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Martha Dodd Papers, 1898-1990, (bulk 1950-1990)

Title: Martha Dodd Papers 1898-1990 (bulk 1950-1990)

Author and political exile. Correspondence, writings, research materials, memoirs, genealogical material, newspaper clippings, and other papers relating to Dodd's experiences (1933-1937) in Berlin with her father, William Edward Dodd, American ambassador to Germany; her exile (1957-1990) with her husband, Alfred Kaufman Stern, in Cuba and Czechoslovakia following indictment for participation in Soviet espionage; and her writings on topics including the civil rights movement in the United States, the Cold War, the Cuban revolution, and the conflict in Vietnam.

ArchivalResource: 4,900 items; 14 containers plus 2 oversize; 7.2 linear feet

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms997005 View

Robeson, Eslanda Goode, 1896-1965. Letter [1930] Jun. 28, London, to Maurice [Browne, London]

Title: Letter [1930] Jun. 28, London, to Maurice [Browne, London]

Defers the filming of a Paul Robeson performance.

ArchivalResource: [3] p. on 1 l. Holograph signed.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/34365521 View

Davis, Ossie. Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee drama collection, 1951-1981 (bulk 1970-1979).

Title: Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee drama collection, 1951-1981 (bulk 1970-1979).

The Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee play scripts partially document the stage, screen and television careers of actor/director/writer Ossie Davis and his wife, actress Ruby Dee. The papers consist principally of scripts for plays, films and television which were written, directed or starred Davis as well as those featuring Dee. Some of the writers and movie and play titles represented are: Langston Hughes' "Emperor of Haiti;" Loften Mitchell's "The Cellar" and "The Phonograph;" Paule Marshall's "Brown Girl, Brownstones;" and Wole Soyinka's "Kongi's Harvest." Also included are short stories written by Davis, some personal and professional correspondence, several programs and playbills, reviews and other printed material. Additionally, there is a transcript of an interview with Sidney Poitier conducted by Ruby Dee in 1969 and four unpublished articles written by Eslanda Robeson between 1964 and 1965.

ArchivalResource: 5 lin. ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122607338 View

West, Dorothy, 1909-. Papers, 1914-1985 (inclusive).

Title: Papers, 1914-1985 (inclusive).

Collection contains drafts, manuscripts of published and unpublished novels and short stories, journal excerpts, correspondence from other writers of the Harlem Renaissance, letters, 1933-1934, from West in the Soviet Union to her family, articles she wrote for her Vineyard Gazette column, articles about her, photographs, a scrapbook of reviews and information pertaining to the first publication of The Living is Easy, unpublished manuscripts by other Harlem Renaissance writers (Ralph Ellison, Langston Hughes, and Arna Bontemps) submitted to Challenge, and a tape of a TV interview with West.

ArchivalResource: 2 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122521829 View

Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee drama collection, 1951-1981, 1970-1979

Title: Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee drama collection 1951-1981 1970-1979

The Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee play scripts partially document the stage, screen and television careers of actor/director/writer Ossie Davis and his wife, actress Ruby Dee. The papers consist principally of scripts for plays, films and television which were written, directed or starred Davis as well as those featuring Dee. Some of the writers and movie and play titles represented are: Langston Hughes' "Emperor of Haiti;" Loften Mitchell's "The Cellar" and "The Phonograph;" Paule Marshall's "Brown Girl, Brownstones;" and Wole Soyinka's "Kongi's Harvest." Also included are short stories written by Davis, some personal and professional correspondence, several programs and playbills, reviews and other printed material. Additionally, there is a transcript of an interview with Sidney Poitier conducted by Ruby Dee in 1969 and four unpublished articles written by Eslanda Robeson between 1964 and 1965.

