Black history ephemera, 1903-1977.

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Black history ephemera, 1903-1977.

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The collection contains programs and pamphlets for literary, social, and political activities involving African Americans. Organizations represented are Associated Charities, Inc., Washington, D.C. (donation card; public play grounds call for volunteers, 1903; solicitation letter); Pleasant Plains Civic Association constitution and by-laws (Washington, D.C., 1940); National Negro Congress, Official proceedings, Chicago, Feb. 14-16, 1936; Grand Avenue Church pamphlet. Publications include Elizabeth Lawson's 20 years on the chain gang? (New York: International Labor Defense, 1935) concerning Angelo Herndon; Up through difficulties (Braxton, Miss.: Piney Woods Country Life School, 1913), the autobiography of Laurence Clifton Jones; Equality, land and freedom, a program for Negro liberation (New York: League of Struggle for Negro Rights, Nov. 1933); 8 steps to peace in Kamerun (Kumba, Southern Cameroon, [1961]); Southern leaders impeach Judge Lynch (Atlanta, Ga.: Commission on Interracial Cooperation, [1932?]). Also, Jessie Daniel Ames's Southern women and lynching (Atlanta, Ga.: Association of Southern Women for the Prevention of Lynching, revised and reprinted Oct. 1936); Jim Crow "justice" in Korea, the case of Lieutenant Leon Gilbert (New York: Trade Union Youth Committee for the Freedom of Lieut. Gilbert, n.d.); brochure for the Conference Planning Committee for United Minorities, Chicago, Feb. 11-12, 1944; Journal of progress, National Negro Industrial Exposition celebrating the progess of the colored race, New York, June 1 to Oct. 31, [1927]. Souvenir program and score card, Masonic Field Day baseball game and Eastern Star Pageant, July 23, 1921, American League Park, Washington, D.C.; U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Bureau of the Census, Convention dates of Negro associations, Bulletin no. 2, Feb. 1938; circular letter: [Grover] Cleveland in favor of mixed schools; quiz on famous black Americans including a poem by Gwendolyn Brooks; two handbills: Speak out against campus spying, April 12, 1977 [University of Pennsylvania], and African drama, comp. lit. 422 [Penn State University]. Roland Hayes (recital programs, Penn State, 1946, and St. Louis, Mo., 1943; publicity brochure, 1943); Paul Robeson (Theatre Guild presents Paul Robeson in Othello, Oct. 19, 1943, handbill and ticket order form; obituary in Bulletin of the Center for Soviet & East European Studies, Spring 1976); University Place Book Shop catalogs (black writing (2), Afro-American poetry); Black literature and arts congress, vol. 1, no. 2 (poems and short stories); interview with Arnold Adoff reprinted from Top of the news, Jan. 1972. The Eastern searchlight (Laurinburg Normal and Industrial Institute, Laurinburg, N.C.) vol. 16, no. 7, April 1937, concerning teachers' salaries; and a glossy print reproduction of a pen-and-ink drawing by Lois M. Jones, 1975.

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Hayes, Roland W., 1887-1977

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Roland Hayes (June 3, 1887 – January 1, 1977) was an American lyric tenor and composer. Critics lauded his abilities and linguistic skills demonstrated with songs in French, German and Italian. Earlier African-American concert artists were not recorded because in their day recording companies were only interested in a vaudeville type of singer. Hayes was one of the first to break this barrier and in 1939 he recorded with Columbia. Earlier both Marian Anderson and Paul Robeson had recorded from t...

Robeson, Paul, 1898-1976

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Born in Princeton, New Jersey, on April 9, 1898, Paul Robeson was a multitalented man whose artistic and political career spanned over four decades, from the 1920s to the 1960s. Known worldwide during the 1930s and 1940s, he fell from prominence in the 1960s because of the political controversy that surrounded him during the McCarthy era. Robeson was a talented dramatic actor whose performance of Othello in this country in 1943-44 once held the record for the ...

Piney Woods School

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Jones, Laurence Clifton, 1884-1975

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Pleasant Plains Civic Association.

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Ames, Jessie Daniel, 1883-1972

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North Carolina resident (Polk County) and general field secretary of the Commission on Interracial Cooperation. From the description of Papers, 1902-1946. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 31311677 From the description of Papers, 1920-1946. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 122525094 Jessie Daniel Ames, civil rights worker of Atlanta, Ga., Georgetown, Tex., and Tryon, N.C. Beginning in 1922, Ames served separate roles as secretary and vice-...

Jones, Lois Mailou

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d. June 9, 1998. From the description of Artist file : miscellaneous uncataloged material. (Museum of Modern Art (MOMA)). WorldCat record id: 122311085 African American woman artist, of Washington, D.C.; b. 1905. From the description of Lois Mailou Jones papers, 1943-1990. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70949653 African American female visual artist, educator, scholar, and mentor; served as professor of art at the Howard Univ. College of Fine Arts from 1...

Adoff, Arnold

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Arnold Adoff was born in New York, New York, in 1935. He received his B.A. from City College of New York, after which he pursued graduate studies at Columbia University. Adoff initially was employed within the New York public school system for several years before pursuing work as an anthologist, children's poet, and author. In 1960 he married noted author Virginia Hamilton, and the couple eventually settled in Yellow Springs, Ohio, with their two children. Adoff's works touch upon a number of s...

University Place Book Shop.

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National Negro Conference (U.S.). Meeting.

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Lawson, Elizabeth, 1904-

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Associated Charities of the District of Columbia

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