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Arthur Alfonso Schomburg papers, 1724-1938 (bulk 1904-1938)

Title: Arthur Alfonso Schomburg papers, 1724-1938 (bulk 1904-1938)

Papers reflecting Schomburg's endeavors as a writer and researcher, and collector and curator of books and manuscripts pertaining to black history and culture. Personal and professional papers, including correspondence and writings, and writings of others. Includes material relating to Schomburg's position as curator of the Schomburg Collection, and to black literature, art, and history. Correspondents include John Bruce, Henrietta Buckmaster, W.E.B. Du Bois, Nicolas Guillen, W.C. Handy, Langston Hughes, Charles S. Johnson, James W. Johnson, Claude McKay, J.A. Rogers, Albert A. Smith, Stenio Vincent (President of Haiti), Walter White, and Carter G. Woodson. Other papers include programs, news clippings, invitations, announcements, and minutes of a variety of organizations, such as the New York Urban League, New York Public Library, Young Men's Christian Association, and several black cultural and educational groups. Also, transcriptions of 18th and 19th century historical documents pertaining to black history and culture.

ArchivalResource: Originals: 6.8 lin. ft.Copies: 12 microfilm reels.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122485276 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

McLeod, Alan L.,. Claude Mckay research collection, 1971-1992.

Title: Claude Mckay research collection, 1971-1992.

The Claude McKay research collection (1971-1992) consists of printed material and photocopies of letters, poems and articles from various manuscript collections. The printed material consist of copies of poems by McKay. The photocopies are of letters from McKay to his daughter, Hope, William Stanley Braithwaite, Carl Cowl (Harvard University), 1916-1943, and Ivy and Harold Jackman, Arna Bontemps, Max Eastman and Carl Van Vechten (Atlanta University), 1922-1944. There is also a folder of McLeod writings on McKay, and a folder of articles about McKay by other authors.

ArchivalResource: .2 linear ft. (1/2 archival box)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/79459223 View

Bryant, Louise, 1885-1936. Louise Bryant papers, 1908-1938 (inclusive).

Title: Louise Bryant papers, 1908-1938 (inclusive).

The papers consist of correspondence, writings, notebooks, books, artwork, photographs, and printed matter which document Louise Bryant's career as a journalist and her personal and family life. The papers contain only a small amount of material about John Reed.

ArchivalResource: 19.43 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/702172864 View

Wright, Richard, 1908-1960. Untitled speech, on African-American literature [manuscript] / by Richard Wright, undated.

Title: Untitled speech, on African-American literature [manuscript] / by Richard Wright, undated.

Wright's speech on African-American literature states "I do most seriously want to tell you about Negro writing, [what] that writing means, how it came to be written, what relationship it had to its time, and what it means to us today...." He gives examples from the work of Phillis Wheatley, W.E.B. DuBois, James Weldon Johnson, Jean Toomer, Countee Cullen, Claude McKay, Margaret Walker and others. The speech contains the signature of Wright's friend and biographer Constance Webb with her note that the speech was probably delivered between the publication of "Native Son" and "Black Boy."

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http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/277040622 View

Federal Writers' Project (N.Y.). Federal Writers' Project Negro Group papers, 1927-1940.

Title: Federal Writers' Project Negro Group papers, 1927-1940.

Collection consists of drafts and transcriptions of essays by African American authors on the history and culture of African Americans in the United States and on African American contributions to the arts. Essays documenting historical experiences of African Americans cover religion in the Colonial era, the anti-slavery movement, and the underground railroad. Essays documenting African American cultural forms cover dance, literature, and theater, and feature several pieces on music, including songs of protest, spirituals, and folk music. Many essays in the collection also document contributions of individual African Americans, including James Weldon Johnson, Duke Ellington, Cab Calloway, Paul Robeson, and William Christopher Handy. Contributing authors include Wesley Curtwright, Ralph Ellison, Lawrence Gellert, Abram Hill, Claude McKay, Henry Lee Moon, Ted Poston, and others.

ArchivalResource: 0.63 linear feet (2 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/702186237 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

Bowlby, Timothy J. Africa we knew, the : (1994) : song cycle/suite/serenade in ten movements ... / on texts by Claude MacKay & William Plomer ; with music composed by Timothy J. Bowlby.

