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

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

Date

1865-1998

Resource Link

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

Abstract

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

Extent

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

Languages

eng, Latn

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Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America‏

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SNAC Resource ID: 6386293

Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America‏

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Harding, Vincent.

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Vincent Harding was born in New York City in 1931 and grew up in Harlem and the Bronx. He attended New York City public schools and graduated in History from the City College of New York in 1952. He earned an MS degree in journalism at Columbia University in 1953. Harding married Rosemarie Freeney in 1960, and they spent four years as workers in the freedom movement, assisting the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and Congress of Racial Equality ...

Huang, Hua

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Foner, Roslyn

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Hallinan, Vincent

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B. M. Phillips

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Graham, Lorenz B.

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African-American author of children's and young adult books; best-known for his "Town" series. From the description of Papers, 1947-1980 (bulk 1958-1980). (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis). WorldCat record id: 62680534 African-American author of children's and young adult books; best known for "Town" series. From the description of I, Momolu : production material, ca. 1966. (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis). WorldCat record id: 62405965 Author ...

Kent, Rockwell, 1882-1971

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Padmore, George

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Jackson, Esther

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Lewis, Reba

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Paul Lawrence Dunbar

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Himes, Joseph

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Ida Pruitt.

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Dunbar, Paul L.

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Delta Sigma Theta Sorority

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Delta Sigma Theta Sorority was founded on January 13, 1913 by twenty-two collegiate women at Howard University. It is a private, non-profit organization whose purpose is to provide services and programs to promote human welfare. The founders were college students who wanted to use their collective strength to promote academic excellence and to provide assistance to persons in need. The first public act performed by the Delta Founders involved their participation in the Women's Suffrage March in ...

Robeson, Eslanda Goode, 1896-1965

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1896 Dec.15 Born to John Goode and Eslanda Cardozo Goode in Washington, D.C., the third of three children; brothers John and Frank. Maternal grandfather was Francis Lewis Cardozo, who served as South Carolina's Secretary of State and Secretary of the Treasury during Reconstruction Days. 1912 Graduated from Urbana High School, Urbana, Illinois. ...

Artz, Frederick Binkerd, 1894-

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Klein, Seymour

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Garth Cate

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Simon, Abby

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Mason, Bernard Lee

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Moos, Elizabeth

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Elizabeth Moos and her husband, Robert Imandt, were friends of Florence King and Carl Zigrosser. From the description of Correspondence with Carl Zigrosser, 1930-1937. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 155902289 ...

Aronson, James, 1953-....

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Strong, Anna Louise, 1885-1970

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Epithet: US author and socialist in Moscow British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000351.0x0003de Anna Louise Strong was born in Nebraska and educated at Oberlin and the University of Chicago. Later moving to Seattle, she was the editor of the Seattle Union Record. She travelled extensively to Russia and China, and she wrote accounts of those journeys. In 1921 she travelled to famine-struck areas in Russia as part of ...

Mansfield Theatre

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Melish, William Howard

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Hautz, Lawrence A.

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Paul Partington

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Ruth Morris Graham

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Johnson, Hall, 1888-1970

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Francis Hall Johnson (1888-1970), African American choral director, composer, and arranger. From the description of Hall Johnson collection, 1933-1943. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79463092 "Hall Johnson, a native of Athens, [Georgia], was a highly regarded African American choral director, composer, arranger, and violinist who dedicated his career to preserving the integrity of the Negro spiritual as it had been performed during the era of slavery. His Hall Johnson Choir,...

Mayfield, Julian, 1928-1984

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Julian Mayfield lived a varied career as a novelist, playwright, actor, journalist and critic, aide to two heads of state, an educator and writer-in-residence at several colleges and universities. He wrote, produced and directed several off-Broadway and summer stock productions between 1949 and 1954. He played the juvenile lead role of Absalom Kumalo in the Kurt Weill-Maxwell Anderson musical "Lost in the Stars," and directed Ossie Davis's first play, "Alice in Wonder," ...

Federal Theatre Project (Chicago, Ill.)

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Mark Twain Society

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Guinier, Ewart

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Labor leader, former presidential candidate for the Borough of Manhattan, and the first chairman of Harvard University's Department of African American Studies. Born in Panama of West Indian parents in 1910, Ewart Guinier migrated to the United States in 1925 and studied at Harvard University, the City University of New York, Columbia University and New York University. He became the International Secretary of the United Public Workers of America in 1940, and was the Liberal Party candidate for ...

McCanns, Robert

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Interchurch Center

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Spingarn, Arthur B. (Arthur Barnett), 1878-1971

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African American lawyer, scholar, and president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. From the description of Papers, 1914-1971. (Moorland-Spingarn Resource Center). WorldCat record id: 70941351 Spingarn was born on Mar. 28, 1878 in New York City; AB (1897), AM (1899), and LL. B (1900), Columbia Univ.; LL. D, Howard Univ., 1941; L.H.D., Long Island Univ., 1966; practiced law beginning in 1900; chairman of national legal committee, and vice-presid...

Dorsey, Harold S., 1937-

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Mahoney, William P.

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Benn, Brindley.

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Meeropol, Michael

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Hare, Nathan.

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Muhammad, Akbar

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Bontemps, Arna, 1902-1973

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African-American poet, critic, playwright, novelist, author of children’s books, librarian. From the guide to the Arna Bontemps Papers, 1927-1968, (Special Collections Research Center, Syracuse University Libraries) Teacher in New York, N.Y., and Huntsville, Ala.; head librarian, Fisk University; professor, University of Chicago; curator of James Weldon Johnson Collection and visiting professor of English, Yale University; writer in residence, Fisk University; and author. ...

Margaret Christy.

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Lucy Ann Graham

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Elkin, Kyrie

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Joseph McCarthy.

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Esther Jackson

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Civic activist Esther Jackson was born on August 21, 1917 in Arlington, Virginia to Esther Irving and George Cooper. She graduated from Paul Laurence Dunbar High School in Washington, D.C. in 1934, and enrolled at Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio, where she earned her B.A. degree in social work. Jackson went on to earn her M.A. degree in sociology at Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee in 1940. Her thesis,The Negro Woman Domestic Worker in Relation to Trade Unionism, examined the issues face...

Lil Landau.

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Cora Bell Grissom

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Laudau, Lil

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United Service Organizations (U.S.)

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The United Service Organizations (USO) was incorporated in the state of New York on February 4, 1941, as a joint operation by the YMCA, YWCA, National Catholic Community Service, the National Jewish Welfare Board, the Traveler's Aid Association, and the Salvation Army, to provide religious, spiritual, social, welfare, educational, and entertainment services to men and women in the armed forces during World War II. The USO has continued to provide these services to the present. From t...

Hughes, Langston

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Aptheker, Bettina

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Biographical Chronology September 2, 1944 Bettina Fay Aptheker born in Fort Bragg, North Carolina to Fay Phillippa Aptheker, a life-long activist and Communist organizer, and Herbert Aptheker, a Marxist historian and scholar of African-American history. 1958 1962 ...