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Carnegie-Myrdal Study of the Negro in America research memoranda collection, 1935-1948

Title: Carnegie-Myrdal Study of the Negro in America research memoranda collection 1935-1948

The Research Memoranda series consists of the twenty-nine memoranda prepared by the team of social scientists. The General Correspondence and Memoranda series includes letters from Frederick Keppel, president of the Carnegie Corporation, establishing the project; correspondence between Keppel and Gunnar Myrdal, memoranda of interviews with Myrdal and the social scientists who wrote the reports, and files for the Committee on Selection.

ArchivalResource: 9 linear ft. (88 volumes); 13 microfilm reels; 82 microfiches

http://archives.nypl.org/scm/20555 View

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.

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

McKay, Claude, 1890-1948. Claude McKay collection, 1853-1990 (bulk 1922-1948).

Title: Claude McKay collection, 1853-1990 (bulk 1922-1948).

The Claude McKay Collection consists of correspondence, writings, personal papers, photographs and memorabilia documenting the life and work of Claude McKay. Series I, Correspondence, consists of two subseries for General and Publishers Correspondence. There is correspondence with many well known writers and figures in the African American community from the first half of the 20th century, including Langston Hughes, James Weldon Johnson, Carl Van Vechten, Countee Cullen and Harold Jackman. Series II, Writings, contains a variety of writings: articles, essays, short stories, novels, book-length autobiographical and non-fictional work, individual poems and collections of poems, and writings of others. There are holograph and typescript drafts of My Green Hills of Jamaica, and typescript drafts of Harlem: Negro Metropolis, an unpublished novel (Romance in Marseilles), and collections of poems, including The Selected Poems of Claude McKay.

ArchivalResource: 11.35 linear ft. (21 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/60366601 View

Carnegie Corporation of New York. Carnegie-Myrdal Study of the Negro in America research memoranda collection, 1935-1948.

Title: Carnegie-Myrdal Study of the Negro in America research memoranda collection, 1935-1948.

ArchivalResource: Originals: 9 linear ft. (88 v.)Copies: 13 microfilm reels.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122534191 View

United States Work Projects Administration Records, 1524-1975, (bulk 1935-1942)

Title: United States Work Projects Administration Records 1524-1975 (bulk 1935-1942)

Correspondence, memoranda, speeches, essays, scripts, plays, life histories, folklore material, field reports, notes, transcripts of documents, inventories, lists, statements, instructions, surveys and appraisals, graphs, drawings, maps, indexes, and administrative records of the Federal Writer's Project and the Historical Records Survey of the U.S. Work Projects Administration. Also includes a research library of reports and publications documenting social welfare programs of the Depression era.

ArchivalResource: 409,000 items; 1,634 containers plus 1 oversize; 637.6 linear feet; 63 microfilm reels

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms009053 View

Jean Wagner papers, 1945-1983 (inclusive), 1957-1963 (bulk).

Title: Jean Wagner papers, 1945-1983 (inclusive), 1957-1963 (bulk).

Correspondence and papers of the French scholar of Afro-American poetry Jean Wagner.

ArchivalResource: 2 boxes (.5 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00391/catalog View

Miller, May. May Miller papers, 1906-1989.

Title: May Miller papers, 1906-1989.

The collection consists of the papers of May Miller from 1906 to 1989. The papers include writings, correspondence, subject files, writings by others, printed material, photographs, scrapbooks, artwork, and legal and financial records. Writings include original manuscripts of her published and unpublished plays, poetry, and short stories, from 1910 through the 1980s. The collection also includes writings by others. The correspondence is of both a personal and professional nature and includes letters and notes from Gwendolyn Brooks, Sterling Brown, Dorothy Goldberg, Josephine Jacobsen, Pinkie Gordon Lane, John Pauker, and others. There is a small amount of family correspondence, including two early letters (1906) to her father.

ArchivalResource: 19 linear ft. (19 boxes, 4 oversized papers (OP), 1 oversized bound volume (OBV), and 2 bound volumes (BV))

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/244001178 View

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.

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

Jean Wagner papers, 1945-1983 (inclusive), 1957-1963 (bulk).

Title: Jean Wagner papers, 1945-1983 (inclusive), 1957-1963 (bulk).

Correspondence and papers of the French scholar of Afro-American poetry Jean Wagner.

