1,721,377 research outputs found
HIMES, CHESTER B.
Full text linkTitle: Letters, 1955-1956 Description: 0.5 linear ft.
Notes: Afro-American novelist; Author. Contains correspondence between Himes and Walter Freeman, an editor at New American Library, regarding the editing and revision of Himes\u27s novels, The Primitive, The Third Generation, and Mamie Mason. Purchase, 1966.
Subjects: Afro-American novelists. lcsh Authors and publishers -- United States. Freeman, Walter, correspondent.
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Howard University, Moorland-Spingarn Research Center (Washington, DC) NIDS Fiche #: 4.72.52 NUCMC #: DCLV96-A58
CLARKE, THOMAS
Full text linkTitle: Collection, 1904-1947 Description:1.5 linear ft.
Notes: Author, columnist. Consists of scrapbooks about the citizens of Washington, D.C., and the deep South. Contains clippings about race relations, politics, and foreign affairs, pictures of prominent Negroes, programs, letters,and articles from his columns in the Guardian (Boston, MA). Also includes Clarke\u27s manuscript, Virginia\u27s Contribution to the Republic and biographical data about Clarke.
Location: Howard University, Moorland-Spingarn Research Center (Washington, DC
FRAZIER, E. FRANKLIN
Full text linkE. Franklin Frazier was a sociologist, educator, author, lecturer, and head of the Department of Sociology at Howard University from 1934-1959. The papers, which consist of personal and family materials, correspondence, subject files, writings by Frazier and others, research projects and notebooks, photographs, memorabilia, awards, certificates, and scrapbooks, were donated by his wife, Marie Brown Frazier, in 1977. The materials span the years 1908-1962 and total 75 linear feet
GRIMKE, Angelina
Full text linkIn honor of his aunt, Angelina Emily Grimke Weld (1805- 1875), a noted abolitionist and feminist, Archibald Grimke named his daughter, the only child: Angelina Weld Grimke. Angelina Weld Grimke (1880-1958) was a prolific author of poetry, drama, and short stories. Among her most noted writings are, the plays Rachel published in 1921, and the poem The Black Finger , first published in Opportunity in 1923
Murray, Pauli
Full text linkTitle: Papers, 1943-1944 Description: 0.5 linear ft.
Notes: Lawyer, author, educator, civil rights activist. Relates to Murray\u27s role as tactician and advisor to undergraduate activists during the sit-in demonstrations of the Civil Rights Committee at Howard University. Includes biographical data, letters, reports, minutes, notes on tactics, address lists, press releases, newspaper clippings, and notes relating to the activities of the Civil Rights Committee.
Subjects: Civil rights Demonstrations; Washington, DC; Howard University Howard University; Administration Howard University; Civil Rights Committee Howard University; Demonstrations Howard University; Students; Political activity Washington, DC; Demonstrations; Howard University Washington, DC; Race relations
Location: Howard University, Moorland-Spingarn Research Center (Washington, DC) NIDS Fiche #: 4.72.8
GRIMKE, Archibald
Full text linkThe Archibald H. Grimke Papers contain materials that reflect his career as a lawyer, editor, author, lecturer, politician and diplomat. These papers include early correspondence with members of the Grimke-Weld and Grimke-Stanley families, other personal, general and organizational correspondence, legal files, Santo Domingo records (which contain official documents regarding his United States Consulship from 1894 to 1898), financial records, manuscripts, articles, addresses, newspaper clippings, photographs memorabilia, artifacts, and bound publications
HENDERSON, Edwin Bancroft
Full text linkTitle: Papers, 1915-1976 Description:5 linear ft.
Notes: Afro-American athlete, educator, author, and administrator; d. 1977. Family papers, correspondence, biographical writings, programs, organizational affiliations, memorabilia, photographs, printed materials, and scrapbooks relating to Henderson\u27s activities as an activist in athletics and civil rights. Gift of Mr. Henderson, 1965-1977.
Subjects: Afro-American athletes. lcsh Afro-American civil rights workers. lcsh Afro-Americans -- Civil rights. Afro-Americans -- Recreation.
Location: Howard University, Moorland-Spingarn Research Center (Washington, DC) NIDS Fiche #: 4.72.49 NUCMC #: DCLV96-A45
Stewart, Ollie
Full text linkOllie Anderson Stewart (1906-1977), journalist, was the first African American war correspondent to go abroad during World War II. Notable among the correspondents from whom he solicited information was Mercer Cook, an author, professor of romance languages at Howard University, and later, ambassador to several African countries. Cook provided invaluable recollections of his associations with Baker. (His father, Will Marion Cook (1869-1944), was the famed violinist, composer and orchestral director.) The collection covers intermittent periods from 1953-1977, and was transferred to MSRC by a brother Dr. James W. Stewart in 1977-78
DREW, Charles
Full text linkTitle: Papers, 1900-1980s Description: 16 linear ft.
Notes: Afro-American surgeon, author, and pioneer in the storage of human blood. Personal and family papers, writings and research on blood plasma and blood banks, newspaper clippings, and programs relating to Drew\u27s activities; together with materials documenting his work with the Blood Transfusion Betterment Association during World War II. Gifts of Dr. R. Frank Jones, 1973, Mrs. Minnie Lenore Drew, 1974, and James L. Marshall, 1981.
Subjects: Afro-American physicians. lcsh Blood banks. Blood plasma. Blood Transfusion Betterment Association.
Location: Howard University, Moorland-Spingarn Research Center (Washington, DC). NIDS Fiche #: 4.72.32 NUCMC Number: DCLV96-A41
BRAGG, GEORGE FREEMAN
Full text linkDescription: 0.5 linear ft. Notes:Minister, author. Contains letters, including two from Theodore Holly, and a scrapbook of clippings about religious, political, and historical events.
Subjects: Freeman Protestant Episcopal Church in the USA; South Carolina Holly, Theodore Maryland; Governors; Ritchie, Albert Cabell Protestant Episcopal Church in the USA; Clergy; Bragg, George Protestant Episcopal Church in the USA; Virginia Race relations Richardson, C. Herbert Ritchie, Albert Cabell Slavery in the United States South Carolina; Politics Virginia; Politics
Location: Howard University, Moorland-Spingarn Research Center (Washington, DC) NIDS Fiche#: 4.72.
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