ArchivalResource: 5 lin. ft.

http://archives.nypl.org/scm/20835 View

Paul Robeson collection, 1925-1956, 1943-1956

Title: Paul Robeson collection 1925-1956 1943-1956

Correspondence, texts of speeches, articles, columns and statements written by Paul Robeson and his wife, Eslanda Goode Robeson, photographs, news clippings, and press releases documenting Robeson's artistic and political activities. Correspondence pertains to Robeson's artistic career, and includes letters written by Eslanda Robeson regarding her husband's difficulties as a result of his association with the Soviet Union. Additional correspondence, reports, news clippings, contracts, and printed matter were generated by Robeson's national tours from 1952 to 1956. Included are materials about the concert and riot which took place in Peekskill, N.Y. during one of Robeson's performances, 1949; correspondence and legal papers referring to Robeson's difficulties in his effort to have his United Stattes passport restored; and letters by William Patterson and W.E.B. Du Bois. Also included are files on various organizations associated with Robeson in the 1950s, including the Council on African Affairs, the National Negro Labor Council, and the World Peace Council.

ArchivalResource:

http://archives.nypl.org/scm/20649 View

Papers of Shirley Graham Du Bois, 1865-1998 (inclusive), 1905-1975 (bulk)

Title: Papers of Shirley Graham Du Bois, 1865-1998 (inclusive), 1905-1975 (bulk)

Papers of Shirley (Graham) Du Bois, African American writer, playwright, composer, biographer, teacher, civil rights and left-wing activist.

ArchivalResource: 44 file boxes, 2 folio boxes, 1 folio+ box, 1.5 linear ft. of photographs, 24 folio folders, 24 folio+ folders, 8 oversize folders

https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/sch00211/catalog View

Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe manuscript and research collection, 1984-1985.

Title: Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe manuscript and research collection, 1984-1985.

Collection comprises Ashe's work in developing VIEWFINDERS, a historiographic photoessay project for publication. The manuscript and research materials are about African-American women photographers in America from 1839 to 1985. While numerous professionals are cited, extensive interview materials are available on the Camera Girls (WACs), Hazel Shumate, Gladys Allen, Eslanda Goode Robeson, Mary Flenoy, Phillda Ragland-Njau, Wilhelmina Roberts, Elsie Forrest Harelson, Vera Jackson, Louise Martin, Louise Jefferson, Mary Warren, Colis Davis, Winifred Hall, and Elizabeth Williams. Transcribed interviews of these photographers are supplemented with interview tapes for Martin, Allen, Roberts, Robeson, Flenoy, and Williams through dialogue either with the individual or an acquaintance. Also included are various pre-publication manuscript and photoprint galleys and proofs, correspondence, and miscellanea.

ArchivalResource: 1.2 lin. ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122455483 View

Browne, Maurice, 1881-1955. Ellen Van Volkenburg-Maurice Browne general correspondence, 1911-

Title: Ellen Van Volkenburg-Maurice Browne general correspondence, 1911-

ArchivalResource: ca. 5 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/68796459 View

Paul Robeson collection, 1925-1956, 1943-1956 (bulk).

Title: Paul Robeson collection, 1925-1956, 1943-1956 (bulk).

Correspondence, texts of speeches, articles, columns and statements written by Paul Robeson and his wife, Eslanda Goode Robeson, photographs, news clippings, and press releases documenting Robeson's artistic and political activities. Correspondence pertains to Robeson's artistic career, and includes letters written by Eslanda Robeson regarding her husband's difficulties as a result of his association with the Soviet Union. Additional correspondence, reports, news clippings, contracts, and printed matter were generated by Robeson's national tours from 1952 to 1956. Included are materials about the concert and riot which took place in Peekskill, N.Y. during one of Robeson's performances, 1949; correspondence and legal papers referring to Robeson's difficulties in his effort to have his United Stattes passport restored; and letters by William Patterson and W.E.B. Du Bois. Also included are files on various organizations associated with Robeson in the 1950s, including the Council on African Affairs, the National Negro Labor Council, and the World Peace Council.

