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Willis Richardson papers, 1910-1974

Title: Willis Richardson papers 1910-1974

The Willis Richardson papers document through correspondence, ephemera and scrapbooks his career as a playwright. Coverage is sketchy and there are major gaps in the collection.

ArchivalResource: 1.5 linear feet; 2 boxes

http://archives.nypl.org/the/21636 View

Jesse Edward Moorland Papers, ca. 1790-ca. 1939

Title: Jesse Edward Moorland Papers, ca. 1790-ca. 1939

Family and personal papers; general correspondence; speeches; photographs; and correspondence, clippings, printed materials, reports, and minutes relating to various organizations with which Moorland was affiliated, particularly the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History, Howard University, the Moorland Foundation, the Nazarene Congregation Church in Brooklyn, N.Y., the United War Work Campaign, the YMCA, the YMCA Colored Men's Dept., the YMCA International Committee, and the YMCA National Council.

ArchivalResource: 40 linear ft.

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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 The Writings series comprises holograph and typescript drafts of Braithwaite's works, both published and unpublished, and selected poems from his anthologies, and an extensive autobiographical essay in which he discusses his relationship with poets he championed: Robert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).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122580594 View

Carrington, C. Glenn, 1904-1975,. African American artists exhibit announcements, 1927-1982.

Title: African American artists exhibit announcements, 1927-1982.

The collection consists of exhibit announcements for John Biggers, Eugene H. Bischoff, Frank Bowling, Robert M. Jackson (signed), William H. Johnson, Richard Mayhew, Joe Overstreet, Gordon Parks, Horace Pippin, Henry O. Tanner, Charles White, Hale Woodruff, and in honor of Alain Locke. Also, includes an exhibition catalog, 7 Feb.-5 Mar. 1927, for Blondiau-Theatre Arts Collection of Primitive African Art, signed by Alain Locke to Glenn Carrington, 9 Feb. 1927.

ArchivalResource: 23 items.

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Locke, Alain LeRoy, 1886-1954. Papers, 1841-1983 (bulk 1898-1954).

Title: Papers, 1841-1983 (bulk 1898-1954).

Correspondence; writings, including speeches, lectures, books, articles, reviews, and notes, relating to Locke's involvement in African American and African literature and art and his role in the Harlem Renaissance; family papers, including correspondence, certificates, and legal and financial papers, of his grandfather, Ishmael Locke, and parents, Pliny and Mary Hawkins Locke; financial documents; organizational materials; and photographs. Includes material relating to Locke's involvement with Howard University and its community, with the Associates in Negro Folk Education and American Association for Adult Education, and with various organizations advocating cultural pluralism, including the Conference on Science, Philosophy and Religion and the Progressive Education Association. Persons represented by correspondence and/or mss. include Richmond Barthé, Countee Cullen, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Charles S. Johnson, and René Maran.

ArchivalResource: 116 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70939715 View

Carrington, C. Glenn, 1904-1975. Glenn Carrington papers, 1921-1971.

Title: Glenn Carrington papers, 1921-1971.

The Glenn Carrington Papers document the personal life of an African-American homosexual from the 1920's to the 1960's, before the advent of the gay pride movement. Among Carrington's friends and acquaintances were Alain Locke; sociologist Ophelia Settles Egypt, a fellow student at Howard University; Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Dana, grandson of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow; and a "surrogate" mother to Carrington, Georgia Douglas Johnson. There is correspondence related to Carrington's position as a parole officer and as a psychological social worker. Many of the young men Carrington counseled remained friends with him throughout his life and frequently corresponded with him. The correspondence between Carrington and the young men is included in the collection. There is also correspondence with Carrington's gay male friends. This collection does not have Harlem Renaissance-related correspondence with Alain Locke, and other figures associated with that movement; that corresponence is at Howard University.

ArchivalResource: 5.2 linear feet (13 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122408393 View

Durham Fact-Finding Conference records, 1929-1930 and 1942-1945

Title: Durham Fact-Finding Conference records, 1929-1930 and 1942-1945.

