend Major Jealous Divine). Other correspondents include Raymond Pace Alexander, Dick Campbell, Elmer A. Carter, Norman N. Fromm, Robert Kollitsch, Frederick D. Patterson, Carl Van Vechten, and Robert Wagner. Perhaps the most informative groups of non-correspondence materials are the musical programs and the press clippings. These reveals that Williams tried to feature unusual selections in her recitals, performing such infrequently heard music as that of Samuel Barber, Arthur Bliss, John Alden Carpenter, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, Leo Delibes, Gordon Jacobs, Charles Koechlin, Meyer Kupferman, Gian Francesco Malipierp, Gian-Carlo Saëns, Ludwig Spohr, Howard Swanson, Randall Thompson, and Clarence Cameron White. She also featured arrangements of spirituals and Black folk songs by a number of different persons, including Borislav Bazala, Edward Boatner, William Boatner, Margaret Bonds, Harry Thatcher Burleigh, William L. Dawson, M. Gardner, Roland Hayes, Hall Johnson, J. Rosamond Johnson, Camille Nickerson, Florence Price, Noah Ryder, Lily Strickland, John W. Work, and Clarence Cameron White.

ArchivalResource: 1.2 Linear Feet

http://amistadresearchcenter.tulane.edu/archon/?p=collections/controlcard&id=148 View

National Negro Opera Company Collection, 1879-1997, (bulk 1930-1962)

Title: National Negro Opera Company Collection 1879-1997 (bulk 1930-1962)

The National Negro Opera Company, the first African-American opera company in the United States, was founded in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1941, by Mary Cardwell Dawson. The collection contains materials and records related to the company and to Dawson. It includes correspondence, administrative and financial records, photographs, programs, promotional and publicity materials, scrapbooks, clippings, address books, notebooks, costumes, music, and books. In addition, the collection contains materials related to opera singer La Julia Rhea, who performed with the company, and Walter M. Dawson, Mary Cardwell Dawson's husband, who worked for the company.

ArchivalResource: 11,250 items; 68 containers; 39 linear feet

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.music/eadmus.mu013001 View