May Miller papers, 1906-1989.

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May Miller papers, 1906-1989.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/244001178

The collection consists of the papers of May Miller from 1906 to 1989. The papers include writings, correspondence, subject files, writings by others, printed material, photographs, scrapbooks, artwork, and legal and financial records. Writings include original manuscripts of her published and unpublished plays, poetry, and short stories, from 1910 through the 1980s. The collection also includes writings by others. The correspondence is of both a personal and professional nature and includes letters and notes from Gwendolyn Brooks, Sterling Brown, Dorothy Goldberg, Josephine Jacobsen, Pinkie Gordon Lane, John Pauker, and others. There is a small amount of family correspondence, including two early letters (1906) to her father.

19 linear ft. (19 boxes, 4 oversized papers (OP), 1 oversized bound volume (OBV), and 2 bound volumes (BV))

Emory University. Special Collections and Archives

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SNAC Resource ID: 7130530

Emory University. Special Collections and Archives

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Goldberg, Dorothy Kurgans, 1908-1988

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Wife of former U. S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Arthur J. Goldberg (1908-1990)-married in 1931. Mrs. Goldberg was an artist who had owned and operated an art gallery during the 1950's. Author of 3 books: The Creative Woman (1963), A Private View of a Public Life (1975), and, Sculpture in the Round: Poems (1989)....

Miller, Kelly, 1894-1971.

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Miller, Mayme White

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May Miller (1899-1995), African American poet, educator, and playwright, daughter of Kelly and Annie May Miller. From the description of May Miller papers, 1906-1989. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 244001178 ...

Miller, Kelly, 1863-1939

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Kelly Miller (1863-1939), an African American intellectual and professor, was born in South Carolina in 1863, just a few months after the Emancipation Proclamation freed slaves in the South. As a child Miller expressed a penchant for mathematics, and he was sent for special education in a Presbyterian-sponsored school. After secondary school, he received a scholarship to study at Howard University. He graduated from Howard in 1886 and became the first African American student to enroll at John H...

Brown, Sterling Allen, 1901-1989

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American scholar and poet. From the description of Poems, [1929?]. (Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center (HRC); University of Texas at Austin). WorldCat record id: 145406115 ...

Brooks, Gwendolyn, 1917-2000

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African American poet and novelist, who was an important figure in the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s and 1970s. From the description of Of Robert Frost / Gwendolyn Brooks. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79334638 Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks was born in Topeka, Kansas, on June 17, 1917 and moved shortly after her birth to Chicago's South Side, where she lived until her death. She authored more than twenty books of poetry, beginning with A Street in Bronzeville (1945), follow...

Lane, Pinkie Gordon

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Pinkie Gordon Lane was born 13 January 1923 in Philadelphia, Penn. In 1945 she entered Spelman College in Atlanta, Ga. where she earned a bachelor's degree in English and art. In 1956 she received her master's degree in English from Atlanta University, and later accepted a position as instructor of English at Southern University in Baton Rouge, La., where she remained and served as Director of the English Department from 1974 until her retirement in 1986. Following retirement, she b...

Jacobsen, Josephine 1908-

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Poet, of Maryland. From the description of Oral history interview, 1972. (Maryland Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 32821976 ...

Pauker, John.

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From the guide to the John Pauker papers, 1929-1991, 1929-1991, (Literature and Rare Books) ...