Title: Africa we knew, the : (1994) : song cycle/suite/serenade in ten movements ... / on texts by Claude MacKay & William Plomer ; with music composed by Timothy J. Bowlby. 1996.

ArchivalResource: 1 score (iv, 189 leaves), bound ; 28 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/37886284 View

Claude McKay collection (additions)

Title: Claude McKay collection (additions)

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http://archives.nypl.org/scm/21079 View

Communist International. Negro Commission. Documents from the Comintern Archives on African Americans, 1919-1929

Title: Documents from the Comintern Archives on African Americans, 1919-1929

Selection of documents from the archives of the Communist International (Comintern) pertaining to its Negro Commission, the African Blood Brotherhood (ABB), and to "Negro work" in the United States. The collection reflects the evolution of Comintern policy toward African Americans, from racial equality and integration to self-determination and possible separation from the United States. Reel 1 (1919-1928) includes a sampling of ABB documents; working papers of the Negro Commission and the American Negro Labor Congress; minutes of the 1924 All-Race Assembly or Negro Sanhedrin in Chicago; various communications by Claude McKay and Lovett Fort-Whiteman to Comintern officials; a detailed discussion on race and nationality, self-determination and the Black peasantry at a 1928 joint meeting of the American delegation and the Negro Commission; and selected papers of the Comintern Executive Committee and the Workers Party of America. Reel 2 (1928-1929) continues with the Sixth Comintern Congress debates over the direction of communist policy in the U.S. toward African-Americans. Issues and individuals represented include Harry Haywood and the self-determination thesis; Comintern criticism of the Workers Party of America on the "Negro Question;" Comintern views on African American intellectual life and on such leading black organizations as the Universal Negro Improvement Association, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and the Pan-African Congress Movement; conditions of black workers and peasants in the U.S.; factionalism within the U.S. communist movement; and black communists Cyril V. Briggs, James W. Ford, Otto Hall, Otto Huiswood, Richard B. Moore and George Padmore.

ArchivalResource: 2 microfilm reels

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/144682716 View

Williams-Stewart, Doreen P. Claude McKay and the Harlem Renaissance : the enigma of diasporic healing / Doreen P. Williams-Stewart.

Title: Claude McKay and the Harlem Renaissance : the enigma of diasporic healing / Doreen P. Williams-Stewart. 2001.

ArchivalResource: v, 80 leaves.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/428737825 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

Julius Rosenwald Fund. Julius Rosenwald Fund records, 1917-1948.

Title: Julius Rosenwald Fund records, 1917-1948.

Collection documents the activities of the Julius Rosenwald Fund.

ArchivalResource: ca. 1 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70972601 View

Arthur Alfonso Schomburg papers, 1724-1938, 1904-1938

Title: Arthur Alfonso Schomburg papers 1724-1938 1904-1938

Papers reflecting Schomburg's endeavors as a writer and researcher, and collector and curator of books and manuscripts pertaining to black history and culture. Personal and professional papers, including correspondence and writings, and writings of others. Includes material relating to Schomburg's position as curator of the Schomburg Collection, and to black literature, art, and history. Correspondents include John Bruce, Henrietta Buckmaster, W.E.B. Du Bois, Nicolas Guillen, W.C. Handy, Langston Hughes, Charles S. Johnson, James W. Johnson, Claude McKay, J.A. Rogers, Albert A. Smith, Stenio Vincent (President of Haiti), Walter White, and Carter G. Woodson. Other papers include programs, news clippings, invitations, announcements, and minutes of a variety of organizations, such as the New York Urban League, New York Public Library, Young Men's Christian Association, and several black cultural and educational groups. Also, transcriptions of 18th and 19th century historical documents pertaining to black history and culture.

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http://archives.nypl.org/scm/20639 View

The Nation, records, 1879-1974 (inclusive), 1920-1955 (bulk).

Title: The Nation records, 1879-1974 (inclusive), 1920-1955 (bulk).

Records of the weekly magazine, The Nation, primarily during the editorship of Freda Kirchwey.

ArchivalResource: 34 boxes (42.5 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00189/catalog View

McKay, Claude, 1890-1948. Letters, 1964-1967.

