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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

Literary and scholarly manuscripts collection, [ca. 1930-1980]

Title: Literary and scholarly manuscripts collection, [ca. 1930-1980]

Typescripts of novels, biographies, essays, and poems on historical, sociological and educational issues, and conference papers. Some of the typescripts appear as final drafts, others as working drafts with author's annotations and corrections. Manuscripts included are SLAVERY AND CAPITALISM by Eric Williams; BLACK METROPLIS by Horace Cayton and St. Clair Drake; LIFE IN A HAITIAN VALLEY by Melville J. Herskovits: JONAH'S GOURD VINE by Zora Neale Hurston; AMERICAN DILEMMA by Gunnar Myrdal; and poems by Waring Cuney. Other authors represented are Arna Bontemps, Gwendolyn Brooks, Horace Mann Bond, Lloyd Brown, Helen Buckler, Henrietta Buckmaster, John H. Clark, Benjamin Davis, Owen Dodson, Ralph Ellison, Arthur Huff Fauset, and E. Franklin Frazier. Conference material includes Melville J. Herskovits and the Future of Africana Studies (Schomburg Center, May 1988) Marcus Garvey Centennial Conference (Jamaica, November 1987), and Second World Black and African Festival of Arts and Culture (Nigeria, 1977)

ArchivalResource: 35.4 lin. ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/81357526 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

http://library.duke.edu/rubenstein/findingaids/matthews/ View

Alain Locke Memorial Committee. Correspondence with Marian Anderson, 1955.

Title: Correspondence with Marian Anderson, 1955.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 l.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/63558616 View

Paul Laurence Dunbar collection, 1892-1902.

Title: Paul Laurence Dunbar collection, 1892-1902.

Includes letters written by Dunbar to his literary agent, Paul R. Reynolds, concerning Dunbar's submission of works for publication and related matters. Some letters are written to his wife, Alice Dunbar, his mother, Matilda Dunbar, and a few other individuals. Includes sheet music with lyrics by Paul Laurence Dunbar, correspondence with accompanying inventory from the Schomburg Center Calendar of manuscripts (call no.: Sc Micro R-1543), newspaper clippings, broadsides, two works by P.L. Dunbar: Deliberation of Mr. Dunkin and The lion tamer. Also included are critical works on Paul Laurence Dunbar. Contains typescripts of articles about Paul Laurence Dunbar and his mother, Mathilda J. Dunbar. Also included is material from the P.L. Dunbar Scrapbook located at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture of The New York Public Library.

ArchivalResource: Originals: .8 lin. ft.Copies: 3 microfilm reels.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122615905 View

Fauset, Arthur Huff, 1899-1983. Correspondence with Marian Anderson, 1941.

Title: Correspondence with Marian Anderson, 1941.

ArchivalResource: 3 items (4 l.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/63557799 View

Brawley, Benjamin Griffith, 1882-1939. Benjamin Griffith Brawley papers, 1917-1936.

Title: Benjamin Griffith Brawley papers, 1917-1936.

Chiefly notes, clippings, and printed matter, relating to Brawley's research interests; together with correspondence, writings, and other papers.

ArchivalResource: 0.5 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/741693799 View

Parsons, Elsie Worthington Clews, 1874-1941. Papers, [ca. 1882]-1978.

Title: Papers, [ca. 1882]-1978.

This rich collection covers a broad scope of Parson's life, and is divided into eight series: Professional Correspondence, Personal Correspondence, Works and Research, Financial Papers, Herbert Parsons Papers, Peter H. Hare Papers, Ephemera, and Photographs and Negatives.

ArchivalResource: 36 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122380114 View