The collection contains correspondence, speeches, articles, statements, reports, brochures, and newspaper clippings related to the 1929 and 1930 meetings of the Durham Fact-Finding Conference and to two subsequent conferences that grew out of the Fact-Finding Conference: the 1942 Southern Conference on Race Relations and the 1944 Durham Race Relations Conference. Correspondents in letters addressed to the conferences' chair and college president, James E. Shepard, represent a wide array of African American colleges and universities, businesses, press, and organizations such as the NAACP, the Associated Negro Press, and the Federal Council of Churches. Notable correspondents include W.E.B. DuBois, Hugo L. Black, Frank Porter Graham, Charles S. Johnson, Walter White, William Hastie, Langston Hughes, A. Phillip Randolph, E. Franklin Frazier, Alain Locke, P.B. Young, Gordon B. Hancock, Claude A. Barnett, and George E. Haynes. The collection also contains excerpts from speeches given at the 1929 Durham Fact-Finding Conference and the 1944 Durham Race Relations Conference, meeting agendas, public statements resulting from conferences, articles, and newspaper clippings.

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Fauset, Arthur Huff, 1899-1983. Arthur Huff Fauset papers, 1855-1983.

Title: Arthur Huff Fauset papers, 1855-1983.

The bulk of the papers pertains to Fauset's endeavors as a creative writer.

ArchivalResource: 412 folders, 5 scrapbooks, & 1 portfolio (32 boxes).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/189864486 View

Braithwaite, William Stanley, 1878-1962. William Stanley Braithwaite collection, 1899-1939.

Title: William Stanley Braithwaite collection, 1899-1939.

Collection consists primarily of literary and personal correspondence, manuscripts, and clippings.

ArchivalResource: 2250 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70965233 View

William Ernest Hocking papers

Title: William Ernest Hocking papers

Correspondence of Harvard philosopher William Ernest Hocking, his wife, Agnes Hocking, the Hocking family, and others.

ArchivalResource: 144 linear feet (110 boxes)

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Caliver, Ambrose, 1894-1962. Ambrose Caliver collection, 1912-1938.

Title: Ambrose Caliver collection, 1912-1938.

The first three series contain administrative records relating to Fisk University, including communication records of student status with their parents, opportunities for students, institutional support, and transcripts. The Requests series contains records regarding locating Roland Hayes, pioneer African American composer and tenor who attended Fisk from 1905 to 1908, and the Jubilee Singers. Though dismissed after three years, Hayes accepted an invitation from president George A. Gates in 1911 to lead the Jubilee Singers on a tour of Boston, where he subsequently remained and launched his professional solo career. The records contained in the Caliver series contain examples and references from the Great Depression, Harlem Renaissance, New Deal, and the progressive era found throughout the twenty-four subseries. Correspondence, General holds letters that do not fall under any of the subsequent subseries. The Admissions subseries documents Caliver's interaction with accepted and potential students, and scholarship opportunities. The Alumni subseries contains records that document graduates in their professional and civic advances. Contained within the Committees subseries are documents of deliberations, lists, and proceedings ranging from admissions to social and recreation. The Employment Inquiries subseries holds letters of interests for custodian and teaching positions, whereas the Faculty & Staff subseries provides information about the development of the dean's office, and Alaine Locke's contributions to the instructional program at Fisk. Locke, an advocate of the "New Negro" philosophy, was a visiting professor in 1925. There is also information on Z. Alexander Looby, prominent Nashville and post-World War II civil rights attorney, who served as assistant professor of economics from 1926 to 1928; and Horace Mann Bond, educator, sociologist, scholar, and author, who served from 1928 to 1939 in various capacities, including research assistant to Charles S. Johnson, director of the men's dormitory, and chair of the department of education. The Graduate Work subseries and the Honorary Degrees subseries both hold limited correspondence pertaining to students enrolled and honorees. The Institutional Accreditation subseries contains documents of interaction with accrediting agencies of high schools where Fisk students attended, and organizations with interest in colleges and universities, such as the Association of American Universities. The Institutional Requests subseries holds correspondence documenting Caliver's invitation to participate in professional activities at institutions ranging from the Alexander Hamilton Institute to the West Virginia Department of Education. Correspondence between Caliver and Howard University, Meharry Medical College, and Northwestern University Medical School is contained within the Medical Colleges subseries. The Professional Associations subseries consists primarily of correspondence, but also includes announcements, bulletins, and programs of such organizations as the American Association of Adult Education, Association for the Study of Negro Life & History, East Tennessee Association of Teachers in Colored Schools, and the National Education Association. The Publicity Dept. subseries contains records of Fisk's publicity office and of Caliver's application of marketing and promotion tactics. A 1935 promotional announcement of Illinois Congressman Arthur W. Mitchell at the Ryman Auditorium links the collection to the Franklin D. Roosevelt administration, as it is billed under the auspices of the New Deal Progressive League. The majority of the correspondence is with W. E. B. Du Bois, 1888 Fisk alumnus and editor of the Crisis, and Charles S. Johnson as the editor of the National Urban League's Opportunity, before he began his tenure at Fisk in 1928. There are also official records of Fisk's subscriptions to Crisis and Opportunity; documentation of Du Bois public forums and lectures at the Fisk Memorial Chapel in 1928; and correspondence with Countee Cullen, poet, novelist, anthologist, and playwright, and Johnson's assistant editor at the Opportunity. The Registrar's Office subseries holds records that range from attendance notices, course offerings, statistics, and transcript requests to lists of students who were World War I veterans. Limited within the Reports, University Related subseries are descriptive analyses of those from housekeepers to the registrar. The Student Life subseries holds documents pertaining to extra-curricular activities including athletic team lists and schedules, class officers, clubs, fraternities and sororities, and musical ensembles from the glee club to singing sextets. Student Council procedure forms and participation records from the Tennessee Colored State Fair also are contained. The Student Orientation subseries includes correspondence, guidelines, lectures, manuals, and questionnaires and also documents Caliver's consultation with educational professionals and leaders in the field, and his role as an emerging authority on education. There are substantial orders and requests for his Freshmen Orientation: An Outline and Syllabus for a Course in College Problems and Life Adjustments. The Students/Parents and Students/Parents, Prospective subseries both provide evidence of Caliver's work with student intervention and retention, and of parental involvement. Correspondence with parents provides information associated with a professional class and related social institutions. There are letters with C.J. Bass; W. E. A. Forde; J. M. Frazier; and Mary McLeod Bethune. The remaining subseries include Telegrams, including funding appeals to Harvard University, personal transcript concerns, and professional requests; Textbook Orders from Henry Holt & Company, the Ronald Press Company Publishers, and the University Society of Educational Publishers for faculty members; letters (1932, 1934, and 1937) when Caliver served as specialist on Negro education, United States Dept. of Interior, after his tenure at Fisk; a miscellaneous Collection, including bulletins, pamphlets, an undated photograph of Caliver, programs, and non-university-related reports; a second Miscellaneous collection, containing correspondence and application records from the State of Tennessee Dept. of Education; and an unidentified folder of records that do not fit within any of the previous series or subseries.

