African American collection, 1823-1979.

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African American collection, 1823-1979.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/54491765

Correspondence, manuscripts, documents, journal issues, broadsides, sheet music, and sound recordings relating to African Americans and their place in American society and culture during the 19th and 20th centuries. The collection includes correspondence and legal documents relating to the purchase of slaves (1823-1828), broadsides depicting African Americans during the later part of the 19th century and the early part of the 20th century, correspondence and manuscripts by Langston Hughes, and issues of periodicals published by members of the African American community. African American sheet music and sound recordings of jazz performances by such notables as Fats Waller, Ethel Waters and Bessie Smith are also included in the collection.

ca. 247 items ; 55 cm. or smaller.

Millersville University Library, McNairy Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7678828

Millersville University Library, McNairy Library

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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. ...