- Creator
- Shivery family
- Call number
- Sc MG 257
- Physical description
- 3.6 linear feet
- Preferred Citation
- Shivery family papers, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, The New York Public Library
- Repository
- Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division
- Access to materials
- Advance notice required. Request access to this collection.
- The entirety of this collection has been digitized and is available online.
The Shiverys, Smiths and Blazes were three branches of a southern African-American family. Papers consist of biographical material, correspondence, legal and financial documents, educational and professional papers, minutes of religious and civic organizations in Savannah, Ga., and scrapbooks. Correspondence includes letters from W. E. B. Du Bois to members of the Shivery family, and love letters of Melinda Smith. Letters between family members, particularly the women in the Smith and Shivery families, chronicle African-American middle class life.
Digital Assets
Administrative information
Source of acquisition
Gift, Shivery, Veoria, 06/--/1986Key terms
Names
- Shivery family
- Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963
- Smith, Melinda
- Bliesner family
- Smith family
Subjects
- African American families
- African American women
- African Americans -- Social life and customs
- African Americans -- Societies, etc
- Families -- Southern States
- Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
Places
- Savannah (Ga.) -- Religious life and customs
- Savannah (Ga.) -- Social life and customs
- Southern States -- Genealogy
- Southern States -- History -- 1865-1877
Material types
Using the collection
Location
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division515 Malcolm X Boulevard, New York, NY 10037-1801
Second Floor