ArchivalResource: 4.5 linear ft. (9 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/231347377 View

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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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

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.

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Ralph Bunche papers, 1922-1988

Title: Ralph Bunche papers 1922-1988

Personal papers, family and general correspondence, writings, field notes and research materials, working papers, office files and printed matter documenting Ralph Bunche's personal life and professional career, from his enrollment at the University of California to his retirement in 1971.

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http://archives.nypl.org/scm/20652 View

Schomburg, Arthur Alfonso, 1874-1938. Arthur Alfonso Schomburg collection, 1920-1938, 1985-1993.

Title: Arthur Alfonso Schomburg collection, 1920-1938, 1985-1993.

The Arthur Alfonso Schomburg Collection consists principally of nine undated typescripts authored by Schomburg primarily concerned with the history of Africans and people of African descent in Latin America and Spain from the 1500 to 1700's as well as pre-Columbian times. One manuscript deals with ancient Egyptian culture; another pertains to the history of Africans in the Americas under Spanish rule; several are annotated. Two of the manuscripts were published in "Opportunity." Additionally, there is another unpublished typescript, with corrections, written by Alain Locke as a foreword entitled "In Memoriam: Arthur Alfonso Schomburg 1874-1938." There is also a brief biography of Schomburg and a list of Schomburg's memberships in various organizations. This collection also includes genealogical information about Schomburg. There are photocopies of a questionnaire (in the the E. Franklin Frazier Papers at Howard University) completed by Schomburg concerning his family background, and copies of Schomburg's baptismal certificate, his Prince Hall Mason membership certificate, and a marriage record for one of Schomburg's paternal ancestors. The quest to understand the genealogy of the German/Puerto Rican side of his family is represented by letters written by Susan Schomburg, a possible distant relative, to staff of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture regarding her research findings. Another letter from Schomburg's daughter, Dolores, discusses the family background. A copy of a letter to Schomburg from Nancy Cunard, two bookplates and an Ellis Island certificate complete the collection.