ArchivalResource: Originals: 6.8 lin. ft.Copies: 9 microfilm reels.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122534098 View

Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe manuscript and research collection, 1984-1985

Title: Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe manuscript and research collection 1984-1985

Author. Collection comprises Ashe's work in developing VIEWFINDERS, a historiographic photoessay project for publication. The manuscript and research materials are about African-American women photographers in America from 1839 to 1985. While numerous professionals are cited, extensive interview materials are available on the Camera Girls (WACs), Hazel Shumate, Gladys Allen, Eslanda Goode Robeson, Mary Flenoy, Phillda Ragland-Njau, Wilhelmina Roberts, Elsie Forrest Harelson, Vera Jackson, Louise Martin, Louise Jefferson, Mary Warren, Colis Davis, Winifred Hall, and Elizabeth Williams. Transcribed interviews of these photographers are supplemented with interview tapes for Martin, Allen, Roberts, Robeson, Flenoy, and Williams through dialogue either with the individual or an acquaintance. Also included are various pre-publication manuscript and photoprint galleys and proofs, correspondence, and miscellanea.

ArchivalResource: 1.2 lin. ft.

http://archives.nypl.org/scm/20743 View

Browne, Maurice, 1881-1955. Ellen Van Volkenburg-Maurice Browne general correspondence, 1911-

Title: Ellen Van Volkenburg-Maurice Browne general correspondence, 1911-

ArchivalResource: ca. 5 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/34370095 View

Robeson, Paul, 1898-1976. Paul Robeson Collection, 1916-1998.

Title: Paul Robeson Collection, 1916-1998.

The Paul Robeson Collection includes correspondence, scrapbooks, books, articles, clippings, reviews, tributes, photographs, and sound recordings relating to Robeson's activities as a scholar, athlete, singer, actor, and political activist. Assembled over the years by the Rutgers University Archives staff and the Office of Alumni Relations, the collection contains a bibliography of the Schomburg Collection, notes and correspondence in Robeson's hand, photographs and reviews of performances, and many articles concerning Robeson's athletic and scholarly career at Rutgers College. Included is a copy of Robeson's senior thesis "The 14th Amemdment: The Sleeping Giant of the American Constitution." Other articles concern his efforts on behalf of the civil rights movement and his blacklisting in the 1940's and 1950's. Much of the correspondence is about Robeson, with only a few items from Robeson himself. A number of letters are from his wife, Eslanda Goode Robeson. The newspaper clippings in Series I are taken from five scrapbooks, 1916-1976. The recordings are phonograph records from the late 1930's; included are "Sometimes I Feel a Motherless Child" and "Ol' Man River." The final series contains copies of surveillance documents created and compiled by the Department of State "relating to the Communist-oriented activities of Paul Robeson. . . ", 1946-1962.

ArchivalResource: 4 cubic ft.(13 manuscript boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/184929301 View

Hansberry, Lorraine, 1930-1965. Lorraine Hansberry papers, 1947-1988.

Title: Lorraine Hansberry papers, 1947-1988.

The Lorraine Hansberry Papers document Lorraine Hansberry's life as an award-winning playwright and activist, and chronicles her activities during the Civil Rights Movement. Virtually all of Hansberry's writings, autobiographical materials, journals, diaries, personal and professional correspondence are included here, as well as related materials generated by her late husband, Robert Nemiroff, and his third wife, Jewell Gresham-Nemiroff, as the executors of Hansberry's state. Significant correspondents include James Baldwin, Daisy Bates, Louis Burnham, Julian Mayfield, Robert Nemiroff, and William Worthy. The largest and most substantive series, Writings, contains the bulk of Hansberry's play scripts, including "A Raisin in the Sun," "The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window" and "Les Blancs," plus production files for each play, as well as other produced, unproduced and incomplete plays among them "Toussaint," "The Drinking Gourd," "What Use Are Flowers," and "Masters of the Dew." Included are lectures and speeches Hansberry gave primarily as the result of the success of "A Raisin in the Sun," articles she wrote as a journalist and editor, and files for the book, "The Movement: Documentary of a Struggle for Equality." There are also short stories, poems, and letters Hansberry penned from 1947 to 1964. The Professional series includes correspondence and materials relating to Hansberry's activism including files for Camp Unity, Labor Defense League, and the Montevideo Peace Conference. The Legacy series was largely created by Robert Nemiroff to acknowledge Hansberry's contribution to American letters, and features files detailing his activities as the executor of the Lorraine Hansberry Estate, including three major projects, "To Be Young, Gifted and Black," "Raisin," and "All The Dark and Beautiful Warriors." Also included are Hansberry's FBI file, diaries, interviews, and biographical information about Hansberry during her life and posthumously.