Title: Letters, 1964-1967.

Contents of the folder on Claude McKay include: an archive of correspondence (personal and professional)about Claude McKay written by artists and authors who knew McKay during his association with the periodicals the "Masses" and the "Liberator." The letters are all addressed to Wayne Cooper, written in response to his inquiries during preparation of the Passion of Claude McKay, as well as an earlier biography Mr. Cooper wrote about Claude McKay. Also included is a copy of a typed letter (4 pgs.), written by Claude McKay to Max Eastman (he notes in ink holograph "copy" on the first page.) The letter presents McKay's political views in 1925, particularly his feelings towards Communism.

ArchivalResource: 16 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/80734600 View

Watson, James S., 1882-1952. James S. Watson papers, 1913-1991 (bulk 1913-1952).

Title: James S. Watson papers, 1913-1991 (bulk 1913-1952).

The James S. Watson Papers, 1913-1991, document his career as a judge, his legal decisions and opinions, his numerous civic and community activities, and his personal and family life. The Papers consist of correspondence, legal documents, minutes, writings, financial records, clippings and printed material. The Personal Papers include biographical material and correspondence to and from family, friends, and acquaintances, both in Jamaica and the United States. Letters from son James to his parents while serving during World War II are located in the Personal Papers and the Family Papers series where additional family correspondence is filed. Although material prior to 1930 is sketchy, the Professional Series documents the entirety of Watson's working career and his electoral campaigns. Of special interest in this series are two files located in the General File sub-series which deal with cases filed by the Newspaper Guild of New York against The New York Amsterdam News in 1936 and 1937, respectively, regarding the firing of city editor Ted Poston and reporter Henry Lee Moon in 1936 and editor Obie McCullum and sports writer and theater critic Roi Ottley in 1937. On both occasions Watson acted as arbitrator. Watson's professional life is further documented in the Speeches and Writings series, as is his role in the Harlem and West Indian communities which is also recorded in the collection's Civic and Community Activities series. Overall, the Civic and Community Activities series contain correspondence, requests for aid, meeting notices, minutes and reports from the Harlem Branch of the Young Men's Christian Association, the Harlem Adult Education Committee and various labor and civil rights groups. The General File series contain requests for immigration and financial assistance as well as correspondence from Claude McKay and editor A.M. Wendell Malliet with whom Watson consulted regarding a projected autobiography.

ArchivalResource: 5 lin. ft. (14 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/466878627 View

Alexander Gumby Collection of Negroiana, [ca. 1800]-1981

Title: Alexander Gumby Collection of Negroiana, [ca. 1800]-1981

ArchivalResource: 36 linear ft. (26 document boxes, 1 record carton, 146 custom CMI boxes)]

http://findingaids.cul.columbia.edu/ead/nnc-rb/ldpd_4078845 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

Gumby, L. S. Alexander, 1885-1961,. Collection of Negroiana, [ca. 1800]-1981, [microform].

Title: Collection of Negroiana, [ca. 1800]-1981, [microform].

A collection concerned with the various phases of black life in America, containing clippings, pamphlets, photographs, pictures, extracts from periodicals, and a representative group of approximately 350 letters, signatures, manuscripts, and documents. Among the letters are several each from Countee Cullen, Frederick Douglass, Alexander Dumas, fils, William Lloyd Garrison, Claude McKay, Abraham Lincoln, Henry Mencken, William Pickens, Albert A. Smith, and Booker T. Washington. Also, eighteen slavery documents.

ArchivalResource: 22 positive reels (1977 revised version).17 positive reels (1972 version; reels 1-5 are partly illegible).22 master negative reels (1977 revised version).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122515243 View

Virtue, Vivian, 1911-1998. Vivian Virtue papers, 1932-2000.

Title: Vivian Virtue papers, 1932-2000.