ArchivalResource: 4 folders

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/79459201 View

Glenn Carrington papers, 1921-1971

Title: Glenn Carrington papers 1921-1971

The Glenn Carrington Papers document the personal life of an African-American homosexual from the 1920's to the 1960's, before the advent of the gay pride movement. Among Carrington's friends and acquaintances were Alain Locke; sociologist Ophelia Settles Egypt, a fellow student at Howard University; Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Dana, grandson of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow; and a "surrogate" mother to Carrington, Georgia Douglas Johnson. There is correspondence related to Carrington's position as a parole officer and as a psychological social worker. Many of the young men Carrington counseled remained friends with him throughout his life and frequently corresponded with him. The correspondence between Carrington and the young men is included in the collection. There is also correspondence with Carrington's gay male friends.

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http://archives.nypl.org/scm/20804 View

Bunche, Ralph J. (Ralph Johnson), 1904-1971. Ralph Bunche papers, 1922-1988.

Title: Ralph Bunche papers, 1922-1988.

Personal papers, family and general correspondence, writings, field notes and research materials, working papers, office files and printed matter documenting Ralph Bunche's personal life and professional career, from his enrollment at the University of California to his retirement in 1971. Family papers (1922-1988) comprise personal papers of Ralph Bunche and Ruth Harris Bunche. The Ralph Bunche subseries includes educational, medical and financial papers, passports, personal and family documents. The Ruth Harris Bunche subseries consists of general and professional correspondence, speeches and miscellaneous writings, certificates and awards, scrapbooks and printed matter. The Correspondence series (1929-1971) is divided into family and general correspondence. Family correspondence consists of letters exchanged between Ralph Bunche and his wife from 1929 to 1944, letters from his aunts Nelle and Ethel Johnson, his sister Grace Robinson, his mother Olive, correspondence with his children, and occasional correspondence with other relatives. General correspondence consists of three separate files: correspondence from his residency in London in 1937, correspondence relating to his retirement in 1971, and occasional correspondence between 1928 and 1971. Noted correspondents include Walter White, Alain Locke, George Padmore, T.R. Makonnen and Eric Williams. Writings are divided into two subseries: conferences and academic writings, and addresses and articles. The first subseries consists primarily of essays, articles and reviews written by Bunche, in addition to research notes and typescripts of his master's thesis "the Political Theory of Sir Robert Filmer" and his doctoral dissertation "French Administration in Togoland and Dahomey." The second subseries consists of files of Bunche's handwritten and typescript articles and speeches from 1951 to 1969. Addressed mainly to academic and university audiences and to civic and international gatherings, they deal mainly with issues of world peace and his role at the United Nations. Also included are eulogies, television interviews and acceptance speeches for prizes, awards and honorary degrees conferred on him. The South Africa Reearch Trip series (1937) consists of letters of recommendation, field notes and correspondence with the State Department, South African officials and the Rosenwald Fund. The Howard University series (1928-1941) is divided into correspondence and office files, and includes class syllabi, students' examinations and grades, lecture notes, reports and printed matter. Correspondents include Saul Bellow, Rupert Emerson, Melville Herskovits, Benjamin Azikiwe, and many of his colleagues: E.P. Davis, Emmett Dorsey, Mordecai Johnson, Charles H. Wesley, Frederick Wilinson and Eric Williams. The Carnegie-Myrdal series consists of correspondence, draft manuscripts and typescripts of research memoranda written by Bunche, as well as interviews, reports and field notes prepared by Bunche, Myrdal and a staff of assistants and collaborators. These materials are arranged into five subseries: research and administrative correspondence and memoranda; research memoranda prepared by Bunche; reports, field notes and research materials filed by the name of their creators; reports, field notes and research materials filed by city, by county or by state; and printed matter. Principal contributors to this series, in addition to Bunche, include George Stoney, Whilhelmina Jackson, Gunnar Myrdal and James Jackson. Major surveys were conducted in the states of Missouri, Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee, Ohio, Georgia, South Carolina, Florida, Arkansas and Oklahoma. Materials collected include voting charts, annotated city maps indicating segregated boundaries and campaign literature. The United Nations Trusteeship Council series (1946-1950) consists of working papers and mimeographed reports of the Fourth Committee of the United Nations' General Assembly, also known as the Trusteeship Council. A sub-committee of seventeen members was appointed in 1946 to examine and make recommendations to the Council on trusteeship agreements proposed for the mandated territories by the corresponding colonial governments. Working papers leading to the formation of the Sub-Committee, proceedings of its 26 meetings, the proposed agreements, in addition to amendments and modifications, statements and resolutions from the various delegations, are included in the files of the Sub-Committee. A major part of this series consists of the complete verbatim records of the 81 meetings of the Trusteeship Council at its sixth session in 1950. Also included are petitions from civic and political associations in the mandated territories challenging colonial rule on such issues as forced labor, abuse of authority and trade-union restrictions. The Awards, Membership and Tributes series (1927-1984) consists of correspondence, certificates, programs, invitations and souvenir journals of luncheons, testimonial dinners and banquets held in Bunche's honor, in addition to documents relating to various memorial tributes and commemorative events following his death. The Scrapbooks series (1930-1972) consists of: the Howard University Scrapbook of memorabilia and press clippings (1930-1939); the Ruth Bunche Art Student Scrapbook (1934-1935); the Voices ofAmerican Liberty Scrapbook presented to Ralph Bunche at Lord and Taylor's Nineteenth Annual Luncheon on March 18, 1956; the Ralph Bunche Hall Scrpabook of the University of California at Los Angeles; the Jane Bunche Pierce Memorial Scrapbook (1966); the Ralph Bunche Memorial Scrapbook (1971-1972), consisting of condolence letters, telegrams and sympathy cards, obituaries, memorial tributes and printed matter; and the Peace Form One Scrapbook marking the dedication ceremony of the Ralph Bunche Memorial Monument near the United Nations. The Printed Matter series (1931-1971) relates primarily to Ralph Bunche, his family life and his career at the United Nations.