ArchivalResource: 49 lin. ft. (93 archival boxes,13 record cartons, 2 flat boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/456433644 View

Lawrence Brown papers, 1916-1972.

Title: Lawrence Brown papers, 1916-1972.

The Lawrence Brown papers encompass correspondence reflecting Brown's wide-ranging travels, and his friendships (mostly letters written by his friends and business associates); personal papers; travel file consisting mostly of itineraries for tours; financial records comprised largely of royalty and earnings statements; programs for Brown and other artists; scrapbooks of news clippings and telegrams covering the Brown and Paul Robeson concert years (1928-1968); news clippings of concert reviews; and original scores and sheet music written by Brown and other composers.

ArchivalResource: Originals: 4.5 lin. ft.Copies: l0 microfilm reels.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122639996 View

Du Bois, Shirley Graham, 1896-1977. Papers, 1865-1998 (inclusive), 1905-1975 (bulk).

Title: Papers, 1865-1998 (inclusive), 1905-1975 (bulk).

Majority of material found within 1905-1975 Collection includes personal and professional correspondence; manuscripts, scores, scripts, writings, and speeches by Du Bois; photographs; diaries and calendars; scrapbooks; programs; financial records; passports; awards, certificates, flyers, clippings, printed material; and sermons, essays, and other writings by David A. Graham.

ArchivalResource: 21.5 linear ft.

https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/sch00211/catalog View

Robeson, Eslanda Goode, 1896-1965. Letter [ca. 1930] London, to [Ellen] Van Volkenberg[!] [London]]

Title: Letter [ca. 1930] London, to [Ellen] Van Volkenberg[!] [London]]

Concerns concert activities of Paul Robeson, and seeks an appointment.

ArchivalResource: [2] p. on 1 l. Holograph signed.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/34365529 View

Cardozo, William W.,. Paul and Eslanda Robeson collection, 1907-1988.

Title: Paul and Eslanda Robeson collection, 1907-1988.

Writings by and about the African American actor, scholar, and political activist Paul Robeson, awards and tributes, correspondence, photographs, typescripts and galley proofs for Paul Robeson: the Great Forerunner, published by Freedomways in 1977, Russian letters to Robeson from schoolchildren in the Soviet Union (with English translations), documents relating to the Robeson archives in Berlin and exhibitions about Robeson held at the Academy of Arts in Berlin, posters, recordings, and films; together with material related to Eslanda Goode Robeson (1896-1965), chemist, anthropologist, and writer.

ArchivalResource: 6 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70939802 View

Barnouw, Erik, 1908-2001. Erik Barnouw papers, 1920-1990.

Title: Erik Barnouw papers, 1920-1990.

Correspondence, scripts, manuscripts, and reports regarding his activities in the American radio and film industries. Included are papers regarding projects for the United State Government, the Indian film industry, various television and radio networks, and private ventures. Also included is material regarding the Center for Mass Communications of Columbia University, in which Barnouw figured prominently and files for the books he has written.