The collection includes correspondence (1932-1992), original works, publications, translations, broadcasts, newspaper clippings, research, and photographs. Prominent correspondents include Harlem Renaissance poets Claude McKay and Langston Hughes, Arthur Guiterman (playwright, poet), Edna Manley (sculptor), John Hearne (composer), Michael Anthony (novelist), Virtue's family, and many others. Original works include verse written in the more traditional forms described as "Parnassian," such as the sonnet, the villanelle, and the rondeau. The bulk of the original poems series consists of each poem in various stages of completion with both holograph and fair copies of each poem. Translations include works in the French and Spanish by José-Maria de Heredia, Charles Baudelaire, Luc Grimard, Jose Santos Chocano, and others. Many of the translations contain both holograph and final drafts of each poem. Broadcasts for the BBC consist of scripts on Marcus Garvey, William Wordsworth, the history of the British West Indies, and commentary on Virtue's own poetic process. Also included in the collection are address books, diaries only partially filled in, and biographical sketches and reviews on Virtue's volume of poetry, Wings of the morning.

ArchivalResource: 3 cubic feet.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/48822674 View

Claude McKay letters and manuscripts 1915-1952.

Title: Claude McKay letters and manuscripts 1915-1952.

Correspondence and manuscripts of McKay's works, both published and unpublished, including "Banjo," "Banana Bottom," "Harlem Glory," and "Romance in Marseilles." Included are letters with Max Eastman, and from Louise Bryant, several letters from McKay to Simon Williamson, a colleague in the WPA Federal Writers Program, 1935-1943; and to Carl Van Vechten, 1941. Collection includes McKay's poems, "Desolate" holograph.

ArchivalResource: Originals: 2 lin. ft.Copies: 63 lin. ft. microfilm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122682552 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

McKay, Claude, 1890-1948. Claude McKay letter to Yasuichi Hikida, 1934 April 2.

Title: Claude McKay letter to Yasuichi Hikida, 1934 April 2.

McKay writes to Yasuichi Hikida complaining that Schomburg "has not kept his promise to make good an advance to me until your return." He urges Hikida to "do something about this matter. For it is impossible for me to do my/your work in this state. And I daresay that that is Mr. Schomburg's secret desire."

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/48822707 View

Chaplin, Ralph, 1887-1961. Papers, 1909-1948.

Title: Papers, 1909-1948.

Consist chiefly of correspondence, some addressed to his wife, Edith, and his son, Ivan; poems, notes, and other writings, including his autograph album from Cook County jail, 1917, drafts of poems written while imprisoned at Leavenworth Penitentiary, 1918-23, and a negative photostat of Digest of California criminal syndicalism cases, written by the California branch of the I.W.W.'s General Defense Committee, 1926. Also included are printed poems, flyers, and newspaper clippings, prison documents. And ana. The papers largely concern the period of I.W.W. activism (1917-26), particularly his prison experiences and a report by A.W. Curtis on the Centralia (Wash.) trial of I.W.W. lumbermen; the publication of his pamphlets and books; and the organization, activities, and publications of Technocracy, Inc., a group promoting the technocracy movement (1933-34).

ArchivalResource: 121 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/34363792 View

Ovington, Mary White, 1865-1951. Mary White Ovington papers, 1854-1948.

Title: Mary White Ovington papers, 1854-1948.

Correspondence, diaries, financial records and other materials relating to Mary White Ovington's activities with the NAACP, her autobiography and other published and unpublished writings.

ArchivalResource: 6 linear ft. (12 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/32321119 View

Flodin, Jack. Be patient, weary body : the tired worker / [words by] Claude McKay ; [music by] Jack Flodin.

Title: Be patient, weary body : the tired worker / [words by] Claude McKay ; [music by] Jack Flodin. [194-]

ArchivalResource: 1 ms. score ([3] p.) ; 32 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/63553797 View

Claude McKay estate records

Title: Claude McKay estate records

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http://archives.nypl.org/scm/21080 View

Chaplin, Ralph, 1887-1961. Ralph Chaplin papers, 1909-1948.

Title: Ralph Chaplin papers, 1909-1948.

Consist chiefly of correspondence, some addressed to his wife, Edith, and his son, Ivan; poems, notes, and other writings, including his autograph album from Cook County jail, 1917, drafts of poems written while imprisoned at Leavenworth Penitentiary, 1918-23, and a negative photostat of Digest of California criminal syndicalism cases, written by the California branch of the I.W.W.'s General Defense Committee, 1926. Also included are printed poems, flyers, and newspaper clippings, prison documents. And ana. The papers largely concern the period of I.W.W. activism (1917-26), particularly his prison experiences and a report by A.W. Curtis on the Centralia (Wash.) trial of I.W.W. lumbermen; the publication of his pamphlets and books; and the organization, activities, and publications of Technocracy, Inc., a group promoting the technocracy movement (1933-34).