ArchivalResource: 2 boxes (.5 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00391/catalog View

Braithwaite, William Stanley, 1878-1962. Papers, 1897-1930

Title: William Stanley Braithwaite papers, 1897-1930

Papers of the African-American poet, literary critic, and editor William Stanley Braithwaite.

ArchivalResource: 31 boxes (10.5 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01469/catalog View

Claude McKay collection, 1853-1990, 1922-1948

Title: Claude McKay collection 1853-1990 1922-1948

The Claude McKay Collection consists of correspondence, writings, personal papers, photographs and memorabilia documenting the life and work of Claude McKay. Series I, Correspondence, consists of two subseries for General and Publishers Correspondence. There is correspondence with many well known writers and figures in the African American community from the first half of the 20th century, including Langston Hughes, James Weldon Johnson, Carl Van Vechten, Countee Cullen and Harold Jackman. Series II, Writings, contains a variety of writings: articles, essays, short stories, novels, book-length autobiographical and non-fictional work, individual poems and collections of poems, and writings of others. There are holograph and typescript drafts of My Green Hills of Jamaica, and typescript drafts of Harlem: Negro Metropolis, an unpublished novel (Romance in Marseilles), and collections of poems, including The Selected Poems of Claude McKay. Series III, Personal Papers, is organized into eight subseries: Books, Clippings, Financial and Legal Records, Invitations and Announcements, Material Relating to McKay's Death and Burial, Medical and Health Records, Postcards and Other. Series IV, Subject Files, consists chiefly of clippings dating from the 1920s and 1930s on liberal politics, labor issues, race, and the countries in which McKay resided while abroad. Series V, Photographs, consists of five subseries: Family, Snapshots of McKay, Other People, Places and Other. There are photographs from Soviet Russia in the early 1920s, and studio portraits of well known musicians and figures in the African American community. Series VI, Memorabilia, contains clippings, photographs, program material and souvenirs from four separate commemorative events in honor of McKay from 1979-1990.

ArchivalResource: Total Boxes: 21; Other Storage Formats: 1 object storage item; Linear Feet: 11.35'

http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.mckay View

Cullen, Countee, 1903-1946. Papers. 1921-1979.

Title: Papers. 1921-1979.

Among these papers are correspondence (1921-1969); accounts, records, documents, legal papers, and certificates; a fragmentary diary (1928); teaching plan books and other teaching records; writings--an autobiography, articles, a book review, letters-to-the-editor, juvenile novels, plays, poems, a radio serial, a short story, and theses; sheet music; notes and lists; scrapbooks and clippings; biographical sketches and obituaries; photographs; programs, invitations, and announcements; pamphlets, leaflets, and a few periodicals; musical scores of Cullen's poems set to music and phonograph records. The greater part of the collection consists of the correspondence of Countee Cullen (1921-1945) and his writings.

ArchivalResource: 7.8 linear ft. 50 oversize items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/19503223 View

James Weldon Johnson and Grace Nail Johnson papers, circa 1850-2005, 1900-1976

Title: James Weldon Johnson and Grace NailJohnson papers circa 1850-2005 1900-1976

The James Weldon Johnson and GraceNail Johnson Papers provide evidence of the personal and professional lives ofJames Weldon Johnson, Grace Nail Johnson, and to a lesser degree, the Johnsonand Nail families, spanning the years 1850 to 2005, with the bulk of materialdating between 1900 and 1976. The papers chronicle Johnson’s writing career andinvolvement in education, politics, and cultural affairs and consist of avariety of documents, including correspondence, writings, personal papers,scrapbooks, photographs, artwork, objects, and audiovisual materials. Johnsonwas involved in a number of significant movements and organizations during hislifetime, and, as a result, the Papers also provide insight into broader topicsin American and African-American history during the twentieth century.

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http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.jwj View

Brown, Sterling Allen, 1901-1989. Poems, [1929?].

Title: Poems, [1929?].

Typescript carbon copies of two of Brown's poems, "Johnnie Thomas" and "Sister Louisa" (each 2 p.).

