Charles D. Martin collection, 1889-1942.
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Dunbar, Paul Laurence, 1872-1906
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Poet and author. From the description of Papers of Paul Laurence Dunbar, 1873-1936. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71067921 Paul Laurence Dunbar of Dayton, Ohio, was an African-American writer of fiction, poetry, and plays. Dunbar is widely acknowledged as the first important black poet in American literature. He also worked at the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C, as an assistant clerk, 1897-1898. From the description of Paul Laurence Dunbar letters and leaf...
Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963
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W. E. B. Du Bois was an American sociologist, socialist, historian, civil rights activist, Pan-Africanist, author, writer and editor. Educated at Fisk University, he did graduate work at the University of Berlin and Harvard, where he was the first African American to earn a doctorate. Du Bois became a professor of history, sociology and economics at Atlanta University. Due to his contributions in the African-American community he was seen as a member of a Black elite that supported some aspects ...
Martin, Charles Douglass, 1873-1942
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Clergyman; ordained in 1912 becoming the only black minister in the Moravian Church in U.S.; vice-president of the Negro Society for Historical Research; and member of American Academy of Political and Social Science; avid book collection; in 1950 North Carolina Central University purchased Charles Douglass Martin's collection of books by and about blacks in North America, South America, Africa, and the West Indies. From the description of Charles D. Martin collection, 1889-1942. (Un...
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, ...
Chesnutt, Charles W. (Charles Waddell), 1858-1932
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Charles Waddell Chesnutt was America's first important African-American author, and earned a reputation for both his socially conscious work and his literary innovation. Born in Cleveland to free black parents, he was raised in Fayetteville, North Carolina, and travelled throughout the south, as well as New York and Washington, D.C., before settling in Cleveland with his wife. He had worked as a teacher, and in Cleveland started a successful stenography business, learned law, and passed the bar ...
Brown, William Wells, 1814?-1884
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English immigrant to Washtenaw County, Michigan, in 1837. From the description of William P. Brown papers, 1852-1914. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 34420532 ...
Wheatley, Phillis, c. 1753-1784
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Phillis Wheatley (c. 1753-1784), first Black woman poet in America, was brought as an African slave in about 1761 to Boston, Mass., where she was purchased by John Wheatley. Educated in the Wheatley household, first by Wheatley's wife Susannah and later by his daughter Mary, Phillis Wheatley began writing poems in her early teens. It was through her published poetry that she became a member of Boston's literati and travelled briefly to England, returning in 1773 during Mrs. Wheatley's final illn...
