Papers, 1927-1978.

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Papers, 1927-1978.

Consists of the correspondence and writings of Lawrence Gellert, composer and author of negro songs of protest.

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SNAC Resource ID: 8043368

Indiana University

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Seeger, Charles, 1886-1979

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Stekert, Ellen Jane, 1935-

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Baxandall, Lee

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Wigglesworth, Frank, 1918-1996

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Gellert, Lawrence

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Composer and author. From the description of Papers, 1927-1978. (Indiana University). WorldCat record id: 708580886 Very little information on Lawrence Gellert is available. He was born in Budapest, Hungary, on 14 September 1898, came to the United States when he was seven, and grew up in New York City. For health reasons, he moved to Tryon, N.C., probably in the late 1920s or early 1930s. From 1933 to 1937, Gellert traveled through North Carolina, S...

Jessye, Eva, 1895-1992

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Eva Jessye-Director of Music-Writer. b. Coffeyville, Kan.; educated Western University, Kansas City, Kan.; State University for Colored, Langston, OK. Director of Music, Morgan College, Baltimore, Md., 1920; Editorial staff, Afro-American, Baltimore, Md., one year. Won prizes: Essay, Music, Poetry, Interstate Literary Society of Kansas and the West; President Interstate Society, 1924. Director of Music, first all-Negro moving picture, "Hallelujah," produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Corporation, di...