ArchivalResource: 21 linear ft. ( 46 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/465279236 View

Guide to the Daily Worker and Daily World Photographs Collection, 1920-2001

Title: Guide to the Daily Worker and Daily World Photographs Collection, 1920-2001

The official organ of the Communist Party, USA, the Daily Worker's editorial positions reflected the policies of the Communist Party. At the same time the paper also attempted to speak to the broad left-wing community in the United States that included labor, civil rights, and peace activists, with stories covering a wide range of events, organizations and individuals in the United States and around the world. As a daily newspaper, it covered the major stories of the twentieth century. However, the paper always placed an emphasis on radical social movements, social and economic conditions particularly in working class and minority communities, poverty, labor struggles, racial discrimination, right wing extremism with an emphasis on fascist and Nazi movements, and of course the Soviet Union and the world-wide Communist movement. The paper has had a succession of names and has been published in varying frequences between daily to weekly over the course of its existence. In 2010 it ceased print publication and became an electronic, online-only, weekly publication titled the People's World. The bulk of the collection consists of printed photographic images produced through a variety of processes, collected by the photography editors of the Daily Worker and its successor newspapers as a means of maintaining an organized collection of images for use in publication. Images of many important people, groups and events associated with the CPUSA and the American Left are present in the collection, as well as images of a wide variety of people, subjects and events not explicitly linked with the CPUSA or Left politics.

ArchivalResource: 227 Linear Feet in 226 record cartons and 2 oversized boxes

http://dlib.nyu.edu/findingaids/html/tamwag/photos_223/photos_223.html View

Robeson, Paul, 1898-1976. Paul Robeson Collection, 1916-1981.

Title: Paul Robeson Collection, 1916-1981.

The Paul Robeson Collection includes correspondence, scrapbooks, books, articles, clippings, reviews, tributes, photographs, and sound recordings relating to Robeson's activities as a scholar, athlete, singer, actor, and political activist. Assembled over the years by the University Archives staff and the Office of Alumni Relations, the collection contains a bibliography of the Schomburg Collection, notes and correspondence in Robeson's hand, photographs and reviews of performances, and many articles concerning Robeson's athletic and scholarly career at Rutgers College. Included is a copy of Robeson's senior thesis "The 14th Amemdment: The Sleeping Giant of the American Constitution." Other articles concern his efforts on behalf of the civil rights movement and his blacklisting in the 1940's and 1950's. Much of the correspondence is about Robeson, with only a few items from Robeson himself. A number of letters are from his wife, Eslanda Goode Robeson. The five scrapbooks, 1916-1976, contain mostly newspaper clippings and some ephemera. The recordings are phonograph records from the late 1930's; included are "Sometimes I Feel a Motherless Child" and "Ol' Man River."

ArchivalResource: 4 cubic ft. (4 record center boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122418691 View

Alice Childress papers, 1937-1997

Title: Alice Childress papers 1937-1997

The Alice Childress papers document Alice Childress's career as a writer and actress, and her activities in the theatre for five decades in New York City. The Personal Papers series includes correspondence, an oral history conducted by Ann Shockley, Childress's FBI file, diaries, calendars, interviews, educational materials, family letters, files for her two husbands, and biographical information about Childress. Significant correspondents include writers Kay Bourne, Harold (Hal) Courlander and Susan Koppleman.

ArchivalResource: 17.1 linear ft. (50 record cartons)

http://archives.nypl.org/scm/20917 View

Baldwin, Calvin Benham, 1902-1975. Papers of C.B. Baldwin, 1933-1975.

Title: Papers of C.B. Baldwin, 1933-1975.

