Papers, 1939-1969.

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Papers, 1939-1969.

Collection contains correspondence with Longmans, Green, and Company about his book, with Fisk University, and the U.S. Treasury Department (1942-1967); research files (1945-1969); a card file with notes regarding the play "The Midnight Cry"; a diary kept while serving as a production observer for the play "The Crucible" (1952); and scripts for the plays "Forward the Heart," "The Midnight Cry," and "A Thing of Beauty," for the radio program "Cavalcade of America" and the television program "Frontiers of Faith" (1939-1966); and one scrapbook.

3 cubic ft. (3 boxes)

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Fisk University

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Established as Fisk Free Colored School in Nashville, Tenn., in Dec. 1865 by John Ogden, Rev. Erastus Milo Caravath, and Rev. Edward P. Smith; named in honor of Gen. Clinton B. Fisk, assistant commissioner of the Freedmen's Bureau for Tennessee and Kentucky, who provided the new institution with facilities and contributed over $30,000 to the school; opened on 9 Jan. 1866 with almost two hundred students of all ages; incorporated as Fisk University on 22 Aug. 1867 after its curriculum shifted to ...

United States. Department of the Treasury

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The Department of the Treasury was created by an act of Congress (1 Stat. 65), approved September 2, 1789. The orginal act established the Department to superintend the manage the National finances. This act charged the Secretary of the Treasury with the preparation of plans for the improvement and management of the revenue and the support of public credit. It further provided that the Secretary should prescribe the forms for keeping and rendering all manner of public accounts and for the ma...

Douglass, Sara

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Reines, Bernard Jacob.

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Reines is a writer for television, theater and radio. From 1942-1943 he wrote radio scripts for the U.S. Treasury Department and in 1944 the book "For Country and Mankind: Twelve Plays about Dreams That Came True." He wrote the plays "Forward the Heart" in 1947, "The Midnight Cry" in 1951 and the script for the documentary film "A Thing of Beauty" for Fisk University in 1967. From the description of Papers, 1939-1969. (University of Wyoming, American Heritage Center). WorldCat record...

Reines, Bernard

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Longmans, Green, and Co.

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