ArchivalResource: 121 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/66895319 View

McKay, Claude, 1890-1948. Claude McKay collection : additions, 1912-1953.

Title: Claude McKay collection : additions, 1912-1953.

The Claude McKay Collection (additions) consists of correspondence, manuscripts and galley, and related printed material. The correspondence is mostly letters from McKay to Simon Williamson which trace the development of their friendship and its dissolution, and letters to Ruth Raphael that discuss McKay's health, writings and conversion to Catholicism. The general correspondence folder contains letters about "Bambara" magazine, a literary endeavor proposed during the Harlem Renaissance. Manuscripts include a poem by McKay, with editorial notes, entitled "Note to Harlem", along with a corrected typescript of "My Greenhills of Jamaica," and the galley for book, "Selected Poems of Claude McKay" published after his death. The news clippings are mostly obituaries and matters relating to the distribution of his literary papers.

ArchivalResource: .2 lin. ft. (1 1/2 archival boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/666964817 View

McKay, Claude, 1890-1948. Letter, 1921 June 9, to Harold G. Rugg, Hanover, N.H.

Title: Letter, 1921 June 9, to Harold G. Rugg, Hanover, N.H.

States that he was never a student at Dartmouth College, but worked as janitor at the D.K.E. House.

ArchivalResource: [1] leaf ; 28 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/9328337 View

United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation. Freedom of Information Act files, 1921-1959.

Title: Freedom of Information Act files, 1921-1959.

Surveillance files on African American intellectuals and activists obtained from the FBI Archives via a Freedom of Information Act request.

ArchivalResource: .2 lin. ft. (1 archival box)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/438101349 View

Claude McKay letters and manuscripts, 1915-1952

Title: Claude McKay letters and manuscripts 1915-1952

Author, poet. Born in Jamaica. Correspondence and manuscripts of McKay's works, both published and unpublished, including "Banjo," "Banana Bottom," "Harlem Glory," and "Romance in Marseilles." Included are letters with Max Eastman, from Louise Bryant, Arrack Johns, director of the Federal Writers' Project, and to Carl Van Vechten, 1941.

ArchivalResource: 2 lin. ft.

http://archives.nypl.org/scm/20737 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

Gumby, L. S. Alexander, 1885-1961,. Alexander Gumby collection of Negroiana, [ca. 1800]-1981.

Title: Alexander Gumby collection of Negroiana, [ca. 1800]-1981.

A collection concerned with the various phases of black life in America, containing clippings, pamphlets, photographs, pictures, extracts from periodicals, and a representative group of approximately 350 letters, signatures, manuscripts, and documents. Among the letters are several each from Countee Cullen, Frederick Douglass, Alexander Dumas, fils, William Lloyd Garrison, Claude McKay, Abraham Lincoln, Henry Mencken, William Pickens, Albert A. Smith, and Booker T. Washington. Also, eighteen slavery documents. Most of the material is mounted in 161 scrapbooks or groups of folio leaves. The clippings are from both general and specialized newspapers and magazines ranging in date from 1850 to 1960, however the majority of the material falls between 1910 and 1950. Whole volumes are devoted to major figures such as Joe Louis, Booker T. Washington, Paul Robeson, and Josephine Baker. Four scrapbooks contain signatures, signed photographs, and letters from a great variety of individuals. Among the unnumbered volumes of personal scrapbooks there are six volumes labeled "Gumby's Autobiography" containing personal letters, calling cards, photographs, post cards, and other printed material relating to Gumby's life.

ArchivalResource: 88 inear ft. ( 17 boxes 1 oversize folder)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/265033274 View

Edward K. Welsh Papers, Bulk, 1960-1969, circa 1930-1974

Title: Edward K. Welsh Papers Bulk, 1960-1969 circa 1930-1974

Edward K. Welsh (1902-1979) began his career as a union organizer in 1930. In the 1940s, he was hired by the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) to organize workers in the steel, auto, and textile industries in the United States. He later organized laborers at the Panama Canal Zone. In 1961, the AFL-CIO sent Welsh to Africa as part of the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (ICFTU) to assist various African trade union movements. He spent three and a half years in Africa. The collection mainly documents Welsh's trade union work in the United States and Africa, but also reflects some of his nonunion activities.