The papers of C.B. Baldwin document his career in government and politics. A political liberal, Baldwin supported the New Deal's most radical programs and was often accused of being a communist sympathizer. The general subject files include such topics as Henry Wallace, presidential elections, Farmers' Union and correspondence. There are speeches by Baldwin, Wallace, and others. The CIO-PAC grouping includes news releases, memos, and publicity while the NCPAC series contains notes from trips, correspondence, and more publicity. The PCA documents contain minutes, leaflets, foreign policy papers, and information on state chapters. The Progressive Party papers include fact sheets, platform statements, and convention materials. A series on the U.S. Department of Agriculture contains information about the Farm Security Administration (FSA). The last four series consist of photographs, tape recordings of interviews, news clippings, and scrapbooks dating from 1945 to 1948. The correspondence is not confined to one series, rather it is scattered throughout the collection. The correspondents include: Will W. Alexander, Paul H. Appleby, Charlotta A. Bass, Elmer A. Benson, Anita McCormick Blaine, Jo Davidson, W.E.B. Du Bois, Elinor Gimbel, Vincent W. Hallinam, Robert E. Hannegan, Moss Hart, Lyndon B. Johnson, Frank Kingdon, Fiorello La Guardia, Fulton Lewis, Vito Marcantonio, Henry Morganthau, Dorothy Parker, and James G. Patton. More correspondents include: Claude Pepper, Gifford Pinchot, Eslanda Robeson, Paul Robeson, Eleanor Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Fred W. Stover, Glen Taylor, Theodore O. Thackrey, Rexford G. Tugwell, Henry A. Wallace, and Alexander F. Whitney.

ArchivalResource: Papers, 30 linear ft. (61 boxes)Photographs, 1 linear ft. (2 boxes)Scrapbooks, 3 items.Tape recordings, 8 items (1 box)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/233105821 View

Robeson, Eslanda Goode, 1896-1965. Correspondence with Marian Anderson, n.d.

Title: Correspondence with Marian Anderson, n.d.

ArchivalResource: 2 items (3 l.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/63561176 View

Davis, Benjamin J. (Benjamin Jefferson), 1903-1964. Benjamin J. Davis papers, 1949-1964.

Title: Benjamin J. Davis papers, 1949-1964.

Divided into four series, Correspondence, the Smith Act Trial, Writings and Printed matter, the Benjamin J. Davis, Jr. Papers document Davis's life and political career from 1949 to the time of his death.

ArchivalResource: Originals 2.3 lin. ft.Copies 4 microfilm reels.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/144652278 View

Benjamin J. Davis papers, 1949-1964

Title: Benjamin J. Davis papers 1949-1964

Divided into four series, Correspondence, the Smith Act Trial, Writings and Printed matter, the Benjamin J. Davis, Jr. Papers document Davis's life and political career from 1949 to the time of his death. The Correspondence series is grouped into general correspondence and condolence letters. Correspondents include William Z. Foster, fellow Smith Act defendants Eugene Dennis and Claudia Jones, Harvard Law School Dean Erwin N. Griswold, Paul Robeson, Martin Luther King, Jr., Roy Wilkins, William Patterson, Congressman Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., author Walter Lowenfels, Herbert Aptheker, Cyril Briggs, Eslanda Robeson, Communist Party members Sid Resnick and Esther Jackson, and several supporters and friends.

ArchivalResource:

http://archives.nypl.org/scm/20651 View

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.

http://library.syr.edu/digital/guides/b/browder_e.htm View

Robeson, Eslanda Goode, 1896-1965. Letter [1930] Jun. 28, London, to Mr. Gosling [Southhampton, Eng.?]

Title: Letter [1930] Jun. 28, London, to Mr. Gosling [Southhampton, Eng.?]

With the possibility of the play's closing in three weeks, declines a week's engagement in Southhampton in August.

ArchivalResource: [2] p. on 1 l. Holograph signed.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/34365525 View

Childress, Alice. Alice Childress papers, 1937-1997.

Title: Alice Childress papers, 1937-1997.

