Mordecai P. Montgomery collection, 1957-[ca. 1988].

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Mordecai P. Montgomery collection, 1957-[ca. 1988].

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/643126917

The Mordecai P. Montgomery Collection consists principally of an unpublished manuscript, "Shining in Death," authored by Montgomery, about a Canadian black man and his struggle to become an actor in New York; the time period is from the second half of the nineteenth century until the Depression. The collection also includes a folder of letters and a reminiscence by Edward P. Gottlieb, the donor, regarding Montgomery. The letters are from Gottlieb to a publisher/editor, and to author Toni Morrison, seeking to get the manuscript read and published following Montgomery's death.

2 lin. ft. (1/2 archival box)

New York Public Library System, NYPL

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SNAC Resource ID: 7913588

New York Public Library System, NYPL

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Gottlieb, Edward P.

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Educator, civil rights activist, peace activist, and poet; served as chairman of the War Resisters League; resident of New York City. From the description of Papers, 1940- (Swarthmore College, Peace Collection). WorldCat record id: 39934271 ...

Montgomery, Mordecai Philip, 1880-1956

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Mordecai Philip Montgomery was a long-time member of the Socialist Party of New York. Montgomery was born in 1880 in Fayette, Alabama, and worked as a Pullman porter, then for the Works Progress Administration, and in his later years, was a messenger in the Wall Street area of Manhattan. He died in 1956 in New York City. From the description of Mordecai P. Montgomery collection, 1957-[ca. 1988]. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 643126917 ...