- Creator
- Guggenheimer, Ida, 1866-1959
- Physical description
- .2 linear feet
- Preferred Citation
- Ida Guggenheimer 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
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Social, political and civil rights activist, Ida Guggenheimer was involved in a wide variety of causes and projects during her adult life. She was a member of the American Labor Party and was involved in the women's suffrage and trade union movements. She also had some involvement in civil rights activities and lent her support to such causes as the trials of the Scottsboro Boys and Angelo Herndon. Her protege was Ralph Ellison, the author of "Invisible Man," which is dedicated to Guggenheimer. The Ida Guggenheimer papers consist of correspondence and printed matter on Richard Wright and E. Franklin Frazier. The material regarding Wright concerns his writings and his withdrawal from the Communist Party of the U.S.A. Frazier was a prominent educator and sociologist. His correspondence with Guggenheimer relates mainly to an incident reported in the "Black Dispatch" and "The People's Voice" alleging that he had violated a labor organized boycott against a restaurant in Harlem that did not employ African-Americans (1945). Other material peripherally relates to his career and the fight against racial segregation in Washington, D.C. during World War II. Five articles written by Frazier are included in this collection. Additionally, there is printed matter concerning the Lafargue Clinic, a mental hygiene clinic in Harlem.
Administrative information
Source of acquisition
Gift, Binswanger, Carole I, 1982 Gift, Binswanger, Carole I, 1988Using 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