Aubrey Bowser papers, 1885-1943.

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Aubrey Bowser papers, 1885-1943.

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The Aubrey Howard Bowser Papers consist primarily of writings, academic and school related papers, and letters. Bower's writings include a manuscript entitled "Black Pilgrim: A Novel of Harlem's Early Life," a short story "Maryelle Rose," poetry, book reviews and critiques. There are also two full runs of the "Rainbow," a weekly literary magazine he edited, 1919-1920. Academic papers consist of a Harvard College notebook; course lecture notes; papers written for courses taken for his Master's degree and to qualify for a New York City high school teacher's license, 1943; and the publication, "Harvard College Class of 1907 Twenty-fifth Anniversary Report" (1935) in which his picture appears. Included are T. Thomas Fortune's book of poetry, "Dreams of Life" (1905).

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New York Public Library System, NYPL

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Bowser, Aubrey Howard, 1886-1979

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Aubrey Howard Bowser was a writer, editor and educator. Bowser was born in La Mott, Pennsylvania, a town founded by African American Civil War veterans that were led by his grandfather. He is a 1907 graduate of Harvard College, and later worked at the New York "Age" where he met and subsequently married Jessie Fortune, the daughter of T. Thomas Fortune, editor of the "Age." Bowser's writings included book reviews and literary criticism for the "New York Amsterdam News," poetry, and an unpublishe...

Fortune, Timothy Thomas, 1856-1928

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T. Thomas Fortune was the foremost African-American journalist of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He served as an editor, publisher, writer, orator and civil rights leader, using his position at a series of black newspapers in New York City as the leading spokesman and defender of the rights of African Americans in both the South and the North. Fortune's journalism career began in Florida, he moved to New York in 1881, and founded the "New York Freeman...