ArchivalResource: 4.25 linear feet; in 4 record cartons and 5 folders

http://dlib.nyu.edu/findingaids/html/tamwag/tam_074/tam_074.html View

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

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

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

ArchivalResource: 51 boxes (25.5 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00670/catalog View

Barbara Mae Watson papers, 1929-1984

Title: Barbara Mae Watson papers

The Barbara M. Watson Papers date from 1929-1984 and document Watson's career as a business woman (1946-1955); lawyer (1962-1964, 1981-1983); government official (1966-1974, 1977-1980) and diplomat (1980-1981). In addition to career information, there are personal papers, general and family correspondence, lecture and conference participation data, including typescripts of speeches delivered by Watson, records of her board memberships and professional associations and extensive printed material relating to Watson's professional and personal life.

ArchivalResource: 17.8 lin. ft. (50 boxes)

http://archives.nypl.org/scm/20813 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

Harrison, Hubert H. Hubert H. Harrison papers, 1893-1927.

Title: Hubert H. Harrison papers, 1893-1927.

The collection is composed of the personal papers--correspondence, manuscripts, documents, newspaper clippings, diaries, scrapbooks, memorabilia, photographs and books--of Hubert H. Harrison, an early 20th century African American activist, orator, writer, intellectual, and editor. The papers range from his early years in the United States to his death in 1927. The bulk of the collection is printed material, mostly clippings and books. There is a substantial correspondence series which includes letters by many prominent writers and individuals such as John E. Bruce, Clarence Darrow, W.E.B. DuBois, Claude Mc Kay, H.L. Mencken, Eugene O'Neill, William Pickens, Adam Clayton Powell, Sr., A. Philip Randolph, Andy Razafkeriefo (Razaf), Joel A. Rogers, T. Lothrop Stoddard, William Monroe Trotter, Walter White, Carter G. Woodson, and Monroe N. Work. Of particular note is the extensive collection of writings, both original manuscripts as well as clippings from newspapers and magazines by Hubert H. Harrison. In addition, there are numerous scrapbooks compiled by Harrison on a wealth of topics, as well as his diaries. Many unique and important photographs of Harrison and his family, friends, and associates are contained in the collection along with a notable collection of books, evincing the breath and depth of Harrison's reading, as well as his interest in book collecting. Harrison's active career as a lecturer and speaker is demonstrated by the numerous broadsides and pamphlets.

ArchivalResource: 23 linear ft. (19 document boxes; 7 record storage cartons; 1 flat box)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/460881323 View

McKay, Claude, 1890-1948. Note, 1922 Mar. 30, New York, to Ralph Chaplin, Leavenworth Prison, Kans.

Title: Note, 1922 Mar. 30, New York, to Ralph Chaplin, Leavenworth Prison, Kans.

Concerns poems published in The Liberator, and provision for a free subscription.

ArchivalResource: 1 p. Typescript signed.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/34366918 View

Barbara Mae Watson papers, 1929-1984

Title: Barbara Mae Watson papers

The Barbara M. Watson Papers date from 1929-1984 and document Watson's career as a business woman (1946-1955); lawyer (1962-1964, 1981-1983); government official (1966-1974, 1977-1980) and diplomat (1980-1981). In addition to career information, there are personal papers, general and family correspondence, lecture and conference participation data, including typescripts of speeches delivered by Watson, records of her board memberships and professional associations and extensive printed material relating to Watson's professional and personal life.

ArchivalResource: 17.8 lin. ft. (50 boxes)

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McKay, Claude, 1890-1948. Correspondence with Carl Zigrosser, 1939-1965.

Title: Correspondence with Carl Zigrosser, 1939-1965.

ArchivalResource: 4 items (4 leaves).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155902102 View

McKay, Claude, 1890-1948. Correspondence with Wanda Gág.

Title: Correspondence with Wanda Gág.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 leaf).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/63644263 View