ArchivalResource: 2 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/145406115 View

The Leon Gontran Damas Sound Recording Collection [sound recording]

Title: The Leon Gontran Damas Sound Recording Collection [sound recording]

The Léon Gontran Damas Recorded Sound Collection consists primarily of noncommercial recordings of radio broadcasts made during his travels to Africa, France, and the United States etc.; as well as one commercial LP audio recording, "Poesie de la Negritude" by Leon G. Damas. The noncommercial material consists of interviews with Damas and others; poetry readings, and lectures by Damas and various other artists; drum music and traditional music from French Guinea and Sub-Saharan Africa. The collection includes the works of Guy Tirolien, Bernard Dadie, Jacques Rabemananjara, Aimé Césaire, Léopold Sédar Senghor, Bob Stokes, Eugene Miller, Jayne Cortez and others.

ArchivalResource: 49 sound discs (in 46 cases) analog, digital, stereo 4 3/4 in.; 1 sound disc 33 1/3 rpm 12 in.; 49 Archival original cases in various reel to reel formats and sizes; 1 Hard Drive of partial collection (21 discs) :

http://archives.nypl.org/rha/22120 View

Horace Mann Bond Papers, 1830-1979, 1926-1972

Title: Horace Mann Bond Papers, 1830-1979 1926-1972

Educator, sociologist, scholar, and author. Includes personal and professional correspondence; administrative and teaching records; research data; manuscripts of published and unpublished speeches, articles and books; photographs; and Bond family papers, especially those of Horace Bond's father, James Bond. Fully represented are Bond's two major interests: black education, especially its history and sociological aspects, and Africa, particularly as related to educational and political conditions. Correspondents include many notable African American educators, Africanists, activists, authors and others, such as Albert C. Barnes, Claude A. Barnett, Mary McLeod Bethune, Arna Bontemps, Ralph Bunch, Rufus Clement, J.G. St. Clair Drake, W.E.B. Du Bois, Edwin Embree, John Hope Franklin, E. Franklin Frazier, W.C. Handy, Thurgood Marshall, Benjamin E. Mays, Kwame Nkrumah, Robert Ezra Park, A. Phillip Randolph, Lawrence P. Reddick, A.A. Schomburg, George Shepperson, Carter Woodson and Monroe Work.

ArchivalResource: 169 boxes; (84.5 linear ft.)

http://asteria.fivecolleges.edu/findaids/umass/mums411.html View

Cullen, Countee, 1903-1946. Countee Cullen correspondence, 1923-1943.

Title: Countee Cullen correspondence, 1923-1943.

Thirteen ALsS written by Cullen concerning his poetry and signed typescripts of two poems, "The Ballad of the Brown Girl" and "To a Brown Boy." Correspondents include William Stanley Braithwaite, Sterling Allen Brown, and Cornelius Greenway.

ArchivalResource: 15 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70984397 View

Carter Godwin Woodson Papers, 1736-1974, (bulk 1915-1950)

Title: Carter Godwin Woodson Papers 1736-1974 (bulk 1915-1950)

Historian, author, and collector. Papers of prominent African Americans, research files, business records, writings, correspondence, and other material relating to Woodson's leadership of the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History and to scholarship and publishing in the field of African and African-American history.

ArchivalResource: 18,000 items; 54 containers plus 19 oversize; 21.2 linear feet; 46 microfilm reels

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms000014 View

Jean Wagner papers, 1945-1983 (inclusive), 1957-1963 (bulk).

Title: Jean Wagner papers, 1945-1983 (inclusive), 1957-1963 (bulk).

Correspondence and papers of the French scholar of Afro-American poetry Jean Wagner.

ArchivalResource: 2 boxes (.5 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00391/catalog View

Madgett, Naomi Cornelia Long. Naomi Long Madget papers, 1932-1993.

Title: Naomi Long Madget papers, 1932-1993.

Materials include biographical data; correspondence; published and unpublished writings, notebooks, and manuscripts, including the beginnings of an autobiography, the manuscripts, "Songs to a Phantom Nightingale", her first book, "Songs for a Rainy Day," and "No Need for Sound"; programs of readings; book reviews; news clippings of poems and articles; scrapbooks; and photographs.

ArchivalResource: 6.5 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70972589 View

Butcher, Philip, 1918-. Philip Butcher papers, ca.1890-1991.

Title: Philip Butcher papers, ca.1890-1991.

Correspondence, manuscripts, typescripts, notes, photographs, microfilms, videotape, posters, a phonograph record, and printed materials.

ArchivalResource: 11.5 linear ft. ( 22 boxes & 3 oversize folders)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/472459797 View

Spencer, Anne, 1882-1975. Papers of Anne Spencer and the Spencer family [manuscript], 1829, 1864-2007.

