Clarence Cameron White collection, 1872-1965 (bulk, 1930-1960).

Handy, W. C., 1873-1958

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W. C. Handy, also known as William Christopher Handy (born Florence, Alabama, November 16, 1873-died March 25, 1958, New York, New York), known as the "Father of the Blues," is credited with helping popularize blues music. In 1896, he joined W. A. Mahara's Minstrels, as its trumpeter-bandleader and began a theatrical production that featured African American music. In the early 1900s, he started writing his own music with the first published commercial blues song "Memphis Blues," which became a ...

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...

Hampton University (Va.)

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Hampton Institute in Hampton, Virgina, also know as the Normal School, chartered in 1870. From the description of Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute ephemera, 1882-1903 and undated. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 639344721 The Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute was chartered in 1870 in Hampton, Virginia. From the guide to the Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute ephemera, 1882-1903 and undated, (David M. Rubenstein Rare Book ...

Anderson, Marian, 1897-1993

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Marian Anderson was born on February 27, 1897 (although throughout much of her life she gave her birth date as February 17, 1902) in south Philadelphia. Her father, John Berkley Anderson, sold ice and coal and her mother Annie Delilah Rucker Anderson was a former schoolmistress. She was the oldest of three sisters. She began singing when she was six, in the church choir, and by eight had become a regular substitute, filling in for absent sopranos, tenors and even bass. She was presented in one c...

Hayes, Roland W., 1887-1977

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Roland Hayes (June 3, 1887 – January 1, 1977) was an American lyric tenor and composer. Critics lauded his abilities and linguistic skills demonstrated with songs in French, German and Italian. Earlier African-American concert artists were not recorded because in their day recording companies were only interested in a vaudeville type of singer. Hayes was one of the first to break this barrier and in 1939 he recorded with Columbia. Earlier both Marian Anderson and Paul Robeson had recorded from t...

Collins, Janet, 1917-2003

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Janet Collins (March 2, 1917 – May 28, 2003) was an African American dancer, choreographer, and teacher. She performed on Broadway, in films, and on television. She was among the pioneers of Black ballet dancing, one of the few classically trained Black dancers of her generation. Born Janet Fay Collins in New Orleans, Louisiana, at the age of four, she moved with her family to Los Angeles, California, where she received her first dance training at a Catholic community center. At various times...

Robeson, Paul, 1898-1976

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Born in Princeton, New Jersey, on April 9, 1898, Paul Robeson was a multitalented man whose artistic and political career spanned over four decades, from the 1920s to the 1960s. Known worldwide during the 1930s and 1940s, he fell from prominence in the 1960s because of the political controversy that surrounded him during the McCarthy era. Robeson was a talented dramatic actor whose performance of Othello in this country in 1943-44 once held the record for the ...

White, Beatrice Louise Warrick

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Brown, Anita Patti.

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White, Clarence Cameron

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Composer, violinist, educator, and author. Major participant in the Harlem Renaissance. From the description of Clarence Cameron White collection, 1872-1965 (bulk, 1930-1960). (Moorland-Spingarn Resource Center). WorldCat record id: 739116553 Composer, violinist, educator. White and John Frederick Matheus collaborated on "Ouanga" (1932) and "Tambour" (1929). From the description of Clarence Cameron White papers (Additions), 1906-1963. (New York Public Library). W...

Ryder, A. H. (Arthur H.)

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Matheus, John Frederick, 1887-1983

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Coleridge-Taylor, Samuel, 1875-1912

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Samuel Coleridge-Taylor was born in London on August 15, 1875 to African and English parents. He studied composition (with Charles Villiers Stanford) and violin at the Royal Conservatory of Music. After completing his studies in 1897, he held a variety of posts as a conductor and teacher, while pursuing a career as a composer. The best known of his many works is the cantata Hiawatha's Wedding Feast . Coleridge-Taylor's growing international fame took him to the United States three times, and he ...

West Virginia State University

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Cook, Will Marion

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Tanner, Henry Ossawa, 1859-1937

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African American painter Henry Ossawa Tanner (1859-1937) was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to Benjamin Tucker Tanner, a college-educated teacher and minister, and Sarah Miller Tanner, a former slave. Benjamin Tanner was very active in the African Methodist Episcopal (A. M. E.) Church, eventually becoming a bishop, and the family often moved while Henry was a small child. They settled in Philadelphia, and as a teenager, Tanner spent his free time painting, drawing, and...

Hairston, Jester, 1901-2000

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Oberlin College. Conservatory of Music

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The records of the conservatory of music span the years 1841 to 1991, with the bulk of the records concentrated in the period 1930 to 1990. Few records of evidential value have survived to illuminate the conservatory's first century. Notably absent from the collection are such basic administrative files as annual reports and Board of Trustees records. There are virtually no course materials documenting the various instructional divisions. Minutes are present for the meetings of the Conservatory ...

