Papers, 1841-1983 (bulk 1898-1954).

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Papers, 1841-1983 (bulk 1898-1954).

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Correspondence; writings, including speeches, lectures, books, articles, reviews, and notes, relating to Locke's involvement in African American and African literature and art and his role in the Harlem Renaissance; family papers, including correspondence, certificates, and legal and financial papers, of his grandfather, Ishmael Locke, and parents, Pliny and Mary Hawkins Locke; financial documents; organizational materials; and photographs. Includes material relating to Locke's involvement with Howard University and its community, with the Associates in Negro Folk Education and American Association for Adult Education, and with various organizations advocating cultural pluralism, including the Conference on Science, Philosophy and Religion and the Progressive Education Association. Persons represented by correspondence and/or mss. include Richmond Barthé, Countee Cullen, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Charles S. Johnson, and René Maran.

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Moorland-Spingarn Research Center, Howard University

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Howard University

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Howard University is a private, federally chartered historically black research university in Washington, D.C. Tracing its history to 1867, from its outset Howard has been nonsectarian and open to people of all sexes and races. The institution was named for General Oliver Otis Howard, a Civil War hero who was both the founder of the university and, at the time, commissioner of the Freedmen's Bureau. The U.S. Congress chartered Howard on March 2, 1867 and much of its early funding came from endow...

Hurston, Zora Neale, 1891-1960

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Zora Neale Hurston was an American author, anthropologist, and filmmaker. She portrayed racial struggles in the early-1900s American South and published research on hoodoo. The most popular of her four novels is Their Eyes Were Watching God, published in 1937. She also wrote more than 50 short stories, plays, and essays. Hurston was born in Notasulga, Alabama, and moved with her family to Eatonville, Florida, in 1894. She later used Eatonville as the setting for many of her stories. It is n...

Locke, Pliny

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Cullen, Countee, 1903-1946

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African-American poet, anthologist, translator, playwright and an important figure in the Harlem Renaissance. Cullen was graduated from De Witt Clinton High School in New York City and from New York University in 1925. While attending NYU he held a part-time job as a doorman at the Grolier Club, a New York City bibliophile society. He took post-graduate work at Harvard University and received an M.A. From the description of TLS : Cambridge, Massachusetts, to Frederick B. Coykendall, ...

Maran, René, 1887-1960

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American association for adult education

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The American Association for Adult Education (A.A.A.E.) was founded in 1926 as an organization to promote continuing education and education for adults. The Association was absorbed by the Adult Education Association of the U.S.A. (A.E.A.) in 1951. From the description of American Association for Adult Education records, 1939-1940. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 144652178 From the guide to the American Association for Adult Education records, 1939-1940, (The New York Public ...

Locke, Ishmael

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Associates in Negro Folk Education

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Progressive Education Association (U.S.)

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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. ...

Locke, Alain, 1885-1954

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Alain LeRoy Locke was an African-American professor of philosophy at Howard University. From the description of Alain LeRoy Locke photograph, and funeral orations brochure, 1952-1954. (Pennsylvania State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 48822627 African American teacher, philosopher, author, and critic. From the description of Papers, 1841-1983 (bulk 1898-1954). (Moorland-Spingarn Resource Center). WorldCat record id: 70939715 ...

Barthé, Richmond, 1901-1989

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Born in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi; entered Chicago Art Institute in 1924; successful sculptor whose works are displayed in several prominent collections. From the description of Collection, 1927-1980. (University of Southern Mississippi, Regional Campus). WorldCat record id: 17165010 B. 1901 d. 1989. From the description of Richmond Barthe artist file. (Whitney Museum of American Art). WorldCat record id: 228432677 ...

Locke, Mary Hawkins

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Johnson, Charles Spurgeon, 1893-1956

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Sociologist, race relations expert, author, lecturer, teacher, and college administration; first African American president of Fisk University (1946-1956). From the description of Charles Spurgeon Johnson records, 1858-1956. (Fisk University). WorldCat record id: 70970119 First black president of Fisk University, elected Oct. 1946, inaugurated Nov. 1947; served until 1956; Head of Dept. of Social Science, Fisk University, 1928-1947; sociologist, race relations expert, author...