ArchivalResource: 27.6 lin. ft.

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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.

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Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967. Papers of Langston Hughes [manuscript], 1925-1982.

Title: Papers of Langston Hughes [manuscript], 1925-1982.

The papers contain manuscripts of the poems "Motto," "Youth," "Snail," "Alabama earth (At Booker Washington's grave)," "Cross" and "Mississippi-1955 ("To the memory of Emmett Till lynched in Mississippi, USA/August 1955")," and reprints of "Low to high" and "High to low." There are forty-four letters, postcards and notes to Youra Qualls and Ina Qualls Steele in which Hughes discusses speaking engagements, travel including Africa in 1962, his writing, and the production of his dramas. He mentions the N.A.A.C.P. briefly several times, and there are single, brief references to Josephine Baker, Billy Holliday, Arna Bontemps, Ralph Ellison, Melvin Tolson, Nina Simone, Carmen Amaya, and Gwendolyn Brooks. Eight letters to journalist and N.A.A.C.P. public relations director Henry Lee Moon discuss his work and mention Tuskegee Institute, Zora Neale Hurston, and Alain Locke. Of interest is a detailed account of a speaking engagement in Chapel Hill, N.C., and parties given in his honor. A letter to Walter Goldwater concerns publicity for two books, one to Peggy Hunter apologizes for not speaking at Texas College for Negroes, and one to a 5th grade class thanks them for interest in his books and urges them to help their parents be more tolerant. The collection also contains three photographs and a reproduction of a pastel portrait of Hughes; a playbill "Just around the corner"; a promotional circular for "Fight for freedom: the story of the NAACP"; a catalog with titles of recordings by him; a program for "The prodigal son"; a promotional circular "Langston Hughes: poet of the people"; a memorial service program; a Langston Hughes Society pamphlet; and sheet music "Checkin on the freedom train."

ArchivalResource: 84 items.

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Bernhard Stern/Alain Locke collection, 1931-1955.

Title: Bernhard Stern/Alain Locke collection, 1931-1955.

Correspondence between Bernhard Stern and Alain Locke, co-editors of "When Peoples Meet, A Study in Race and Cultural Contacts" (1946), a book on race relations. Letters document the working relationship between the two and some of the work that went into finalizing and publicizing the book. Also research notes and correspondence re Stern's and Melville Jacob's book "Outline of Anthropology;" a file (1939-1942) related to Stern's involvement with the Carnegie Corporation "Negro in America" study, including memoranda from Gunnar Myrdal and Doxey Wilkerson, another project participant; also Stern's lecture notes for courses in anthropology at the New School for Social Research, 1930s-1950.

ArchivalResource: .4 lin. ft.

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Locke, Alain LeRoy, 1886-1954. Correspondence with Marian Anderson, 1929-1937.

Title: Correspondence with Marian Anderson, 1929-1937.

ArchivalResource: 3 items (4 l.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/63559597 View