Douglass, Joseph H. (Joseph Henry), 1871-1935

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Ring, Montague

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American society of composers, authors and publishers

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Taylor and Adams were each president of the ASCAP at the time of their writing; Nissim was in the Serious Music Department; Cunningham signed the television rights agreement on behalf of the ASCAP. From the description of Correspondence to Alma Mahler, 1944-1961. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 155862820 ...

Zacherewitsch, Michael.

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Laparra, Raoul, 1876-1943

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French composer. From the description of La Beauté / Poèsie de Ch. Baudelaire. 19 août 1924. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270566601 From the description of Autograph letter signed, dated : Paris Feb. 25 1921, to an unidentified friend, 1921 Feb. 25. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270667142 William was Raoul's brother. From the description of La gatta cenerente : ballet-pantimime en deux actes divisées en quatre tableaux, tiré des "Contes de la Sab...

Dessalines, Jean-Jacques, 1758-1806

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Emperor of Haiti; former slave. From the description of Jean-Jacques Dessalines permit, 1804. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79424032 ...

Scurlock, Addison N., 1883-1964

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Addison N. Scurlock (June 19, 1883 – December 16, 1964) was an American photographer, founder of The Scurlock Studio, and businessman who became prominent in the early and mid-20th century for photographing Black Washington....

White, Joseph Courtney, 1960-

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Soldier, U.S. Army, 10th Cavalry, Troop A, stationed at Fort Apache, Ariz., 1888, and at Fort Bayard, N.M., 1893. From the description of Diary, 1888-1893. (University of Arizona). WorldCat record id: 32171485 Joseph White (1938- ) is a painter in San Francisco, Calif. and Washington, D.C. White works with a grid system and photographs to create his paintings. From the description of Joseph White papers, circa 1967-2010. (Unknown). WorldC...

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 ...

Strasser, William, 1875-1944

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New York Public Library

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The New York Pubic Library purchased Arthur A. Schomburg's collection of books, pamphlets, prints and photographs in 1926 with funds from the Carnegie Corporation and housed at the 135th Street Branch Library of The New York Public Library. L. Hollingsworth Wood was appointed in 1925 by the Board of Trustees of The New York Public Library to purchase and provide guidelines for the Schomburg Collection of Negro Literature. Members of the Advisory Committee of the Arthur A. Schomburg Collection, i...

White family.

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Belpre, Pura

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Van Vechten, Carl, 1880-1964

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Carl Van Vechten was an American novelist, critic, essayist, book collector, and photographer. From the description of Carl Van Vechten collection of papers, 1922-1964. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 122455166 From the guide to the Carl Van Vechten collection of papers, 1911-1964, (The New York Public Library. Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature.) Carl van Vechten (1880-1964) was an American photographer, writer,...

Still, William Grant, 1895-1978

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Composer; d. 1978. From the description of William Grant Still papers, 1937-1969. (Fisk University). WorldCat record id: 70972606 Epithet: composer and conductor British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001186.0x000212 William Grant Still was a prominent African-American composer. Verna Arvey, Still's wife, was a journalist and musician who collaborated with her husband on many compositions. ...

Xavier University (New Orleans, La.)

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National Negro Opera Company (U.S.)

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The National Negro Opera Company was managed and directed by its founder, Mary Cardwell Dawson (1894-1962). The company was founded in 1941. In the late 1940s, Mrs. Dawson moved to Washington, D.C., which then became the center of company activities. There were active chapters in Baltimore, Chicago, Cleveland, New York, Pittsburgh, and Red Bank, New Jersey. In 1950, the National Negro Opera Foundation was incorporated to help raise funds to sustain the company. The company ceased operations with...

National Recreation Association

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Founded in 1906 as the Playground Association of America, the organization soon changed its focus to a more dynamic conception of recreation dedicated to improving the human environment through park, recreation, and leisure opportunities. Recruitment and training of recreation leaders, city planning, dissemination of information, technical assistance to local communities, and association activities during the two world wars are issues reflected in the collection. Reflecting the organization's ch...

Dobbs, Mattiwilda

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Schulyer, Philippa.

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Beatty, Talley, 1918-1995

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Talley Beatty (22 December 1918 – 29 April 1995) was born in Cedar Grove, Louisiana, a section of Shreveport, but moved with his family as a child to Chicago, Illinois. He is considered one of the greatest African American choreographers. After studying with Katherine Dunham and being associated with her company for several years, Beatty went on do solo work and choreograph his own pieces, which center on the social issues, experiences, and everyday life of African Americans. Beatty began stu...