Title: Papers of Anne Spencer and the Spencer family [manuscript], 1829, 1864-2007.

The collection contains manuscript poems, ideas for poems, and articles by Spencer, including an autobiographical piece, 1956, sent to Lee Greene, typescript copies of some of her poems by Greene, and articles possibly written for a column in the Pittsburgh Courier, but never published. Prose manuscripts include "Bastion at Newark," "Chattel slavery or why I dislike Booker T," "Comments about herself spoken to Ben W. Fuson," "Dear children," "In the thicket" [regarding a short story by James Weldon Johnson], "LeRoi meets Lincoln," and "Virginia as Narcissus." Poetry manuscripts include "Any wife to any husband," "Ascetic," "At the carnival," "Before the feast of Shushan," "Black man o' mine," "Creed," "Dunbar," "Epitome," "For E.A.S.," "Failure," "For Jim, Easter Eve" [also titled "To James Weldon Johnson Easter Eve (1938-1948)]," "Grapes: Still-Life," "He said," "I have a friend," "Innocence," "Lady, lady," "Lemming: O Sweden," "Letter to my sister," "Liability," "Lines to a nasturtium," "Life-long, poor Browning," "Luther P. Jackson," "1975," "Neighbors," "Po' little lib," "Questing," "Requiem," "Rime for the Christmas baby," "The Sévignés," "Substitution," "Terrence, Terrence," "Translation," "White things," and "The wife-woman." There are also drafts and fragments of unfinished poems she constantly revised particularly "Big ditch and the river," "A dream of John Brown: on his return trip home." Themes and topics in untitled manuscripts and fragments include books and literature; family; African Americans, slavery, segregation, and civil rights; gardening and nature; historical and contemporary events and figures; politics and government particularly in Virginia; and religion. Correspondence of Anne Spencer is chiefly with and about family, friends fellow poets and anthologizers. Of interest are letters from Sterling A. Brown, Countee Cullen, Victor Daly, Arthur P. Davis, W.E.B. du Bois, Helen G. Edmonds, Murrell Edmunds, Ben Fuson, J. Lee Greene, Langston Hughes, Altona Trent Johns, Georgia Douglas Johnson, Grace Johnson, James Weldon Johnson, Charles S. Johnson, Alain LeRoy Locke, Harry Meacham, H. L. Mencken (copy), Amaza Meredith, Clarence Muse, Francis Coleman Rosenberger, Frank Silvera, Idella Purnell [Stone], Howard Thurman, and Carl Van Vechten, concerning her poetry and their own work. There are also letters to Andres Burris and to Cleveland Amory re Ellen Glasgow, James Branch Cabell and racism. Topics of interest in the correspondence include Langston Hughes, Adam Clayton Powell, Claude McKay, and William Raspberry, Jim Crow laws and segregation, and the Spencer family. There are many brief comments on people in the news and current events including the Democratic Presidential Convention of 1948 and the Republican Convention of 1952. There are numerous photographs of family and friends including Guy Bluford, Celinda Wright Humbles, Joe Louis, Amaza Meredith, Clarence Muse, and Ulysses S. Grant Patterson, as well as a Tuskegee Airmen convention and the faculty of the Virginia Theological Seminary. Financial and legal papers chiefly concern the Lynchburg, Va., property management business, tax business and chicken business of Edward Spencer. Many of his business ledgers were later reused by his widow for jotting down her poetry ideas. Contains an 1829 New Hampshire deed, an 1863 will, and the wills of Anne and her husband. Miscellaneous material includes material pertinent to an Anne Spencer Poetry Contest, the Friends of the Anne Spencer Memorial Foundation and the Virginia Landmarks Register inclusion for the Anne Spencer House as well as facsimiles of historic African American and historic broadsides; invitations; clippings; programs; a few papers concerning Chauncey Spencer, a Tuskeegee Airman, including a blueprint for a hangar at Dothan, Ala.; mimeograph copies of poetry by Gerald William Barrax; and a rough draft of "Searching for Anne Spencer" by Pat Doyle. The papers also contain an audiocassette "Remarks to the Fusons by poet Anne Spencer, 1969; and a mini-cassette labelled "Chauncey 4-14-99".

ArchivalResource: 4175 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/648010759 View