The Alice Childress papers document Alice Childress's career as a writer and actress, and her activities in the theatre for five decades in New York City. The Personal Papers series includes correspondence, an oral history conducted by Ann Shockley, Childress's FBI file, diaries, calendars, interviews, educational materials, family letters, files for her two husbands, and biographical information about Childress. Significant correspondents include writers Kay Bourne, Harold (Hal) Courlander and Susan Koppleman. The Professional Series consists of correspondence, programs, financial documents, flyers, newsletters, broadsides, contracts, and reviews representing Childress as an actress, writer and speaker. There is a file for the American Negro Theatre's "Anna Lucasta," as well as files for other productions in which Childress acted including "The Cool World," "The Emperor's Clothes," "Natural Man," and "The World of Sholem Aleichem," among others. There are also files for associations and committees, including a file for the "National Ad Hoc Committee to End the Crimes Against Paul Robeson," as well as interviews, critical papers, a dissertation and sketches written about Childress, her writing and her influence on the work of contemporary writers. A significant amount of correspondence delineated into six subseries arranged chronologically: Publishers and Agents, Awards, Conferences, Speaking Engagements, Alphabetical, and General, includes invitations for speaking engagements, letters of appreciation, requests from playhouses and colleges to perform her plays and requests for biographical information. The largest and most substantive series, Writings, contains the manuscripts for nearly every published book and play script written by Childress. The series is divided into six subseries (by genre) and begins with Childress's best-known works including "A Hero Ain't Nothin' But a Sandwich," "Wedding Band," "Trouble in Mind," and "Moms: A Praise Play for a Black Comedian." The subseries represented are: Children's Books; Novels; Play Scripts, Screenplays and Teleplays; Fiction and Non-Fiction; (Columns, Editorial work, Monologues, Non-fiction, Short Stories, and Speeches); Other Writings (Poetry, Songs, and Research Notes) and Other Authors. This series features an array of manuscript drafts, reviews, fan mail, teacher's critical guides, research notes, manuscript scores (for her musicals), galleys, publicity information, letters, contracts, outlines, programs, flyers, and clippings. Many of the manuscripts have been heavily edited by Childress.

ArchivalResource: 17.1 linear ft. (50 record cartons)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122531836 View

Erik Barnouw Papers, 1920-1990.

Title: Erik Barnouw Papers 1920-1990.

ArchivalResource: 21 linear ft. (ca.2,200 items in 46 boxes).

http://findingaids.cul.columbia.edu/ead/nnc-rb/ldpd_4079647 View

Robeson, Eslanda Goode, 1896-1965. Letter [1930] London, to [Ellen] Van Volkenberg[!] [London]]

Title: Letter [1930] London, to [Ellen] Van Volkenberg[!] [London]]

Encloses sheets for theatre programs (lacking) and anticipates an "magnificent time" with Othello.

ArchivalResource: [2] p. on 1 l. Holograph signed.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/34365532 View

Adams, Edward C. L. (Edward Clarkson Leverett), 1876-1946. Edward C.L. Adams papers, 1926-1931.

Title: Edward C.L. Adams papers, 1926-1931.

Correspondence, literary manuscripts, book reviews, drafts of ethnic sketches, and other papers documenting literary representations of African-American residents of South Carolina as seen through folktales, dialect, portions of sermons, ballads, and fiction; includes correspondence and other material relating to the publication and reception of Adams's works Congaree Sketches (1927), Nigger to Nigger (1928), and Potee's Gal "A Drama of Negro Life Near the Big Congaree" (1929). Papers and reviews re publication of Congaree Sketches in 1927 by University of North Carolina Press which included an introduction by Chapel Hill professor and playwright Paul Green, in which he called for more humane treatment of African Americans, with letter, 30 May 1927, to George Coffin Taylor, in which Adams expressed his disapproval of Green's introduction; and three short undated sketches in dialect, "conversations with Tad," re USC football, politics, politicians, and other issues of the day. Correspondents include Maxwell E. Perkins, editor of Scribner's, ca. 1928-1930, re publication of Nigger to Nigger and publicity; many letters address the controversy re staging of the play, Potee's Gal by the Columbia Stage Society with a cast of 150 African-American actors which was cancelled shortly before opening due to protests, including letter, 7 Feb. 1928, from Harry R.E. Hampton, in which he urges Adams to resume rehersals for the good of the Stage Society, the city, the state, and the South; and Adams correspondence, ca. 1929-1930, with Theresa Helburn, docmenting his efforts to produce the play in New York; and letter, 24 Mar. 1930, from Elliott White Springs in which he praises the play and encourages Adams to expand the story. Also including letter, 6 June 1931, London, England from Eslanda "Essie" Cardozo Goode (Mrs. Paul Robeson), expressing appreciation for letters and books sent by Adams following their meeting in Columbia, S.C., reporting enjoyment of her first trip to South Carolina and noting family connections to the state [Robeson was granddaughter of Francis L. Cardozo, the secretary of state of South Carolina during Reconstruction]. Other correspondents include Christie Benet, J. Heyward Gibbes, Paul Green, Margaret Haynes, McDavid Horton, Bishop John Hurst, W. Bedford Moore, Charles Norman, Albert D. Oliphant, Josephine Pinckney, Stanhope Sams, Yates Snowden, and Edgar T. Thompson.

