Treasury Department War Bond literary collection, ca. 1940-1946, 1978.

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Treasury Department War Bond literary collection, ca. 1940-1946, 1978.

The collection consists of writings by the following prominent American authors, with the titles of their works following in parentheses: Robert Earl Hayden (Middle passage), Langston Hughes (Peace conference in an American town), Frances Parkinson Keyes (Crescent carnival), Adam Clayton Powell (Marching Blacks), and Mark Van Doren (Windless cabin). The collection also contains pencil portraits of the above mentioned authors by Michael H. Mecham.

1.0 linear ft. 3 boxes.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7368360

Xavier University of Louisiana, XULA

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Powell, Adam Clayton, Jr., 1908-1972

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Adam Clayton Powell Jr. (November 29, 1908 – April 4, 1972) was a Baptist pastor and an American politician, who represented the Harlem neighborhood of New York City in the United States House of Representatives from 1945 until 1971. He was the first African-American to be elected from New York to Congress. Re-elected for nearly three decades, Powell became a powerful national politician of the Democratic Party, and served as a national spokesman on civil rights and social issues. He also urg...

Meecham, Michael H.

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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...

Hayden, Robert, 1913-1980

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Submitted in Prof. Rowe's creative writing course, between 1936-38. From the description of Go down, Moses [ca. 1937] (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 34370465 American poet, educator, and author. Winner of Avery and Jule Hopwood Awards for poetry (1941, 1942), graduate of the University of Michigan (1944), and profesor at Fisk University until 1969, then at the University of Michigan until his retirement. From the description of Poetry collection, 1...

Van Doren, Mark, 1894-1972

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Correspondence to Lewis Mumford from Mark Van Doren and his wife, Dorothy Van Doren. From the description of Letters, 1965-1978, to Lewis Mumford. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 155877479 Mark Van Doren was an American author, scholar, and educator. He is probably best remembered for his long tenure as Columbia professor, where he was noted for his inspired Humanities courses and respect for students. His poetry was meticulously well-crafted and gr...

Keyes, Frances Parkinson, 1885-1970

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Frances Parkinson Wheeler Keyes (1885-1970), born in Virginia, was married to Henry Wilder Keyes (1863-1938); they had three children. Henry W. Keyes became governor of New Hampshire in 1917 and a United States senator in 1919. The family maintained multiple residences. Frances Parkinson Keyes wrote popular romantic novels emphasizing local color, descriptions of life among the upper classes, and generation-spanning sagas. She wrote over fifty books, alternating between books about Louisiana wit...

Xavier university of Louisiana

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Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967

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Poet, author, playwright, songwriter. From the guide to the Langston Hughes collection, [microform], 1926-1967, (The New York Public Library. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division.) From the description of Langston Hughes collection, 1926-1967. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 144652168 Langson Hughes: African-American poet and writer, author of Weary Blue (1926), The Big Sea (1940), and other works. ...