ArchivalResource: 1.25 linear ft. (1 carton)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/28412570 View

Lawrence Brown papers, 1916-1972

Title: Lawrence Brown papers 1916-1972

Composer, pianist, arranger. Brown worked as Paul Robeson's accompanist for thirty-eight years. The Lawrence Brown papers encompass correspondence reflecting Brown's wide-ranging travels, and his friendships (mostly letters written by his friends and business associates); personal papers; travel file consisting mostly of itineraries for tours; financial records comprised largely of royalty and earnings statements; programs for Brown and other artists; scrapbooks of news clippings and telegrams covering the Brown and Paul Robeson concert years (1928-1968); news clippings of concert reviews; and original scores and sheet music written by Brown and other composers. Papers relate to Brown's life and times, including World War I, Harlem Renaissance, World War II, spirituals, and his collaborator, Paul Robeson. Correspondents include Amanda Aldridge, Ethel Gardner Dingle, Jannett Hamlyn, Roland Hayes, Langston Hughes, Zaidee Jackson, William Lawrence, John Payne, Paul and Eslanda Robeson, Clara Rockmore, Robert Rockmore, Mrs. Corinne Sawyer (Brown's landlady), and Greta and I. W. Sequeira.

ArchivalResource: 4.5 lin. ft.; l0 microfilm reels

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Lorraine Hansberry papers, 1947-1988

Title: Lorraine Hansberry papers 1947-1988

The Lorraine Hansberry Papers document Lorraine Hansberry's life as an award-winning playwright and activist, and chronicles her activities during the Civil Rights Movement. Virtually all of Hansberry's writings, autobiographical materials, journals, diaries, personal and professional correspondence are included here, as well as related materials generated by her late husband, Robert Nemiroff, and his third wife, Jewell Gresham-Nemiroff, as the executors of Hansberry's state. Significant correspondents include Daisy Bates, Louis Burnham, Julian Mayfield, Robert Nemiroff, and William Worthy.

ArchivalResource: 49 lin. ft. (93 archival boxes,13 record cartons, 2 flat boxes)

http://archives.nypl.org/scm/20931 View

Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade Records, 1933-2006

Title: Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade Records 1933-2006

The organization Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade (VALB) was founded in 1939 to provide aid and support for American veterans and Spanish refugees of the Spanish Civil War, and to advocate for democracy in Spain. Over the years, VALB provided a mechanism for veterans and their families and friends to maintain contact with each other, and also provided a public voice for the veterans and a focal point for political action. Eventually VALB devoted itself more and more to the preservation and dissemination of the veterans' history; the group sponsored publications and public events, cooperated in oral history projects and documentary films, and gathered the letters, photographs, memorabilia and other historical records that became the Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archive. These records document the lives of individual veterans and the administrative and public activity of VALB from the organization's inception to the beginning of the twenty-first century.

ArchivalResource: 21.25 linear feet; (27 boxes)

http://dlib.nyu.edu/findingaids/html/tamwag/alba_019/alba_019.html View

The Paul and Eslanda Robeson Collection, 1907-1988

Title: The Paul and Eslanda Robeson Collection 1907-1988

ArchivalResource: 6.0 Linear feet

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